Hi everyone! Today’s word is affect. Affect means to have an impact or effect on something. It is the verb of ‘effect,’ which is a noun. For example, the increase in monkey population will greatly affect the number of available bananas.
Some of the most common collocations for affect include: affect your health, affect performance, affect the environment, adversely affect, seriously affect, indirectly affect.
Hi everyone! Today’s word is perception /pəˈsɛpʃən/. Perception is how you view the world. It means the same thing as viewpoint, but we use it in different situations.
We often say that there is a different from perception and reality.
How do your friends see you? Maybe they think you are really hard-working. But in fact you are very lazy. In that case, there is a difference between perception and reality: they think you are hard-working but in fact you are lazy.
Some common collocations for perception are: public perception, relationship between perception and reality, reinforces the perception, change someone’s perception.
Here are some example sentences using the collocations:
The public perception of Donald Trump is that his life is chaotic.
The relationship between perception and reality changes depending on how well you know a person.
People think I’m lazy and I reinforce that perception by falling asleep at work all the time.
To change everyone’s perception of me I need to drink coffee and stay awake.
Here I am on our YouTube Channelhanging out by the river and telling you about ‘Perception.’
Here’s a famous quote: ‘Facts matter not at all. Perception is everything.’ Stephen Colbert.
Now it’s your turn! Put your answers in the comments.
The word today is consequently /ˈkɒnsɪkwəntli/. It is an adverb and it means the same thing as ‘so,’ ‘therefore,’ and ‘as a result.’
It is different from ‘so’ because it is very formal and should only be used on the writing test, not the speaking exam.
Consequently can be used in the middle of the sentence (He couldn’t answer the question, consequently we laughed at him). But it is more common at the beginning of the sentence: There is an international shortage of bananas. Consequently, monkey populations around the world are rioting.
The stress for consequently is on the ‘con’ and the ‘quen.’ But you don’t need it for the speaking test so that isn’t really important information. Sorry for making you read it. And for making you read this. And this. Sorry. And that.
Here I am on our YouTube Channel talking, talking, talking about consequently…
Here’s an example sentence:
Because of its lightness, however, most helium vanished from our own planet many years ago. Consequently, only a miniscule proportion – 0.00052%, to be exact – remains in the earth’s atmosphere.
Now it’s your turn! Write a new sentence to follow this sentence in the comments
The makers of the IELTS test are considering changing the writing from handwritten to typed in the next few years. Consequently…
Abundant is a great IELTS vocabulary word and it means a lot of something!
Usually we talk about a natural resource; a country might have abundant coal, resources, wildlife etc.
My salary is abundant, is yours?
Just kidding of course!
Here are some common collocations: abundant evidence, abundant supply, less/more abundant, abundant food, abundant attention. Do you know any others?
Here I am on our YouTube Channel talking a bit more about the word ‘Abundant.’
This is an expression with abundant that is really useful: ___ is abundant. For example, food is abundant, oil is abundant, oil is abundant throughout the Middle East, etc
Abundant is typically used as an adjective before a noun (abundant resources), or at the end of the phrase (oil is abundant).
It can also be used as a noun ‘An abundance of resources’ or an adverb ‘Fruit grows abundantly.’ But these uses are a little less common. If you use them in the IELTS writing or speaking they will count as ‘less common items’ and are part of the band 7 descriptor for vocabulary in both speaking and writing.
Pronunciation (əˈbʌndənt): The stress is on the ‘bun’ and the final sound /t/ is usually dropped.
Here’s an example sentence: Helium is the second most abundant element in our universe. I took it from this IELTS reading
Now it’s your turn! Put your answers in the comments.
In your country, what is the most abundant natural resource?
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