Resources for English Teachers
Vocabulary comprehension is central to YDS Exam. You can practice YDS – Vocabulary knowledge with the downloadable series below. The words in the worksheets are the most commonly used ones in the target exam.
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Studies have shown that the average English native speaker knows about 20,000 words with university-educated people knowing around 40,000 words. When actually speaking and with everyday writing (emails, letters, notes etc.) this goes down to about 5,000 very common words that are used repeatedly. The Oxford English Dictionary contains 171,476 words in current use, whereas a vocabulary of just 3000 words provides coverage for around 95% of common texts (Hu and Nation, 2000) for a learner to get by in
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Today we know that vocabulary should be learnt in contexts rather than memorizing solely its translation. To facilitate your vocabulary teaching, I will suggest a website for you. Yougish searches youtube for specific words or phrases. It gives you unbiased and fast answers about how English is spoken by people. It provides quite many videos about the word. You can watch them one by one easily. You can also search for particularly word class it belongs(noun,verb,adverb,adjective)
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