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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