The Kingdom of English is an online ESL and EFL practice platform that provides grammar, reading and listening exercises, plus AI-graded writing practice. The dated grammar topic list below helps teachers check which structures match their learners. Teachers can create classes of up to 60 students, assign targeted homework, and track progress through detailed dashboards. Pricing starts at €1.90 per month for individuals and €9.90 per month for teachers, with a 7-day free trial requiring no credit card.
Grammar is the backbone of language. Students can memorize hundreds of vocabulary words, but without a solid grammatical foundation, their sentences will keep collapsing under their own weight. The challenge for most ESL and EFL teachers is finding a way to give students the volume of practice they actually need — not one exercise a week in a coursebook, but dozens of focused repetitions across every topic they are studying.
This is the problem that good ESL and EFL grammar practice online is designed to solve. Whether students are learning English in an English-speaking country or studying it as a foreign language in Europe or Asia, the need is the same. Not to replace the classroom, but to extend it — giving students a place to keep working after the bell rings, in a format that tracks their progress and keeps them motivated to come back.
Anyone who has taught English for a few years knows the pattern. You teach the present perfect. Students nod. They do a few exercises in class, and most of them get it right. Then two weeks later, they are writing compositions and using the simple past for everything again. The lesson did not stick.
This is not a failure of teaching. It is how language acquisition works. A grammar structure needs to be encountered and used many times before it becomes automatic. Research on second language acquisition consistently points to the importance of retrieval practice — not just learning a rule once, but being forced to recall and apply it repeatedly over time. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) recognises this by defining proficiency levels that require sustained, integrated use of grammar in context rather than isolated knowledge of rules.
The classroom alone cannot provide this volume. There are thirty students, an hour of lesson time, and a curriculum to cover. Online grammar practice fills the gap. When a student can open a platform at home and do fifteen practice questions on conditionals — and then come back three days later and do fifteen more — the rule starts to internalize in a way that a single class exercise cannot achieve.
Not all digital grammar practice is created equal. There is a significant difference between a static quiz that tells you "wrong, try again" and a system that is designed around the way students actually learn.
Effective online grammar practice shares several qualities:
The Kingdom of English organizes grammar practice into easy, medium and hard difficulty bands. These include the structures that consistently slow learners down at intermediate and upper-intermediate level: tense contrasts, reported speech, passive voice, modal verbs, conditionals, relative clauses, gerunds and infinitives, articles, prepositions, and much more.
Students can focus on the grammar area they actually need. If a teacher wants to reinforce verb tenses, review articles, revisit prepositions, or assign conditionals, the practice can stay targeted instead of dissolving into a random quiz.
That topic structure also works well alongside other skills. Students who are strengthening grammar accuracy can use reading practice to see the same structures in context and notice how grammar choices function inside complete texts.
The exercises themselves are varied. Multiple choice questions help students develop recognition of correct forms. Gap-fill exercises require them to produce the correct form in context. Sentence transformation tasks push students to demonstrate that they understand not just the form but the underlying meaning - that they can express the same idea in two different grammatical structures.
One of the biggest frustrations with telling students to "go practice online" is that it is almost impossible to know whether they actually did it, and if they did, whether it helped. Teachers end up either taking students at their word or setting up elaborate systems to verify homework completion.
On The Kingdom of English, grammar assignments are handled differently. Teachers can assign specific grammar topics to their students through the platform's assignment system. When a student completes assigned work, that completion is recorded and visible to the teacher in the progress tracking dashboard.
This means a teacher can walk into Monday morning's class knowing that out of thirty students, twenty-two completed the past perfect assignment, and of those twenty-two, fifteen are scoring above 80%. The eight who did not complete it can be followed up with individually. The seven who completed it but are still struggling need a different kind of attention than the fifteen who seem to have it under control.
This level of visibility changes how a teacher can use class time. Instead of spending twenty minutes going over the basics of a grammar point that most students already understand, the teacher can focus that time on the edge cases and the students who actually need additional support.
Grammar practice has a reputation problem. Students know they need it, but the experience of doing it is often dry and discouraging, especially for learners who are already self-conscious about making mistakes. A platform that makes grammar practice feel like a punishment is one that students will avoid.
The Kingdom of English uses a gamification system built around points, leaderboards, flames (daily streaks), and coins that can be spent in a virtual store. These are not cosmetic additions. They are carefully designed to address the psychological barriers that prevent students from engaging consistently with grammar practice.
Points earned through grammar exercises feed into a class leaderboard. Students can see where they rank among their classmates. For most students, this creates a genuine motivation to keep going — not out of competitive anxiety, but out of a sense of participation and belonging in a shared activity. The leaderboard levels the playing field in an interesting way: the student who is a natural English speaker does not automatically win, because the platform rewards effort and consistency, not just native-like accuracy.
The flames system rewards daily practice. A student who opens the platform and completes at least one exercise every day builds a streak that is visually represented and contributes to milestone rewards. This daily habit formation is arguably the most valuable thing a grammar practice platform can encourage. Five minutes of daily practice consistently outperforms one-hour sessions once a week.
Grammar practice matters most when it carries over into real communication. A student may score well on controlled tasks and still lose accuracy when they have to write longer answers under time pressure.
That is why The Kingdom of English works best as a connected system. Teachers can reinforce grammar through focused review, then follow up with writing practice with AI feedback and check whether the target structure survives once the student is writing more freely.
The goal of ESL grammar practice online is not to produce students who can score well on a grammar test. It is to produce students who have internalized grammatical structures to the point where accurate usage becomes automatic in real communication. As the British Council and Cambridge English have emphasised, effective language learning requires consistent exposure and practice over time. That process takes volume, and it requires a platform that is designed to support consistent, targeted, motivated practice rather than one-off quiz sessions.
For teachers managing large classes and trying to ensure that every student gets the repetition they need, a well-designed online grammar platform is not a nice-to-have. It is a practical necessity.
This page lists the topic snapshot dated 3 September 2026: 61 topics, 20 easy, 21 medium and 20 hard. Difficulty is our own banding rather than a CEFR level, and the points column is what a perfect run on that topic is worth, which is why a few short topics are worth less.
| Topic | Difficulty | Points |
|---|---|---|
| A vs. an | Easy | 25 |
| Personal Pronouns | Easy | 25 |
| Present Simple with the Verb Be | Easy | 25 |
| Present Simple Mixed Verbs | Easy | 25 |
| Past Simple Regular Verbs | Easy | 25 |
| Past Simple with the Verb Be | Easy | 25 |
| Past Simple Mixed Verbs | Easy | 25 |
| Present Continuous | Easy | 25 |
| Past Continuous | Easy | 25 |
| Will Future | Easy | 25 |
| Going to | Easy | 25 |
| Comparatives | Easy | 25 |
| Superlatives | Easy | 25 |
| Relative Pronouns Who Which Whose | Easy | 30 |
| One vs. Ones | Easy | 25 |
| Much vs. Many | Easy | 25 |
| Some vs. Any | Easy | 25 |
| A Few vs. a Little | Easy | 25 |
| This That These Those | Easy | 25 |
| Let and Make | Easy | 25 |
| Basic Irregular Verbs | Medium | 40 |
| First Conditional | Medium | 25 |
| Second Conditional | Medium | 25 |
| Third Conditional | Medium | 25 |
| Zero Conditional | Medium | 25 |
| Unless | Medium | 15 |
| Present Perfect with for or Since | Medium | 40 |
| Past Perfect | Medium | 25 |
| Future Continuous | Medium | 25 |
| Future Perfect Simple | Medium | 25 |
| Future Perfect Continuous | Medium | 25 |
| Present Simple for the Future | Medium | 40 |
| Present Perfect Continuous | Medium | 25 |
| Prepositions of Time In On At | Medium | 25 |
| Prepositions of Place In On At | Medium | 25 |
| Question Tags | Medium | 25 |
| Adverbs of Manner | Medium | 25 |
| Participle Adjectives | Medium | 25 |
| Say vs. Tell | Medium | 25 |
| Do or Make | Medium | 25 |
| Reflexive Pronouns | Medium | 25 |
| Advanced Irregular Verbs | Hard | 25 |
| Present Simple vs. Present Continuous | Hard | 25 |
| Past Simple vs. Past Continuous | Hard | 25 |
| Will Future vs. Present Simple | Hard | 25 |
| Past Simple vs. Present Perfect | Hard | 25 |
| Past Simple vs. Past Perfect | Hard | 25 |
| Present Perfect Simple vs. Continuous | Hard | 25 |
| Past Perfect Continuous vs. Past Simple | Hard | 25 |
| Past Perfect Simple vs. Past Perfect Continuous | Hard | 25 |
| Reported Speech Present and Past Simple Statements | Hard | 17 |
| Reported Speech Questions | Hard | 17 |
| Passive Voice Present and Past | Hard | 25 |
| Passive Future Simple | Hard | 25 |
| Passive Present Perfect | Hard | 25 |
| Modal Verbs of Probability | Hard | 25 |
| Modal Verbs of Obligation | Hard | 25 |
| Indirect Questions | Hard | 25 |
| Prefixes and Suffixes | Hard | 25 |
| Phrasal Verbs | Hard | 25 |
| While During Until | Hard | 15 |
Every topic works the same way: questions are marked automatically, each attempt is recorded, and a teacher can set any of them as homework with a deadline. Students who want a specific area can jump straight to it rather than working through in order.
The Kingdom of English offers grammar practice grouped into easy, medium and hard difficulty bands. These are platform difficulty labels, not CEFR certifications. These include tense contrasts, reported speech, passive voice, modal verbs, conditionals, relative clauses, gerunds and infinitives, articles, prepositions, and more. Teachers can assign specific topics and track student progress through a dashboard.
A grammar structure needs to be encountered and applied many times before it becomes automatic. Research on second language acquisition consistently highlights the importance of retrieval practice, where students recall and apply rules repeatedly over time. Online grammar practice fills this gap by giving students the volume of focused repetition that classroom time alone cannot provide.
Yes. On The Kingdom of English, teachers can assign specific grammar topics to their students and monitor completion and scores through a progress tracking dashboard. This allows teachers to see exactly who completed the work, who is struggling, and who is ready to move on, making class time more targeted and efficient.
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