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432 pages written by the Big Challenge teaching team: grammar rules, verbs, vocabulary, phrasal verbs and everyday situations. For students, their teachers, and parents who want to help.
A free English library, open to everyone
Learn English is the Academy's reference corner. You come with a question (a rule, a verb, a phrase, a common mistake) and you leave with a clear answer, an example and the mistake to avoid. No account, no detours.
Are you a student?
Revising for a test, getting ready for the contest or stuck on one point? Find your page, read the example, avoid the mistake.
Are you a teacher?
Show a page on the class screen, give it for revision or use it to explain a topic: every page shows its CEFR level.
Are you a parent?
Does your child need help? The page explains the rule clearly, even if you have not used your English for a while.
Where do you want to start?
Choose a topic, or start with the most popular pages.
Grammar
22 rulesThe key rules, explained simply with examples: tenses, articles, pronouns, prepositions.
ExploreConjugation
226 verbsThe full conjugation of English verbs in every tense: Present Simple, Past Simple, Present Perfect, Future Simple.
ExploreVocabulary
97 topicsEnglish vocabulary by topic: travel, school, food, animals. With audio and exercises.
ExplorePhrasal verbs
62 pagesVerb + particle = a new meaning. Get up, look after, turn on… One page for each phrasal verb, with its meanings, word order, common mistakes and a quiz.
ExploreEveryday situations
25 pagesWhat do you say at a restaurant, at the airport, at the doctor's or in a job interview? Useful phrases for each everyday situation.
ExploreThe most popular pages
A few pages to get you started.
A trusted reference, from the brand that brings together 5,000 students every year
Learn English brings together the free Academy pages: 432 pages to understand, revise and print a clear explanation, when your notebook is not enough and online videos go in every direction. For primary and secondary school students, for their teachers, and for parents who want to help.
The same clear structure, page after page
Every page follows the same teaching structure: a quick answer at the top, a detailed rule or conjugation, examples from students' daily lives, a few common mistakes (confusing words, contractions in the wrong place, wrong word order) with the fix, a short interactive quiz to check that you understand, then FAQs with students' real questions (“when do I use since or for?”, “why do and not does?”). No long text that goes round in circles, no textbook jargon: the answer comes fast, the example fixes the rule in your head, and you see the common mistake before it becomes a habit.
The CEFR as a compass, the contest as experience
Our pages follow the CEFR levels, from beginner to intermediate: the grammar, the tenses and the culture (the United Kingdom, Ireland, the United States, the Commonwealth) that students meet at school. They are written by the teaching team of the Big Challenge, the English contest created in 1999, which 5,000 students take part in every year. Years of marking contest answers shape the mistakes we choose, the explanations we give, and the friendly tone we try to keep on every page: fun with the youngest, respectful with the oldest, never condescending.
Three ways to use it
Students find a page through a search engine, read the quick answer in a few seconds, do the quiz and leave feeling more confident. Teachers use the “Print” button at the top right to give a page to the whole class as a handout (the printed version hides the menus and keeps only the learning content). Parents open the search (Cmd + K, or the floating button) to answer a child who is stuck on homework, without having to pretend to be an English teacher.
When the page has explained everything and it is time to practise for real, the link to the PLAY app is at the bottom: that is where you practise speaking and turn the rule into a habit. Learn here. Practise there. Enjoy the journey.
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Parents' areaUpdated on 12 November 2026 by the Big Challenge teaching team. Every year, more than 500,000 students across Europe take part in our English contest, created in 1999. Our teaching approach →
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