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Narrator: Today's word is "Progress" — noun, pronounced /ˈprəʊɡres/, with the stress on "pro".
Narrator: Progress is movement forward or improvement towards a goal.
Narrator: In plain English, progress is getting better or closer.
Narrator: It comes from the Latin progressus, a going forward.
Narrator: A common collocation is "make progress", which describes improving over time.
Narrator: It differs from "success", because progress is the journey, while success is the finish.
Narrator: As a verb, stressed on the second syllable, to progress means to move forward.
Narrator: Education, medicine, technology and politics all rely on the word.
Narrator: So remember: progress is forward movement.
Speaker A: How's your Spanish progress?
Speaker B: Slow but steady! PROGRESS comes from the Latin for going forward.
Speaker A: So every step counts?
Speaker B: Absolutely.
Speaker A: Example sentences?
Speaker B: "She's making good progress", improvement. "Work is in progress", ongoing. "The disease progressed quickly", the verb.
Speaker A: Common mistakes?
Speaker B: Progress as a noun is uncountable: say a lot of progress, not many progresses.
Speaker A: Close relatives?
Speaker B: Advance is its cousin, development is its twin, and headway is the nautical alternative, but progress keeps its forward charm!
Speaker B: Let's use "progress" in AI prompts — useful for learning apps and project tools.
Speaker A: How would learning apps use it?
Speaker B: Show growth.
Prompt: Build a progress bar showing lessons completed out of twenty with a percentage.
Speaker A: And project tools?
Speaker B: Report status.
Prompt: Summarise this week's project progress in three bullet points for the client.
Speaker A: Could it help fitness?
Speaker B: Yes, tracking.
Prompt: Chart my running progress over eight weeks using these times.
Speaker A: One more?
Speaker B: Reports.
Prompt: Write encouraging school report comments on a pupil's progress in reading.
Progress — meaning in Arabic & definition More P courses GL Dictionary