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Essential English Vocabulary and Grammar for Academic Success

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Academic and School Vocabulary Reference

Academic Verbs and Phrases

  • Syllabus: Course content/subject
  • To be expelled: Ser expulsat
  • To be absent: Missing/Faltar
  • To bully: Fer bullying
  • To cheat: Copiar
  • To revise: Review
  • To enroll in: Matricularse
  • Schedule/Timetable: Horari
  • Time slot: Període de temps lliure de l’horari (Free period in the schedule)
  • I graduated in: Em vaig graduar en
  • Master’s degree
  • Doctorate (PhD)
  • To repeat a year
  • To play truant: Saltar-se classe (Skip class)
  • Curriculum: General structure/program
  • Collaborative work: Treballar en grup (Group work)
  • To give examples
  • Assessment: Evaluation
  • To take notes
  • Lecture
  • Seminar
  • Undergraduate
  • Get a grant
  • Do research
  • Retake or Resit an exam

School Personnel and Institutions

  • Pupil: Alumne
  • Classmate: Company/Alumne
  • Boarding school: Internat
  • Private school
  • State school
  • Head: Director
  • Mixed (Co-educational)
  • Nuns/Priests: Monjes/Capellans
  • Professors
  • Courses: Cursets (Short courses/Workshops)
  • Companions

Academic Results and Status

  • Terms: Trimestre (Trimester/Semester)
  • Take or do exams
  • Marks/Grades: Notes
  • Pass exams
  • Fail exams
  • BA (Bachelor of Arts), BS (Bachelor of Science)

Social and Communication Vocabulary

  • Misread/Misunderstood
  • To encourage: Strengthen/Motivate
  • Connect: Click/Relate
  • Shunning: Avoiding/Ignoring
  • Get on well or connect
  • Mimicking

Classroom Objects and Supplies

  • Picture
  • Shelf: Estanteria
  • Pencil case: Estoig
  • Notebook
  • Textbook
  • Piece of paper sheet/Worksheet
  • Carpet or floor: Alfombra
  • Waste bin/Trash can: Basura
  • Desk: Pupitre
  • Bookcase: Estanteria on deixem els llibres (Shelf for books)
  • Chalk: Guix
  • Ceiling: Sostre
  • Wall: Paret
  • Easel: Caballet
  • Heater: Radiador
  • Palette: Paleta
  • Curtain: Cortines
  • Drawer: Calaix
  • Speakers: Altaveus
  • Compass
  • Protractor: Transportador
  • Calculator
  • Watercolour: Aquarelles
  • Paintbrush: Pinzell
  • Glue: Pega
  • Paper clips
  • Blinds: Persianes
  • Duster: Borrador
  • Stapler: Grapadora
  • Sellotape/Adhesive tape: Celo
  • Crayons/Wax crayons
  • Highlighters

Educational Stages

  • Nursery school/Daycare: Guarderia
  • Primary Education (Primary Ed): Ages 3–11
  • Secondary Education (Secondary Ed): Ages 12–16
  • Sixth Form or A Levels: Ages 16–18

School Facilities and Locations

  • Playground or sports field
  • Science lab
  • Gym
  • Music room
  • Staff room
  • Computer room
  • Library
  • Assembly room or hall
  • Classroom

Prepositions of Time and Place

Prepositions of Time

Note: No preposition is used before 'last', 'next', 'this', 'yesterday', 'tomorrow', or 'today'.

AT (Specific Points in Time)

  • 8 o’clock
  • The moment
  • The weekend
  • Night
  • The end of the month
  • Lunchtime
  • Christmas
  • Easter

ON (Specific Days and Dates)

  • Friday
  • Thursday morning
  • Christmas Day
  • My birthday
  • May 10th

IN (Longer Periods, Months, Seasons, Parts of the Day)

  • The morning
  • June
  • A moment
  • The eighties
  • 1991
  • The winter
  • 20 minutes
  • 3 days
  • 8 months

Prepositions of Place

AT (Specific Points or Locations/Events)

  • Top of the page
  • School
  • Home
  • Work
  • A party
  • A concert
  • A football match
  • The traffic lights
  • Someone’s house
  • Hairdresser's
  • Doctor's

IN (Enclosed Spaces or Large Areas)

  • A room
  • A building
  • A box
  • A garden
  • A town or country
  • The sea
  • The sky
  • The beginning
  • A queue
  • A row
  • A picture
  • A book
  • A mirror
  • A car

Advanced English Grammar Structures

Future Tenses

Future Continuous

Structure: I’ll be sitting...

Used to indicate an activity that will be taking place at a particular time in the future.

Future Perfect

Structure: I’ll have finished...

Used to indicate an action that will have taken place and finished before a certain time or before another action occurs.

Conditional Sentences

  1. Zero Conditional (Facts)

    Structure: If + Present Simple, Present Simple

    Used for general truths and facts.

  2. First Conditional (Very Probable Future)

    Structure: If + Present Simple, Will + Infinitive

    Used for probable future outcomes.

  3. Second Conditional (Imaginary or Improbable)

    Structure: If + Past Simple, Would/Might/Could + Infinitive

    Used for imaginary situations or improbable future events.

  4. Third Conditional (Impossible Past)

    Structure: If + Past Perfect (had been), Would Have + Past Participle

    Used for impossible situations in the past (regrets or missed opportunities).

Alternatives to IF

Words that can replace or function similarly to IF:

  • Whether
  • As long as
  • Unless (If not)
  • In case

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