The World of Words

Turn familiar words into usable language

Knowing a definition is a beginning. Explore how words relate, change form and combine so you can express a more precise idea when you need it.

What you will practise

• Connect words through meanings and word families.
• Notice natural combinations instead of studying only isolated words.
• Reuse useful vocabulary in a personal example.

Try this: choose one topic from your life, collect five useful words and use them in a short message or recording.

Do I need to memorize a huge list?

Focus on language relevant to your goals and revisit it through use. A smaller set of words you can retrieve and combine is a useful starting point.

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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

1. How to Take This Course
2. Story Time - From the beginning...

Chapter 1: The Origin of Words

1. Another word for "words": morphemes
2. Introduction to word modification
3. The role of inflection in English

Chapter 2: Word Formation Processes

1. Reduplication and its role
2. Internal modification and suppletion
3. Crafting compound words
4. Stress placement and tricky words
5. Navigating shared and false meanings

Chapter 3: Vocabulary Building Techniques

1. Word classes and their function
2. A deeper analysis of prefixes
3. A deeper analysis of suffixes
4. Word Families
5. The Challenge Phrasal Verbs
6. Common relationship between words

Chapter 4: Speaking in Chunks

1. Phrases and Word Order
2. The nitty-gritty of collocations

Chapter 5: Secrets of Proficiency

1. Decoding ideas instead of translating language
2. Navigating different levels of complexity and concise language
3. Figurative language devices
4. 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!

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