Learn 20 high-frequency expressions, including parts of the house and words for hygiene
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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. "brush" |
| This word can be a noun or a verb. As a verb, it's used to talk about combing hair as with a hairbrush or cleaning teeth as with a toothbrush. |
| "It is very important to brush your teeth twice a day." |
| 2. "shower" |
| Shower can be used as both a noun and a verb. As a verb, it means to clean your body by standing under water. |
| "The man showers in the morning." |
| 3. "wash" |
| To wash means to make something clean. We can use it to talk about our bodies, to talk about our clothes, our dishes, anything we want to clean. |
| "The woman is washing her face." |
| 4. "leave" |
| To leave means to remove yourself from a location to go away from a place. |
| "I leave early tomorrow morning." |
| 5. "check" |
| Check can be both a noun and a verb. |
| As a verb, it means to confirm something, to see if it's correct or not. As a noun, it refers to the bill as in at a restaurant. |
| "Could I get the check, please?" |
| 6. "sixty-six" |
| Sixty-six is the number after sixty-five. |
| "I ran for sixty-six minutes." |
| 7. "seventy-seven" |
| Seventy-seven is the number after seventy-six. |
| "His door number is seventy-seven." |
| 8. "eighty-eight" |
| Eighty-eight is the number after eighty-seven. |
| "The company has eighty-eight employees." |
| 9. "ninety-nine" |
| Ninety-nine is the number just before one hundred. |
| "His grandfather is ninety-nine years old." |
| 10. "one hundred" |
| One hundred is the first three digit number. |
| "There are one hundred people in my school." |
| 11. "living room" |
| The living room is a room in the house where people generally relax. |
| It's very common to have a sofa, maybe chairs, a table, and a television in the living room. |
| "This living room is huge." |
| 12. "dining room" |
| A dining room is a room that's specifically for eating or for dining. |
| There's usually a table and some chairs. |
| "The dining room is next to the kitchen." |
| 13. "hallway" |
| "Hallway" or "hall" refers to usually like a tunnel kind of but inside a house. |
| So from a hallway you can access many different rooms. |
| "Don’t run in the hallways." |
| 14. "apartment" |
| So an apartment is one room or maybe one series of rooms inside a larger building. |
| So that means there can be many apartments inside one building. |
| "Do you want to rent an apartment?" |
| 15. "house" |
| A house is a style of residence that is a separate building itself. |
| So one house has, like, one family living inside it, it's not shared, it's not part of a larger building. |
| "This is my house." |
| 16. "exercise" |
| Exercise has a few different meanings but we use it a lot to talk about working out, to do something that causes us to sweat for our health. |
| "Swimming is a good way to exercise." |
| 17. "open" |
| "Open" can be an adjective or a verb. To open something means to cause it to not be closed. |
| We can also use it to talk about, like, businesses, stores, and companies that are available for business; we describe them as open. |
| "The store is open from 9 a.m." |
| 18. "listen" |
| To listen means to focus your attention on something, like a sound, specifically. |
| This is different from "hear" because with "listen," we're actually focusing our attention on something; with "hear," information just enters our ears. |
| "You should listen to the doctor." |
| 19. "birthday" |
| A birthday is a celebration of the day someone was born. |
| "I'm going to a birthday party this evening." |
| 20. "retire" |
| So "to retire" means to stop working, usually at an older age. |
| But people, like, in athletics, for example, may also retire from a sport, so that means they're finished with that particular job. |
| "My grandfather wants to retire in a year." |
| 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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