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Everyday English

Words for daily life, travel and the people around you

Kitchen verbs

The verbs every recipe uses, from chopping and grating to simmering and baking.

Travel essentials

The words you meet at airports, stations and hotels on any trip abroad.

Personality adjectives

Words for describing what people are like — the good, the bad and the in-between.

Discourse markers

The little phrases speakers use to steer a conversation — to correct, hedge, change topic or buy time.

Quick replies

Short, natural reactions to what someone has just said, for sounding fluent in conversation.

Informal English

Casual adjectives you will hear from friends, in films and online, with where each is used.