Today's lesson will be about  building your vocabulary. 

We are going to help you to learn more words, 

learn them faster and retain them after the lesson is done.

How do you learn vocabulary?

Many people take notes from their textbooks

trying to memorize long lists of unrelated words.

Maybe, you have trouble because after all,

there are so many words in the English language.

Is this you?

If it is, you know the learning vocabulary can be overwhelming and stressful  

but it doesn't have to be.

Let's start with something easy.

"Happy" is an adjective.

Now, the trick to expanding your vocabulary quickly is simple.

Whenever you learn a new word, consider that there may be other forms of the word.

For example, the adjective "happy" can also be

a noun "happiness", an adverb "happily",

and all of these words also have opposites

"unhappy", "unhappiness" and "unhappily".

So by learning the first word

and considering the other word forms

you have now learned six words.

Always remember that lots of words come in different forms.

They can be verbs,

nouns can be a concept, a thing or a person,

adjectives and finally, adverbs.

Let's do one more together.

Imagine you learned the verb "succeed" for the first time.

Well, "succeed" can also be the noun "success",

the  adjective "successful" or its opposite "unsuccessful"

and the adverbs "successfully" and "unsuccessfully".

Let's do one more example.

If you are an employee that means you are employed

and you have employment but if you become unemployed

then you need to find an employer

who will employ you to get you out of unemployment.

Hopefully, you are employable and not unemployable.

Now it's time for you to practice.

Here's the noun "variety".

How many related words can you think of?

Feel free to pause the video for a few minutes while you work.

Did you get them all?

Here are 10 variations of the word variety.

Oops, I guess that's 11.

Let's practice with one more.

Here is the adjective "productive"

Can you come up with nine more?

Pause the video and take a couple of minutes to try.

Try to use this technique  whenever you learn new words  

and you'll build a bigger,  stronger vocabulary in no time.

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