EnglishConnect 2: Activities & Assessments
Practice and preparation are keys to your success. Here you can access activities for each lesson in EnglishConnect 2. You can also take pre-tests and unit tests to check your progress.
Use the EnglishConnect 2 pre-test to determine what you know before beginning the level. You can take the test as many times as you want.
When you finish EnglishConnect 2, compare this score to your score on the post-test to see your progress.
Unit 1: Lessons 1–5
Lesson 1: The English Alphabet
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 1 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: Pronunciation and Spelling – A B C
- Pronunciation: Phonemic Awareness
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 1 Conversation Group
Lesson 2: Introductions
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 2 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: What do you like to do?
- Workbook Expansion: With God Nothing Is Impossible
- Pronunciation: The Alphabet
- Self-Check: Lesson 2
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 2 Conversation Group
Lesson 3: Interests
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 3 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: What do you like doing?
- Workbook Expansion: God Loves Me
- Pronunciation: Short Vowels
- Self-Check: Lesson 3
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 3 Conversation Group
Lesson 4: Family and Friends
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 4 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: Who is in your extended family?
- Workbook Expansion: A Smelly Family History
- Pronunciation: CH and SH Digraphs
- Self-Check: Lesson 4
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 4 Conversation Group
Lesson 5: Family and Friends
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 5 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: What is your family like?
- Workbook Expansion: A Great Father
- Pronunciation: TH and WH Digraphs
- Self-Check: Lesson 5
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 5 Conversation Group
Unit 2: Lessons 6–9
Lesson 6: Feelings and Emotions
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 6 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: How are you?
- Workbook Expansion: The Shoes
- Pronunciation: Long Vowels
- Self Check: Lesson 6
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 6 Conversation Group
Lesson 7: Interests
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 7 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: Will you help me?
- Workbook Expansion: The Good Samaritan
- Pronunciation: Question Intonation
- Self-Check: Lesson 7
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 7 Conversation Group
Lesson 8: At Home
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 8 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: Where do you live?
- Workbook Expansion: Home is Where the Family Is
- Pronunciation: Stress with 2-syllable words
- Self-Check: Lesson 8
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 8 Conversation Group
Lesson 9: At Home
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 9 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: Where did you grow up?
- Workbook Expansion: The Prodigal Son
- Pronunciation: Soft sound for C and G
- Self-Check: Lesson 9
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 9 Conversation Group
Unit 3: Lessons 10–13
Lesson 10: Daily Routines
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 10 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: What do you do every day?
- Workbook Expansion: The Other Prodigal
- Pronunciation: –S and –ES endings
- Self-Check: Lesson 10
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 10 Conversation Group
Lesson 11: Daily and Weekly Routines
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 11 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: What did you do over the weekend?
- Workbook Expansion: Jonah Learns to Obey
- Pronunciation: Voiced Consonants and Past-tense Ending /d/
- Self-Check: Lesson 11
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 11 Conversation Group
Lesson 12: Past Experiences
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 12 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: What did you do?
- Workbook Expansion: Love Your Enemies
- Pronunciation: Voiceless Consonants and Past-tense Ending /t/
- Self-Check: Lesson 12
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 12 Conversation Group
Lesson 13: Past Experiences
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 13 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: What happened?
- Workbook Expansion: Tavian's Mission
- Pronunciation: Past Tense [id] ending
- Self-Check: Lesson 13
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 13 Conversation Group
Unit 4: Lessons 14–17
Lesson 14: Shopping for Food
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 14 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: How much is that?
- Workbook Expansion: It's Not Ours
- Pronunciation: –NG, –NK, –LL
- Self-Check: Lesson 14
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 14 Conversation Group
Lesson 15: Money and Shopping
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 15 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: Do you have anything cheaper?
- Workbook Expansion: The Shiny Bike
- Pronunciation: ER, UR, IR
- Self-Check: Lesson 15
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 15 Conversation Group
Lesson 16: In the Community
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 16 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: Do you know where the museum is?
- Workbook Expansion: Rodrigo Turns Around
- Pronunciation: AR and OR
- Self-Check: Lesson 16
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 16 Conversation Group
Lesson 17: In the Community
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 17 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: When is the party?
- Workbook Expansion: The Party
- Pronunciation: Yy
- Self-Check: Lesson 17
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 17 Conversation Group
Unit 5: Lessons 18–21
Lesson 18: Holidays
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 18 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: What are you going to do on New Year's Eve?
- Workbook Expansion: Silent Night
- Pronunciation: Yy – Part 2
- Self-Check: Lesson 18
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 18 Conversation Group
Lesson 19: Going on Vacation
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 19 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: Where are you going on vacation?
- Workbook Expansion: Living Below Your Privileges
- Pronunciation: AU and AW
- Self-Check: Lesson 19
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 19 Conversation Group
Lesson 20: Health and Sickness
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 20 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: How often do you visit the doctor?
- Workbook Expansion: Jesus Heals a Blind Man
- Pronunciation: OI and OY
- Self Check: Lesson 20
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 20 Conversation Group
Lesson 21: Health and Sickness
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 21 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: How are you feeling?
- Workbook Expansion: It Will All Work Out
- Pronunciation: OU and OW
- Self-Check: Lesson 21
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 21 Conversation Group
Unit 6: Lessons 22–25
Lesson 22: Special Occasions
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 22 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: When is the celebration?
- Workbook Expansion: Jesus Is Baptized
- Pronunciation: Two Sounds for OO
- Self-Check: Lesson 22
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 22 Conversation Group
Lesson 23: Special Occasions
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 23 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: How was the wedding?
- Workbook Expansion: The Wise and Foolish Young Women
- Pronunciation: –tion and –sion
- Self-Check: Lesson 23
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 23 Conversation Group
Lesson 24: Goals and Dreams
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 24 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: What do you want to do in the future?
- Workbook Expansion: Go For the Gold
- Pronunciation: Schwa and Stress
- Self-Check: Lesson 24
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 24 Conversation Group
Lesson 25: Review
Personal Study Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 25 Personal Study
- Workbook Practice: Review
- Workbook Expansion: Learning English Has Blessed My Life
- Pronunciation: Review
Conversation Group Activities
- Learner Manual: Lesson 25 Conversation Group
Grammar Videos
Verb and Verb Tenses
"To be" (contractions) Simple present (affirmative) Simple present (negative) There is/There are Present Progressive Present Perfect "To be" (past) Simple past (regular) Simple past (irregular) There was/There were Past Progressive Modals of ability (can/can't) Going to (future) 1st Conditional 2nd Conditional Gerunds(-ing)
Prepositions
General Patterns