Building Basics: Vocabulary Base - Irregular verbs 32

 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  

EAT - ATE           

  FALL - FELL

FIND -FOUND

      FLY - FLEW

                 

GO - WENT    

  GIVE - GOT                 

                      GROW - GREW                                  

HOLD - HOLD  

     WRITE - WROTE                 

The Key Factors

 

Speak English Now. is the blog based on the idea of fastest way to learn English language. At the beginning of this useful journey, it is worthwhile to introduce you to The Key Factors:

1. The Right Mindset - Fear No

Fear, our old friend which helped us a lot in understanding how to use The Law of Attraction is the reason why the most people fails in their attempts in building fluency skill. It is a fear to speak, a fear of ridicule, a fear of making mistakes and looking stupid..

If you really want to learn or improve your English, the first thing you must do is learn to pay substantially less attention to what others around you thinking/saying about your "English communication skills".

If  learning/speaking a language seems impossible for you, you are in the wrong frequency. Change it and stay tuned. 

How to deal with fear?
The answer is: ACTION. START TODAY. SPEAK NOW.

After reading this point try to introduce yourself in the English. Say something about yourself. Name, age, profession, life goals, even your phone number if you are good at.

2. Visualize English - Make a Plan

Think about  your approach to learning English,  Plan it and stick to that plan.

Think about..
You are speaking English fluently - place this picture in your mind and recall it often. Every day before you start to learn/speak do this mental exercise.. if you are a beginner try to focus yourself on the picture that represents your language learning process. Imagine yourself learning actively and expressing ideas fluently, with a great amount of self confidence, from day to day.

I AM

two of the most powerful words for what you put after them shapes your reality

Motivation - Think about things that motivates you to study language. You may want to get into a foreign university or better payed job or simply love language and want to improve them. Make a list of motivations and refer to it often.

Plan..
Set you goals Think about your English language skills, your learning style and approach of learning, the way you motivate yourself, and your ideal learning environment. Write your answers to the following question about your goals

         What do I need to achieve?
         How I can state my goal in a specific way?
         What goal should I give priority to?
         Haw can I break my long term goals into short term ones?
         How I am going to break my short therm goals into small achievable steps?
         How I will know that I have met my short term goal?

         Review of goals

        Have I focused on important skills to learn?
        Have I set my goals to low -are they too easy or too high?
        Are my goals accessible?

Plan your study schedule  List the times during the week that you are available to study. Make a table for each week. Look at your goals and think about what you want to accomplish. Then fill in your table for the first week.
Check your progress
Make a table to suit your individual needs and use it to keep track of your progress:

Goal

Date work was begun
________________________________________________________
Amount of time spent on the goal
________________________________________________________
Evaluation
________________________________________________________
What I did that was successful; in reaching or trying to reach this goal
_________________________________________________________

What I learned that will help me in the next goal _________________________________________________________

3. Learn the Essentials - Good Learning Material

However, there is a base in every language. Place where we are starting. Common words, phrases and grammatical rules. An overview of an language. It must be short, precise and effective basic program.

All you really need to get started is a vague understanding of how the language works and some key phrases and essential vocabulary.
There are many completely free resources for getting these basics.

You don't need any money for finding good learning material. You only should to know where to go! Useful links and online materials can replace books, audio courses, language schools..

4.  Immersion - Speak Now.

Immersion means that you talk with your friends in the English language, you watch TV in the language, you do your banking, buy your groceries, and get your hair cut in that language. . in other words to make completly English environment.  It's hard to find an immersive environment for yourself as an adult, because of our jobs, school .. But we still can watch cable TV, to write our notes in the English, read newspapers, books.. to think in the English ..
Well, immerse yourself as much as possible.

Speak Now!  The name of this blog gives you a clear message. Start to speak now. Whether you are chatting away with your foreign friends or speak aloud when you are alone, JUST DO IT. It is crucial factor and you must start to speak Today. 

Please read this post carefully, make plan, set goals and speak now. This post is the Big Picture of the idea of learning language I want to develop through this blog as well as a result of my research, knowledge and enthusiasm. I am open for all suggestions you may have. 

Speak English Now - Nova prica

U Novoj godini ponovo sam sa vama! Nadam se da ste u proteklom periodu radili na sebi i dostigli tacku duhovnog razvoja sa koje mozete da se otisnete u caroban svet brzog ostvarenja vasih zelja i ciljeva. Kao sto znate, novo doba je nastupilo a time i mogucnost da delujemo brze i konkretnije.

Citajuci vase poruke shvatila sam da nema mnogo razlike u onome sto zelite da postignete, nijanse su u pitanju. Nekoliko osnovnih ciljeva su: fizicki izgled ( ishrana i trening), zdravstveno stanje, poslovne vestine i zarada.. S obzirom na moju ideju da u ovoj godini jos konkretnije radimo na ostvarenju ciljeva zelela sam da izaberem jednu od ponudjenih oblasti kojom cu se baviti na novom blogu u Novoj godini. Najpre sam se dvoumila oko tema o ishrani i zdravlju, medjutim googlajuci sam shvatila da ima nekoliko odlicnih blogova na tu temu. Sledeca opcija su bile poslovne vestine, gde sam htela da objedinim vise njih kroz prizmu psihologije uspeha. Medjutim statisticki podaci su me spustili na zemlju. Oni govore da je stopa nezaposlenosti u Srbiji 25%! Dakle svaki treci gradjanin ispod 30 je nezaposlen! Sa druge strane trziste rada je neumoljivo. Potencijalni poslodavci zahtevaju vestine i sposobnosti za cije kurseve i radionice je neophodno izdvojiti vece sume novca. Postavlja se pitanje kako neko ko je nezaposlen sebi moze to da priusti? Naravno, niko ih to nece pitati. 

Gledajuci spisak vestina koje bih mogla da objedinim, dosla sam na ideju da svedem izbor na jezike, jer se i sama njima dosta bavim, stalno ih usavrsavajuci i uceci nove. Pricajuci sa drugaricom koji bi to jezik mogao da bude, dosle smo do odluke da krenem od pocetka. English. Prvi jezik na vasoj listi jezika koji morate da savladate. Sta vise, ako samo njega savladate umesto druga dva, korisnije je.

Ovaj blog ce biti posvecen upravo ucenju engleskog jezika. Svakodnevne lekcije, razlicite teme i materijali, chat, saveti, sve ono sto vam je neophodno da savladate jezik u najkracem mogucem roku. Ono sto ovaj blog izdvaja jeste pristup ucenju stranog jezika. Koji se vrlo razlikuje od onog koji srecemo u skolama stranih jezika. Videcete, vrlo je inventivan, drugaciji, lak i logican. Besplatan. Nadam se da ce vam biti koristan i zanimljiv kao sto je to Moj OM Internet dnevnik.

Bavicemo se vestinama koje su vam potrebne u komunikaciji u poslovnom okruzenju, ne zanemarujuci svakodnevne teme. Sve sto vam je neophodno je papir/olovka, dobar recnik i slika u glavi, vas kako sigurno komunicirate sa vasim poslovnim partnerima i novostecenim prijateljima!

Za pocetak, postavite sebi cilj. Savladati engleski jezik za 3* meseca. Budite opusteni, vodicu vas kroz to iskustvo..

* Da, moguce je, verujte mi. :-)