Unit 7- Vocabulary

-Commuting: the activity of travelling regularly between work and home.
-Double-decker: a bus with two levels.
-Fare: the money that you pay for a journey in a vehicle such as a bus or train.
-Pedestrian: a person who is walking, especially in an area where vehicles go.
-Rush hour: the busy part of the day when towns and cities are crowded, either in the morning when people are travelling to work, or in the evening when people are travelling home.

-Phrasal verbs: travel-

• Come across: to behave in a way that makes people believe that you have a particular characteristic.
• Get away: to leave or escape from a person or place, often when it is difficult to do this.
• Get off: to leave a place, usually in order to start a journey.
• Get on: to have a good relationship.
• See off: 
  to go to the place that someone is leaving from in order to say goodbye to them.
• Set off: to start on a trip.
• Speed up: an increase in the rate of change or growth.
• Stop over: to stay at a place for one night or a few nights on the way to somewhere else or before returning home.
• Take off: when a plane leaves the ground and begins to fly.
• Turn back: to return in the direction you have come from, or to make someone do this.

Unit 6- Vocabulary

-Reporting verbs-

• Add: to put two or more numbers or amounts together to get a total.
• Admit: to agree that something is true, especially unwillingly.
• Agree: to have the same opinion.
• Boast:  to speak too proudly or happily about what you have done or what you own.
• Deny: to say that something is not true.
• Point out: to tell someone about some information, often because you believe they do not know it or have forgotten it.
• State: a condition or way of being that exists at a particular time.

Unit 4- Vocabulary

• Phrasal verbs

-Cheer up: If someone cheers up, or something cheers someone up, they start to feel happier.
-Face up to: to accept that a difficult situation exists.
-Work out: to exercise in order to improve the strength or appearance of your body.
-Chill out: to relax completely, or not allow things to upset you.
-Cut down: to do or use less of something.
-Calm down: to stop feeling upset, angry, or excited, or to stop someone feeling this way.
-Open up: to start to talk more about yourself and your feelings.
-Slow down: to be less active and relax more.

Unit 3- Vocabulary

• Book vocabulary

-Adaptable: able to change for a different situation or use.
-Alternative: one of two or more things that you can choose between.
-Chemical: relating to chemistry or chemicals.
-Computer-generated: the process of using computers to create pictures or designs.
-Innovative: using new methods or ideas.
-Sustainable: causing little or no damage to the environment and therefore able to continue for a long time.
-Wireless: using a system of radio signals rather than wires to connect computers, mobile phones, etc. to each other.
-Kinetic energy: energy that an object or system has because it is moving.
-Boost: to increase or improve something.

• Notebook vocabulary

-Device: a piece of equipment.
-Cogs: one of the tooth-like parts around the edge of a wheel in a machine that fits between those of a similar wheel, causing both wheels to move.
-Carbodioxide(C02): the gas formed when carbon is burned, or when people or animals breathe out.

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English- IDIOMS

• This are some idioms that I have found. I think they are really funny.

Unit 2- Vocabulary

-Book vocabulary
-Advertise: to tell people about a product or service, on television, on the internet, in newspapers, etc., so that people will buy it.
-Appeal: the quality that makes you like someone or something.
-Broadcast: a television or radio programme.
-Claim: to say that something is true.
-Promote: to advertise something.
-Bargain: something that is sold for less than its usual price.
-Slot: something that is sold for less than its usual price.
-Bid: an offer to pay a particular amount of money for something.
-Purchase: to buy something.
-Discount: a reduction in the price of something.

-Notebook vocabulary
-Stain: a dirty mark on something that is difficult to remove.
-Refuse: to say that you will not do or accept something.
-Supplier: somebody that produces goods.
-Charge: ask you to pay.

• Thanksgiving day vocabulary:

-Scurvey: an examination of people’s opinions or behaviour done by asking people questions.
-Leaks: if a container leaks, it allows liquid or gas to come out when it should not.
-Dump: to put something somewhere to get rid of it.
-Brook: a small stream.
-Harbour: an area of water near the coast where ships are kept.
-Hinder: to make it difficult to do something.

Unit 1- Vocabulary

-Book vocabulary:

• Bitter: Being angry and upset with a person after an argument.
• Dedicated: Believing that something is really important and giving a lot of time and energy on it.
• Dependable: A person that you can trust.
• Eager: A person that really wants to do something.
• Sympathetic: A person that shows that he/she can understand and care about someone's problem.
• Truthful: A person that always tells the truth.

-Collocations:

• Get .... angry, lost, on/off/in/out, rid off, in trouble, married/divorced, influenza etc.
• Make.... a mistake, your bed, a deal etc.
• Take.... away, a breack, advantage, your time, a rest etc.
• Do.... homework/housework, well, the washing up, your hair etc.

-Class vocabulary:

• Strikes: Period of time when a group of workers stop working to improve their work conditions.
• Socket: Place on a wall where you connect electrical equipement to the electricy supply.
• Waltz: dance of two people dancing together that has a rythm of three beats (vals).
• Fed up: Bored or annoyed by something that you have doon for too long.
• Rely on: To need someone or something.
• Fares: Price that you pay to travel on a plane, on a bus etc.
• Moped: Small vehicle with two wheels that is less powerful than a motorcycle (ciclomotor).
• Nets: Something made with many holes in it, for example for catching fish (red).
• Apron: A piece of clothing that keeps your clothes clean when you cook.
• Good-natured: Pleasent or friendly.
• Cheerful: Happy.
• Laid-back: Very relaxed and not seeming worried about anything.
• Unbiased: Able to judge fairly because you are not influenced by your own opinions.
• Bigoted: A person who has unreasonable beliefs and who thinks that anyone who does not have the same beliefs is wrong.