English check your active vocabulary. How many English words do you know

I use Puzzle-English as an additional learning source. I really love the “songs” section, I hope it will be updated! Even today I thought that it would be very interesting to take part in filling out the service.
I also love the exercise section; unfortunately, I rarely get to watch the training videos themselves, but I enjoy going through the tasks! Thank you very much for your work!

Margarita,
26 years old, Moscow

• I really love learning English, and the Puzzle English website is truly the highest quality and thoughtful resource I have ever come across!!! I always feel a lot of gratitude to the creators and developers of the site for your work. What I like most is working with listening and videos, and in general, the fact that you can highlight any word and add it to your dictionary is, in my opinion, incredibly useful! THANK YOU SO MUCH!

  Violetta,
  36 years old, Rostov-on-Don

• I have been striving to master English for a long time. I need it for study and work. I went to courses, tried to study in various computer programs, but the results were not encouraging. I learned about Puzzle-English on the Internet. I liked the project. I decided to try it. Having already completed 50 lessons (listening, videos, TV series), I noticed that I began to understand quite well English speech by ear. This inspired me, because... I could almost independently understand lectures in English. In this, I believe that Puzzle-English helped me a lot. I continue to study English on Puzzle-English and I am sure that the results will be even better. Working out is interesting and exciting. Well done authors! We took a creative approach to creating a website - from idea to practical implementation. I am glad that the guys do not stop there, but are constantly improving and developing services.

  Igor Vayzyan,
  53 years old, Volzhsk

• I am a housewife, far from young, practically approaching retirement age, and I SEEMS like I don’t need English anymore, and the meager school and institute base is enough for travel, BUT - having accidentally stumbled upon a puzzle-English website on the Internet, I plunged into it with something unexpected for myself pleasure. I don’t have a specific motive for learning the language, but almost every evening my hands type “Paz-In” on their own and I go to lessons and exercises. The idea of ​​​​a sentence constructor is so exciting that my daughter (9 years old) herself sits down with Peppa Pig and, now, for Mazzy, and asks me not to give any hints. Many thanks to the creators of the site, we are looking forward to new lessons and cartoons for girls. Good luck!

  Irina-yori,
  Moscow

• I mostly watch only TV series, first with Russians, then English subtitles in headphones. I check new words in the EN-Ru dictionary. I like grammar exercises and a variety of videos. The main thing is to do this every day. I’m trying to conduct a monologue in English to myself, using new words from Puzzle English. I want to learn English more and more.

  Victor,
  55 years old, Tolyatti

• I'm already learning enough English for a long time both independently and with tutors. But this gave almost no visible results: either it was boring, or the approach to studying was not correct. But since I got acquainted with Puzzle-English everything has changed. Thanks to this resource, in less than six months I began to freely understand spoken English and translate texts of average complexity. Learning on this site is interesting, fun and always accessible. The “Series” section was especially effective for me. I thank the site developers for such a wonderful resource and a great opportunity to finally learn English!

  Sergey,
  24 years old, Kharkov

• In the evenings I like to sit in Puzzle English. I love the play space the site offers. I love singing songs, although they often change and sometimes I don’t even have time to remember or write them down. I love children's songs, especially since their author is a very talented musician. I like the series of programs about who lives in London and what. This greatly expands your horizons and gives you a lot of frequently used words, in different versions. I liked the videos about Buddha and the Angkor Wat temple complex, I love the travel series. I liked the new Sherlock, the only thing I regretted was that there was no series about Poirot with David Suchet. The songs are the best. I began to understand English speech by ear, although if it is not native speakers who speak, but Asians, Latin Americans, Indians, I still I understand with difficulty. For me, this is gurgling in a cauldron... Expanded vocabulary and this was done playfully, without any tension. And I’m just happy to learn English on this site.

  Hera,
  Minsk

• I fell in love with English a long time ago during my school years. Unfortunately, when I was studying, we developed reading skills, so after school I read at a fairly good level, I understand about 80% of what is written. And such important skills as listening comprehension and colloquial speech, they practically didn’t teach at school, or they taught in limited quantities. I came across this site by chance about 2 years ago and I liked it for its gradation educational material for users with different skill levels. The audio clips presented on Puzzle English helped to significantly improve the listening comprehension of English speech, especially in films, because if you take news clips, the announcers speak very clearly and my level of listening comprehension reached 60-70% when watching such clips. And When watching films, usually all my words merged into an almost continuous stream and you can only make out individual familiar words. By watching films on this site and analyzing them in detail by phrases. On the second, third viewing, you already hear these phrases and remember what they are mean. And if you watch the film at least 10 times, the phrases are already spinning in your head and not only that, one might say they roll off your tongue. Thanks to Alexander Antonov and his team for such a huge and necessary work, and most importantly for a not very large annual fee

  Vladislav,
  42 years old, Kyiv

• When I found out that in 5 years I would need a decent knowledge of English, I went on an Internet reconnaissance mission. This was in October 2012 and I had almost zero knowledge of English (basic reading rules, 3 simple tenses, 500 words of vocabulary as a result of all my previous attempts). After trying a bunch of sites, I ended up on Puzzle English... And I fell in love... Because that I found such a wonderful idea here, that I didn’t have to study in the classical sense, but could just play with words, trying to put them together in the right order. And to help, the translation is right next to the word, and the voice acting is right there, and it’s cool and clear. It’s great that the words are all in context and therefore are remembered much faster. And besides, the videos... After watching a bunch of different ones, I forever got rid of the fear of whether I could speak correctly in English, since I saw that straight people often use fairly free construction of sentences. When the movie appeared, I already understood the series by 50%, and TED by almost 90%. In a word, my results exceeded all my expectations about them. I recently passed an interview-test with teachers from the USA, which identified me as a strong Advanced student. But it’s not even 2 years since I ended up on puz-eng. And all thanks to such a wonderful invention - not to study, but to PLAY folding puzzles. Super! Now I am sure that by staying with you, in a couple of years I will become proficient in English. I wish you to grow and develop, and I wish you the same.

  Irina,
  37 years old, Lviv

• Thank you very much for your site. Working with your website is very useful for developing listening skills. I have been learning English for many years, but understanding English has been my main problem. After studying on your site, I made a big leap in this area and began to understand English texts by ear much better. An important innovation of the site developers is interactive exercises - puzzles. They allow you not only to watch a video and read subtitles, but also to actively act, making sentences from the words you listened to. The selection of videos and films is very impressive. Personally, I especially like popular science documentaries, large number which are available on the site. In the future, I would like to see on your website the series “Friends” (at least its first episodes) and classic English detective stories (such as, for example, “Inspector Morse” or “Inspector Lewis”), as well as films in which you can hear correct and competent English speech (“Royal English”). Also, in my opinion, it would be useful to create general table ranking of site participants so that they have the opportunity to compete with each other by being active. I would like to wish the site developers further success and further development this very useful undertaking.

  Alexander,
  54 years old, Moscow

• A huge THANK YOU to the entire Puzzle English team for such a wonderful project!! I studied English like everyone else: school, college, even some courses at work, I tried many sites, but there was no such result, I “mumbled” something there, and nothing more)). About 1.5 years ago I accidentally came across Puzzle English, then the site was still very young, but from the first visit it attracted attention, I won’t lie, firstly, the price, compared to other sites, is VERY affordable, and secondly, such a variety of materials I haven’t seen this anywhere in Puzzle English and there are a large number of videos different levels, grammar exercises, service series (truly a unique service). Thirdly, you can study at any time convenient for you. It is also worth noting that the site is aimed at Russian-speaking people learning English and all explanations of the material take place in the RUSSIAN LANGUAGE, which is important if your level of language knowledge is not so high... In this regard, I would like to note one more interesting thing “thing” as “Tips-secrets”, personally I learned a lot of useful things from them!! After 1.5 years spent with Puzzle English, I’m finally starting to speak English, and not “moo” as before, the fear of communicating with native speakers has gone, before that I was always afraid of seeming stupid and avoided communication, I have improved my ability to perceive the language by ear . In general, we can talk for a very long time about this project, but it's better to try!! Once again I would like to express my gratitude to those who are working on the project. I am very pleased with the way the whole process is organized. Administrators work very efficiently and quickly, the site is constantly evolving. I would like to wish a long life to the project!!

  Anton,
  28 years old, Khabarovsk

• I usually don’t write reviews, I don’t like it (or maybe I don’t know how). But for my favorite site Puzzle-English I will make an exception :-) In my opinion, Puzzle-English is the best site for self-study English language, and even in game form. There is never a dull moment on the site; you can always choose a video to your liking, regardless of your level of language proficiency. The site will be interesting for both beginners and experienced students: in front of you is a huge catalog of cute songs for children, cartoons, musical hits that are booming all over the world, performances by famous artists and politicians, fragments of TV shows, educational videos and other videos of varying levels of difficulty. Your task is to listen to part of the video, try to hear the phrase well and assemble a mosaic of its words. I treat this service as a game, entertainment, when I want to take a break from my main work and relax for ten minutes, I just go to Puzzle-English and collect the video I like. There is an interesting effect with songs when you UNDERSTAND what the song is about.. Those who are interested in English grammar can go to the exercises section and practice the chosen topic, collecting specially selected sentences, of course, first listening to a short theoretical video explaining the intricacies of this topics. All phrases in this section are voiced by a narrator. The Puzzle-English website has a unique “Serials” service. Before you are several dozen episodes of famous TV series and programs: “Two and a Half Men”, “Sherlock”, “Great Expectations”, “Life on Mars”, TED conference speeches, etc. You just watch your favorite series, and in difficult moments you press pause and there is an opportunity to read the script of the episode, listen to the phrase again, watch a video explanation of slang expressions and words. If you are a beginner, you can set subtitles to display in English and/or Russian. The site has a built-in player specially designed, and therefore convenient, for learning the language. All unfamiliar words can be placed in a “personal dictionary”. It is noteworthy that in addition to the word, the dictionary contains a corresponding phrase with a translation into Russian. And in the end I want to recommend you the Puzzle-English channel on YouTube, the guys share tips there self-study languages, and the entire collection of educational videos of the site is collected there. PS. In order to use the site, you do not have to be a user with a paid account. Many sections can be used for free, but an annoying sign with a payment offer will be displayed all the time. P.P.S. And yet, I urge you to pay for the site’s services, this money will help make the site even better, and its creators deserve to be paid for their work, in addition, a lot of additional opportunities will open up for you.

  Inga,
  hero city Sevastopol

• When I started learning English in the eighteenth last century we had only boring and incomprehensible English manuals. At that time didn't exist the mp3 players, smartphones and laptops. I remembered even how People lived without the internet. And If I"d such stuff earlier, I"d was probably speaking English fluently now and could understand the English speech, movies and songs. Modernity given has us awesome facilities to study English. We can read the authentic books and newspapers, hear the English songs and audio books, watch the foreign movies and TV, communicate with native speakers. But we haven"t any time to practice this. Because I was glad when I found the site Puzzle English. On this website you can take a maximum of English stuff for yourself and spend a minimum of your time. Where are huge plenty of useful and interested English lessons, exercises, TV"s serials and so long. All of the ones were carefully prepared for education purpose. You can instantly find translation and pronunciation each English word or phrase and add one in your private vocabulary to try it later. All workouts are doing easy and fast. And I"m visiting on every day this site to improve my English language. Of course I use not only this website, but Puzzle English is my favorite one. And I hope with Puzzle English my awful English will have been reached the perfection.

  Vladimir Shchepkov,
  49 years old, Sergiev Posad

Puzzle English Vocabulary Test

A quick way to test your vocabulary is Puzzle English test. In general, Puzzle English specializes in developing listening comprehension skills with the help of audio exercises, videos, and TV series. But for listening, of course, you need some minimum vocabulary.

You will be given a list of 96 words and asked to tick which ones you know. I advise you to mark only those words that you recognize instantly and without hesitation. There is no need to choose or write the correct answer - they take your word for it, but from time to time an honesty check appears - you need to choose the correct option from the four proposed to confirm that you are not deceiving the virtual teacher.

At the end, you will learn not only your vocabulary, but also the honesty index - the program evaluates how honest you were with it. If you retake the test, the words in the task will be different.

I took the test 3 times just for fun. The first and second results were approximately 11-12 thousand words each, and the third time I specifically answered all the questions correctly, looking in the dictionary, and they gave me as many as 29,248 words and a 94% honesty index (apparently, the mustachioed guy suspected something was wrong) . 29,000 is, of course, an unrealistic figure; it is believed that the average native speaker knows about 20,000 words, but if you don’t cheat and mark only those words that you recognize without hesitation, then the result is quite truthful. The next two tests confirmed this.

LinguaLeo word knowledge test

Of course, we must not forget that vocabulary is only one of the components of language proficiency. Even simple text will not be understandable if you have no understanding of grammar.

P. S.: How to determine what level of English you have

If you are wondering what your level of knowledge of English, then it is not enough to measure vocabulary and pass a grammar test, you need to comprehensively assess speech skills (reading, listening, writing and speaking). Read more about how to find out your level of English.

Test control is one of the most popular forms of testing knowledge of the English language. The undeniable advantages of tests are the speed and ease of assessing knowledge, as well as the mandatory availability of keys (correct answers) to them.

English vocabulary tests can be:

a) to determine the number of vocabulary units in your passive and active dictionary;

b) to determine the acquired vocabulary on any topic.

Here are some examples online tests.

Test http://testyourvocab.com/ allows you to determine your vocabulary. It consists of two mandatory parts: the first determines the knowledge of general vocabulary of the English language, the second - special. On average, the result of non-native English speakers ranges from 2,500 to 9,000 words, while the result of native speakers is 20,000-35,000 words.

Why know your vocabulary? The answer is very simple: each level of language proficiency corresponds to an approximate number of words that need to be learned. Yes, for the levelBeginner- This 500-600 words. In order for the language level to be close toElementary, the student needs to know about 1000 words.

Level	Word count
Beginner	500-600
Elementary	1000
Pre-Intermediate	1500-2000
Intermediate	2000-3000
Upper-Intermediate	3000-4000
Advanced	4000-8000
Proficiency	more than 8000

Test http://www.efl.ru/tests/formal2informal-1/ will show how well you speak spoken British English. What's happened 'comfy‘ and how to dress if you are invited to ‘barbie‘, you will find out by taking this fun test.

Next test http://www.efl.ru/tests/colours/ will help you better understand English colors and shades. In the first part, knowledge of the colors of the main palette is tested, in the second, attention is paid to shades of colors, in the third part, knowledge is trained English idioms containing the name of the color. Why is it bad to get ‘pinkslip', And what color is a lie? You will find all the answers in this test.

Test How strong is your vocabulary? from Merriam - Webster consists of only 10 questions, the content of which is constantly changing. The test checks synonymous vocabulary at an advanced level, but thanks to it you can significantly enrich your vocabulary.

Test MyVocabularySize It is distinguished primarily by its impressive size: it contains 140 questions. The test has a language selection option: when choosing Russian, you will need to select a translation of the word given in the context; when choosing English, you will find a synonymous phrase.

On the website Quizlet.com There are a huge number of vocabulary tests created by teachers from all over the world. Some of them are based on vocabulary from English textbooks, which you yourself probably study from. Other tests test knowledge of specialized vocabulary, which can also be useful for those who want to deepen their knowledge.

Some tips for those who want to increase their vocabulary

1. Read in the original! Will it be fiction, world news, culinary recipes or advertisements- not so important if you have acquired the habit of working with a dictionary while reading. Each new word is another step towards learning the English language.

2. Work with a monolingual dictionary! Not immediately, but gradually accustom yourself to abandon the usual “word-translation” scheme. Sometimes it can be difficult to explain a concept even in your native language. However, by working with a monolingual (written in one language) dictionary, you will have a better chance of understanding the meaning of many words.

3. Learn words in context! When maintaining your personal dictionary, write down not individual lexical units, but phrases and sentences. Thus, your language will quickly sparkle with new, lively phrases.

Where to practice vocabulary?

On the website LearnEnglishTeens There is an opportunity to practice words on a wide variety of topics. Each topic is presented at three language levels - from A 1 to B 1 – and is accompanied by five exercises.

On the website http://lengish.com/tests/vocabulary Exercises for training thematic vocabulary necessary in everyday life are also presented.

Resource Merriam -Webster offers not only dictionaries and tests, but also a huge number of exercises and games to improve your vocabulary.

Finally, we invite you to take our vocabulary test, based on vocabulary from New Headway Elementary.

1. If you… somebody, you take care of this person.

a) pay b) look after c) lose

2. My sister and I are very … and we phone each other every evening.

a) happy b) independent c) close

3. How many languages ​​do you…?

a) speak b) say c) tell

4. This book is really… !

a) interesting b) interested c) bored

5. I’m… in reading books.

a) interesting b) interested c) bored

6. Hey! Let's...a cake!

a) do b) make c) mix

7. New York is older…London.

a) then a) of c) than

8. If the weather is bad, we can….

a) have a picnic a) go for a walk c) watch a DVD

9. Let’s go to the… and buy some stamps.

a) library b) post office c) police office

10. How about having lunch?

a) I'll have some pizza and a cake. b) That sounds great! c) I can help you.

Keys to the test:

b	c	a	a	b	b	c	c	b	b

And finally, remember that objective can only be called comprehensive assessment of knowledge.

An English vocabulary test will help determine the degree of completeness of your lexical knowledge. Tests have a beneficial effect on quick learning new material and consolidation of what has already been covered, they can replace your teacher when learning English on your own.

And for students at a university or school, this good way understand which areas need more work. This test is often used by teachers when monitoring students’ knowledge. As statistics show, the success rate after passing such tests multiple times increases significantly.

English vocabulary test online

Question 1 of 20

It is Thursday today. The day before yesterday it was…

Have you phoned your parents...?

Kerry was very tired and … asleep quickly.

Lima's aunt is not well. Lima looks … her.

I am looking…my glasses. Can you help me?

He... thanks anybody. No wonder he has no friends.

We had no idea she was…talented

… , can I borrow your pen?

Speak louder. I can't... you.

A thing... you mop the floor with is a mop.

Have you seen Rebecca...?

Rebecca is meeting her mother at the airport tomorrow. So she needs a…

Kerry... spiders.

You must...your choice as soon as possible.

Can you...me a favour?

Tom was … in bed when his father came in.

They usually … the table for dinner at 6 p.m.

Tom can't … how to play chess.

Lima… hard, but her marks in Physics are still poor.

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