100+ Words For Everyday Life in 25 Minutes | English Vocabulary

Today you are going to learn over 100 words  

for your everyday life to sound  fluent and natural in English.

Welcome back to JForrest English.

Of course I'm Jennifer.

Now let's get started.

Let's start with prepositions.

Right now I'm on the bed, but now I'm in the bed.

So notice we use in when you're  under the covers, under the blanket.

So you can use covers for everything on your  bed, or you can be specific and say blanket.

So I'm in the bed because I'm under the covers,  

but I'm on the bed now because on  is used for a vertical surface.

So the bed is considered a vertical surface.

Now I'm in the kitchen, so even  though there are no physical walls,  

the kitchen is considered an enclosed space.

It's its own room.

So right now I'm in the kitchen and right now I'm  

in the living room because  it's its own defined space.

But what about this?

I'm the pillows.

I'm between the pillows and  right now I'm at the front door.

So the front door is not considered a  defined room or space and it's not enclosed.

So we use at for a specific point.

So this is the specific  location I'm at the front door.

And how about now I'm on on the patio.

So here maybe just memorization.

You're on a balcony or on a patio.

And now I'm behind the door.

And right now I'm under the desk, under the desk.

And I can only be under the desk  because this is called a standing desk.

You can also call it a sit to stand desk.

So right now I can stand and work, but you can  lower it and then you can also sit and work.

I'm walking my cat, I'm walking Sasha.

Now notice how there's no preposition?

It's not I'm walking with my cat.

Because when you walk an animal,  you walk a cat or you walk a dog,  

more commonly you're in charge of it.

You're in control of it.

It's also very common to say I'm taking  my cat, I'm taking my dog for a walk.

So right now I'm walking Sasha  or I'm taking Sasha for a walk.

Right now I'm walking with my husband.

Say bye, Kevin.

Bye everybody.

So notice, of course, if you  use the preposition with,  

it's because you're doing it  together is collaborative, is joint.

I'm walking with my husband,  with my friends, with my family.

Now, when I made this short, a lot of  native speakers commented and joked,  

Oh, you're walking heaven.

Because remember, if you remove that  preposition, it means I am in control.

So a lot of native speakers joked and said,  my wife always walks me, meaning my wife is in  

control, in charge of my friend sent me a text  message and said, what are you up to tonight?

Do you know what that means?

What are you up to?

This is how a native speaker commonly  asked someone, what are you doing?

So up to in this expression means  doing what are you doing tonight?

So just change doing to up to  what are you up to tonight?

So now you'll sound just like a native speaker.

And this is what I'm up to tonight.

So not very much.

So I can reply back to my friend  and say not much, not too much.

Or I could be more specific and say I'm  relaxing, I'm relaxing at home, I'm chilling.

That's a very casual informal  way of saying relaxing.

I'm chilling.

I'm chilling at home.

You can be more specific and say I'm relaxing  at home and watching a movie or and watching  

Netflix and reading a book and listening  to music, whatever you might be doing.

And here's a very common  phrasal verb you should know.

I'm hanging out at home.

So to hang out is the phrasal verb.

We commonly use this with people.

Do you want to hang out tonight?

So that's another way of saying, do  you want to spend time with me tonight?

So I could say I'm hanging  out with my friend tonight.

So you use the preposition with person.

So spending time socially now you can  use it with a location like I did.

I'm hanging out at home, which means  I'm just spending time at home.

So what are you up to tonight?

Not too much.

I'm just hanging out at home.

I'm watching a movie and eating popcorn.

What about you?

What are you up to tonight?

I'm walking to the market to get groceries.

So notice two things.

You get groceries.

So the verb is get.

I need to get groceries.

And notice how I said I'm walking.

So that's the form of transportation.

I'm walking to the market.

If I said I'm going for a walk,  so notice to go for a walk,  

that's just for leisure or for pleasure.

So in the afternoon I went the  past simple of the verb go.

I went for a walk in the park,  but I'm not going for a walk.

I'm walking to get groceries.

I made it to the market, but after  walking for 20 minutes, mainly uphill,  

I'm really hot, I'm really sweaty,  so I need to stop to have some water.

So notice have water you can  use have instead of drink.

I have water, I drink water.

They're the same.

Now notice I said stop infinitive  stop to have some water.

That means I start the action of drinking water.

So I'm having water.

I stopped to have water, but  I could say I stopped walking.

There's stop plus gerund, your verb plus ING.

That means you stop that action.

So I stopped walking to start to have some water.

Here is everything I got at the market.

So how about this?

I'll hold the item and then you say it out loud  

to make sure you know that  item and the pronunciation.

These are maybe they're not that common  outside of North America at least.

These are plantains.

Plantains, of course these are eggs.

Easy.

This is a pineapple.

One of my favorite things to get a pineapple.

These are beets.

Beets.

It's the same pronunciation as the verb  to beat, but the spelling is different.

Beets.

This is garlic.

I would view all of this as a  collective, so I would just say garlic.

This is garlic.

I wouldn't say these are garlics.

That doesn't sound correct.

You could say bulb to represent 1.

So you could say these are bulbs of  garlic, but that's not very common.

You would just say this is garlic.

So this is a bulb of garlic and then a piece.

We call this a clove.

A clove.

These are onions.

Notice that pronunciation Onion, onion, onions.

This is a cucumber.

This is a pepper.

These are avocados.

Avocados.

This is, of course, lettuce.

Lettuce.

Notice that unstressed pronunciation.

Lettuce.

Lettuce.

But what if I wanted to make this singular?

I wouldn't say all lettuce.

This is all lettuce.

You can't say that.

But if you want to make this singular,  you would say a head, a head of lettuce.

So I need a head of lettuce.

Otherwise you just say I need lettuce.

And we got a big bag of of strawberries.

And I also got a bag of tomatoes, tomatoes.

Now you can call these smaller ones  cherry tomatoes or just tomatoes.

And Kevin got this.

Do you know what this is?

Any idea?

It's hot sauce.

Hot sauce.

I have no idea what's in it, but it's very spicy.

Let me share some word tasks that I do every day.

Now, notice I said every day.

So what verb tense will we use?

The present?

Simple.

Every day.

I could also use any of the  other adverbs of frequency.

Always, sometimes, usually, rarely.

Never.

Every day is an exception because that  comes at the very beginning or end.

Every day I check my e-mail.

Now, if you use the other adverbs of frequency,  

you could say I always check my e-mail at the  beginning of the day or at the end of the day.

And to check your e-mail, to check means to,  to look at, to review, to check your e-mail.

So you can check your messages,  

You can check anything that you  can check the status of something.

So I provide feedback.

So notice, provide feedback.

Feedback is the noun.

I provide feedback to my students  in the Finally Fluent Academy.

I prepare lessons for all of you on YouTube.

Now I could also say I make lessons  because I create the lessons.

But sometimes my students say I make lessons or I  make homework, but that's the wrong Co location.

That's the wrong verb because for you, if  you are completing it, you are doing it.

You want the verb do.

But because I create the homework,  I can say I make the homework.

You do the homework.

I make the homework, you do the lessons.

I make the lessons.

Here's an important verb I hear a lot of  mistakes with to follow up with someone.

So every day I follow up with my staff.

For example, now if you follow up with someone,  

it means you continue a  conversation you previously had.

So if I ask someone on my  team to create something,  

the next day I can follow up with them  and ask them for the status of that.

So if you ask me a question and I  don't reply, you can follow up with  

me and send me another message because  you're continuing the conversation.

Well, I have to get back to work.

Now.

Let's talk about cooking.

I'm going to make pasta sauce, but first  I don't want to get my shirt dirty.

So I need to put on what's this, an apron.

And notice that phrasal verb.

I put on the apron and then the opposite.

I take off the apron.

Now that I'm wearing the  apron, I can cut up the onion.

So first I peel the onion.

So to remove the skin, you peel the onion.

Now you can slice, which is like this,  slice and then chop is just larger pieces.

So to chop but then to dice would be to take  these pieces and then make them very small.

So right now I'm dicing the onion.

I'm cutting it into very small pieces.

So you need to knead the dough.

Do you know that verb to knead the dough?

Now, some things are just  difficult to explain verbally.

You just have to see it.

So right now I'm kneading the dough.

And notice I said you need to knead the  dough because I wanted you to hear that.

The pronunciation is exactly the same.

There's a silent K on the verb to knead, just  like knight a knight silent K knit silent K,  

no to no sounds exactly the same as no.

And of course, silent K on this knife.

Can you think of any others?

Share one more silent K in the comments.

As my onions are Browning,  let's do a little pop quiz.

How many do you know?

Let's start with this.

Was this called a spoon?

Was this a garlic press?

What are these measuring spoons  and these measuring cups?

These are oven mints.

This is a can opener and this a ladle.

How about this a spatula?

A lot of native speakers just call it a flipper.

A flipper, but it's a spatula.

These are tongs.

I'll need this after the pasta cooks.

It's a colander, but most native  speakers call it a strainer.

And I'll need this at the end.

A cheese grater.

Just a grater.

And this is a cutting board.

How many did you get right?

Share it in the comments.

Look at this beautiful pasta.

I hope my Italian students are proud.

And my water is boiling.

The sauce is simmering, which  means cooking at a low temperature.

Simmering.

I want to show you this beautiful loaf of bread.

Notice you can't say ah bread because  you can't make bread singular ah bread.

So if you want to specify 1, you  say, ah, loaf of a loaf of bread.

And this is brioche.

Now Kevin and I, my husband  and I, we picked it up.

We picked it up.

Now to pick something up in this case  means to get to get from a store.

So oh, I need to pick up milk.

I'm out of milk.

I have no milk, I need to pick up milk.

So we picked up this beautiful loaf  of brioche bread to go with our pasta.

I am a very messy cook, so let's talk  about clean, clean up, wipe, wipe up.

If I say I need to clean the  kitchen, that sounds more in general.

So it could mean washing the dishes,  cleaning the floor, cleaning the counters.

So it just means in total, but  clean up is a specific area.

So I would say, oh, I need to clean up.

It's the specific mess I  made, not the total kitchen.

Now seen for wipe.

If you wipe the counters is just the entire thing.

But if you wipe up, you wipe  up a specific mess or spill.

So right now I'm wiping up the  pasta sauce and I need to clean  

up before I eat my delicious  pasta and the final product.

Doesn't it look delicious?

Now you can just say have a good meal or enjoy.

And native speakers often borrow the French  Bon Appetit and I am going to enjoy this.

Remember the brioche bread from pasta last night?

Well now I'm using the  leftovers to make French toast.

So notice I said the leftovers.

That's a noun.

The leftovers means the remaining  food item, the leftovers.

I could also say I'm using the leftover bread.

And now leftover is an adjective.

I forgot this in our quiz.

What's this?

A whisk?

A whisk.

And the verb is to whisk.

So for my French toast, I have eggs,  milk, cinnamon, a little sugar and salt.

And my secret ingredients, Maple  syrup, a little bit of Maple syrup.

So I could say I'm going to whisk  the ingredients using the verb whisk.

You could also just say mix, mix the ingredients.

Now, native speakers often add the  phrasal verb up to certain verbs.

So I could say I'm going  to mix up the ingredients.

So mix and mix up here.

They mean the same thing.

It means combined together  just like I'm doing now.

But you don't want to mix  up the sugar and the salt.

So here mix up also has a different meaning.

It means to use the wrong 1.

So if you mix up the sugar and salt,  

it means you use salt when you  wanted sugar or the other way around.

So don't mix up the sugar and salt.

What was this?

Remember a spatula?

But what did I say?

Native speakers commonly call this a flipper  because now it's time to flip the French toast.

So this is the verb to flip, to go from  one side to the other, to turn over.

But we would say to flip.

So I'll do that now to flip.

And that's why we commonly call this a flipper.

But remember, it's a spatula.

And look at this beautiful French toast.

There's only one thing left to do, this  secret ingredient, the Maple syrup.

So I'm going to pour the Maple syrup.

Now if you use a noun, you use the preposition on.

So right now I'm pouring the Maple syrup.

But I could also say I'm pouring  the Maple syrup on the French toast.

I'm pouring it on the French  toast and now it's ready to eat.

So now I'm getting ready.

So to get ready is the general term  we use for everything you need to do.

So it would involve showering, brushing your  teeth, putting on makeup, which I'm doing now,  

getting dressed, all of those things together.

You can say get ready.

So I'm getting ready.

So I'm putting on makeup.

So that's the phrasal verb to put on makeup.

You can also use apply makeup,  but that sounds more technical.

Maybe you would hear it in instructions now.

Right now I'm putting on face cream.

So again, I could say apply, but  that sounds a little more technical.

If this were a medical cream,  a doctor would say apply it.

Three times a day, but in everyday use,  

you put on makeup, you put on cream and  after I'll blow dry and then style my hair  

and then my final step of getting ready  is I'll pick out what I'm going to wear.

So pick out means to select so should  I wear this shirt or this shirt?

So to pick out, I picked this dress out.

So now I need to get dressed.

So get out of here.

So I'm going out for a bit.

Notice that I'm going out.

That's what a native speaker would  use to say I'm leaving the house.

It can be for any purpose.

It can be to run an errand.

Notice you run an errand to run an errand to  get groceries, to go to work or for social,  

which I'm doing to go to a cafe.

So you can say I'm going  out, I'm leaving the house.

Now, native speakers, we love using  the verb head as a replacement to go,  

but only in specific situations.

So you can learn this phrase, I'm heading out,  I'm heading out, which means I'm going out.

So I'm heading out.

Now, you can also say I'm heading to and  then a location, just like you would say  

I'm going to a cafe, I'm going to  the store, I'm going to the movies.

You can say I'm heading to the movies,  to the store, I'm heading to the cafe.

So what's the final thing you need  to do when you leave your house?

When you go out, when you head  out, you need to lock the door.

So you can say I'm locking the door.

You can also use the phrasal verb lock up.

I'm locking up.

I just locked up in the past.

Simple, I just locked up.

Don't forget to lock up before you head out.

So on the way to the Cafe, I  just need to stop by the bank.

The ATM notice I said I need to stop  by, so that phrasal verb to stop by.

You could also use to swing by interchangeably.

To stop by, to swing by, that means to go to a  place quickly and on your way to another location.

So on your way to the final destination,  you go to a different place.

So maybe on your way home from work,  you stop by the store to pick up milk.

So I need to take out money?

Take out is the phrasal verb  that you use to get money.

I need to take out money from the ATMI.

Need to get money.

I made it to the cafe and I ordered my cappuccino.

Now, when, when I ordered  this, what do you think I said?

I said I'll get a, I'll get a all, I will  get a, I'll get a, I'll get a cappuccino.

If I wanted to sound a little more polite,  I might say, can I, can I get a cappuccino?

I could also say I'll have a or I'll take a, I'll  get a, I'll have a or I'll take a cappuccino.

Now, right now, I'm in a cafe  because this is an enclosed space.

And right now I'm at a cafe.

I cannot say in because I am not inside.

I'm not enclosed in the  space, so you cannot say in.

I'm at a cafe.

It's the precise points on the map.

Now, this is the patio for the cafe.

So what's that preposition?

I'm on the patio, or I could say I'm  at the cafe and now I'm in the cafe.

I could also say I'm at the cafe  to refer to a precise location,  

but because I'm physically enclosed,  you can also use that preposition in.

So now I'm going to enjoy my  delicious cappuccino in the cafe.