VOCABULARY

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- CEASE TO: cease to care what other people think of your views
- BALDING: he is the only balding middle-age man ( con entradas)
- SNIGGER: risa burlona
- INFATUATED: I have long been an infatuated ballet fan. ( como enamorarse de
algo a primera vista (chiflado por))
- Nerdy fascination: I follow their with nerdy fascination( cuando tienes una
aficion como muy friki)
- Having a bash: The thought of having a bash ( have a try)
- STAVE OFF: to stave off bodily decay ( para evitar el decaimiento del cuerpo)
- BODILY DECAY
- ENDURABLE: his patience make it endurable and enjoyable. (soportable)
- WALK WITH A SPRING IN YOUR STEP: It’s fantastic for getting you to walk with
a spring in your step (como saltando como Heidi muy contento)
- CLEANSES THE MIND: CLARIFICAR LA MENTE
- EXCRUCIATING: with some excruciating but vital stretches ( un dolor
insoportable)
- Gasping for rest: Jadear por la respiración
- It teaches them a moral lesson
- Don’t judge a book by its cover
- Disarming smile
- Committee –
- grant you everything. Grand parents spoil children
- Browsing- I am just browsing ( a la dependienta, solo estoy mirando)
- Burden-
- Supply and demand
- You have to live within your means
- Whopping
- Hatch a plan
- Device a plan
- Come up with a plan
- Pittance – insignificant amount
- Spotless- Inmaculado
- Charming – encantador
- Hideous- horrible, very ugly
- Filthy- inmundo, disgustingly dirty
- Gorgeous- extremely beautiful or enjoyable
- Tedious-
- Minute -insignificant, little detail. Diminuta
- Shade-
- Sewer- alcantarilla
 FAKE SYNONIMS

- Put on act- you behave in an artificial way.

- Act
- Disguise- if you disguise something, you try to make it look like something else.
If you disguise yourself as somebody you dress or change your appearance to
look like that person.
- Affect- if you affect an accent, you speak with this accent.
- Fabricate- a story or an excuse.
- Assume- you believe that this thing is true. You assume a new identity.
- Feign- with an emotion or feeling. Pretend to feel. Feign an illness.
- Bluff- if you bluff, you deliberately try to do someone think you are going to do
one thing when you actually are going to do something else.
- Forge- a forged passport, is an illegal passport.
- Counterfeit- making illegal copies of banknotes.
- Farfetched- unrealistic
- Mirroring-
- To set the bar high
- It was a draw-we drew- we tied
- Through thin and thick- en las buenas y las malas
- Superficial banter
- Heated argument-
- Well known rivalry
- Yelling with abandon
- basking in reflective glory
- brag
- cut of reflective behavior
- stop identifying/disassociate with
- disinhibited
- get out of hand- irse de las manos
- self-confessed soccer nut-I am mad about football
- Fairweather friend
- self-consciousness – vulnerable
- arbitrary distinctions
- random – no rhyme or reason
Either – I will have either pizza or chicken. Decidir entre dos cosas, esto o esto.
Whether- doubt /confusion/ choice. No has tomado las decision.

COLLOCATIONS

- Capture a moment
- Right in front of them
- Counting on the camera
- Not needing to ATTEND to it fully themselves
- Negative impact on
- Led on a tour
- Less accurate in recognizing
 - I prefer books to film- comparison
- I am really into books
- Compared with
- To be making his recovery
- Take her work seriously
- Causing you such a lot of
- I don't know much about art so I don't have strong taste
- I have strong taste in .......
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SUCH A

causing you such a lot of

such a sunny day
such an interesting book
it was such a day!
such lovely people
my parents are such good people that everyone likes them
so + adj
such + adj + noun

PHRASAL VERBS
- Take on – The Company always takes on new staff for the summer period.
- Break down- Negotiations broke down because of a disagreement about
trading arrangements.
- Keep up- The lecturer talks so fast- I just can’t keep up (seguir) with her train
of thought.
- Make out- It was so noisy in the room that I couldn’t make out what Jill was
saying. (distinguir)
- Bring about/in- The new management plans to bring in/about a number of
changes in the company.
- Catch on- No one expected that the new fashion would catch on ( hacerse
popular) as quickly as it has.
- Made off/away- The robbers made of/away ( huyeron) with a large amount of
money.
- Set up- Wanda asked the bank for a loan in order to set up (establecer) a
consultancy business.
- Give up/in- However hard things may seem, it’s important not to give up/in
and stop trying.
- Set against- Mark thinks there are problems in the contract, and he is dead set
against ( en contra) our singing it.
- Put off- The noisy in the library immediately put me off (me ha quitado) the
idea of studying there.
- Get by- Many people don’t have much money, just enough to get by
(arreglárselas).

- Gets to me- affects me. The cruel testimonies by NHS workers gets to me.
- Get on with- have a good relationship. I still get on with many people from my
Kaplan school in Oxford.
- Get me down- depresses me. The isolation because of coronavirus sometimes
get me down.
- Get off with- escape of big criminal punishment. People who skip the isolation
get off with just a fine.
- Get in- hire someone for a job. I hope this summer the restaurants and hotels
get in so many people.
- Get around- travel fast.
- Get by- survive- Is difficult in this time get by if you have lost your job because
of coronavirus.
- Get in- arrive. When I got in the airport almost one month ago, it was almost
completely empty.
- Get out of it- escape from doing something. I will get out of shopping next
week.
- Get around to something- find time to do. In these days is easier to everyone
get around to sport as you are at home the most of time.
- Get it over with- finish it quickly- I want to get my project over with
- Get round/around someone- persuade or manipulate. I got around my mum
last week to buy a new television.
- Get off- leave public transport/ disembark- You have to be ready to get off the
bus as fast as you can.
- Get up- leave the bed. Is really difficult to get up in the morning when
everything that you have to do is stay at home.
- Get away- find time for holidays. I hope this summer I could get away to go to
the beach.
- Get out- leave a building or a room. If you smell some smoke, you should to get
out quickly.

Expressions
- Time on your hands
- To kill time
- For old time’s sake
 - Time after time
- For the time being
- About time too!
- In no time
- In the nick of time
- Pressed for time
- Behind the times
- In their time
- From time to time
- At times

I don't want to be a disappointment to my parents

drop out of school
the black sheep of the family
the parents pit the children against each other
you were pushed sideaside

deeply wise question

this is a philosophical question
wow this is a deep question

Exasperate

She gets spoiled by my mum

we all want to feel pampered at times

food can spoil if you leave it out in the sun

rotten food
food goes off
if you give a child everything they want, you spoil them rotten

bossy

someone Is a know-it -all

deeply concerning
we are not travelling so much, so there might be a silver lining to this problem

every cloud has a silver lining

unspoiled spot
unspoiled area= untached area

he always pushes my buttons

land a jobsecure a job

achieve your goals/dreams/ambition
reach a target
work to a deadline
accomplish
it gives you the impression that you are doing something to protect yourself
all is fair in love and war- en el amor y la Guerra todo vale

MINDFUL
Act responsibly

Less (unconutable)
Few(countable)
we don’t know how to differentiate between plastic bags and bottles in terms of how
bad they are for the environmenta 6 pack of beertrappedplastic packaging on
multipacks of beer and coke

- We have a really amazing environment and so many places so beautiful which

is necessary to conserve, and you only can do that avoiding plastic pollution.
- There are so many amazing species to conserve as turtles and they are as
important as us.
- Our life is also in play because with this pollution you are damaging both,
environment and our help.

-it teaches them a lesson

it teaches them a moral lesson
Don’t judge a book by its cover

It is important + that + subject + verb

It is important that we stay active
It is important + verb 1
It is important to stay active
crucial - vital - paramount -
it is a mustto beat boredom - to crush boredom
to stave off - to fight
staved- staved

Married presetiucues king o

1-71%- 1
2-2030- 3
3-892,000 m2= 8 hundred and 92 thousands - 8
4-8.2 billion-5
5-55,680,000 km- 55 millions six hundred and eighty thousands km - 4
6-300,000 km- three hundred thousand -6
7-199,859- one hundred and ninety-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty-nine-10
8-17%- 9
9-127,000,000- one hundred and twenty-seven million- 7
10—89ºC- (mainus) 2