1 00:00:01,450 --> 00:00:10,300 ‫Welcome back to Part two of vocabulary for aout speaking by the end of this lesson, you will understand 2 00:00:10,300 --> 00:00:14,740 ‫the meaning and use of synonyms and collocations. 3 00:00:15,280 --> 00:00:24,370 ‫These are two very specific types of vocabulary and language that, if used well, will help you score 4 00:00:24,370 --> 00:00:27,850 ‫higher marks in your child's speaking test. 5 00:00:28,780 --> 00:00:35,940 ‫Before we move on, I'd just like to talk about increasing the range of your vocabulary. 6 00:00:36,670 --> 00:00:43,890 ‫So reading a range of articles, books and other resources is the best way to expand your language. 7 00:00:44,230 --> 00:00:53,080 ‫And it has been scientifically proven that the best way to increase your vocabulary is through reading. 8 00:00:54,160 --> 00:01:03,430 ‫BBC, learning English online articles and National Geographic are just a few examples of excellent 9 00:01:03,430 --> 00:01:07,030 ‫reading resources found on the Internet. 10 00:01:07,330 --> 00:01:13,630 ‫And I suggest you use them and read articles that you are interested in. 11 00:01:14,200 --> 00:01:19,910 ‫So there was just a quick word on increasing your vocabulary. 12 00:01:20,350 --> 00:01:26,050 ‫Let's move on to synonyms and a quick description of what they are. 13 00:01:26,650 --> 00:01:32,320 ‫So synonyms are groups of words that are very similar in their meaning. 14 00:01:32,650 --> 00:01:35,720 ‫They usually have a very close or shared meaning. 15 00:01:35,950 --> 00:01:38,620 ‫And here are some examples of them. 16 00:01:39,040 --> 00:01:42,490 ‫Dark, some synonyms for dark would be gloomy. 17 00:01:42,730 --> 00:01:44,950 ‫Qadi, pitch black. 18 00:01:45,970 --> 00:01:50,350 ‫Hard working, industrious, determined. 19 00:01:51,620 --> 00:01:56,540 ‫Sad, upset, depressed, down in the dumps. 20 00:01:57,880 --> 00:02:07,420 ‫Here are some examples of synonyms, words with shared meanings, if we take a look at dark and pitch 21 00:02:07,420 --> 00:02:13,170 ‫black, they're close in meaning, but not exactly the same. 22 00:02:13,600 --> 00:02:20,390 ‫Pitch black means zero visibility, whereas dark means just some visibility. 23 00:02:20,710 --> 00:02:26,500 ‫So we can see that synonyms are just words that are very close in their meaning. 24 00:02:26,860 --> 00:02:35,020 ‫And they will help you by keeping your language interesting and not repeating vocabulary too often in 25 00:02:35,020 --> 00:02:36,790 ‫the out speaking test. 26 00:02:37,360 --> 00:02:41,260 ‫Let's take a look at a synonym activity here. 27 00:02:41,260 --> 00:02:50,080 ‫We have the word nice, which I do try and advise students to avoid as it's not particularly exciting 28 00:02:50,080 --> 00:02:51,130 ‫or interesting. 29 00:02:51,790 --> 00:02:54,250 ‫Here are some synonyms for nice. 30 00:02:54,970 --> 00:03:02,440 ‫Now let's take a look at an example, part two question and some language from a student. 31 00:03:02,590 --> 00:03:07,570 ‫So the topic is describe a gift you recently received. 32 00:03:08,050 --> 00:03:09,690 ‫Has the students answer? 33 00:03:10,540 --> 00:03:14,830 ‫My best friend gave me a nice gift last year. 34 00:03:15,130 --> 00:03:19,000 ‫It was a signed copy of my favorite book. 35 00:03:19,690 --> 00:03:27,400 ‫So what kind of synonyms could you use to replace Nice with something a bit more interesting? 36 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:29,730 ‫Well, let's take a look. 37 00:03:29,920 --> 00:03:34,960 ‫My best friend gave me a delightful gift last year. 38 00:03:35,350 --> 00:03:38,590 ‫It was a signed copy of my favorite book. 39 00:03:39,070 --> 00:03:48,400 ‫So we can see from these two examples that by using a more interesting synonym, our language is automatically 40 00:03:48,400 --> 00:03:56,140 ‫upgraded, which in turn will result in slightly better schools in your Eilts speaking. 41 00:03:57,610 --> 00:04:06,310 ‫Let's take a look at another example, and here we have happy can you think of any synonyms for happy? 42 00:04:07,510 --> 00:04:14,530 ‫Here are some examples that I have added and let's take a look at the part to topic. 43 00:04:14,830 --> 00:04:18,760 ‫Describe a language you have learned. 44 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:22,030 ‫Let's take a look at the students answer. 45 00:04:23,140 --> 00:04:29,080 ‫Well, as I'm sure you know, I have been learning English for some time. 46 00:04:29,650 --> 00:04:40,840 ‫I am happy to now study for Eilts again, much like Nice Happy is not really a very interesting, emotive 47 00:04:40,840 --> 00:04:41,430 ‫word. 48 00:04:41,590 --> 00:04:45,520 ‫So what's in a name could we use in place of happy? 49 00:04:46,390 --> 00:04:50,920 ‫Let's take a look at an upgraded leveled answer. 50 00:04:51,970 --> 00:04:57,140 ‫Well, as I'm sure you know, I have been learning English for some time. 51 00:04:57,580 --> 00:05:06,170 ‫I am overjoyed to now study for Eilts a much more interesting piece of vocabulary. 52 00:05:06,700 --> 00:05:09,130 ‫And now let's take a look at that. 53 00:05:09,580 --> 00:05:14,440 ‫What other synonyms, more interesting words can we use for bad? 54 00:05:16,090 --> 00:05:24,220 ‫OK, let's take a look at the part two topic, which is describe some music that you like. 55 00:05:24,620 --> 00:05:27,820 ‫OK, let's take a look at the students answer. 56 00:05:29,110 --> 00:05:31,580 ‫I love any music with guitar. 57 00:05:31,750 --> 00:05:36,970 ‫I've been learning to play, too, although my progress is pretty bad. 58 00:05:37,960 --> 00:05:45,400 ‫I'll tell you, not a bad response to this question, but I think we can replace bad with something 59 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:47,530 ‫a bit more interesting. 60 00:05:48,760 --> 00:05:51,210 ‫I love any music with guitar. 61 00:05:51,250 --> 00:05:59,530 ‫I've been learning to play too, although my progress is pretty awful, much more interesting. 62 00:06:00,450 --> 00:06:09,930 ‫Now, as I said before, not all synonyms have exactly the same meaning, so it may be that a synonym 63 00:06:09,930 --> 00:06:13,700 ‫doesn't quite work in place of something else. 64 00:06:13,950 --> 00:06:17,010 ‫For example, my progress is pretty awful. 65 00:06:17,220 --> 00:06:21,990 ‫That works well, but what if I change it for the synonym? 66 00:06:22,010 --> 00:06:26,310 ‫Ruff, my progress is pretty rough. 67 00:06:26,850 --> 00:06:29,100 ‫It doesn't quite work. 68 00:06:29,220 --> 00:06:33,000 ‫So you need to be careful in your use of synonyms. 69 00:06:33,270 --> 00:06:41,790 ‫Again, by reading every day you will be able to widen your vocabulary and have a better understanding 70 00:06:41,790 --> 00:06:43,110 ‫of synonyms. 71 00:06:43,890 --> 00:06:48,090 ‫Let's move on to take a look at collocations. 72 00:06:49,260 --> 00:06:51,430 ‫So what are collocations? 73 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:56,700 ‫Well, collocations are words that are often paired together. 74 00:06:57,030 --> 00:07:05,310 ‫So you find these words close to each other in a phrase they will help you sound more natural in your 75 00:07:05,310 --> 00:07:06,150 ‫speaking. 76 00:07:07,140 --> 00:07:12,720 ‫Let's take a look at a few examples for take take time. 77 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:14,460 ‫Take a break. 78 00:07:14,730 --> 00:07:16,390 ‫Take a taxi. 79 00:07:17,310 --> 00:07:26,970 ‫So these are common collocations, 48 common words that are paired together with take and using collocations 80 00:07:26,970 --> 00:07:29,850 ‫will make you sound more native. 81 00:07:30,570 --> 00:07:37,800 ‫Let's take a look at get get drunk, get married, get ready, get permission. 82 00:07:38,550 --> 00:07:39,890 ‫Just with synonyms. 83 00:07:39,900 --> 00:07:47,700 ‫You've got to be careful and accurate with your use of collocations, for example, you wouldn't say 84 00:07:47,910 --> 00:07:49,170 ‫get a break. 85 00:07:49,170 --> 00:07:53,800 ‫That doesn't quite sound as natural as take a break. 86 00:07:54,250 --> 00:08:02,760 ‫Another example would be you wouldn't say Gane drunk Gane is similar to get in the way that you are 87 00:08:02,760 --> 00:08:03,900 ‫taking something. 88 00:08:03,900 --> 00:08:11,010 ‫You have something that you didn't have before, but you wouldn't say Gane drunk. 89 00:08:11,190 --> 00:08:15,740 ‫That just doesn't sound very native and fluent. 90 00:08:16,530 --> 00:08:24,180 ‫Let's go through a few common collocations that you could use in your speaking so common. 91 00:08:24,180 --> 00:08:27,540 ‫Collocations four Make make a mess. 92 00:08:28,050 --> 00:08:33,390 ‫I love my pets, but the dogs especially can really make a mess. 93 00:08:33,810 --> 00:08:36,510 ‫I spend so much time cleaning up. 94 00:08:40,650 --> 00:08:49,650 ‫I heard that on Bitcoin, you can make money quickly and easily, it sounds too easy and I don't trust 95 00:08:49,650 --> 00:08:49,920 ‫it. 96 00:08:53,910 --> 00:08:55,530 ‫Make a difference. 97 00:08:55,650 --> 00:09:05,760 ‫It's important to help others and try to make a difference in our local communities and the last collocation 98 00:09:05,760 --> 00:09:07,620 ‫four make make progress. 99 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:10,550 ‫Now I'm practicing every day. 100 00:09:10,560 --> 00:09:14,910 ‫I'm starting to make progress in my guitar playing. 101 00:09:15,990 --> 00:09:20,670 ‫Here are some common collocations for go go abroad. 102 00:09:21,390 --> 00:09:28,230 ‫I'd love to have more time to go abroad, but my work schedule is just too demanding. 103 00:09:30,570 --> 00:09:31,740 ‫Go shopping. 104 00:09:32,370 --> 00:09:39,240 ‫Here it is used in the past tense, I went shopping to a new big mall last weekend. 105 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:41,850 ‫I spent far too much money. 106 00:09:45,840 --> 00:09:53,730 ‫When I see my favorite musician playing, I kind of go crazy, you could call me a real fun. 107 00:09:55,210 --> 00:10:03,460 ‫And the last one, my teacher told me to really go for it and study as much as I can before the test. 108 00:10:04,080 --> 00:10:11,600 ‫Now, just to clarify this meaning go for it, it means to try 110 percent. 109 00:10:12,040 --> 00:10:16,630 ‫That's a really negative sounding phrase and collocation. 110 00:10:16,630 --> 00:10:21,190 ‫So maybe you could try and use this in your practice speaking. 111 00:10:21,390 --> 00:10:22,600 ‫Go for it. 112 00:10:22,600 --> 00:10:23,590 ‫Give it a go. 113 00:10:24,370 --> 00:10:33,550 ‫OK, so that is an explanation of what collocations are with a few common examples that you could quite 114 00:10:33,550 --> 00:10:35,770 ‫easily use in your speaking to. 115 00:10:36,460 --> 00:10:41,500 ‫Now as some further reading an activity I would like you to complete. 116 00:10:41,980 --> 00:10:46,750 ‫Go to Google and research common collocations. 117 00:10:46,990 --> 00:10:50,230 ‫Try using them in your speaking. 118 00:10:51,190 --> 00:10:58,330 ‫OK, so that brings us to the end of this lesson on vocabulary for adults speaking as always, if you 119 00:10:58,330 --> 00:11:03,660 ‫have any questions, please go to the Q&A section of the course. 120 00:11:04,090 --> 00:11:06,310 ‫See you in the next lesson.