Vocabulary Activities

Vocabulary games, activities and exercises for beginners and elementary students of English. There is a little help for Spanish students of English. Some pages may load slowly because they have many recordings.

Actividades, ejercicios y juegos de vocabulario en Inglés para principiantes. Hay un poco de ayuda para estudiantes hispanos en algunas de las actividades. Algunas páginas pueden tardar en cargarse por tener muchas grabaciones.

Alphabet Letters Quiz Letters - Pictures List Colors Quiz: Colors Listening Cloze 1 Colors Pictures List Numbers Quiz: 1 to 20 Cloze listening (3 activities), Ordinal Cloze listening Cardinal numbers: List of numbers Ordinals - Numbers list in English The Time Quiz: Time and Time again, Paul's time pictures cloze O'clock Pictures List Time Pictures List 1 Calendar Calendar Countries and Nationalities Countries / Nationalities List (lento en cargar) Objects Common Objects Pictures List Office Objects Pictures List Colors and Things Pictures List Beauty Beauty Objects Pictures list Adjectives Adjectives 1 Pictures List Adjectives 2 Pictures List Adjectives 3 Pictures List Adjectives Describing People Transport Vehicles Pictures List Vehicles Pictures List 2 Motorcycles Pictures List Vehicles Pictures List 3 - Cars Ships and Boats Pictures 1

Jobs Jobs Pictures List Animals Farm Animals Pictures List Sea Animals Pictures List Forest Animals Pictures List Insects - Animals Pictures List Jungle Animals Pictures List Savannah Animals Pictures List Other Animals - Pictures List Animals - Vocabulary List Body Body - pictures list Clothes Clothes Pictures List Food Food Objects - Pictures List Bakery - Dairy - Pictures List Fruit - Pictures List Vegetables Pictures List Meat - Poultry - Seafood - Pictures List Prepared Foods - Pictures List Verbs Verbs Pictures List Activities Pictures list Most Frequent Verbs List Past Simple Past Simple Verbs Pictures List Past Simple Activities Verbs Pictures List Verbos Irregulares Irregular verbs Medical First Aid Kit Most frequent vocabulary List: 200 most frequent words in English With Spanish help. Now with a list of English and Spanish sentences. Las palabras más frecuentes en inglés con ayuda en Español.

Mixed Vocabulary list activity:

1: Vocabulary List 1 Cloze, Vocabulary List 1 Quiz, by Victoria Fontana.

1) to pander - to cater to the lower tastes and desires of others or exploit their weaknesses, especially in order to make money. (complacer, ceder, condescender)
2) to nitpick - to meticulously search for minor, even trivial errors in detail, and then criticize them. (sacarle faltas a todo)
3) to get/give/take a shellacking – to defeat decisively; to strike repeatedly and severely; to batter. (paliza)
4) visceral (adjective) - perceived/obtained through intuition (by illogical means from the gut) rather than from reasoning or observation. (visceral)
5) a riddle, to riddle - a question or statement requiring thought to answer or understand; a puzzle; a difficult problem. (acertijo, adivinanza)
6) to convey - to communicate or make known; impart; to pass on information. (comunicar, expresar)
7) compelling (adjective) – convincing, persuasive, arousing strong interest, having a powerful effect. (convincente, irresistible, apasionante)
8) to belittle - to represent or speak of as contemptibly small or unimportant; to disparage; to cause to make small. (menospreciar, quitar importancia a, minimizar)
9) utter (adjective) - complete; absolute; entire. (completo, total)
10) to dwell - to think moodily or anxiously about something; to fasten one's attention on something (dar vueltas a, pensar obsesivamente en).

2: Vocabulary List 2 Cloze, Vocabulary List 2 Quiz.

1) to splash out – to spend freely or extravagantly on things that you want, but don’t need. (gastar libremente, derrochar dinero)
2) to turn out - to end up; to result: The cake turned out beautifully. (resultó ser que ...)
3) to overpay – to pay too much (pagar demasiado)
4) to keep a low profile – to behave in a way that does not attract attention or public notice. (intentar pasar desapercibido)
5) to value - to evaluate or estimate the worth or merit of something. (valor)
6) to target - to aim at or for. (fijar como objetivo)
7) to spice up - to add something to make it more interesting. (añadir un poco de picante, estimular, condimentar).
8) to stick to - to remain firm, determined, or resolute; not to abandon (mantenerse firme y decidido, cumplir una promesa, seguir fiel a sus principios, aferrarse a sus principios)
9) to acquire – to buy; to purchase; to get (comprar, consequir, adquirir)
10) to draw the shutters on – to close down; to cause to cease operations (cerrar – “shutters” son persianas).

3: Vocabulary List 3 Cloze, Vocabulary List 3 Quiz.

1) to backpack – to travel, hike or trek with a rucksack (verb and noun). (viajar con mochila).
2) to start off – to set out on a journey; to begin an activity (salir de viaje o empezar un viaje).
3) to stretch – to expand; to extend from one place to another; to extend oneself to full length (verb - extenderse) (noun – un tramo, trecho).
4) to wander – to move about without a definite destination or purpose. (deambular).
5) to traverse - to travel or pass across, over, or through  (atravesar).
6) to join – to put or bring together so as to make continuous or form a unit (unirse).
7) to reminisce – to recollect and tell of past experiences or events (rememorar, recordar).
8) to grin - to smile broadly, often baring the teeth, as in aggression, amusement, glee, embarrassment, or other strong emotion. This word can be used differently than the word “smile” because people more often smile when they aren’t aggressive or threatening, for example, unless they are insincere. (sonreir)
9) to seem to be – to appear to be true, to appear to exist (parecía estar o ser).
10) to overcome – to prevail, to surmount obstacles (superar).

4: Vocabulary List 4 Cloze, Vocabulary List 4 Quiz.

1) to scowl - to wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, gloomy, threatening, or angry (fruncir el ceño).
2) to repose – to rest (reposar, descanso).
3) to dash – to quickly run a short distance; to move with haste; to rush (salir corriendo, precipitarse en carrera)
4) to relish – to enjoy greatly; to take great pleasure in; to taste or eat with pleasure (hacer algo de buena gana o con apetito)
5) to spare – to give up; to part with; to do without; to make available (prescindir, hacer disponible, escatimatizar, reparar) E
6) to probe – to explore; to investigate; to question (investigar, explorar).
7) to quarantine - to retain in obligatory isolation or separation, as a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of contagious disease (poner en cuarentena).
8) to mangle - to change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc. (destrozar, despedezar, aplastar).
9) to lecture – to speak about a specific subject before an audience or a class, as for the purpose of instruction (dar una conferencia o charla).
10) to feign – to give a false appearance of; to pretend (fingir).

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