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In this video, you'll learn 20 of the most common words and phrases in English. |
Hi everybody, my name is Alisha. |
Welcome to The 800 Core English Words and Phrases video series! |
This series will teach you the eight hundred most common words and phrases in English. |
Ok! Let's get started! First is… |
help |
We use the verb help in emergency situations and we also use it when someone gives us their assistance. |
Thank you for your help! |
learn |
We use the verb learn to describe our studies. Keep in mind when we use this in past tense, it refers to something we have completed. |
Learn something new. |
move |
So the verb move refers to any kind of action that's moving from one direction to another; |
we also use this verb to talk about moving from one house to another house. |
The alligators are slowly moving through the water. |
seventeen |
Seventeen is the number that comes after sixteen. |
His daughter is seventeen years old. |
eighteen |
Eighteen is the number after seventeen. |
This number has special importance in the USA because it's the age at which people get the right to vote. |
He's eighteen years old. |
nineteen |
Nineteen is the number after eighteen and before twenty. |
There are nineteen books here. |
twenty |
So twenty is the number after nineteen. |
He has been my friend for twenty years. |
neck |
So your neck is this part of the body; the part of the body between your head and your shoulders. |
I've got a pain in my neck. |
face |
So the face is this part of the body. Your face includes your eyes, your nose, your mouth, your cheeks; this is all your face. |
Can you show me your funniest face? |
ear |
The ear is the part of the body that we use to hear. We have two ears. |
I have two ears. |
hair |
So hair is anything on the body that's similar to this. It can be long hair, it can be short hair. |
We also use the same word to talk about hair on an animal. |
The woman has black hair. |
mountain |
Mountain is a large part of the landscape, often that has snow at the top. |
Keep in mind when you pronounce this word in fast speech, it sounds like mountain, the T sound is reduced. |
The little town was nestled in the mountains. |
beach |
So the beach is the area where the land meets the ocean. You might hear people talking about doing activities at the beach, which refers to the general location, |
or on the beach, which refers to activities on the surface of the beach. |
There's a lifeguard at the beach. |
rainforest |
So a rainforest is different from just a forest because a rainforest is a forest in a very humid or a very tropical location. |
Thailand has many rainforests. |
island |
An island is a portion of land or a piece of land that is completely surrounded by water. |
So like japan, is an island. |
An island is surrounded by water. |
dictionary |
A dictionary is a very large book or online it's a resource that you can use to check the meanings of words. |
I bought this dictionary for you. |
blue |
The color blue is a very basic color. We commonly associate the color blue with things that are cold or cool. |
The sky is bright blue. |
yellow |
The color yellow is very bright and we associate this with cheerful feelings. |
Hanna has a yellow hat. |
orange |
So the color orange is another very bright color. You may also know the fruit called an orange, it is orange in color. |
Red mixed with yellow becomes orange. |
color |
So color can be used as a noun and as a verb; in this case, we're going to talk about it as a noun which refers to any type of color. |
I got the wrong color. |
Well done! In this lesson, you expanded your vocabulary and learned 20 new useful words. |
See you next time! Bye-bye! |
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