Trivium Home School
English Classes, ESL Games and Exam Preparation
Learn English at every level, from beginner (A1) to proficiency (C2): free ESL games, grammar lessons and comic strips, over 200 song lessons, lessons in logic and rhetoric, series of lessons and gamebooks on myths, plays and ancient history, free level tests, and guides to the Cambridge, Trinity and IELTS exams, with classes online and in person.
Learn and practise
Games and songs, with exercises you can answer on your own phone.
Language Games
Free ESL games online, from the Alexandria board games for grammar, vocabulary, idioms and phrasal verbs to strategy games, Battleships and flashcards, plus lesson-and-gamebook series on Greek, Irish and Norse myths, Aesop’s fables, stories from the Bible, ancient history, philosophy and science, and much more.
The Muses: Learn English with Songs
Over 200 song lessons and poems, organised by grammar point in twelve units and by theme: poetry, Ireland, history and protest, and the festivals of the year. Each lesson tells the story behind the song and teaches the grammar it uses.
The three arts
Gathering, testing, expressing.
Grammar
The acquisition and ordering of information about any subject — not language alone, but the raw material of knowledge itself, gathered and understood on its own terms before it is questioned.
The Art of Grammar →Logic
The discipline of thinking critically and analytically — subjecting what has been learned to the scrutiny of reason, testing it for consistency, and separating what holds from what merely sounds true.
The Art of Logic →Rhetoric
The art of conveying understanding to others in the clearest and most persuasive form — the point at which private understanding becomes something that can be shared, defended, and taught.
The Art of Rhetoric →Grammar lessons and comic strips together, logic with gamebooks, and rhetoric. See also the essay writing guide.
Find your level
Free level tests with instant marking: grammar, spelling and word formation, your estimated level and what to study next. The Spanish versions add a translation section.
Level Test A1–A2
Beginner and elementary: to be, the present and past tenses, comparatives, can and must, plurals and spelling rules.
Level Test B1–B2
Intermediate and upper-intermediate: the perfect aspect, conditionals, the passive, reported speech, inversion and word formation.
Level Test C1–C2
Advanced and proficiency: inversion, the subjunctive, advanced conditionals, fixed expressions and difficult spellings.
Official English exams
Free guides to every part of the main international English exams.
Cambridge Exams
Guides to every paper of every Cambridge exam: Young Learners, A2 Key, B1 Preliminary, B2 First, C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency, with what the examiners look for and how to prepare, including a full lesson on the C2 summary task.
Trinity Exams
GESE, grade by grade from Grade 1 to Grade 12, and ISE from Foundation to ISE IV: the tasks, the topics and the language the examiner listens for at each level.
IELTS Exam
All four parts of IELTS (Listening, Reading, Writing Tasks 1 and 2, and Speaking) and what separates each band score from the next.
Classes with a teacher
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Questions
Do you offer English classes with a teacher?
Yes: online and in-person classes for every level, from absolute beginner to proficiency, including help with schoolwork, exam preparation for Cambridge, Trinity, IELTS and TOEFL, and Business and Legal English. Get in touch through the contact page.
Which official English exams can you help me prepare for?
Cambridge English (Young Learners, A2 Key, B1 Preliminary, B2 First, C1 Advanced and C2 Proficiency), Trinity College London (GESE and ISE) and IELTS (Academic and General Training). The free guides explain every paper, and classes give you personal practice and feedback.
How can I find out my level of English?
Take one of the free level tests: A1–A2, B1–B2 or C1–C2, in English or with a Spanish translation section. They are marked instantly and give your estimated level and the lessons to study next.
What is free and what is premium?
The ESL games, the first grammar chapters, the first logic and rhetoric lessons, the first part of every lesson-and-gamebook series, many song lessons, the comic strips and all the exam guides are free. Premium membership opens the rest of the grammar, logic and rhetoric lessons, the song gamebooks, and the lesson-and-gamebook series on myths, epics, plays and ancient history, from the Odyssey and Greek Drama to the Ancient Historians and the History of the Ancient Near East.
What is the Trivium?
The three arts of language: grammar (gathering knowledge), logic (testing it) and rhetoric (expressing it). Trivium Home School applies them to learning English, so students learn not only the language but how to think and speak clearly in it.