Free Interactive English

January 2012 – Home, Recycled Home
In the home · Finishes and furnishings · Conditional sentences

December 2011 – Sting sees future in apps
Music · Verb forms · Verbs with up

November 2011 – Woman takes driving test in labour
Saying times · Ability · Pregnancy and birth

142 Siberia claims evidence of yeti
Unusual animals · Evidence · Expressing likelihood

141 Living on the edge
An attraction · Adjectives of dimension · Compound adjectives

140 Turtles delay flights at New York airport
Airport words · Passive forms · Ways of walking

139 Woman arrested for 16-hour phone call
Prepositions · Train travel · Speaking functions

138 Lifestyle mag seeks beach tester
Shortened words · Applying for a job · Work vocabulary

137 DIY disappearing
Saying numbers · Expressing probability · Describing trends

136 Gadgets cause strain injuries
Gadgets and injuries · Sport and injuries · Cause and effect

135 Are illegal file-sharers "Robin Hoods"?
Computers · Reflexive pronouns · Changing verbs into nouns

134 Bats have accents
Animals and science · Animals · Scientific language

133 Mini Monet takes art world by storm
The world of art · Nouns made from verbs · Words related to painting

132 Students wave goodbye to exam stress
Education · Verb–noun combinations · Adjective order

131 Teenager wakes from coma speaking fluent German
Health problems · Taking about inability · Different uses of the -ing form

130 People are happiest at 74
People and ages ·Comparative and superlative adjective forms ·Expressions with to

129 Dog learns second language
Dog commands · Verbs of noticing and discovering · Synonyms

128 Unfriend: Word of the Year
Words with the prefix un- · Verbs with the prefix un- · Words that describe language

127 Woman chooses croc over husband
Family words · Pronouns and possessive adjectives · Idioms of disagreement

126 Teenager finds family thanks to Facebook
Family words · Verb + preposition · Phrasal verbs – family

125 Railway announcer's thought for the day
Train travel · Reporting verbs

124 £3 million sculpture "sold as scrap"
Heavy metals · Probability

123 Row over space toilets
Agreement and disagreement · Reported speech

122 Costa Rica, Puerto Rico mix-up
Holidays and travel · Unintentional actions

121 Stonehenge 'built for raves'
Music · Music idioms

120 Elf and safety training for santas
Christmas words · -ing forms

119 Brit accidentally becomes Spanish mayor
Local government · Passive forms

118 Baseball "invented in Britain"
Words related to sport · Verbs for reporting information

117 Wildlife officer saves bear from drowning
Odd one out · Words related to danger

116 Architect plans moving skyscraper
Buildings · Compound adjectives

115 Eat insects
Insects · Infinitive and -ing forms

114 Balancing act
Specifications· Expressions with parts of the body

113 The odd couple
Animal sounds · Relationships and romance

112 Boy, 5, walks into "closed" bank
Bank vocabulary · Describing what was expected

111 Panda's first public steps
Collocations with make · Ways of looking

110 Phones help deliver baby
Birth and babies · Phrasal verbs with out, up and in

109 Chimps outwit students
Competing and testing verbs · Even for emphasis

108 Century in same cottage
Houses · House and home idioms

107 Cleaner gets chance to shine
Music · Noun + -ing form: compound adjectives

106 F1 champ takes driving lessons
Driving · Words that mean previous

105 Boy gets £44,000 in eBay parcel
Different meanings of get · Odd word out

104 Slang guide for supermarket’s older staff
People at work · Young and older people

103 Baby fined for dropping two crisps
Verbs related to the hands · Adjectives with the form preposition + the + noun

102 'Ghost yacht' found off Australia
Boats and sailing vocabulary · Speculation and fact

101 Shop sells excuses
Money vocabulary · Reasons, excuses and lies

100 Owl terrorises Middlesborough
Animal vocabulary · Prepositions · Bird idioms

99 The Hairy Christmas Fairy
Pronunciation · Pay or pay for? · Things that are not what they seem

98 Satellite navigation system leads driver to sand
Roads and driving · Up and down phrasal verbs · Road and track idioms

97 Cows' regional accents
Animal noises · The suffix -tion · The word back

96 Man catches neighbour
Ways of speaking · Prepositions of place and movement · Catch idioms

95 Designer dog burns down kitchen
In the kitchen vocabulary· Phrasal verbs quiz · Fire idioms

94 Hair by axe, sword and vacuum
Utensils and appliances · Verb + noun + to-infinitive· Cut words

93 Teen saves his saviour
Word building · The verb mean · Get + object + verb-ing