17 lessons · 170 meanings
English arts and entertainment vocabulary
Explore art materials, musical instruments, performances and stories. These sets also include media, celebrations and creative actions, giving you words for the things you watch, hear, make and enjoy.
Choose a film, a song or a picture you know. Use the relevant set to describe its people, objects or sounds, and read the examples to see how words for creating differ from the names of finished works.
Words to start with
Read a meaning and an example, then open its lesson for the rest of the words.
paint
A1noun · /peɪnt/
colored liquid used to cover a surface or make a picture
“The child dips a brush into paint and starts a bright circle.”
View set: Art and pictures →guitar
A1noun · /ɡɪˈtɑr/
a stringed musical instrument held in the hands and played by plucking or strumming
“She plays the guitar every evening.”
View set: Music and performance →birthday
A1noun · /ˈbɝːθˌdeɪ/
the date each year on which you celebrate your birth
“My sister's birthday is in June.”
View set: Parties and celebrations →film
A1noun · /fɪlm/
a story shown with moving pictures
“We watched a film about a lost dog.”
View set: Screens and sounds →scene
A2noun · /siːn/
a short part of a play, film, or story that happens in one place and time
“The garden scene comes right after the long argument.”
View set: Stories and performance →invent
A2verb · /ɪnˈvɛnt/
to make or think of something new
“We can invent a better tool for opening jars.”
View set: Creating and performing →
Lessons in this topic
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Art and pictures
Visual art vocabulary for common materials and works.
Words include: paint, painting, drawing, artwork, canvas…
A1A2B1B2C110 wordsMusic and performance
Music and performance vocabulary cards with simple painted scenes.
Words include: guitar, piano, drum, bell, orchestra…
A1A2B1B210 wordsParties and celebrations
Common celebration words for talking about happy events, objects, and gatherings.
Words include: birthday, party, gift, present, invitation…
A1A2B1B210 wordsScreens and sounds
Words for media, performances and the sounds around us.
Words include: film, movie, programme, show, radio…
A1A210 wordsStories and performance
People, places and genres in stories and performance.
Words include: scene, stage, audience, character, comedy…
A210 wordsCreating and performing
Ways to create, discover and perform.
Words include: invent, discover, design, paint, sing…
A1A210 wordsNews and programmes
Words about news, television and the people who create programmes.
Words include: media, press, headline, editor, producer…
A2B1B210 wordsArt and creative work
Ways of making pictures, objects and new creative ideas.
Words include: craft, creativity, imagination, illustration, printing…
A1B1B210 wordsBooks and storytelling
People, forms and parts of written stories and poems.
Words include: poem, poet, poetry, narrative, plot…
B1B210 wordsMusic and dance traditions
Types of music, performers and patterns of sound.
Words include: album, folk, pop, musical, rhythm…
A2B1B210 wordsEvents and public performances
Public gatherings, celebrations and people on stage.
Words include: event, occasion, ceremony, anniversary, parade…
A1A2B1B210 wordsMusic, rhythm and ensembles
Words for musical sounds, styles and groups of performers.
Words include: genre, beat, tone, melody, bass…
B2C110 wordsMaking films and programmes
Words for creating films and showing them to an audience.
Words include: animation, broadcast, cast, script, setting…
B1B2C110 wordsBooks, writers and editions
Words for stories, writers and different forms of books.
Words include: story, journal, novelist, manuscript, biography…
A1B1B2C110 wordsNews and public communication
Words for the people and materials that bring news to the public.
Words include: reporting, journalism, broadcaster, columnist, commentator…
B2C110 wordsStyles in art and performance
Adjectives for music, writing, art and performances.
Words include: musical, classical, folk, pop, artistic…
A2B1B2C110 wordsColours as names
Names of colours, used as nouns when talking about shades and paint.
Words include: black, blue, brown, grey, green…
A110 words