Learn 20 high-frequency expressions, including words for measurement and numbers
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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. "take out" |
| So the verb "take out" means to remove something from a location. |
| We often use "take out" when we're talking about removing something from our house or removing something from a closet; we can also use it to talk about removing food from a restaurant when we take out our order. |
| "Can you take out the trash, please?" |
| 2. "waiter" |
| A waiter is a person at a restaurant or perhaps a cafe that takes your order. We typically use the word "waiter" to talk about staff who are male. |
| "I'll call the waiter." |
| 3. "weather report" |
| A weather report is the part of the news or maybe the part of the newspaper that gives you information about the weather. |
| It usually tells you about a week in advance about what the weather is going to be like. |
| "Check the weather report before going sailing." |
| 4. "Celsius" |
| Celsius is the system that is used to measure temperature, typically in countries that use the metric system. |
| You might see it shortened as C when you're seeing measurements in degrees. |
| "Water freezes at zero degrees Celsius." |
| 5. "TV show" |
| A TV show is some kind of program on your TV. You can see on your TV, or these days, we can watch on our computers as well. |
| It's usually a series, there are several episodes in the show. So we don't use "TV show" to talk about movies, we use TV show to talk about things that have episodes, many different episodes. |
| "I always watch this TV show." |
| 6. "jogging" |
| Jogging is the name of a very popular form of exercise. |
| As a verb, it's "to jog"; but "jogging," the noun form, expresses the name of the activity which is just light running. |
| "Jogging is fun." |
| 7. "fast food" |
| Fast food is food that you can receive quickly. |
| Generally, we imagine very very big companies like McDonald's or Burger King or maybe Taco Bell or whatever your country has, some kind of place where you can go to get food very quickly. |
| Generally, fast food is not so healthy, but there may be some healthy options out there. |
| "I crave fast food every once in a while." |
| 8. "park" |
| A park is a place in your city or in your community that's usually big and open and green. |
| There might be places to sit or places for kids to play, it's a public space that the community can use to enjoy some fresh air and get some exercise. |
| "Let’s go to the park." |
| 9. "traffic light" |
| A traffic light is the light that you see above a street when you're using a car or when you're walking around your city. |
| In many U.S. cities, in most U.S. cities, the lights are green, yellow, and red. You may also hear these called "traffic signals." |
| "For your safety, check the traffic lights." |
| 10. "sign" |
| A sign is something you see on the side of the road or next to the road that gives you some information about something coming up, or it gives you an action to do a command. |
| For example, "Stop when you see the stop sign." |
| 11. "subway" |
| A subway is an underground transportation system. |
| So this is different from a train; a train is above the ground, a subway is usually below the ground. Maybe, in some cases, the subway comes up out of the ground or comes outside for a short period of time, but usually subways are all underground transportation systems. |
| "I take the subway to the office." |
| 12. "train station" |
| A train station is a transportation hub; it's a place where a train stops. You can get on and get off the train there. |
| "I can't find the train station." |
| 13. "five hundred" |
| When you count by hundreds, use a base number plus the word "hundred." |
| This one means five one hundreds of something. |
| "My house is five hundred meters from here." |
| 14. "nine hundred ninety-nine" |
| So this number is special because it is the last number that we use with the hundred counting pattern; after this number, we typically use the thousand word to count numbers. |
| "We bought nine hundred ninety-nine chairs for the event." |
| 15. "one hundred one" |
| When you're counting three digit numbers, typically, it will follow a pattern like this number - hundred and another number. |
| It's also extremely common to see "one hundred and one" so an "and" before the final number. |
| "My score was one hundred one." |
| 16. "four hundred" |
| So again, when you're using the hundred counting pattern, simply use the base number plus the word "hundred." |
| There is no change to the base number when you're using it with "hundred." |
| "One lap in the stadium is four hundred meters long." |
| 17. "nine hundred" |
| So another example in the hundred counting pattern; we use "nine" plus "hundred" to mean nine one hundreds of something. |
| "The antique spoon was nine hundred years old." |
| 18. "inch" |
| So an inch is a small unit of measurement. |
| We use this in the USA; it's not used so much in countries that use the metric system. |
| We use it to measure everyday objects, the dimensions of everyday objects, and also on, like, construction sites and in places where we are building things. |
| "I just bought a 40-inch flat screen television." |
| 19. "kilogram" |
| A kilogram is a unit of measurement. We use kilograms to measure weight. |
| You will typically see this used in countries that use the metric system. Kilogram is not so commonly used in the U.S. |
| "One kilogram is one thousand grams." |
| 20. "centimeter" |
| A centimeter is a small unit of measurement that we use to measure the dimensions of everyday objects, and to use when we're planning construction projects and so on. |
| "I need a ten-centimeter-thick mattress." |
| Well done! In this lesson, you expanded your vocabulary and learned 20 new useful words. |
| See you next time! Bye! |
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