It's day five of your 30 Day Vocabulary Challenge. Yes! Let's do this! A video every day for 30 days to help you master 105 intermediate English words. We're taking words from the academic word list, so these are words you'll need to know if you're preparing for the IELTS or TOEFL exam, but also if you read or watch news in English or have conversation with native speakers.
In other words, these are useful and important words. So grab your friends, have them join you here in this challenge and let's do this! When you learn a new word, make up your own sentence, record yourself saying it, and then post that in a video to social media using the hashtag #rachelenglish30daychallenge And as always, if you like this video or you learned something, new please like and subscribe with notifications, it really helps.
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Today we're learning four new words: SOURCE, IDENTIFY, SPECIFIC, and EVIDENT. And we're looking at the different ways these words are used in various situations. For each word, you'll get the definition, we'll go over the pronunciation, you'll get to see it up close and in slow motion, and then we'll also have five examples from real life English.
Our first word today is SOURCE. You'll see this in IPA written two different ways, but the R does change the AW as in law sound.
Also the OH diphthong, so there aren't really two different ways to say this word. Source.
Source. When the AW as in law is followed by R, the lips round a little bit more and the tongue shifts back a little bit more, so it's not a pure law, aw, aw, saw-- source. But it's so-- oh, oh, so-- source.
Source. As a noun, it means someone or something that provides what is wanted or needed.
The cause of something, such as a problem. She's been a great source of strength to me.
Let's look again at the pronunciation up close and in slow motion.
