Vocabulary by category
2 772 words · 67 lists · 12 topics
twelve areas across 67 word lists and 2772 words. Each category can be practised as a whole — across its lists and across the levels.
The largest is “Basic words: numbers, pronouns, verbs” with 674 words, the smallest “Shopping, money and the post” with 128. Both numbers are calculated and nowhere typed by hand.
The twelve categories
- Basic words: numbers, pronouns, verbsPronouns and question words, numbers and time, basic verbs and adjectives, small words and the words for place.
- Family, people and feelingsFamily and relatives, neighbours and friends, and what people feel for each other.
- Home and clothesRooms and furniture, housework, looking for a flat, repairs and what you wear.
- Food and drinkWhat people eat and drink, ordering, eating out, cooking and the market.
- Town, transport and the carPlaces in town, asking the way, bus, ferry and plane, and the car at the garage.
- Body and healthParts of the body, personal care, being ill, at the doctor’s and in an emergency.
- Shopping, money and the postShops, prices and the till, accounts and transfers, letters and parcels.
- Work, school and officesJobs and the working day, school and university, applications and the office, official forms and trades.
- Free time, arrangements and mediaSport, culture and hobbies, making arrangements, phone and internet, newspapers and the news.
- Weather, animals and natureWeather and seasons, animals and plants, landscape and the environment.
- Greetings, opinions and ideasSaying hello and goodbye, giving and justifying an opinion, and the words for thoughts.
- Everyday life in TurkeyThe set phrases for every occasion, festivals and celebrations, travelling in the country and two words for one thing.
Practise a category as a whole
Every category page has a quiz drawn from all its lists. If you would rather have the full choice — level, mode, length — you will also find the categories in the “Area” field of the practice page, each as the first entry of its group.