Reading 1-1: Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Before reading, you need to understand the vocabulary.
Vocabulary is a list of words.
Try reading the sentence:
He watched her check the dossier in front of her.
Does it make sense?
Look at the vocabulary list.
Vocabulary List:
| he | pronoun | a man |
| watch | verb | look for a long time/look carefully (watched = past time) |
| her | pronoun | a woman |
| check | verb | look again |
| the | adjective | one |
| dossier | noun | papers with people information |
| in front of | prepositional phrase | forward position / forward of face position |
Understand the meaning of these words and read the sentence again.
He watched her check the dossier in front of her.
Does it make more sense now?
Define means “find the meaning”.
If you know a word, you don’t have to define it.
If you don’t know a word, you have to define it.
You can use computers or translators to find definitions, but write definitions that make sense to you.
Parts of Speech
Words go inside groups.
These groups are called parts of speech.
Parts of Speech
Nouns (People, Places, Things, and Ideas)
Pronouns (Replacement noun words)
Verbs (Actions and States)
Adjectives (Descriptions for Nouns)
Adverbs (Descriptions for Verbs, Adjectives, and Adverbs)
Prepositions (place/location of Nouns and Verbs)
Conjunctions (joining words: For, And, Nor, But, Or, So, Yet)
If there is more than one word working together, it is a phrase.
Phrase examples
turn on
turn off
pick up
put down
in front of
on top of
Do you know what any of these phrases mean?
There are many vocabulary words and phrases to learn. As you learn, your vocabulary will become larger.