Environmental and Grammar Vocabulary

Environmental Vocabulary

• BAN: prohibir
• BRING BACK TO LIFE: devolver a la vida
• CAUSE: causar
• DESTRUCTION: destrucción
• DRILLING: extracción/explotación
• EXPOSE: exponer
• FOSSIL FUEL: combustible fósil
• GLOBAL WARMING: calentamiento global
• LANDSCAPE: paisaje
• OIL SPILL: fuga de petróleo
• RAISE MONEY: recaudar dinero
• RENEWABLE ENERGY: energía renovable
• RESTORE: restaurar
• SOURCE: origen/fuente
• TAKE ACTION: tomar medidas
• THREAT: amenaza
• WILDLIFE: flora/fauna

Grammar Vocabulary

• ACCOMPLISHMENT: logro
• DECLINE: disminución
• DEVELOPMENT: avance
• FREEDOM: libertad
• GOVERNMENT: gobernar
• KNOWLEDGE: conocimientos
• LAST: durar
• LEAD TO: llevar a
• LONG BEFORE: mucho antes de
• MAJOR: muy importante
• PLAY A ROLE: desempeñar un papel
• TAKE CONTROL: hacerse con el control
• TAKE PLACE: tener lugar
• TRADE: comercio
• WIDELY BELIEVED: que mucha gente lo cree

Transportation Vocabulary

• CAPABLE OF: capaz de
• CAME UP WITH: proponer
• GET AROUND: moverse por
• HIGH-SPEED: de alta velocidad
• HOP ON: subirse a
• LONG-DISTANCE: de larga distancia
• NETWORK: red
• REACH: llegar a
• RISKY: arriesgado
• RUN ON: funcionar con
• SET UP: construir
• SHIP: enviar
• STANDARD OF LIVING: nivel de vida
• STEAM: vapor
• TIME CONSUMING: que requiere mucho tiempo
• TRACK: vía

Verb Tenses

Past Simple

-ed; 2nd column.

did/didn't

Expressions: yesterday, last week, in 132, ago, when (momento concreto), on, at, for ten years, just now, the other day

Present Perfect

have/has + 3rd column

haven't/hasn't ''

Expressions: have...just...participe, yet (final), have you ever drunk, for, since, always, never, already, the environment, recently

Past Perfect

HAD/HADN'T + 3rd column

Expressions: before, after, as soon as, by the time, until, when, already, yet

Reflexive Pronouns

I myself, WE ourselves

YOU yourself, YOU yourselves

HE himself, THEY themselves

SHE herself, IT itself

past perfect BEFORE past simple

past simple AFTER past perfect