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English-Spanish Vocabulary Lists

Unit 1: Travel and Nature

• Accommodation
• Achieve: conseguir
• Awareness: conciencia
• Bee: abeja
• Bored
• Break the ice
• Colorful: colorido
• Crowded: lleno de gente
• Desert
• Deserted
• Eel: anguila
• Encounter: encuentro
• Excited
• Exotic
• Face
• Fence: valla
• Flat: llano
• Foreign: extranjero
• Get off: bajarse
• Get up
• Give up: darse por vencido
• Go abroad
• Goal: objetivo
• Guide
• Guided tour
• Hiking
• Hilly
• Hire: contratar
• Hostile
• Impressive
• Isolated: aislado
• Journey
• Landmark: punto de referencia
• Lively: animado
• Local
• Make reservation
• Mountain
• Noisy
• Peaceful
• Rafting
• Rappelling
• Remote
• River
• Rocky
• Route
• Run out of
• Rural
• Sandy
• Scenery: paisaje
• Set off: salir
• Show up
• Steep
• Take off
• Tired
• Travel arrangements
• Turn back
• Unpredictable
• Urban
• Warn
• Watch out: tener cuidado

Unit 2: Accidents and Survival

• Accident
• Alive:

Unit 1: Personality, Nature, and Verb Tenses

Vocabulary

Personality Traits: Bitter, cruel, dedicated, dependable, eager, enthusiastic, optimistic, outgoing, responsible, supportive, sympathetic, truthful.

Phrases: Get better, get involved, get permission, get the feeling, get things done, get used to, make a difference, make an effort, make an impression, make the most of it.

Nature: Bully, founder, star, victim, habitat, National Park, shade, the wild.

Grammar

• Past Simple: James wrote a story / James didn't write a story / Did James write a story?
• Past Continuous: James was writing a story / James wasn't writing a story / Was James writing a story?
• Used To: I used to wear / He didn't use to wear / Did they use to wear?
• Present Perfect Simple: We've

Job Application Email Examples

Civil Engineer Application

Dear Sir or Madam,

I am writing to you to apply for the position of Civil Engineer advertised in November's issue of Concrete International. As you can see from my resume, I have been working for three different companies in the past, two of them were North American firms. I have known that your company is now offering entry-level positions in Europe, and I would have no problem relocating, since at the moment, no personal circumstances would prevent me from doing so.

I strongly believe that my experience, though not extensive, could prove beneficial, just as the know-how I could get from this cooperation. Please find enclosed my resume, and do not hesitate to contact me at the phone numbers... Continue reading "Job Application Email Templates and Writing Tips" »

English Vocabulary: Everyday and Crime Terms

Believe

To think that something is true or right.

Blonde

A woman with yellow or golden hair.

Bump off

(informal) To murder somebody.

Clerk

A person who works in a bank, office, or store.

Closet

(American) A cupboard with a door that you can walk into.

Competition

People who want something that you want too.

Cop

(informal) A police officer.

Crook

(informal) A dishonest person or a criminal.

Cut

(n) A share in something, usually money.

Deal

(n) An agreement about how to do something.

Dick

(informal, American) A detective.

Ex-con

(informal) Someone who has been to prison.

Faint

(n) A kind of "sleep" caused by shock, illness, etc.

Fungus

Something unhealthy that grows on the skin.

Go off

(of a gun) To be fired.

Goldfish

A small orange

Unit 7: Simple Tenses

Topic Vocabulary

• All-boys school: School for boys
• All-girls school: School for girls
• Cheat: To cheat on a test
• Compulsory: Obligatory
• Fail: To fail a test
• Grade: Level
• Mark: Score
• Mixed school: Co-educational school

Perfect Tenses

Professional Profile: Hans Fiser

Full name: Hans Fiser
Occupation: Engineer
Employer: Farmakon
Leisure activity: Scuba diving

Background Information

• Origin: Germany
• Current Workplace: Farmakon International
• Tenure: 8 years
• Daily Responsibilities: Designs, builds, and tests robots for packing lines.

Curriculum Vitae: Hans Fiser

1. Robotics Engineer
2. Designed, built, and tested 7 pilot robots for packing lines
3. Farmakon International GmbH
4. Pharmaceutical manufacturing
5. Bachelor of Engineering in Mechatronics
6. Robotics
7. University of Applied Sciences, Germany
8. Apprentice technician

Professional Profile: Reme Gomez

Name: Reme Gomez
Present job: Junior technician
Years in present job: 4 years
Years in apprenticeship: 3 years
Qualification: Certificate of junior technician competence
When

Degrees

Degree

A degree is a grant given by a school or college, signifying that the beneficiary has successfully completed a course of study.

Doctorate

A doctorate degree is the highest level of academic degree. You can earn a doctorate in almost any subject area. Typically, a doctorate degree takes four years to complete after a bachelor's degree. You can complete it in three years if you already hold a master's degree, with additional full-time study.

Master's Degree

A master's degree is an academic qualification granted at the postgraduate level to individuals who have successfully undergone study demonstrating a high level of expertise in a specific field of study or area of professional practice.

Honours Degree

Most commonly, it is an award given... Continue reading "Understanding Academic Degrees and Education Terminology" »

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Pragmatics

Pragmatics is the study of "invisible" meaning, or how we recognize what is meant even when it isn't explicitly stated.

Deixis

A deictic expression (or deixis) is a word or phrase (such as this, that, these, those, now, then) that points to the time, place, or situation in which a speaker is speaking.

Reference

Reference is an act by which a speaker uses language to enable a listener to identify something.

Inference

Inference is a process where additional information is needed to connect what is said to what is meant.

Anaphora

In English grammar, anaphora is the use of a pronoun or other linguistic unit to refer back to another word or phrase. Some linguists use anaphora as a generic term for both forward and backward reference.

Presupposition

Presupposition... Continue reading "Key Concepts in Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis" »

Here are some common English words and phrases with their meanings:

• A bit - a little
• Blog - online diary
• Bye - goodbye
• Getting on - making progress
• Hanging out - spending time together
• Hey - hello

Gerunds and Infinitives

Gerunds: (verbs ending in -ing) are often used after these verbs: admit, avoid, can’t stand, consider, don’t mind, enjoy, finish, give up, imagine, mention, miss, practise, resist, risk, start, stop, suggest, try.

Infinitives: (to + verb) are often used after these verbs: afford, agree, arrange, ask, attempt, beg, choose, dare, decide, expect, hope, intend, learn, manage, pretend, promise, refuse, seem, want.

Relationships and Feelings

Here are some words related to relationships and feelings:

• Parents (mother and father)
• Argument (disagreement)