Learn 20 high-frequency expressions, including parts of the body and more basic colors
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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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