English Vocabulary: Education, Memory, Emotions & Environment
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Starter Unit: Education Vocabulary
- qualification (título) ≠ mark (calificación)
- college (universidad) ≠ school (colegio)
- allowance (educational maintenance)
- degree (título de universidad) ≠ career (trayectoria profesional)
- encourage (support)
- skip (choose / omitir)
- wage (paid every week) / salary (paid every month)
- amount (a lot of money / cantidad de dinero)
Memory & Experience Vocabulary
- appointment (cita)
- calendar
- diary (agenda)
- forget
- learnt by heart = memorize (aprender de memoria)
- memory (memoria)
- mind (mente)
- recall (recordar)
- remember (acordarse)
- remind (hacer recordar / fer pensar)
- exactitud (accuracy)
- remarkable (unusually good)
- recited (said from memory)
- very surprising (astonishing)
- top marks (maximum points)
- anxious (inquieto, nervioso) ≠ eager (ansioso)
- success (éxito) ≠ event (suceso)
- embarrassed (avergonzado) ≠ pregnant (embarazada)
Feelings: Ordinary to Extreme Emotions
ORDINARY EXTREME
- angry / cross / bad-tempered / mad - furious
- happy / pleased / glad / cheerful - delighted / thrilled / over the moon
- upset / sad / unhappy / depressed - heartbroken / devastated
- disappointed - miserable / feel blue
- frightened / scared / afraid - terrified / petrified / scared stiff
- surprised / stunned / astounded - amazed / surprising / can't believe my eyes
Our Planet: Environment & Sustainability Vocabulary
- bottle bank (contenedor de botellas)
- carbon footprint
- dump (recogida)
- environment (medio ambiente)
- get rid of (deshacerse)
- green (ecológico)
- packaging (embalaje / contaminación)
- pollution (contaminación)
- recycle (reciclar)
- recycling (contenedor de reciclaje)
- reuse (reutilizar)
- rubbish (restos)
- rubbish bin (cubo de basura)
- throw something away (lanzar algo) = discard
- waste (residuos — e.g., plastic waste; malgastar — e.g., waste water; sobra — e.g., waste paper)
- dispose of (deshacerse de) ≠ have (tener)
- realize (darse cuenta) ≠ carry out (realizar)
- ruining = spoiling
- other places = elsewhere
- carbon offsetting (compensación por emisión de dióxido de carbono)
- climate change (cambio climático)
- congestion charge (tax that you have to pay for driving in rush hour / zona de alta congestión)
- energy-saving (low consumption)
- environmentally friendly (ecológico)
- exhaust fumes (gases de escape)
- fossil fuels (combustibles fósiles)
- global warming (calentamiento global)
- greenhouse gases (gases de efecto invernadero)
- polar ice caps (capas polares)
- renewable energy (energía renovable)
- sea level (nivel del mar)
- solar panel (placa solar)
- wind farm (parque eólico)