English Games for Adult Learners
Practise spelling, listening, grammar and everyday English. Choose a challenge, collect stars and learn from every answer.
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These are game difficulties, not qualification levels. Choose any level and change it whenever you like.
Spell It!
Explore 20 spelling topics, with 10 words in every round.
Verb Challenge
Explore 20 verb activities, with 10 questions in every round.
Sentence Builder
Explore 20 everyday topics, with 10 sentences in every round.
Proofreading Detective
Explore 20 proofreading activities, with 10 questions in every round.
Everyday English Missions
Explore 20 everyday topics, with 10 practical missions in every round.
Listen and Choose
Hear everyday words in short phrases and choose their meanings. Explore 20 listening topics.
Listen and Spell
Hear a short phrase and spell its last word. Explore 20 topics, with 10 words in every round.
Spelling library
Choose from 20 topics. Each round has 10 questions. You can replay as often as you like.
Choose your difficulty above: Getting Started gives missing-letter support; Building Confidence gives scrambled letters; Challenge Yourself gives a meaning clue. Type the whole word. Days and months use capital letters.
Fruits
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Vegetables
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Jobs
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Seasons and weather
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Household activities
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Rooms and furniture
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Clothes and shoes
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Food and cooking
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Family and relationships
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Body parts
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Health and medicines
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Transport
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Places in town
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Days, months and dates
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Numbers and money
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Shopping and packaging
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
College and classroom
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Work and tools
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Feelings and descriptions
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Commonly confused words
10 words · missing letters, letter puzzles and meaning clues.
Verb Challenge library
Explore 20 verb activities. Each round has 10 questions, explanations and unlimited replay.
Getting Started: choose the correct verb. Building Confidence: type the missing verb phrase. Challenge Yourself: correct a verb phrase. Follow the tense or form requested. These are practice difficulties, not qualification levels.
Am, is and are
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Have and has
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Everyday routines
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Present simple
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Present continuous
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Present simple or continuous
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Past simple: regular verbs
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Past simple: irregular verbs
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Was and were
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Past continuous
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Present perfect
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Present perfect or past simple
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Future plans with going to
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Will: predictions and decisions
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Can and could
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Should and should not
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Must, must not and have to
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Instructions and imperatives
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Questions and negatives
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Conditional sentences
10 questions · Practise, check your answers and replay.
Sentence Builder library
Explore 20 everyday topics, with 10 sentences in every round. Replay as often as you like.
Getting Started: choose the sentence with the correct word order. Building Confidence: put all the words in order and type the sentence. Challenge Yourself: correct the word order. Explanations appear after you check your answer.
Introducing yourself
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Family and friends
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Daily routines
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
At home
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Shopping
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Food and cooking
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
At college
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Work and jobs
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Travel and transport
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Places and directions
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Health and appointments
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Feelings and descriptions
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Polite requests
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Everyday questions
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Negative sentences
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Talking about the past
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Plans and the future
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Joining ideas
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
If sentences
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Digital life
10 sentences · Choose, arrange or correct the word order.
Proofreading Detective library
Explore 20 activities covering spelling, grammar and punctuation. Every round has 10 questions and unlimited replay.
Getting Started: choose the accurate version. Building Confidence: correct the part in brackets. Challenge Yourself: correct the whole sentence or message. Capital letters and punctuation count. Explanations appear after you check your answer.
Capital letters
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Full stops
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Question marks
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Contractions
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Possessive apostrophes
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Commonly confused words
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Everyday spelling
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Plurals
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
A, an and the
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Subject and verb agreement
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Past tense checks
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Present continuous checks
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Pronouns
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Prepositions
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Adjectives and adverbs
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Comparatives and superlatives
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Countable and uncountable nouns
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Word order checks
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Emails and messages
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Notices and instructions
10 questions · Spot and correct everyday errors.
Everyday English Missions library
Explore 20 everyday topics, with 10 short missions in every round. All messages are made-up practice examples.
Getting Started: choose between two answers. Building Confidence: choose between three answers. Challenge Yourself: type a short answer using the wording in the message. Read at your own pace, check your answer and replay whenever you like.
High street shopping
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
At the supermarket
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
At a cafe
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Bus journeys
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Train journeys
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Finding your way
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Appointments
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
At the pharmacy
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
At work
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
College life
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
School messages
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Home and repairs
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Leisure and bookings
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Weather and plans
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Post and parcels
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Using the library
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Digital tasks
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Community activities
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Everyday services
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Messages and invitations
10 missions · Read a message and decide what to do.
Listen and Spell library
Explore 20 topics, with 10 words in each round. Listen to each short phrase and type only the last word you hear.
Each topic has one set of 10 words. Use normal or slow replay as often as you like. There are no spelling hints or time limits. The difficulty selector above applies to the other games.
Home and family
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
Food and kitchen
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
Shopping and belongings
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
Work and travel
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
Weather and routines
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
Health and wellbeing
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
Appointments and time
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
College and learning
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
Money and banking
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
Places and getting around
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
At a restaurant
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
At the supermarket
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
Post and parcels
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
Using the library
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
School and family life
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
At the park
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
In the kitchen
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
People and descriptions
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
Everyday services
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
Daily routines
10 words · Listen, type the last word and check your spelling.
Listen and Choose library
Explore 20 topics with 10 listening questions in every round. Hear short phrases from ESOLish recordings and choose the meaning of a word you hear.
Press Listen when you are ready. Replay normally or more slowly, with no timer. The word and its explanation appear after you check your answer. No microphone is needed.
At home
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
Family
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
Daily routines
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
Food and drink
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
Health words
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
In my bag
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
Weather
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
Clothes
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
Work and jobs
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
Transport
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
At a restaurant
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
At the bank
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
At the post office
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
At the library
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
At the market
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
At the doctor
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
At the supermarket
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
At the school gate
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
At the park
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
In the kitchen
10 listening questions · Hear a short phrase and choose a meaning.
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Short English games for adult ESOL and Functional Skills learners. Practise spelling, listening, verb forms, sentence order, proofreading and understanding everyday messages at your own pace.