CELPIP Vocabulary for Every Task

This list collects the language of giving advice: soft suggestion frames, ways to weigh options, and linkers that connect a recommendation to its reasons. Each entry shows how a helpful friend or relative might actually say it when someone asks what they should do.

These entries give you the storytelling toolkit for a personal experience: time linkers that move a story forward, feeling words that go beyond happy and sad, and phrases for reflecting on what an event taught you. Every example is set in ordinary Canadian life.

Describing a picture well depends on two kinds of language: phrases that place things in space, and verbs and adjectives that bring people and objects to life. This list covers both, with examples drawn from parks, kitchens, stores and streets like the ones a practice scene might show.

Predicting what happens next means talking about the future with different degrees of certainty. This list gives you probability frames from almost sure to doubtful, time phrases for the near future, and the everyday verbs people use when a situation develops.

This list collects the words and frames you need to set two options side by side and then talk a listener round to your choice. Each entry shows how to weigh prices, features and long-term value in plain spoken English.

Here you will find the language of tact: words for explaining a hard choice, turning someone down kindly and keeping a relationship intact. The entries focus on softening phrases, apologies and offers that let you deliver unwelcome news gracefully.

These entries help you take a clear position on a public question and hold it with solid reasons. You get opinion openers, words for weighing benefits against costs, and linkers that carry a spoken argument from first claim to final verdict.

Use this list to describe something strange so clearly that a listener who cannot see it could picture it. It covers shape, size, position and pattern words, plus careful phrases for guessing what an odd thing is or how it got there.

These 30 entries cover the language jobs an email usually has to do: opening politely, explaining a problem, making a request, apologizing and closing. Each one comes with email-style examples so you can see where it fits in a message to a landlord, manager, company or friend.

This list gathers the language of a survey answer: naming the option you prefer, giving reasons, weighing the other side and tying your points together. The examples imagine community, workplace and school decisions, the kind of choices a survey might ask residents or staff to vote on.

Reading Part 1 is about personal and work correspondence, so this list focuses on words that reveal why someone is writing and how they feel. Learn to spot purpose verbs, tone adjectives and friendly letter expressions, and you will answer questions about a writer's intention much faster.

Informational passages explain how something works, where it came from and why it matters, and they rarely use the same words as the questions. This list collects the explanatory verbs, cause-and-effect links and precise adjectives that such texts rely on, with examples written in that factual style.

Viewpoint texts are built from opinions: an article argues a position and readers respond with their own. These entries help you recognise who supports what, how strongly they feel, and where a writer quietly softens or sharpens a claim, with examples that sound like op-eds and reader comments.

This list collects the spoken words and phrases people reach for when something goes wrong and they have to agree on a fix. Learn to hear them in fast, natural speech so you can follow who suggests what, which options get dropped, and what the speakers finally decide.

Everyday chats between friends, neighbours, co-workers and store staff are full of short phrasal verbs and relaxed expressions that are easy to miss at natural speed. These 30 entries cover the casual language of errands, plans, shopping and favours so you can catch what people actually mean.

When a staff member or expert explains how something works, the key facts arrive wrapped in rules, conditions and step-by-step language. This list gathers the words that carry those details, from eligibility and deadlines to fees and exceptions, so you can pick out what applies to whom.

This list collects the words a local news report leans on: who said it, what happened, how many people were affected and what happens next. Learn to catch these in speech and you can follow a news item from the headline to the final update.

When several people talk through a problem, the meaning sits in small spoken signals: a polite objection, a half-agreement, an offer to meet in the middle. These 30 items help you hear who supports what, who changes their mind and what the group finally decides.

In a viewpoints talk, one speaker lays out several positions on an issue, gives credit to some, pushes back on others and then states where they land. This list gathers the hedges, concessions, contrasts and conclusion signals that show which view is being described and which one the speaker actually holds.