Welcome to Vocabulary Year 3 of American English Lessons with Maestro Sersea. In this lesson we will study American English vocabulary compliments of the VOA Wordbook, a dictionary of over 1,500 highly-used words. Please focus and do your best so that you can learn and improve your vocabulary, which will help your comprehension and communication skills. Don’t forget to use the comments section below to share your thoughts and what you’ve learned today.
Part 1 Directions: Listen to the audio and read along the vocabulary words and definitions 2-3 times. If needed, use the translation feature to translate the vocabulary words and definitions in your primary language.
- honest – truthful; able to be trusted
- honor – to obey; to show strong, good feelings for (“to honor one’s parents”); an award; an act of giving special recognition (“He received many honors for his efforts to help others.”)
- hope – to expect; to believe there is a good chance that something will happen as wanted; to want something to happen
- horrible – causing great fear; terrible
- horse – a large animal often used for racing, riding or farm work
- hospital – a place where sick or injured people are given medical care
- hostage – a person captured and held as a guarantee that a demand or promise will be honored
- hostile – ready to fight; ready for war
- hot – having or feeling great heat or a high temperature
- hotel – a building with rooms, and often food, for travellers
- hour – a measure of time; sixty minutes
- house – a building in which people live; a country’s parliament or lawmaking group (“House of Representatives”)
- how – in what way; to what amount
- however – yet; but
- huge – very big; of great size
- human – of or about people
- humor – the ability to understand, enjoy or express what makes people laugh
- hunger – the need for food
- hunt – to search for animals to capture or kill them; to seek; to try to find
- hurry – to do or go fast
- hurt – to cause pain, injury or damage
- husband – a man who is married
- I – the person speaking
- ice – frozen water
- idea – a thought or picture in the mind; a belief
- identify – to recognize someone or something and to say who or what they are
- if – on condition; provided that (“I will go if you go.”)
- illegal – not legal; in violation of a law
- imagine – to make a picture in the mind; to form an idea
- immediate – without delay; very near in time or place
- immigrant – a person who arrives in a country to live there
- import – to bring from another country; something brought from another country, usually for sale
Part 2 Directions: Take out your notebook or a sheet of paper and a pen. Watch the video below to take the vocabulary test for this lesson and check your level of understanding of this vocabulary lesson.
Part 3 Directions: Now that you’ve completed this vocabulary lesson, use the comments section below to share your thoughts about what you’ve learned.
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Lesson 3.20.1 Year 3
VOA, Vocabulary, Lesson 20
Below are the new words for me.
1) Hostage: the word is noun. Someone who is made a prisoner in order to force other people to do something or person held as a security for the fulfilment of a condition,
for example…. the passengers were taken hostage. They were held hostage for several days.
2) hostile: The word is adjective, and the meaning is, showing or feeling opposition or dislike,
unfriendly.
for example…. She was openly hostile towards her parents.
People are very hostile to the idea of the speaker.
3) Humor, the word is noun, and the meaning is the quality of being amusing.
for example… his tales are full of humor.
a mood or state of mind… her good humor vanished.
Dear teacher,
Lesson 3.20.1 Year 3
VOA, Vocabulary, Lesson 20
I had learnt, listening, reading, pronunciation all vocabularies, and understanding their meanings as well.
There are some new words for me such as
1- honor – to obey; to show strong, good feelings for (“to honor one’s parents”); an award; an act of giving special recognition (“He received many honors for his efforts to help others.”)
2- hostage – a person captured and held as a guarantee that a demand or promise will be honored.
3- hostile – ready to fight; ready for war.
4- humor – the ability to understand, enjoy or express what makes people laugh.
Those vocabularies can improve my capacity. Thank you.