Learn Useful Expressions in English
Check out IH Bristol’s extensive list of commonly used (and useful!) English expressions to beginners up to advanced users.
Elementary
- Apologising
- Asking about health / life
- Asking for approval
- Asking for information
- Asking somebody’s opinion
- At the bank
- Colours
- Describing people - bad
- Describing people - good
- Giving an opinion
- Have a guess…
- Hoping for something
- Hot weather
- I’m from Bristol
- Jobs - health workers
- Jobs - Public servants
- Jobs connected with travel
- Kinds of Shops
- Mixed feelings.
- On the Phone
- Phrases for postcards
- Phrases you hear in an airport
- Possibility
- Remembering things
- Reminding people to do things
- Rooms In A House
- Saying goodbye
- Saying somebody is correct
- Saying somebody is wrong
- Saying something is difficult
- Saying something is difficult
- Saying that something is easy.
- Saying things are good.
- Saying you are unwell
- Saying you don’t know
- Sometimes
- Supermarket phrases
- Surprise
- Talking about good ideas
- Talking About Rain
- Talking about weather
- Telephones and Telephoning
- Telling people your job
- Ten Ways of Expressing Dislike
- Ten Ways of Saying Hello
- Ten Ways of Talking about Likes
- Thanking people
- Things in a stationery shop
- Things to say when you’re angry
- Things you do while driving
- Toilets
- UK clothes and fashion
- Wanting things
- Ways to say that you are well.
Intermediate
- Advice and Suggestions
- Apologising
- Asking about health / life
- Asking for approval
- Asking for help
- Asking for help
- Asking for information
- Asking people to wait
- Asking somebody’s opinion
- At the bank
- Attitude to the future
- Avoiding giving information
- Bad people
- Being An Expert in English
- Being Lucky
- Being old
- Being poor
- Being relieved
- Being rich
- Being sure / certain
- Being worried
- Boring!
- Cheering People Up
- Colours
- Criticising mistakes
- Describing people - bad
- Describing people - good
- Disagreeing with a prediction
- Disagreeing with people
- Disappointment
- Disapproving of an action
- Dislikes - advanced
- Encouraging
- Euphemisms
- Excuses for being late
- Facial expressions
- Feeling Tired
- Forgetting things
- Generalizing
- Get - short phrases
- Giving a choice
- Giving an opinion
- Graphs - Rise and fall
- Habits
- Have a guess…
- Hoping for something
- Hot weather
- I’m from Bristol
- Improbability
- In The Near Future
- Jobs - health workers
- Jobs - Public servants
- Jobs connected with travel
- Kinds of Shops
- Likes - advanced
- Making small talk
- Mixed feelings.
- Near to my home
- Not giving your opinion
- Party People
- Party talk
- Phrases for postcards
- Phrases you hear in an airport
- Possibility
- Postcard English
- Postcard English - negative
- Preferring things
- Reassuring somebody
- Refusing
- Remembering things
- Reminding people to do things
- Rooms In A House
- Saying goodbye
- Saying No
- Saying somebody is angry
- Saying somebody is correct
- Saying somebody is wrong
- Saying somebody’s happy
- Saying somebody’s stupid
- Saying something is difficult
- Saying something is expensive
- Saying that something is easy.
- Saying things are good.
- Saying you are unwell
- Saying you don’t believe
- Saying you don’t know
- Showing Concern
- Sometimes
- Speculating
- Supermarket phrases
- Surprise
- Talking about Bargains
- Talking about good ideas
- Talking About Rain
- Talking about talent
- Talking about TV
- Talking about weather
- Telephones and Telephoning
- Telling people your job
- Ten questions about last night
Advanced
- Accepted Facts
- Advice and Suggestions
- Asking about future plans
- Asking for approval
- Asking for help
- Asking people to wait
- Asking somebody’s opinion
- Attitude to the future
- Avoiding giving information
- Bad people
- Being An Expert in English
- Being Lucky
- Being old
- Being poor
- Being relieved
- Being rich
- Being sure / certain
- Being worried
- Boring!
- Changing Your Mind
- Cheering People Up
- Complaining about hypocrisy
- Criticising mistakes
- Delaying Answering
- Disagreeing with a prediction
- Disagreeing with people
- Disappointment
- Disapproving of an action
- Dislikes - advanced
- Encouraging
- Euphemisms
- Excuses for being late
- Expressions With ‘One’
- Expressions with repeated words
- Facial expressions
- Forgetting things
- Generalizing
- Get - short phrases
- Giving a choice
- Giving an opinion
- Giving your opinion
- Graphs - Rise and fall
- Habits
- Improbability
- In The Near Future
- Kinds of Shops
- Likes - advanced
- Making small talk
- Making suggestions
- More unusual crimes
- Near to my home
- Noises With Adjectives
- Not giving your opinion
- Offending / upsetting people
- Paraphrasing
- Party People
- Postcard English
- Postcard English - negative
- Preferring things
- Quoting and disbelieving
- Reassuring somebody
- Refusing
- Resolutions
- Saying No
- Saying somebody is angry
- Saying somebody’s happy
- Saying somebody’s stupid
- Saying something is expensive
- Saying something is true
- Saying you don’t believe
- Showing Concern
- Speculating
- Talking about Cheap Prices
- Talking about Bargains
- Talking about talent
- Telling people your job
- Ten questions about last night
- Ten ways of expressing wants
- Ten Ways of Talking about Eating
- Toilets
- Ways of saying someone is drunk