This is the first video in the Enrich Your Vocabulary for IELTS and TOEFL series. It focuses on physical health, giving 20 words and phrases to enrich your vocabulary with.

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00:00 Intro
00:31 How the words were chosen
02:06 20 words and phrases for physical health
09:07 Summary
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For more information on this topic, including exercises to help you practise, see:
https://www.eapfoundation.com/enrich/physicalhealth/

For more information on this series, see:
https://www.eapfoundation.com/enrich/

Enrich Your Vocabulary for IELTS & TOEFL is a series of videos that focus on different topics and target the kind of vocabulary needed to score higher on these tests. The vocabulary is carefully chosen using recognised word lists such as the Academic Word List (AWL), Academic Vocabulary List (AVL) and the Academic Collocation List (ACL). The last of these is especially important in order to improve collocation use, an area assessed by these exams.

For this video, the Medical Academic Vocabulary List (MAVL), Medical Academic Word List (MAWL) and the Health section of the Middle School Vocabulary Lists (MSVL) were also used.

There are 20 words/phrases in total, including calorie, cardiovascular disease, chronic, diabetes, diet and physical activity.

Research has shown that comfortable reading comprehension requires knowledge of around 8000-9000 words, and it is therefore important for students to learn more than just high-frequency words (the first 3000 words by frequency, also called 1k-3k), and study words in the mid-frequency range (i.e. 3001-9000, also called 4k-9k). Knowledge of these words will also increase range of vocabulary and allow students to use less common items, which are assessed in the IELTS and TOEFL exams.

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