Speak English Now.: Building Basics: Vocabulary Base

I really hope you have made the decision to learn English this time, dealt with your fears, made a plan and visualized yourself as you're speaking fluently. Please do the last again. Try to imagine yourself relaxed, in good mood, sitting down with your friends/colleagues and explaining them something very intresting or important. Keep this picture in your mind!

In the previous post I had a point: Learn the Essentials and today we will start building our English Language Base.

Building English Language Base

In order to develop four main skills such as Speaking, Listening, Reading and Writing, and few supporting skills, we need to have a good base. The place where we begin to build our pyramid of English language. Let's see what is included in the English Language Base:

1. Vocabulary Base

2. Grammatical Base

3. Phrase Base

These three parts of EL Base are the answer on what you need to know to be able to communicate in English, and all of them must be learned.

Today we start with..

1. Vocabulary Base

It's all about the verbs

The verbs are, in fact, the most important part of Vocabulary Base. A verb expresses action, occurrence or state of being; a word that says something about either a noun or pronoun.

Regular verbs form the past tense by adding –d or- ed.

Irregular verbs do not follow this typical pattern.

List of the most common words in English included even 92 verbs! (we plan to learn all through our Building Basics ) and almost half of those verbs are irregular (32).

Ok, let's figure...

200 about - the most common words in English (nouns, verbs, adjectives...)

92 - verbs (regular and irregular)

32 - irregular

Our today's goal is to learn all of these 32 irregular verbs!

This is complete list of irregular verbs we need to learn to communicate in English.

Present Past Present Past

bring brought keep kept

buy bought know knew

come came let let

cut cut make made

draw drew put put

drink drank read read

eat ate ride rode

fall fell run ran

find found say said

fly flew see saw

get got sing sang

give gave sit sat

go went sleep slept

grow grew take took

hold held tell told

hurt hurt think though

write wrote

This list don't have a third column - past partciple, because, for now, we don't need it. (The complete list of irregular verbs included about 80 verbs, in three columns)

For now, try to memorize these 32 verbs. If you don't know their meaning, you may translate it here: http://translate.google.com/ In the box you will see small button to listen a pronunciation, try to reproduce/repeat what you hear.

There are some intresting pictures that will help you to remember these irregular verbs:

BRING-BROUGHT

CUT-CUT

BUY - BOUGHT

COME - CAME

DRAW - DREW

The second point was Immersion - Speak Now. So, make a decision today that if you are the reader of the morning newspaper, your new friend could be http://english.blic.rs/

You don't have to read each article, just read something that interests you. Exciting material.

DRINK- DRANK