Notes, summaries, assignments, exams, and exercises for English for Secondary education

Essential English Vocabulary

• Boom: Explosión
• Hairstyle: Estilo de pelo
• Look: Aspecto
• Fashion: Moda
• Peace: Paz
• Icon: Icono
• Craze: Locura
• Birth: Nacimiento
• Death: Muerte
• Gadget: Dispositivo
• Invention: Invención
• War: Guerra
• Protest: Protestar
• Dance hall: Salón de baile
• Bad language: Mal lenguaje
• Big skirts: Grandes faldas
• Driving license: Carné de conducir
• The flu: La gripe
• Upset: Disgustado
• Operation: Operación
• Treatment: Tratamiento
• Suffering: Sufrimiento
• Clone: Clon
• Transplant: Transplante
• Development: Desarrollo
• Prevention: Prevención
• Experiment: Experimento
• Discovery: Descubrimiento
• Cause: Causa
• Research: Investigación
• Cure: Curas

Irregular Verbs List

• Bet: Apostar
• Bite, bit, bitten: Morder
• Bleed, bled: Sangrar
• Blow, blew, blown: Soplar
• Break, broke, broken: Romper
• Bring,

Common Irregular English Verbs

Below is a comprehensive list of irregular verbs, including their past simple and past participle forms, along with their Spanish definitions.

English Vocabulary Definitions

• A duet: A song performed by two people.
• Get on well: To have a good relationship.
• A real gift: A special ability to do something.
• Able to handle a crisis: To deal successfully with a difficult situation.
• Be apart: To be separated.
• Break up: To end a relationship.
• Break down: When something is not working.
• Be miserable: To feel depressed.
• Criticize: To express disapproval of someone.
• Colleagues: A group of people who work together.
• Cautious: Someone who avoids risks.
• Chat: To talk to someone in an informal way.
• Complain: To say that something is wrong.
• Chemistry: The branch of science that studies the characteristics of substances.
• Close: Having direct family connections.
• Dedicated: Believing that something is very important.
• Dull:

Vocabulary

• Setting: Escenario, colocación
• Characters: Personajes
• Plot: Trama, drama del guion
• Conclusion: Conclusión
• Frightening: Aterrador
• Tale: Cuento o anécdota

1. Beowulf Graphic Organizer

• Setting: Sometime before the 8th century in what is now Denmark and Sweden.
• Characters: Beowulf, Grendel, Hygelac.
• Plot: A young man has the strength to face a terrible beast.
• Conclusion: Beowulf kills the beast and returns a hero.

2. Story Summary Matching (Pages 18-25)

• A. A fight to the death: 23
• B. A long journey: 20
• C. A frightening tale: 19
• D. Preparing for the night: 20
• E. The monster approaches: 24
• F. The strongest boy in the kingdom: 18

3. Adjective Definitions

• Monstrous: Grotesque
• Ferocious: Wild, violent, savage
• Joyous: Happy
• Courageous: Brave

4. Epic Poetry Discussion

Beowulf

infinitive: past: past participle: meaning:

to cut cut cut cortarto clean cleaned cleaned limpiarto arrive arrived arrived llegarto bring brought brought traerto bet bet bet apuestato beat beat beaten golpearto love loved loved amorto end ended ended finto choose chose chosen escogerto drive drove driven manejarto build build build construirto feed fed fed alimentarto invent invented invented inventarto discover discovered discovered descubrirto count counted counted contarto break broke broken roturato fly flew flown volarto dream dreamt drawn sueñoto come came come vento have had had tenerto find found found encontrarto lie lay lain mentirato fail failed failed fallarto change changed changed cambiarto freeze froze frozen congelarto grow

Scotland: History, Places and Language Exercises

Put these sentences in the right order

a-2- Ten thousand English soldiers died at the Battle of Bannockburn.

b-5- Oil and gas in the North Sea began to bring money into Scotland.

c-3- Millions of people left Scotland and went to other countries.

d-1- The Romans built Hadrian's Wall across the north of England.

e-4- England and Scotland became Great Britain.

What did these people do? Match a number from A with a letter from B

1. 1 - Robert Adam ... made many beautiful buildings.
2. 2 - James Watt ... made a lot of steam engines.
3. 3 - Arthur Conan Doyle ... wrote stories about a detective.
4. 4 - Alexander Graham Bell ... made the first telephone.
5. 5 - David Livingstone ... was the first European to travel across Africa

School and University Vocabulary

Subjects:

• Art
• Biology
• Business Studies
• Chemistry
• Drama
• Engineering
• English
• Geography
• History
• ICT
• Law
• Literature
• Maths
• Media Studies
• Medicine
• Music
• Physical Education (PE)
• Physics
• Psychology

Words connected with school & uni:

Certificate, cheat, coursework, essay, fail, grade, mark, pass, resit, term, timetable.

Noun Suffixes: -er, -or, -ist, -ian, -ee

Director, electrician, employer/employee, historian, instructor, journalist, lecturer, photographer, physicist, professor, scientist, technician, trainee.

Grammar: Modal Verbs

General rules for modals

An infinitive without to follows a modal verb. Example: Sam should go to the doctor.

Modal verbs do not take -s in the 3rd person singular. Example: He must go to school.

Modal verbs do not...

Famous Scottish People

Choose the best answer:

• 11. Shakespeare wrote about the Scottish king Macbeth.
• 12. Robert Adam learnt about buildings in Rome.
• 13. David Hume went to university when he was twelve years old.
• 14. Robert Burns wrote beautiful poems.
• 15. James Watt began a business and made hundreds of steam engines.
• 16. Arthur Conan Doyle wrote stories about a detective called Sherlock Holmes.
• 17. In the 1880s, Andrew Carnegie became the richest man in the world.
• 18. Charles Rennie Mackintosh made many important buildings in Glasgow.
• 19. In 1962, Sean Connery was James Bond in a film.
• 20. Queen Elizabeth stays in Edinburgh Castle every summer.

Scottish Facts

Choose the best answer:

• 21. Edinburgh is the capital of Scotland.
• 22. Scotland has about 800 islands.

Master these key terms and phrases covering business, communication, and personal development to boost your understanding and confidence in various settings.

Embarrassed

Feeling ashamed and uncomfortable.

Pick up

To learn something in an informal way, by listening to or watching other people.

Get your message across

To manage to make someone understand or believe something.

Attention Span

The length of time you can concentrate and listen effectively.

Entitled

Believing you deserve privileges or special treatment.

Up-and-coming

Likely to become very famous or successful.

Unaffiliated

Not officially attached to or connected with an organization or group.

Opt for

To choose.

Boost

To increase or make something stronger.

Flatter

To praise dishonestly.

Weird

Strange.

Hesitate

To

B — Verbs starting with B

• be — was/were, been — ser, estar
• become — became, become — llegar a ser; convertirse
• begin — began, begun — empezar
• bleed — bled, bled — sangrar
• break — broke, broken — romper
• bring — brought, brought — traer; llevar
• build — built, built — construir
• buy — bought, bought — comprar

C — Verbs starting with C

• catch — caught, caught — coger, atrapar
• choose — chose, chosen — elegir
• come — came, come — venir
• cost — cost, cost — costar
• cut — cut, cut — cortar

D — Verbs starting with D

• do — did, done — hacer
• draw — drew, drawn — dibujar
• dream — dreamt, dreamt — soñar
• drink — drank, drunk — beber
• drive — drove, driven — conducir

E — Verbs starting with E

• eat — ate,