Hi and welcome back to Love English. I'm Leila and in today's lesson,
I need to know whether you're an active learner or a passive learner? Iwant to know whether you
are here just for me to spoon feed you, give you the vocabulary without you having to work for it
or whether you are really serious about studying English? about improving your
vocabulary and boosting your language level? This is a lesson that's going to make you work hard
for your vocabulary but hopefully one that will help you develop the skills you need
to boost your English level and take it really as far as you want
in today's lesson i want to share with you six top tips to help you broaden your vocabulary
range to help you learn vocabulary autonomously meaning without a teacher on your own but also
I want to share with you a platform that is going to help you achieve this
today we'll be looking at a lesson from sensations english an online learning platform designed to
help you study autonomously on your own to help you develop your reading skills writing skills
comprehension skills and of course boost your vocabulary and I'll be taking 25 advanced words
nouns adjectives verbs and a few adverbs from an authentic article news article on the sensations
english website where you can go and sign up for free to access this lesson now with your
free access to sensations english you will find you are limited in how many articles you're able
to access however if after this lesson you realize that it might just be the platform that you want
to use to help you boost your english level and your vocabulary range then you can sign up for
as little as 485 euros a month so we'll be looking at some rather advanced vocabulary but related to
a specific topic the environment so if any of you are looking at studying ielts a great topic
to cover and to boost your vocabulary range in right so six top tips to help you boost your
vocabulary range number one you won't be surprised to hear read and read oh yeah and did i say read
that's right reading is an incredible way to boost your vocabulary range first because
it's within your control you're able to see the vocabulary in a context you're able to go back
reread try and understand and work out the meaning of the word before you even go to a dictionary
reading is one of the finest things you can do to boost your language range and in fact
even for me i would still do it now and certainly when i was a child and learning at school i would
read a lot to boost my vocabulary number two keep a dictionary and a thesaurus handy keep one by and
it doesn't mean you have to go on amazon and buy a big thick book no in fact i actually use an online
dictionary my preferred choice is the cambridge dictionary online number three build your own
personal dictionary this is about looking at the words that you yourself have learned have come
across and have understood it's also a great way to be able to go back and review vocabulary that
you've looked at whether in class through reading in conversation or of course in any of our youtube
lessons that you watch make a note of them write them down put the phonetics put the definition
and of course an example an example that's personal to you this is your personal dictionary
to help you review and learn the language a simple notebook will be fine you don't have to invest in
a big thick book to fill up that's a bit scary number four learn a certain amount of words a
day now many of you have heard me say ten words is a great number even five is sufficient don't push
yourself to learn too many words all in one go you're unlikely to learn them well you want to be
able to process the vocabulary use it and really go back and understand it it's not just about a
superficial understanding checking the vocabulary the definition and writing it in your notepad
no we want you to learn it process it and use it number five play some games yes games that's right
now as a teacher i would say exercises or activities i probably wouldn't say okay guys
let's play some games but games are what they are entertaining ways to engage your brain with the
vocabulary now the great thing about the platform i'm about to show you is that they do exactly that
there are interactive games to help you review process and use the vocabulary that you've read
or watched in one of the videos and finally number six engage with the language whether
through conversation or indeed writing it might be that you want to keep a diary a journal it might
be that you want to write a letter or an email to someone try incorporating including the new
vocabulary you have learnt when possible it is that simple now i'm going to go through these
pretty quickly and i'm not going to give you many examples why because the article is the example
so remember with the sensations english platform there are a lot of vocabulary and comprehension
games and activities as well as writing practice available to help you learn and use this article
and develop your english now remember when you go to find this article it is on the community tab
there are many different topics to choose from on the sensations english platform but if you go for
community and then if you scroll down you'll see the article referring to supermarket chicken being
linked to deforestation so this might put some of you off eating chicken choose your level and do be
realistic if you don't feel very confident start at a lower level and you can always work your
way up i chose c1 but it doesn't necessarily mean that's going to be the best way for you to study
and learn choose a realistic level start with pre-intermediate or intermediate and then if you
want to be challenged further with some of the activities and games then go to c1 or indeed e2
what i would like you to do once i have explained the vocabulary to you is go on the website and
have a go at doing some of the exercises and reading and listening to the article it's all
about deforestation which if you didn't know means to cut down large areas of trees forests woodland
to make way usually for agriculture or housing development now let's have a look at some of
the words that i have picked out 25 words that i have picked out from the sensations english
website you'll be able to read these words in a context understand them see them being used with
the nouns adjectives and other words around them and hopefully understand them better and then be
able to practice using them in some of those games and activities so number one deforestation as i've
already explained the cutting down of trees in a large area or the destruction of forests by people
number two savannah savannah a large area of flat land covered with grass and usually a few trees
that is found in hot countries particularly africa number three haven haven a safe or peaceful place
a safe or peaceful place number four biodiversity biodiversity the number and types of plants and
animals that exist in a particular area or in the world generally or the problem of protecting this
number five flora and fauna flora and fauna basically a more advanced way of saying
plants and animals plants and animals flora plants fauna animals the flora and fauna of a place are
its plants and animals number six species species a set or type of animals or plants
in which the members have similar characteristics to each other so as an example cats are a species
felines number seven carbon carbon a chemical element that exists in its pure form
as diamond or graphite and it's an important part of other elements such as coal and oil as well as
being contained in all plants and animals so of course many of you have heard of carbon dioxide
the substance that is released when we burn fossil fuels number eight cultivation cultivation
the act of preparing land for growing crops food plants that we can eat nine regulations
regulations an official rule or act of controlling something 10. sacrifice sacrifice
to give up something that is valuable to you in order to benefit another person or to help another
person now looking at some verbs to rear rear to care for a young child or animal until they
are able to look after themselves often we use this verb specifically when relating to rearing
animals we wouldn't necessarily say that we're rearing children we rear animals in order to
benefit from their milk or indeed their meat 13 to absorb absorb to take something in particularly
gradually now absorb often refers to water so a sponge absorbs water but you can also absorb
knowledge for example information 14 to consume to use this is much more of a formal verb
we wouldn't necessarily say that he consumed a lot of chocolate but we might talk about
consuming fuel energy number 15 a phrasal verb and it can also be a verb on its own
equate to equate to to be the same in amount number or size basically equal to
the same adjectives tropical tropical from or relating to the area between the two tropics so
it's a very specific band around the planet where you have tropical weather tropical fruit number 17
environmental environmental not environmental but environmental relating of course to the
environment so for example people are becoming more aware of environmental issues imported
the adjective or to import the verb referring to something that has been bought or brought in from
abroad from another country into your own a lot of english fruit is imported because we can't grow it
we don't have very tropical weather in this country 19 a word that is becoming very
important to understand sustainable sustainable meaning able to continue over a period of time
so we talk a lot about sustainable energy but also sustainable clothing is becoming quite fashionable
so obviously sustainable energy referring to solar power wind these kind of things 20 exacerbating
exacerbating i've taught this word before in a previous lesson and i do love this adjective
to make something that is bad already worse his behavior is exacerbating i'm just so tired of it
or you can even use it as a verb to exacerbate the situation 21. vast vast simply meaning big massive
large we walked a vast distance before we were able to find a shop 22. opaque opaque something
that is preventing light from traveling through and therefore not transparent or translucent so
you cannot see anything through it number 23 inadequate inadequate his homework was
inadequate basically not good enough or not to a good enough quality or standard now two adverbs
that i also came across in the sensations english article that i thought were particularly nice
theoretically theoretically in a way that observes some rules but is not likely
and finally unwittingly unwittingly in a way that is done without knowing or planning
so 25 words little bit strange here because i haven't given you many examples with them but
if you want to learn more about these words to actually use them learn them yourself without
simply being spoon-fed by me then click the link below sign up to the sensations english platform
remember there is limited free access and there you'll be able to find the article that i have
gained all these words from i literally picked apart this article and looked for the most
interesting and advanced vocabulary now considering how short the article was there was
a lot of vocabulary very rich vocabulary there for you to learn and vocabulary that is used in daily
english this is very useful stuff so remember with the sensations english platform there are a lot of
vocabulary and comprehension games and activities as well as writing practice available to help you
learn and use this article and develop your english and of course you can check
out the subscription packages whether you want to subscribe for six months or three months there's a
package to suit everybody and remember that weekly sensations english upload three new lessons for
you so as well as the many lessons that already exist on the platform you'll be getting a constant
stream of new content with each level to choose from within each of those lessons so you really
are going to have plenty to do do comment below and let us know how you get on with this lesson if
you found it an enjoyable way of learning in this video and if you'd like more lessons like this
and there we have it thank you so much for watching i hope you really enjoy the sensations
english platform and comment below try using some of those words in a sentence on our platform we're
always happy to correct and help you learn with love english thanks for watching bye