Vocabulary is one of the most important aspects when learning English. Increasing your lexicon will help you improve all the other areas of the language: listening, reading, writing and speaking because the more words you know, the more things you will be able to say and understand. You also need to consider that learning a new word implies that you understand what it means, its pronunciation, if it is a formal or informal word, the different meanings it may have, etcetera. When you are trying to learn a new word, it is a good idea to practice it in context as much as possible. The vocabulary that you will find here focuses on verbs in present and past which you will find throughout this material. Study these words carefully as they will help you understand it in a better way.
Study the following vocabulary carefully. Listen to the pronunciation of each word and observe the images carefully so that you can understand each phrase.
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Wake up/woke up at 6:00 am
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Swim/swam 3 times a week
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Have/had lunch
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Chat/chatted with my friends
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Check/checked Facebook
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Miss/missed my friends
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Launch/launched Facebook
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Meet/met a cute boy/girl
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Bury/buried someone
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Portray/portrayed someone
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Stick/sticked your head underground
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Eradicate/eradicated a disease
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Get/got vaccinated
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Feed/fed my baby
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Treat/treated someone with
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Feel/felt attracted
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Cross/crossed a path
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Build/built tools
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Share/shared information
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Rub/rubbed something
If you still have questions about any of the expressions on the flip cards, you can always look them up in a dictionary Cambridge dictionary
Complete the following conversations with one of the phrases from the flip cards. Pay attention to the context as you will need to use the same expression twice: in present and in past.