The four lists
Each one is complete, each one is drawn from the material this site teaches, and each one prints.
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Irregular verbs: the full list with all three forms
Base, past simple and past participle for every irregular verb worth knowing, grouped into eight sound patterns and sortable A to Z.
144 verbs · 8 patterns · audio · PDF
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English idioms A–Z, with meanings and examples
Every idiom, proverb and saying this site teaches, alphabetically, with its meaning, the literal picture behind it and whether it is safe in writing.
60 idioms · meanings & examples · PDF
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Everyday English phrases for daily conversation
What to actually say — meeting people, asking the way, shopping, eating out, the phone, work, plans, illness and politeness.
105 phrases · 10 situations · PDF
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English prepositions list: time, place and movement
Three tables — when, where and along what path — plus the fixed phrases no rule predicts and the four pairs that cost the most marks.
45 prepositions · 3 tables · PDF
What these four lists are, and what they are not
These are indexes, not lessons. A lesson takes one structure and teaches it in order: rule, examples, mistakes, practice. A reference list takes everything of one kind and lays it out so you can find a single item in three seconds. The two need each other — a table teaches nobody on its own, and a lesson you cannot look things up in gets forgotten between sessions — which is why every row on every list here links back into the lesson or word list it came from.
They are also, deliberately, complete. It is easy to publish "the 50 most common irregular verbs" and stop; it is more useful to publish the whole set, mark which twenty to learn first, and let the reader see the shape of the thing. The same goes for the idiom index, which carries every idiom this site teaches rather than a selection of the famous ones.
What none of them do is guess. Where a figure or a tag is missing — a verb that appears nowhere else on this site, an idiom whose register genuinely depends on who you are speaking to — the gap is left visible and explained, because a filled-in cell that nobody checked is worse than an empty one.
How to work with a reference list
Do not read them. That sounds odd on a page recommending four of them, but a reference list read front to back produces the illusion of learning and none of the substance: you finish the irregular verb table remembering the first eight verbs and none of the other hundred and thirty.
Use them three ways instead. Look things up — that is what they are for, and the search inside your browser will find any row on any of these pages instantly. Take a slice — one pattern group, one situation, one letter of the alphabet — and learn that slice properly, out loud, before touching the next. And print one, because a list on a wall gets read in the gaps of a day, which is more repetitions than any study session you will actually sit down for.
The one thing worth doing in order is the irregular verbs, and only the first twenty. Those twenty appear in more sentences than the other hundred and twenty put together.
Every list on this page prints
Each of the four carries a PDF built from exactly the same data as the page — no watermark, no email address, no account. They are A4, they are laid out for a monochrome classroom printer, and the column headers repeat on every page so the third sheet of a long table is still readable.
If you teach, they sit alongside the ninety printable exercise worksheets in the teachers' library: a reference sheet on the wall and a worksheet on the desk are the two halves of the same lesson.