Advanced English Vocabulary and Sentences

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All right our first vocabulary word is accomplishment one more time

accomplishment now this word means something that has been achieved

successfully and if we look at this picture we can tell that this man looks

happy because of his accomplishment so the sentence would be catching the fish

was his greatest accomplishment now that's a great sentence but again

remember we want an advanced English sentence so you'll notice that I've put

the who what when where and why on the screen for those who have not seen the

lesson I did on the five W's you can click in the top right of your screen to

watch that lesson so here we go I've broken it down for the who his I changed

that to the young man we want to give more details for the what instead of

catching the fish I've put catching the huge fish again you want to give more

details now for the when the where and the why I chose information that I

wanted to include so I said last summer I said in Florida and for the reason I

said he received a $25,000 prize so this is what the first expanded sentence

would look like catching the huge fish was the young man's greatest

accomplishment great sentence but let's get even longer here we go catching the

huge fish when last summer was the young man's greatest accomplishment again a

very good sentence but we can do better here we go catching the huge fish last

summer we're in Florida was the young man's greatest accomplishment excellent

job but now we need to add the Y so here's our final advanced sentence

catching the huge fish last summer in Florida was the young man's greatest

accomplishment because he received a $25,000 prize so amazing using the five

W's we were able to expand and make more advanced all right now our next

word is amazing now again looking at this picture we can see how amazing the

scenery is but the word amazing means causing great surprise or wonder or

impressive and the simple sentence about this picture is the view from the

mountain was amazing so again a good sentence now what I want to give you

guys is some examples of words and phrases that have the same meaning so

instead of amazing I have the view from the mountain blew my mind

now that expression just means shocked by how amazing it is or shocked by how

amazing it was so the same meaning but a different expression then I have the

view from the mountain was utterly amazing so utterly is just a way of

expressing or emphasizing how amazing something was so totally okay we say

utterly amazing then we have the view from the mountain was astounding now

astounding just means awesome or outstanding okay and then we have the

view from the mountain was stunning and again stunning just means amazing

finally we have the view from the mountain was astonishing now astonishing

also just means mind-blowing so what we've done is we've looked at different

ways of expressing that something is amazing we have blew my mind

utterly amazing for emphasis astounding stunning and astonishing okay all right

now our next word is breathtaking again another beautiful picture of a scenery

in some distant country okay now breathtaking just means astonishing or

all inspiring and we looked at astonishing in the previous screen very

exciting or beautiful so for this one the sentence is the sunset was

breathtaking again very simple and easy sentence now as you're looking

at this drawing you can see the person's facial expression

they look shocked they look amazed and they're at a loss for words this is the

feeling when something is breathtaking so the example sentence the violin solo

was breathtaking right it was so amazing it was so

astonishing that this person was at a loss for words next we have the view

from the top of the mountain is breathtaking now I want to pause real

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on with this lesson alright so again the view from the top of the mountain is

breathtaking or amazing next we have his performance was breathtaking it means

whatever he was doing was so awesome that you were at a loss for words

and finally the view from the hotel is truly breathtaking it's so amazing or

astonishing okay alright next we have the word cityscape again

cityscape now this is the visual appearance of a city or urban area so

looking at the image we have in front of you the cityscape is cluttered with

factories so you kind of get the general idea of what cityscape means but what

about this word you see cluttered means to fill or cover

with scattered or disordered things that impede movement or hinder or stop

movement or reduce effectiveness so I want you to think about a bedroom of a

child they have their clothes everywhere their toys and all of these things are

on the floor that is clutter so some examples Indians using this word we have

the first one his room was cluttered with toys all right next to many signs

were cluttering up the street corner so again it was cluttered why because there

were too many signs next the city was cluttered with motels and old

restaurants so the motels and old restaurants were everywhere

next the garage was cluttered with tools so again the tools were everywhere in

the garage okay great job now our next word is confused

this little dog actually looks confused now confused just means to be unable to

think clearly or disoriented so looking at the picture of this dog we can say

the sentence the dog was confused about what had happened all right now let's

say for example we want to expand this sentence we want to make it longer so

we're using the five W's principle so again who the dog but let's get specific

let's say it's a pitbull okay what well it was totally confused when

I've chosen five minutes ago where behind my chair and why he didn't see

anyone okay so again if I expanded the sentence I can say the pitbull was

totally confused about what had happened all right now I want to keep going I

want to add more information I want to add you guessed it very good where so

the pitbull standing behind my chair was totally confused about what had happened

all right now I want to continue to expand my sentence

I'm gonna say when so the pitbulls standing behind my chair was totally

confused about what had happened five minutes ago excellent job so far all

right now so let's continue by expanding it one more time so the pitbull standing

behind my chair was totally confused about what had happened five minutes ago

because he didn't see anyone so again our sentence expanded because of the

five W's principle all right next word we have is congested again congested now

this word means to be blocked up with or too full of something so looking at this

image of the young lady standing in the streets we can say the streets in the

city were very congested okay so it it makes sense there were a lot of people

in the streets but the question is how can we say that a different way so the

streets in the city were packed with cars so instead of congested we could

say packed with cars which just means they were bumper-to-bumper ok the bumper

of the cars were close to each other then we have the streets in the city

were blocked which means no space to move again just another way of saying

congested then we have the streets in the city were gridlocked

it means cars stuck in positions stuck in a certain position and not able to

move ok next we have the streets in the city were jammed with cars and this

expression just means cars are too close and finally the streets in the city were

out of control because of the traffic and out of control just means not

ordered or disorganized so again we have many ways of explaining or expressing

congested we can say packed with cars blocked gridlocked jammed with cars or

out of control again expanding your vocabulary and your understanding of how

to speak fluently in English alright now our next word is empty which you may

actually know this word because it just means containing nothing or not filled

or occupied now for this picture we can describe it by saying the university

library was totally empty very simple right now I want us to look at this

sentence my stomach is completely empty so visually it just means that nothing

is inside the person would love to eat pizza or cookies or a sandwich but

nothing is inside so an empty stomach then we have the building was empty very

simple right next did you empty your purse before leaving it means that you

take everything out so that nothing is inside and finally is the theatre around

the corner empty it means is there anyone there or is everyone gone okay so

very good empty now our next word is a good one it's very large very long but

you can do it so after me gargantuan yeah it's a doozy it's a big one after

me gargantuan now gargantuan just means enormous extremely big or very large

just like the whale in this picture so the sentence we can say is it was a

gargantuan whale so you kind of understand that right gargantuan but

what about this word enormous now enormous means marked by extraordinarily

great size number or degree or exceeding usual bounds or accepted notions so

actually a few weeks ago I saw a TV programme about a girl who is 6 foot 9

yeah 6 foot 9 she's extremely big extremely tall and the Legman that she

went to the prom it's kind of a banquet in America he was only 5 6 so she stood

way above him when they were standing for their pictures she was enormous

okay so sentence he ate an enormous of pasta next the wealthy will get

enormous tax cuts under the proposal next they live in an enormous house and

finally you've been an enormous help ok so you see how you can use this word

enormous alright now I hope you guys really enjoyed this lesson I want to

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