Category Archives: Beginner English

English Lesson 8 – Describing People

My mother is slim.
She is short.
She has green eyes and long brown hair.

My father is tall and thin.
He has brown eyes and short grey hair.

My grandmother is short and plump.
Her hair is grey.
She is very wrinkly.

My friend Anna is very pretty.
She is thin.
She has brown eyes and long curly hair.

tall short plump thin slim skinny fat
young old pretty ugly beautiful handsome good looking
freckly wrinkly pale tanned

His eyes are…
blue green grey hazel brown dark brown black

Her hair is…
white blonde fair chestnut brown dark brown black red grey
short long curly straight wavy

English Lesson 5 – Numbers, Fruits and Vegetables

Can I have a dozen apples?

I want six tomatoes, please?

Can you give me a box of blueberries?

Numbers 0-20

zero
one
two
three
four
five
six
seven
eight
nine
ten
eleven
twelve
thirteen
fourteen
fifteen
sixteen
seventeen
eighteen
nineteen
twenty

Fruits and Vegetables

apple
banana
broccoli
blueberry
carrot
cucumber
grape
lemon
melon
orange
onion
peas
pineapple
strawberry
tomato
watermelon

English Lesson 4 – Jobs and Professions

What is your job?
I am an accountant.
Are you a teacher?
No, I am a doctor

The following is a list of common job titles:

a doctor
an engineer
a manager
a police officer
an accountant
a waiter/a waitress
a builder
a teacher
a journalist
an actor/an actress
a cleaner
a shop assistant
a musician
a lawyer
a student
a nurse
an estate agent
a secretary
an architect
a writer
a housewife
retired
unemployed

English Lesson 1 – Letters and Numbers

Letters of the Alphabet

A a B b C c D d
E e F f G g H h
I i J j K k L l
M m N n O o P p
Q q R r S s T t
U u V v W w X x
Y y Z z

Numbers

1   one
2   two
3 three
4 four
5 five
6 six
7 seven
8 eight
9 nine
10 ten
11 eleven
12 twelve
13 thirteen
14 fourteen
15 fifteen
16 sixteen
17 seventeen
18 eighteen
19 nineteen
20 twenty
21 twenty one
30 thirty
40 forty
50 fifty
60 sixty
70 seventy
80 eighty
90 ninety
100 one hundred
111 one hundred and eleven
1000 one thousand