Learn 20 high-frequency expressions, including words for illnesses and common adjectives
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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… |
| 1. "headache" |
| A headache is a pain in your head. So when we say I have a headache, it refers to a pain that's specifically maybe around this area or, for many people, perhaps in the back of the head. |
| "My headache is getting worse." |
| 2. "diarrhea" |
| Diarrhea is a very very unpleasant condition where your body has trouble processing food and drinks correctly, |
| maybe you have a germ or maybe you ate something that was not good for your stomach, |
| and so you have to use the bathroom a lot, or the way that your body produces waste changes a bit. |
| "This medicine will stop the diarrhea." |
| 3. "symptom" |
| So a symptom is something that you notice that gives you a clue about your sickness. |
| So common symptoms are like fever or a runny nose or a sore throat, these are like the parts of an illness. |
| "What are your symptoms?" |
| 4. "stomachache" |
| So a stomachache refers to, again, an unpleasant feeling in the body. |
| Maybe because you ate something bad or maybe because of an illness, but a stomach ache refers to the pain in your body. |
| The earlier word that we talked about that also refers to a pain or an unpleasant feeling in the stomach |
| refers to the waste the body produces, this one is very very common, especially among kids. Stomachaches. |
| "Yesterday, I had a bad stomachache." |
| 5. "clean (verb)" |
| So clean can be used as both an adjective and as a verb. |
| When we use it as a verb, it means to make something tidy or to organize something, or to sanitize something; as in... |
| "Did you clean your room?" |
| 6. "dry (verb)" |
| So "dry" can be used as a verb and as an adjective. |
| When we use it as a verb, it can mean to remove the moisture from something, like when you dry your hair. |
| It can also mean to leave something alone and allow the moisture to leave that thing. |
| For example, |
| "I'm waiting for the paint to dry." |
| 7. "dust" |
| Dust can be used as both a noun and a verb. |
| When we use dust as a noun, it refers to the very very small pieces of dirt that we find usually in the corners of our homes or maybe we find it on tops of shelves and so on. |
| "I am allergic to dust." |
| 8. "vacuum (verb)" |
| Vacuum is both a noun and a verb. |
| When we use vacuum as a verb, it means to use a vacuum cleaner. So a machinery specifically for picking up dust to clean our house. |
| "I have to vacuum the hallway before the guests come." |
| 9. "intersection" |
| So an intersection refers to a place where two roads meet, the two roads cross. |
| We talk about the middle point of those roads as the intersection. |
| "There is traffic at the intersection." |
| 10. "highway" |
| A highway is a road that sometimes is actually higher than other roads, so not always, sometimes it's at a regular level; |
| but a highway is generally a place where cars can travel very quickly. |
| Highways are generally outside of cities or they're above cities. |
| "Traffic conditions on the highway are normal this morning." |
| 11. "road" |
| So "road" is a very general word that we can apply to many different situations. |
| A highway is a type of road, you can imagine a path in the park is kind of like a small road, your everyday city streets, we can call "roads" as well. |
| So basically, anything that you use to travel, usually with a car or maybe with a bicycle, is something we can call a road. |
| "There is ice on the road." |
| 12. "street" |
| So we use streets as a way to organize our cities. |
| So we often use street and road interchangeably; so we tend to use "street" when we're talking maybe about cities or in neighborhood situations. |
| "Let’s cross the street." |
| 13. "interesting" |
| Interesting is an adjective. |
| We use "interesting" to describe something that we find cool or something that sparks our curiosity, something that is exciting to us. |
| "The title of the book seemed interesting." |
| 14. "mean" |
| Use the word "mean" to describe someone who is unkind, someone who is mean is not nice to other people. |
| "Some people are just mean, and don't want others to be happy." |
| 15. "bored" |
| So bored is used to talk about your own feelings. |
| When there's nothing to do or you don't feel excited or you don't feel interested in something, you can describe that feeling with bored. |
| Remember, when you want to talk about something outside you that doesn't cause you to feel interested, you describe that thing as "boring." |
| Your emotions, bored. |
| "I'm bored." |
| 16. "seven hundred" |
| When you're counting numbers by hundreds, just put the base number before hundred. |
| In this case, "seven" plus "hundred" makes "seven hundred." |
| "This statue is seven hundred years old." |
| 17. "eight hundred" |
| So just like the last example, "eight hundred" refers to eight hundreds of something. |
| "The field is eight hundred hectares." |
| 18. "two hundred" |
| So again, when you're counting by hundreds, simply put the number before the word hundred. |
| So "two hundred" refers to two one hundred of something. |
| "We have over two hundred books here." |
| 19. "three hundred" |
| Again, the latest example, three plus hundred refers to three one hundredths of something. |
| You can see that in English, we don't make a change to the number that comes before hundred; in some languages, your number that you use to count hundreds may change according to the sound or according to the spelling of the word. |
| In English, we do not need to change this base number. |
| "This school has three hundred students." |
| 20. "six hundred" |
| Our final example of hundreds today is "six hundred." |
| So again, six comes before the word hundred to refer to six one hundreds of something. |
| "Six times one hundred equals six hundred." |
| Well done! In this lesson, you expanded your vocabulary and learned 20 new useful words. |
| See you next time! Bye! |
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