of the Easy English Seven Day Course.

Alright, today's lesson,

lesson #5 is: Study Phrases, Not Words.

Study Phrases, Not Words

English, english language

is made up

not only of words,

but also of phrases,

or groups of words.

A phrase maybe

two words, all the way to

5 or 6 words and often

the phrase, the combination of words

means something different

then the individual words

themselves.

Now, I know that you have this in your

language as well. Because every language

has phrases. Also known

as idioms or

word clusters. The reason why

you want to study phrases

not words, is because

so much meaning

is derived from these phrases,

that if you knew

all of the words in the English language but no phrases,

you still wouldn't speak

English very well. You would not

understand when you were talking to a native speaker,

because there are so many

phrases. So you could study

all of the words but no phrases

and not speak English very well. But, if you study

all the phrases or even the

top 500

phrases, you would also

learn the words that make up the phrases.

And if you knew the top

500 phrases, you would speak English

really well.

So, how do you or how can you

study phrases not

words?

Well, if you're in class and you

hear a phrase that you don't understand

write it down. Later

you can ask a friend, ask a teacher

or you can ask me.

Email me. Ask me,

"what does this phrase mean", and I will answer it.

I will write you back and I will tell you.

So, anytime you hear a phrase that you don't know what it means,

write it down. At LetsDoEnglish,

in our Teaching Tales, we define

commonly used phrases. Teaching Tales

are original stories meant to

use important

vocabulary and important common

modern phrases and we define both those.

Another way to define

phrases or deconstruct

these phrases you've written down,

is to look online. Often times

if you write the phrase into

Google, Google

will define the phrase for you.

Not just the words, but the phrase itself.

So, today's lesson, day # 5,

lesson #5 is:

study phrases not words.

K, thank you for showing up today.

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and I will send you part of our Teaching Tales

at the end of the week.

I'll see ya tomorrow.