Learn 20 high-frequency expressions, including words for religions and eateries
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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. "restaurant" |
| A restaurant is a place you can go to have someone else cook food and serve it to you; it's often a place we go for a treat or a special occasion. |
| "That's a good restaurant." |
| 2. "café" |
| A cafe is another place you can go to to have someone else cook for you and prepare drinks for you; but a cafe tends to be a little bit smaller than a restaurant in size and the menu is also a little smaller. Usually, at cafes, you can find tea, coffee, and other drinks in addition to very light food, like cakes or donuts. |
| "Where is the closest café?" |
| 3. "coffee shop" |
| Sometimes we use coffee shop and cafe to mean the same thing, but a coffee shop specifically is a shop that serves just coffee. So there are no other drinks on the menu, just coffee. In terms of food, you might see a cookie or something else small like that. |
| "Shall we stop by a coffee shop?" |
| 4. "bar" |
| A bar is a place you can visit to have alcoholic drinks. Bars usually also have non-alcoholic drinks available, too. In most cases, bars are available for adults to enter only, kids are not allowed. |
| "My favorite bar was closed." |
| 5. "furniture" |
| Furniture refers to all of the objects we have in our house that we use for sitting, for laying, and for other kinds of decoration and storage. For example, a couch or a bed or a shelf, these are all examples of furniture. |
| "We'll load the furniture into the truck." |
| 6. "grass" |
| Grass is very commonly found in front of people's houses when they live in the suburbs. So in the area outside of big cities in the USA, people like to take care of the grass in front of their house. You can also find wild grass so it tends to not be so green; you might see wild grass in yellow or orange colors. The grasses that you see in front of people's homes in the US tends to be a green color. |
| "The green grass smells fresh." |
| 7. "soil" |
| Soil is what we use to put plants in that will help them grow. Soil has lots and lots of minerals and good things that are helpful for plants as they get bigger. |
| "The soil cracked due to the drought." |
| 8. "dirt" |
| So dirt and soil look very similar. The difference between dirt and soil is that soil has lots of minerals and things that are good for plants that helps them grow; dirt, on the other hand, does not have minerals, it doesn't have all those things that are helpful for plants. |
| "The baby elephant is playing with dirt in a zoo." |
| 9. "rock" |
| A rock is a very small hard object. We see rocks all over the place in nature; they can be small as I described but you might also see larger rocks, too. So they're very hard to break and very dangerous if you throw them. |
| "The two crabs are walking on a rock." |
| 10. "tree" |
| A tree is a type of plant. A tree is generally quite tall, usually taller than people and they can stretch to be extremely extremely tall in forests, for example. |
| "He was reading a book under a tree." |
| 11. "Taoism" |
| Taoism is a philosophy that began in china. A key focus of taoism is living in harmony. |
| "Taoism is also known as Daoism." |
| 12. "Bible" |
| A bible is a book of sacred or holy texts important in the Christian religion. |
| "He reads The Bible." |
| 13. "Quran" |
| Quran refers to the collection of sacred or holy texts important in the religion of Islam. |
| "The Quran is the holy book of the Muslim religion." |
| 14. "priest" |
| A priest is a religious leader in a community. Priest is used to refer to men. |
| "He got advice from a priest." |
| 15. "Judaism" |
| Judaism is a religion connected to the culture, traditions and history of the Jewish people. |
| "Judaism has been practiced for over three thousand years." |
| 16. "one thousand" |
| So "one thousand" refers to one 1,000 of something. |
| "There is only one thousand yen in my wallet." |
| 17. "two thousand" |
| Two thousand refers to two thousands of something. |
| "It costs two thousand dollars." |
| 18. "eight thousand" |
| Eight thousand refers to eight one thousands of something. |
| When you pronounce this, the "eight" and "thousands" sound like they connect a little bit, so not "eight thousand" but "eight thousand." |
| "Eight thousand people live in that village." |
| 19. "ten thousand" |
| Ten thousand refers to ten thousands of something. |
| "They raised ten thousand euro for charity." |
| 20. "four thousand" |
| Four thousand refers to four one thousands of something. |
| "The stadium is four thousand square meters." |
| Well done! In this lesson, you expanded your vocabulary and learned 20 new useful words. |
| See you next time! Bye! |
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