The first 2000 words of the English Language

Stage 1
Week 1

a det
able adj
about adv
about prep
back adv
back n
bad adj
bank n
call v
can modal
car n
carry v
day n
death n
decide v
decision n
each det
early adj
early adv
economic adj
face n
fact n
fall v
family n
game n
general adj
get v
girl n
half det
hand n
happen v
have v
I pron
idea n



if conj
important adj
in adv
in prep
job n
just adv
keep v
kind n
language n
large adj
last adj
late adj
main adj
major adj
make v
man n
name n
national adj
need n
need v
offer v
office n
often adv
old adj
paper n
part n
party n
patient n
public adj
put v
question n
quite adv
range n
rate n



rather adv
reach v
same det
say v
school n
see v
table n
take v
talk v
team n
under prep
understand v
until conj
up adv
value n
very adv
view n
voice n
walk v
want v
war n
water n
way n
we pron
week n
well adv
what det
when adv
when conj
year n
yes interjection
yet adv
you pron
your det
The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 1
Week 2

across prep
act n
action n
activity n
be v
because conj
become v
before conj
case n
centre n
century n
certain adj
department n
describe v
develop v
development n
education n
effect n
else adv
end n
far adj
far adv
father n
feel v
give v
go v
good adj
government n
he pron
head n
health n
hear v
include v
including prep



increase v
industry n
information n
interest n
international adj
into prep
know v
later adv
law n
lead v
learn v
least adv
leave v
less adv
management n
many det
market n
matter n
never adv
new adj
next adv
next det
on adv
on prep
once adv
one pron
particular adj
particularly adv
pay v
people n
percent n
perhaps adv
period n
person n



read v
real adj
really adv
reason n
seem v
sell v
send v
sense n
service n
set v
several det
tell v
term n
than conj
that conj
that det
the det
their det
them pron
upon prep
us pron
use n
use v
where adv
where conj
whether conj
which det
while conj
who pron
why adv
will modal
yeah interjection
young adj

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 1
Week 3

actually adv
add v
after conj
after prep
before prep
begin v
behind prep
believe v
change n
change v
child n
church n
die v
different adj
difficult adj
do v
enough adv
even adv
event n
ever adv
few n
figure n
find v
follow v
food n
great adj
ground n
group n
help v
her det
her pron
here adv
involve v
issue n



it pron
its det
let v
letter n
level n
lie v
life n
like prep
like v
likely adj
line n
little adj
little det
live v
may modal
may modal
me pron
mean v
night n
no adv
no det
no interjection
only adj
only adv
open v
or conj
place n
plan n
play v
point n
police n
policy n
political adj
position n



police n
policy n
political adj
position n
shall modal
she pron
should modal
show v
side n
since conj
sit v
small adj
so adv
themselves pron
then adv
there adv
there pron
therefore adv
these det
they pron
thing n
win v
with prep
within prep
without prep
woman n
word n
work n
work v
think v
this det
those det
though conj

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 1
Week 3

again adv
against prep
age n
agree v
all adv
all det
allow v
almost adv
between prep
big adj
bit n
body n
book n
both adv
both det
city n
class n
clear adj
come v
committee n
community n
company n
condition n
door n
down adv
draw v
during prep
every det
evidence n
example n
expect v
foot n
for prep
force n



form n
high adj
him pron
himself pron
his det
hold v
home n
hope v
hour n
house n
itself pron
local adj
long adj
long adv
look v
meet v
member n
might modal
mind n
minister n
not adv
nothing pron
now adv
order n
other adj
other n
our det
possible adj
power n
practice n
price n
probably adv
problem n
process n



produce v
report v
require v
research n
result n
so conj
social adj
society n
some det
something pron
soon adv
sort n
speak v
time n
to infinitive-marker
to prep
today adv
together adv
too adv
towards prep
try v
world n
would modal
write v
special adj
spend v
staff n
stand v
start v
state n
still adv
stop v
student n

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 1
Week 4

already adv
also adv
although conj
always adv
among prep
an det
and conj
another det
any det
anything pron
appear v
area n
around adv
around prep
as adv
as conj
as prep
ask v
at prep
authority n
available adj
away adv
boy n
bring v
build v
building n
business n
but conj
buy v
by prep
consider v
continue v
control n
cost n



could modal
council n
country n
course n
court n
create v
experience n
eye n
friend n
from prep
full adj
how adv
however adv
lose v
lot n
low adj
minute n
moment n
money n
month n
more adv
more det
morning n
most adv
most det
mother n
move v
much adv
much det
must modal
my det
number n
of prep
off adv



off prep
out adv
over adv
over prep
own det
product n
programme n
provide v
return v
right adj
right adv
right n
road n
role n
room n
run v
section n
study n
subject n
such det
suggest v
support n
sure adj
system n
turn v
type n
ability n
above adv
above prep
accept v
access n
according to prep
account n

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 1
Week 5

achieve v
act v
addition n
admit v
baby n
base v
basic adj
basis n
campaign n
capital n
care n
catch v
dark adj
data n
date n
daughter n
easy adj
eat v
economy n
effort n
face v
factor n
fail v
feature n
garden n
general n
generally adv
glass n
hair n
happy adj
hard adj
hard adv
identify v
image n



improve v
income n
introduce v
investment n
item n
join v
kill v
king n
knowledge n
labour adj
labour n
land n
leader n
left adj
machine n
maintain v
majority n
manage v
natural adj
nature n
near prep
nearly adv
obtain v
obviously adv
occur v
officer n
page n
parent n
pass v
pattern n
pull v
pupil n
purpose n
quality n



raise v
ready adj
recent adj
recently adv
sale n
save v
scheme n
science n
sea n
season n
seat n
task n
tax n
teach v
teacher n
technique n
technology n
tend v
test n
union n
unit n
university n
unless conj
variety n
various adj
version n
village n
wait v
wall n
watch v
wear v
yesterday adv
yourself pron

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 1
Week 6

advantage n
advice n
affair n
affect v
bear v
bed n
behaviour n
benefit n
cause v
cell n
central adj
certainly adv
chance n
chapter n
character n
charge n
dead adj
deal n
deal v
defence n
degree n
demand n
depend v
design n
either adv
either det
election n
element n
feeling n
few det
field n
fight v
goal n
good n



grow v
growth n
heart n
heavy adj
help n
herself pron
increase n
indeed adv
indicate v
individual adj
leg n
legal adj
less det
library n
manager n
material n
maybe adv
means n
necessary adj
news n
nice adj
nor conj
oil n
okay adv
once conj
open adj
per prep
performance n
personal adj
pick v
quickly adv
record n
record v
red adj



reduce v
refer v
reflect v
refuse v
secretary n
sector n
security n
seek v
thank v
theory n
though adv
thought n
up prep
used modal
useful adj
user n
visit v
well interjection
whatever det
white adj
whole adj
whole n
whom pron
whose det
series n
serious adj
serve v
set n
share n
share v
shop n
short adj
show n

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 1
Week 7

ago adv
agreement n
air n
along prep
amount n
analysis n
animal n
announce v
better adv
beyond prep
bill n
black adj
choice n
choose v
circumstance n
claim n
claim v
clearly adv
client n
close adj
design v
despite prep
detail n
determine v
difference n
difficulty n
direction n
director n
encourage v
end v
energy n
enjoy v
fill v
film n



final adj
finally adv
history n
hit v
home adv
horse n
individual n
industrial adj
instance n
instead adv
light n
list n
listen v
look n
measure n
meeting n
memory n
mention v
method n
mile n
normal adj
note n
operate v
operation n
opportunity n
organisation n
picture n
piece n
place v
plan v
plant n
player n
please adv
point v



poor adj
popular adj
population n
pound n
region n
relate v
relation n
relationship n
remove v
replace v
represent v
resource n
sign n
significant adj
similar adj
simple adj
simply adv
since prep
single adj
site n
throughout prep
throw v
thus adv
title n
to adv
top adj
top n
total adj
usually adv
wide adj
wife n
window n
wish v

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 1
Week 8

answer n
answer v
anyone pron
anyway adv
application n
apply v
approach n
appropriate adj
blood n
board n
box n
break v
close v
club n
colour n
commission n
common adj
compare v
competition n
computer n
discover v
discuss v
discussion n
disease n
division n
doctor n
dog n
doubt n
ensure v
enter v
environment n
especially adv
financial adj
fine adj



finish v
fire n
firm n
floor n
fly v
following adj
hospital n
hotel n
human adj
husband n
institution n
intend v
loss n
love n
love v
military adj
miss v
model n
modern adj
original adj
other pron
outside prep
prepare v
present adj
present v
president n
press n
pressure n
prevent v
previous adj
prime adj
principle n
private adj
procedure n



respect n
response n
responsibility n
rest n
situation n
size n
skill n
smile v
someone pron
sometimes adv
son n
sorry adj
sound n
source n
space n
specific adj
stage n
standard n
state v
statement n
station n
stay v
step n
stone n
story n
street n
town n
trade n
train v
training n
wonder v
worker n
wrong adj

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 1
Week 9

argue v
argument n
arm n
army n
arrive v
art n
aspect n
association n
assume v
attempt n
attention n
attitude n
avoid v
award n
aware adj
brother n
concern n
concerned adj
conference n
contain v
contract n
control v
cos conj
cost v
couple n
cover v
culture n
cup n
current adj
customer n
cut v
drive v
drop v
due adj



duty n
establish v
evening n
everyone pron
everything pron
exactly adv
exist v
explain v
express v
force v
foreign adj
forget v
form v
former det
forward adv
free adj
front n
function n
fund n
further adv
future n
movement n
music n
myself pron
production n
professional adj
profit n
project n
property n
proposal n
prove v
provision n
publish v
reveal v



rise v
risk n
round adv
round prep
royal adj
rule n
reveal v
rise v
risk n
round adv
round prep
royal adj
rule n
surface n
treat v
treatment n
tree n
true adj
















The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 2
Week 1

accident n
active adj
actual adj
additional adj
background n
bag n
balance n
ball n
cabinet n
call n
candidate n
card n
damage n
danger n
debate n
debt n
earth n
easily adv
edge n
effective adj
facility n
failure n
fair adj
fairly adv gain v
gas n
generation n
gentleman n
half n
hall n
hang v
hardly adv
ignore v
imagine v
immediately adv



impact n
island n
issue v
joint adj
judge n
key adj
key n
kitchen n
lack n
lady n
largely adv
late adv
latter det
mainly adv
male adj
manner n
mark v
nation n
network n
nevertheless adv
newspaper n
object n
objective n
observe v
obvious adj
package n
pain n
painting n
pair n
protection n
public n
push v
quarter n
race n



radio n
railway n
reaction n
safe adj
safety n
sample n
scale n
scene n
second n
senior adj
sentence n
separate adj
session n
talk n
target n
tea n
technical adj
turn n
telephone n
television n
terms n
test v
understanding n
until prep
usual adj
vary v
vehicle n
very adj
victim n
wage n
warm adj
warn v
weekend n

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 2
Week 2

administration n
adopt v
adult n
afternoon n
agency n
agent n
ahead adv
aid n
band n
bar n
base n
battle n
career n
carefully adv
cash n
category n
deep adj
define v
demand v
deny v
emerge v
employ v
employee n
employer n
famous adj
farm n
farmer n
fear n
grant v
green adj
highly adv
his pron
hole n
holiday n



hope n
hot adj
importance n
impossible adj
improvement n
increasingly adv
independent adj
influence n
injury n
inside prep
laugh v
launch v
lay v
lead n
league n
legislation n
length n
lift v
marriage n
marry v
master n
match n
no-one pron
none pron
normally adv
north n
occasion n
offer n
official n
opinion n
parliament n
partner n
past adj
past n



reader n
realise v
reality n
recognise v
reference n
reform n
regard v
regional adj
settle v
sex n
sexual adj
shake v
shape n
sheet n
ship n
shoot v
shoulder n
sight n
sign v
sir n
sister n
text n
threat n
threaten v
through adv
video n
visit n
visitor n
volume n
vote n
weight n
western adj
will n
wind n
The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 2
Week 3

aim n
aim v
alone adj
along adv
annual adj
apart adv
apparently adv
appeal n
beat v
beautiful adj
beginning n
belief n
cause n
chair n
chairman ncharge v
check v
civil adj
clear v
close adv
clothes n
coffee n
cold adj
colleague n
collect v
description n
dinner n
direct adj
directly adv
employment n
enable v
engine n
enough det
entirely adv
entry n



environmental adj
equally adv
file n
finger n
fish n
fit v
housing n
huge adj
insist v
insurance n
interested adj
interesting adj
light adj
limit v
link n
link v
meal n
meaning n
measure v
media n
notice v
nuclear adj
opposition n
option n
order v
ordinary adj
past prep
path n
payment n
peace n
perform v
phone n
physical adj
planning n



regular adj
regulation n
relatively adv
release v
relevant adj
relief n
religious adj
repeat v
skin n
sleep v
slightly adv
slowly adv
smile n
soft adj
software n
solution n
south n
speaker n
species n
speech n
tomorrow adv
tonight adv
touch v
track n
somebody pron
somewhere adv
song n
sound v
speed n
wine n
winter n
wood n
working adj

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 2
Week 4

appearance n
appoint v
approach v
arise v
arrange v
arrangement n
article n
artist n
assessment n
below adv
best adv
bind v
bird n
blue adj
collection n
college n
comment n
commercial adj
commit v
commitment n
communication n
complete adj
complete v
completely adv
complex adj
concentrate v
concept n
concern v
distance n
distribution n
district n
document n
domestic adj
down prep



equipment n
essential adj
estate n
eventually adv
examine v
excellent adj
except conj
exchange n
executive n
exercise n
exhibition n
existence n
existing adj
flower n
for conj
forest n
formal adj
freedom n
internal adj
introduction n
investigation n
lip n
little adv
living adj
loan n
medical adj
merely adv
message n
mind v
organization n
otherwise adv
owner n
play n
plus prep



politics n
positive adj
possibility n
possibly adv
post n
potential adj
powerful adj
practical adj
prefer v
presence n
present n
press v
reply v
requirement n
respond v
responsible adj
result v
return n
review n
rich adj
spirit n
sport n
standard adj
star n
star v
start n
status n
stick v
stock n
tradition n
traditional adj
traffic n
train n
writer n
The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 2
Week 4

associate v
attack n
attack v
attempt v
attend v
attract v
audience n
author n
award v
boat n
branch n
broad adj
budget n
bus n
conclusion n
confidence n
confirm v
conflict n
connection n
consequence n
considerable adj
consideration n
consumer n
contact n
content n
context n
contrast n
contribution n
conversation n
copy n
corner n
county n
credit n
crime n



cross v
cry v
cultural adj
currently adv
drink n
drink v
driver n
drug n
experience v
explanation n
expression n
extend v
extent n
extra adj
extremely adv
fresh adj
front adj
fully adv
future adj
mouth n
move n
museum n
previously adv
primary adj
prison n
progress n
promise v
proper adj
proportion n
protect v
ring v
rise n
river n
rock n



route n
run n
straight adv
strange adj
strategy n
strength n
strike v
studio n
study v
stuff n
sun n
supply n
supply v
survey n
survive v
trial n
trouble n
trust n
truth n
transport n
travel v
works n
worry v
worth prep
absence n
absolutely adv
academic adj
accompany v
account v
achievement n
bedroom n
before adv
belong v

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 2
Week 5

acid n
acquire v
address n
address v
below prep
beneath prep
beside prep
birth n
block n
bloody adj
capable adj
capacity n
care v
careful adj
damage v
dangerous adj
date v
decade n
ear n
earn v
east n
editor n
factory n
faith n
fall n
familiar adj
gate n
gather v
generate v
god n
hand v
handle v
hate v
head v



illustrate v
immediate adj
implication n
imply v
journey n
judge v
jump v
justice n
kid n
knee n
last v
lawyer n
leadership n
leading adj
leaf n
lean v
magazine n
male n
map n
mark n
name v
narrow adj
necessarily adv
neck n
observation n
odd adj
offence n
official adj
paint v
panel n
park n
partly adv
quick adj
quiet adj



rain n
rapidly adv
rare adj
reading n
realize v
reasonable adj
satisfy v
scientific adj
scientist n
score v
screen n
search n
search v
secondary adj
secure v
select v
selection n
tall adj
tape n
teaching n
tear n
unable adj
under adv
undertake v
unemployment n
variation n
vast adj
via prep
victory n
walk n
wash v
wave n
weak adj

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 2
Week 6

advance n
advise v
afford v
afraid adj
blow v
bone n
border n
bottle n
cat n
chain n
challenge n
channel n
characteristic n
cheap adj
chemical n
chief adj
declare v
deep adv
defendant n
definition n
educational adj
effectively adv
egg n
elderly adj
fashion n
fast adj
fast adv
favour n
fear v
gold n
grant n
grey adj
growing adj
heat n



hell n
hence adv
hide v
high adv
hill n
impose v
impression n
incident n
increased adj
liability n
liberal adj
limit n
limited adj
market v
married adj
mass n
match v
matter v
meanwhile adv
mechanism n
membership n
negotiation n
neighbour n
neither adv
nobody pron
onto prep
organise v
origin n
ought modal
passage n
pay n
pension n
perfect adj
permanent adj



provided conj
pub n
publication n
question v
recall v
recognition n
recognize v
recommend v
separate v
sequence n
seriously adv
servant n
settlement n
severe adj
shoe n
temperature n
terrible adj
thanks n
theatre n
theme n
thin adj
ticket n
tiny adj
tone n
tool n
unfortunately adv
united adj
unlikely adj
upper adj
weapon n
weather n
welcome v
welfare n

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 2
Week 7

afterwards adv
aircraft n
alone adv
alright adv
bottom n
brain n
breath n
bridge n
circle n
citizen n
clean adj
climb v
closely adv
coal n
code n
combination n
deliver v
democratic adj
demonstrate v
deputy n
elsewhere adv
emphasis n
empty adj
enemy n
engineering n
enterprise n
entire adj
fee n
female adj
finance n
finding n
first adj
guest n
guide n



gun n
historical adj
household n
human n
hurt v
index n
influence v
inform v
initial adj
initiative n
literature n
location n
lord n
lovely adj
lunch n
mental adj
metal n
middle n
milk n
mine n
nod v
noise n
northern adj
nose n
ourselves pron
outcome n
output n
persuade v
phase n
photograph n
plastic n
plate n
pleasure n
plenty pron



pocket n
pool n
recover v
reduction n
reject v
relative adj
release n
religion n
rely v
remind v
representation n
shot n
shout v
shut v
signal n
significance n
silence n
sing v
sky n
tooth n
total n
totally adv
touch n
tour n
transfer n
transfer v
urban adj
used adj
whereas conj
while n
whilst conj
widely adv
west n

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 2
Week 8

alternative adj
alternative n
amongst prep
ancient adj
anybody pron
apparent adj
appeal v
appointment n
approve v
brief adj
bright adj
combine v
comment v
comparison n
component n
concentration n
conclude v
conduct v
congress n
connect v
conservative adj
consist v
constant adj
derive v
desire n
desk n
destroy v
detailed adj
device n
direct v
disappear v
discipline n
display n
display v



entitle v
equal adj
error n
escape v
establishment n
estimate v
everybody pron
examination n
exercise v
fix v
flat n
flight n
flow n
focus v
inside adv
institute n
instruction n
instrument n
intention n
ministry n
mistake n
module n
motion n
note v
notice n
outside adv
overall adj
own v
potential n
pretty adv
priority n
prisoner n
program n
representative n



request n
rest v
restaurant n
retain v
revenue n
revolution n
slip v
slow adj
soil n
soldier n
solicitor n
somewhat adv
southern adj
spot n
spread v
spring n
steal v
step v
store n
strike n
strongly adv
substantial adj
succeed v
sufficient adj
treaty n
trend n
trip n
violence n
vision n
wild adj
wing n
winner n
withdraw v

The first 2000 words of the English Language
Stage 2
Week 9

assembly n
assess v
asset n
assumption n
atmosphere n
attach v
attractive adj
average adj
aye interjection
burn v
busy adj
construction n
contact v
contribute v
convention n
corporate adj
correct adj
count v
cover n
creation n
criminal adj
crisis n
criterion n
critical adj
criticism n
crowd n
curriculum n
cut n
distinction n
divide v
double adj
drawing n
dream n
dress n



dress v
drive n
dry adj
expectation n
expenditure n
expense n
expensive adj
experiment n
expert n
explore v
external adj
football n
foundation n
frequently adv
fruit n
fuel n
funny adj
interpretation n
interview n
investigate v
invite v
iron n
motor n
mountain n
murder n
notion n
nurse n
promote v
properly adv
propose v
prospect n
ride v
ring n
roll v



roof n
row n
rural adj
suggestion n
suitable adj
sum n
surely adv
surprise n
surround v
switch v
troop n
twice adv
typical adj
vital adj
vote v
wonderful adj
writing n
yard n
youth n