Course Overview

Understand the word types – when you look at a word in a sentence you what type the word
is – COURSE DOCUMENT HERE

TEST: What type of word is
1. Boy
2. He
3. SlowlyKnow most commonly used words.

What is Vocabulary in English?
Vocabulary refers to the set of words within a language that are familiar to a person. It
includes all the words that a person can understand and use in speaking, writing, and
comprehension.

Vocabulary is divided into two main categories:
1. Active Vocabulary: Words that you can understand and use in your speaking and
writing.
2. Passive Vocabulary: Words that you can understand when you hear or read them but
do not use in your own speech or writing.

A strong vocabulary improves all areas of communication – listening, speaking, reading, and
writing.
How to Practically Improve Your Vocabulary
Here are several effective strategies and practical tips to help you improve your vocabulary:
there are two types of words in English. There are grammatical words, like we’ve just seen,
and there are meaningful words.

Let me explain a bit more…
Grammatical Words
 Articles (a, an, the)
 Auxiliary verbs (is, was, do, have)
 Prepositions (of, in, for)
 Pronouns (he, her, it)

Notice how these grammatical words don’t have any or very little meaning? When I say one
of these words to you, you can’t see anything with your mind. That’s because these words are
kind of like the glue of language; they help stick language together.

Then we have the meaningful words – or the bricks.
Meaningful Words
 Nouns (person, time, question)
 Auxiliary verbs (is, was, do, have)
 Prepositions (of, in, for)

 Pronouns (he, her, it)
 Verbs (think, say, want)
 Adjectives (long, old, high)

Nouns, verbs and adjectives are meaningful. When I say these words they form a picture in
your mind; you can see them. They have meaning.
So, the good news is you don’t have to memorize any grammar words. You learn those
through practice and exposure. You only have to memorize or learn meaningful words. And
because there are 150 high-frequency grammar words in English.
That means, of the 700 words, you only need to memorize 550 in total to understand 94% of
spoken English.

550 words? What? You can do this. And, in the description below is a link to download these
550 most commonly used nouns, verbs and adjectives. It’s an excel spreadsheet that you can
use for English or any other language.
But to use this super powerful word list you need to be able to do one thing

GET FULL DOCUMENT ON GOOGLE DRIVE HERE