What you’ll learn
The World of Words helps you expand your vocabulary and use words naturally in conversation. Through engaging activities, context-based learning, and practical exercises, you’ll master word choice, collocations, idioms, and expressions that make your speech more fluent and precise. This course ensures you don’t just learn words—you understand how to use them effortlessly in real-life situations.
Welcome to the course
- How to Take This Course
- Story Time - From the beginning...
Chapter 1: The Origin of Words
- Another word for "words": morphemes
- Introduction to word modification
- The role of inflection in English
Chapter 2: Word Formation Processes
- Reduplication and its role
- Internal modification and suppletion
- Crafting compound words
- Stress placement and tricky words
- Navigating shared and false meanings
Chapter 3: Vocabulary Building Techniques
- Word classes and their function
- A deeper analysis of prefixes
- A deeper analysis of suffixes
- Word Families
- The Challenge Phrasal Verbs
- Common relationship between words
Chapter 4: Speaking in Chunks
- Phrases and Word Order
- The nitty-gritty of collocations
Chapter 5: Secrets of Proficiency
- Decoding ideas instead of translating language
- Navigating different levels of complexity and concise language
- Figurative language devices
- Effective memorization techniques
About the Author
Leonardo Oliveira is a TESOL-certified English teacher with a BA in Social Communication. He has worked in the best schools in Brazil and Canada and has created a space to foster his own global community of language learners. His mission is to help non-native speakers acquire English proficiency through online courses and live events. Let's make speaking English our second nature!