English Vocabulary for Social Action and Relationships

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English Vocabulary: Social Action and Community Engagement

Unit 4: Social Action Vocabulary

  • Attend a rally: asistir a una manifestación
  • Appeal: recurrir
  • Campaign
  • Campaigner
  • Charity
  • Donate / Donation
  • Fundraising event: evento para recaudar fondos
  • Fundraiser: recaudador de fondos
  • Go on a march: ir a una marcha
  • Raise awareness of: concienciar / sensibilizar
  • Raise funds / money: recaudar fondos
  • Sign a petition: firmar una petición
  • Sit-in: sentada
  • Sponsor: patrocinar
  • Sponsorship: patrocinio / apadrinamiento
  • Take part in a [cause/event]
  • Volunteer
  • Voluntary work

Unit 4: Key Collocations

  • Animal charity
  • Beach clean-up
  • Cancer research
  • Computer game
  • Death penalty
  • Endangered species
  • Free debate
  • Homeless person
  • Informed decision
  • Political engagement: compromiso político
  • Legal age: mayoría de edad
  • Lifelong habit: hábito de por vida
  • Serious crime
  • Social change
  • Social issue: cuestión social
  • Social media
  • Sponsored walk / swim: marcha / natación patrocinada
  • Union member: miembro del sindicato
  • Volunteer project
  • Voting rights
  • Worthy cause: causa justa

Unit 4: Issues and Actions

  • Activist
  • Animal rights
  • Human rights
  • Women’s rights
  • Worker’s rights
  • Attend a protest: asistir a una protesta
  • Demonstrate: manifestar
  • Demonstrators: manifestantes
  • Demonstration: manifestación
  • Education cuts: recortes en la educación
  • Gender equality: igualdad de género
  • Healthcare cuts: recortes sanitarios
  • Occupy (verb)
  • Occupation (noun)
  • Petition
  • Protest
  • Protester
  • Racial equality: igualdad racial
  • Slogan

Unit 4: Cognates

  • Elections
  • Evolve: evolucionar
  • Informed
  • Quarters: trimestres
  • Responsibility

English Vocabulary: Relationships and Personal Connections

Unit 5: Prefixes and Suffixes for Describing Qualities

  • (in)dignity
  • (un)dignified
  • (in)equality
  • (un)equal
  • (un)equally
  • (un)grateful
  • (un)gratefully
  • (dis)honesty
  • (dis)honest
  • (dis)honestly
  • (in)humanity
  • (in)humane
  • (in)humanely
  • (un)kind / kindness
  • (dis)loyal / loyalty
  • (dis)respect / respectful / respectfully
  • (mis)trust
  • Discrimination
  • Prejudice
  • Racism

Unit 5: Idiomatic Expressions

  • Be fond of: tener cariño a
  • Be in the doghouse: estar en la lista negra / en la cuerda floja
  • Be over the moon: estar eufórico / muy contento
  • Be sick of: estar harto de
  • Down in the dumps: estar deprimido / desanimado
  • Have something / nothing in common
  • “Me time”: mi tiempo personal / mis ratos
  • Keep your cool: mantener la calma
  • Lose your head: perder los estribos / la calma
  • Love at first sight
  • Through thick and thin: en las buenas y en las malas
  • Under the weather: indispuesto / de mal humor

Unit 5: Relationship Verbs

  • Ask somebody out: invitar a salir a alguien
  • Be in a relationship: tener una relación
  • Break up with: romper con
  • Flirt: ligar
  • Get married to: casarse con
  • Get on well with: llevarse bien con
  • Get over: superar
  • Get to know: conocer a alguien
  • Go out with: salir con
  • Have children: tener hijos
  • Have problems: tener problemas
  • Make a commitment: comprometerse
  • Meet somebody: conocer a alguien / encontrarse con alguien

Unit 5: Phrasal Verbs

  • Chill out with: relajarse con
  • Come up with: idear / proponer
  • Go over: repasar
  • Meet up with: quedar con
  • Put up with: aguantar / tolerar a alguien

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