Learn the Top 10 Daily Life Related Actions in English

hi everybody welcome back to top words

my name is alicia and in this episode

we’re going to talk about 15 words for

daily life related actions

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okay the first word is rest

rest

to rest refers to giving your body a

chance to re-energize to recover so you

can use rest to talk about the time when

you are sleeping of course and regaining

your energy you can also use it to talk

about times when you’re relaxing or just

enjoying your day enjoying your hobbies

the idea with resting is that you’re not

doing something that takes a lot of

energy for example the gorilla is

resting in the grass

so in this sentence the subject of the

sentence the gorilla is just enjoying

his or her time in the grass not doing

anything that uses a lot of energy so

you can use this to talk about times

when you are just relaxing like oh i’m

just resting today

okay the next word is dream

dream

to dream means to imagine something we

use dream when we talk about the images

that we see in our brain at night when

we’re sleeping you can talk about those

things with the verb dream like last

night i dreamed that i could fly you

might also hear people saying last night

i dreamt that i could fly you might hear

a couple of different ways of expressing

that in past tense but when you want to

talk about those things that you see in

your sleep at night you can use this

verb i dreamed or i dreamt something the

next word is cook

cook

cook is a very common verb of course we

use cook when we want to talk about

making food the difference between cook

and mix for example is that with cook we

use heat we’re using some kind of heat

or temperature change to prepare food

when we use a word like mix or blend

we’re talking about combining

ingredients together so you can use cook

to talk about preparing food with heat

in your kitchen for example the chef

cooked in the kitchen

okay next is use a computer

use a computer

you can use this phrase any time you sit

down at your computer and start to work

or start to study or just want to

explore something on the internet we use

use the computer to talk about anything

that involves the computer anything

related to the computer for example i

use the computer to talk to my friends

okay the next word is return

return

to return means to come back to a place

you were at before you might hear return

come back and go back used they all

refer to going to a place you were at

originally and then coming back to that

place after going somewhere else for

example the father returned home in the

evening you might also hear the father

came back home in the evening or even

just the father came home in the evening

you can use return to mean to go back to

an original location

okay next is do housework

do housework

so housework refers to all those small

jobs in your house like cleaning the

dishes washing the dishes or doing

laundry washing your clothes cleaning

your room and so on so all of that is

called housework when you want to talk

about that you can say do housework for

example my sister needs to do a little

housework

next is bathe

bathe

so bathe is a verb it means to clean

your body so you can use this to talk

about taking a shower or taking a bath

please note bathe and bath have separate

pronunciations the pronunciations are

different we can’t say take a bathe for

example it’s incorrect but you can say

for example the brothers bathed in the

bathtub this means the brothers clean

their bodies in the bathtub so when you

want to talk about cleaning your body

you can use this word or you can say i

took a shower or took a bath

okay next is

read the paper

read the paper

so read the paper refers to reading a

physical newspaper so you could say read

the newspaper if you wanted to so to

read the paper means to read the news

for the day you might also read the

paper on the internet these days too but

if you see someone reading a physical

newspaper you could say the man is

reading a newspaper

okay next is sleep

sleep

we use the verb sleep when we want to

talk about resting for a long time at

the end of the day

so we often use this with other verbs

for example i’m going to go to sleep or

he went to sleep and so on for example

you could say you should sleep at least

eight hours every night this refers to

getting enough rest each day

okay the next expression is wake up

wake up

so wake up refers to opening your eyes

in the morning after you sleep so wake

up is different from get getup in that

wake up means your brain becomes awake

your eyes open when you get up you leave

your bed or the place where you sleep

for example i wake up every morning at

six o’clock

next is go out

go out

you can use go out in a lot of different

situations generally go out means to

leave your house to go out of your house

and go somewhere so you can use go out

to mean to go to work you could use it

to mean to go to school or to do

something related to your hobbies to go

shopping whatever

for example i plan to go out in the

afternoon today

next is eat

eat

so eat is of course a very important

verb eat means to consume food to put

food into your body and use it to make

energy for your body for example the

children are eating watermelon we use

this for all meals for breakfast lunch

dinner for snacks whatever anything

solid we can use eat to describe that

when we put it into our bodies

next is shopping

shopping

so we use shopping typically with a verb

like go like i’m going to go shopping

shopping refers to buying things that

you need for your home or maybe just

buying things that you want you could

say i went shopping with a friend

yesterday that kind of expression sounds

like you did something just for fun you

could also say i’m going shopping for

groceries do you need anything so

shopping refers to buying things

okay next is shower

shower

earlier we talked about the verb bathe

which means to clean your body

to shower refers to bathing yes but

specifically to standing up in the

bathtub or in another cleaning area of

your home and letting the water come

over the top of your head for example

the man showered in the morning again

this is different from taking a bath

where you clean your body as you sit in

some water

okay next is

work work

to work means to do something in

exchange for money so many people go to

an office and do an office job in

exchange for money maybe other people

provide services or other people sell

things in exchange for money there are

lots of different jobs and many

different types of work we can use this

as a noun or a verb

for example some programmers work from

home so they don’t have to commute to

work alright that brings us to the end

of 15 words for daily life related

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