Mastering English: Money, Personality, and Conditionals
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Money and Finance Vocabulary
- Afford: permitirse (pagar algo)
- Allowance: paga
- Cashpoint: cajero automático
- Bank charge/fee: comisión bancaria
- Bargain: chollo
- Budget: presupuesto
- Get into debt: endeudarse
- Banknote: billete
- Purchase: compra
- Receipt: recibo
- Refund: reembolso
- Sale: rebajas
- Save: ahorrar
- Spend on: gastar en
- Spending habits: hábitos de gasto
- Swipe: pasar (tarjeta)
- Tax: impuesto
- Value for money: relación calidad-precio
Money Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
- Cost an arm and a leg: costar un ojo de la cara
- Snap up a bargain: pillar una ganga
- Spend a fortune (on): gastarse una fortuna (en)
- Tighten your belt: apretarse el cinturón
- Throw money down the drain: tirar el dinero
- Get by: ir tirando
- Come to: llegar a (coste total)
- Chip in: poner dinero entre varios
- Cut down (on): reducir gastos
- Rip off: estafar
- Run out (of): quedarse sin
- Sell out: agotarse
- Set aside: reservar dinero
- Shop around: comparar precios
- Splash out: derrochar
Personality Traits and Character
- Big-headed: presumido
- Broad-minded: de mente abierta
- Diplomatic: diplomático
- Down-to-earth: con los pies en la tierra
- Easy-going / Laid-back: relajado / despreocupado
- Impetuous: impulsivo
- Modest: modesto
- Moody: temperamental
- Narrow-minded: de mente cerrada
- Outgoing: extrovertido
- Reliable: confiable
- Resilient: resiliente
- Resourceful: ingenioso
- Sensible: sensato
- Sensitive: sensible
- Tactful: diplomático / con tacto
- Tactless: sin tacto
- Untrustworthy: poco confiable
- Researcher: investigador
Descriptive Idioms and Nouns
- A big mouth: bocazas
- A bright spark: inteligente
- A great laugh: muy divertida/o
- A live wire: llena de energía
- A pain in the neck: molesta/o
- Party animal: fiestero
- A social butterfly: persona muy sociable
- A wallflower: persona tímida / reservada
- Boredom: aburrimiento
- Involvement: participación
- Laziness: pereza
English Conditionals
- Zero Conditional: Hechos / verdades → If + Present → Present
- First Conditional: Futuro real posible → If + Present → will + infinitive
- Second Conditional: Presente irreal / improbable → If + Past → would + infinitive
- Third Conditional: Pasado imposible / arrepentimiento → If + Past Perfect → would have + past participle
Conditional Connectors
- Unless (if not): Unless + Present → Future
- As long as / Provided that (solo si): As long as + Present → Future
- In case (por si acaso): Main clause + in case + Present