The World of English interactive language exercise applets
Use one of the links below to run an exercise. You can come back to this page to get others.
Types of Exercise
- Multiple Choice. (Mouse or keyboard) Choose the right
item from perhaps three or four to complete a sentence.
- Logic. (Mouse or keyboard) Which way does the action
go? Left to right or right to left?
- Shootdown. (Mouse only) Words move around the screen and
you have to shoot them down in the right order.
- Hangman. (Mouse or keyboard) Guess which letters there
are in a word. Too many wrong guesses and you're hanged.
- Selection. (Mouse or keyboard - keyboard recommended)
Find the right item in a sentence.
- Memory. (Mouse only) Turn up cards one by one, trying to
find matching pairs.
- Cloze. (Keyboard only) Type something to complete a
sentence.
- Transformation. (Keyboard only) Type a complete answer.
- Prediction. (Keyboard only) Try to guess what the next
letter in the answer is.
- Quiz. (Mouse or keyboard) Choose the right answer to the
question.
The Exercises
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Tenses
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Passive
- transformation (transformation)
- passive or active (logic)
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Continuous
- past (cloze)
- present (cloze)
- passive (cloze)
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Perfect
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Forms
- forms (memory)
- forms (cloze)
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Uses
- perfect continuous (transformation)
- not since (transformation)
- perfect passive (transformation)
- easy test (quiz)
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Modal
- modal continuous (transformation)
- simple (shootdown)
- modal perfect (transformation)
- modal passive (transformation)
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Questions
- question tags (cloze)
- difficult (shootdown)
- easy (shootdown)
- write (transformation)
- indirect (transformation)
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Simple
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Present
- build (transformation)
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Past
- forms (memory)
- forms (cloze)
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Pronunciation
- stress (selection)
- rhymes (memory)
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Idioms
- proverbs (shootdown)
- as easy as pie (multiple choice)
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Miscellaneous
- comparatives (cloze)
- replies (prediction)
- a or an (multiple choice)
- spelling with y (multiple choice)
- adverbs (cloze)
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Literature
- who wrote what (multiple choice)
- authors (memory)
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Shakespeare
- easy (quiz)
- titles (hangman)
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New
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Constructs
- not until (transformation)
- verb plus verb (cloze)
- connectors (multiple choice)
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Relatives
- who or which (prediction)
- subject or not (cloze)
- have it done (cloze)
- gerunds (transformation)
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Conditionals
- logic (logic)
- conditionals 1 (transformation)
- conditionals 2 (transformation)
- conditionals 3 (prediction)
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Vocabulary
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Business
- documents (hangman)
- departments (hangman)
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Hangman
- sport (hangman)
- eating (hangman)
- weather (hangman)
- vegetables (hangman)
- holidays (hangman)
- driving (hangman)
- computers (hangman)
- bored or boring (cloze)
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General
- absolutes (memory)
- football teams (hangman)
- qualities (multiple choice)
- groups (memory)
- register (memory)
- abstract nouns (cloze)
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Easy
- opposites (memory)
- ordinal numbers (cloze)
- measures (cloze)
- numbers (hangman)
- brits and yanks (memory)
- male and female (memory)