ESL 1
VOCABULARY
HOMOPHONES
VERB TENSES
ENGLISH IDIOMS
200

Say a word with the suffix 

"-ful" OR "-less"


beautiful    painless   hopeless  useless

hopeful

grateful

graceful

200

What does SHORTAGE mean?

Not enough of something.

200

Fill in the blanks with (it, it's ) or (there, their, they're):

_____ a great day.  Do you believe ______ plans to go ______ tonight?

It's   Their.    There

200

What do regular simple past tense verbs end with?

-D/-ED

200

What does "to have butterflies in your stomach" mean?

To feel nervous/excited

400

What does the idiom "to be broke" mean?

to have no money

400

These are a kind of footwear. They have flat soles and are held to your feet with straps.

SANDALS

400

Pick the correct one: to, too, or two.

There are _____many people here.  Those _____ guys want __ go home.

too.    two.   to

400

What does the present participle end with?

-ing

400

What does "to stab someone in the back" mean?

to do something really bad to someone that trusted you.

600

What does the idiom "under the weather" mean?

to feel sick

600

What time is "A quarter after 3?"

3:15 - three fifteen.

600

Fill in the blanks with meat or meet

After I ______ my friends, I will buy some ______ for supper and then head to the stadium for the gymnastics _________. 

meet.   meat.  meet.

600

What is the past tense of the verb "buy"?

bought

600

What does the idiom "to ring a bell" mean?

something that sounds familiar/you have heard about it before/you know it

800

What does "it's raining cats and dogs" mean?

It is raining a lot/very hard.

800

Pick the correct word. 

You can't come to ____ house today because ___ mom is sleeping.

1. our.   3. hour   2. are

our

800

Pick the correct word: there, they're, their

Look at what _________doing! It looks fun!

they're

800

What does "to be in hot water" mean?

to be in trouble/problem

1000

What does the idiom "to go the extra mile" mean?

to do more/extra than is required, example: My teacher wants me to write 3 sentences but I wrote 6.

1000

Fill in the spaces below using either Just, Yet Or Already.

You've finished your dinner___  ! You must have been starving!

"Have you called Yasmin to wish her luck for the exam today?" "No, not____  . I'll do it now!"


already

yet

1000

Pick the correct word.

I need to buy ______to make a cake.

A)Flower.              B)Flour


flour

1000

Pick the correct choice: 

A)At Beck Middle School, the students' lockers are blue.

B)At Beck Middle School, the student's lockers are blue.

C)At Beck Middle School, the students lockers are blue.

A) because we are talking about a group of students, not one student and we are talking about something that belongs to them (their lockers).

1000

What does "to spill the beans" mean?

To tell a secret