pre-a1-starters-word-list-2018

Pre A1 Starters

Wordlist picture book

for exams from 2018

Contents

About this book..................................................................................... 2
About Pre A1 Starters............................................................................ 3
Where are the young learners?...........................................................4
My body.................................................................................................. 5
At the zoo...........................................................................................6–7
At the clothes shop.......................................................................... 8–9
My friend’s birthday...................................................................... 10–11
My favourite food..........................................................................12–13
At home..........................................................................................14–15
At school.........................................................................................16–17
At the beach...................................................................................18–19
My street........................................................................................ 20–21
Some games..................................................................................22–24
A–Z wordlist for Pre A1 Starters.................................................25–30
Answers................................................................................................. 31

1

About this book

You can use this colourful picture book to
help children when they are just starting
to learn English.

The book uses many of the words from
the Pre A1 Starters wordlist. You will find
the words in:

• the colourful pictures At the zoo chicken snake crocodile Let’s talk!
• the ‘Let’s talk!’ sections horse elephant
• the activity pages. cow tail • Oh dear! Where’s the yellow snake?
bird
frog dog • Look at the goats. Which goat
monkey has yellow eyes? What colour
tiger lizard giraffe are yours?
sheep
animal • OK, have you got a favourite
animal? Which animal don’t
mouse / mice goat
6 spider you like?
duck
7
hippo

The full Pre A1 Starters wordlist is at the end of this book on page 25.

Talk about the pictures

If you are a parent or a teacher, find time to sit with your children and look at the book.
Talk to them about what you see. As a start you could ask some of the Let’s talk! questions on
the picture pages.

Find words in the pictures

There are lots of words to find in the pictures. Can the children find them all?

See if the children want to test your English too! What can they ask you to find in the pictures?

2

About Pre A1 Starters

Pre A1 Starters, A1 Movers and A2 Flyers is a series of fun, motivating English language exams for
children in primary and lower secondary education. The exams are an excellent way for children
to gain confidence and improve their English.

Common European Cambridge
Framework of English
Reference (CEFR) Scale Schools

230 C2 Proficiency

PROFICIENT C2 220 C1 Advanced
C1 210 B2 First
INDEPENDENT B2 200
190 for Schools
180 B1 Preliminary
170
for Schools
B1 160 A2 Key for
A2 150 Schools
140
130 A2
Flyers
BASIC 120 A1 Movers Young Learners
Pre A1
A1 110 Starters

A1Pre 100
90
80

There are three levels of exam:
• Pre A1 Starters
• A1 Movers
• A2 Flyers

Pre A1 Starters is for children who are just starting to learn English.

For more information about Pre A1 Starters, A1 Movers and A2 Flyers
and for preparation materials, please visit:
cambridgeenglish.org/starters
cambridgeenglish.org/movers
cambridgeenglish.org/flyers

3

Hello!

Where are the young learners?

Here are 17 young learners from the ‘My body’ picture. They are also in the pictures in the book.
When you find them in the book, tick here and write the name of the picture.

The answers are on page 31.

PAlex Grace Dan

Which picture? __ __ ___
______ _____
_A_t h_o_m_ e_
Sam Anna
Jill __ ____
__
__ ___ ______
___
Sue & Tom Ben
Kim
__ ___ __ ___
__ ___ _______ ____ ___
___

Lucy & Hugo Bill May

__ __ __
______ ______ _________
____
Pat & Alice
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ’_ Nick
________
__
4 ______

My body Let’s talk!

head hair • What’s your name?
• Here are lots of children playing.
arm body leg face Are they happy or sad?
feet smile nose • Who’s waving at you?
hand eye
foot ear 5
mouth

At the zoo chicken
horse
frog cow
tiger bird
mouse / mice sheep
monkey goat
6 duck lizard

snake crocodile Let’s talk!
tail elephant

dog • Oh dear! Where’s the yellow snake?

animal giraffe • Look at the goats. Which goat has
yellow eyes? What colour are yours?

• OK, have you got a favourite animal?
Which animal don’t you like?

spider

hippo 7

At the clothes shop

black hat clothes white skirt
blue jacket shoe
purple
glasses pink
handbag
8 brown bag sock

watch grey/gray
angry trousers
man
yellow Let’s talk!
shirt
• Wow! How many hats do you see?
red T-shirt orange • What’s your favourite colour?
green dress • What clothes do you like to wear?
jeans
9

My friend’s birthday Miss
Park
person

people woman boy robot
man baby girl
alien monster

child

10 balloon men women children give a toy

dad/father mum/mother

Mr Park Mrs Park family Let’s talk!

grandmother/ cousin • Is the alien very ugly or really beautiful?
sister brother grandma grandfather/ • Whose birthday is it? How old is he?
grandpa • What do you do on your birthday?

11

My favourite food potato meat

banana grapes lime mango dinner
apple orange lemon pineapple
fish
peas pear tomato water
fruit
rice sausage egg
12 bread beans
onion

coconut milk breakfast

watermelon candy/ chocolate 17
sweet(s)
Let’s talk!
cake chicken
juice • Is the door open or closed?
• Do these people like eating?
lemonade • What do you eat for breakfast?
• What’s your favourite food?
drink
13
lunch burger ice carrot
chips/ cream
fries

At home bathroom window dining room
picture
mirror
box
bath chair
clock table
cupboard doll
radio bookcase apartment/
flat
kitchen bed

14 bedroom house/home

hall garden Let’s talk!
wall
door flower • Can you show me the white flowers?
phone • Where are the children watching
television?
painting television/ • Where do you sleep at night?
sofa TV • Do you live in a house or a flat?

room armchair rug 15
cat lamp

living room

At school part teacher alphabet letter
line
draw/do a book page floor
drawing board class classroom
hockey
football/
soccer basketball

ruler pen

16 pencil eraser/rubber

book mouse
computer
keyboard close Let’s talk!
desk
• Look at the woman in the blue skirt.
open Is she standing up and writing a
sentence?
music tick • Do you enjoy reading books and
cross listening to stories?
• Do you like to spell?

17

At the beach piano kick
guitar a ball
hit paint jump
a ball paint(ing)

baseball walk sing a song

table tennis fishing camera
take a photo
18

throw catch kite Let’s talk!
a ball a ball
• What colour is the boy’s camera?
sport • Do you see the boy with the yellow
and blue shorts? What did his mum
tennis badminton give to him?
sand sun shell • There are a lot of games here. Which
game do you like?
swim sea
19

My street tree park
run

train afternoon evening
morning

20 bookshop shop/store day

fly a plane

bus boat Let’s talk!
lorry/truck drive a car
• Can you point to the car in front
helicopter stop of the bus?
go
• What’s in front of the fruit shop?

• What colour bag does the boy see?

motorbike ride a 21
bike

Some games

Can you find the words?

YOUNGKDD E NL
L WW Z D O S S C N U
O E E L UNO E I O F
N J L B C L E A ND I
G I L ND V G X A R T
L E A QH A L L B A U
L HMW T R O H S P A
A E T E L PM OC X E
MRKPQBR F P E B
S SY Y T R I DVVQ
A NG R YW F GOOD

Pclean beautiful end nice
sorry new good small
again big angry well
dirty short double
complete hers long
young old pardon

22

Which number?

Can you show which number goes with which and write in the letters?

_w_ 11
12
1 __g__ 13
14
s_____n 15
16
2 _h___ 17
18
one 19
20
3 __v__t___
23
_w___y

4 __x

_l___n

5 n___

6 __u___e_
_e_

7 _h__t___
f_f____

8 ____n

_w___e

9 ___h____

f__r

10 _ _ n _ t _ _ _

__v_

Where is Monkey?

Choose from: A2 Flyers

in front of next to behind in A1 Movers
between under on SPtraerAte1rs

23 1 between

rs 5

A2 Flyers

4 A2 A1 Movers

FSPltyraeerAtres1rs

A1 Movers
SPtraerAte1rs

6 A2 Flyers 7

24 That’s the end of the games. ThSPatranerkAte1yrsoA1uMfoovrertsaking part. Check the answers on page 31.

Pre Starters A–Z
wordlist

Grammatical key excl exclamation pron pronoun
int interrogative v verb
adj adjective n noun
adv adverb poss possessive
conj conjunction prep preposition
det determiner
dis discourse marker

A alien n answer n + v at prep of place
alphabet n apartment (UK
a det an det flat) n bounce v
about prep and conj apple n box n
add v angry adj arm n boy n
afternoon n animal n armchair n bread n
again adv Ann/Anna n ask v breakfast n
Alex n brother n
Alice n be v Bill n brown adj
beach n bird n burger n
B bean n birthday n bus n
bear n black adj but conj
baby n beautiful adj blue adj bye excl
badminton n bed n board n
bag n bedroom n board game n ball) v
ball n bee n boat n chair n
balloon n behind prep body n chicken n
banana n Ben n book n
baseball n between prep bookcase n
baseball cap n big adj bookshop n
basketball n bike n boots n
bat (as sports
equipment) n candy (UK carrot n
bath n sweet(s)) n cat n
bathroom n car n catch (e.g. a

C

cake n
camera n
can v

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child/children n classroom n colour (US count v
chips (US fries) n clean adj + v color) n + v cousin n
chocolate n clock n come v cow n
choose v close v complete v crayon n
clap v closed adj computer n crocodile n
class n clothes n cool adj + excl cross n + v
classmate n coconut n correct adj cupboard n

D dinner n donkey n drawing n
dirty adj don’t worry excl dress n
dad n do v door n drink n + v
Dan n dog n double adj drive v
day n doll n draw v duck n
desk n
dining room n elephant n enjoy v evening n
end n eraser (UK example n
E English adj + n rubber) n eye n
Eva n
ear n find v fries (UK
eat v fish (s + pl) n fly v chips) n
egg n fishing n food n frog n
flat (US foot/feet n from prep
F apartment) n football (US fruit n
floor n soccer) n fun adj + n
face n flower n for prep funny adj
family n friend n
fantastic adj + go v great adj + excl
excl go to bed v grandfather n green adj
father n go to sleep v grandma n grey (US gray)
favourite (US goat n grandmother n adj
favorite) adj good adj grandpa n guitar n
goodbye excl grape n
G Grace n gray (UK grey)
adj
game n handbag n
garden n happy adj have v head n
get v hat n have got v helicopter n
giraffe n he pron hello excl
girl n
give v
glasses n

H

hair n
hall n
hand n

26

her poss adj + hippo n hold v how int
pron his poss adj + home n + adv how many int
here adv pron hooray excl how old int
hers pron hit v horse n Hugo n
hi excl hobby n house n
him pron hockey n
in front of prep its poss adj +
I in prep of place it pron pron
+ time
I pron juice n kiwi n
ice cream n jellyfish n jump v know v
Jill n
J kitchen n
kid n kite n
jacket n Kim n
jeans n living room n a lot of det
letter (as in lizard n lots adv + pron
K alphabet) n long adj lots of det
like prep + v look v love v
keyboard lime n look at v Lucy n
(computer) n line n lorry (US truck) n lunch n
kick v listen v a lot adv + pron
live v (computer) n
L Miss title mouth n
name) n monkey n Mr title
lamp n me pron monster n Mrs title
learn v me too dis morning n mum n
leg n meat n mother n music n
lemon n meatballs n motorbike n my poss adj
lemonade n milk n mouse/mice n
lesson n mine pron mouse
let’s v mirror n
not adv
M Nick n now adv
night n number n
make v no adv + det
man/men n nose n
mango n
many det
Mark n
mat n
Matt n
May (as in girl’s

N

name n
new adj
next to prep
nice adj

27

O old adj open adj + v ours pron
on prep of place or conj
of prep one det + pron orange adj + n playground n
oh dis onion n our poss adj please dis
oh dear excl point v
OK adj + dis pea n piano n polar bear n
pear n pick up v poster n
P pen n picture n potato n
pencil n pie n purple adj
page n person/people n pineapple n put v
paint n + v pet n pink adj
painting n phone n + v plane n eraser) n
paper adj + n photo n play v rug n
pardon int ruler n
park n rice n correct) adj run v
part n ride v robot n
Pat n right dis room n sport n
right (as in rubber (US stand v
Q start v
ship n sleep v stop v
question n shirt n small adj store (UK shop)
shoe n smile n + v n
R shop (US store) n snake n story n
short adj so dis street n
radio n shorts n soccer (UK Sue n
read v show v football) n sun n
really adv silly adj sock n sweet(s) (US
red adj sing v sofa n candy) n
sister n some det swim v
S sit v song n
skateboard n sorry adj + int
sad adj skateboarding n spell v
Sam n skirt n spider n
sand n
sausage n
say v
scary adj
school n
sea n
see v
see you excl
sentence n
she pron
sheep (s + pl) n
shell n

28

T tennis n these det + pron tomato n
tennis racket n they pron too adv
table n thank you dis thing n toy n
table tennis n thanks dis this det + pron train n
tablet n that det + pron those det + pron tree n
tail n the det throw v trousers n
take a photo/ their poss adj tick n + v truck (UK lorry)
picture v theirs pron tiger n n
talk v them pron to prep try n + v
teacher n then dis today adv + n T-shirt n
teddy (bear) n there adv Tom n TV/television n
television/TV n
tell v

U under prep understand v us pron

ugly adj

V

very adv

W wave v where int with prep
we pron which int woman/women n
walk v wear v white adj word n
wall n well dis who int would like v
want v well done dis whose int wow excl
watch n + v what int window n write v
water n
watermelon n

X

(No words at this level)

Y yes adv young adj yours pron
you pron your poss adj
year n
yellow adj

Z zoo n

zebra n

Letters & numbers

Candidates will be expected to understand and write the letters of the alphabet and
numbers 1–20.

29

Names

Candidates will be expected to recognise and write the following names: 

Alex Eva Mark Sam
Alice Grace Matt Sue
Ann/Anna Hugo May (as in girl’s Tom
Ben Jill name)
Bill Kim Nick
Dan Lucy Pat

30

Answers

Page 4 Page 23
Where are the young learners?
Alex – At home Which number?
Grace – My street
Dan – At the beach Did you get all the answers? Well done!
Jill – At the zoo
Sam – At home 1 two 11
Anna – At school
Kim – At the zoo eight
Sue & Tom – At the clothes shop
Ben – At the zoo 2 sixteen 12
Lucy & Hugo – My street
Bill – My street three
May – My favourite food
Pat & Alice – My friend’s birthday 3 one 13
Nick – At school
seventeen
Page 22
Can you find the words? twenty

YOUNGKDD E NL 4 s i x 14
L WW Z D O S S C N U
O E E L UNO E I O F eleven
N J L B C L E A ND I
G I L ND V G X A R T 5 n i n e 15
L E AQHA L L B A U
L HMW T R O H S P A 6 fourteen 16
A E T E L PM OC X E ten
MRKPQBR F P E B
S SY Y T R I DVVQ 7 thirteen 17
A NG R YW F GOOD fifteen

8 seven 18

twelve

9 eighteen 19

four

10 n i n e t e e n 20
five

Page 24
Where is Monkey?
1. between
2. next to
3. in
4. in front of
5. on
6. behind
7. under

31

Thank you for
reading this book

Use your favourite colours to colour in the young learners.

32

Teachers and parents can use this colourful picture book to help children get better at English and learn
new words.
Sit down and talk to children about the pictures. Can they find many of the different words in the fun,
colourful pictures? Can you help them answer the questions in the ‘Let’s talk!’ sections?
The Pre A1 Starters wordlist picture book includes many of the words children might see in their Pre A1
Starters exam.

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