Learn 20 high-frequency expressions, including words for common adjectives and food
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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. "rice" |
| Rice is a very common food. We eat rice with meals, usually, as a side dish; but you might also see it used as a main dish. |
| "Today I should buy a lot of rice." |
| 2. "bread" |
| Bread is another very popular carbohydrate; we often eat bread in the mornings, especially warmed up as toast. |
| "I buy my bread at the bakery." |
| 3. "egg" |
| So an egg refers to the raw form of an egg, usually, as it comes from a chicken. We can also use the same word to refer to an egg after we cook it. |
| "I boil an egg." |
| 4. "noodle" |
| So noodle is a countable noun, the plural form is noodles. We typically have noodles in soup or in pasta dishes. |
| "Instant noodles are a popular light meal." |
| 5. "alarm clock" |
| An alarm clock is a clock that has an alarm function. Many of us use our phones as alarm clocks these days. |
| "The alarm clock is set for 5 a.m." |
| 6. "door" |
| So a door is the thing that we use to enter or exit a room. You can open or close a door, or in some cases, you can slide open or slide a door closed. |
| "Can you close the door?" |
| 7. "remote control" |
| A remote control is something we can hold in our hands so we can remotely control something else; that means from a distance. |
| We are able to control something like a tv or air conditioner or something like that. |
| "Please pass me the remote control." |
| 8. "wipe (verb)" |
| So "to wipe" as a verb refers to this motion; we use the verb "wipe" often when we talk about cleaning something, like wiping windows or maybe wiping a table, wiping some kind of surface, usually, to clean it. |
| "Don't forget to wipe the floor." |
| 9. "menu" |
| A menu is like a list of choices. We usually think of menus when we visit restaurants but you can have menus in other situations, too. For example, maybe you have menus on your computer or menus on your tv; it's a list of things you can choose from. |
| "The customer is looking at the menu." |
| 10. "magazine" |
| A magazine is a group of articles, generally, though you might also see groups of photographs put together. |
| Magazines are generally provided to people once a month or maybe four times a year, something like that; so you can usually find magazines about specific topics. "Would you like to read some magazines?" |
| 11. "audiobook" |
| So an audio book is a book that you can listen to. This is different from a regular book because we read regular books, with an audiobook, you can listen and read at the same time if you like. |
| "I listen to audiobooks during my commute to work." |
| 12. "video game" |
| So a video game refers to a game that you can play on your tv, or these days also on your computer or your smartphone. |
| We say video game but it's kind of any game that has a video component to it, something that we can see as we play the game. |
| "I'm going to buy a new video game this weekend." |
| 13. "cheap" |
| Cheap is the opposite of expensive. When something is cheap, that means it's available for us to buy at a low price, especially at a price lower than we expect. |
| "I'm looking for a cheap pair of shoes." |
| 14. "expensive" |
| So expensive is the opposite of "cheap," which we just talked about. |
| Expensive refers to something that has a high price, especially for things that maybe are higher priced than usual. |
| "It is too expensive." |
| 15. "kind" |
| So the word "kind" when used as an adjective, refers to someone who is nice they are good to other people. |
| "She is a kind person with a big smile." |
| 16. "scary" |
| So the adjective "scary" refers to something that causes us to feel fear, so something outside us is scary. |
| Please keep in mind that when you want to talk about your own emotions, you should describe that as “scared.” |
| "Dark streets are scary." |
| 17. "relaxing" |
| Something that is relaxing is something that causes us to feel relaxed. |
| So again, this is something outside of us, we might hear a relaxing sound, like water, we might listen to relaxing music or we might smell something relaxing. It's something outside of us. |
| We describe our feeling with “relaxed.” |
| "Massages are very relaxing." |
| 18. "pound" |
| So in American English, we use the word "pound" typically to refer to a unit of measurement. In the U.S., we use pounds to measure weight. |
| "One pound is sixteen ounces." |
| 19. "mile" |
| So mile is another word that we use in American English to talk about the distances between things. |
| We typically use “mile” to describe the distances between two cities. |
| So you might hear "kilometer" used in other countries and in other types of English. |
| In American English, because of the measurement system we use, we use miles. |
| "One mile is roughly 1.6 kilometers." |
| 20. "foot (metric)" |
| So this use of "foot" refers to another measurement system that is used in the USA. |
| Foot, yes, does refer to the part of your body, but when you see foot used to talk about measurement, it's referring to a size about this big. |
| "There are twelve inches in a foot." |
| Well done! In this lesson, you expanded your vocabulary and learned 20 new useful words. |
| See you next time! Bye! |
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