Basic English - Essential Lessons for Beginning English Learners

These basic English lessons provide the most important learning points for beginning level English learners. Use these 25 short lessons to study for tests, review basic English essentials, or check your understanding of the basics.

1. When to Use 'Any' or 'Some'
2. Use of 'In' / 'On' / 'To' / 'At'
3. Articles - 'The' / 'A' / 'An'
4. Uses of 'Like'
5. Past Tense Irregular Verbs (Went, Put etc.)
6. Pronouns (He, Him, Their, Ours etc.)
7. Prepositions of Time - In / At / On
8. Verbs Followed by the Gerund or the Infinitive (Playing -vs- to play)
9. Present Simple
10. Modal Form Basics (should, may, can)
11. Future Forms - Going to / Will
12. Countries and Languages - Names and Adjectives (England, English, French, Italy etc.)
13. Countable and Uncountable Expressions with Nouns (Much, Many, A few, A lot of)
14. Count and Non-Count Nouns - Understanding Nouns (baseballs, juice, etc..)
15. Comparative Forms in English (Hot - Hotter, Good - Better, etc..)
16. Superlative Forms - Understanding the English Superlative Form (cold - the coldest, bad - the worst, etc.)
17. Time Expressions and Tenses (now, ago, since, etc.)
18. Adverbs of Frequency - Rules for Use (usually, sometimes, never, etc.)
19. Imperative Form
20. Adverb or Adjective - Which should I use? (good or well, careful or carefully, etc.)
21. Present Perfect Tense
22. Past Simple Tense
23. Present Continuous Tense
24. Present Simple vs. Present Continuous (He watches TV or He is watching TV)
25. Past Simple or Present Perfect (I have gone or I went)