Learn 10 high-frequency expressions, including health-related words
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| In this video, you'll learn 10 of the most common words and phrases in English. |
| Hi everybody, my name is Alisha. |
| Welcome to the 2000 Core English Words and Phrases video series. |
| This series will teach you the 2000 most common words and phrases in English. |
| Each lesson will help you practice and review what you've learned. |
| Okay, let's get started. First is... |
| infection |
| An infection is not a good thing to have. So an infection refers to a wound on the body usually that has bacteria or something else bad in it that creates sometimes a very painful experience or it can create something that's very, very unpleasant. So when we have an infection, we need to get medicine to take care of the infection. |
| For example: |
| skin infection |
| Next is... |
| flu |
| The flu refers to a very, very common type of sickness. Flu is short for influenza, a type of sickness. So the flu refers to just a general feeling of not being in very good health for most of us. We can have a fever, maybe we have a runny nose, maybe our stomach hurts, or we have some combination of these feelings. So when we say we have the flu, it generally means we have this very common type of illness that affects the body, usually for a short period of time. This happens a lot in winter. |
| Here's an example expression. |
| flu season |
| Okay, the next word is... |
| trumpet |
| A trumpet is a musical instrument. This is a brass instrument that can be held in the hands. It has three keys at the top, and the person playing the instrument can control the pitch of the sound with their lip motions and with the speed of the breath that they're using through the instrument and so on. |
| So, for example... |
| brass trumpet |
| Next is... |
| departure gate |
| The departure gate is a very important thing to know when you are traveling by air. The departure gate is the place in the airport that your flight is going to leave from. So it usually is on your boarding pass, the departure gate number, and you need to go to that specific gate, that specific location, in order to get on your flight. |
| So, here's an example: |
| departure gate 43 |
| Next is... |
| sociology |
| Sociology is the study of humans and the study of human behavior. So when we study sociology, we look at the different ways that humans have relationships, the ways that humans have interacted over time, the ways that we maybe communicate through our body language or through our words. There are many, many different factors to sociology, but they all relate to societies and people. |
| Here's an example expression: |
| study of sociology |
| Okay, the next word is... |
| flight attendant |
| A flight attendant is a person who works on an airline, and they're the people that help you when you need something to eat or something to drink or when you have a question while you're on the flight. If you need a blanket or if you need some help with maybe headphones, for example, you talk to a flight attendant. Flight attendant can refer to either a man or a woman. |
| For example: |
| female flight attendant |
| The next word is... |
| seat |
| So, a seat is a place to sit. So, you might have many seats in your house. Any place that you can sit down can be called a seat. Generally, however, when we make a reservation for something, for example, at a concert or maybe on an airplane, we have one specific seat that is for us only. |
| So, for example: |
| airplane seat |
| Okay, the next word is... |
| medicine |
| So, the word medicine has a couple of different uses. |
| It can refer to the study of human health and how to recover from injuries and illness. |
| And the word medicine can also be used to talk about something that we take or that we put on our bodies to help us to recover from an injury. So, doctors and nurses study medicine in order to give their patients medicine to recover from things. |
| Here's an example. |
| field of medicine |
| Okay, the next one is... |
| economy class |
| Economy class usually refers to a specific type of seat or a specific category of seat on an airplane. |
| You might also find economy class on something like a train, perhaps. So, economy class usually refers to the most affordable seats on an airplane or on a train. |
| There are other types of classes that you can buy, but economy is usually the cheapest and tends to be maybe the least comfortable as well. |
| Here's an example expression: |
| economy class seats |
| Okay, next is... |
| flight |
| Alright, flight refers to a couple different things in English, but in many cases, it refers to traveling through the air. |
| So, when you make a reservation for airline travel, we usually say, |
| I reserved a flight, which means you reserved a seat on a plane that's going through the air. |
| So, for example: |
| boarding pass for the flight |
| Let's review. |
| I'm going to describe a word or phrase in English. See if you can remember it. |
| Then repeat after me, focusing on pronunciation. |
| Ready? |
| Do you remember how to say the word for a medical condition when bacteria and other bad things get into an injury or inside your body and cause a reaction? |
| infection |
| And how to say the medical condition that's very common and can affect your stomach, your nose, and your throat, sometimes at the same time? |
| flu |
| What about the musical instrument that you play by blowing into a brass instrument with three buttons on the top? |
| trumpet |
| Do you remember how to say the location in the airport where you leave from, the place where you get on your airplane and leave the airport? |
| departure gate |
| Let's try the word that refers to the study of human society and people and the way we interact. |
| sociology |
| What about the word for the person on an airplane who helps the customers on the airplane by bringing food, drinks, and giving other services? |
| flight attendant |
| Now, let's see if you remember how to say the noun for a place where you sit. |
| seat |
| Another one. What about the word that you use to talk about something you take, something you drink or eat, in order to fix a medical condition? |
| medicine |
| Do you remember how to say the type of ticket that you buy on an airplane that is the most basic kind of seat? |
| economy class |
| And finally, do you remember how to say the word we use to talk about traveling by airplane, the noun that we use to talk about this type of travel? |
| flight |
| Well done. In this lesson, you expanded your vocabulary and learned 10 new useful words. |
| See you next time. Bye! |
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