hello lovely students and welcome back
to english with lucy
big lesson today big big lesson let's
start today's class with a question
i want you to guess
how many words do you think there are in
the english language don't google it i
will tell you the answer well there have
been various studies and some of them
say that there are over
170 000 words in the english language
that's a lot of words but on average a
native english speaker will know between
15 and 20 000 words this is an insane
amount of words i can't even count to 20
000 but don't despair it is claimed that
the top 100 words in english make up 50
of the language today i thought it would
be an excellent idea to help you to
perfect those top 100 words in english
i'll break this down into the different
parts of speech
i'll show you how to spell the words how
to pronounce them in both their weak
form and their strong form i'll also
give you an example with the word in use
it's a hugely important lesson and to
make it even better i have created a
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it's a big pdf today let's get started
with the first section of this video
it's all about
nouns a noun is a word that refers to a
place a person an idea a thing a quality
or an activity let's take a look at 10
of the most common nouns in the english
language and most importantly their
pronunciation first we have
man
the man sat quietly on the chair day
day it was the last day of summer people
people
many people travel abroad for their
holiday time
time
what time will they come to the house
today woman
woman
he saw the woman from across the room
life
jack spent his whole life writing his
novel world
world
the world is a big place go out and see
it thing
thing
we've both brought the same thing year
year
this year has been the craziest yet
child
child she was only a child but she could
play the piano better than anyone now
let's move on to pronouns
a pronoun can substitute a noun or a
noun phrase in a sentence we can only
use a pronoun if the noun or noun phrase
has been referred to previously we have
20 to look at today
and they include both strong and weak
forms he
or
he
he or
he he likes to go out ice skating her
or her
her
or her
her shoes were left out in the rain all
night him or
him
him or
him
can you take him to the station please
i i
i am from england it
it
it looks as if she's been crying me
or
me
or me don't give me that look
my
my new phone should arrive today hour or
r
or
r our new home is in the village not far
from here she or she
she
or she she is from a posh family what do
you expect them or
them
or
them i went with them to see the play
that
or
that
or
that that picture frame is crooked there
there
their payments are overdue these
these
these flowers are beautiful they
they
they missed the train so they walked
home instead this
this
this is the road i used to take to
school as a child us
or
us
or
us we always bring a few snacks with us
we had just started hiking when jerry
hurt his knee who
who
who was that in your office you or yeah
you
or
yeah you shouldn't do that
you shouldn't do that you're or yeah
you're
or yeah your sister came over yesterday
looking for you now let's move on to
verbs
every sentence needs a verb and we use
them to represent actions feelings or
states of being come
come
come to my house tonight we're making
pizza find
find
i can't find the remote control give
give
can you give me a minute get
get
i hope i get a raise this month go
go
sheila go and speak with your father
have or
have
have or
have i have the forms in my bag no
no
i know this can't be easy to hear listen
listen
listen to his new song it's great look
look
they will look at the sculpture for
hours make
make
are you going to make for the school
picnic say
say
don't say things that you don't mean see
see
i could see she was angry from her
facial expression tell
tell
tell him about it after his birthday
think
i always think about leaving my job use
use
can i use baking powder instead of
baking soda want
want
they want to take a cruise this year now
let's move on to auxiliary verbs these
are incredibly useful in english they're
also referred to as helping verbs or
modal verbs they help to form certain
verb tenses voices and moods let's take
a look at them
i'll be swimming tomorrow morning can or
can
can you lift the chair up so i can sweep
under it could or
could
or
could i could leave work early to pick
up the wine
do they always come this late shall or
shall
shall or shall
i shall ask him tomorrow might
might
they might stay a little longer must or
must
or must you must allow me to take you
for dinner should or should
should
or should i should really be going now
would
or
wood
or wood
i would like a skateboard for christmas
will or will
will or will we will write to you as
soon as we arrive next we're going to
look at some adjectives some very common
adjectives adjectives are used to
describe nouns and they provide more
detail all
all
did you put all of the food away any
any
i don't have any patience for you right
now different
different
can you get me a different mug even
even
he wants the painting to be even on the
wall first
first
ben was the first person to call me
after my breakup just
just
it wasn't just of him to treat you that
way last
last
this is my last phone call white
white
when i opened my eyes i saw white walls
many
we have too many boxes to move more
more
please could i have more potatoes new
new
her new shoes
are black one
one
my dog has one blue eye and the other is
brown some or
some
or
some
please could i borrow some money two
two
the two trees in the garden need to be
chopped down now we're moving on to
adverbs these are words that help you to
describe an adjective a verb another
adverb or even an entire sentence you
may have learned that most adverbs end
in l y
and this is true but you will be
surprised at some of the most common
ones let's take a look also
also
we also live up the hill here
here
i live here too how
how
he didn't know how to speak italian no
no
call no later than 7 pm not
not it is not snowing today so
so
she was so early for the party then
then we can't go back to how it was then
very
dave was very angry after the meeting
when
when will you be leaving now we have
some conjunctions and these are really
key they allow us to join
multiple phrases and sentences together
without conjunctions reading would be
really boring let's get started and
or
and
or
and clean your room and the bathroom
because
or because
because or because i can't come tonight
because i have work in the morning but
or
but
or
but
they don't have a size three but they do
have a size four if
if
she will cover for me if i stay late
tomorrow or
or
we can get chinese or indian food it's
up to you
i'd rather stay at home than go to a
nightclub next we have prepositions
these are really important they show you
how one part of a sentence is related to
another about
about
i'll be there in about five minutes at
turn right at the end of the street bye
bye
my purse is by the dining room chair
for
or for
is all of that for you from or from
from
or
from
that present is from all of us in
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in
just put it in the box into or
enter into or
enter
put it into the fridge not the oven on
on
the book is on the shelf too
we're going to the fair today with
with
don't leave me with him finally we have
articles there are only three in english
so i bet you can guess which ones i've
included we have a
or
a
or uh a man came to see you today we
have
is that an orange on the sofa and
finally number 100 we have
the or the
the or
the
the new table looks wonderful right
there you have it 100 of the most common
words in the english language the words
that comprise the majority of spoken and
written english that was a lot today so
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different phonemes and you can hear me
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containing those phonemes it's a really
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phonetic transcriptions and the
different sounds that comprise modern rp
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practice with i will see you soon for
another lesson
bye so there are a hundred of these this
is going to be a long video
child
she was only a child but she could play
the perfect
me me
me
me me
and we use them to represent actions
feelings or what
we are just
this is ironic my watch has told me to
take a mindful moment
by disturbing my work
thanks apple bastard these sentences are
so random
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