How to test your English vocabulary. The best English textbooks for vocabulary building

The well-known Ellochka from the novel "12 Chairs" easily managed thirty words of the Russian language, but, apparently, she did not achieve great success in life. How many words do we need to know in English in order to communicate on everyday and professional topics? According to researchers, about 40 words are the minimum required for 50% of understanding and speaking in everyday speech situations, 400 words should be enough for 90% of cases, and 1000 words will provide you with 95% successful communication. Native speakers use an average of 3,000 to 20,000 words, it depends on the education of each individual and the typical situations in which he has to communicate. Practice shows that for English learners it is enough to learn 1500-2000 words to feel confident in a conversation. As for professional terms, they usually do not cause difficulties, because in most cases this is an international vocabulary. But the most important thing is to understand that words should not just be written on beautiful cards and hung around the house, they should become your working tools. Let's see what steps will help you to firmly master the necessary vocabulary, that is, vocabulary.

1. Read carefully and draw conclusions

Whether you're reading fiction, stock market news, or a gardening blog, pay attention to how words are used and what combinations they make. Highlight, write out, copy what seems useful to you. For example, here is an excerpt from the article "How to Become an Early Riser" (by Steve Pavlina):

It seems there are two main schools of thought about sleep patterns. One is that you should go to bed and get up at the same times every day. It's like having an alarm clock on both ends - you try to sleep the same hours each night. This seems practical for living in modern society. We need predictability in our schedules. And we need to ensure adequate rest.

How can we analyze what we have read?

"It seems" - it seems, apparently. We just take it as an introductory word.
"This seems practical" - it seems practical. We understand that an adjective is used after “seems”, and now we can speak by analogy: “This seems interesting”, “This seems stupid”, “Your ideas seem nice”.
"Predictability" - predictability. If we know that “predict” means to predict and “ability” means ability, then we can calculate the meaning of this word as well.

2. Watch videos with and without subtitles

The same work can be done when watching your favorite movies, series and TV shows. If you use subtitles, it will be more convenient for you to write out the phrase you like, if not, then train your auditory perception, pause and repeat after the speaker. We can recommend an excellent resource that provides the opportunity to watch TV shows in the original with super-useful subtitles: when you hover over a word, a Russian translation appears. It saves a lot of time and improves memorization.

3. Sing your favorite songs

We have already discussed how songs can help us learn English. Vocabulary expansion is one of the areas where songs can be applied particularly well. It is always much easier to remember what you like and what is related to positive emotions. There are many sites with lyrics on the Internet, for example:

By listening to your favorite songs and singing along to the performers, you learn whole phrases easily and with pleasure.

4. Take a cue from celebrities

Search for something like "Brad Pitt interview" or "chat show with celebrities" and you'll get a ton of do-it-yourself material. After reading or listening to interview fragments, you will probably notice that certain words are used more often. For example, "amazing" is a very popular adjective for expressing delight:

"You look amazing!"
"The film was amazing!"
It was an amazing experience.

5. Mastering typical phrases for standard situations

If you like to travel, you will surely need a set of certain phrases and expressions that you may need at the airport, customs, hotel, shop, etc. As you know, such conversations do not differ in a special variety, therefore, for greater certainty, you can learn several mini-dialogues on the necessary topics. Various Internet resources will help you with this, where audio recordings and texts are collected, as well as tasks for them are presented. For example, you can start from this site

6. Learning words by topic

It is much easier to memorize new words that are related in meaning. If, for example, you are studying the topic "Food", you just need to learn the names of different products, ready meals, adjectives to describe them, etc. By discussing the tasks with the teacher, you will be able to activate these words, i.e. transfer from a passive stock to a set of "working tools". Learning will be more effective if you use different types of memory: look at pictures, listen to pronunciation and repeat yourself. Use, for example, such a resource that will help you do all of the above and learn new words with ease.

7. Use Dictionaries

In our age information technologies paper dictionaries are no longer popular, and even schoolchildren are willing to use their online versions. Starting from the Pre-Intermediate level, it is recommended to use the so-called "English-English dictionaries", that is, not to translate unfamiliar words, but to look for their definitions in English. In addition, dictionaries can provide you with a stock of synonyms, antonyms, and idioms for a given word. According to Wikipedia, the following dictionaries are the most useful and reliable sources of information:

8. Playing word games

Crosswords, gallows, scrabble and other games can also help you enrich your speech, because thanks to them you will remember the spelling of the words you know in a fun way. In addition, many word games can be played in cheerful company, combining business with pleasure: learning English with friendly communication. Tip for the curious: try playing Scrabble with an open dictionary.

9. We arm ourselves with devices and gadgets

It takes a long time to write words on cards, there is no time to make sentences, but we always have smartphones, iPhones and other devices at hand. When a free minute appears, you can start learning new words, and you don’t need to carry any leaflets, printouts, textbooks with you. If you don't know which app to choose, take advice from the British Council experts.

10. Use it or lose it!

The most important thing in mastering vocabulary is to use it in your speech. Passive vocabulary is good for reading and listening, that is, for recognizing words. For speaking and writing, we need to learn how to retrieve words from memory very quickly, and this is achieved only by practice. According to researchers, in order for a word to become active in speech, it must be used in various contexts about 17 times. Therefore, before class, set yourself the task of speaking more than the teacher and be sure to use new words.

Big and friendly family EnglishDom

Evaluation of the number of learned and memorized words foreign language is primarily interesting for understanding how far a person has advanced in the “passive” perception of information: texts, speech, films, etc. I propose to familiarize yourself with several methods that I used, found on the net and "home-made". Below - a couple of tests for assessing vocabulary, a technique for finding important words that have not yet caught on in the brain, some reasoning and some links.

Online tests

Of the many tests for evaluating the number of words, I liked two. A couple of years ago I came across a rather simple Test Your Vocabulary . As you go through three screens of words, you tick off the ones you (you think) know, and then get an estimate of the total number of words learned. Many of my friends complained about his inadequacy - they received an amount less than "the one about whom I know for sure that he knows worse." But when passing, there may be a mistake of a different kind - it seems that you know the word, but in fact you have already forgotten it. They say that the hand itself reaches out to put a tick next to a word that seems vaguely familiar, so you can subconsciously overestimate your overall rating.

You know at least 10,500 English word families!

What do my results mean?

In general, there is no minimum vocabulary size. Language ability is related to vocabulary size, so the more words you know, the more you will be able to understand. However, if you want to set a learning goal, Paul Nation's (2006) research suggests that the following sizes might be useful:

How large a vocabulary is needed for reading and listening?
Skill Size estimate Notes
Reading 8,000 - 9,000 Word Families Nation (2006)
listening 6,000 - 7,000 Word Families Nation (2006)
native speaker 20,000 word families Goulden, Nation, & Read (1990)
Zechmeister, Chronis, Cull, D'Anna, & Healy (1995)

What is a word family?

There are many different forms of a word, so this test measures your knowledge of the most basic form of a word and assumes that you can recognize the other forms. For example, nation, a noun, can also be an adjective (national), a verb (nationalize), or an adverb (nationally). There are also forms which can be made with an affix such as de- or -ing which also modify the way that the word is used or adds to the basic meaning. For a test of receptive vocabulary knowledge such as this one, word families are considered to be the most accurate way of counting words.

Frequency Dictionaries

After registering at www.wordfrequency.info, you can download the American English Frequency Dictionary excel. There is also a text version.

Like this:

Rank Word Part of speech Frequency Dispersion

1 the - a 22038615 0.98
2 be - v 12545825 0.97
3 and - c 10741073 0.99
4 of - i 10343885 0.97
5 a - a 10144200 0.98
6 in - i 6996437 0.98
7to-t 6332195 0.98
8 have-v 4303955 0.97
…
…
4996 immigrant - j 0.97
4997 kid - v 5094 0.92
4998 middle-class-j 5025 0.93
4999 apology - n 4972 0.94
5000 till - i 5079 0.92

The file contains 5000 English words, sorted by frequency of occurrence. The frequency was calculated on a huge heterogeneous array of English texts. I recently saw a friend of mine look up words he didn't know by checking his vocabulary. Looking through the first 500, I did not find any unknowns. He showed an extract on his smartphone - about a dozen words from the second thousand (that is, from 1000 to 2000) and about 20 from the third. It's funny that when you go through the list, you come across sequences of words that successfully add up to phrases or even short sentences. The logic is very simple - if the word is very common according to statistics, and you don't know it, then it's better to learn it and see examples of use.

After reading the list of words unknown to him (already with translation), I saw the following thing. I knew about 50-60% of these words unknown to him, but some of the meanings of the translations recorded there were unknown to me, there were several words completely unknown to me.
In general, the site tries to be commercial, they sell lists over 5000 long, but this is not so interesting anymore.

So far, this friend of mine is writing a program with a convenient interface to look up unknown words - for learning purposes. I suggested to him that for a global assessment, not this list, but thinned one: every seventh word from the total list of 60,000 words is given. In fact, even watching the first couple of thousand is disheartening, not everyone will get to 5000. Although I can’t say for all 100, but the thinned dictionary will certainly show at least one word from the “family”, and the time will be spent, respectively, 7 or 10 times less (depending on the frequency of thinning).
By the way, such frequency dictionaries of the Russian language contain about 160 thousand words, including abbreviations and abbreviations. There are several different similar "corpuses" of English words from different organizations.

I'm interested in another question: how accurate are the tests that estimate the number of words you know? It is possible that this could be determined just by checking the frequency dictionary, as well as comparing the list of selected unknown words - their number and entry into different "families".

There are general laws of remembering and forgetting. One of the main things: if a person has learned something and does not repeat, does not use it, the information is forgotten exponentially from time to time. On the other hand, a few repetitions lengthen, stretch the falling exponent to an acceptable level. I was very surprised when a friend who worked as a tutor for schoolchildren told me that there is a sequence of time intervals for deep memorization: say, after 20 minutes, then after 8 hours, another day, etc., after which the information is planted firmly in the brain . That is, the statistically maximum level of the excitation signal is provided in the brain when it encounters this information.

Ebbinghaus curve, from Wikipedia.

How I learned words at the institute.

Without taking into account the standard course, where the requirements for the first three years were quite tough, I tried to read fiction. The first big book was the old Soviet edition of Conan Doyle's The Lost World. I don’t know how it was adapted, but there were plenty of Victorian words and expressions in the text, and this greatly delayed the progress towards the end ... Of course, it was possible to look into Lingvo from a computer, but I didn’t like to read at a computer, but to run back and forth for each new word quickly tired. Tablets were not common then, a pocket electronic translator is an expensive rarity, so I developed a paper system for myself. In a thick 96-sheet notebook, the spread was divided into 6 columns. Now I tried to find a notebook - I got lost. Will have to describe in words. Divided the alphabet into groups of letters, for example - a..d, e..f, g..j, k..n, o..q, r..t, u..w, x..z. Approximately, by eye, I estimated the statistical percentage of words that begin with these letters and divided the columns in the spread into rectangles. For example, the group a..d gave 2/3 of the first column, and so on. The group x..z was assigned the last remaining smallest piece in the 6th column. Then everything is simple. I met an unknown word - enter with the translation in the desired rectangle. Nothing inside the block is not in alphabetical order - it will not take long to find. To get the translation while lying on the bed, you need to get into the book dictionary. That is, the value of receiving a translation is quite large, more than now look at Lingua or an online translator like

The language is quite difficult. The complex and large history of Great Britain has led to a very large number of words. The Oxford English Dictionary, known in many circles, has approximately 600,000 words and expressions. And if you add dialect and slang to this list, then the number of words will exceed 1 million. But you should not be afraid of such a large number, because even native speakers do not know all the English words. On average, an educated person, a native speaker, knows 12,000-18,000 words. Well, the average resident of the UK knows 8000-10000 words.

How many words do you need to know?

If a person is not a native speaker and does not permanently live in an English-speaking country, then it will be almost impossible for him to bring his stock to the cherished 8000-10000 words. A good indicator is 4000-5000 words.

There is a standard and generally accepted gradation of the language. If the number of learned words is in the region of 400-500 words, then the level of proficiency is considered basic. If the active stock is in the range of 800-1000 words, then you can safely communicate on various everyday topics. If such a quantity refers rather to a passive vocabulary, then you can safely read simple texts. The range of 1500-2000 words will allow you to communicate freely all day long. If the vocabulary is 3000-4000 words, then you can safely read the English press or various thematic materials. A dictionary base of 8,000 languages guarantees fluency in English. With such a number of learned words, you can freely read any literature or write texts in the language yourself. Those who have more than 8000 words in their luggage are considered highly educated people who learn English.

According to the standard vocabulary base is distributed as follows:
- beginner - 600 words;
- elementary - 1000 words;
- pre-Intermediate - 1500-2000 words;
- intermediate - 2000-3000 words;
- upper-Intermediate - 3000-4000 words;
- advanced - 4000-8000 words;
- proficiency - more than 8000 words.

Thanks to this data, you can determine your level of language proficiency, as well as set goals for yourself. But how many words have already been learned? No, you do not need to measure anything with a ruler for this. Everything is much easier. There is a test capable of determining the number of studied words with a margin of error of 10%.

To create this test, 7000 words were taken from the dictionary. Outdated and rarely used words were removed from there. Also removed the words, the meaning of which can be determined through the usual logic. As a result, 2 small pages with words remained.

How to pass the test?

The test must be taken with extreme honesty. The first page contains a list of words in columns. If at least one of the possible meanings of an English word is known, then a tick is placed next to it. The same columns with words appear on the second page. But there is already a selection of previously unknown words. This program checks whether these words are really unknown. To complete the test, there is another page that indicates age, gender, how many years English has been studied and other important questions. After specifying all the data, the end button is pressed and the number of words in the vocabulary of the tested person appears on the screen.

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Although textbooks are aimed at working on expanding vocabulary, it must be said that this is only auxiliary material, necessary for the study of really useful words and phrases, phraseological units used in Everyday life native speakers. After passing the lesson according to the textbook, the most important thing begins - the introduction of new lexical units into your spoken and written speech.

To do this, we offer several options:

keeping a diary in English;
viewing and analysis of videos, films and series;
reading adapted and original literature;
oral communication in English, correspondence with native speakers.

By using the best English language textbooks for learning vocabulary, you will be able to progress in your learning much more effectively. After all, it is not in vain that they say that it is a poor vocabulary that slows down a person and does not give him the opportunity to advance in learning English.
Learning materials designed to increase vocabulary will help you work productively with lexical material, which will allow you to improve your listening comprehension. Of course, sometimes we isolate individual words from a fast flow of speech, but basically the problem lies in a very limited vocabulary.
Of course, by constantly working on increasing your vocabulary, it will become much easier for you to express your thoughts in English in the process of communication.

Well, now, let's start reviewing the best textbooks in our opinion, which will gradually help develop your vocabulary. Let's start with the best series of tutorials for those who aspire to speak like a native speaker - English collocation in use.

Download the text of the book English Collocations in Use Intermediate in .pdf format via a direct link (downloads: 7226) .

Download the text of the book English Collocations in Use Advanced in .pdf format using a direct link (downloads: 3219) .

We have repeatedly emphasized that words must be taught in context, and this textbook is just what you need. Each textbook (depending on the level) contains the most common, so to speak, well-established phrases.

The textbooks are divided into levels and each contains 60 lessons. These materials are ideal for self-study for vocabulary development. At the end of each textbook there are keys (answers) to exercises and various tasks.

Download the text of the book English Vocabulary in Use Elementary in .pdf format via a direct link (downloads: 4510) .

Download the text of the book English Vocabulary in Use Pre-Intermediate and Intermediate in .pdf format via a direct link (downloads: 4269) .

Download the text of the book English Vocabulary in Use Upper-Intermediate in .pdf format via a direct link (downloads: 3588) .

Download the text of the book English Vocabulary in Use Advanced in .pdf format using a direct link (downloads: 2801) .

These materials are suitable for both beginners and those who have been studying English for a long time, but all to no avail.

A series of textbooks Test Your Vocabulary.

Five books from this + Start series are units (lessons) that help you test your knowledge of vocabulary by completing various tasks, solving crossword puzzles, and so on. During the tests, you will have the opportunity to significantly replenish your vocabulary.

Download the text of the book Test Your Vocabulary Start in .pdf format via a direct link (downloads: 2527) .

Download the text of the book Test Your Vocabulary 1 in .pdf format via a direct link (downloads: 1854) .

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Key Words for Fluency- An interesting series of benefits that will help expand your passive vocabulary. Each textbook contains 22 thematic lessons. For each word, the authors of the textbook selected about 10 words, in conjunction with which they are regularly used in real life. Memorizing basic phrases will help you learn how to use English prepositions at the right time and in the right place.

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4000 essential English Words - a series of textbooks that is ideal for students with an elementary level of knowledge. With each book, the words will become more difficult. But the most important thing is that there are no archaisms or rarely used words. 4000 is not an unfounded statement. Each textbook has 30 lessons, and in each of them, the compilers of the textbook offer English learners 20 new words. By completing all the tutorials in this series, you will have learned 3,600,000 words, plus another 400 words from the appendices given at the end of the tutorial.

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Among the textbooks that deserve your attention, it is necessary to include a series of textbooks - English Vocabulary Organizer. These benefits can also be used on your own. Although there are exercises that involve oral dialogues with the teacher, this block of tasks can be completed independently. The manual is accompanied by a disk, which also contains various kinds of exercises. The textbook itself contains texts with new words and exercises for better memorization.

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For all beginners who want to master English idiomatic expressions and phrasal verbs, we advise you to take a closer look at the textbooks of the series Can you believe it. Here you will find real stories with full explanations and exercises to consolidate the material.

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Since beginners to learn English may encounter elementary misunderstandings while reading authentic textbooks, we decided to give them several examples of vocabulary expansion textbooks written in Russian.

1.Karavanova - 250 phrasal verbs.

AT study guide collected 250 most common English verbs. The textbook gives 5-7 basic verbs and phrasal verbs with them. Then you need to perform a lot of exercises to consolidate the knowledge gained.

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2.Ilchenko. Phrasal verbs in English.

This manual can be called a completely complete textbook for both beginners and continuing students who are faced with the need to learn phrasal verbs. Most importantly, new phrasal verbs are given in context, which will help you use them correctly in everyday communication or writing an essay. Yes, it's hard not to remember them. All information in the manual is divided into thematic blocks and contains the most necessary phrasal verbs for real life.

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3.Christmas "Phrasal verbs in colloquial English.

A good guide for students of such a broad topic as phrasal verbs. But without knowledge of grammar in this textbook, it makes no sense to study.

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4.Another series of textbooks in Russian by Litvinov "Steps to Success".

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