​Five Words a Day is a vocabulary series designed for self-study. It helps learners actively build word knowledge by exploring not only what words mean, but how they behave in real language use.

• Discover how words function in context and observe the company they keep
• Study five carefully selected words each day, five days a week for a forty weeks.
• Learn 1000 words through patterns that included collocation and colligation
• Use online tools like Skell, YouGlish, and CorpusMate to investigate the words in authentic written and spoken examples
• Respond to prompts that guide both creative and critical thinking
• Create your own vocabulary notebook filled with colourful layouts, pictures, diagrams, and personalised notes
• By the end of the year, learners will not only know 1000 useful words but will have developed the tools and habits for lifelong vocabulary growth.

​The series:

• Beginner (under construction)
• Elementary (on the way)
• Intermediate (ready to roll)
• Academic (forthcoming)

Five Word a Day: Intermediate

Five Words a Day: Intermediate
Unlock the Power of 1,000 Words
This carefully crafted vocabulary workbook is designed for students who are ready to expand and enrich their English with an approach that is fascinating, challenging, and deeply rewarding. Five Words a Day: Intermediate is dedicated to helping you achieve meaningful, lasting progress — by building both the breadth and the depth of your vocabulary.
This book will guide you through:

1,000 carefully selected words over 40 weeks: five words a day, five days a week — a structured and realistic pace for steady advancement.​

• Weekly organisation around the grammar patterns that words function in, subcategorised into meaning groups.
• Word templates and glosses: discover not just meanings, but how words function in mini-contexts with their collocations and colligations — a powerful path for converting passive knowledge into active, confident use.
• Online resources: learn to use tools that empower independent and advanced study.
•  A vocabulary notebook: record your findings, insights, and examples in colourful, graphic formats to deepen and personalise your learning.

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This is not light-hearted, gamified fun. It is a serious book for serious students — those who are ready to challenge themselves and achieve lasting improvement.
By the end of the 40 weeks, you will have expanded your vocabulary, deepened your knowledge of the target words, and developed the tools to keep building your vocabulary independently — strengthening both breadth and depth, and continuing the crucial process of converting passive vocabulary into active, confident use.

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As this extract from the Table of Contents shows, the first two weeks focus on how to study effectively—not just what to study:

• Week 1 introduces study procedures: how to keep a vocabulary notebook, what it means to know a word, and how to use word templates.
• Week 2 continues the training: learners explore context and cotext, practise observing patterns in example sentences, and start working with tools like SkELL, CorpusMate and YouGlish.
• In both weeks, students study 5 words each day that are drawn from the short texts. Thus they begin developing the habits they’ll use throughout the course.
• Week 3 introduces the first grammar pattern: verbs followed by infinitives, with each day built around a distinct meaning group. This structure, pairing patterns with meaning, is used consistently (though not exclusively) across all 40 weeks.

Table of contents
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Week 1. Getting started 
Day 1:  How to use this book 
Day 2:  A vocabulary notebook 
Day 3:  Knowing a word 
Day 4:  Word templates 
Day 5:  How to work with word templates 

Week 2. Study advice
Day 1:  Context and cotext
Day 2:  Example sentences
Day 3:  SkELL
Day 4:  CorpusMate
Day 5: YouGlish
Pronunciation

Week 3. Verbs with infinitives
Day 1:  Effort
Day 2:  Obligation
Day 3:  Choice 
Day 4:  Readiness
Day 5: Appearance