The Language Center’s Word Sub-lists for the Five IELP Levels

KNOWN words

absent	accident	address	afternoon	all	and	angry	animal	answer
ask	baby	bad	bag	ball	bank	be	beach	beautiful
bed	bedroom	begin	big	black	boat	book	book	bottle
box	boy	bread	breakfast	brother	bus	can n	cap	capital
car	cat	chair	city	classroom	clock	close	clothes	coast
coffee	cold	college	color/colour	come	computer	cook	country	cup
Cut	day	desert	desk	dictionary	different	difficult	dinner	Do
doctor	dollar	door	draw	dress	drink	each	easy	eat
electric	email	evening	exam	exercise	Fail	family	father	fine
finish	fish	floor	flower	food	football	friend	funny	game
garage	get	Girl	give	Go		god	good	green
had	hand	happy	have	he	hello	here	history	holiday
holy Quran	home	homework	hospital	hot	hotel	house	I	ill
it	kilogram	kilometre	knife	know	lesson	library	like	look at
lunch	made	make	man	many	married	million	mistake	money
month	morning	mother	mountain	musIc	my	name	new	newspaper
night	no	notebook	now	number	Oil	old	one	open
Or	page	paper	pen	pencil	People	photo	picture	play
please	police	pray	question	radio	read	ready	red	restaurant
river	road	room	run	said	same	sandal	school	science
sea	see	she	ship	shop	shower	sick	sir	sister
sit	sleep	small	smile	some	something	sorry	speak	spell
stand	Stop	story	street	student	study	summer	sun	table
take	talk	taxi	tea	teach	teacher	telephone	test	thank you
thing	think	time	timetable	today	tomorrow	tree	understand	university
village	vowel	walk	wall	want	wash	watch v,n	water	way road
we	week	weekend	white	window	woman	word	write	wrong
year	yes	yesterday	you

FUNCTION words for Level 2

A	About	After	Again	Ago	Also
Always	An	Another	Any	anybody/anyone	Anything
As	At	Away	Back	Because	Before
Between	Both	But	By	Can	Did
Does	don't	Down	Every	everybody/everyone	Everything
Everywhere	far	few	first	for	from
her	his	how	if	in	in front of
into	its	more than	much	near	never
next to	nobody/no one	not	nothing	nowhere	of
off	often	on	only	other	our
out of	so	somebody/someone	sometimes	somewhere	that
the	their	them	then	there	these
they	this	those	to	too	under
until	up	usually	very	what	when
where	which	who	whose	why	will
with	without	your

FUNCTION words for Level 3

above	against	almost	along	already	although	among	around
behind	below	beside	during	either	else	however	inside
just	less	may	maybe	might	mine	most	must
neither	none	nor	outside	over	per	probably	quite
rather	seldom	several	should	silence	since	somehow	still
such as	therefore	though	through	toward	unless	whatever	whereas
whether	while	within	yet

SUBLIST for Level 2

age	agree	air	alone	arm	aunt	average	back
bath	be	beat	bird	blood	blue	body	break
bring	brown	build	busy	buy	call	captain	carry
centre	chance	change	chapter	cheap	child	circle	class
clean	clear	clever	cloud	collect	company	complete	compound
copy	correct	cost	course	cousin	cover	cry	dance
dark	date	daughter	dead	dear	death	deep	department
detective	die	direct	discuss	disk	drive	dry	ear
early	earth	east	education	egg	email	empty	end
enjoy	enough	enter	example	expensive	experience	experiment	extra
eye	face	factor	factory	fall	Fan	farm	fast
Fat	feel	Fill	finance	find	finger	fire	flat
follow	foot	forget	free	fresh	fruit	full	future
garden	gas	gate	general	gold	grass	great	grey
group	grow	hair	handwriting	hard	hat	head	healthy
hear	heavy	help	high	hour	hungry	husband	hypothesis
ice	icon	idea	important	island	job	keep	key
kill	kind	king	kitchen	lady	land	language	late
laugh	learn	leave	left	leg	let	letter	level
life	light	line	listen	live	long	loud	love
machine	main	market	marriage	marry	mean	meet	message
mile	milk	minister	minute	miss	mobile	monitor	month
mouse	mouth	move	neck	need	neighbour	news	nice
noise	north	nose	notice	noun	ocean	office	officer
oil	ordinary	pair	parent	park	part	partner	pass
past	pay	period	person	phone	piece	place	plan
plane	plant	plural	pocket	point	poor	power	present
press	print	problem	put	quiet	rain	reach	real
reason	release	remember	reply	rest	result	return	rich
right	ring	round	rubbish	sad	safe	sand	save
schedule	science	scientist	screen	search	seat	second	sell
send	sentence	shift	shirt	shoe	short	show	side
sing	size	sky	slow	smell	smoke	soap	soft
son	sound	space	special	speed	start	stay	store
strong	subject	sure	sweet	swim	tall	tasks	taste
tell	temperature	text	throw	ticket	times	tired	top
total	touch	town	travel	tribe	try	type	uncle
unit	use	verb	visit	visitor	wait	wear	weather
welcome	well	west	whole	wife	win	wind	winter
wood	work	world	yellow	young	false	true

SUBLIST for Level 3

accept	across	action	add	advertise	advice
aeroplane	afraid	agriculture	airplane	alive	allow
allowance	amount	apply	approve	area	army
arrange	arrive	article	asked	attitude	available
average	basic	beauty	become	behave	behaviour
believe	bend	best	better	bill	blind
bold	bow	brain	breath	breathe	brown
business	businessman	butter	camera	capital	card
castle	catch	cause	century	chain	check
cheese	chicken	choice	choose	circle	cliff
climb	cloth	code	collect	commerce	common
compare	confident	confuse	connection	consumer	continue
control	conversation	corner	cost	cough	crime
crowd	crown	cruel	current	dad	daily
danger	dangerous	decide	deep	defend	degree
demand	describe	destroy	diamond	difference	difficulty
dirty	discovery	dive	doubt	drag	dream
drop	earn	east	edge	egg	else
energy	engineering	equal	equation	even	ever
exactly	excellent	experiment	explain	export	fact
far	fashion	fear	feet	female	figure
finally	fish	foreign	forest	form	forward
friendship	front	fry	fun	general	goal
grass	ground	guard	guess	half	hall
happen	hard	hate	health	heart	heart
heat	highway	hit	hold	hole	honest
hope	human	hurry	hut	imagine	immediately
impossible	improve	increase	industry	inside	interest
introduce	introduction	join	joke	joke	jump
kick	kingdom	knock	landlord	large	last
later	lecture	less	lift	liquid	list
little	lock	lose	lovely	low	luck
mad	map	mark	match	meal	mean
meat	medicine	member	memory	metal	meter
middle	mind	modern	moon	narrow	nature
nearly	neighbourhood	net	nurse	ocean	ocean
operation	opposite	organize	own	pain	parent
particular	party	passenger	patient	pause	pay
pearl	per	perfect	perhaps	plant	plate
population	position	positive	possible	pour	powder
practice/practise	previous	price	primary	prison	process
proper	pull	punish	push	queen	quick
race	real	record	relationship	remind	rent
repeat	review	rice	river	row	rubber
salary	salt	season	secret	self	serious
several	shape	share	shelter	shore	shout
sign	silent	simple	single	skill	skin
snake	snow	soldier	solution	soon	south
spend	spirit	sport	spring	square	stairs
star	statement	stick	stomach	stone	straight
stupid	style	suggest	suit	support	suppose
surface	surprise	swim	sword	taste	team
temperature	tent	term	thick	thief	thin
thousand	together	tonight	total	trouble	tube
turn	ugly	usual	valuable	voice	war
warm	warn	waste	watch	wave	weak
weak	weed	weigh	weight	west	wet
whistle	wild	wing	wish	wonderful	worry
worse

SUBLIST for level 4

able	act	actor	actress	actually	admire
adventure	afford	agent	ancient	anxious	apart
appear	apple	asleep	assistant	astonish	attack
autumn	awake	balance	basin	basket	bathe
battle	bear	beard	bell	belong	bicycle
birth	bit	bite	blow	boil	bone
borrow	bottom	bowl	brave	bridge	bright
bush	cake	calm	camp	care	carriage
case	cave	cent	ceremony	character	check
chief	church	claim	coat	comfortable	commisioner
compete	connect	consider	contain	count	couple
crash	criminal	cross	culture	culture	cupboard
cure	custom	customer	deaf	description	detective
develop	device	direct	discover	disease	distinguish
double	drown	duty	employ	enemy	envelope
escape	especially	event	evidence	except	exchange
excite	excuse	expense	experience	express	fair
famous	favour/favor	field	fight	film	fit
fly	force	forgive	fresh	fresh	fresh
frighten	funeral	furniture	gather	gift	glad
glass	government	greet	ground	guest	gun
hang	hardly	hide	hill	hunt	hurt
include	indeed	influence	information	inspector	instead
international	invent	invite	journey	judge	juice
kiss	knee	knee	ladder	lake	lamp
law	lay	lazy	lead	lend	lie
limit	lip	literature	local	lord	loss
lot	manage	march	master	material	matter
meanwhile	measure	mention	million	mix	mix
moment
moral	motion	murder	mystery	native	necessary
note	obvious	offer	orange	order	origin
outline	owe	paint	passive	path	permission
persuade	photograph	pick	pig	pin	plenty
polite	polite	political	pool	popular	post
pot	pound	prepare	president	press	press
pretty	prevent	priest	private	probably	produce
progress	promise	protect	proud	prove	purpose
railway	realize	receive	reduce	register	religion
repair	replace	report	respect	responsible	reward
ride	rise	rob	rock	roof	rope
rule	sail	screw	secretary	seem	sense
separate	servant	service	set	shadow	shake
sheep	shine	shoot	shoulder	shut	signal
silence	silver	sink	situation	slave	social
soldier	sort	soup	spoon	spread	Staff
stage	state	station	steal	step	stock
storm	strange	stream	substance	success	sudden
suffer	supper	support	surface	system	telegraph
temple	terrible	tie	tin	title	tooth
total	total	tower	train	translation	tribe
tribe	tribe	trick	trip	trust	union
unite	upset	valley	value	veil	view
vote	wake	weapon	western	wicked	wide
widow	wise	wonderful	worth

SUBLIST for level 5

accord	blank	conclude	dot	frequent	jewel	pilot	satellite	symbol
account	block	condition	drug	furthermore	lack	poison	satisfy	tail
achieve	boring	consist	due	gap	length	prefer	scale	tear
active	branch	contact	dust	gentle	likely	pressure	scan	tense
adapt	brief	content	edit	giant	locate	product	scare	theory
advance	brush	context	effect	grade	magazine	profit	scene	thunder
advantage	burn	contrast	effort	graduate	major	provide	scream	tight
affect	cage	cool	engine	grammar	male	public	section	tiny
aim	canal	crazy	enormous	groom	medical	punctuate	sex	tissue
alarm	career	create	environment	guide	method	quality	sharp	tool
ambulance	cash	creature	essay	gulf	mirror	raise	sheet	topic
analyse	cell	credit	etc	honey	model	range	shock	tour
annoy	cellular	cycle	eventual	huge	motive	rat	site	traffic
apartment	certain	damage	exist	hundred	motor	really	skim	transport
append	challenge	deal	expect	hurricane	nation	recent	society	typical
appoint	channel	decrease	expert	identify	neat	refer	specific	underline
approach	charge	define	explode	independent	nephew	refuse	stare	uniform
approximate	chart	deliver	explore	informal	nervous	regular	strength	van
arrest	cheat	depend	extreme	injure	normal	relative	stress	variety
art	chemical	design	fault	insect	obey	remain	stretch	various
assign	classmate	detail	feature	instance	observe	remove	string	vary
attach	combine	dig	feed	instruct	occur	request	structure	violent
attend	communicate	dish	festival	internet	paragraph	require	stuff	virus
author	complain	display	flood	interview	pattern	research	sum	vocabulary
avoid	complicate	distance	focus	involve	percent	robot	summary	volcano
bar	compose	divide	fortune	iron	phrase	sale	supply	web
beyond	concern	document	freeze	issue	physical	sandwich	switch	wipe

SUBLIST for level 6

absence	calculate	despite	extend	heaven	niece	rate	singular
absolutely	camel	determine	factor	hire	occasion	react	slight
accurate	cancer	devote	familiar	honour	official	recognize	smooth
adjective	capable	diagram	fatal	horizontal	opportunity	recover	spite
admit	chest	diet	finance	ignorant	ordinary	reference	standard
adverb	cigarette	disappoint	firm	image	pack	regard	steady
ahead	civilise	disturb	float	income	passage	release	strike
aid	clause	donate	flow	individual	perform	relevant	struggle
aloud	clinic	donor	fool	infect	pet	represent	sugar
alternative	colleague	drama	formal	infinitive	pity	resource	surgeon
apologize	community	eager	former	inquire	plain	respond	surgery
appropriate	competition	efficient	frown	instrument	poem	retire	surgical
artificial	complex	eliminate	function	intelligence	pollute	revolution	surround
associate	comprehend	emergency	gain	intend	predict	rid	survive
atmosphere	concept	emotion	generate	interrupt	pretend	risk	synonym
attempt	congratulate	emphasis	generation	investigate	proceed	role	tax
attention	consequent	encourage	generous	joy	profession	rough	technologist
attract	construct	engage	globe	laughter	professional	royal	theatre
automate	convenience	ensure	gradual	legal	pronoun	rude	threat
aware	courage	entertain	grand	lone	proof	rural	throat
bay	court	entire	grave	magic	property	rush	thus
behaviour	data	especial	guideline	manner	propose	secure	trade
billion	debate	establish	guilty	mass	psychology	sequence	treat
blame	decline	estimate	habit	mood	qualify	service	urban
boss	definite	evil	handle	moreover	quantity	settle	urgent
breathe	delay	expand	headache	multiply	quiz	shame	wealth
bury	depress	expose	heat	muscle	radiate	sight	western
							wheel
							whisper
							worldwide
							wound