Mastering English Grammar and Health Vocabulary

Fast Food Babies and Health Vocabulary

• Junk: Unhealthy food.
• Take away: Food to be eaten elsewhere.
• Fat: A natural oily substance.
• A meal: Food eaten at a specific time.
• A cola can: A container for soda.
• Gross: Extremely unpleasant.
• Harmful: Causing harm. Synonyms: Damaging or detrimental.
• Rickets: A disease which children who do not have enough Vitamin D can suffer from, in which the bones become soft and not shaped correctly.
• To be anemic: Having too few red blood cells, causing a lack of energy.
• Turn something on its head: To cause something to be the opposite of what it was before.
• A driving force (2:55): The one causing the problem.
• To be drained: Very tired.
• To get something straight: Make a situation clear, especially by reaching an understanding.
• Face up to something: To accept that a difficult situation exists.
• Pay off: If something you have done pays off, it is successful. Example: Sam’s hard work is paying off.
• Succumb: To lose the determination to oppose something; to accept defeat.
• Tough: Strong or hard.
• Grown up: If you say that someone is grown up, you mean that they are an adult or that they behave in a responsible way.
• To be mean.
• Agreeing with something.

Essential English Expressions and Verbs

• Pick up: Recollir.
• To require something.
• Breakthroughs: An important discovery.
• A jubilee: Una celebració.
• It turns out: Va resultar ser (normalment per a finals inesperats).
• Workout.
• Astonishingly: Fascinantemente / maravillosamente.
• To engage: Captar l’atenció / envolver.
• Strengthen: Fortalecer.
• To involve: Implicar / involucrar.
• Diverse: Diverso.
• To get across / To cross: Cruzar.

Active and Passive Voice Comparison