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how to expand your vocabulary how to
expand your academic vocabulary for for
IELTS hi there my name is Ben
Worthington and in this practical
tutorial we are going to look at
formulas and methods to expand your
vocabulary now knowledge of these
formulas are
incredibly useful for you because when
you were learning English when you
started learning English you probably
stumbled uh stumbled AC cross certain
sort of like rules and formulas and then
you probably like stum across and like
ah okay if I add IO n to the word it
becomes another it becomes the noun or
if I add it becomes the gerand or if I
add l y it be it forms the
adverb from precise to
precisely and that's exactly what what
we're going to cover today we're going
to look at using these rules and we're
going to apply it more to expanding your
vocabulary so you don't have to stumble
across it you can actually hear it and
then start applying it because for
example if you know one word and then uh
the root of the word especially and if
you know that you can add pre or u n or
ly to the end now you've just expanded
your use of that word three times so
you've tripled your vocabulary by using
the formula by using the rule not by
brute false
memorization okay and this will give you
such a more natural feel for the
language so my name is Ben Worthington
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it expanding your vocabulary is
incredibly important for the
exam it not only improves your
comprehension skills but it enhances
your ability to express complex ideas
and this is insanely important
especially for the speaking where you're
going to be asked pretty much the same
question especially if you're going for
seven eight or nine you're going to be
asked the same question a few times but
in different ways so the examin is
really testing it's like okay I heard
the student talk about this but can they
say the same thing again in a different
way like how good really is their
vocabulary and this is exactly what this
tutorial is going to help you with and
also we built the tutorial around the
academic word list the academic word
list is a list of the most common words
found in academic journals and
reports and because we're writing in
academic writing uh because we are uh we
should be writing academically we should
be using this vocabulary let's have a
look so we're going to start
off by understanding the root of the
word then we're going to look at
prefixes and suffixes and then we're
going to look at reusing words in the
other forms and then we're going to go
into some 10 practical examples and
demonstrations so it's insanely valuable
this
tutorial now let's have a look at the
root of a word this means the root is
the word in its most basic form it
carries the most fundamental meaning now
this is easier for students uh who are
French Spanish Italian or one of
Portuguese or Romanian the other romance
languages because a lot of these words
of in English come from uh their
language Latin or the the mother of
their language which is
Latin thanks to the Romans Anyway by
recognizing these roots you can often
deduce the meanings of unfamiliar words
especially when you've got knowledge of
the prefixes or suffixes for
example if you know the word
act now you can deduce what the word
actor means the actor Brad Pit you can
deduce what the word action means you
can deduce what the word activate means
and this all starts to become unlocked
the deeper you get into the language
this is why when we're learning a
language we've got the typical S curve
and it's at the highest you know we have
a slow start it's difficult it's tedious
we get very little Improvement and then
we hit a point where we're just
accelerating we're improving um we're
going faster and then we get around
usually a B2 level B seven level
and it's difficult to improve like an
hour studying the language reduce
results in maybe a
.1% Improvement whereas previously an
hour in the language studying the
language could have resulted in I don't
know a 2% Improvement anyway I got
distracted I'm sorry let's go on let's
have a look at the most common prefixes
and suffixes and the Origins if we know
the origins it just makes it that little
bit more interesting so prefixes are
added to the beginning of the word and
modify its
meaning so we have u n this comes from
Old English another old Germanic
language and it means not or the
opposite so we know unlikely is not
likely or uninformed not informed pre
this comes from Latin this means before
to preconceive to form an opinion before
knowing all the facts pre-test a test
that can be taken before learning a
subject again in English we've got lots
of variations we can also say a mock
test and I can have a preest so the and
this is what's beautiful about language
is that when there usually is a word or
two words that mean the same usually
what happens is that they start to take
on slightly different meanings you know
like scream and
Screech they have they're similar but
they are different anyway D this comes
from Latin this means the opposite or
down or away so we've got
deconstruct obviously this means uh the
opposite of construct so it means to
break down into parts or deregulate to
remove Reg
relations and what's beautiful about
this is now we can put this um prefix on
deregulation you see so we've got to
remove regulations so we've got
deregulation and that's because we know
the noun verb and um adverb forms anyway
re e this comes from Latin meaning again
back for example rebuild to build again
re-evaluate to evaluate again
re-evaluate my iot score I believe I
scored
better and then we've got another one
from Latin which is i n i m i l or I and
this again means not or the opposite so
inaccurate
immobile
illogical
irrelevant let's have a look at the
suffixes again a lot of these come from
Latin and Old English and Old English as
we should know comes from um well is a
Germanic language so we have t i o n or
s i o s i o n meaning state or quality
or act for example Innovation the act of
innovating or discussion the act of
discussing then we've got a l e able or
ible with an i meaning k capable of or
worthy of this book is readable we can
even expand this to this book is
unreadable can you see where I'm going
with
this because we know these suffixes and
the
prefixes we don't have to learn it and
memorize it just being aware and then
when we're reading we start circling
them and we start becoming aware of them
it just makes it so much easier and you
start picking it up the the formulas
start revealing themselves all right so
we have readable unreadable we have
comprehensible or even
uncomprehensible yeah um and then we
have ly this is in a manner of form in
the manner of in the manner of so this
for forms adverbs so we have quick
quickly precise precisely or we could
even combine it with one of the ones
before we said imprecisely
is it unprecise imprecise
imprecisely or imprecise you see we
could just it's like Legos you know
there's lots of opportunities here just
to build the word and it's not always
going to work but it's an
educated way it's an educated guest to
expand your vocabulary and when you're
preparing you can always test it out
Ness n SS this comes from Old English
and it means a state or a condition
happiness
unhappiness
Darkness red darkness no UND darkness no
ill darkness no just expect just playing
now F full meaning full of Joyful
hopeful but here we can do it we can say
UNH hopeful so you can see here there's
lots of ways and it doesn't stop there
as I've been playing with before we've
also got the noun for form the verb form
the adjective form and the adverb
form and I think this is one of the
reasons why we have this S curve when
we're learning the language because once
you start unlocking these it's like that
scene in this Matrix where you see all
the numbers and he sees everything and
he's like wow this is how we build this
is how we use the English language and
it's it's a I've had the same experience
when I'm learning Spanish and like
ah accasion is the same as oasian in
English I could probably do the same
with the other I ver uh words in Spanish
transform them to uh the other ioi I
words in English I can easily just adopt
them to Spanish now easy peasy lemon
squeezy so let's have a look at some 10
examples which uh 10 very useful words
from the academic word list and we've
included The Roots the prefixes the
suffixes in the various forms so we've
got
assume now we can make assumption we can
make unassumed we can make
reassume you see and then we've got
assume the verb assumable the adjective
and assumingly the adverb so just from
one we've got six and we could even
expand that further by using I don't
know um the the adverb of unassumed
which would be unass assumingly so we've
got an exp it just expands exponentially
again the root benefit we've got
beneficial the adjective beneficiary the
noun benefiting the
verb and then we've got variations such
as uh benefit the noun verb benefited
the verb past tense and we've got
beneficially the adverb next one
conclude conclusion the noun conclusive
the adjective inconclusive the adjective
and then we've got variations such as
conclude the verb
conclusively the adverb and conclud wow
that's not a
word I just researched turns out it is a
word I had no idea it just seemed odd
but I found it in the oed.com the ox
English dictionary not entirely
convinced because there's two spellings
with able and i e but the other
um Mariam Webster the American one it
says oh no Google says um it's not the
most common and it's more common to use
conclusory which again seems
bizarre anyway I would just personally
just focus on using the moral common
ones uh next one
consistent the root is
consistent and we've got the prefix the
suffix which means consistent sorry
we've got consistency the noun and
inconsistent the adjective variations
consistent the adjective consistently
the adverb
inconsistently the
adverb moving on Con contribute we have
contribution a noun
contributor a noun also
contributive contributive yeah adjective
and then variations contribute the verb
contributing verb participle and
contributory adjective I like the word
contributory there are many there are
many contributory factors regarding
global warming for example differ
another one actually that I quite like
um if you can use differ it definitely
shows you've got a higher language
ability you know it's not that common
you definitely don't use it in spoken
English that much um so when you use it
in your academic writing especially as a
non-native English writer you're going
to stand out so the root is differ and
we've used it uh we can use it as a noun
difference different the adjective
indifferent
the adjective and like like we've done
before we can put that prefix to the uh
noun and we've got indifference there is
an indifference among the people
regarding climate change there is
basically an indifference means they're
just not
bothered then we've got differ the verb
the blue differs from the green drink in
that the blue one send your kids mental
whatever differently the adverb
indifferently the adverb and
indifference the noun can you see where
you know it's just expanding and
expanding once we've got knowledge of
these establish establishment the noun
established the adjective de establish
the verb and variations establish the
verb
reestablish the verb and de
establishment the noun
so some of these do get you into quite
uncommon words so it's worth just
checking when you're going through
it
um next one just justification is the
noun unjustified the adjective the the
reverse the opposite
justifiable again
unjustifiable unjust justifiably just
ify there it just goes on and on you can
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site so there we go by mastering the
prefixes and suffixes and roots of words
you can significantly expand your
vocabulary it's not going to it's not
only going to help you understand and
boost your comprehension of academic
terms as we said before but it also
enhances your ability to communicate
more precisely and effectively which is
what we mentioned um in the middle of
the tutorial about you know expanding
your vocabulary so you can speak about
the same topic or the
same thing in your speaking exam when
you get in the same question and again
and
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