IMPROVE YOUR VOCABULARY: length, long, short, wide, broad, high, height...

In this lesson, I will teach you vocabulary that will help you express measurements of space and time. We will look at the meanings of words like "length", "width", "height", and more. Maybe you know the basic meaning of these words already, but I will show you exactly how they are used, and how they are different from each other. Also, I will explain how adjectives are made from these nouns. For example, "long" comes from "length", and "deep" comes from "depth". If you are an English learner looking to be more accurate and precise with your vocabulary, this is the lesson for you.

Now it's time to keep your learning going by watching one or two more videos on basic vocabulary:

1. STILL, YET, ALWAYS, ALREADY:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zE8M590vdY&index=10&list=PLpRs5DzS7VqpcTS7hXJU4ARPwSETGI1gy&t=0s

2. Do you know the difference? LAST, LATEST, AT LEAST, LATTER, LATER, LATELY...:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCJruE1wNP8&index=12&list=PLpRs5DzS7VqpcTS7hXJU4ARPwSETGI1gy&t=0s

TAKE THE QUIZ: https://www.engvid.com/improve-your-vocabulary-length-width-height/

TRANSCRIPT

Hello and welcome back to engVid. In today's lesson we are going to be looking at eight words used for measuring space, and looking at how we use these words in a human story. So this lesson is appropriate for beginners and intermediates looking to use language in a more accurate and varied manner. So, today's situation, we are pretending that I have a girlfriend in San Francisco.

First word: "long". Length, so there are different ways in which I can use this word: "long". Firstly: "length". Someone might ask me: "Benjamin, what has been the length of your relationship?" I.e.: How long have I been going out with the girl for? Well, the answer, a couple of months, two months maybe. "At length", we use this word when you hear something after a long time. "At length, I received an email from my girlfriend". "Lengths", most commonly this word is used to measure how many times you go up and down in a swimming pool. "How many lengths would I have to swim to get to San Francisco from London?" The answer is: Quite a lot. "Lengthened", you could use this phrase with time, but it means anything that's getting longer. "Time lengthened between the time that I saw her last." Time got longer. "It was a long-distance relationship." That means we're on the telephone sending messages-okay?-we're in two different places, trying to get along.

Opposite of "long": "short", and three words that we can use with "short". "I wanted to shorten the distance between us." I wanted to shorten the distance. A "shortcut", we use this word in electronics. So I won't try to explain to you how this works, but a shortcut means that if you are going... You have to do a lap... Pretend we're doing athletics, not electronics. If I do a shortcut, my start's here and my finish is there, maybe I do a slightly shorter lap, so I'm shortening the distance I travel. "Shortly". "Shortly" is pretty much the opposite of "at length", it means in a short time. So: "Shortly I will go and have a cup of coffee."

Okay, we ready for the next ones? Good stuff, keep that concentration going. "Wide", two words here. "Width": "The width of my trousers I believe is 32 inches", something like that. "Widening": "My waist is widening with each croissant that I eat." My girlfriend in San Francisco might not like it. Okay? "Width", widening, getting bigger. Okay.

"Broad". "Broad" means sort of bulky. If you're broad shoulders it means that you're out here, so a sense of getting bigger. If I broaden my horizons, it means I learn more about the world. "A broad-minded person", so: "I think the people in San Francisco are broad-minded." They care about the environment and they are good people, they want to learn more.

"High". Well, you could listen to a Bob Marley song, but alternatively, stay tuned with me. "To be on a high" means that you are feeling really good, you're riding a positive wave of emotion. So these two words: "high" and "low" often used to talk about emotion. "High", sort of positive ones; "low", feeling down in the dumps; down, high. "Height": "My girlfriend's height is 6 foot 1." Okay? The height of something. Or you could use it to measure something more abstract, like passion: "The height of our passion". "Highly", this is a synonym of "very". "The highly sought-after professor. The highly sought-after", it means everyone wanted to hear from the professor.

"Low", so let's look at the story, I've got this girlfriend, dah-dah-dah-dah, writing these long-distance messages. I want to shorten the distance between us. I'm getting a little bit fatter. I think things are really good over there. So, I'm on a bit of a high because I go out over to San Francisco and I see her, and then she dumps me. […]

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