Name: 10 Advanced English Vocabulary Words
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Hi, I'm Vanessa from SpeakEnglishWithVanessa.com.

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Are you ready to expand your vocabulary and expand your mind?

It's a fact that the more vocabulary you know, the more you can understand natural, fast

English conversations, and the more that you can express yourself, so today, I'd like to

help you learn 10 essential advanced English expressions.

These aren't specifically for business situations, but you could use them then.

These aren't really just slang expressions, but you could use them in casual situations

There are phrases that I use all the time, and I have a feeling that you're going to

hear them all the time, and hopefully now, you're going to be able to use them yourself.

All of these phrases were in my course, The 30-Day English Listening Challenge: Pack 4,

that came out on January 1st, 2020, this year.

If you would like to join this course, you will learn three new expressions every day

for 30 days, 90 expressions like this, and you can become my student.

Check out the link up here to learn more information about this course.

During today's lesson, try to say the sample sentences out loud with me.

This is a great chance to practice your pronunciation muscles, listen to your own voice, speaking

and using great English grammar and vocabulary, and it's a good way to help you remember what

All right, let's start with the first expression, "To take something seriously."

Usually, we use the word, take, this verb, when we're grabbing something or when we're

getting something, but instead, this expression uses take in a figurative sense.

This means you're accepting something sincerely.

For example, let's look at this sentence, "When the teenager told her mom, 'I hate you,'

This is a negative situation, "Didn't take it seriously."

Are we using it to talk about her daughter?

We're talking about her daughter's words, so the mom is not feeling like this is a sincere

Because her daughter is a teenager, maybe she's going through some hard times, so the

mom is not going to get upset when her daughter says, "I hate you."

She's not going to take those words seriously, or you might say, "I wish I had taken school

Take school seriously means to study hard, to be sincere in your efforts.

"I wish I had taken school seriously, but I still graduated even though I didn't learn

Let's go to the next expression, "On top of."

Are we talking about physical placement here?

Instead, take a look at this sentence and try to guess what you think it means.

"My dog ripped my school books, and on top of that, he ate my homework."

We have a bad situation that has become worse, so, "My dog ripped my school books."

This is already a bad situation, "But then, on top of that, he ate my homework."

We can use this wonderful expression, "On top of," just like we would, "In addition

Usually, it shows some kind of surprise, right?

In addition to what he already did, he ate my homework," or you might say, "This vocabulary

You could say, "In addition to that, it's free."

That's fine, but when you say, "On top of that," you're implying that you're kind of

"I can't believe that Vanessa is giving us this lesson for free.

If I said, "I ate quite a few cookies," do you think this means a few, a little, or a

This expression can be a little bit tricky because even though it uses a few, which usually

means a small amount, this expression really means a lot.

The word, "A few" means a little, but when we add quite, we're making this an indirect

way to say a lot, quite a few cookies, maybe 20 cookies.

This is a lot of cookies for one person to eat, so you might say, "I ate quite a few

You're being indirect about how many cookies you ate, but we know it was a lot, or you

could say, "Quite a few students participated in The 30-Day Listening Challenge.

This means a lot of students participated in The 30-Day Listening Challenge.

If I want to be a little more indirect, then this is a great statement.

I could say, "A lot of students participated," but to be a little indirect, we could say,

"Quite a few students participated in the course," and I hope you can too.

"I invited 20 people to my party, but little to no people responded."

Let's think about this phrase as a scale.

Little is on one side, so a few people, a couple people, and then no people are on the

Little to no, a lot of people is not even on the scale, so we have a little to no.

You could also think about this like one to 10.

If we use this same idea with the word two, we're talking about a scale.

It's a scale, but you will also hear, "Little to no people responded."

"Last week, he had little to no time to cook.

Here, we're talking about little time, maybe like 20 minutes, to no time to cook.

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