 |
| Home |
At present far from complete (after all, there's a lot of vocabulary out there), this section should in future become the place to be if you want to practice idioms, fixed expressions, standard responses and, of course, words. A number of vocabulary exercises can be found on the Dutch learners page, as the descriptions of the words in those exercises are in Dutch. Here you will find exercises suitable for native speakers of all languages. There are a number of sections: words and phrases (mixed), words and phrases (by topic), similar words, idiomatic English, parts of speech (mainly prepositions so far), and varieties of English. You will find that some words pop up in more than one exercise -- this is not laziness on my part (well, perhaps a little), but a way to help you remember them better; if a word that you didn't know in one exercise comes back in another, it has a much better chance of becoming part of your personal vocabulary.
The first 30 "words" exercises are divided into two levels: exercises 1-15 are easier, exercises 16-30 are more difficult. In exercises 31 to 35 you are asked to fill in the gaps in various texts, choosing from a list of words.
| Health1 (uses Dutch) | Health 2 (uses Dutch) | Health 3 |
| Health 4 | Health 5 | Health 6 (uses Dutch) |
| Health 7 | People 1 (uses Dutch) | People 2 |
| People 3 (uses Dutch) | People 4 | People 5 (uses Dutch) |
| Births Deaths and Marriages | Emotions | Entertainment |
| Feelings | Government | Work |
| Media | Money | Movement 1 |
| Movement 2 | Names | Nature |
| People | Places | Problems |
| Seeing | Months (uses Dutch) | Times |
| Dates | Numbers 1 | Numbers 2 |
These are exercises in which you have to decide which of a number of commonly confused words fits into which sentence.
As the difficulty with adjectives and adverbs usually lies in the choice between the two, they can be found on the Miscellaneous page. If you found the Linking Words exercise useful, perhaps you would like to try the related Organisers exercises. These, too, are to be found on the Miscellaneous page. Some of the Prepositions exercises here include phrasal verbs, although of course the emphasis here is on the preposition rather than the verb; other Phrasal Verbs exercises may be found on the Verbs page.