HEYGOW
Learning
HEYGOW
English
11906
phrases
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It was a fertile period for his writing.
/ɪt wɑz ə ˈfɝtəl ˈpɪriəd fɔr hɪz ˈraɪtɪŋ/
Reinforcements reached the coast too late.
/ˌriɪnˈfɔrsmənts ritʃt ðə koʊst tu leɪt/
That position is no longer tenable.
/ðæt pəˈzɪʃən ɪz noʊ ˈlɔŋɡɚ ˈtɛnəbəl/
Nothing here is eternal.
/ˈnʌθɪŋ hir ɪz ɪˈtɝnəl/
reflect
/rɪˈflɛkt/
simultaneously
/ˌsaɪməlˈteɪniəsli/
That is a big dog.
/ðæt ɪz ə bɪɡ dɔɡ/
Would you pass me the salt, please?
/wʊd ju pæs mi ðə sɔlt pliz/
joint
/dʒɔɪnt/
Damp took half the fresco in one winter.
/dæmp tʊk hæf ðə ˈfrɛskoʊ ɪn wʌn ˈwɪntɚ/
raise
/reɪz/
Her word was paramount in the workshop.
/hɝ wɝd wɑz ˈpɛrəˌmaʊnt ɪn ðə ˈwɝkˌʃɑp/
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Everything in here
Year 1
›
Grammar
Verbs: the basics
47
Asking and denying
37
Nouns and pronouns
28
can and what is happening
23
Year 1
›
Vocabulary
School, people and days
150
Numbers, time and daily things
321
Verbs, places and the wider world
330
Year 2
›
Grammar
The future and modals
32
Infinitives and gerunds
32
Comparison
20
The passive and sentence patterns
26
Year 2
›
Vocabulary
School life
204
The wider world
192
People and daily life
312
Words that connect
192
Year 3
›
Grammar
The present perfect
28
Relative pronouns
19
Participles after a noun
9
Verbs with a person and a to-form
13
Indirect questions and wishes
13
Set patterns
16
Year 3
›
Vocabulary
Work and society
192
Science, machines and history
192
Thinking, feeling, telling
156
Describing and explaining
216
Home and family
144
High school
›
Grammar
The frame of a sentence
106
Nouns and determiners
102
Describing and comparing
102
Modals and prepositions
100
Relative clauses
100
Verb forms used as other words
116
Changing the order
90
Time
120
How sentences join
80
Core
›
Vocabulary
Feeling and wanting
225
Thinking and noticing
204
Character and conduct
126
Saying and arguing
204
People and society
195
Law, rules and the state
228
Money, trade and work
180
Science and living things
159
Earth, resources and food
138
The body and health
135
Learning, writing and belief
186
Movement and travel
117
Hands and making
132
Amount and shape
159
Change and keeping
174
Connection, time and place
246
Danger and conflict
132
Words of judgment
252
Advanced
›
Vocabulary
Feeling and character
192
Knowing and supposing
78
Telling and arguing
87
People and society
126
State, law and war
153
Work, money and trade
132
Science and living things
72
The body and medicine
105
Land, place and food
117
Study, writing and belief
141
Moving and handling
168
Amount, shape and change
204
Parts, time and linking words
117
Danger, degree and judgment
174
Academic
›
Vocabulary
How a study is done
129
Arguing and reasoning
120
Handling ideas
87
Process and change
84
Government and society
117
Money and the economy
99
Matter, force and life
126
Mind and behaviour
87
Talking about language
90
Scholarly writing
78
History and the past
75
Philosophy
63
Medicine and public health
84
Technology and engineering
81
Environment and climate
66
Law and the courts
63
Mathematics
72
Education
57
Art and its history
54
Geography
75
Shared by both exams
›
Vocabulary
Backing and praising
54
Telling off and holding back
90
Setting things in motion
54
Starting, lasting, giving way
63
Weighing it up
51
What can be done and what can go wrong
60
What a person is like
69
How much, how far, how apt
81
Doing something about it
90
What goes with what
51
Good for it, bad for it
63
Where the land stops
45
Things you pick up
36
TOEFL only
›
Vocabulary
The campus and its people
63
Signing up and being marked
51
Following a lecture
54
Writing it and handing it in
48
The bench and its tools
42
IELTS only
›
Vocabulary
What the line does
36
How far and how fast
24
One figure against another
45
Arguing a case
51
Housing, town, work
60