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Outcomes • Pre-Intermediate • Word lists • Spanish • Unit 1
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Student’s Book Pages 8–9 engineer /ˌendʒɪˈnɪə(r)/ Noun
actor /ˈæktə(r)/ Noun an engineer is someone whose job is making or mending

an actor is a person who performs in a play at a theatre or in machines, buildings, roads, etc.
films or on television an electrical engineer | he’s an engineer at the Ford car factory
the actors sometimes write their own lines | I’ve always wanted Noun: engineering
to be a film actor
• ingeniero / a
Verb: act | Noun: acting
get on /ˌɡet ˈɒn/ Phrasal verb
• actor / actriz if you get on with someone, you like them and have a
build /bɪld/ Verb friendly relationship with them
to build something means to make it by putting lots of do you get on with the people you work with? | I never got on
things together. People build large things such as houses, with my boss
factories, bridges, shopping centres, etc. Things like houses
and shops are buildings • congeniar
they’re building a new sports stadium there | the palace was hours /ˈaʊə(r)z/ Noun plural
built in 1772 your hours are the number of hours you have to spend at
Noun: building | Noun: builder work every day or every week. The hours of a business are
it’s the ugliest building in the city the times when it is open
Collocates: work long hours | opening hours
• construir workers are demanding higher wages and shorter working
competitive /kəmˈpetətɪv/ Adjective hours | I’ve been working very long hours this week
if an activity is competitive, everyone doing it is trying hard
• horario
to do better and be more successful than everyone else
Collocates: very/highly/extremely competitive join /dʒɔɪn /Verb
he’s tried to get a job in TV, but it’s very competitive | if you join an organisation, you become a member of it
advertising is a highly competitive industry she’s applied to join the tennis club | Estonia joined NATO in
Noun: competition | Noun: competitor | Verb: compete 2004
Collocates: stiff competition
• unir(se)
they face stiff (strong) competition from two new Chinese firms
journalist /ˈdʒɜː(r)nəlɪst/ Noun
• competitivo / a a journalist is someone who writes for a newspaper or
magazine, or who reports on the news on television or radio
construction /kənˈstrʌkʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount
a journalist wanted to interview me about my career | she’s a
construction is the work of building something
journalist who reports for the Times newspaper
the construction of the new school is due to start next month |
Noun: journalism
the airport is still under construction (being built)
Verb: construct • periodista
• construcción law firm /ˈlɔː ˌfɜː(r)m/ Noun

a law firm is a company which employs lawyers and
customer /ˈkʌstəmə(r)/ Noun provides advice and help about the law
customers are the people who go into a shop to buy things
he is the head of a New York law firm | I tried to get a job at a
we try to give our customers what they want | she was a law firm in Manchester
regular customer at her local butcher’s
• firma de abogados
• cliente
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lawyer /ˈlɔːjə(r)/ Noun product /ˈprɒdʌkt/ Noun
a lawyer is someone who is qualified in law, and whose job a product is something that is made and sold
is to give people advice about the law and to work for them we’re working on a new product | all their products are good
if they are in court quality
I need to get a lawyer to look at the contract | if you need Verb: produce | Noun: production
advice, ring your lawyer
• producto
• abogado / a
project /ˈprɒdʒekt/ Noun
manager /ˈmænɪdʒə(r)/ Noun a project is a big piece of work that you plan and do over a
a manager is someone whose job involves running part of long period of time
an organisation and telling other people what work to do
I’m working on a project for my class | a government project to
he’s a sales manager for a car company | to be successful, help the environment
managers need to be good at listening
Verb: manage • proyecto
• gerente research /rɪˈsɜː(r)tʃ/ Noun uncount

if you do research, you study a subject in detail to find new
marketing /ˈmɑː(r)kɪtɪŋ/ Noun uncount information about it
marketing is the work involved in deciding how to advertise Collocates: do research (into something)
and sell a product, what price it should be, where it should
I’m doing some research into why people forget things | some
be sold, etc.
new research into the causes of cancer
the company’s marketing department | we need to do some
Verb: research | Noun: researcher
more marketing
• investigación
• mercadotecnia
run /rʌn/ Verb
nurse /nɜː(r)s/ Noun
if you run something, you are in control of it
a nurse is someone whose job is to look after people who
are ill, especially in a hospital I run my own company | we run a small restaurant in London
he’s a nurse at the local hospital | the nurse put a bandage
• dirigir
round his leg
Noun: nursing sales /seɪlz/ Noun
sales is the work involved in selling things. A company’s
• enfermero / a sales are the amount of goods it sells in a particular period
of time
pilot /ˈpaɪlət/ Noun
he’s a sales manager for a car company | sales increased by
a pilot is someone who flies planes, usually as a job
10% over the last year
an airline pilot | he was the first pilot to fly Concorde
• ventas
• piloto / a
scientist /ˈsaɪəntɪst/ Noun
politician /ˌpɒləˈtɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun a scientist is someone whose job involves studying subjects
politics is the work of getting power and running a country. such as physics, chemistry, or biology
People who do this are politicians
scientists are worried about global warming | two Russian
people don’t always trust politicians | Barack Obama is the scientists discovered a new material called “graphene”
most famous politician in the world
Noun: science | Adjective: scientific
Noun: politics | Adjective: political
• científico / a
• politico / a
soldier /ˈsəʊldʒə(r)/ Noun
primary school /ˈpraɪməri ˌskuːl/ Noun a soldier is someone who belongs to an army and who has
in Britain, a primary school is a school for children up to to fight when there is a war
the age of 11. After primary school, children usually go to
six soldiers were killed in the attack | a soldier in uniform
a secondary school until they are 17 or 18. These schools
provide primary education and secondary education
• soldado
she loved all her teachers at primary school | at primary school
we had to do a spelling test every week
• escuela primaria
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studio /ˈstjuːdiəʊ/ Noun appointment /əˈpɔɪntmənt/ Noun

a studio is a room or building where an artist or an appointment is an arrangement to meet someone at a
photographer works particular time
I run my own studio | the photograph was taken in a studio Collocates: make an appointment | keep an appointment
I’ve got an appointment with the dentist at 3 o’clock | I called
• taller the doctor to make an appointment
temporary /ˈtemp(ə)rəri/ Adjective
• cita
if something is temporary, it only lasts for a limited period
of time arrange /əˈreɪndʒ/ Verb
a temporary job | living in temporary accommodation | if you arrange a meeting with someone, you agree a time
a temporary address and place when you will meet someone
Collocates: arrange to do something
• temporal
I arranged to have lunch with Jeremy next week | can you
training /ˈtreɪnɪŋ/ Noun uncount arrange a meeting for me with the sales manager?
training is teaching or learning the skills that are needed to
do a job • acordar
Collocates: a training course | by training attend /əˈtend/ Verb
I’m going on a training course next week | you get three weeks if you attend an event, you go to it and are present there
of training before you start work Collocates: attend a meeting/conference | attend college/
school/university
• entrenamiento
all employees have to attend the training session |
work experience /wɜː(r)k ɪkˌspɪəriəns/ Noun uncount the ceremony was attended by nearly 200 people
work experience is a period of time that a student spends
working without pay for a company in order to learn about • asistir
it, instead of being at school or college
balance /ˈbæləns/ Noun
I’m doing work experience in a law firm this week | do as much if there is a balance between two things, there is not too
work experience as you can over the summer much of either of them and they exist together very well
Collocates: strike a balance
• experiencia laboral
do you have a good balance between work and relaxation? |
I’m trying to strike a balance between explaining what I feel
Student’s Book Pages 10–11 and listening to others
agree /əˈɡriː/ Verb Verb: balance | Adjective: balanced
if you agree something with someone, you both decide
what you want and say that it is what you both think • equilibrio
Collocates: agree to do something
basic /ˈbeɪsɪk/ Adjective
Gareth Bale has agreed a new contract with the club | something that is basic includes the most important things
we agreed to make a video of the event but not smaller or more complicated details
Noun: agreement we did our basic training in the first week | if you buy the basic
model, it will cost just $50 | the basic idea is very simple
• acordar
• básico / a
apply /əˈplaɪ/ Verb
if you apply for something such as a job, you write to say break /breɪk/ Noun
that you want to have it when you are at work, a break is a time when you stop
Collocates: apply for something working and relax for a short while before starting to work
you should start applying for jobs before you leave university | again
I applied for a grant to study physics at Oxford Collocates: a lunch/tea/coffee break | a short/long break
Noun: application I usually take a break at about 11 | I had to go to the bank
Collocates: a job application | an application form during my lunch break
• aplicar • pausa

busy /ˈbɪzi/ Adjective employ /ɪmˈplɔɪ/ Verb
if you are busy, you have a lot of things that you are doing if a company employs people, it pays them to work there
and you do not have time to relax. If a place is busy, there we employ 30 staff at our Birmingham office | he was
are a lot of people there employed as a cleaner
I’ve had a very busy week | the restaurant gets very busy on Noun: employer | Noun: employee | Noun: employment
Friday evenings
my employer gives us four weeks holiday a year
• ocupado / a
• emplear
contract /ˈkɒntrækt/ Noun
end /end/ Verb
a contract is an official, legal agreement between people
if something ends, it stops
Collocates: sign a contract | break a contract | renew a
my contract ends on Friday | how does the film end? (what
contract
finally happens?)
my contract ends next month | have you signed the contract
Noun: end | Noun: ending
yet?
I have to hand in my project by the end of the week
• contrato
• finalizar
delay /dɪˈleɪ/ Verb
if you delay doing something, or delay something, you do it event /ɪˈvent/ Noun
or make it happen later than it was planned to happen an event is something that happens, usually because it has
been arranged, like a concert or a sports match
Collocates: delay doing something
we have a lot of social events next week | tonight’s event will
I often delay doing things I don’t enjoy | a storm delayed our
start at 7:30
departure from Southampton
Noun: delay • evento
Collocates: without delay
hardly /ˈhɑː(r)dli/ Adverb
because of the accident, there were long traffic delays
if you hardly do something, you almost do not do it all
• retrasarse I hardly ever go to London | my grandparents live in Scotland,
so I hardly see them
diary /ˈdaɪəri/ Noun
a diary is a book which has a space for every day of the year. • apenas
You use it to record the date and time of things you need to
do, or to write down the interesting things that happen to interview /ˈɪntə(r)ˌvjuː/ Noun
you every day an interview is a meeting where someone who has asked for
a job answers questions from the person or group of people
Collocates: keep a diary
who might give them a job
I wrote the date for our meeting in my diary | during her
Collocates: a job interview | an interview for something
year in France, she kept a diary (wrote down what happened
every day) I had a job interview yesterday | they’ve invited me for
interview next week
• diario Verb: interview | Noun: interviewer | Noun: interviewee
Collocates: interview someone for something
efficient /ɪˈfɪʃ(ə)nt/ Adjective
if something is efficient, it works well, without any problems,
• entrevista
and without wasting energy
the staff are friendly and efficient | the new machines are more launch /lɔːntʃ/ Verb
efficient (they use less energy) if you launch a new product, book, website, etc., you let a
Adverb: efficiently | Noun: efficiency lot of people know that it is starting to exist so that they can
buy it or make use of it
it may also improve the efficiency of the system
we’re launching a new product next month | they’ve launched
• eficiente a new range of laptop computers
Noun: launch
efficiently /ɪˈfɪʃ(ə)ntli/ Adverb
60 journalists turned up for the book launch
if something happens or is done efficiently, it happens or is
done well and without wasting any time or money
• presentar
I don’t work very efficiently early in the morning | a rail system
that can efficiently transport thousands of people every day
Adjective: efficient | Noun: efficiency
a very efficient way of managing your time
• eficientemente
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list /lɪst/ Noun quiet /ˈkwaɪət/ Adjective

a list is a number of words or names that you write down if things are quiet, or if you have a quiet period of time, not
one below the other very much is happening and there is not much activity
I made a list of things I needed to do | what’s the first item on I’ve had a very quiet week at work | I go to the supermarket on
the list? Tuesday mornings when it’s quiet
• lista • tranquilo / a
main /meɪn/ Adjective relaxation /ˌriːlækˈseɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount

the main part of something is the biggest or most if you relax, you become calm because you are not working
important part of it or worried about anything. Relaxation is spending your time
my main priority is to pass my exams | there are two main relaxing
reasons for this decision do you have a good balance between work and relaxation? |
Adverb: mainly I play tennis for relaxation and enjoyment
I mainly listen to pop music, but I like electronic music too Verb: relax | Adjective: relaxing
• principal • relajación
manage /ˈmænɪdʒ/ Verb rush /rʌʃ/ Verb

if you manage your time or money well, you succeed in if you rush, you do something or go somewhere quickly
using it in a good way and do not waste any of it because you are in a hurry
you should try and manage your time better | he found it Collocates: rush to do something | rush someone or
difficult to manage his money when he first got a job something somewhere
Noun: management I often need to rush to finish things | he rushed to get off the
train
time management is an important skill
Noun: rush
• organizar Collocates: be in a rush
I’m in a rush (I don’t have much time)
part-time /pɑː(r)t ˈtaɪm/ Adjective
if you have a part-time job, you work for only part of a week
• apresurarse
I had to take a part-time job when I was a student | the
company employs a lot of part-time staff session /ˈseʃ(ə)n/ Noun
Adverb: part time a session is a period of time during which a class or meeting
takes place
I’ve been working part time at the sports shop
Collocates: a training session
• a tiempo parcial there’s another training session on Friday | each session lasts
about 45 minutes
presentation /ˌprez(ə)nˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun
if you give a presentation, you talk about a particular subject • sesión
in front of a group of people, for example, at a conference
or in class sign /saɪn/ Verb
I’m giving a presentation at the conference on Friday | her if you sign a letter or document, you write your name on it
presentation was about English grammar in order to show that you wrote it or agree with what it says.
Your signature is your name written in the way that you
Verb: present | Noun: presenter
always write it on documents
• presentación I finally signed the contract with World Mail | I forgot to sign
the cheque | can you sign your name here, please?
priority /praɪˈɒrəti/ Noun Noun: signature
your priority is the most important thing that you need
her signature was on the bottom of the letter
to do
what’s your main priority for this week? | my priorities are to • firmar
finish my degree course and to get a job
sort out /ˌsɔː(r)t ˈaʊt/ Phrasal verb
• prioridad if you sort something out, you deal with it so that it is no
longer untidy or a problem
you need to sort out your room. It’s a mess | We had a big
argument, but we’ve sorted it out now and we’re friends again
• resolver

staff /stɑːf/ Noun uncount build /bɪld/ Verb
the staff of a company, shop, etc. are the people who work to build something means to make it by putting lots
there of things together. To build a nation, a company, an
the company has more than 200 staff | I talked to a member of organisation, etc. means to make it start to exist over a
staff (one of the staff) period of time
women have played an important part in building the nation
• empleados / as | the company was built up in the 1890s | we plan to build the
finest educational institution in the country
stay up /steɪ ʌp/ Phrasal verb
if you stay up, you stay awake for longer than usual and go • construir
to bed later than you usually do
I sometimes stay up late to finish things | we stayed up till 3 distribution /ˌdɪstrɪˈbjuːʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount
o’clock to watch the football from Japan the distribution of something is the work involved in
sending it out to a number of different places
• trasnochar I’m organising the European distribution of a new German
film | the company is responsible for the production and
well-paid /wel ˈpeɪd/ Adjective distribution of electricity in the country
if you are well paid, or if you have a well-paid job, you
Verb: distribute
receive a lot of money for doing it
she had a very well-paid job in Paris | my brother is well paid • distribución
and can afford three holidays a year
Opposite – Adjective: low-paid energy /ˈenə(r)dʒi/ Noun uncount
if you have energy, you feel strong and able to do things
people in low-paid jobs can’t afford to live in the city
without getting tired
• bien remunerado / a children have got so much energy! | he’s full of energy
Adjective: energetic
Student’s Book Pages 12–13
• energía
advertisement /ədˈvɜː(r)tɪsmənt/ Noun
an advertisement is an announcement in a newspaper exploit /ɪkˈsplɔɪt/ Verb
or magazine saying that a job or opportunity is available to exploit someone means to treat them very unfairly, for
and asking people to apply. The short forms advert and ad example by making them work too hard or not paying them
are often used, and advertisements for jobs are often called enough money
job ads I think the company is exploiting me | children are exploited in
I saw an advertisement for VSO and applied for it | over 200 many parts of the world
people replied to the advertisement Noun: exploitation
Verb: advertise they are calling for an end to the exploitation of foreign
Collocates: advertise for someone workers
• anuncio • explotar
advise /ədˈvaɪz/ Verb fight /faɪt/ Verb

if you advise someone, you help them by making if you fight for something you believe you should have,
suggestions about what they should do or by giving them you try very hard and do everything that you can in order
an expert opinion about something to get it
Collocates: advise someone on something Collocates: fight for something | fight to have something
I advise local doctors on how to improve services | she was an organisation that’s fighting for women’s rights | she fought
responsible for advising customers on home security to have her son released from prison
Verb: advice | Noun: adviser Noun: fight
Collocates: take someone’s advice | give someone advice Collocates: a fight for something
I decided to take her advice we will never give up the fight for equal rights
• aconsejar • luchar
attitude /ˈætɪˌtjuːd/ Noun fixed /fɪkst/ Adjective

your attitude is how you think and feel about something something that is fixed stays the same and cannot
be changed
it’s important to have a positive attitude towards your exams |
this is a sign that social attitudes are changing the job comes with a fixed salary | rent is one of the company’s
fixed costs
• actitud
• fijo / a
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install /ɪnˈstɔːl/ Verb WORD FAMILIES

to install something means to put it in place and make
it work One way to improve your English is to learn the different
forms of a new word.
we need someone to install our new kitchen | they’ve installed
security cameras in the car park She helped organise the tennis tournament. (verb)
Noun: installation An organised boat trip to the islands. (adjective)
the installation of a new security system Organisers apologised when the speaker did not arrive. (noun
– person)
• instalar Can I help with the organisation of the party? (noun – activity)
The VB often gives information on other forms. Remember to
nation /ˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun
notice and learn collocations of each form in the word family.
a nation is a country
one of the world’s poorest nations | our nation is over a pension /ˈpenʃ(ə)n/ Noun
thousand years old a pension is money that a government or company pays
Adjective: national to someone regularly when they do not work any more
because they are old
• nación Collocates: a state pension | a private pension | draw
a pension
negotiate /nɪˈɡəʊʃieɪt/ Verb
I’ll receive a small pension when I retire | everyone gets the
to negotiate means to talk about something until you can
state pension (from the government)
agree with someone what you will both do or accept
Collocates: negotiate with someone • pensión
we are negotiating a big deal with a Chinese TV company |
we need to negotiate a price positive /ˈpɒzətɪv/ Adjective
if you are positive about something, you believe you are in
Noun: negotiation
a good situation and that you will succeed, and you do not
the employers are refusing to enter into negotiations with the think about any bad possibilities
workers
everyone who works here has a really positive
attitude | if you take a positive approach to your exams you’ll
• negociar
be fine
offer /ˈɒfə(r)/ Verb Adverb: positively || Opposite – Adjective: negative
if you offer someone something such as a job or an I had to start thinking positively, otherwise I was going to fail
opportunity, you tell them that they can have it if they want
it • positive / a
they offered me the job | my boss offered me the chance to
work in the New York office for a year right /raɪt/ Noun
people’s rights are all the things they should legally or
Noun: offer
morally be allowed to have or do
thank you for your generous offer of help
campaigning for basic human rights | the police don’t have
the right to come into your house | everyone has the right to
• ofrecer
a fair trial
organise /ˈɔː(r)ɡənaɪz/ Verb
if you organise something, you plan it and make all the • derecho
arrangements for it to happen
role /rəʊl/ Noun
I’m organising a big party for my parents’ wedding anniversary your role is the purpose or position that you have in a
| the conference was organised by the local university particular situation
Adjective: organised | Noun: organiser | Noun: organisation Collocates: play a role | an important role
there is organised entertainment in the evenings what’s your role in the company? | money played a major role
in my decision
• organizar
• papel
salary /ˈsæləri/ Noun

your salary is the money that you receive each month for
doing your job
they pay us a fixed salary | he gets a good salary
• salario

strike /straɪk/ Noun voluntary /ˈvɒlənt(ə)ri/ Adjective
if there is a strike, people refuse to work because they want if a job or activity is voluntary, you do it because you want
their employer to make changes, such as increase their pay to and you do not get paid for it
or improve their conditions I spent a year doing voluntary work in China | she does a lot of
Collocates: go on strike | come out on strike voluntary work at weekends
we’re thinking of going on strike if they don’t agree to our Verb: volunteer | Noun: volunteer
demands | a strike over pay and working conditions Collocates: volunteer for something | volunteer to do
Verb: strike | Noun: striker something
teachers are threatening to strike over pay I volunteered to help at the soup kitchen (providing food for
people who have no home)
• huelga
• voluntario / a
survive /sə(r)ˈvaɪv/ Verb
if you survive, you manage to continue living, even in without /wɪðˈaʊt/ Preposition
difficult conditions if you do without something, or live without it, you are able
you can’t survive for long in the desert | it’s difficult to survive to continue even though you do not have it. If you can’t do
on so little money | no one survived the crash (they all died) without it or can’t live without it, it is absolutely necessary
for you
Noun: survival | Noun: survivor
I can’t live without pay for another year! | we’ll just have to do
his survival depends on finding enough money for
without the car until it’s fixed
the operation
• sin
• sobrevivir
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Student’s Book Pages 16–17 fit /fɪt/ Verb
if clothes fit you, they are the right size for your body
comfortable /ˈkʌmftəb(ə)l/ Adjective
if you are comfortable, you feel relaxed and happy because my gloves look nice, but they don’t actually fit | I didn’t find
your body is in a good position anything that fitted me in the shop
our new sofa’s really comfortable | are you comfortable Noun: fit
sitting there? Collocates: a good fit
Noun: comfort | Adverb: comfortably the boots were such a good fit
I like to travel in comfort
• quedar bien
• cómodo / a follow /ˈfɒləʊ/ Verb
complicated /ˈkɒmplɪˌkeɪtɪd/ Adjective if you follow an instruction or someone’s advice, you do
something that is complicated is difficult to understand or what someone suggests or tells you to do
use because it has a lot of different parts the instructions are very difficult to follow | I decided to follow
it’s really complicated to use and the instructions aren’t very her advice | we were only following orders
helpful | the situation is quite complicated
• seguir
• complicado / a function /ˈfʌŋkʃ(ə)n/ Noun
cool /kuːl/ Adjective the function of something is its main purpose or the job that
if you say that something is cool, you mean that you really it is meant to do. The functions a machine has are all the
like it because it is very modern or fashionable. If you say different things it can do
that a person is cool, you admire them because they are it’s a really good camera with a lot of different functions | the
fashionable main function of the department is to find new employees
my new laptop is so cool | what a cool bike | the new maths
• función
teacher is really cool
instructions /ɪnˈstrʌkʃ(ə)nz/ Noun plural
• guay instructions are a detailed description of how to do
dark /dɑː(r)k/ Adjective something, for example, how to use a machine such as
dark colours are not bright because they are closer to black a dishwasher
than they are to white Collocates: follow instructions
she has long dark hair and green eyes | the paint will look the instructions are very difficult to follow | the instructions
darker after it dries were in 12 different languages, but not English!
Opposite – Adjective: light
• instrucciones
he wore dark trousers and a light shirt
jewellery /ˈdʒuːəlri/ Noun uncount
• Oscuro / a jewellery is things like rings, earrings, and necklaces, often
made from metal, that people wear because they look nice
design /dɪˈzaɪn/ Noun
the design of something is the way it has been put together my friend makes silver jewellery | burglars stole £20,000 worth
and the way that it looks of jewellery
the design of the phone is very simple | your shirt is a really nice Noun: jeweller
design
• joyería
Verb: design | Noun: designer
last /lɑːst/ Verb
• diseño if something lasts for a particular length of time, it continues
to exist for that time
design /dɪˈzaɪn/ Verb
if you design something, you have the idea for it and decide I had a pair of shoes that lasted six years | the film lasts over
what it will look like and how it should be made. You can three hours | their relationship didn’t last very long
refer to the way something looks as its design
• durar
Jonathan I’ve designed the original iPhone | all our products
are designed and made in the UK
Noun: design | Noun: designer
• diseñar

lie /laɪ/ Verb smart /smɑː(r)t/ Adjective
if you lie or lie down, your body is flat and your head is smart clothes are clean and nice. You can also say that a
on the same level as your feet, for example when you are person is smart if they are wearing clean, nice clothes
in bed I had to buy some smart trousers for work | you should wear
Collocates: lie down | lie on something something smart | you look very smart today
the sofa’s nice and big, so you can lie on it too | she lay down
on the bed and fell asleep | I’m really tired; I’m just going to lie • elegante
down for a few minutes
suit /suːt/ Verb
if something such as your clothes suit you, they make you
• tumbarse
look good
light /laɪt/ Adjective yellow doesn’t suit me | your new hairstyle really suits you
something that is light doesn’t weigh very much, and isn’t
heavy • favorecer
my new laptop is really light and easy to carry around |
your bag is much lighter than mine WORDS WITH TWO MEANINGS
Opposite – Adjective: heavy Many words in English have more than one meaning. For
it’s too heavy to lift example:
That shirt really suits you. (It makes you look nice)
• ligero / a I usually wear a suit to work. (jacket and trousers)
material /məˈtɪəriəl/ Noun The light’s not very bright. (strong and easy to see)
material is cloth such as wool or cotton that is used for Her son’s very bright. (intelligent)
making clothes, curtains, etc. Material is also any hard stuff I saw her last week. (most recent)
such as wood or plastic The clothes they make don’t last long. They’re very poor quality.
I bought some material for a new dress | what material are those (continue for a time)
curtains made out of? Words appear more than once in the VB when there is a
different meaning. They will have different collocations!
• material
pair /peə(r)/ Noun thick /θɪk/ Adjective

a pair of something is two things that are the same and that something that is thick is not thin. Thick clothes are made of
are used together, for example, shoes, earrings, or socks. heavy material and will keep you warm
You also talk about a pair of glasses, trousers, shorts, etc. a pair of thick socks | the walls are very thick | she’s got lovely
when something is made of two parts that are the same thick hair
and which are joined together
a pair of leather shoes | I bought a pair of jeans • Grueso / a
unique /juːˈniːk/ Adjective

• par if something is unique, there is only one of it, and there is
quality /ˈkwɒləti/ Noun nothing else that is the same
the quality of something is how good it is and how well it is this is a unique opportunity | the band had a unique style of
made music | I met a lot of interesting and unique people
they’re really good quality and they’ll last for years | you can
feel the quality of this wool • Único / a
warm /wɔː(r)m/ Adjective

• calidad if you are warm, you are slightly hot in a pleasant way. Warm
ring /rɪŋ/ Noun weather is quite hot
a ring is a circle of metal or other hard stuff that someone I bought a thick coat to keep me warm in the cold weather | I had
wears on their finger as jewellery a nice warm bath | the weather was quite warm
I love your ring. Where did you get it? | a gold ring
• cálido / a
• anillo
second-hand /ˌsekənd ˈhænd/ Adjective
something that is second-hand is not new and belonged to annoying /əˈnɔɪɪŋ/ Adjective
someone else before you bought it something that is annoying makes you a little bit angry
I bought a second-hand car | second-hand shop (that sells the website has too many annoying ads on it | her little brother
second-hand goods) was a very annoying child
Adverb: second-hand Verb: annoy | Adjective: annoyed
have you ever bought anything second-hand? the music from next door annoyed me all afternoon
• de segunda mano • molesto / a
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bargain /ˈbɑː(r)ɡɪn/ Noun drop /drɒp/ Verb

a bargain is something you get for a lower price than if you drop something, you let go of it and it falls to the
is normal ground
I got it for £5 – it was a bargain | our shop is full of bargains be careful you don’t drop that plate | she dropped her gloves on
the floor
• ganga
• soltar
bid /bɪd/ Verb
if you bid for something, you say how much you are willing fact /fækt/ Noun
to pay for it, and you succeed in buying it if no one else bids a fact is a piece of information which is true
a higher price some of these facts were really interesting | the fact is that he’s
I bid £20 for it on eBay and won | how much did you bid for it? been in prison for the last year
Noun: bid | Noun: bidder Adjective: factual
the winning bid was £35
• hecho
• pujar
fault /fɔːlt/ Noun uncount
box /bɒks/ Noun if a bad situation or a mistake is your fault, you are
a box is a container with hard sides and a top that is used to responsible for causing it. When this happens, you can also
keep things in say that you are at fault
when I took it out of the box, I saw that it was damaged | a Collocates: be at fault
cardboard box it was my own fault – I didn’t check the delivery fee | it was an
unfortunate accident, but the school was not at fault
• caja
• culpa
concert /ˈkɒnsə(r)t/ Noun
a concert is a public performance in which people play fee /fiː/ Noun
music a fee is the amount of money you have to pay for a
my wife took me to a concert for my 40th birthday | particular service
a lot of people are travelling to Wembley for the Collocates: pay a fee | charge a fee
big concert there’s no delivery fee on orders over £20 | the fees are so high
that I couldn’t afford to study there
• concierto
• tarifa
damaged /ˈdæmɪdʒd/ Adjective
something that is damaged is broken in some way get back /ˌɡet ˈbæk/ Phrasal verb
I took it back to the shop because it was damaged | some if you get something back, someone returns it to you after
buildings were badly damaged in the storm they have had it for a while
Verb: damage | Noun: damage I got my money back from the shop | I lent her my skateboard
smoking can damage your health and never got it back
• dañado / a • devolver
deliver /dɪˈlɪvə(r)/ Verb globally /ˈɡləʊb(ə)li/ Adverb

to deliver something means to take it somewhere the world is sometimes referred to as a globe (something in
the shape of a ball). Activities that happen all over the world
we deliver vegetables to all the restaurants in the town |
are global, or happen globally. The way everything in the
can you deliver at weekends? | the postman delivered three
world is becoming connected, for example because of the
letters and a parcel
Internet and travel, is called globalisation
Noun: delivery
globally, we now buy 22% of everything we need online |
Nike is a globally recognised brand
• entregar
Adjective: global | Noun: globalisation
delivery /dɪˈlɪv(ə)ri/ Noun
delivery is the act of taking things such as goods or letters • a nivel mundial
to a place
we make daily deliveries | send it by express delivery (very
quick)
Verb: deliver
• entrega

inspire /ɪnˈspaɪə(r)/ Verb reliable /rɪˈlaɪəb(ə)l/ Adjective
if you inspire someone, you make them believe in if something is reliable, you can trust it and know that it will
something very strongly, especially in their own ability to be good every time you need it. If someone is reliable, you
achieve things can trust them and depend on them
my English teacher really inspired me | her passion inspires their delivery service was very reliable | she’s a very reliable
both students and other teachers babysitter
Adjective: inspiring Noun: reliability || Opposite – Adjective: unreliable
he was an inspiring leader my phone battery is really unreliable
• nspirar(se) • fiable
online /ˈɒnlaɪn/ Adverb return /rɪˈtɜː(r)n/ Verb

if you buy something online, you buy it over the Internet if you return something that you have bought, you take
I always buy my train tickets online | several sites offering to do it back or send it back to the shop where you bought it
people’s homework have appeared online because you are not satisfied with it
Adjective: online women return more than 20% of the clothes they buy online |
you cannot return items more than 30 days after you bought
online shopping
them
• en línea
• devolver
order /ˈɔː(r)də(r)/ Verb
sale /seɪl/ Noun
if you order something, you ask for it to be sent to you or
a sale is an event when a shop sells its goods more cheaply
made ready for you
than usual for a period of time
I ordered a new washing machine last week | I’d like to order a
I bought it in a sale | I go to the sales in Oxford Street every
taxi to the station
January (when lots of shops have a sale)
Noun: order
my order was delivered three days late • rebajas
• pedir selection /sɪˈlekʃ(ə)n/ Noun

a selection is a group of things that you can choose from
recommend /ˌrekəˈmend/ Verb Collocates: a good/wide selection | a selection
if you recommend something, you tell someone that it is of something
good and that they should get one or do it
they had a really wide selection of armchairs | your body needs
a friend of mine recommended a new online shop | I can a wide selection of foods to stay healthy
strongly recommend swimming in the sea
Noun: recommendation • selección
Collocates: on someone’s recommendation
site /saɪt/ Noun
we booked the Bristol Hotel on my brother’s recommendation a site is a place where something is or where something
(because he recommended it) happens. On the Internet, a site is a collection of pages
where information is available
• recomendar
Collocates: a web site
reduced /rɪˈdjuːst/ Adjective do you have any favourite sites for shopping? | he made a lot of
if an amount is reduced, it has been made smaller money when he sold a social networking site to Yahoo!
it was only £50, reduced from £99 | the hotel offered us a
reduced price of £65 a night instead of £80 • sitio
Verb: reduce | Noun: reduction size /saɪz/ Noun
Collocates: a reduction in something | a reduction the size of something is how big or small it is. If a piece of
of something clothing is your size, it fits you. If it is the wrong size, it is too
the government has promised to reduce unemployment big or too small and does not fit you
they had lots of shirts in my size | the trousers they sent me
• rebajado / a were the wrong size
• talla
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stock /stɒk/ Noun uncount loose /luːs/ Adjective

the stock of a shop or company is the amount of goods it something that is loose is not firmly fixed in place. Loose
has that are available and ready to be sold or sent out to clothes are big and don’t fit your body tightly
customers the top button on my shirt is loose | the handle on my suitcase
Collocates: in stock | out of stock has come loose
the camera I wanted was out of stock (there were no more
available to buy) | everything on the list is in stock and is • amplio / a
immediately available
make /meɪk/ Verb
Verb: stock if you make someone do something they do not want to do,
you tell them they have to do it and they cannot refuse
• existencias
Collocates: make someone do something
surprising /sə(r)ˈpraɪzɪŋ/ Adjective did your mum ever make you wear something you didn’t like? |
if something is surprising, you didn’t expect it he wants me to stay in tonight, but he can’t make me | we were
that was a very surprising fact | the article came to a surprising made to stand outside in the rain until we said sorry
conclusion
• hacer
Adjective: surprised | Adverb: surprisingly | Verb: surprise
I was quite surprised when she said she was leaving occasion /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)n/ Noun
an occasion is a time when something happens
• sorprendente when did you last buy a present, and what was the occasion? |
I met him on several occasions
• ocasión
bright /braɪt/ Adjective
bright colours are light and strong, not dark plain /pleɪn/ Adjective
have you got any paint that’s a bit brighter? | she wears a lot of something that is plain is simple, with no unnecessary parts
bright colours or decoration
I put on a plain white shirt | the furniture was all very plain |
• brillante a piece of plain paper (with no lines on it)
button /ˈbʌt(ə)n/ Noun • liso / a

a button is a small round thing on clothes. You put a button
through a hole to fasten the clothes practical /ˈpræktɪk(ə)l/ Adjective
the top button on my shirt has come loose | a smart shirt with something that is practical is useful and easy to use
small white buttons have you got something more practical that will fit in the car? |
it’s a cheap and practical family car
• botón
• práctico / a
grow into /ˌɡrəʊ ˈɪntuː/ Phrasal verb
when a child grows into clothes, he or she gets bigger so present /ˈprez(ə)nt/ Noun
that the clothes which were too big are now the right size. a present is something you give to someone, for example
When a child grows out of clothes, he or she gets bigger and when it is their birthday or at Christmas
the clothes no longer fit properly I need to buy a present for my dad’s birthday | the Christmas
it’s a bit too big now, but you’ll soon grow into it | by the time presents were all beautifully wrapped
he was 13, he’d grown into his father’s old coat
• regalo
• poder usar
queue /kjuː/ Noun
lifetime /ˈlaɪfˌtaɪm/ Noun a queue is a line of people who are waiting for something
your lifetime is the period of time during which you are Collocates: stand/wait in a queue
alive. If something will last a lifetime, it will last a very long
there was an enormous queue outside the cinema | is this the
time
end of the queue?
they’re very well made and they’ll last you a lifetime |
Verb: queue
the Internet is the greatest invention in my lifetime
Collocates: queue for something | queue to do something
• vida
• fila

receipt /rɪˈsiːt/ Noun wrap /ræp/ Verb
a receipt is a piece of paper from a shop or an email from to wrap something means to put paper around it to protect
an online shop that shows where and when you bought it, or because you want to give it as a present
something, and proves that you have paid choose the paper and I’ll wrap it for you | I wrapped it in gold
you need to keep your receipt | can I have a receipt, please? paper
Adjective: wrapped
• recibo
would you like it wrapped?
shoulder /ˈʃəʊldə(r)/ Noun
your shoulders are the two parts of your body that start at • envolver
the bottom of your neck and go out on either side
the coat is a bit tight round my shoulders | he put his arm Student’s Book Pages 22–23
around her shoulder
allow /əˈlaʊ/ Verb
if you allow someone to do something, you let them do it
• hombro
by giving them permission
suitable /ˈsuːtəb(ə)l/ Adjective Collocates: allow someone to do something
if something is suitable, it is right for a particular situation you should allow children to take some risks | we’re not allowed
this smaller one might be more suitable | the film isn’t suitable to take phones into class
for young children | it’s going to be cold, so make sure to bring
suitable clothes • permitir
• apropiado / a protect /prəˈtekt/ Verb

if you protect someone or something, you keep them safe
take back /ˌteɪk ˈbæk/ Phrasal verb and prevent them from being hurt or damaged
if you take something back to the shop where you bought Collocates: protect someone from/against something
it, you return it because you are not satisfied with it
this should protect you from catching the disease | how can we
when was the last time you took something back to a shop? | help protect the environment?
every time I buy him some clothes, he takes
Noun: protection
them back
Collocates: protection against/from something
• devolver a healthy diet could offer protection against cancer
tight /taɪt/ Adjective • proteger

if your clothes are tight, they fit too close to your body and
are not quite big enough risk /rɪsk/ Verb
the coat is a bit tight round my shoulders | these jeans are too if you risk something, you put it in a situation where it might
tight be damaged, destroyed, or lost
Opposite – Adjective: loose Collocates: risk something to do something | risk doing
something
I put on a loose shirt and a pair of jeans
I can’t risk letting him see me here | he has risked everything he
• ajustado / a owns
Noun: risk | Adjective: risky
top of the range /ˌtɒp əv ðə ˈreɪndʒ/ Phrase
Collocates: take a risk
something that is top of the range is the best or most
expensive of its kind that is available young drivers often take risks
her furniture was top of the range | a top-of-the-range
• arriesgar
smartphone
scare /skeə(r)/ Verb
• gama más alta to scare someone means to make them afraid because they
think something bad is going to happen
typical /ˈtɪpɪk(ə)l/ Adjective
a situation that is typical is normal and has all the same don’t shout like that. It really scares me | we dressed up like
features as it usually does. People sometimes say “typical!” to ghosts to try and scare my little sister
mean that they were expecting something bad to happen Adjective: scared | Adjective: scary
It’s typical! The service is always bad here | it was a typical I thought I heard someone downstairs and got really scared
English summer, with rain every week
• asustar
• típico / a
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3 GETTING THERE
Student’s Book Pages 26–27 get off /ˌɡet ˈɒf/ Phrasal verb
if you get off a bus or train, you leave it
council /ˈkaʊns(ə)l/ Noun
a council is an organisation that is responsible for the local I got off the bus at the wrong stop | take the bus towards the
government in an area Cathedral and get off at the museum
Collocates: a local council | a town council Opposite – Phrasal Verb: get on
the local council is responsible for the schools | the town the train was so crowded I couldn’t get on
council meets twice a month
• bajarse
• consejo ground /ɡraʊnd/ Noun
crime /kraɪm/ Noun a ground or a sports ground is a place where sports are
crime is activity that is against the law. A crime is an action played outdoors
that someone does that is against the law we live near the cricket ground | there’s a famous sports ground
Collocates: commit a crime | the crime rate | a at Wembley
serious crime
• campo
he did not commit this crime by himself | horse stealing is a
serious crime half /hɑːf/ Noun
Adjective: criminal | Noun: criminal half of something is one of two equal parts of it
he’s got a criminal record (he has done things that were I’ll be home in an hour and a half | I tore the paper in half
against the law)
• mitad
• delito
journey /ˈdʒɜː(r)ni/ Noun
crossing /ˈkrɒsɪŋ/ Noun if you go on a journey, you travel from one place to another,
a crossing is a place where you can walk from one side of a usually over a long distance
road to the other, or from one side of a railway line to the Collocates: a long journey
other. A crossing is also a place where you can go from one you must be tired after your long journey | have a safe journey!
country into another
Collocates: a pedestrian crossing | a level crossing | • viaje
a border crossing
keep /kiːp/ Verb
there’s a crossing outside the bank | the traffic is very fast along
if you keep doing something, you continue doing it in the
here, so use the pedestrian crossing
same way without stopping. If you keep fit, warm, etc., you
Verb: cross continue being fit or warm
Collocates: keep doing something
• cruce
she’ll just keep trying till she succeeds | he kept watching as her
crossroads /ˈkrɒsˌrəʊdz/ Noun train moved out of the station
a crossroads is a place where two roads go across
each other • continuar
there was a nasty crash at the crossroads | go straight on at the
mile /maɪl/ Noun
crossroads
a mile is a distance of 1.6 kilometres
• intersección it’s another half a mile to the hotel | the town is 500 miles
east of Moscow
directly /dɪˈrek(t)li/ Adverb
if something is directly above, opposite, or below • milla
something, it is in exactly that place and not to one side
miss /mɪs/ Verb
it’s directly opposite the bookshop | their flat is directly above
if you miss something, you do not see it or notice it.
ours, and we can hear them walking around
If you tell someone they can’t miss something, you
mean that it will be very obvious and they will certainly
• directamente
notice it
the museum will be on your right; you can’t miss it | keep your
eyes open or you’ll miss it
• perderse

monument /ˈmɒnjʊmənt/ Noun traffic jam /ˈtræfɪk ˌdʒæm/ Noun
a monument is something that is built to remind people of if there is a traffic jam on a road, vehicles cannot move
something important in the past forwards because there is too much traffic or there is
Collocates: a monument to something something that is blocking the road
a historic monument | a monument to the people who died in there’s a huge traffic jam in the centre of town | we were stuck
the war in a traffic jam for hours
• monumento • atasco
playground /ˈpleɪˌɡraʊnd/ Noun traffic lights /ˈtræfɪk ˌlaɪts/ Noun plural

a playground is an area outdoors where children can play, traffic lights are coloured lights next to a road, which control
often with special equipment for them traffic. When they are red, cars have to stop. When they are
green, cars can go
a children’s playground | the school playground (where
children go in their break times) the traffic lights turned red as we approached | turn left at the
next set of traffic lights
• parquet infantil
• semáforo
report /rɪˈpɔː(r)t/ Verb
if you report a crime or an accident, you tell someone in war /wɔː(r)/ Noun
authority that it has happened when there is a war, one or more countries fights against
one or more other countries using their army, navy, air
I need to go to a police station to report a crime | did you report
force, etc.
the accident to the police?
Collocates: be at war
• denunciar his grandfather fought in the First World War | the two
countries spent the next four years at war
roundabout /ˈraʊndəˌbaʊt/ Noun
a roundabout is a place where several roads join and traffic • guerra
goes round a circle to help vehicles move from one road to
another safely
take the third exit from the roundabout | they’re going to
replace the traffic lights with a roundabout at that crossroads ages /eɪdʒɪz/ Noun plural
if you say that something took ages, you mean it took a very
• rotonda long time
Collocates: take ages | for ages
straight /streɪt/ Adverb
if you go straight or straight on, you keep going in the same it took ages to go through security | the phone rang for ages
direction and do not turn off to either side before he answered
go straight on at the crossroads | walk under the railway bridge
• siglos
and keep going straight
airline /ˈeə(r)ˌlaɪn/ Noun
• derecho an airline is a company that organises plane travel and
carries passengers by air
subway /ˈsʌbˌweɪ/ Noun
in Britain, a subway is a tunnel under a road so that people I wanted to speak to someone from the airline | Qantas is the
can walk from one side to the other safely. In the US, the national airline for Australia
subway is the underground rail system
• aerolínea
there’s a subway under the main road near my house | I don’t
like using the subway after dark alarm clock /əˈlɑː(r)m ˌklɒk/ Noun
an alarm clock is a clock that makes a noise at the time you
• metro want to wake up
town hall /ˌtaʊn ˈhɔːl/ Noun Collocates: set an alarm clock | an alarm clock goes off
in Britain, a town hall is a public building where the local I set my alarm clock for 6:30 | my alarm clock went off at 7
government of a town has its offices
it’s opposite the town hall | his office is in the town hall • despertador
• ayuntamiento
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COMPOUND NOUNS delayed /dɪˈleɪd/ Adjective

if something is delayed, it happens later than it was planned
Two nouns used together can make a new noun – for to happen. If you are delayed, you get somewhere later than
example, an alarm clock (a clock that makes a noise at the you planned because of a problem on the way
time you want to wake up). The first noun describes the
I sometimes missed a flight if my train was delayed | our new
second noun.
bathroom was delayed because we had to wait for a sink
It’s much cheaper to get a travel card.
Verb: delay
We need more cycle lanes in the town centre.
a storm delayed our departure from Southampton
There’s a huge traffic jam in the centre of town.
• retrasado / a
board /bɔː(r)d/ Noun
a board is a large flat object in a public place that has departure /dɪˈpɑː(r)tʃə(r)/ Noun
information on it your departure from a place is when you leave there to
go somewhere else. At an airport, the departure gate is
the arrivals board said their flight would be delayed by an hour the place where you have to go to get on your plane. The
| the menu is on the board above the bar departure board tells passengers which gate they have go to
for their plane
• pizarra
Collocates: a departure board | a departure gate
board /bɔː(r)d/ Verb I checked the departure board to see which gate we had to
to board a plane or ship means to get on it. When a plane go to | his departure from the company came as a surprise to
is boarding, the passengers are getting on it. The boarding everyone
gate is the place in an airport where passengers get on the Verb: depart | Opposite – Noun: arrival
plane
Collocates: an arrivals board
we boarded over an hour late | you’ll be able to board shortly
Noun: boarding • salida
Collocates: a boarding gate
exciting /ɪkˈsaɪtɪŋ/ Adjective
which boarding gate do we need to go to? if something is exciting, it makes you feel happy and
interested
• embarcar
as the story got more and more exciting, I completely forgot
check in /ˈtʃek ˌɪn/ Phrasal verb the time | Moscow is a very exciting city
if you check in at a hotel or airport, you give your personal Adjective: excited
details and show tickets, etc. so that you can use the hotel I’m really excited about starting my new job
or travel on the flight
if you check in online it will save time at the airport • emocionante
Noun: check-in | Opposite – Verb: check out
fair /feə(r)/ Adjective
Collocates: check-in desk/counter | check out of something that is fair is right and reasonable. If you say to
somewhere be fair before or after a comment, you mean that you are
check-in is after midday just saying something that is true and honest
to be fair, it’s several years since I missed a plane | I know we all
• registrarse laughed, but he has got a good voice, to be fair
connection /kəˈnekʃ(ə)n/ Noun
a connection is a bus, train, or plane that sets off at a time • justo / a
that allows passengers to get off an earlier bus, train, or go through /ˌɡəʊ ˈθruː/ Phrasal verb
plane in order to continue their journey if you go through a place, you pass through it on your way
we had an hour to get our connection in Paris | our plane to another place
was delayed from London and I missed my connection at it took ages to go through security | we went through Lyon on
Amsterdam our way to Avignon | you have to go through the bedroom to
Verb: connect get to the bathroom
• conexión • atravesar

introduce /ˌɪntrəˈdjuːs/ Verb realise /ˈrɪəlaɪz/ Verb
if you introduce something, you start doing it or using it if you realise that something is true, you know or
monthly meetings were introduced last year | the government understand that it is true
wants to introduce a new tax law I realised that reading was actually enjoyable | I didn’t realise it
Noun: introduction was so late
Collocates: the introduction of something Noun: realisation
another great event was the introduction of the Internet I came to the gradual realisation that I wanted to be a
musician, not a lawyer
• introducir
• darse cuenta
land /lænd/ Verb
when a plane lands, it comes back down to the ground after repair /rɪˈpeə(r)/ Noun
a journey if you repair something that is broken or not working
properly, you mend it. The work that you do is a repair
our plane landed on time | we’re due to land at 6:30
Collocates: a repair to something
Opposite – Verb: take off
the car needs a few small repairs | the repairs to the roof were
every day at Heathrow 1,400 flights take off and land
completed last month | the necessary repairs cost over £7,000
• aterrizar Verb: repair
line /laɪn/ Noun • reparación

a line, or a railway line is track that trains travel along
replace /rɪˈpleɪs/ Verb
the train had to stop because there was something on the line
if you replace something, you remove it and put something
| there’s a direct line from London to Paris (you don’t have to
new in its place
change trains on the way)
Collocates: replace something with something
• vía they’re going to knock down the factory and replace it with a
shopping centre | Sally was ill, so Jenny replaced her for the first
miss /mɪs/ Verb match
if you miss a bus, train, or plane, you do not get on it
Noun: replacement
because you arrive too late at the bus stop, station,
or airport Collocates: a replacement for someone or something
I missed my flight to Paris | hurry up, or you’ll miss the train | they gave him a replacement for his watch
luckily, the train left late so we didn’t miss it
• reemplazar
• perder
security /sɪˈkjʊərəti/ Noun uncount
on the way /ɒn ðə ˈweɪ/ Phrase security is all the systems and actions that help to protect a
if you are on the way somewhere, you are travelling there place. Security at an airport is the place where you and your
but have not arrived yet bags are checked to make sure you are not carrying guns or
bombs
we got stuck in traffic on the way here | Roger was very quiet
on the way home it took ages to go through security | there is now much tighter
security at all airports
• en camino
• seguridad
passenger /ˈpæsɪndʒə(r)/ Noun
a passenger is someone who is travelling on a bus, train, set /set/ Verb
plane, etc. if you set a machine, you move the controls so that it will
operate in the way you want it to or at the time you want it
Collocates: rail/bus/tube/coach passengers
to
the coach can carry 60 passengers | rail passengers face rising
I set my alarm clock for 6:30 | set the timer on the oven so we
ticket prices
know when to turn it off | set the scales to zero before you
weigh anything
• pasajero / a
plenty /ˈplenti/ Pronoun • poner

if there is plenty of something, there is a lot of it, and
stuck /stʌk/ Adjective
enough of it for what you want to do
if you are stuck somewhere, you cannot move easily or get
Collocates: plenty of something away even though you want to
I got to the boarding gate in plenty of time | no more coffee for we were stuck inside thanks to the rain | several vehicles
me, thanks. I’ve had plenty became stuck in the snow
• bastante • atascado / a
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take off /ˈteɪk ˌɒf/ Phrasal verb clear up /ˌklɪə(r) ˈʌp/ Phrasal verb
when a plane takes off, it leaves the ground and starts flying if you clear up or clear a place up, you make it clean and tidy
through the air and get rid of anything that is not wanted there
we didn’t take off till after 9 o’clock | the pilot announced we’d it took us hours to clear up after the party | we need to clear
be taking off in five minutes this mess up before Mum gets home
Noun: take-off | Opposite – Verb: land
• ordenar
passengers must keep seat belts fastened during take-off
and landing closed /kləʊzd/ Adjective
if a place is closed, people are not allowed to go there
• despegar
East Ham station is closed because of a flood | the motorway is
thriller /ˈθrɪlə(r)/ Noun completely closed for repair work
a thriller is a book or film that is very exciting and makes you Verb: close
always want to know what is going to happen next. Thrillers they had to close the road for repairs
are usually about crime or spies
I was reading a thriller till after midnight | he’s written two • cerrado / a
thrillers
coach /kəʊtʃ/ Noun
• novela de suspense a coach is a bus that is used for long journeys
I took a coach from London to Paris | do you know what time
unfortunately /ʌnˈfɔː(r)tʃ(ə)nətli/ Adverb the coach leaves?
if something is unfortunate, it is rather sad and
disappointing. You say unfortunately when you are • autobús
describing something unfortunate that has happened
unfortunately, I got there too late and missed my plane | My crash /kræʃ/ Verb
uncle, unfortunately, had to stay behind if cars, lorries, planes, etc. crash, they hit other vehicles
or objects with a lot of force, often injuring people and
Adjective: unfortunate | Opposite – Adverb: fortunately
causing damage
• desafortunadamente a lorry crashed earlier this morning on the A516 | he crashed
into a tree
Noun: crash
there’s been a serious crash on the motorway
afford /əˈfɔː(r)d/ Verb
if you can’t afford something, you don’t have enough • chocar
money to be able to pay for it
she can’t afford a new car | I could never afford to live in London cycle /ˈsaɪk(ə)l/ Verb
if you cycle somewhere, you go there riding on a bicycle
Adjective: affordable
I cycle to work, even when it rains | we cycled 300 miles in four
the flights are more affordable if you book in advance
days
• permitir(se) Noun: cyclist
my father’s a keen cyclist
cancel /ˈkæns(ə)l/ Verb
if you cancel an event that was planned, you decide that it • ir en bicicleta
will not happen
the train was cancelled because there was no driver | they had deal /diːl/ Noun
to cancel the meeting at the last minute a deal is an agreement between people who have discussed
a problem or business arrangement
• cancelar Collocates: make/strike a deal
after hours of talks a deal was struck | I’ll make a deal with you
charge /tʃɑː(r)dʒ/ Verb
– you can borrow the car if you put some petrol in it for me
if you charge someone an amount of money, you ask them
to give you that amount when you sell something to them
• trato
or do a job for them
Collocates: charge (someone) for (doing) something flooding /ˈflʌdɪŋ/ Noun uncount
he charged us £200 for painting the windows | do you charge flooding is a situation when a large amount of water comes
for delivery? into an area or building where it is not meant to be
Noun: charge East Ham station is closed because of flooding | flooding
caused serious damage to the school
a £5 delivery charge
Noun: flood | Verb: flood
• cargo
• inundación

hire /ˈhaɪə(r)/ Verb mess /mes/ Noun
if you hire something, you pay to use it for a short time and a mess is an untidy place with lots of rubbish and things
then give it back that are not wanted
we hired a car for a week | let’s hire a boat for the day Collocates: be in a mess
Noun: hire the road is shut while the police clear up the mess | the flat’s a
Collocates: on hire | for hire bit of a mess at the moment
we’ve got a boat on hire for the summer Adjective: messy
• contratar • desorden
huge /hjuːdʒ/ Adjective nightmare /ˈnaɪtˌmeə(r)/ Noun

something that is huge is extremely big a nightmare is a very frightening dream. You can refer to a
really unpleasant or worrying situation as a nightmare
they’re putting up a huge building near the park | most of the
rooms are huge but the kitchen is tiny Collocates: a nightmare about something | give someone
nightmares
Adverb: hugely
the baby screamed all the way there; it was a nightmare |
a hugely successful company
watching horror films gives me nightmares
• enorme
• pesadilla
lane /leɪn/ Noun
overnight /ˌəʊvə(r)ˈnaɪt/ Adverb
a lane on a big road is one of the parts that cars and other
if something happens overnight, it happens during
vehicles drive along. A bus lane or cycle lane is a part of the
the night
road where only buses or bicycles are allowed
we decided to travel overnight | are you going to
he got a fine for driving in a bus lane | we need more cycle
stay overnight?
lanes in the town centre
Adjective: overnight
• carril
• por la noche
let /let/ Verb park /pɑː(r)k/ Verb
to let someone go somewhere or do something means to
if you park a car, you stop it and leave it somewhere for a
allow them to go there or do that
while until you need to drive it again
the driver stopped after two hours to let the passengers get
we drove round for ages looking for somewhere to park |
some fresh air | I rang the bell and waited for someone to let
we parked in the car park next to the supermarket
me in | they wouldn’t let me see my grandfather when he was
in hospital Adjective: parked | Noun: parking
the bus lost control and drove into a line of parked cars
• permitir
• estacionar
licence /ˈlaɪs(ə)ns/ Noun
a licence is an official document that gives you permission public transport /ˌpʌblɪk ˈtrænspɔː(r)t/ Noun uncount
to do something ordinary people can be referred to as the public. Public
do you need a licence to ride a motorbike? | you must have a transport is buses, trains, etc. which anyone can use if they
full driving licence to hire a car have a ticket
most people go to work on public transport | despite the snow,
• permiso public transport is running normally
load /ləʊd/ Noun • transporte público

a load is the thing or quantity of things or goods that is
being carried in a vehicle at one time. To load a vehicle rail /reɪl/ Noun uncount
means to put a load into it rail is the system of trains and railways
the truck was carrying a huge load | the lorry had a heavy load there’s a really fast rail service between Rome and Milan |
and went slowly up the hill a high speed rail network
Verb: load || Opposite – Verb: unload
• raíl
• carga
renew /rɪˈnjuː/ Verb
if you renew something that is old or broken, you replace it
with something new
they’re carrying out repair work to renew the underground |
the garage door was renewed last year
• renovar
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replacement /rɪˈpleɪsmənt/ Noun service /ˈsɜː(r)vɪs/ Noun

a replacement is something that takes the place of another a service is a particular area of activity that provides
thing that you no longer have or can use something that people need, like transport, hospitals,
Collocates: a replacement for something or someone electricity, etc.
they gave him a replacement for his watch | several of the sales a regular bus service between Plymouth and Torquay | we need
team are leaving, so we’ll have to find replacements for them more money for the police service
Verb: replace
• servicio
Collocates: replace something with something
skill /skɪl/ Noun
• reemplazar a skill is an ability to do something well
I’ve got good computer skills | it’s important to keep learning
ride /raɪd/ Verb
new skills
if you ride a bike or a motorbike, you sit on it and make it go.
You also say that you ride a horse Adjective: skilful
I was only four when I learnt to ride a bike | I’ve never ridden a
• destreza
horse in my life
Noun: rider stretch /stretʃ/ Verb
the motorbike rider was badly injured in the crash if you stretch a part of your body, you push it or make it
straight, so that the muscles become long
• montar it’s important to stretch your muscles before you do exercise |
I sat up in bed and stretched
run /rʌn/ Verb
if buses or trains are running, they are regularly taking • estirar
passengers to places
trains between London and Birmingham are now running test /test/ Noun
normally | the train runs every 30 minutes (one leaves every 30 a test is a set of questions that you have to answer in order
minutes) to show how much you know about a subject
Collocates: a weekly/monthly test | a written/oral test |
• en servicio a practical test
a maths test | you have half an hour to complete the test
scream /skriːm/ Verb
if someone screams, they shout in a very loud, high voice Verb: test
because they are frightened, in pain, or
very excited • prueba
the girls were screaming with laughter | don’t scream or I’ll travel card /ˈtræv(ə)l ˌkɑː(r)d/ Noun
shoot! a travel card is a ticket that lets you use buses and trains in a
Noun: scream city for a certain amount of time
the silence was broken by a scream from somewhere in the Collocates: a one-day/weekly etc. travel card
garden buy a travel card and you can go round the city all day |
a three-day travel card
• gritar
• tarjeta de transporte
search /sɜː(r)tʃ/ Verb
if you search a place, you look in it carefully in order to find trouble /ˈtrʌb(ə)l/ Noun uncount
something that is lost or hidden trouble is a problem or difficult situation
my bag was searched at the airport | 100 police officers are Collocates: have (some) trouble
searching the area
expect a bit of trouble on the M25 because of heavy traffic |
Noun: search we had some trouble finding the hotel
Collocates: conduct/carry out a search | a
thorough search • problema
police conducted a thorough search (a very detailed search) of
truck /trʌk/ Noun
the area
a truck is a very large road vehicle that is used for carrying
goods. In British English, the word lorry is often used instead
• registrar
of truck
Collocates: a truck driver
there was a long line of cars stuck behind a truck | the cafe was
full of truck drivers
• camión

van /væn/ Noun wardrobe /ˈwɔː(r)drəʊb/ Noun
a van is a road vehicle used for carrying things. Vans are a wardrobe is a large cupboard where you can hang your
bigger than cars but smaller than lorries clothes
the two men were taken away in a police van | I never keep my Collocates: a fitted/built-in wardrobe
equipment in the van overnight there were two wardrobes in the bedroom | a
built-in wardrobe (which is part of the house and cannot
• camioneta be moved)
vehicle /ˈviːɪk(ə)l/ Noun
• armario
a vehicle is a machine with an engine such as a car, van, or
lorry, that carries people and or goods on roads
you can hire any sort of vehicle there | 25 vehicles were
involved in the accident on the motorway
• vehículo
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Student’s Book Pages 34–35 option /ˈɒpʃ(ə)n/ Noun
an option is something that you can choose
choice /tʃɔɪs/ Noun
if there is a choice, you can choose between different things they don’t have any vegetarian options | we have two options
– we can walk or go by bus
Collocates: a choice of something | have no choice
Adjective: optional
there’s a choice of three desserts | all the other tables were
reserved so we had no choice • opción
Verb: choose
portion /ˈpɔː(r)ʃ(ə)n/ Noun
• elección a portion of food is an amount that is served to one person
at a meal
complain /kəmˈpleɪn/ Verb Collocates: a portion of something
if you complain about something, you say that there is
something wrong and that you are not satisfied with it it was quite expensive and the portions were very small |
I ordered a sandwich and a portion of chips
Collocates: complain about something | complain to
someone | complain that • porción
you should complain to the manager | customers complained
that the prices were too high programme /ˈprəʊɡræm/ Noun
a programme is an individual broadcast on radio
Noun: complaint
or television
Collocates: make a complaint
there was a really interesting programme on BBC1 last night |
I’d like to make a complaint (to complain about something) she makes documentary programmes for the radio
• quejarse • programa
cookery /ˈkʊk(ə)ri/ Noun uncount properly /ˈprɒpə(r)li/ Adverb
cookery is the activity of preparing and cooking food if you do something properly, you do it well or in the correct
Collocates: a cookery programme | a cookery class way
I don’t really like cookery programmes | he opened a cookery the fish wasn’t cooked properly | my phone isn’t
school in Cirencester working properly
Adjective: proper
• cocina
delicious /dɪˈlɪʃəs/ Adjective • apropiadamente

food that is delicious tastes or smells very nice recipe /ˈresəpi/ Noun
the dessert was delicious | that was a delicious meal a recipe is a set of instructions for making a
particular dish
• delicioso / a Collocates: a recipe for something | follow a recipe
disgusting /dɪsˈɡʌstɪŋ/ Adjective I didn’t follow the recipe properly, and it came out all soft on
something that is disgusting is horrible and makes you the outside | I get all my recipes online now
feel sick
the food was disgusting | what’s that disgusting smell? • receta
rude /ruːd/ Adjective

• asqueroso / a if someone is rude, they speak or behave in a way that is not
grilled /ɡrɪld/ Adjective polite and which might upset people
grilled food has been cooked under very strong heat they are such rude children | he was extremely rude to his aunt
do you want your steak fried or grilled? | grilled food is Adverb: rudely
healthier for you than fried food he pushed past her rudely and took the last seat
Verb: grill | Noun: grill
I prefer to grill my burgers • grosero / a
• a la parrilla

seat /siːt/ Noun contain /kənˈteɪn/ Verb
a seat is a chair, or a place to sit to contain something means to have it inside
the restaurant often gets busy, so you have to wait for a seat | does the dish contain meat? | the box contained my old
all the seats on the train were reserved wedding dress
Noun: container
• asiento
• contener
terrace /ˈterəs/ Noun
a terrace is an area just outside a building or room where dessert /dɪˈzɜː(r)t/ Noun
you can sit a dessert is a dish of sweet food that you eat at the end of a
you can have dinner on the terrace | the restaurant has a meal
terrace with a great view over the sea what’s for dessert? | all the desserts were delicious
• terraza • postre
get past /ˌɡet ˈpɑːst/ Phrasal verb

Student’s Book Pages 36–37 if you want to get past, you want to go from one side of
bean /biːn/ Noun something to the other, and there is not very much space
beans are the seeds of some plants that are eaten as food. for you to go through
Some beans are dried so that they will keep for a long time could you move your chair a little so I can get past? | there was
it’s a lovely dish of fried rice and black beans | I grow beans in a car in the way and I couldn’t get past
my garden
• pasar
• alubia
herb /hɜː(r)b/ Noun
bill /bɪl/ Noun a herb is a plant with leaves that are used to add flavour to
a bill is a list which shows you how much you have to pay food
for something that you have received mint is an easy herb to grow in your garden | add some
Collocates: pay a bill chopped herbs before you serve it
could we have the bill please? | I forgot to pay the electricity bill
• hierba
• cuenta
jug /dʒʌɡ/ Noun
bitter /ˈbɪtə(r)/ Adjective a jug is a container for holding and pouring liquids
something that is bitter has a strong taste that is the Collocates: a jug of something
opposite of sweet could we have a jug of tap water please? | she put a jug of milk
if it’s too bitter, add some sugar | they taste quite bitter | it had on the table
a horrible, bitter taste
• jarra
• amargo / a
leg /leɡ/ Noun
book /bʊk/ Verb a leg is an animal’s leg that is eaten as food
if you book something, you arrange to have it or use it at a a roast leg of lamb | to serve four, you need two chicken legs
particular time in the future
Collocates: book a table/seat/ticket • pata
I’d like to book a table for four | you can book your tickets by
mild /maɪld/ Adjective
phone or online
food that is mild does not have a strong taste
Noun: booking
I prefer mild cheese | I asked for a hot curry, but it’s actually
Collocates: make a booking rather mild
can I make a booking for next Saturday, please?
• suave
• reservar
cloth /klɒθ/ Noun

a cloth is a small piece of material that you use for cleaning
things
could we have a cloth, please? | wipe the table with a damp
cloth (one that is slightly wet)
• trapo
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offer /ˈɒfə(r)/ Noun request /rɪˈkwest/ Noun

if you offer someone something, you ask them if they would if you make a request, you ask someone in a polite way if
like it and tell them they can have it if they want it. When they will do something
you say something like this, you are making an offer Collocates: a request for something
Collocates: accept an offer | make an offer | an offer of it wasn’t an order, just a polite request | I made a request for
something some information about the election
when you are making a polite offer, you should say “Would you Verb: request
like” rather than “Do you want” | I accepted her offer of a lift to
the pilot requested permission to land
the station
Verb: offer • solicitar
Collocates: offer to do something | offer something to
someone | offer someone something roast /rəʊst/ Adjective
if you roast food, you cook it in an oven, usually adding
• ofrecer some fat to it. Food that is cooked in this way is roast or
roasted, for example roast chicken or roasted vegetables
order /ˈɔː(r)də(r)/ Verb you can have roast, boiled, or fried potatoes | the roasted
when you order in a restaurant, you tell the waiter what you peppers were still too hot to eat
want to eat and drink
Verb: roast
are you ready to order? | Pete ordered another bottle of water
put the chicken in the oven and roast it for two hours
Noun: order
we’d been waiting an hour and our order still • asado / a
hadn’t arrived
salty /ˈsɔːlti/ Adjective
• pedir food that is salty has a strong taste of salt
the meat was too salty | eating salty food is not good for you
raw /rɔː/ Adjective
raw food has not been cooked • salado / a
a dish made with raw fish | you can eat them cooked or raw
seafood /ˈsiːˌfuːd/ Noun uncount
• crudo / a seafood is fish and other animals from the sea that you
can eat
ready /ˈredi/ Adjective I don’t really like seafood — I prefer meat | enjoy fresh, delicious
if you are ready to do something, you are prepared and able seafood in our three-star restaurant
to do it immediately
Collocates: be ready to do something • marisco
at the age of 16, I was ready to leave home | he was still getting
seed /siːd/ Noun
ready when the taxi arrived | aren’t you ready yet?
a seed is a small part of a plant that grows into a new plant
when it is in the ground. Some seeds can be eaten as food
• listo / a
I bought some seeds to grow herbs in my kitchen | you could
reasonable /ˈriːz(ə)nəb(ə)l/ Adjective add sunflower seeds to your breakfast cereal
if you think the price of something is reasonable, you think
it is not too expensive and is good value for money • semilla
the prices here are quite reasonable | it’s difficult to get a good
shell /ʃel/ Noun
meal for a reasonable price near the station
a shell is the hard part on the outside of some sea animals
Adverb: reasonably
they’re a kind of seafood with a big shell | we spent the
Collocates: reasonably priced morning looking for shells on the beach
the evening meal was tasty and reasonably priced
• concha
• razonable
skin /skɪn/ Noun
the skin on a fruit or vegetable is the part on the outside
it’s a kind of green fruit with a very thick skin | I eat apples with
the skin on
• piel

soft /sɒft/ Adjective tip /tɪp/ Noun
something that is soft is not hard and changes shape easily a tip is an extra amount of money that you give when
when you press it you pay for a meal in a restaurant or for a service that you
the fruit should be soft and sweet | cook the potatoes until they have had
are soft | a lovely soft pillow Collocates: leave a tip
shall we leave a tip, or is the service included? | most
• suave hairdressers rely on tips because their pay is very low
spicy /ˈspaɪsi/ Adjective Verb: tip
spicy food has a strong flavour because it is cooked with
special seeds or powders called spices • propina
it was served with a spicy sauce | I find Indian food too spicy
Noun: spice Student’s Book Pages 38–39
I love to cook with herbs and spices blood /blʌd/ Noun uncount
blood is the red liquid that carries oxygen around your
• picante body, and which is pumped by your heart
he lost a lot of blood after the accident | I can’t stand the sight
stone /stəʊn/ Noun
of blood
the stone in a fruit is the very hard part in the middle that
you don’t eat
• sangre
it’s a green fruit with a very big stone in the middle | cut the
fruit in half and remove the stone concerned /kənˈsɜː(r)nd/ Adjective
if you are concerned about something, it is important to you
• semilla and you think about it seriously or worry about it
Collocates: be concerned about something
suggestion /səˈdʒestʃ(ə)n/ Noun
if you make a suggestion, you describe a plan or possibility people are becoming more concerned about their health |
for someone to consider concerned members of the public asked for a meeting with
the police
Collocates: make a suggestion
Noun: concern
can I make a suggestion? | as always, your suggestions are
welcome Collocates: express concern | cause concern | a main
concern
Verb: suggest
• Preocupado / a
• sugerencia
consist /kənˈsɪst/ Verb
sweet /swiːt/ Adjective
if something consists of different things, it is made of those
food that is sweet tastes as if there is a lot of sugar in it
things
what you need is a cup of hot, sweet tea | these oranges are
Collocates: consist of something
really sweet
the dish consists of eggs and lemon juice with a lot of sugar |
• dulce the committee consisted of seven elected members
tap /tæp/ Noun • consistir

a tap is an object that controls the flow of water, for
example into a sink or bath. If you drink tap water, you drink PREPOSITIONS
water that has come from a tap and not from Many words commonly go with prepositions.
a bottle
consist of water, sugar and fruit
Collocates: turn a tap on/off | a hot/cold tap
experiment with different ingredients
the bathroom had gold-coloured taps | turn the hot tap off if
the water gets too hot we’re still open to suggestions
she was very concerned about her son’s exam results
• grifo Notice any prepositions when you learn words and
expressions. There are exercises at the end of each unit in the
thick /θɪk/ Adjective Vocabulary Builder that test you on prepositions.
something that is thick is not thin
a pair of thick socks | the walls are very thick | she’s got lovely
thick hair
• grueso / a
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experiment /ɪkˈsperɪˌment/ Verb link /lɪŋk/ Verb

if you experiment, you try new and different things if one thing is linked to another, or if two things are linked,
Collocates: experiment with something there is a strong connection between them
they wouldn’t experiment with anything new at breakfast | Collocates: link something to something
I began to experiment with different paint colours cigarettes are strongly linked to cancer | the two facts are
Noun: experiment directly linked
we bought some ostrich meat as an experiment Noun: link
Collocates: a link between things
• experimentar the police have discovered a link between the two cases
grab /ɡræb/ Verb
• conectar
if you grab something such as food or a drink, you take it
from somewhere very quickly, especially because you are in mixture /ˈmɪkstʃə(r)/ Noun
a hurry a mixture of different things is a lot of them all together
I’ll just grab a quick coffee on my way to work | there’s no time Collocates: a mixture of something
for lunch | I’ll grab a sandwich at the station | she grabbed a tin
a mixture of different musical styles | bread is basically a
of cola on her way into the lecture
mixture of flour and water that is then baked
• agarrar Verb: mix | Noun: mix
habit /ˈhæbɪt/ Noun • mezcla

someone’s habits are the things that they do regularly as
part of their daily life open /ˈəʊpən/ Adjective
if you are open to something new, you are very willing to
my sleeping habits have changed since I came back to Europe |
consider it or try it
he has a habit of singing to himself in the bath
Collocates: be open to something
• costumbre I’m always open to trying new things | there’s been no final
decision yet, and we’re still open to suggestions
health /helθ/ Noun uncount
your health is the condition of your body. If you are in good • abierto / a
health, you are well, and you can also say that you are
healthy. If you are in bad health, you are ill proper /ˈprɒpə(r)/ Adjective
Collocates: be in good/bad/poor health something that is proper is correct, and is exactly how it is
meant to be
the report looked at areas like health and education | she was
in very good health you should eat a proper meal, not this fast food | make sure he
gets proper medical treatment
Adjective: healthy
Adverb: properly
• salud my phone isn’t working properly
include /ɪnˈkluːd/ Verb • correcto / a

if one thing includes another, the second thing is a part of
the first thing secret /ˈsiːkrət/ Noun
breakfast includes tea or strong coffee among other things | a secret is something that not very many people know
the concert included two pieces by Beethoven about because people do not talk about it
Collocates: keep a secret
• incluir many Bulgarians believe that the secret behind their long life is
their yoghurt | can you keep a secret? (not tell anyone)
lifestyle /ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/ Noun
someone’s lifestyle is the way they live, the things they do Adjective: secret
for work and pleasure, the way they spend their money, etc.
• secreto
Collocates: a healthy lifestyle | a simple lifestyle | an active
lifestyle serve /sɜː(r)v/ Verb
people’s lifestyles are too busy these days | we lived a simple when you serve food, you give it to someone on a plate
lifestyle out in the country ready for them to eat. When food is served in a restaurant,
someone brings it to you
• estilo de vida it’s usually served with chips and peas | I’m going to serve the
soup with home-made bread | we were served by a very polite
waiter
• servir

snack /snæk/ Noun typical /ˈtɪpɪk(ə)l/ Adjective
a snack is a small amount of food that people eat that is not something that is typical is usual and has the same features
part of their regular meals as other things of the same kind
Collocates: have a snack what’s a typical breakfast in your country? | my typical day
do you eat any snacks between meals? | I had a snack on the starts at 7 when the alarm clock goes off
way home Adverb: typically
Verb: snack class sizes are typically around 18 to 20 students
Collocates: snack on something
• típico / a
• refrigerio
space /speɪs/ Noun uncount

space is the area up in the sky and beyond, where the moon ban /bæn/ Verb
and stars are. A space station is a small building in space if someone in authority bans something, they do not allow
the first Korean astronaut took special kimchi with him to the it. If they ban someone from doing something, they do not
international space station! | Yuri Gagarin was the first person allow them to do it
in space Collocates: ban someone from doing something
my parents banned me from playing video games | he was
• espacio banned from driving for two years
stall /stɔːl/ Noun Noun: ban | Adjective: banned
a stall is a table outside, for example in a market or on the the public smoking ban was introduced in 2007
street, where people sell things
there are stalls on the street selling hot food | I got this from a • prohibir
book stall
remove /rɪˈmuːv/ Verb
if you remove something, you take it away from where
• puesto
it is
stomach /ˈstʌmək/ Noun it’s difficult to remove the smell | the police removed some cars
your stomach is the part of your body where food goes from the main shopping street
when you eat it Noun: removal
don’t take this medicine on an empty stomach (if you haven’t removal of the seat cover is quite easy
eaten anything recently) | my stomach was rumbling (making
a noise because I was hungry) • quitar
• estómago spread /spred/ Verb

if something spreads, it moves or grows and affects a larger
traditional /trəˈdɪʃ(ə)nəl/ Adjective area
traditional beliefs, activities, etc. have existed for a long time
Collocates: spread through an area | spread to somewhere
and have not changed or become more modern
unfortunately, the cancer continued to spread | the fire spread
I like a traditional English breakfast when I’m on holiday |
quickly through the farm buildings
our furniture is made by hand in the traditional way
Noun: spread
Noun: tradition | Adverb: traditionally
Collocates: the spread of something
it’s a tradition to have candles on a birthday cake
closing the border won’t stop the spread of the disease
• tradicional
• extender(se)
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5 RELAX
Student’s Book Pages 44–45 court /kɔː(r)t/ Noun
a court is an area of ground where you play games such as
admit /ədˈmɪt/ Verb tennis, volleyball, or basketball
if you admit that something is true, you say that it is true,
even if it is embarrassing for you Collocates: a tennis/volleyball/basketball court
I must admit, I don’t like swimming in outdoor pools | I have to the players have been on court (playing) for over two hours |
admit that I have never read Hamlet there’s a public basketball court in the park
• admitir • cancha
cards /kɑː(r)d/ Noun fishing /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/ Noun uncount

a card or a playing card is a small piece of cardboard that fishing is the activity of trying to catch fish in a river or
has numbers or pictures on it, used for playing games. A the sea
pack of cards usually has 52 cards in it. If you play cards, you Collocates: go fishing | a fishing rod
play a game using a pack of cards I went fishing yesterday | do you want to come fishing with me
Collocates: a pack/deck of cards | deal the cards tomorrow?
he always cheats when he plays cards | it’s your turn to deal the
• pesca
cards (give them out to the players at the start of the game)
forgetful /fə(r)ˈɡetf(ə)l/ Adjective
• naipes someone who is forgetful keeps forgetting things
clear /klɪə(r)/ Adjective as he grew older, he became more and more forgetful |
if a substance is clear, you can see through it easily he’s very forgetful, so I was surprised that he remembered
the water is really clear | a clear glass bottle my birthday
• traslúcido / a • despistado / a
client /ˈklaɪənt/ Noun gear /ɡɪə(r)/ Noun uncount

a client is person who is paying someone for a professional gear is the equipment you need to do a particular activity,
service especially a sports activity
she had an appointment with a client at three o’clock | his Collocates: fishing/swimming/cycling, etc. gear
clients include a number of famous actors don’t forget to bring your fishing gear | he was wearing his
cycling gear
• cliente
• equipamiento
come round /ˌkʌm ˈraʊnd/ Phrasal verb
if someone comes round, they come to your home to visit lazy /ˈleɪzi/ Adjective
you someone who is lazy does not like working or making any
we’ve got friends coming round on Sunday | why don’t you effort to do things
come round after work for a cup of tea? I’m too lazy to cook for myself | He’s so lazy! Still in bed at
12 o’clock
• visitar Noun: laziness
conservative /kənˈsɜː(r)vətɪv/ Adjective the biggest reason he failed his exams was his laziness
someone who is conservative does not like change or new
ideas • perezoso / a
he’s rather old-fashioned and very conservative | I couldn’t help loser /ˈluːzə(r)/ Noun
laughing at his conservative attitudes a loser is someone who has lost a game or competition.
If someone is a bad loser, they behave badly and
• conservador / a become angry when they lose because they are upset or
disappointed. A good loser is someone who behaves well
course /kɔː(r)s/ Noun when they lose
a course is a large area of land used for playing golf or for
horse races Collocates: a bad/good loser
is there a golf course near here? | our nearest race course is at I was such a bad loser when I was a child | the winner gets a bar
Sandown Park of chocolate, the loser gets nothing
Verb: lose
• campo
• perdedor / a

loud /laʊd/ Adjective rod /rɒd/ Noun
someone who is loud behaves in a very lively way and a rod or a fishing rod is a long thin piece of wood or plastic
doesn’t talk quietly but always in a loud voice which you use to try and catch fish. A thin line, or fishing
she never liked her brother’s friends, who were all loud and line, goes from the rod into the water. The fishing line has
aggressive | he’s a bit loud at times, but he’s been a good friend a hook on the end of it which is used to pull the fish out of
to me the water
I got a new fishing rod for Christmas | I can lend you a rod if
• ruidoso / a you forgot to bring one with you
messy /ˈmesi/ Adjective • caña

someone who is messy does not keep things tidy. A messy
place is very untidy track /træk/ Noun
my sister’s room is so messy | he’s a messy eater (he always a track is a place with marks on the ground where people
drops food or spreads it over his face and clothes) run in organised races
Noun: mess an indoor running track | a race track (where horses race)
your bedroom is such a mess!
• pista
• desordenado / a unfit /ʌnˈfɪt/ Adjective
if you are unfit, your body is not very strong or healthy
-Y because you do not do enough exercise
Many adjectives ending in -y are based on nouns. For I was so unfit that I had to rest half way up the stairs |
example: he was too unfit to join the football club
He’s quite messy. Clear the mess in the kitchen. Opposite – Adjective: fit
It’s lucky you’re here. Good luck with the exam! Collocates: keep fit
I eat a lot of healthy food. He’s in good health. I walk a lot to keep fit
I like spicy food. Add some spices to the dish.
My car’s dirty. He has dirt on his jeans. • que no está en forma
up /ʌp/ Adverb

pitch /pɪtʃ/ Noun if you are up, you have got out of bed in the morning
a pitch is an area of land where you play games such as
football or rugby I won’t be up before 11 tomorrow | she was always up by 7
ready for her morning run
Collocates: a football/rugby/hockey pitch
at last, the teams ran onto the pitch | the rugby pitch was too • levantado / a
wet to play on
warm up /ˈwɔː(r)m ʌp/ Phrasal verb
• campo if you warm up, or if something warms you up, you become
warmer after you have been cold for a while
pool /puːl/ Noun the water’s cold, but you’ll soon warm up | here, have some
a pool, or a swimming pool, is an area of water that has been soup. This should warm you up
built for people to swim in
Collocates: an outdoor/indoor pool | a heated pool • calentar
it costs £2 to go into our local swimming pool | the leisure
centre has an indoor pool as well as a heated outdoor pool Student’s Book Pages 46–47
• piscina aim /eɪm/ Verb
if you aim to do something, you try to do it successfully
racket /ˈrækɪt/ Noun Collocates: aim to do something
a racket is the thing that you use to hit the ball in games
players aim to kick or head the ball over the net | the campaign
such as tennis
aims to inform people about healthy living
Collocates: a tennis/badminton/squash racket
Noun: aim
an expensive tennis racket | with modern rackets you can hit
Collocates: a main aim
the ball incredibly hard
what are the main aims of the project?
• raqueta
• aspirar
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banned /bænd/ Adjective cheat /tʃiːt/ Verb

if something is banned, it is not allowed to happen because if you cheat, you deliberately break the rules in an exam or
of a law or rule game in order to do well
Collocates: be banned from doing something I’m sure my brother cheats when he plays cards | she got
the sport was banned for a while because of violence | two caught cheating in an exam
cyclists were accused of taking banned substances (drugs that Noun: cheat
were not allowed) he accused me of being a cheat
Verb: ban | Noun: ban
Collocates: ban someone from doing something | a ban on • hacer trampa
something | impose a ban | lift a ban
contrast /ˈkɒntrɑːst/ Noun
he’s been banned from driving for a year a contrast is a very noticeable difference between two
things. If one thing is in contrast to another, it is very
• prohibido / a different
beat /biːt/ Verb Collocates: in contrast | by contrast
if you beat someone in a game or competition, you win football is a simple game. In contrast, cricket is very
my brother always beats me when we play chess | Tottenham complicated | after a week in New York, Oxford was quite a
beat Chelsea 5–3 | I’ve played him at tennis every week for a contrast
year and I’ve never beaten him
• contraste
• dar una paliza
create /kriˈeɪt/ Verb
to create something means to make it start to exist
WORDS WITH SIMILAR MEANINGS
new sports are being created all the time | for every problem
Some words like win and beat have a similar meaning the Internet creates, it also brings a solution
and may be translated with one word in your language. Noun: creation
The difference is sometimes to do with grammar. For
since its creation in 2003, the company has made over a
example, you can’t ‘win someone’, you ‘beat them’. million cars
Sometimes the difference is to do with collocation. That’s
why it’s important to look at and learn the examples in the • crear
Vocabulary Builder.
crowd /kraʊd/ Noun
bet /bet/ Verb a crowd is a very large group of people in a place, for
if you bet, you try to win money by saying who you think example in a shopping centre or at a sports event
will win a race or game
it’s a sport that attracts big crowds | there was a huge crowd
Collocates: bet (something) on something | bet (someone) waiting to get in
that
Adjective: crowded
I bet £5 on Arsenal to win the cup | I bet you that Mo Farah will
win the next Olympics • multitud
Noun: bet | Noun: betting
DJ /ˈdiːˌdʒeɪ/ Noun
Collocates: place a bet
a DJ is someone who chooses the music in a club or at an
I want to place a bet on the next race (make a bet) event and plays the CDs or records
the DJ plays Brazilian music while the game is going on | she’s
• apuesta
a DJ at the local club
bounce /baʊns/ Verb Verb: DJ
if you bounce, you jump up and down on a soft surface. If a
ball bounces, it comes back after hitting a surface • disc jockey
do you like bouncing on a trampoline? | the ball bounced off
draw /drɔː/ Verb
the wall and broke a window
if you draw a sports match or game, you finish with the
Noun: bounce same number of points as the other person or team
let’s have a bounce on the trampoline we drew our last match 1–1 | Aston Villa drew with Liverpool
last Saturday
• rebotar
Noun: draw
Bournemouth scored in the last minute to get a draw
• empatar

earn /ɜː(r)n/ Verb mistake /mɪˈsteɪk/ Noun
money you earn is the money you are paid for doing if you make a mistake, you do something wrong or bad,
your job although you did not intend to
Collocates: earn money Collocates: by mistake | make a mistake
I deliver newspapers before school in the morning to earn I didn’t make a single mistake in the maths exam | it was a big
some money | how much does your dad earn? mistake to put so much salt in the soup
Noun: earnings
• error
average earnings rose again last year
opponent /əˈpəʊnənt/ Noun
• ganar an opponent is someone who is competing against you
feature /ˈfiːtʃə(r)/ Verb you have to try and get the ball in your opponent’s net |
to feature something means to include it as an it’s a driving game where you race against
important part different opponents
the Olympic Games feature around thirty sports | the film
• oponente
features several well-known Hollywood actors
Noun: feature originally /əˈrɪdʒ(ə)nəli/ Adverb
a car with a lot of special features if you describe how something originally happened, you are
talking about how it started
• incluir the game originally involved two teams on horses | the canal
was originally just 20 km long
handle /ˈhænd(ə)l/ Noun
a handle is the part of a device or tool that you hold in your • originalmente
hand when you are using it or if you have to pick it up
the handle of the frying pan was too hot to hold | outcome /ˈaʊtˌkʌm/ Noun
a plastic bucket with a metal handle the outcome of a process or activity is the final result of it
the final outcome was disappointing | the outcome of the
• mango election was a change of government
home /həʊm/ Adjective • resultado

in a sports competition, the home team is the team whose
pitch is being used for the match pace /peɪs/ Noun singular
I go to all of Slavia Prague’s home games | the home team are the pace of something is how fast it moves or changes. If an
wearing red athlete sets the pace, he or she goes at a fast speed and the
other competitors have to try and go at that speed too
Noun: home || Opposites – Adjective: away | Adverb: away
they set off at a fast pace, but had to slow down as they got
• local tired | the pace of change in the computer industry has been
extreme
kick /kɪk/ Verb
if you kick something, you hit it with your foot • paso
I kicked the ball through my neighbour’s window by mistake |
pass /pɑːs/ Verb
I slipped when I was trying to kick the ball
in a sport like football, if you pass the ball, you send it to
Noun: kick another player on your team without letting an opponent
if the door won’t open, give it a kick get the ball
Rooney passed to Kane who scored | I don’t like playing in the
• patear same team as Richard; he never passes
medal /ˈmed(ə)l/ Noun Noun: pass
a medal is a small round metal object that you sometimes a thirty yard pass found Hansen over on the left
get as a prize for winning a sports competition
Collocates: a gold/silver/bronze medal • dar un pase
I won a medal at our school sports day | Steve Redgrave has prevent /prɪˈvent/ Verb
won five gold medals at the Olympics (the prize for coming if you prevent something, you stop it from happening
first)
Collocates: prevent someone from doing something
• medalla they try to prevent the other team from scoring | we do
everything we can to prevent accidents
Noun: prevention
prevention of disease is better than treatment
• prevenir
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race /reɪs/ Verb support /səˈpɔː(r)t/ Verb

if you race somewhere, you go there very fast. In sport, if if you support a sports team, they are your favourite team
you race, you try to go a certain distance faster than the and you always want them to win, and you watch them play
other people in the competition whenever you can
riders have to train hard before they are allowed to race | the who do you support? | I’ve supported Real Madrid since I was
rabbit raced across the road a child
Noun: race Noun: supporter
who do you think will win the race? she’s a keen Manchester United supporter
• correr • apoyar
score /skɔː(r)/ Verb throw /θrəʊ/ Verb

if you score, you succeed in getting a point during a game. if you throw something, you make it go through the air
The score in a match is the number of points each player or using a quick action to release it from your hand
team has Collocates: throw something at something or someone
I scored twice but we still lost | Lineker scored 48 goals for how far can you throw a rugby ball? | some of the protestors
England threw stones at the police
Noun: score Noun: throw
what’s the score? it was a good throw that went straight to the player
• puntaje • tirar
season ticket /ˈsiːz(ə)n ˌtɪkɪt/ Noun time /taɪm/ Verb
a season ticket is a single ticket that allows you to go into a if you time something, you measure how long it takes
sports stadium or to make a journey by bus or train several
I don’t usually time myself, but I think I can swim 100 metres in
times during a certain period of time
about two minutes | he was timed at 3 minutes 59 seconds
I’ve got a season ticket, so I go to all the home games | the train
Noun: time
costs £14 a day, but it’s only £55 to buy a season ticket for a
week my best time for the 200 metres is 23.7 seconds
• abono de temporada • cronometrar
set /set/ Verb ugly /ˈʌɡli/ Adjective

if an athlete sets the pace, he or she goes at a fast speed and something that is ugly does not look very nice at all
the other competitors have to try and go at that speed too. the town hall is the ugliest building in my town | it was a very
If someone sets a standard, they do something very well large and rather ugly car | the dog had an extremely ugly face
which means that other people have to try and do as well Noun: ugliness
as that
there is so much ugliness in the world
in keirin, a cyclist sets the pace until the last 600 or
700 metres when everyone starts to sprint | the first iPhone set • feo / a
the standard that other phone companies had to follow
violence /ˈvaɪələns/ Noun uncount
• marcar violence is behaviour in which people fight or hit
each other
strength /streŋθ/ Noun uncount
the sport was banned for a while because of violence | I think
strength is physical power that you get from your muscles
there was too much violence in that film
which sport do you think needs the most strength? | I need to
Adjective: violent
build up my strength for the race next week
he was the victim of a violent attack in the street
Verb: strengthen
I do exercises every morning to strengthen my muscles • violencia
• fuerza

win /wɪn/ Verb detailed /ˈdiːteɪld/ Adjective
if you win a competition or game, you do better than something that is detailed has a lot of individual parts and
everyone else who is taking part features
I once won a medal in a running race at school | everyone some designs are very detailed and complicated | a detailed
expected England to win the match, but Wales beat them in description of the robber | I took detailed notes of the speech
the end | Germany won the World Cup in 2014 | Spurs won
4–1 against Manchester City | I’ve never won anything playing • detallado / a
sport | how did you get on at the chess match? Did you win? |
Borg won Wimbledon five times, but never won the US Open difference /ˈdɪfrəns/ Noun
if something makes a difference, it changes a situation and
Noun: winner | Adjective: winning || Opposite – Verb: lose
usually makes it better
the winner will receive $25,000 | the winner of three Olympic
the extra money will definitely make a difference |
gold medals | he won the race in a winning time of 3 minutes
I tried talking to her again, but it made no difference (did not
47 seconds | England lost to Wales by just three points | I hate
change the situation)
losing | they lost the match by two goals to one
• diferencia
• ganar
dramatic /drəˈmætɪk/ Adjective
Student’s Book Pages 48–49 something that is dramatic is very sudden and extreme and
often surprising
baking /ˈbeɪkɪŋ/ Noun uncount
there was a dramatic increase in sales | you need to make a
baking is the activity of making bread, cakes, pies, etc. that
dramatic improvement if you’re going to pass your exams
you cook in an oven
Adverb: dramatically
I did some baking for my sister’s birthday party | I really enjoy
cooking, especially baking she had changed dramatically when she came back from
university
Verb: bake | Noun: baker
bake the loaf for 40 minutes • dramático / a
• repostería escape /ɪˈskeɪp/ Verb

if you escape something unpleasant, you succeed in getting
commercial /kəˈmɜː(r)ʃ(ə)l/ Adjective into a situation where you can avoid it or not have to
commerce is business. If something is commercial, it is experience it
related to business or making money
we go to the mountains to escape the summer heat | she
it’s a reaction against life becoming so commercial | the film narrowly escaped a serious injury in the crash (she only just
was a commercial success (it earned a lot of money) escaped)
• comercial • escapar
debt /det/ Noun fashion /ˈfæʃ(ə)n/ Noun
debt is the state of owing money to someone. A debt is an fashion is the style of something that is popular for a time.
amount of money that you owe If something is in fashion, it is popular and done, used,
Collocates: be in debt | get into debt | get out of debt | run or worn by a lot of people for a time. If it is out of fashion,
up a debt | pay back/pay off a debt people no longer want to do it, use it, or wear it
I hate being in debt | I managed to pay off all my debts once I Collocates: in fashion | out of fashion
got a job the Beatles’ music will never go out of fashion | they talked
about music, travel, and fashion
• deuda
Adjective: fashionable | Adverb: fashionably
depression /dɪˈpreʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount
if you suffer from depression, you are very unhappy in a way • moda
that affects your everyday life
fill /fɪl/ Verb
Collocates: severe depression | mild depression if you fill something, you make it full. If you fill in something,
many people take pills for depression | patients with severe you add writing or colours to it
depression might spend some time in hospital Collocates: fill (in) something with something
Adjective: depressed the children were told to fill in the pattern with different
colours | fill the saucepan with cold water
• depresión
• llenar
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growth /ɡrəʊθ/ Noun uncount publish /ˈpʌblɪʃ/ Verb

growth is an increase in the size or value of something to publish a book means to have it printed and made
Collocates: economic growth available for people to have or buy
the government has said economic growth is its main objective this book was originally published in the UK | my book’s going
| population growth is a problem in some countries to be published next year
Verb: grow Noun: publishing | Noun: publisher
she was hoping to get a job in publishing
• crecimiento
• publicar
make-up /ˈmeɪkʌp/ Noun uncount
make-up is different coloured stuff such as lipstick or rival /ˈraɪv(ə)l/ Noun
powder that some people put on their faces to make a rival is someone who is trying to be more successful than
themselves more attractive. Actors use make-up so that the you in an activity or competition
audience can see them more clearly Collocates: someone’s main/nearest/chief/closest/fiercest
I need to buy some more lipstick and other make-up | don’t rival | a bitter/deadly rival
forget to take your make-up off before you go to bed Radcliffe finished nearly two minutes ahead of her nearest
rival | they’d been bitter rivals for 20 years, but now they found
• maquillaje friendship
moderate /ˈmɒd(ə)rət/ Adjective
• rival
something that is moderate is not very large or small, and
not extreme in any way task /tɑːsk/ Noun
regular moderate exercise offers three main benefits | bake for a task is a particular piece of work or activity that someone
45 minutes in a moderate oven (not very hot) has to do
Adverb: moderately Collocates: give/set someone a task
the film was only moderately successful in the US the task of colouring is similar for children and adults | fitting
the glass in the window was not an easy task
• moderado / a
• tarea
occupy /ˈɒkjʊpaɪ/ Verb
if something occupies your mind or your attention, you therapy /ˈθerəpi/ Noun
spend time thinking about it and concentrating on it therapy is treatment for physical or mental problems that
colouring tasks will completely occupy their attention for an does not involve drugs or surgical operations. People
hour | take a book to occupy yourself while you’re waiting at sometimes say retail therapy when they mean shopping in
the airport order to suggest that shopping is good for you
I’d rather go to the gym than have therapy | what you need is
• ocupar some retail therapy to cheer you up!
Noun: therapist | Adjective: therapeutic
pattern /ˈpætə(r)n/ Noun
a pattern is a series of shapes and lines that are repeated
• terapia
regularly on a surface
the teacher got us to draw some complicated patterns | I love title /ˈtaɪt(ə)l/ Noun
the pattern on your curtains the title of a book, play, film, etc. is its name
Adjective: patterned when the publishers changed the titles, there was an increase
in sales | the book was first published under the title Sing your
• estampado Songs
personal /ˈpɜː(r)s(ə)nəl/ Adjective • título

something that is personal relates to just one single
individual and is not shared with anyone else
they asked for my personal details (how old I am, where I
live, etc.) | that’s a very personal question (one that asks for
information that people don’t usually tell to strangers)
Adverb: personally
the concert was good, though personally I prefer Lady GaGa to
Madonna
• personal

6 FAMILY AND FRIENDS

Student’s Book Pages 52–53 cousin /ˈkʌz(ə)n/ Noun
your cousin is a child of your uncle and aunt
apartment /əˈpɑː(r)tmənt/ Noun
an apartment is a set of rooms on one floor of a building, I’m going to stay with one of my cousins | she’s a cousin on my
where someone lives or stays on holiday. The usual British mother’s side (the daughter of my mother’s brother or sister)
word is flat
• primo / a
we shared an apartment in Gas Street | my dad rented an
apartment in Paris for a week divorce /dɪˈvɔː(r)s/ Verb
if married people divorce, they stop being legally married to
• apartamento each other
aunt /ɑːnt/ Noun she kept the house when we got divorced | he divorced his wife
your aunt is the sister of your mother or father, or the wife of after just two years of marriage
your uncle Noun: divorce | Adjective: divorced
aunt Mabel is my dad’s sister, which is why she looks like him | she told me she wants a divorce
all my aunts were there at the party
• divorcio
• tía
ex- /eks/ Prefix
close /kləʊs/ Adjective someone’s ex-wife is the woman they used to be married to.
if two people are close, they know each other very well and Someone’s ex-husband is the man they used to be married
are strong friends to. When people talk about “my ex”, they mean their former
there’s a big gap between us, but we’re very close | I was always husband or wife
closer to my mother than my father | I never made any close my ex-wife still lives in our old house | her ex-husband still
friends at university sends her a card on her birthday
Noun: ex
• cercano / a I haven’t seen my ex since the day we divorced
closely /ˈkləʊsli/ Adverb
if you work closely with another person, you see them and • ex-
talk to them a lot while you are doing a job together gap /ɡæp/ Noun
we work closely together | I worked very closely with her at the a gap is an empty space between two things. If you talk
beginning of the project about a gap in two people’s ages, you mean that one of
them is quite a lot older than the other one
• estrechamente in age, there’s a big gap between me and my brother | there’s a
colleague /ˈkɒliːɡ/ Noun ten-year age gap between us
a colleague is someone you work with
• hueco
he was always bringing colleagues home to play chess | I get
on with most of my colleagues, but I wouldn’t say we’re friends get on /ɡet ˈɒn/ Phrasal verb
if you get on with someone, you like them and have a
• compañero / a friendly relationship with them
connection /kəˈnekʃ(ə)n/ Noun Collocates: get on with someone
a connection is a relationship between people or things do you get on with the people you work with? | I never got on
Collocates: a connection between things or people with my boss
is there any connection between the two crimes? | I’d never met • congeniar
him before, but we discovered we had a family connection
get to know /ɡet/ Verb
• conexión if you get to do something, you succeed in doing it over a
period of time. If you get to know someone, you become
friendly with them over a period of time
Collocates: get to do something | get to know someone
we got to know each other at university | I thought he was rude
at first, but got to like him eventually
• conocer

immediately /ɪˈmiːdiətli/ Adverb trip /trɪp/ Noun
if something happens immediately, it happens quickly and a trip is a journey you make somewhere
with no delay Collocates: a business trip | a school trip
they moved next door last year and we immediately got on | I met her on a business trip | we went on a trip down the river to
come here immediately! Hampton Court
Adjective: immediate
• viaje
• inmediatamente
in-law /ɪn lɔː/ Suffix Student’s Book Pages 54–55

your mother-in-law, brother-in-law, etc. is the mother or aspect /ˈæspekt/ Noun
brother of your husband or wife. All the relatives of your an aspect of something is one of the different parts involved
husband or wife are your in-laws in it
I get on really well with my mother-in-law | her brother-in-law I like the fashion and design aspect of the business |
moved to Australia last year you have to consider the practical aspects of living on a boat
Noun: in-laws
• aspecto
• politico / a
attitude /ˈætɪˌtjuːd/ Noun
move /muːv/ Verb your attitude is how you think and feel about something
if you move, or move house, you go and live in a different it’s important to have a positive attitude towards your exams
place | what I appreciated the most was their can-do attitude (their
I lived in Gas Street when I first moved here | we’re moving belief that they could succeed)
house next week | I hate this house, but I can’t afford to move
• actitud
• mudarse
bright /braɪt/ Adjective
neighbour /ˈneɪbə(r)/ Noun someone who is bright is very clever and intelligent
your neighbours are the people who live very near you, in my sisters are both very bright | she’s the brightest kid
the same street. Your next-door neighbour is a person who in her class | he’s not very bright, but he’s brilliant
lives in the house or flat that is next to yours at football
Collocates: a next-door neighbour
we’re very lucky because our neighbours are lovely people | my • brillante
next-door neighbour always plays loud music at the weekends
calm /kɑːm/ Adjective
someone who is calm is relaxed and not excited or upset
• vecino / a
my brother’s always very calm and confident | I was surprised
partner /ˈpɑː(r)tnə(r)/ Noun at how calm she was when the fire started
someone’s partner is the person they live with but are not Adverb: calmly
married to
he spoke calmly and quietly as he told her the sad news
her partner works in a bank | my partner and I have been
together for over 12 years • calmado/a
• pareja character /ˈkærɪktə(r)/ Noun

your character is all the qualities that you have, which make
share /ʃeə(r)/ Verb you what you are and make you different from everyone
if you share something with someone, you both use it or else. If you say that a place has character, you mean that it
have it. If you share a house or flat with someone, you both has a lot of interesting parts
live in the same house or flat
Collocates: out of character
I had to share a bedroom with my brother till I was 9 | I finally
my brother and I have quite similar characters | there’s a nasty
got a room to myself and no longer had to share
side to his character | the hotel we stayed in had real character
Noun: share
we’ve been in a house share for the last year with another • personalidad
couple
• compartir
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communication /kəˌmjuːnɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount determined /dɪˈtɜː(r)mɪnd/ Adjective

communication is the process of exchanging information if you are determined, you do not let anything stop you from
with someone by talking to them or sending messages to achieving your goals and doing what you want to do
them Collocates: be determined to do something
the problems happened because of poor communication | she and I are both very determined people | he was determined
you need good communication skills to work in TV to keep the news secret
Verb: communicate Noun: determination
we communicated by email while I was away in Peru Collocates: great determination | determination to do
something
• comunicación
they played with great determination
comparison /kəmˈpærɪs(ə)n/ Noun
if you compare two things or people, you look at them and • determinado / a
decide what the differences are between them. The result
figure /ˈfɪɡə(r)/ Noun
is a comparison between them. If something seems true in
figures are numbers that represent amounts of something
comparison with something else, it is true, but different
she has a good head for figures (she can do things like adding
Collocates: in comparison with something
up numbers very well) | last month’s sales figures weren’t very
I feel a bit stupid in comparison with my sisters | good
the comparison was unfair because my brother has always
been taller than me • cifra
Verb: compare
finance /ˈfaɪnæns/ Noun
you can compare prices online
finance is the way money is used and managed in business
or in government
• comparación
he left his job to come and work with me as finance director |
confident /ˈkɒnfɪd(ə)nt/ Adjective the company’s finances were steadily improving
someone who is confident is sure of their own abilities and Adjective: financial
doesn’t feel shy or nervous
the financial crisis of 2008
he was confident that he would pass his exam | are you sure
about this? You don’t seem very confident • finanzas
Adverb: confidently | Noun: confidence
frustrated /frʌˈstreɪtɪd/ Adjective
you should have more confidence in yourself
someone who is frustrated feels angry or upset because
something is stopping them doing what they are trying
• seguro / a
to do
control /kənˈtrəʊl/ Verb Collocates: frustrated about something | feel frustrated |
if you control something or control how much someone can become/get frustrated
do something, you check and limit the amount or level of it I feel very frustrated about this situation | frustrated customers
we need to control our costs more efficiently | the government have started to complain
controls the oil industry very tightly Adjective: frustrating | Verb: frustrate | Noun: frustration
Noun: control Collocates: be frustrated by something | frustration
Collocates: keep control of something | be under control | at something
be out of control having to wait so long is incredibly frustrating
you need to keep control of your spending
• frustrado / a
• controlar
grade /ɡreɪd/ Noun
a grade is a number or letter that you get showing how well
you did in a test or exam
they always get top grades | if you want to get a good grade,
you’ll have to work a lot harder than this
• nota

grow /ɡrəʊ/ Verb patient /ˈpeɪʃ(ə)nt/ Adjective
when a company grows, it develops and gets bigger and someone who is patient is able to stay calm when
produces more things and earns more money. If a country’s something takes a long time and does not become angry
economy grows, business activity in the country increases or upset
and the total value of everything produced increases Collocates: be patient with someone or something
the company just grew and grew | after he took charge, he thanks for waiting, you’ve been very patient | Jack is always
grew the company to become the biggest producer of tractors very patient with the children
in the country
Noun: patience | Adverb: patiently || Opposites –
Noun: growth Adjective: impatient | Adverb: impatiently
the company’s growth has slowed down Collocates: lose your patience | have/require patience
sorry, but I’m beginning to lose my patience (become angry)
• crecer
guest /ɡest/ Noun • paciente

a guest is a person who has been invited to a social event
poor /pɔː(r)/ Adjective
such as a party or wedding. People who are staying in
something that is poor is not very good
someone’s house or in a hotel for a short time are also
called guests I thought the food in the restaurant was very poor | his work
was of very poor quality | a school with poor exam results
we’re expecting over 200 guests at the wedding | one
of the hotel guests complained about the food in
• pobre
the restaurant
practical /ˈpræktɪk(ə)l/ Adjective
• invitado / a a person who is practical is good at doing things with their
hands, like mending things or making things
hobby /ˈhɒbi/ Noun
someone’s hobby is an activity that they do regularly for my brother’s very practical, so I asked him to mend the lock on
pleasure the door | it helps to have a few practical skills
he thought it was just a hobby | do you have any hobbies?
• práctico / a
• pasatiempo -run /rʌn/ Suffix
you add -run to the end of nouns and adverbs to describe
model /ˈmɒd(ə)l/ Noun
the way something is organised. For example, a family-
a model is someone whose job is to show off clothes by
run business is owned and managed by members of the
wearing them and being photographed, or by wearing
same family, and a well-run school is a good school that is
them at a fashion show
managed very well
Collocates: a fashion model
we stayed in a very well-run hotel in the city centre | the state-
she’s a model, actress, and mother | communication between run railways in France are very efficient
the photographer and the model is very important
• operado / a
• modelo
shout /ʃaʊt/ Verb
networking /ˈnetˌwɜː(r)kɪŋ/ Noun uncount if you shout, you say something in a very loud voice, for
networking is the activity of talking to a lot of people who example, because you are angry
do the same sort of job as you and who might be useful for
Collocates: shout at someone
your work
calm down! You don’t have to shout | Tim shouted upstairs that
I hate networking and managing people | the group
it was time to go
encourages networking face to face as well as online
Noun: shout
• socialización we heard shouts of delight coming from the
children’s bedroom
open /ˈəʊpən/ Adjective
people who are open are willing to speak honestly about • gritar
what they think and how they feel, and do not hide things
from other people sort out /ˌsɔː(r)t ˈaʊt/ Phrasal verb
we’re always quite open with each other | we had an open if you sort something out, you deal with it so that it is no
discussion about it longer untidy or a problem
you need to sort out your room. It’s a mess | We had a big
• abierto / a argument, but we’ve sorted it out now and we’re friends again
• ordenar
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strict /strɪkt/ Adjective tidy /ˈtaɪdi/ Adjective

someone who is strict makes sure people obey rules all if a room is tidy, the things in it are in their place and it is
the time very neat. If a person is tidy, they are good at keeping their
Collocates: be strict with someone things neat and well organised
the school applies strict discipline | she’s very strict with her Nick’s office is always very tidy | I’m not a very
children tidy person
Adverb: strictly Adverb: tidily | Verb: tidy || Opposite – Adjective: untidy
children were brought up more strictly in those days put your things away tidily before you go upstairs
• estrícto / a • ordenado / a
stupid /ˈstjuːpɪd/ Adjective wedding /ˈwedɪŋ/ Noun

someone or something that is stupid is not very clever or a wedding is a ceremony at which two people
sensible get married
that was a stupid question! | don’t be so stupid | I didn’t want to Collocates: a wedding reception | a wedding guest |
look stupid, so I kept quiet a wedding ceremony
my sister’s wedding was a fantastic occasion | we spent months
• estúpido / a preparing for the wedding
succeed /səkˈsiːd/ Verb • boda

if you succeed, you do what you were trying to do
she doesn’t stop until she succeeds at something | I succeeded welcome /ˈwelkəm/ Verb
in getting a job in advertising if you welcome someone, you greet them in a friendly way
when they arrive
Noun: success | Adjective: successful
we’re always happy to welcome people into our home |
there are several reasons for the team’s success
they welcomed us with open arms when we arrived
• triunfar Noun: welcome
Collocates: a warm welcome
supportive /səˈpɔː(r)tɪv/ Adjective
you’re sure to receive a warm welcome there (a very friendly
if people are supportive, they understand your situation and
welcome)
help you
my husband was very supportive when I decided to start the • dar la bienvenida
company | luckily, I’ve got a supportive boss
Noun: support | Verb: support
he was always there, offering support and encouragement
accept /əkˈsept/ Verb
• comprensivo / a if you accept an invitation, you say yes to it
I accepted her friend request because I like to make new
-IVE contacts | they’ve accepted our invitation to the party
Some adjectives are formed from verbs by adding –ive. • aceptar

a supportive family support me in whatever I do
block /blɒk/ Verb
a creative person create a work of art
to block something means to put an object across or in it in
a competitive industry compete for the post of CEO which stops something else from moving through or along
an imaginative idea I can imagine it. If you block someone on the Internet, you change your
an impressive result impress your boss settings so that you do not see any messages from that
person
I deleted his request and blocked him | a fallen tree was
take over /ˌteɪk ˈəʊvə(r)/ Phrasal verb blocking the road
when one company takes over another company, it
Noun: block
becomes the new owner and the two companies combine
to become one company I want to put a block on all his emails
who do you think will take over the business? | half the directors
• bloquear
left as soon as the firm was taken over
Noun: takeover
Collocates: a takeover bid | a hostile takeover
Murdoch launched a takeover bid in early December (an
attempt to take over a company)
• adquirir

comment /ˈkɒment/ Verb ignore /ɪɡˈnɔː(r)/ Verb
if you comment or comment on something, you say what if you ignore something, you do not pay any attention to it.
you think about it. If you comment on something on the If you ignore a question or request, you deliberately do not
Internet, you write what you think about it on the site reply to it
where it appeared I usually ignore online quizzes | I had a request to friend
lots of people commented on the photos | anyone can someone I’ve never heard of, so I ignored it
comment on my blog posts
Noun: comment • ignorar
Collocates: post a comment | submit a comment in touch /ɪn ˈtʌtʃ/ Phrase
you must be registered to post comments here if you are in touch with someone, you still see them and talk
to them or write to them sometimes. If you lose touch, you
• comentar stop seeing them or talking to them, especially when they
move to a different town
delete /dɪˈliːt/ Verb
Collocates: keep/stay in touch (with someone) | lose touch
if you delete something that is on your computer, you
(with someone) | get in touch (with someone)
remove it.
how do you keep in touch with your friends? | we still keep in
I deleted the file by mistake | she read the message, then
touch on Facebook
deleted it
• en contacto
• eliminar
inappropriate /ˌɪnəˈprəʊpriət/ Adjective
expect /ɪkˈspekt/ Verb
something that is inappropriate is not suitable in a particular
if you expect something, you think it will happen or arrive
situation
Collocates: expect someone or something to do something
inappropriate behaviour can lead to a student being sent
I didn’t expect him to get so angry | I’m here to see home early | several comments on the blog post were
Mr Edwards. He’s expecting me considered to be inappropriate and were removed
Noun: expectation Opposite – Adjective: appropriate
the restaurant met all our expectations (it was as good as we the only appropriate response is to say you’re sorry
hoped it would be)
• inapropiado / a
• esperar
inspiring /ɪnˈspaɪərɪŋ/ Adjective
face to face /ˌfeɪs tə ˈfeɪs/ Adverb something that is inspiring makes you believe in something
if you do something with someone face to face, you are very strongly, especially in your own ability to achieve
both in the same place at the same time, rather than talking things
by email or on the phone
my cousin often posts inspiring quotes | I thought the film was
we arranged to meet face to face | they came face to face really inspiring
outside the station
Verb: inspire | Noun: inspiration | Adjective: inspirational ||
Adjective: face-to-face Opposite – Adjective: uninspiring
I wanted a face-to-face meeting with him Collocates: inspire someone to do something
her example inspired thousands of girls to take
• cara a cara
up football
for instance /fə(r) ˈɪnstəns/ Noun
you use for instance when you are beginning to give an • inspirador / a
example of what you are talking about
message /ˈmesɪdʒ/ Noun
for instance, I recently read about a girl who posted pictures of a message is something you send to someone containing
her friend on the web | there are several questions we need to information, a question, etc.
ask. For instance, how did he get into the building?
Collocates: send someone a message | get/receive a
message
• por ejemplo
I sent him a message asking him to remove the photo |
hide /haɪd/ Verb I thought you’d be expecting me. Didn’t you get my message?
if you hide something, you put it somewhere where people
cannot see it or find it. If you hide something on the • mensaje
Internet, you deliberately make sure that it does not appear
on your social media pages
I hide all his posts | you can hide comments from people you
don’t like
• esconder(se)
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post /pəʊst/ Verb reply /rɪˈplaɪ/ Verb

if you post a letter, you send it to someone in an envelope if you reply to someone, you give them an answer
with a stamp on it so that it will be delivered to them. When Collocates: reply to someone | reply that
you post something on the Internet, you put it on a website
he became cross and replied angrily that he’d never been there
so that lots of people can see it if they want to
before | did she ever reply to your question about the summer
she posted lots of photos of her holiday on Facebook | can you holiday?
post this letter for me if you’re going out?
Noun: reply
Noun: post
I asked him three times but never got a reply
there was an interesting post on her blog last week
• contestar
• enviar por correo
smile /smaɪl/ Verb
quiz /kwɪz/ Noun if you smile, the ends of your mouth go up slightly to show
a quiz is a set of questions that you have to answer in a that you are pleased or happy about something
competition or a game
Collocates: smile at someone
my sister often takes online quizzes | did you see that quiz
she smiled to herself when she heard the news | I couldn’t stop
about capital cities of the world?
smiling when I got my exam results
• examen Noun: smile
she greeted us at the door us with a smile
quote /kwəʊt/ Verb
a quote is a sentence or saying that someone said or wrote • sonreir
that gets repeated by a lot of people
one of my cousins is always posting inspiring quotes, like “Follow status /ˈsteɪtəs/ Noun
your dreams” | “To be, or not to be” is a famous quote from on a social networking site, someone’s status is their
Shakespeare description of themselves, saying what they are doing or
thinking about at the time
Verb: quote
I’ve blocked him from seeing my status updates | her status
we’re expected to quote from the poems in the exam
says “in a relationship” (she has a boyfriend or girlfriend)
• citar
• posición social
remind /rɪˈmaɪnd/ Verb
stream /striːm/ Verb
to remind someone of something means to make them
a stream is a broadcast of a TV programme over the Internet
remember it
we found a live stream and watched the game online | because
Collocates: remind someone about something | remind
of technical problems, the stream ended early
someone of someone or something | remind someone to
do something Verb: stream | Noun: streaming
can you remind me to buy petrol | she reminded me about my the concert will be streamed live from Wembley
doctor’s appointment | he reminds me of my brother (he looks
like my brother) • transmitir
update /ˈʌpdeɪt/ Noun

• recordar
an update is information about a situation or process,
remove /rɪˈmuːv/ Verb describing what has happened recently. When people post
if you remove something, you take it away from where it is updates about themselves on a social media site, they say
what has changed in their lives recently
I asked him to remove the photo | the police removed some
cars from the main shopping street one of my friends is always posting funny status updates |
I read his updates on Facebook every week
Noun: removal
Verb: update
removal of the seat cover is quite easy
if you get married, you’ll have to update your status
• quitar on Facebook
• actualización

Student’s Book Pages 58–59 personal /ˈpɜː(r)s(ə)nəl/ Adjective
something that is personal relates to just one single
combination /ˌkɒmbɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun individual and is not shared with anyone else
a combination of things is a number of different things all
mixed together my personal view is that we should wait another year | my
personal finances
the show was a combination of music and dance | there’s a
combination of reasons for the decision Adverb: personally
Verb: combine • personal
• combinación stand for /ˈstænd fɔː(r)/ Phrasal verb

letters that stand for something are the first letters of words
found /faʊnd/ Verb and are used as an abbreviation
to found an institution or a regular event means to start it
and provide the money it needs to continue what does WOMAD stand for? | NATO stands for North Atlantic
Treaty Organisation
Michael Eavis founded the Glastonbury Festival | the RSPCA
was founded in 1824 • significar
Noun: founder
the founders wanted the school to take both boys
and girls
• fundar
neighbourhood /ˈneɪbə(r)ˌhʊd/ Noun

your neighbourhood is the area of the town or city around
where you live
we live in a nice neighbourhood | everyone in the
neighbourhood knows my dad
• vecindario
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Student’s Book Pages 62–63 field /fiːld/ Noun
a field is an area of land on a farm used for growing plants or
agriculture /ˈæɡrɪˌkʌltʃə(r)/ Noun uncount for keeping animals
agriculture is the work of growing plants and keeping
animals for food I enjoy walking in the fields near my house | a field of potatoes
it’s a rural area with a lot of farms and agriculture | now, less • campo
than 5% of the population work in agriculture
Adjective: agricultural financial /faɪˈnænʃ(ə)l/ Adjective
financial things and activities are related to money and the
• agricultura control of money
Switzerland is a financial centre with a lot of banks | I have
bank /bæŋk/ Noun some financial problems
the banks of a river are the areas of land along the side of it
Adverb: financially | Noun: finance
I live near the river, and you can walk for miles along the banks
| their house is on the south bank of the river he’s been very successful financially
• banco • financiero / a
border /ˈbɔː(r)də(r)/ Verb geography /dʒiːˈɒɡrəfi/ Noun uncount

the border between two countries is the line that marks geography is the study of different countries and areas in
where one country stops and the other begins. An area that the world
borders a country or other area is right next to it my geography isn’t very good (I don’t know where places are) |
an area in the south-west of Scotland that borders England | she’s studying geography at Oxford
a Chinese province that borders Vietnam
• geografía
Noun: border
Portugal has one land border, and that’s with Spain get round /ˈɡet ˌraʊnd/ Phrasal verb
if you can get round a town or city, or get around it, you can
• frontera find your way and go from one part to another
it’s an easy city to get round | take this map – it will help you
climate /ˈklaɪmət/ Noun get around
the climate of an area is the sort of weather it typically has
over a year • desplazarse
Collocates: a wet/dry climate | a hot/warm/cold/cool
climate | climate change green /ɡriːn/ Adjective
if a place is green, there are lots of trees and parks there.
countries in northern Europe have a cold climate | on holiday,
Green also means connected to the protection of the
the climate was warm but not too hot
environment
• clima we need more green spaces | the company is trying to be more
green (trying to help the environment) | a discussion about
desert /ˈdezə(r)t/ Noun green issues
a desert is a large area of land where there is not much rain
and not many plants can grow • verde
he’s on an army base out in the middle of the desert | to the
halfway /ˌhɑːfˈweɪ/ Adverb
south is an arid desert (very dry)
halfway means at the middle point between two things,
• desierto or at the middle point between the beginning and end of
something
farm /fɑː(r)m/ Noun Collocates: halfway between something | halfway through
a farm is a large area in the country with several fields, something
used for growing plants and keeping animals for food. The it’s halfway between Edinburgh and Glasgow | we got about
people who own and work on farms are farmers halfway up the mountain
my family have a farm where they grow rice | a dairy farm Adjective: halfway
(with cows for milk and cheese)
Collocates: the halfway point
Noun: farmer
• a medio camino
• granja

historic /hɪˈstɒrɪk/ Adjective port /pɔː(r)t/ Noun
a historic place is old and was important at some time in a port is a place by the edge of the sea where boats can
history. Historic events were very important when they arrive and leave from
happened, and are still remembered Murmansk is an important port in the north-west of Russia | all
Nantes is a historic city in the West of France | the city has a lot around the port you can hear the sounds of boat building
of historic buildings
• puerto
• histórico / a
right /raɪt/ Adverb
industrial /ɪnˈdʌstriəl/ Adjective if something is right in front of you, right behind you, right
industry is the activity of making things in factories. alongside you, etc., it is exactly in that position
Industrial activities and places are related to industry it’s a small town right up on the north coast | he stood right in
the north of the country is very industrial | there’s a problem the middle of the road
with industrial pollution here
Noun: industry • justo
Collocates: heavy/light industry rural /ˈrʊərəl/ Adjective
the region developed because of its heavy industry (making something that is rural is in the countryside or connected to
very big products) the countryside
in many rural areas there are no bus services | only 5% of the
• industrial rural population had been to university
murder /ˈmɜː(r)də(r)/ Verb
• rural
to murder someone means to commit the crime of
deliberately killing them spread /spred/ Verb
he murdered his boss | her husband was kidnapped and if something spreads, it moves or grows and affects a larger
murdered last year area
Noun: murder | Noun: murderer Collocates: spread through an area | spread to somewhere
the city’s huge and spreads a long way down the coast |
• asesinar unfortunately, the cancer continued to spread | the fire spread
quickly through the farm buildings
ocean /ˈəʊʃ(ə)n/ Noun
an ocean is a large area of water, bigger than a sea
• extenderse
the Atlantic Ocean | who was the first person to cross the ocean
between Europe and America? steal /stiːl/ Verb
to steal something that does not belong to you means
• océano to commit the crime of taking it and keeping it without
permission
off /ɒf/ Preposition
Collocates: steal something from something or someone
if somewhere is off a larger place, it is close to it or
connected to it but not in it or on it a man was arrested after stealing 10 kilos of bananas |
someone stole my phone when I was in the restaurant |
it’s an island off the west coast | South Road is off Queen’s Road
thieves stole jewellery worth £10,000 from her hotel room
• retirado de
• robar
plant /plɑːnt/ Noun
steel /stiːl/ Noun uncount
a plant is a factory where things are made
steel is a strong metal, made from iron and carbon
there’s a car plant to the south of the city | a nuclear power
the steel industry is very important in this region | the windows
plant
have steel frames
• planta
• acero
pollution /pəˈluːʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount
surround /səˈraʊnd/ Adjective
pollution is things like chemicals and smoke from factories
to surround a place or person means to be all around them
that damage the air that we breathe or the rivers and land
on all sides
Collocates: air pollution | noise pollution | industrial
the city is surrounded by nice countryside | she was surrounded
pollution
by hundreds of music fans
air pollution is a big problem in London | people near the
airport suffer from noise pollution • rodear
Verb: pollute | Adjective: polluted
• contaminación
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tiny /ˈtaɪni/ Adjective freedom /ˈfriːdəm/ Noun uncount

something that is tiny is very small freedom is the right or ability to do what you want without
it’s a tiny village in the centre of the country | each fruit anyone stopping you
contains thousands of tiny seeds I love the freedom to do what I want | we believe in equality
and freedom of speech (the ability to say whatever you want)
• diminuto / a Adjective: free
wall /wɔːl/ Noun Collocates: be free to do something
a wall is a structure made of brick or stone that separates you are free to leave whenever you want
one area from another
there used to be a wall round the whole city | four prisoners • libertad
jumped over the wall and escaped
home /həʊm/ Noun
a home is a place where people live and are looked
• pared
after because they are too old, young, or ill to look after
themselves
Student’s Book Pages 64–65 his parents died and he was brought up in a care home from
affect /əˈfekt/ Verb the age of 8 | after her husband died, she moved into a nursing
to affect something means to change it or have some sort home
of influence on it, usually in a bad way
• asilo
if they refuse to go, it could affect their career | a disease that
affected his ability to think junior /ˈdʒuːniə(r)/ Adjective
Noun: effect junior employees are starting their careers and do not have
her death had a major effect on my life much experience yet
she’s a junior lecturer at Imperial College | a junior minister in
• afectar the department of education
Opposite – Adjective: senior
army /ˈɑː(r)mi/ Noun
a country’s army is all the soldiers whose job is to fight my father’s a senior partner in a law firm
when there is a war
• principiante
I spent two years in the army after I left school | the British army
had to leave France in 1940 liberal /ˈlɪb(ə)rəl/ Adjective
someone who is liberal believes that people should have
• ejército the freedom to do and think what they want to
base /beɪs/ Noun luckily, my parents are quite liberal and my friends can stay
a base is a place where military people live and work overnight | she has very liberal views on religion and social
issues
an army base | the pilot managed to return to base even
though the plane had been damaged
• liberal
• base lift /lɪft/ Noun
a lift is a small room that can carry people up and down
career /kəˈrɪə(r)/ Noun
inside a building so that they do not have to climb the stairs
someone’s career is the job that they do over the period of
their working life Collocates: take a lift
she had a long career in the newspaper business | Robert began let’s take the lift – we’re going to the ninth floor | the lift was out
his career with an engineering firm in Derby of order (not working) so we had to walk up to the sixth floor
• carrera • ascensor
develop /dɪˈveləp/ Verb member /ˈmembə(r)/ Noun

if something develops, or if you develop it, it changes over a member is someone who belongs to an organisation or
time and becomes better, more efficient, or more complete. group of people
If a country develops, it starts to have more industry and use I’m a junior member of staff here | we’re both members of the
more advanced technology local tennis club
Collocates: develop into something Noun: membership
it’s better to stay and help your country develop | a market
town that developed into a capital city • miembro
Adjective: developed | Noun: development
the rate of development in China has increased rapidly
• desarrollar(se)

military service /ˈmɪlɪt(ə)ri ˌsɜː(r)vɪs/ Noun uncount respect /rɪˈspekt/ Noun uncount
in some countries, military service is a system in which every respect for someone is a belief that they are important and
adult has to spend some time in the army. People usually do that they should be treated well and politely
their military service after they leave school Collocates: treat someone with respect | have respect for
in Britain, there has been no compulsory military service since someone | show respect
1960 | I avoided military service because my eyesight wasn’t the staff treat all the customers with respect | I have a lot of
good enough respect for your mother
Verb: respect | Adjective: respected | Adjective: respectful |
• servicio militar
Adverb: respectfully
overseas /ˈəʊvə(r)siːz/ Adverb Collocates: be respectful of/towards someone or
if you live or work overseas, you live or work in a foreign something
country. If you travel overseas, you travel to a foreign
country • respeto
he often travels overseas for work | they live overseas
secure /sɪˈkjʊə(r)/ Adjective
Adjective: overseas something that is secure is safe and is not going to change
overseas trade became very important in the 19th century or be taken away from you
if you pass your medical exams, your future will be secure | a
• extranjero child should always feel safe and secure in the home
refuse /rɪˈfjuːz/ Verb Noun: security | Verb: secure
if you refuse to do something, you say that you do not want job security is a very important consideration
to do it and that you will not do it
Collocates: refuse to do something • seguro / a
I asked my boss for a pay rise again, but he refused | she side /saɪd/ Noun
refused point blank to apologise (refused completely) a particular side of a situation is a particular aspect of it that
Noun: refusal is being described
his refusal to co-operate was disappointing Collocates: the funny/bright side of something/someone |
a positive/negative side
• negarse on the positive side, I’m learning a lot | I don’t think he could
see the funny side of it
reputation /ˌrepjʊˈteɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun
the reputation of a person, place, or organisation is how
• lado
good or bad people say it is
Collocates: have a reputation for something sink /sɪŋk/ Noun
the restaurant has a reputation for bad service | the company a sink is an open container in a kitchen or bathroom that
earned its reputation through the quality of its products you can fill with water and use for washing things
Collocates: a kitchen/bathroom sink
• reputación the kitchen sink was very dirty | put the dishes in the sink
residence /ˈrezɪd(ə)ns/ Noun
• fregadero
residence is the fact of living somewhere. A residence is a
building where people live split /splɪt/ Verb
a university hall of residence (where students live) | if you split something, you divide it into smaller parts which
the museum was formerly a private residence are usually equal
Noun: resident | Adjective: residential shall we split the bill? (each pay an equal amount) | we’ll split
the money 50-50 (have half each) | split the cake into five
• residencia pieces
• dividir
terribly /ˈterəbli/ Adverb

you use terribly to say how extreme or unpleasant an action
or situation is
I miss my kids terribly | I could see from his face that something
had gone terribly wrong
Adjective: terrible
you’re making a terrible mistake
• terriblemente
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treat /triːt/ Verb clear /klɪə(r)/ Verb

to treat someone in a particular way means to behave if you clear a place, you remove things from it that are no
towards them in that way longer needed and make it tidier
the staff treat all the customers with respect | they treated me as shall I help you clear the table? | can you clear the glasses from
one of the family the tables? | the area was thoroughly cleared of rubbish
Noun: treatment
• despejar
all the children in my class get equal treatment – I have no
favourites credit /ˈkredɪt/ Noun uncount
credit is an arrangement for you to be able to spend a
• tratar certain amount of money and pay later. Credit on your
mobile phone is the amount of money you can spend
turn /tɜː(r)n/ Noun
on making calls or sending texts. If you run out of credit,
if people take turns to do something, one person does it,
you have to pay more money before you can use the
then another person does it, and so on, so that everyone
phone again
has the chance to do it
Collocates: run out of credit
Collocates: take turns to do something | someone’s turn to
do something I’ve run out of credit on my phone | how much credit have you
got left?
we take turns to clean the bathroom | whose turn is it to make
the dinner?
• crédito
• turno drawer /ˈdrɔːə(r)/ Noun
a drawer is a sort of box in a piece of furniture that can slide
Student’s Book Pages 66–67 in and out, and that you can keep things in
Collocates: the top/middle/bottom drawer
bite /baɪt/ Verb
to bite something means to use your teeth to cut into it or I keep my passport in the top drawer of my desk | the knives are
make a hole in it in one of the kitchen drawers
he’s a lovely dog — he won’t bite | I was bitten by a snake when
• cajón
I was a child
Noun: bite hang /hæŋ/ Verb
he took a bite out of the apple if you hang something somewhere, you put it so that it is
held at the top, and the bottom doesn’t touch the ground
• morder you can hang your coat on the back of the door | I shouldn’t
have left my bag hanging from the back of my seat | he took
blanket /ˈblæŋkɪt/ Noun off his jacket and hung it on the back of the chair
a blanket is a large, thick piece of cloth that you use as a
cover to keep yourself warm when you are in bed • colgar
there’s another blanket here in case you get cold in the night
| the blanket slid off the bed during the night and I woke up host /həʊst/ Noun
really cold your host is the person whose home you are staying in, or
the person who has invited you to an event such as a party
• manta we need to take a present for our host | our host welcomed us
at the door
borrow /ˈbɒrəʊ/ Verb
Verb: host
if you borrow something from someone, they let you use it
for a while, and then you give it back to them. Compare lend
• anfitrión / a
Collocates: borrow something from someone
can I borrow an umbrella? | I had to borrow some money from introduce /ˌɪntrəˈdjuːs/ Verb
my father to buy the car if you introduce people, you tell each of them the other’s
name when they are meeting for the first time
• tomar prestado I’ll introduce you to everyone in a minute | John, Alastair – have
you been introduced?
charger /ˈtʃɑː(r)dʒə(r)/ Noun
a charger is a device that puts electricity back into batteries • presentar
so that you can use them again. Batteries that let you do
this are called rechargeable batteries
can I borrow your phone charger? | unplug the charger when
it’s not in use
• cargador

kiss /kɪs/ Verb press /pres/ Verb
if you kiss someone, you touch their face or hand with your if you press something, you push on it with your finger
lips as a sign of love or affection or hand
we kissed each other goodbye | I love to kiss and hug my press the button to call the lift | which switch do I press to get
children the light to come on?
Noun: kiss
• pulsar
Collocates: give someone a kiss
she gave the children a goodnight kiss repeat /rɪˈpiːt/ Noun
a repeat is a programme on television that has already been
• besar on at least once before
you’ll have to watch repeats of The Big Bang Theory |
lend /lend/ Verb
they put out a lot more repeats during the summer
if you lend someone something, you let them have it for a
short time, and then they give it back to you. Verb: repeat
can you lend me some money? I left my wallet at home |
• repetición
he wanted me to lend him my car
sharp /ʃɑː(r)p/ Adjective
• prestar something that is sharp has a very thin edge or point and
can cut things easily
lock /lɒk/ Noun
a lock is a device on a door that can stop people opening careful! The knife’s very sharp | that dog’s got really sharp teeth
the door unless they have a key Opposite – Adjective: blunt
there’s no lock on the bathroom door | we had to change the I can’t use this knife, it’s too blunt
lock because the burglars stole our keys
Verb: lock || Opposite – Verb: unlock • Afilado / a
wardrobe /ˈwɔː(r)drəʊb/ Noun

• candado
a wardrobe is a large cupboard where you hang your clothes
log off /ˈlɒɡ ˌɒf/ Phrasal verb Collocates: a fitted/built-in wardrobe
if you log off or log out, you tell your computer that you are there were two wardrobes in the bedroom | a built-in wardrobe
going to stop it using it by giving it a particular instruction. (which is part of the house and cannot be moved)
If you log on or log in, you put in your password to start
using the computer • armario
you don’t need to log off – just press the off switch | it keeps a
record of all activity, and says you logged off at 4:30 yesterday
afternoon
Opposite – Phrasal Verb: log on or log in
if you can’t remember your password, you won’t be able to
log in
• cerrar sesión
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Student’s Book Pages 70–71 nursery /ˈnɜː(r)s(ə)ri/ Noun
a nursery is a place where very young children are looked
finals /ˈfaɪn(ə)lz/ Noun plural after while their parents are at work. In Britain, a nursery
finals are the exams that university students take at the end school is a school for very young children between three
of their course and five years old
I’ve got my finals next term | she’s sitting her finals next month my youngest daughter starts nursery next month | I’ve known
(taking the exams) him since we were at nursery school together
Adjective: final
what happens if you fail your final exams? • enfermería
• finales off /ɒf/ Adverb

if you have time off or take time off, you spend a period
fluent /ˈfluːənt/ Adjective of time not working or studying but doing something
if you are fluent, you speak a language easily and without different
making mistakes Collocates: take time off | be off
Collocates: be fluent in something | a fluent speaker I need to take the day off on Friday | I can’t take any time off till
I won’t become fluent in English if I don’t work hard enough | we’ve finished the project
he is a fluent speaker of German
Adverb: fluently | Noun: fluency • libre
she writes very fluently pass /pɑːs/ Verb
if you pass a test or exam, you succeed in it
• con fluidez Collocates: pass a test/exam
graduate /ˈɡrædʒueɪt/ Verb she passed her driving test first time | if you don’t pass this time,
when you graduate, you are given your degree after you you’ll have to take the exam again in January
finish your university course. A student who successfully Opposite – Verb: fail
graduates is a graduate (ˈɡrædʒuət) I was ill for two weeks before the exam, so I expected
Collocates: graduate from something to fail
when I graduated, I wanted to find a job in the media |
I graduated in 2005 | she graduated from Oxford with a • aprobar
degree in law
promise /ˈprɒmɪs/ Verb
Noun: graduate if you promise to do something, you say that you will
graduates are likely to start jobs on a higher salary definitely do it
Collocates: promise someone something | promise to do
• graduarse something
Master’s /ˈmɑːstə(r)z/ Noun my parents have promised me they’ll buy me a car if
a Master’s or a Master’s degree is a university qualification I pass my exams | will you promise to be home by
that you can get which is higher than a 10 o’clock?
first degree Noun: promise
Collocates: a Master’s in something | do a Master’s Collocates: make (someone) a promise | keep a promise |
it took two years to get my Master’s | he has a Master’s degree break a promise
in engineering politicians are always making promises and then breaking
them (not doing what they said they would do)
• maestría
• prometer
media /ˈmiːdiə/ Noun
the media is television, radio, newspapers, magazines, etc.
which prepare and send out information and entertainment
for people to watch, listen to, or read
Collocates: media coverage | mass media
I tried for months to get a job in the media | she’s written a
book about the influence of the mass media (newspapers, TV,
etc. that are seen by large numbers of people)
• medios de comunicación

retake /ˌriːˈteɪk/ Verb atmosphere /ætməsˌfɪə(r)/ Noun
if you retake an exam, you take it again because you did not the atmosphere of a place is the feeling you get when you
pass it the first time are there
If I don’t get a good enough score, I’ll have to retake the exam the school has a good atmosphere | I didn’t like the
in a couple of months | he had to retake the exam twice before atmosphere at the party so I left early
he finally passed
Noun: retake • atmósfera
I can’t come out tonight, I’m revising for my bullying /ˈbʊliɪŋ/ Noun uncount
retake tomorrow bullying is behaviour in which someone deliberately hurts
or tries to frighten someone else who is weaker than them
• volver a hacer
there’s no violence or bullying in the school | we will not
save /seɪv/ Verb tolerate bullying here (will not allow it)
if you save money, you keep it so that you can use it later, Verb: bully | Noun: bully
rather than spending it straight away. The money that you
keep is your savings • acoso
I’m saving money for my university fees | I saved over £500
last year -ING NOUNS
Noun: savings The -ing form of a verb is often used to make a noun,
I had to use my savings to get the car repaired especially to describe an activity.
There’s no bullying in this school.
• ahorrar I do babysitting to earn some extra money.
system /ˈsɪstəm/ Noun I go swimming every day.
a system is all the related parts of a process or machine that Parking is really difficult in the city centre.
work together to produce a result We sat in the waiting room for two hours.
our education system is very efficient | the heating system has
broken down compulsory /kəmˈpʌlsəri/ Adjective
if something is compulsory, you must do it because of a law
• sistema or rule
English and Maths are both compulsory subjects at my school |
term /tɜː(r)m/ Noun I had to do two years of compulsory military service
a term is one of the periods of time into which a school or
university year is divided Opposite – Adjective: optional
I’ve got my final exams next term | we never do much work on Geography and History are optional subjects, but we suggest
the last day of term you do both
• cuatrimestre • obligatorio / a
year /jɪə(r)/ Noun copy /ˈkɒpi/ Verb

a school year or a university year is the period that starts in if you copy something, you write it out exactly in the way
September and ends in July when students are at school or it has already been written somewhere else. If you copy
university someone else’s work, you write what they wrote and say it is
your own work
my brother’s in his second year at university | what year are
you in? we weren’t supposed to copy straight out of the textbook | if
you’re caught copying, you’ll be punished
• año Noun: copy
she was given a copy of the agreement to sign
• copiar
approach /əˈprəʊtʃ/ Noun
your approach to something is the particular way you do it deal with /ˈdiːl wɪð/ Phrasal verb
or think about it if you deal with something, you do what is necessary to
Collocates: take an approach | an approach to something make sure that everything is in order. If you deal with a
difficult situation, you do what is necessary to stop it being
the school has a traditional approach to teaching | other
a problem
governments took a different approach to the problem
how do you deal with bad behaviour? | it’s time we dealt with
Verb: approach
this problem
• enfoque
• lidiar con
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essay /ˈeseɪ/ Noun state /steɪt/ Adjective

an essay is a piece of writing in which someone writes about a state organisation is one that is paid for by the
a particular topic government of a country for anyone to use
Collocates: write an essay my brothers all went to a state school | you’ll qualify for a state
I have to write an essay on Shakespeare for homework | hand pension at the age of 66
your essays in by Friday lunchtime Opposite – Adjective: private
private education is very expensive in the UK
• ensayo
• estatal
fail /feɪl/ Verb
if you fail a test or exam, you do not succeed in it stressed /strest/ Adjective
I was worried that I’d fail | over half my class failed their French if you are stressed, you are very worried about something
test and cannot relax
Opposite – Verb: pass I got really stressed before my driving test | you look stressed
she passed her driving test first time – why don’t you have a day off?
Noun: stress
• suspender Collocates: be under stress
get into /ˌɡet ˈɪntuː/ Phrasal verb he’s under a lot of stress at the moment, which is why he looks
if you get into a school or university, you succeed in being so unhappy
accepted there as a student
• estresado / a
it’s really difficult to get into Harvard or Yale | she got into
university when she was just 17 stuff /stʌf/ Noun uncount
in informal English, you can use stuff as a general word to
• ingresar refer to any kind of thing or collection of things without
saying exactly what they are
mixed /mɪkst/ Adjective
things that are mixed involve different parts, some good we did football and boxing and stuff like that | we did a lot of
and some bad. If you have mixed feelings about something, fun stuff at the holiday camp
you are not sure how you feel about it
• cosas
Collocates: have mixed feelings/emotions
my first impressions of the school were a bit mixed | technological /ˌteknəˈlɒdʒɪk(ə)l/ Adjective
he’s got mixed feelings about working for a technological things involve machines and are based on
tobacco company science and modern knowledge
we have good technological resources here | there has been a
• Mezclado / a lot of technological development over the last ten years
qualification /ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun Adverb: technologically | Noun: technology
a qualification is a piece of paper that shows you have a technologically advanced machine
passed certain exams or finished a particular course of
study successfully • tecnológico / a
what qualification do you get at university? | she’s got excellent
test /test/ Noun
academic qualifications
a test is a set of questions that you have to answer in order
Adjective: qualified show how much you know about a subject
I’m revising for my geography test | did you pass the test?
• certificación
Verb: test
resource /rɪˈzɔː(r)s/ Noun we were tested twice a week in maths
resources are things that are available to be used, and that
are useful • examen
the Internet is a valuable resource | the country is rich in
natural resources (oil, gas, coal, etc.) textbook /ˈteks(t)ˌbʊk/ Noun
a textbook is a book used in schools or universities, which
• recursos gives a lot of information about a particular subject
textbooks are very expensive | can I borrow your textbook for a
set /set/ Verb few minutes?
if you set some work, you give it to someone and ask them
to do it • libro de texto
she forgot to set our homework for the weekend | I set myself a
target of learning 50 words a week
• asignar

translate /trænsˈleɪt/ Verb claim /kleɪm/ Verb
to translate means to change written or spoken words from if you say that someone claimed that something was true,
one language into another you mean that they said it was true but you do not believe
Collocates: translate from/into something them
can you translate this into Russian for me? | his book has been she claimed that she had a degree, but I know that she never
translated into 12 different languages went to university | he still claims that he is innocent
Noun: translation | Noun: translator Noun: claim
an accurate translation the company made some false claims about the quality of its
products
• traducir
• alegar
Student’s Book Pages 74–75 complete /kəmˈpliːt/ Verb

if you complete something, you finish doing all of it
advantage /ədˈvɑːntɪdʒ/ Noun
an advantage is something you have which gives you I managed to complete two levels on my new computer game |
a better chance of success than the people you are he left before the project was completed
competing with Adjective: complete | Noun: completion
Collocates: be at an advantage | have an advantage | most of my coursework is complete for this term
an unfair advantage
I had the advantage of being able to speak French which • completar
helped me get the job | she had an unfair advantage because
contrary /ˈkɒntrəri/ Adjective
her parents gave her so much money
if something is true contrary to what people think, it really
Opposite – Noun: disadvantage is true, although most people do not realise it and think the
Collocates: be at a disadvantage situation is different
we were at a disadvantage because we arrived late Collocates: contrary to something
contrary to expectations, it’s not only weaker students
• ventaja who cheat | contrary to common belief, the average age of
becoming a grandparent is 51
arrest /əˈrest/ Verb
when the police arrest someone, they take them away as
• opuesto / a
a prisoner because they think the person has committed
a crime declare /dɪˈkleə(r)/ Verb
Collocates: arrest someone for something if you declare something, you make a formal and official
police arrested him last night at the house where the body was statement saying it is true
found | a man was arrested after stealing 10 kilos of bananas he was in trouble because he didn’t declare all his income last
Noun: arrest year | the government declared a state of emergency
Collocates: be under arrest | put someone under arrest Noun: declaration
he was under arrest for murder the American Declaration of Independence
• arrestar • declarar
challenge /ˈtʃæləndʒ/ Verb desire /dɪˈzaɪə(r)/ Noun

if you challenge someone, you ask them to prove that they someone’s desire for something is their strong wish to have
are honest or truthful because you think they have done or achieve that thing
something wrong Collocates: a desire for something | a desire to do
it’s not possible to challenge everyone who might be cheating | something | a strong desire
he challenged my account of the accident they have a genuine desire to learn | she had a strong desire for
success
• desafiar Verb: desire | Adjective: desirable
• deseo
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earn /ɜː(r)n/ Verb pressure /ˈpreʃə(r)/ Noun

money you earn is the money you are paid for doing your pressure is a feeling of worry that you have when you know
job that it is important for you to succeed in doing something
top football players earn millions of pounds a year | she earns a Collocates: be under pressure | put pressure
fortune (a lot of money) on someone
Noun: earnings kids are under extreme pressure to succeed | my dad put a lot
average earnings rose again last year of pressure on me to get into Oxford
• ganar • presión
effort /ˈefə(r)t/ Noun pretend /prɪˈtend/ Verb

effort is the work involved in trying to do something. If you if you pretend, you behave in a way that deliberately
make an effort to do something, you try very hard to do it suggests something about you that is not true
Collocates: make (an) effort | take effort | put effort into Collocates: pretend to do something
something I pretended the essay was all my own work | she had decided to
it took a lot of effort to get the piano up the stairs | if you don’t pretend that nothing had happened | we all thought he’d hurt
make an effort, you’ll never pass the exam himself, but he was only pretending
• esfuerzo • pretender
emphasis /ˈemfəsɪs/ Noun profit /ˈprɒfɪt/ Noun

emphasis is special importance that something has, which profit is money that you get by selling something or doing
affects the way you deal with it business. Your profit is the difference between the amount it
cost you to produce the thing you sold and the amount you
Collocates: place/put emphasis on something
received when you sold it
kids are growing up in a world where great emphasis is placed
Collocates: make a profit | sell something at a profit | profits
on money and winning | the emphasis here is on speaking and
rise/fall
listening rather than reading and writing
the company made a profit of £10m last year | profits rose for
• énfasis the third year in a row
expenses /ɪkˈspensɪz/ Noun plural • ganancia

your expenses are the amounts of your own money that
you spend in the course of doing your job, and that your push /pʊʃ/ Verb
employer gives back to you separately from your salary if you push someone to do something, you make them do it
by encouraging them very firmly or forcing them to do it
Collocates: claim expenses
Collocates: push someone to do something | push
several politicians were caught lying about their expenses | the
someone into doing something
company owes me hundreds of pounds in expenses
parents and schools often push kids to get the best test scores |
• gastos they pushed me into going to university
impatient /ɪmˈpeɪʃ(ə)nt/ Adjective • presionar

someone who is impatient loses interest or becomes angry
or upset when something takes a long time question /ˈkwestʃ(ə)n/ Verb
if you question someone, you ask them what they think
technology can make people impatient | he was very impatient
about something
with his children
the majority of the students questioned said they had cheated
Adverb: impatiently || Opposites – Adjective: patient |
| the survey questioned travellers as they returned to the UK
Adverb: patiently
from India
the captain shook his head impatiently
• preguntar
• impaciente
offer /ˈɒfə(r)/ Verb

if something offers an opportunity, it makes it available
cheating offers a way to succeed without trying | the university
offers courses in medicine as well as in science and computing |
the job offers me good career opportunities
• ofrecer

resign /rɪˈzaɪn/ Verb tempt /tempt/ Verb
if you resign, you say officially that you are going to leave if something tempts you, or if you are tempted by it, it
your job makes you want to do it or have it, although you think you
Collocates: resign from something | resign as something | shouldn’t
resign something Collocates: be tempted to do something | tempt someone
she had to resign when she was caught lying about her to do something
expenses | he’s resigning from his post as sales director of course people are tempted to cheat | weren’t you tempted by
Noun: resignation the offer?
Collocates: offer/submit your resignation | accept/reject Adjective: tempting | Noun: temptation
someone’s resignation Collocates: resist temptation
the committee reluctantly accepted her resignation we received a very tempting offer for the house
• renunciar • tentar
survey /ˈsɜː(r)veɪ/ Noun value /ˈvæljuː/ Verb

a survey is a set of questions that a lot of people are asked in if you value something, you think it is good and important
order to find out what their opinions are some schools value test scores more than real learning |
Collocates: carry out a survey | conduct a survey I value my friendship with you
in a recent survey, many students said they cheated | the survey
was carried out online and by phone • valorar
Verb: survey
Student’s Book Page 76
• encuesta
expand /ɪkˈspænd/ Verb
tax /tæks/ Noun if something expands, it increases in size or number
tax is money that you have to pay to the government. student numbers expanded by 20% last year | do you have any
Income tax is a part of your earnings that you have to plans to expand the business operation in Hong Kong?
pay, and purchase tax or sales tax is part of the price of Noun: expansion
something that you buy which goes to the government
we have exciting plans for expansion
Collocates: income tax | sales/purchase tax
there’s a 6% sales tax on top of the original price | income tax • ampliar(se)
was raised to 24% last year
gene /dʒiːn/ Noun
Verb: tax
your genes are the parts in the cells of your body that
any income over £60,000 is taxed at 40% control what you look like and other things about your
body
• impuesto
they’ve found the gene that causes the disease | we pass on our
technology /tekˈnɒlədʒi/ Noun genes to our children
technology is the use of science and modern knowledge in Adjective: genetic
making machines the disease is caused by a genetic defect (a problem in
Collocates: new/modern technology someone’s genes)
students are using technology to help them cheat | modern
technology has helped economic growth • gen
Adjective: technological muscle /ˈmʌs(ə)l/ Noun
there has been a lot of technological development over the last your muscles are the parts of your body that give you the
ten years strength to move your body, lift things, push things, etc.
my leg muscles really hurt | I pulled a muscle when I was out
• tecnología running (I stretched a muscle too much and it is painful)
• músculo
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9 MIND AND BODY

Student’s Book Pages 80–81 decision /dɪˈsɪʒ(ə)n/ Noun
if you make a decision, you choose what you are going to do
ache /eɪk/ Verb or have
if a part of your body aches, you feel a pain there that lasts
for a long time Collocates: make a decision | a decision to do something |
come to a decision
I’ve got a temperature and my whole body aches | my legs were
aching from all that cycling she made the decision to go back to France | it’s a difficult
choice, but we’ve finally come to a decision
Noun: ache
Verb: decide
as you get older, you get more aches and pains
Collocates: decide to do something
• doler
• decisión
allergy /ˈælə(r)dʒi/ Noun
if you have an allergy, you become ill or your skin becomes depressed /dɪˈprest/ Adjective
covered with red marks when you eat, breathe, or touch a if you are depressed, you are feeling very unhappy
particular thing I’ve been feeling quite depressed since I retired | he became
Collocates: an allergy to something | a food/nut allergy severely depressed after losing his job
Jamie has an allergy to milk products | food allergies are Verb: depress | Adjective: depressing | Noun: depression
becoming more common Collocates: deeply depressing
Adjective: allergic news from the farm was deeply depressing
Collocates: be allergic to something
• deprimido/a
• alergia flu /fluː/ Noun uncount
appetite /ˈæpətaɪt/ Noun flu or the flu is a common illness. It is like a very bad cold but
your appetite is the feeling that you want food. If someone can become very serious
has a good appetite, they can eat a lot of food. If you lose I think I’ve got the flu | she’s been in bed with flu
your appetite, you do not want to eat because you feel ill
• gripe
Collocates: lose your appetite | a healthy/good appetite
I’ve got a high temperature and I’ve lost my appetite | my son hay fever /ˈheɪ ˌfiːvə(r)/ Noun uncount
has a healthy appetite hay fever is a sort of illness that makes you cough and
sneeze when you are near plants
• hambre do you suffer from hay fever? | have you taken anything for
concentrate /ˈkɒns(ə)nˌtreɪt/ Verb your hay fever? (have you taken any medicine?)
when you concentrate, you think very carefully about what
• alergia al polen
you are doing and do not allow yourself to think about
anything else hurt /hɜː(r)t/ Verb
Collocates: concentrate on (doing) something if part of your body hurts, or if something hurts you, you feel
I can’t concentrate on anything when I have a pain there
headache | he concentrated on reading the report my knee really hurts | when I woke up, my neck was
Noun: concentration still hurting
I lost concentration when Andy started singing Adjective: hurt
no one was hurt in the accident
• concentrar(se)
• doler
cough /kɒf/ Verb
if you cough, you force air out of your throat suddenly, with nosebleed /ˈnəʊzˌbliːd/ Noun
a short loud noise. If you feel ill and are coughing a lot, you if you have a nosebleed, blood comes out from the inside of
have a cough your nose
when I have asthma, I cough a lot at night | I was trying not to I often get a nosebleed if I go on a plane | you should see a
cough at the concert doctor – that’s your third nosebleed this week
Noun: cough
• hemorragia nasal
• toser

out of breath /ˌaʊt əv ˈbreθ/ Phrase swallow /ˈswɒləʊ/ Verb
your breath is the air that you take into your body as you when you swallow, you make food or drink go from your
breathe mouth into your stomach
Collocates: be/get out of breath | hold your breath | the tablets were too big to swallow | she swallowed a fish bone
get your breath back | be short of breath | take a by accident
(deep) breath
I get out of breath very easily (I find it difficult to breathe after • tragar
exercise) | take a deep breath so I can listen to your chest
sweat /swet/ Verb
Verb: breathe if you sweat, water comes out through your skin, for
Collocates: breathe in | breathe out example, because you are very hot after exercise or because
you are ill
• sin aliento I feel hot and cold, and I’m sweating a lot | the heat was
making me sweat
pill /pɪl/ Noun
a pill is a small, solid piece of medicine that you swallow Noun: sweat | Adjective: sweaty
the doctor gave me some pills for my asthma | I have to take sweat was running down his back
two pills in the morning and three in the evening
• transpirar
• pastilla
temperature /ˈtemprɪtʃə(r)/ Noun
rash /ræʃ/ Noun if you have a temperature, your body is too hot because you
a rash is an area of red spots that you get on your skin if you are ill
eat or come into contact with something that makes you ill Collocates: have a temperature | a high temperature | take
Collocates: come out in a rash someone’s temperature
I get a horrible red rash all over my body | when I’m stressed, I he had a high temperature so his mother kept him off school |
come out in a rash when I took her temperature (measured it) it was 38.5˚
• erupción • fiebre
sneeze /sniːz/ Verb throat /θrəʊt/ Noun

if you sneeze, you suddenly force a lot of air out your nose or your throat is the area at the back of your mouth and inside
mouth without being able to prevent it, for example, when your neck
you have a cold I’ve got a sore throat | he cleared his throat before speaking
my eyes get red and I sneeze all the time | he was coughing and (coughed a little to make it easier to speak)
sneezing all night | he sneezed loudly
• garganta
Noun: sneeze
the disease can spread through coughs and sneezes upset stomach /ˌʌpset ˈstʌmək/ Noun
if you have an upset stomach, you feel sick because of
• estornudar something you have eaten
too many sweets gave me an upset stomach | he was sent
sore /sɔː(r)/ Adjective
home from school with an upset stomach
if a part of your body is sore, it is painful and uncomfortable
Verb: upset
I’ve got a sore throat | my feet are sore after walking all day
• dolor de estómago
• dolorido / a
voice /vɔɪs/ Noun
suffer /ˈsʌfə(r)/ Verb
your voice is the sounds you make when you speak or sing,
if you suffer, you feel the bad effects of something
and your ability to make those sounds
Collocates: suffer from something
Collocates: a high/deep/low voice
I suffer from hay fever every summer | he suffered a heart
I’m losing my voice (it’s difficult for me to speak because of a
attack
problem with my throat) | don’t raise your voice (don’t shout)
Noun: sufferer | Noun: suffering
asthma sufferers don’t need drugs • voz
• sufrir
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Student’s Book Pages 82–83 experiment /ɪkˈsperɪmənt/ Noun

an experiment is a scientific test that you do to see what
blood pressure /ˈblʌd ˌpreʃə(r)/ Noun uncount happens under certain conditions
your blood pressure is the force with which blood moves
around your body. If your blood pressure is too high or too Collocates: do/conduct/carry out/perform an experiment |
low, it can make you ill an experiment shows/proves something
Collocates: high/low blood pressure | take someone’s blood the experiment showed no harmful effects of the drug | the
pressure experiment was carried out twice to make sure the results were
accurate
I’m taking pills for high blood pressure | the doctor took my
blood pressure (measured it) Verb: experiment | Adjective: experimental
• presión arterial • experimento
damage /ˈdæmɪdʒ/ Verb give up /ˌɡɪv ˈʌp/ Phrasal verb

if you damage something, you harm it or break it if you give up something that you do regularly, you stop
doing it
her voice wasn’t damaged during the operation | a lot of
buildings were damaged by the storm Collocates: give up doing something
Noun: damage It’s really hard to give up smoking | my parents gave up their
restaurant business and went back to Scotland
the shop suffered serious damage in the fire
• abandonar
• dañar
healthcare /ˈhelθˌkeə(r)/ Noun uncount
dry /draɪ/ Verb healthcare is a system that provides doctors and hospitals
to dry something that is wet means to make it dry for all the people in a country. Some healthcare systems
his body heat actually dried the sheet! | leave the towels in the are private, and people have to pay for them, but some
kitchen, they’ll dry overnight countries provide healthcare for everyone and pay for it out
Adjective: dry of taxes
leave the windows open until the paint is dry in America, healthcare is mostly private | campaigners
demanded universal free healthcare (free for everyone)
• secar
• Atención sanitaria
effect /ɪˈfekt/ Noun
an effect is something that happens because of something illness /ˈɪlnəs/ Noun
else if you have an illness, you are ill
Collocates: have an effect (on something) Collocates: suffer (from) an illness | a serious illness |
smoking can have a serious effect on your health | these a terminal illness | mental illness
chemicals can have a bad effect on the environment it’s important to try and prevent illness | she suffered from a
serious illness
• efecto Adjective: ill
emotional /ɪˈməʊʃ(ə)nəl/ Adjective Collocates: be taken ill | fall ill
something that is emotional involves someone’s feelings
rather than reason and facts • enfermedad
his reaction was less emotional than I’d expected | she gave me injured /ˈɪndʒə(r)d/ Adjective
a lot of emotional support after my father died if you are injured, part of your body has become damaged,
Adverb: emotionally | Noun: emotion for example, in an accident
I was physically and emotionally exhausted two people were seriously injured in the accident | the injured
player was taken to hospital
• emotivo / a Noun: injury | Verb: injure
exercise /ˈeksə(r)saɪz/ Noun Collocates: suffer an injury | a serious injury | a fatal injury
exercise is physical activity that you do to try and get fit or he suffered a serious injury when he fell off his motorbike
stay fit
you need more exercise | try these exercises to help your back • lastimado / a
muscles
Verb: exercise
she exercises for 20 minutes every morning
• ejercicio

injury /ˈɪndʒəri/ Noun operation /ˌɒpəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun
if you suffer an injury, part of your body gets damaged, for if someone has an operation, doctors cut into their body in
example, in an accident order to repair it or take something out
Collocates: suffer an injury | a serious injury | a fatal injury he had an operation on his knee | she needed an emergency
police say the injuries were not life-threatening (not likely operation
to cause death) | a fatal head injury (an injury that killed Verb: operate
someone) Collocates: operate on someone
Verb: injure | Adjective: injured
• operación
• lesión
patient /ˈpeɪʃ(ə)nt/ Noun
insurance /ɪnˈʃʊərəns/ Noun uncount a patient is someone who is being cared for in a hospital or
insurance is an agreement in which you pay money being treated by a doctor
regularly to a company, and they will pay the costs if my doctor has a good relationship with all her patients | the
something bad happens to you patient was discharged the following day (sent home from
Collocates: an insurance policy hospital)
most people have private health insurance | the damage is
covered by your insurance (your insurance will pay to repair it) • paciente
Verb: insure percentage /pə(r)ˈsentɪdʒ/ Noun
Collocates: insure someone or something a percentage is an amount of something which is described
against something as if it is part of a total of 100. A high or large percentage of
something is a large amount or quantity of it
• seguro a percentage of people get these side effects from a sugar pill |
the percentage of Welsh speakers in the school rose to 24%
measure /ˈmeʒə(r)/ Verb
if you measure something, you use some equipment to find
• porcentaje
out something such as the size, length, height or amount of
it. If something measures a certain amount, that is how big physical /ˈfɪzɪk(ə)l/ Adjective
it is something that is physical is connected to a person’s body
doctors can measure the physical changes that take place | rather than their mind
when I measured the kitchen, it was 14 feet long doctors can measure the physical changes that take place | I
Noun: measurement am in excellent physical and mental health
you need to take an accurate measurement of the Adverb: physically
water temperature you need to be physically fit to do this job
• medir • físico / a
mind /maɪnd/ Noun power /ˈpaʊə(r)/ Noun
your mind is your thoughts power is an ability to do something
Collocates: spring/come to mind | cross someone’s mind | I wish I had the power of flight (I wish I could fly) | the power of
have something in mind positive thinking
can the power of the mind keep you in good health? |
it never crossed my mind to ask Angela (I never considered • poder
asking her)
practise /ˈpræktɪs/ Verb
• mente to practise an activity means to do it regularly, especially in
order to become better at doing it
notice /ˈnəʊtɪs/ Verb you’ll never be able to play the guitar well if you don’t practise |
if you notice something, you start to see it, hear it, feel it, or I practised my dance moves every day
smell it
Noun: practice
did you notice that funny smell? | I shaved my beard off, but no
I do an hour’s piano practice a day
one in the office noticed
Adjective: noticeable • practicar
raising the price has had no noticeable effect on sales
• notar
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prepare /prɪˈpeə(r)/ Verb trick /trɪk/ Noun

if you prepare, you do everything that is necessary for you a trick is an action or statement that makes you believe
to be ready for a particular situation or for you to do a something that is not true
particular action Collocates: play a trick (on someone)
firstly, you need to prepare yourself for the heat | I wasn’t the effect is not just a trick of the mind | that was a dirty trick
properly prepared for the interview? (something that was unfair)
Noun: preparation Verb: trick
the key to success is good preparation Collocates: trick someone into doing something
• preparar • truco
reaction /riˈækʃ(ə)n/ Noun
your reaction to something is what you do, say, or think as a Student’s Book Pages 84–85
result of it
avoid /əˈvɔɪd/ Verb
what was her reaction when you told her you were resigning? | if you avoid something, you make sure you do not do it or
her speech provoked an angry reaction experience it
Verb: react avoid contact with your eyes | try to avoid repeating words
Collocates: react to something when you write | I think Sam is avoiding me (trying not to see
me or speak to me)
• reacción
• evitar
receive /rɪˈsiːv/ Verb
if you receive something, you get it after someone has given bend /bend/ Verb
it to you or has sent it to you. Receive is slightly formal, and if you bend, you move part of your body so that it is not
the usual word is get straight
I still haven’t received the parcel | did you receive Collocates: bend forward/down/over
my email? stand up straight, then bend your knees | she bent down and
picked up the letter
• recibir
Adjective: bent
recovery /rɪˈkʌv(ə)ri/ Noun his arm was bent across his chest
someone’s recovery from an illness is the process in which
they get better and become well again • doblar
Collocates: make a recovery | a recovery from something |
brush /brʌʃ/ Verb
a complete/full recovery
a brush is an object with thin, stiff pieces of plastic, wire, or
she’s making a good recovery from the flu | he left hospital hair which you use to clean things, paint things, or make
yesterday after a very quick recovery your hair tidy. If you brush something, you clean it or tidy it
Verb: recover using a brush
I didn’t have time to brush my hair | Harold brushed the dirt off
• recuperación his coat
side effect /ˈsaɪd ɪˌfekt/ Noun Noun: brush
side effects are unpleasant effects of a medicine a hair brush
Collocates: suffer (from) side effects
• cepillo
most drugs and medicines have side effects | some patients
suffer side effects burn /bɜː(r)n/ Noun
a burn is damage to your skin caused by fire or heat
• efectos secundarios
Collocates: suffer burns
treatment /ˈtriːtmənt/ Noun uncount the burn doesn’t look too bad | he suffered burns but escaped
when a doctor treats a patient or an illness, he or she give serious injury
someone medicine or other things to make them better. Verb: burn
This activity is treatment
I burnt my hand taking the bread out of the oven
medical treatment is expensive if you don’t have insurance |
he was rushed to hospital for treatment • quemadura
Verb: treat
• tratamiento

contact /ˈkɒntækt/ Noun uncount effective /ɪˈfektɪv/ Adjective
contact happens when one thing touches another thing if something is effective, it succeeds in doing what it is
Collocates: come into contact with something meant to do
have you ever come into contact with an infected person? Collocates: highly effective
| if physical contact occurs, wash the affected body part I took some pills, but they weren’t very effective | it’s a highly
immediately effective (very effective) method of keeping flies out of the
kitchen
• contacto Adverb: effectively | Noun: effectiveness
course /kɔː(r)s/ Noun how do you effectively manage a team?
a course of treatment is all the medicine you have to take
until you are well again • eficaz
complete the full course | a course of daily injections exceed /ɪkˈsiːd/ Verb
to exceed an amount or rate means to be more than that
• tratamiento amount or faster than that rate
cure /kjʊə(r)/ Noun do not exceed three doses in 24 hours | the total price won’t
a cure for an illness is something that stops the illness and exceed £200 | it’s against the law to exceed the speed limit
makes someone well again
• exceder
Collocates: a cure for something
do you know of a cure for hiccups? | there’s no cure for the external /ɪkˈstɜː(r)n(ə)l/ Adjective
common cold external means on the outside of something
Verb: cure | Adjective: curable || Opposite – this medicine is for external use only (for your skin, not to be
Adjective: incurable eaten) | the computer has an external hard drive | the external
Collocates: cure someone of something walls of the house
• cura • externo / a
deep /diːp/ Adjective heal /hiːl/ Verb

something that is deep goes a long way from the surface to if an injury heals, it recovers and becomes well again
the bottom how long did it take for the cut to heal? | it’s healed nicely (well)
that’s a deep cut you’ve got | the swimming pool is three
metres deep at this end • curar
Adverb: deep | Noun: depth knock /nɒk/ Verb
it was buried deep inside the mountain if you knock something, you touch or hit it by accident,
especially so that it moves or falls to the floor
• profundo / a Collocates: knock something off/over/down
deep /diːp/ Adjective she knocked a cup of coffee off the table | Rob tripped on a wire
a deep breath involves taking as much air into your lungs as and managed to knock the whole
you can computer over
Collocates: a deep breath
• golpear
take a deep breath, then let the air out slowly | she let out a
deep sigh lift /lɪft/ Verb
Adverb: deeply if you lift something, or lift it up, you move it to a higher
place
Lucien breathed deeply and closed his eyes
Collocates: lift someone or something up
• profundo / a sit down and lift your leg in the air | he has to lift
heavy objects
dose /dəʊs/ Noun
Noun: lifting
a dose of medicine is the amount that a doctor tells you to
take at one time don’t do any heavy lifting because you’ll hurt your back
do not exceed three doses in 24 hours | the doctor decided to
• levantar
change the dose after a week
• dosis
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mix /mɪks/ Verb ring /rɪŋ/ Verb

if you mix things, you put them together so that they are all if something rings, it makes the sound that a bell makes
together in one place I set the alarm to ring at 6 | the bell rang for the end of the
mix the pills with water and take after meals | heat the lesson
ingredients until they are melted and mixed into a sauce Noun: ring
Noun: mixture there was a ring at the door (someone had rung the doorbell)
stir the mixture until it comes to the boil
• sonar
• mezclar
settle /ˈset(ə)l/ Verb
prescription /prɪˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n/ Noun if something settles your stomach, it stops your stomach
a prescription is an amount of medicine that a doctor has feeling uncomfortable
told you to take. A prescription is also a piece of paper from I need something to settle my stomach | after I’d had the tea,
the doctor which tells a chemist exactly what medicine to my stomach settled
give you
Collocates: on prescription • asentar
the doctor gave me a prescription for my flu | I need to collect
smile /smaɪl/ Noun
my prescription this afternoon
a smile is an expression on your face where the ends of your
Verb: prescribe mouth go up slightly to show that you are pleased or happy
about something
• receta
she greeted us at the door us with a smile | a faint smile crossed
pretty /ˈprɪti/ Adjective her face
a woman or girl who is pretty has an attractive face Verb: smile
her sister was very pretty when she was younger | she had fair Collocates: smile at someone
hair and a pretty face
• sonrisa
• hermoso / a
tiredness /ˈtaɪə(r)dnəs/ Noun uncount
pull a face /ˌpʊl ə ˈfeɪs/ Phrase tiredness is the state of feeling tired
if you pull a face, you change the expression on your face to these pills may cause tiredness | side effects include tiredness
show that you feel disgust or dislike or disappointment and headaches
he pulled a face at her when she asked him to do the washing Adjective: tired
up | she bit into the lemon and pulled a face
• cansancio
• poner caras
wipe /waɪp/ Verb
raise /reɪz/ Verb if you wipe something, you move something across its
if you raise something, you lift it up to a higher place surface in order to clean it. If you wipe your feet, you move
raise your arm above your head | she raised her hand to get my your shoes over a surface in order to clean them
attention wipe your feet before you come in | he wiped the sweat from
his forehead with a handkerchief
• levantar
Noun: wipe
give the table a wipe
• limpiar

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Student’s Book Pages 86–87 electricity /ɪˌlekˈtrɪsəti/ Noun uncount
electricity is a kind of energy that can travel down wires, and
entertainment /ˌentə(r)ˈteɪnmənt/ Noun uncount that is used to heat houses, provide light, etc
entertainment is things that give people pleasure, like films,
concerts, television, etc. Collocates: conduct electricity | generate electricity
there was plenty of entertainment in the evenings | the campsite cost £25 a night with free electricity | gold
a series of concerts and other entertainment was organised conducts electricity very well (lets electricity pass along
it easily)
Verb: entertain | Noun: entertainer
Adjective: electrical | Adjective: electric
• entretenimiento Collocates: an electrical appliance
facility /fəˈsɪləti/ Noun • electricidad

the facilities in a place are all the buildings, services, and
equipment that are available for people to use expiry /ɪkˈspaɪəri/ Noun uncount
there weren’t many facilities but we still had a good time | an expiry date is the date after which something cannot be
a hotel with a large leisure facility attached to it used any more
Collocates: an expiry date
• instalación what is the expiry date on the card? | I wanted to agree a new
deal before the expiry of my present contract
location /ləʊˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun
a location is the place where something is Verb: expire
our hotel was in a convenient location near the city centre | we • vencimiento
don’t know the exact location of the ship
Adjective: located fire /ˈfaɪə(r)/ Noun
a fire is a pile of burning wood or coal that you use to
• ubicación provide heat
Collocates: an open fire | a real fire | a roaring fire
Student’s Book Pages 88–89 we all sat around the camp fire and sang songs | it’s nice to
have an open fire on a winter evening
access /ˈækses/ Noun uncount
access to somewhere or something is the fact of being able • fuego
to go there or use it
Collocates: access to something ground /ɡraʊnd/ Noun
they charged a lot for internet access in the hotel room | access the ground is the surface of the earth, or the surface that is
to the car park is via a staircase under your feet when you are outside
Verb: access | Adjective: accessible it was difficult to put the tent up because the ground was so
hard | I slipped and fell to the ground
• acceso
• suelo
availability /əˌveɪləˈbɪləti/ Noun uncount
the availability of something is the fact that people can use heated /ˈhiːtɪd/ Adjective
it at a particular time something that is heated has been made warmer
please contact us to check availability | there is limited parking is the swimming pool heated? | the party was held in a heated
availability at the station tent in the garden
Adjective: available Verb: heat
Collocates: make something available heat the oven as high as it will go before you put the bread in
• disponibilidad • climatizado / a
campsite /ˈkæmpˌsaɪt/ Noun put up /ˈpʊt ˌʌp/ Phrasal verb

a campsite is a place where people are allowed to camp in if you put something up, you build it or do what is needed
a tent to make it stand upright
we found a wonderful campsite by the edge of the lake | the it took nearly an hour to put up the tent | the neighbour has
campsite opens at the end of March put up a new fence
• campamento • montar

reception /rɪˈsepʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount Student’s Book Pages 90–91
in a hotel or other large building, reception is the desk near
the entrance where you can get information or register your afraid /əˈfreɪd/ Adjective
arrival if you are afraid, you are very worried that something
bad is going to happen. When you are talking about an
tplease leave the key at reception when you go out | I left a unpleasant or unwanted situation, you can say I’m afraid as
message for him at reception a polite way of saying that you are sorry about it
Noun: receptionist I’m afraid that’s just not possible | I can’t help you, I’m afraid |
I’m afraid you’ll have to come back next week
• recepción
reduced /rɪˈdjuːst/ Adjective • asustado / a

if an amount is reduced, it has been made smaller ambitious /æmˈbɪʃəs/ Adjective
it was only £50, reduced from £99 | the hotel offered us a someone who is ambitious wants to be very successful and
reduced rate of £65 a night instead of £80 works hard to make sure that they succeed
Verb: reduce | Noun: reduction she’s very ambitious and wants to make a million pounds
Collocates: a reduction in something | a reduction of before she’s 30 | he’s very bright, but not
something very ambitious
the government has promised to reduce unemployment Noun: ambition
Collocates: realise your ambition
• rebajado / a
my ambition is to have my own restaurant
reject /rɪˈdʒekt/ Verb
to reject something means to refuse to accept it • ambicioso / a
did it reject my credit card again? | he rejected my offer of help
-OUS
Noun: rejection
Words ending in –ous are adjectives. They are often
the fighting started again after the rejection of the peace plan connected to nouns but the connection is not always
the same.
• rechazar
she’s very ambitious realise your ambition
supplement /ˈsʌplɪmənt/ Noun a poisonous spider a deadly poison
a supplement is an extra amount of money you pay in order a religious school teach religion
to have a better service or better equipment than you
leave a generous tip show generosity
would get for the normal price
be very adventurous a big adventure
the room is €110 a night, with a €10 supplement for the child’s
bed | we paid a supplement of £15 and travelled first class
arrange /əˈreɪndʒ/ Verb
to arrange things means to put them in a particular position
• suplemento
or order
tent /tent/ Noun she enjoys arranging flowers | he arranged the books on the
a tent is a sort of building made of cloth that you can fold shelves in alphabetical order
up and take with you when you travel somewhere. You Noun: flower arranging
sleep in a tent when you go camping
I started flower arranging about 12 years ago
it was cold in the tent | the tent fell down during the night
• arreglar
• tienda de campaña
behalf /bɪˈhɑːf/ Noun
whole /həʊl/ Adjective if you do something on someone’s behalf, or on behalf of
a whole thing, or the whole of something, is all of it someone, you do it for them and instead of them
there was one shower block which was shared by the whole I’m calling on behalf of Lady Zaza | I don’t want you to change it
campsite | they ate the whole cake | I spent the whole week ill on my behalf
in bed
• en nombre de
• entero / a
boiling /ˈbɔɪlɪŋ/ Adjective
if you are boiling or boiling hot, you are very hot. If the place
where you are is boiling, it is very hot there
it’s boiling in my room | I’m boiling – can you open
the window?
• sofocante
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booking /ˈbʊkɪŋ/ Noun review /rɪˈvjuː/ Noun

if you make a booking, you arrange to have something in a review is a piece of writing which says how good or bad
the future, such as a hotel room, a table in a restaurant, etc something is, such as a film, a book, a concert, or a hotel
Collocates: make a booking | cancel a booking why don’t you post a review on the web? | the film got great
can I make a booking for next Saturday, please? | reviews in all the papers
the restaurant is very popular and booking is essential Verb: review | Noun: reviewer
Verb: book
• reseña
Collocates: book a table/seat/ticket
I’d like to book a table for four selfish /ˈselfɪʃ/ Adjective
someone who is selfish does not care about other people
• reserva and does only what they want to do
don’t be so selfish. There’s plenty for everyone | I’d had enough
chemist /ˈkemɪst/ Noun
of his selfish behaviour and told him to go away
a chemist or a chemist’s shop is a shop where you can
get medicines and which also sells things like make-up, Adverb: selfishly | Noun: selfishness
sunglasses, etc. A chemist is also the person who is trained they’re selfishly keeping all the best ones for themselves
to prepare and sell the medicines in a chemists’ shop
is there a chemist nearby? | she worked in a chemist’s shop in • egoísta
Barnsley
send /send/ Verb
to send someone somewhere means to make them go there
• químico / a
as part of their job, and in order to do a specific task
demanding /dɪˈmɑːndɪŋ/ Adjective could you send someone to have a look at the
someone who is demanding always wants attention from air-conditioning? | they sent an ambulance to get him
other people to hospital
my boss is very demanding | she spent the morning dealing
with a particularly demanding customer • enviar
sightseeing /ˈsaɪtˌsiːɪŋ/ Noun uncount

• exigente
if you go sightseeing, you go around somewhere looking at
doubt /daʊt/ Verb the interesting buildings and places that tourists like to see
if you doubt something, you think it might not be true Collocates: a sightseeing tour | go sightseeing
Collocates: doubt that the morning is free for sightseeing | on Saturday you can
I doubt I can find one | I doubt that he’ll get the job choose between going sightseeing or going shopping
Noun: doubt Noun: sightseer
Collocates: (have) no doubt
• turismo
I have no doubt that the film will be a success
take out /ˈteɪk ˌaʊt/ Phrasal verb
• dudar if you take something out, you remove it from a larger
group so that it is no longer there
nut /nʌt/ Noun
don’t forget to take out the ones with nuts | there weren’t many
a nut is the hard seed of some plants that you can eat
grapes left after we’d taken out the rotten ones
do these chocolates have nuts in them? | I bought a bag of nuts
to eat on the journey • quitar
• fruto seco turn /tɜː(r)n/ Verb

if you turn a machine up or down, you make it stronger,
record /ˈrekɔː(r)d/ Noun louder, hotter, or weaker, quieter, or colder. If you turn a
a record of something is a piece of information about it that machine on or off, you make it start or you make it stop
is kept so that people can look at it later
is there any way I can turn down the heating? | turn that music
Collocates: keep/maintain a record | official records down! I can’t concentrate | don’t forget to turn off the television
are you sure you don’t have a record of my booking? | before you go to bed
we will not give your medical records to anyone except a
doctor • girar
Verb: record
• registro

warn /wɔː(r)n/ Verb dull /dʌl/ Adjective
if you warn people, you tell them about something bad that something that is dull is not interesting or exciting but
might happen to them boring
Collocates: warn someone about something | warn it sounds dull but we were never bored | the film was really dull
someone that | warn someone not to do something Noun: dullness
it’s good to warn other people so they’re prepared for the worst I soon grew bored with the dullness of the countryside
| we were warned about the danger before we set off
Noun: warning • aburrido / a
• advertir encounter /ɪnˈkaʊntə(r)/ Noun

if you have an encounter with someone or something, you
meet them or come very close to them when you were not
Student’s Book Pages 92–93 expecting to
air /eə(r)/ Noun uncount we had a close encounter with a bear when we were in Canada
air is the gas that is all around us and that we breathe. If you | our first encounter was during a football match (the first time
talk about the fresh air, you are talking about being outside we met)
in nature rather than in a building Verb: encounter
I liked being out in the fresh air | it’s very hot in here – can you
open the window and let some air in • encuentro
• aire fence /fens/ Noun

a fence is a wooden or metal barrier that separates two
childhood /ˈtʃaɪldˌhʊd/ Noun areas of land
your childhood is the period of time in your life when you we used to sit on the fence and watch the cows in the field | my
are a child dad put up a new fence around the garden
Collocates: a happy/unhappy childhood | a normal
childhood • cerca
she had a happy childhood in Scotland | I remember my
fond /fɒnd/ Adjective
childhood as a time when the sun shone nearly every day
if you are fond of someone, you like them very much. If
you have fond memories of someone or something, it
• infancia
always gives you pleasure when you think about them or
climb /klaɪm/ Verb remember them
if you climb something, you go up it using your feet and Collocates: fond memories
sometimes your hands I have very fond memories of those holidays with my
we found a bear climbing a tree behind the house | grandparents | she was very fond of all the children in her class
we climbed the stairs all the way up to the top of Adverb: fondly | Noun: fondness
the cathedral
I’ll always fondly remember those weekends with my aunt in
Noun: climb | Noun: climbing | Noun: climber Wales
it was a long, hard climb to the top of the hill
• cariñoso / a
• trepar
fresh /freʃ/ Adjective
crowded /ˈkraʊdɪd/ Adjective food that is fresh has been prepared or taken out of the
if a place is crowded, there are so many people there that it ground very recently and is not from a can or frozen
is difficult to move around easily they sell fresh fruit and vegetables there | it will stay fresh for a
it gets crowded here in the summer | the streets were crowded few days in the fridge
with shoppers | the bomb went off in a crowded shopping area Adverb: freshly
Noun: crowd a freshly prepared tomato and onion salad
there was a huge crowd waiting to get into the stadium
• fresco / a
• abarrotado / a
decade /ˈdekeɪd/ Noun

a decade is a period of ten years
it’s the first time I’ve been back in more than two decades | the
1960s was a very exciting decade
• década
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heavily /ˈhevɪli/ Adverb set /set/ Noun

if you do an activity heavily, you do it a lot, especially a set of things is a group of them that belong together
something that is bad for you we spent a fortnight with each set of grandparents | a spare set
Collocates: smoke/drink heavily of keys for the house
he smoked quite heavily when he was younger | it rained
heavily all last night • conjunto
Adjective: heavy sunset /ˈsʌnˌset/ Noun
his father was a heavy drinker sunset is the time of day when the sun goes out of sight and
the sky changes colour as it becomes dark
• considerablemente we went for a walk on the beach at sunset | in the summer
months we worked from sunrise to sunset
homemade /ˌhəʊmˈmeɪd/ Adjective
food that is homemade has been made in someone’s house
• atardecer
rather than in a factory or restaurant
I used to make homemade pizzas with my grandma | theme park /ˈθiːm ˌpɑː(r)k/ Noun
a delicious homemade lunch a theme park is a large area outside with a lot of activities
for people to enjoy. You have to pay to go into a theme park,
• Casero / a and the activities are usually based on the same topic
my friend used to spend her whole holiday at a theme park |
loss /lɒs/ Noun
the number of theme parks in China is growing
a loss is when you lose something. It could be a game that
you lose, or money that a company loses. It can also be the
• parque temático
sad feeling you have when someone you love goes away
or dies thread /θred/ Noun
Collocates: suffer a loss on the Internet, a thread is a number of messages from
she suffered a great loss when her grandmother died | various people all on the same topic
this was the team’s third loss this year Mark started the thread about holidays | I found a link to a
Verb: lose really interesting thread about German punk bands
• pérdida • hilo
mess around /ˌmes əˈraʊnd/ Phrasal verb

if you are messing around or messing about, you are
Student’s Book Page 94
spending time enjoying yourself and relaxing but not doing concern /kənˈsɜː(r)n/ Noun
anything in particular concern is a feeling of worry about a situation
we used to mess around by the river all day | the boys are just Collocates: a cause for concern | express concern | give rise
messing about in the garden to concern
she expressed concern about the rising crime rate | his injury
• trastear was a major cause of concern for the team
relative /ˈrelətɪv/ Noun Verb: concern | Adjective: concerned
your relatives are the people in your family, such as your
uncles, aunts, cousins, grandparents, etc. • preocupación
we went to stay with relatives in Italy | several of my male economy /ɪˈkɒnəmi/ Noun
relatives have suffered from heart problems a country’s economy is all the commercial and business
activity that goes on. When business is successful, the
• familiares economy is strong. When businesses are failing, the
economy is weak
rent /rent/ Verb
if you rent a house or flat, you pay money to the owner so how has the economy changed in your country? | the global
that you can live in it. If the owner rents it, or rents it out, he economy is still very weak
or she lets people live in it in exchange for money. If you Adjective: economic | Noun: economics
rent a car, you pay money to be able to use it for a period
of time • economía
they rented a house near the beach | he rented the house out to
students | she rented a car for a week
Noun: rent
the rent is £780 a month
• alquilar

employment /ɪmˈplɔɪmənt/ Noun uncount tourism /ˈtʊərɪz(ə)m/ Noun uncount
employment is the state of having a job. If there is not tourism is the activity of visiting places for pleasure, and the
much employment in an area, there are not enough jobs for businesses that exist to provide services for these visitors
people tourism has increased a lot in the south of the country | we’re
Collocates: full-time/part-time employment | permanent/ keen to encourage tourism on the island
temporary employment Noun: tourist
they want to increase tourism to replace employment lost
when the factory closed | many students are in • turismo
part-time employment (they have a job for part of
the week) well-known /ˌwelˈnəʊn/ Adjective
someone or something that is well-known is known and
Verb: employ | Noun: employer | Noun: employee ||
recognised by lots of people
Opposite – Adjective: unemployment
he was well-known for his ability to swim long distances |
• empleo the hills are well-known among walkers
land /lænd/ Noun • conocido / a

land is an area of ground, especially when it is used for
building or farming
they own over 1000 hectares of land in Scotland | he bought a
piece of land where they built their first house
• tierra
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Student’s Book Pages 96–97 conduct /kənˈdʌkt/ Verb
if you conduct an activity, you arrange it and carry out all
breeze /briːz/ Noun the work that needs to be done
a breeze is a gentle wind
Collocates: conduct an experiment/investigation | conduct
a gentle breeze was blowing through the woods | there was research
only a slight breeze
they wanted to conduct an experiment on animals | the
Adjective: breezy local police conducted an investigation into the murder | the
interview was conducted by phone
• brisa
freezing /ˈfriːzɪŋ/ Adjective • llevar a cabo

if it is freezing, the weather is very cold or the air in a room is environment /ɪnˈvaɪrənmənt/ Noun
very cold the environment is the land, air, and natural water around us
it’s freezing outside, so take a warm coat | the water was Collocates: the natural environment | harm/damage the
freezing when I jumped in environment | protect the environment
Verb: freeze | Adjective: frozen we need to do more to protect the environment | trees are an
I thought I was going to freeze to death! essential part of our natural environment
Adjective: environmental | Adverb: environmentally |
• helado / a Noun: environmentalist
storm /stɔː(r)m/ Noun Collocates: environmental damage/pollution
a storm is very bad weather with very strong winds and
heavy rain or snow • medioambiente
Collocates: a storm breaks extinct /ɪkˈstɪŋkt/ Adjective
a big storm is about to hit the East coast of the USA | the storm if a type of animal or plant is extinct, it no longer exists
broke (started) an hour before we got home anywhere in the world
Adjective: stormy Collocates: become extinct
Collocates: stormy weather if we don’t do more to protect bees, they could become extinct |
it’s been extinct since 1908
• tormenta Noun: extinction
windy /ˈwɪndi/ Adjective Collocates: face extinction
when it is windy, the wind is blowing very hard these bears are facing extinction (are at risk of becoming
it’s been very wet and windy recently | windy conditions made extinct)
the bike ride home harder than usual
Noun: wind • extinto / a
the wind is blowing from the east forecast /ˈfɔː(r)kɑːst/ Noun
a forecast is a statement of what is expected to happen in
• ventoso / a the future based on the facts that are available now
Collocates: a weather forecast
Student’s Book Pages 98–99 what’s the weather forecast for the weekend? | the economic
ban /bæn/ Verb forecast was very depressing
if someone in authority bans something, they make a law to Verb: forecast | Noun: forecaster
say that it is not allowed. If they ban someone from doing Collocates: a weather forecaster
something, they do not allow them to do it he correctly forecast the result of the election
Collocates: ban someone from doing something
they’re going to completely ban smoking next year | cigarette • pronóstico
advertising was banned years ago
Noun: ban | Adjective: banned
Collocates: a ban on something
the government has introduced a ban on smoking
• prohibir

fund /fʌnd/ Verb pull down /ˈpʊl ˌdaʊn/ Phrasal verb
if someone funds something, they provide the money that to pull down a building means to deliberately destroy it
is needed to pay for it and remove everything, for example, in order to put a new
the government should fund more research | the project was building in its place
funded by a major oil company they’re going to pull down the old cinema | the house where I
Noun: funding grew up was pulled down last year
the funding ran out before we’d finished the research
• demoler
• financiar rocket /ˈrɒkɪt/ Noun
a rocket is a vehicle that can travel into space
hit /hɪt/ Verb
when something dangerous or damaging hits a place, it we’re going to launch a rocket into space next year | the Apollo
arrives there and has a serious and bad effect spacecraft was launched with a Saturn V rocket
a huge storm is going to hit the coast in the next two hours |
• cohete
the financial crisis of 2008 hit the company very hard
unknown /ʌnˈnəʊn/ Adjective
• golpear if something is unknown, you do not know it
investigate /ɪnˈvestɪɡeɪt/ Verb all the bees are dying for some unknown reason | the word
if someone investigates a situation or event, they look at all “hockey” is of unknown origin (no one knows what language it
the facts that they can find about it in order to learn exactly comes from) | the true story remained unknown until last year
what happened or how something works
• desconocido / a
they’re investigating the effect of colour on memory | his claim
was thoroughly investigated by the police
Noun: investigation | Noun: investigator Student’s Book Pages 100–101
Collocates: an investigation into something | conduct an bark /bɑː(r)k/ Verb
investigation | be under investigation when a dog barks, it makes the usual sound that dogs make
the authorities are conducting an investigation into the plane when he saw the man, Scooby barked very loudly | the dog
crash next door was barking all night
Noun: bark
• investigar
I could hear the bark of a big dog
negative /ˈneɡətɪv/ Adjective
something that is negative is bad or depressing. If a person • ladrar
is negative about something, they believe they are in a bad
boost /buːst/ Verb
situation and do not think about any good possibilities
to boost something means to make it bigger or better
the cold summer had a negative effect on tourism in the area |
farmers can boost milk production by being nice to their cows |
he had a very negative attitude
this win did a lot to boost the team’s confidence
Adverb: negatively || Opposite – Adjective: positive
Noun: boost
people reacted negatively to the news
Collocates: give something a boost
• negativo / a I’ll show you how to give your Facebook profile a boost
nuclear /ˈnjuːkliə(r)/ Adjective • estimular

nuclear power or nuclear energy is energy that is created
when the central part of an atom is broken apart cage /keɪdʒ/ Noun
a cage is a container with bars that people use to keep
they’re going to build five new nuclear power plants | nuclear
animals or birds in
energy is better for the environment than using coal or gas
the parrots were kept in a cage | it’s cruel to keep animals in
• nuclear cages
Adjective: caged
power /ˈpaʊə(r)/ Noun uncount
power is energy that is used to make machines work or to • jaula
heat water, houses, etc.
storms caused power cuts in the region (when electricity could
not get to houses, factories, shops, etc.) | the power station
(place where electricity is made) was closed in 2004
• energía
2
case /keɪs/ Noun explode /ɪkˈspləʊd/ Verb

a case is a legal situation in which the police find and when a bomb explodes, it makes a loud noise and sends lots
present evidence and a court decides if someone has of pieces of metal into the air that can cause a lot of injury
committed a crime or not and damage
there was enough evidence to take the case to court | an the bomb exploded outside the main railway station | terrorists
unsolved case (a crime for which the police have not found the used mobile phones to explode the bomb
criminal) Noun: explosion
the explosion could be heard ten miles away
• caso
court /kɔː(r)t/ Noun • explotar

a court is the place where a judge decides if someone
hearing /ˈhɪərɪŋ/ Noun uncount
actually committed a crime, and tells them what their
someone’s hearing is their ability to hear sounds. Hearing
punishment is if they are guilty
is one of the five senses; the other senses are sight, smell,
Collocates: appear in court | take someone to court taste, and touch
she was a witness in court in a murder case | he is due to Collocates: a sense of hearing | a hearing aid
appear in court on June 17th
I’m losing my sense of hearing | my grandfather uses a hearing
aid (a small device in his ear that helps him hear better)
• corte
detect /dɪˈtekt/ Verb • audición

if you detect something that is difficult to see or hear, you
hero /ˈhɪərəʊ/ Noun
find it
a hero is someone who does something very brave or very
the rats were trained to detect mines and bombs lying in the useful and is admired by a lot of people. Hero is usually used
ground | the machine can detect very small quantities of gas about men, although nowadays the word is used about
Noun: detector women too. In the past, the word heroine was usually used
a metal detector (a device that makes a noise when it is close about women
to metal) his father was a war hero (had fought bravely in a war) | she
was a real-life hero (a living person, not someone in a made-up
• detectar story)
Feminine – Noun: heroine
drop /drɒp/ Verb
if you drop something, you let go of it by accident and it
• héroe / heroína
falls to the ground
someone had dropped a wallet | be careful you don’t drop that in public /ɪn ˈpʌblɪk/ Phrase
plate! | she dropped her gloves on the floor if something happens in public, it happens where lots of
people can see and hear it, rather than in private where
• soltar people are not allowed to be present
I’d never made a speech in public before | this was the first time
elderly /ˈeldə(r)li/ Adjective
the painting had been shown in public
if you describe someone as elderly, you are saying in a polite
way that they are old. The elderly are people who are old
• en público
a pet rabbit saved his elderly owners | an elderly lady sat down
next to me on the bus insist /ɪnˈsɪst/ Verb
Noun: the elderly if you insist on doing something, you say very strongly
that you are going to do it even if other people do not want
winter causes many problems for the elderly
you to
• ancianos Collocates: insist on doing something
he insisted on paying for the meal | she insisted that I should
evidence /ˈevɪd(ə)ns/ Noun uncount see a doctor
evidence is facts that prove that something is true
Noun: insistence
Collocates: evidence of something | evidence that |
Collocates: insistence on doing something
evidence against someone
at her insistence, the painter reduced his price
the police don’t have enough evidence to arrest him | there was
no evidence of any criminal activity
• insistir
• prueba

jail /dʒeɪl/ Noun pet /pet/ Noun
a jail is a building where prisoners live until the end of their a pet is an animal that you keep at home
punishment do you have any pets? | she has a pet dog called Pipi
Collocates: send someone to jail | be in jail | a jail bird
he’s been in jail since January | the judge sent him to jail for five • mascota
years
previously /ˈpriːviəsli/ Adverb
Verb: jail something that happened previously happened at a time
before something else
• cárcel
the parrots had previously lived in a cage (they’re not in it now)
kindness /ˈkaɪn(d)nəs/ Noun uncount | he works for a national newspaper and, previously, he was at
kindness is generous and helpful behaviour towards the BBC
someone. The expression the milk of human kindness comes Adjective: previous
from the play “Macbeth” by William Shakespeare, and refers
to the ability of people to behave in a very generous and • anteriormente
kind way
react /riˈækt/ Verb
I’ll always remember her kindness to me after my father died |
if someone or something reacts to something, they behave
I hope I can repay your kindness one day (do something nice
in a particular way because of it
for you as a way of thanking you)
Collocates: react to someone or something
Adjective: kind
they wanted to see how he would react to the main suspect |
• amabilidad she reacted angrily to the news
Noun: reaction
let /let/ Verb
Collocates: a reaction to something | an immediate
to let someone go somewhere, do something, or have
reaction
something means to allow them to go there, do it, or have it
his reaction to the news was very positive
Collocates: let someone do something
the driver stopped to let the passengers get some fresh air • reaccionar
| I rang the bell and waited for someone to let me in | they
wouldn’t let me see my grandfather when he was in hospital save /seɪv/ Verb
if you save someone or something, you help them escape a
• dejar very dangerous situation so that they do not suffer harm or
damage
nervous /ˈnɜː(r)vəs/ Adjective
Collocates: save someone’s life
if you are nervous, you are very worried and slightly scared
that you will do something badly having the operation saved his life | he fell into the river but
was saved by a fisherman who pulled him out | a campaign to
Collocates: nervous about something
save polar bears from extinction
I was very nervous because I’d never made a speech in public
before | he was nervous about the interview • salvar
Adverb: nervously
shocked /ʃɒkt/ Adjective
he waited nervously for his turn to go onto the stage
if you are shocked, you are very surprised and upset by
something
• nervioso / a
I was really shocked when I saw a rat in the kitchen | we were
net /net/ Noun all deeply shocked by his death
a net is a large piece of cloth with holes in it that allow air Adjective: shocking | Verb: shock
or water to pass through. Nets are used to catch fish. If the
what shocked me the most was that he said he would do
holes are very big, small fish can go through and only big
it again
fish are caught
fishermen found a shark in their net | a butterfly net • impactado / a
• red sight /saɪt/ Noun uncount

someone’s sight is their ability to see things. Sight is one of
owner /ˈəʊnə(r)/ Noun the five senses; the other senses are hearing, smell, taste,
the owner of something is the person that it belongs to and touch
there are 80 million gun owners in America | I never met the Collocates: a sense of sight
original owner of the house
he’s got poor sight (he can’t see very well) | I was scared that I
Verb: own | Noun: ownership might lose my sight
• dueño / a • vista
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suspect /ˈsʌspekt/ Noun attraction /əˈtrækʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount

a suspect is someone the police think might have attraction is a force that pulls two objects towards each
committed a crime other
they wanted to see how he would react to the main suspect | there’s an attraction between the Earth and the moon
police have interviewed three suspects Verb: attract
Verb: suspect if you don’t dry the table it will attract dust
Collocates: suspect someone of something |
suspect that • atracción
• sospechoso / a award /əˈwɔː(r)d/ Verb

to award something to someone means to give them a
wild /waɪld/ Adjective prize for something good that they have done
a wild animal lives in natural conditions and is not looked they were awarded a Nobel Prize for the discovery | the judges
after by people. Wild plants grow naturally and are not awarded first prize to Ian McEwan
looked after by people
Noun: award
his dog was killed by a wild animal in the forest | she picked a
Collocates: win an award
bunch of wild flowers
he’s won several awards for his books
Noun: the wild
• premio
• salvaje
balloon /bəˈluːn/ Noun
wildlife /ˈwaɪldˌlaɪf/ Noun uncount
a balloon is a ball made of thin rubber which is full of air and
wildlife is animals in general, especially animals that live in
which is used as a toy or as a decoration
natural conditions rather than farm animals or pets. The
general word for farm animals is livestock Collocates: burst a balloon | blow up a balloon
we need to do more to protect wildlife in this country | these on the day of the party, we put balloons on the front door |
leaves are not good food for wildlife or livestock keep the balloons away from the fire or they’ll burst
• vida salvaje • globo
witness /ˈwɪtnəs/ Noun ceiling /ˈsiːlɪŋ/ Noun

a witness or an eye witness is someone who sees a crime and the ceiling is the top surface in a room, over your head
can say what happened how do spiders walk on ceilings? | the ceiling is very low in here
Collocates: a witness to something | an eye witness
• techo
police are asking witnesses to contact them | he had to give
evidence in court as a witness to the murder charge /tʃɑː(r)dʒ/ Noun
Verb: witness an electric charge is an amount of electricity that is stored in
something such as a battery
• testigo the movement creates a small electric charge | there are two
types of electric charge: positive and negative
Student’s Book Pages 102–103 Verb: charge
accidentally /ˌæksɪˈdent(ə)li/ Adverb
• carga
if something happens accidentally, it happens even though
no one wanted it to. If you do something accidentally, you comfort /ˈkʌmfə(r)t/ Verb
do not do it deliberately and do not want it to happen if you comfort someone, you do things to help them
the cure for the disease was accidentally discovered | become calm and relaxed when they are upset or
I accidentally knocked the glass off the table very sad
Adjective: accidental | Noun: accident the baby was comforted by her mother | her father rushed to
the scene to comfort the family
• accidentalmente Adjective: comforting
atom /ˈætəm/ Noun thank you for your comforting words
an atom is a very small piece of stuff which is too small to
see with your eyes. Things like gold have only one kind of • consolar
atom, while water is made of two different sorts of atom,
oxygen and hydrogen
graphene is just one atom thick | water is H2O: two atoms of
hydrogen and one of oxygen
• átomo

confidently /ˈkɒnfɪd(ə)ntli/ Adverb importance /ɪmˈpɔː(r)t(ə)ns/ Noun uncount
if you do something confidently you do it in a positive way, the importance of something is how important people think
believing strongly in your ability to do it it is
she walked confidently into the interview room | he spoke Collocates: vital importance | recognise/realise the
confidently about the future importance of something
Adjective: confident | Noun: confidence they investigated the importance of love and contact between
mothers and babies | water quality is of vital importance (very
• con seguridad important indeed)
Adjective: important
cruel /ˈkruːəl/ Adjective
someone or something that is cruel makes people or
• importancia
animals suffer in an unnecessary way
taking babies from their mothers is considered cruel | children layer /ˈleɪə(r)/ Noun
can be extremely cruel to each other a layer is a flat amount of something that covers something
Adverb: cruelly | Noun: cruelty else, or that is between two other things
he was treated very cruelly by the other students Collocates: a layer of something
the roof was a single layer of steel sheets | put a layer of
• cruel potatoes in the bottom of the dish, then a layer of onions
electric /ɪˈlektrɪk/ Adjective • capa

electric things use electricity to work
Harrison played an electric guitar on the recording | particular /pə(r)ˈtɪkjʊlə(r)/ Adjective
the movement creates a small electric charge if you say you are talking about a particular person or thing,
you mean you are talking about one person or thing even
Noun: electricity | Adjective: electrical
though you have not said exactly which one
we use more electricity in the winter months because of the
some violent criminals share a particular gene | one particular
heating
book had a huge influence on my life
• eléctrico / a
• particular
explore /ɪkˈsplɔː(r)/ Verb
peel /piːl/ Verb
if you explore a place, you look or travel all around it in order
if you peel fruit or vegetables, you cut the outside skin off. If
to find out what it is like
you peel something away from something else, you remove
they explored the room quite confidently | I’m planning a one layer and leave another layer underneath it
holiday to explore North Wales next year
gently peel off the plastic cover | whose turn is it to peel the
potatoes?
• explorar
Noun: peel
factor /ˈfæktə(r)/ Noun
a factor is one of several things that have an effect on an • pelar
event or situation
prize /praɪz/ Noun
what factors are important for a good quality of life? | factors
a prize is something you are given for winning a
such as smoking and bad diet can lead to heart attacks
competition or for a very good achievement
• factor Collocates: win a prize | be awarded a prize
she won first prize in a poetry competition | I was awarded a
gene /dʒiːn/ Noun prize of £100
your genes are the parts in the cells of your body that
control what you look like and other things about • premio
your body
they’ve found the gene that causes the disease | we pass on our rare /reə(r)/ Adjective
genes to our children if something is rare, it is not very common or it does not
happen very often
Adjective: genetic
he suffered from a rare blood disease | the winters are cold,
• gen although snow is rare
Adverb: rarely
he used to be keen, but he rarely plays the piano now
• raro / a
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security /sɪˈkjʊərəti/ Noun uncount toy /tɔɪ/ Noun

security is a feeling of being safe a toy is an object that children play with
the monkey had the security of knowing his mother was there | the children’s bedroom was full of soft toys (small animals
he wanted the comfort and security of owning his own home made of soft material) | her father made wooden toys
Adjective: secure || Opposites – Noun: insecurity |
Adjective: insecure • juguete
violent /ˈvaɪələnt/ Adjective

• seguridad
something that is violent involves the use of physical force
or weapons to hurt or kill people
-ITY
Collocates: violent crime | a violent attack
Words ending in –ity are usually nouns and are connected to
many other people have the same gene but aren’t violent |
adjectives.
I can’t understand his violent behaviour
the security of your own home a secure childhood
Adverb: violently | Noun: violence
a minority of voters a minor issue
I thought there was too much violence in the film
have a majority a major problem
have no creativity a creative job • violento / a
have a disability be disabled
weight /weɪt/ Noun
sticky tape /ˈstɪki ˌteɪp/ Noun uncount the weight of someone or something is how heavy
sticky tape is a thin strip of plastic that has glue on one side, they are
and that you can use to stick pieces of paper together or to Collocates: lose weight | put on weight
fix things to a wall the attraction is strong enough to hold something
I fixed it on the wall with sticky tape | I ran out of sticky tape 100 times the weight of the spider | he’s been trying to lose
and had to buy some more weight
Verb: weigh
• cinta adhesiva
• peso
tear /teə(r)/ Verb
if you tear something such as paper or cloth, you pull it so
that it falls into two separate pieces
graphene is so strong that you just can’t tear it | she read the
letter, then tore it into pieces
Adjective: torn
she was wearing a blue T-shirt and torn jeans
• rasgar

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Student’s Book Pages 104–105 confirmation /ˌkɒnfə(r)ˈmeɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun
confirmation is a statement saying that something is certain
battery life /ˈbæt(ə)ri ˌlaɪf/ Noun uncount or definite
battery life is the length of time that a battery will work
before it has no electricity left in it I’m still waiting for confirmation of the price | we’ll send you a
written confirmation of your booking
battery life is important when you are choosing a new phone |
demand for longer battery life is increasing • confirmación
• batería cover /ˈkʌvə(r)/ Verb

if you cover for someone, you do their job for them when
coverage /ˈkʌv(ə)rɪdʒ/ Noun uncount they are not there or when they are unable to do it
the coverage of a mobile phone network is the area where themselves for a short while
you can get a signal and are able to make and receive calls
Collocates: cover for someone
coverage is very bad in our village | this map will show your
network coverage I’m covering for Frazer while he’s at the dentist | I need to go to
the bank. Can you cover for me for half an hour?
• cobertura
• suplir
operating system /ˈɒpəreɪtɪŋ ˌsɪstəm/ Noun
the operating system on a computer, mobile phone, or cut off /ˈkʌt ˌɒf/ Phrasal verb
tablet is the software that makes all the applications work if you get cut off during a phone call, the connection
suddenly breaks and you can no longer speak to the other
mobile phones and computers both require operating systems person
| make sure you are using the latest version of your operating
system we got cut off before we finished the conversation | I’m just
going into a tunnel so we might get cut off
• sistema operativo
• cortar(se)
Student’s Book Pages 106–107 hang up /ˈhæŋ ˌʌp/ Phrasal verb
if you hang up, you end a telephone conversation and break
back /bæk/ Adverb the connection
you use back with some verbs to say that something returns
where it came from. If you give something back, you give it Collocates: hang up on someone
to the person who gave it you. If you send something back, I didn’t want an argument on the phone, so I just hung up |
you send it to the person or place who sent it to you. If you please leave a message and then hang up
call or ring someone back, you telephone them some time
after they have telephoned you • colgar
I’m having dinner. Can I call you back in an hour? | he was sent hold /həʊld/ Noun uncount
back to prison if you are on hold, you are connected by telephone but have
to wait for someone to speak to you
• de vuelta
Collocates: put someone on hold
busy /ˈbɪzi/ Adjective I was put on hold for about 20 minutes | I’ve been on hold since
if a telephone line is busy, someone is already speaking on it before 9 o’clock!
so you cannot connect to it when you ring that number. In Verb: hold
British English, you can also say that a line
is engaged Collocates: hold the line
I called five minutes ago, but the line was busy | I tried half an • espera
hour later, but it was still busy
package /ˈpækɪdʒ/ Noun
• ocupado / a a package is a box or large envelope that is sent through
the post
I still haven’t received the package | I was expecting two
packages but only one arrived
• paquete

put through /ˌpʊt ˈθruː/ Phrasal verb Student’s Book Pages 108–109
if someone puts you through, they connect you to the
person you want to speak to on the telephone accidentally /ˌæksɪˈdent(ə)li/ Adverb
if you do something accidentally, you do not do it on
she put me through to the right department | hold the line a purpose and do not want it to happen. If something
moment while I put you through happens accidentally, it happens even though no one
wanted it to
• conectar
several children accidentally rang 999 | I accidentally knocked
right away /ˌraɪt əˈweɪ/ Adverb the glass off the table
if you do something right away, you do it immediately Adjective: accidental | Noun: accident
I’ll send him the tickets right away | he fell asleep almost right
away • accidentalmente
• inmediatamente campaign /kæmˈpeɪn/ Noun

a campaign is a set of organised activities that are intended
signal /ˈsɪɡn(ə)l/ Noun to achieve a particular result
a signal is electrical waves that carry sound and pictures to Collocates: a campaign against something | a campaign for
mobile phones, computers, etc. something | an election campaign
I can’t hear you very well, there’s a really bad signal here | I can a police force has launched a campaign against misuse of the
never get a signal in the back garden emergency phone number | the election campaign lasted over
a month
• señal
Verb: campaign | Noun: campaigner
text /tekst/ Verb Collocates: campaign against something | campaign
if you text someone, you send a written message to their for something
mobile phone
I always have to text my son as he never answers the phone | • campaña
text me when you get to the station | he texted me to invite me
collapse /kəˈlæps/ Verb
to a party
if someone collapses, they suddenly fall down because they
Noun: text are ill. If a building or something solid collapses, it becomes
Collocates: send (someone) a text | get a text destroyed because it breaks and falls to the ground
I got a text from Sam this morning he collapsed after he got home | the bridge collapsed during
the floods | I put up some shelves on Sunday but they collapsed
• enviar mensajes on Monday!
urgent /ˈɜː(r)dʒ(ə)nt/ Adjective • desplomar(se)

something that is urgent is very important and needs to be
dealt with very soon creature /ˈkriːtʃə(r)/ Noun
if it’s urgent, I’ll get her to ring you as soon as she comes back | a creature is any kind of animal, especially one that you do
that afternoon, Adkin got an urgent call from the hospital not know or recognise
Adverb: urgently | Noun: urgency birds are not the only creatures you’ll see in the woods |
it’s amazing how many creatures live under the house
we need your help urgently
• criatura
• urgente
difficulty /ˈdɪfɪk(ə)lti/ Noun
wake /weɪk/ Verb
if you have a difficulty or difficulties, there is a particular
if you wake someone, you stop them sleeping by making a
thing that you cannot do easily
noise or touching them so that they become awake. If you
wake, you become conscious again after being asleep at home, he collapsed with breathing difficulties (he could not
breathe easily) | I’ve always had difficulty with English spelling
don’t wake the baby, he’s only just got to sleep | I woke early
that morning and went for a walk | we were woken by the
• dificultad
sound of thunder when the storm started
domestic /dəˈmestɪk/ Adjective
• despertar(se) domestic means connected to or happening within people’s
homes and within the family
domestic energy bills (bills for electricity and gas used in
someone’s house) | domestic chores (jobs like cleaning the
house and doing the washing)
• doméstico / a
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drill /drɪl/ Noun hole /həʊl/ Noun

a drill is a tool used for making holes in wood, metal, etc. a hole is an empty space on the surface of something that
a doctor used a domestic drill for the operation | an electric drill goes all the way or some of the way through
Verb: drill Collocates: a hole in something
I’ve got a hole in my sock | he dug a hole in the garden to make
• taladro a swimming pool
emergency /ɪˈmɜː(r)dʒ(ə)nsi/ Adjective • agujero

an emergency is a sudden and dangerous situation which
needs very quick action to prevent injury, damage, or death. ice /aɪs/ Noun uncount
Emergency actions and things happen or are ready to be ice is water that has become hard at a low temperature
used when there is an emergency I had to keep ice on my hand to reduce the swelling | do you
she needed an emergency operation | an emergency exit (to be want any ice in your drink?
used if there is a fire or other danger) | the emergency services
(police, fire brigade and ambulance) • hielo
Noun: emergency
identify /aɪˈdentɪfaɪ/ Verb
Collocates: declare a (state of ) emergency if you identify something or someone, you say exactly who
tell him to hurry, it’s an emergency they are and what they are called
they identified what sort of spider it was | she was able to
• emergencia identify her attacker
expected /ɪkˈspektɪd/ Adjective Noun: identification
if something is expected, you think it is likely to happen and the animal was so far away that identification
are ready for it was impossible
Collocates: as expected
• identificar
as expected, she passed all her exams easily | this wasn’t the
expected result | what’s your expected time of arrival? inconvenient /ˌɪnkənˈviːniənt/ Adjective
Verb: expect || Opposite – Adjective: unexpected | if something is inconvenient, it gives you a few problems,
Adverb: unexpectedly but not serious ones
I didn’t expect to get home till after midnight | the film had a have I come at an inconvenient time? | having to remember
totally unexpected ending two passwords is really inconvenient
Noun: inconvenience || Opposite – Adjective: convenient
• esperado / a
the low ceilings are an inconvenience for people who are tall
fine /faɪn/ Noun
a fine is an amount of money that you have to pay as a • inconveniente
punishment for doing something wrong
initially /ɪˈnɪʃ(ə)li/ Adverb
Collocates: a fine for (doing) something | pay a fine if you describe what happened initially, you are
you can get an £80 fine for using a mobile phone while driving | talking about the beginning of a situation before any
he was ordered to pay a fine of £250 developments happen
Verb: fine Nicholas initially seemed fine | initially, I didn’t enjoy
Collocates: be fined for (doing) something the job
Adjective: initial
• multa
• inicialmente
fortunate /ˈfɔː(r)tʃənət/ Adjective
something that is fortunate is good, and happens by luck irrational /ɪˈræʃ(ə)nəl/ Adjective
rather than happening on purpose something that is irrational is not sensible and does not
they had a fortunate escape from the fire | John was fortunate happen for any good reason
enough to get a job in his father’s company I have an irrational fear of dogs | his behaviour last night was
Adverb: fortunately || Opposite – Adjective: unfortunate | completely irrational
Adverb: unfortunately Adverb: irrationally || Opposite – Adjective: rational |
Collocates: unfortunate for someone Adverb: rationally
fortunately, the train arrived as soon as we got to he started behaving irrationally, which was how we knew he
the station was ill
• afortunado / a • irracional

leaflet /ˈliːflət/ Noun swelling /ˈswelɪŋ/ Noun
a leaflet is a piece of paper or a small book containing if you have a swelling, part of your body has become
information about something bigger than normal because you are ill or because it has hit
the police are sending leaflets to houses in the area | something hard
a publicity leaflet (one that advertises something) his mother noticed a swelling on his head | the swelling started
to go down (become smaller)
• panfleto Verb: swell | Adjective: swollen
misuse /mɪsˈjuːs/ Noun Collocates: swell up
misuse of something is using it in a wrong or bad way
• inflamación
Collocates: misuse of something
the rules are meant to prevent misuse of the company’s transfer /trænsˈfɜː(r)/ Verb
computers | misuse of customers’ personal information is a if you transfer someone or something, you move them to
serious matter another place
Verb: misuse the boy was transferred by plane to a hospital in Melbourne
| the company want to transfer me to New York (make me go
• uso inapropiado and work in New York)
Noun: transfer
MIS-
the company does airport transfers (takes people from the
mis- is added to a number of words to mean that someone airport to their hotels)
did something wrongly or badly.
They misuse the service. • transferir
I misunderstood what you said. / It was a misunderstanding. unpleasant /ʌnˈplez(ə)nt/ Adjective
I miscounted the money. someone who is unpleasant is not nice and not friendly.
You misheard me. Something that is unpleasant is not nice and not enjoyable
We were really mistreated. Collocates: be unpleasant to someone
he was a very unpleasant man | I had a most unpleasant
poisonous /ˈpɔɪz(ə)nəs/ Adjective experience last week
something that is poisonous can make you ill or kill you if Adverb: unpleasantly || Opposites – Adjective: pleasant |
you eat it Adverb: pleasantly
Collocates: be poisonous to someone the man laughed unpleasantly and shook his head
one of the world’s most poisonous spiders | some types of
mushroom are poisonous • desagradable
Noun: poison | Noun: poisoning | Verb: poison
wandering /ˈwɒndə(r)ɪŋ/ Adjective
rat poison (something you use to kill rats when they eat it) if you wander, you walk around somewhere slowly and
without going in any particular direction. Wandering
• venenoso / a animals do not seem to be going anywhere in particular
remote /rɪˈməʊt/ Adjective the Brazilian wandering spider | a wandering albatross (a type
a place that is remote is a long way from towns and cities of large sea bird)
he comes from a remote town in Australia | his travels took him Verb: wander
to the remotest regions of China we wandered round the market until it was time for lunch
• remoto / a • errante
species /ˈspiːʃiːz/ Noun wise /waɪz/ Adjective
a species is a type of animal or plant. The plural is also someone who is wise knows and understands a lot of things
species and can make sensible decisions. If someone’s actions or
they identified the species of spider | a rare species choices are wise, they have used their knowledge and
of butterfly understanding very well
it was a wise decision to go to university | my grandad was the
• especie wisest man I ever met
Adverb: wisely | Noun: wisdom || Opposite –
Adjective: unwise | Adverb: unwisely
he wisely decided not to try and swim across the river
• sabio / a
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Student’s Book Pages 110–111 property /ˈprɒpə(r)ti/ Noun

property is land, houses, or flats in general. In formal English,
description /dɪˈskrɪpʃ(ə)n/ Noun people sometimes talk about a particular house or flat as a
a description of someone or something is a sentence or property
several sentences that say what that person or thing
looks like we looked at several properties in North London but they were
all too expensive for us | we rented a property near the beach
Collocates: give a description
she couldn’t give a description of the person who took her bag | • inmueble
he gave an accurate description of the driver
property /ˈprɒpə(r)ti/ Noun
Verb: describe
your property is all the things that belong to you
• descripción have you ever lost an important piece of property? | police
recovered a lot of stolen property
detail /ˈdiːteɪl/ Noun
your details are exact information about you, such as your • propiedad
address, your bank account number, and so on
prove /pruːv/ Verb
they got my bank details from there | can I take your credit card
if you prove something, you show someone facts that mean
details?
that it must be true
• detalle Collocates: prove someone’s guilt/innocence
I know it was Jeff who stole my keys, but I can’t prove it | if I
grab /ɡræb/ Verb can’t prove my innocence (prove that I didn’t commit a crime)
to grab something means to take hold of it quickly and I’ll end up in jail
roughly
Noun: proof
Collocates: grab hold of something
he wanted proof that the money had been transferred
they grabbed my bag and ran off | Julie suddenly grabbed
his arm • probar
Noun: grab
reference number /ˈref(ə)rəns ˌnʌmbə(r)/ Noun
he made a grab for my purse
a reference number is a number that tells someone where a
• agarrar particular piece of information is
here’s a reference number so you can contact your insurance
issue /ˈɪsjuː/ Noun company | please make a note of the reference number
an issue is a problem that people need to deal with
Collocates: address an issue • número de referencia
she said there had been some security issues | we need to repay /rɪˈpeɪ/ Verb
address the issue of youth unemployment (do something to if you repay someone, you give them back money that was
reduce it) theirs until they spent it, gave it to you, or lost it
• problema she promised the bank would repay any money I’d lost | the
money was repaid in full (the whole of the total)
own /əʊn/ Verb Noun: repayment
if you own something, it belongs to you 12 monthly repayments of £100
Bettina doesn’t own her apartment, she rents it | she owned
some land in Scotland • reembolsar
Noun: owner | Noun: ownership
scary /ˈskeəri/ Adjective
I never met the previous owner of our house someone or something that is scary makes you feel scared
• poseer it was really scary when he started shouting at me | those

spiders look really scary
password /ˈpɑːsˌwɜː(r)d/ Noun Adjective: scared | Verb: scare
a password is a secret list of letters and numbers that you the noise scared everyone in the station
have to put into a computer or phone in order to be able to
start using it • escalofriante
you need a mix of letters and numbers to have a secure
password (one that is difficult for someone to guess) | don’t use
the same password for all the websites you are registered with
• contraseña

secure /sɪˈkjʊə(r)/ Adjective Student’s Book Pages 112–113
if a computer system or website is secure, it is safe to use
because it can only be used by people who are allowed to backwards /ˈbækwə(r)dz/ Adverb
use it if you move backwards, you go in the direction that is
behind you. If you do something backwards, you do it in the
I bought something from a website that wasn’t secure | opposite order from usual
employees’ details are kept on a secure system
he can say the alphabet backwards (z, y, x, w, etc.) | he fell
Adverb: securely | Noun: security backwards onto the pavement
customers’ details are securely held on our servers
in Germany • hacia atrás
• seguro / a code /kəʊd/ Verb

a code is information in a form that does not use human
steal /stiːl/ Verb language. If something is coded in a particular way, it exists
to steal something that does not belong to you means to there as a code and can be read or understood only if you
take it and keep it without permission know how to do it
someone hacked into my account and stole all my money | we know memory is coded in the hippocampus | the wires are
someone stole my phone when I was in colour coded
the restaurant Noun: code
Adjective: stolen Collocates: in code
police found a lot of stolen property at his flat the message was sent in code
• robar • código
strap /stræp/ Noun continuously /kənˈtɪnjʊəsli/ Adverb
a strap is a length of material such as cloth or leather that is if you do something continuously, you do it all the time
used to hold something in place without stopping
Collocates: fasten/unfasten a strap | undo a strap he continuously practises to improve the power of his mind |
the strap on my bag is broken | the strap hadn’t been fastened planes were continuously flying over the city
properly Adjective: continuous
Verb: strap a continuous stream of visitors arrived at the museum
• correa • continuamente
threaten /ˈθret(ə)n/ Verb relatively /ˈrelətɪvli/ Adverb
if someone threatens you, they frighten you by telling you you use relatively when you are making comparisons. For
they will hurt you or do something bad to you example, if something is relatively good, it is good when
Collocates: threaten to do something compared to similar things. If someone is relatively tall, they
he followed me home and started threatening me | the are tall compared to other people
government threatened to close the university he has had a relatively normal life | it’s relatively easy to find
Noun: threat | Adjective: threatening Adjective: relative
they faced threats of violence
• relativamente
• amenazar
partly /ˈpɑː(r)tli/ Adverb
something that partly happens or is partly true happens or
is true a little but not completely
his genes are partly responsible for his good memory | the
amount of tax you pay depends partly on where you live
• parcialmente
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Student’s Book Pages 116–117 martial arts /ˌmɑː(r)ʃ(ə)l ˈɑː(r)ts/ Noun
martial arts are sports such as judo and karate in which
costume /ˈkɒstjuːm/ Noun competitors fight each other using their hands and feet.
a costume is the set of clothes that an actor wears when he Martial arts started in Asia, especially in Japan
or she is acting on the stage or in a film
a martial arts movie | she’s trained in several martial arts
the actors all wore amazing costumes | she won a prize for the
costumes she designed • artes marciales
• vestuario plot /plɒt/ Noun

the plot of a story, film, or play is all the events that happen
depressing /dɪˈpresɪŋ/ Adjective during it and the way they are connected to each other
something that is depressing makes you feel sad or unhappy
Collocates: a complicated/simple plot | a plot develops
Collocates: deeply depressing
the film had a very complicated plot | can you describe the plot
I found the film quite depressing | news from the farm was in two sentences?
deeply depressing
Adjective: depressed | Verb: depress | Noun: depression • trama
I’ve been feeling quite depressed since Dad died
predictable /prɪˈdɪktəb(ə)l/ Adjective
• deprimente if something is predictable, it happens in exactly the way
you think it will. If a film or story is predictable, it is not very
ending /ˈendɪŋ/ Noun interesting because you can easily guess how it will finish
the ending of a film or story is the way it ends the plot was very predictable and there were no surprises at all
Collocates: a happy/sad ending | his behaviour was quite predictable
the film had a happy ending | the ending was very dramatic Adverb: predictably | Verb: predict || Opposite –
Verb: end Adjective: unpredictable
his exam results were, predictably, not good
• final
• predecible
explosion /ɪkˈspləʊʒ(ə)n/ Noun
an explosion is the loud noise that happens when a bomb romantic /rəʊˈmæntɪk/ Adjective
goes off something that is romantic involves feelings of love
the film began with a car chase and several explosions | between two people
people could hear the explosion ten miles away Hugh Grant is in a new romantic comedy | we had a romantic
Verb: explode | Noun: explosive holiday in Italy
Collocates: high explosive Adverb: romantically | Noun: romance
Fiona became romantically attached to her friend Gerald
• explosión
• romántico / a
historical /hɪˈstɒrɪk(ə)l/ Adjective
historical plays, films, stories, etc. are about people or events set /set/ Verb
in the past. Historical people or events existed in the past if a writer or director sets a film or book somewhere, that is
there’s a new historical drama on BBC tonight | the city still has the place where the events happen
several historical sites the film is set in space | he set his first novel in Manchester,
Noun: history which is where he grew up
she’s studying history at university • escenario
• histórico / a

special effects /ˌspeʃ(ə)l ɪˈfekts/ Noun audience /ˈɔːdiəns/ Noun
in a film or TV show, the special effects are pictures or the audience is the group of people who watch or listen to a
sounds that are specially created to make it seem as if performance, programme or speech
something very exciting or impossible is happening Collocates: attract an audience
the film had some amazing special effects | the director spent the film is aimed at a middle-class cinema audience |
over $4 million on special effects I’ve performed in front of an audience of 5,000 people |
the show attracted a huge audience
• efectos especiales
• público
stuff /stʌf/ Noun uncount
in informal English, you can use stuff as a general word to aware /əˈweə(r)/ Adjective
refer to any kind of thing or collection of things without if you are aware of something, you know that it exists
saying exactly what they are
Collocates: be aware of something | aware that | make
the new shopping centre has a great selection of stuff | someone aware
we did football and cricket and stuff like that
I wasn’t aware that she was back in London | he became aware
that he was speaking too loudly
• cosas
Noun: awareness
surprising /sə(r)ˈpraɪzɪŋ/ Adjective Collocates: awareness of something
if something is surprising, you did not expect it
she had a keen awareness of the danger (she understood the
the ending was really surprising | it was rather surprising to get danger very well)
a letter from her after 15 years
Adverb: surprisingly | Adjective: surprised | Verb: surprise • consciente
| Noun: surprise || Opposites – Adjective: unsurprising |
Adverb: unsurprisingly budget /ˈbʌdʒɪt/ Noun
someone’s budget is the amount of money that is available
Collocates: by surprise
for them to spend on a particular activity
it’s surprisingly easy to make a cake
his next film had a budget of $1 million | he made his first film
on a very tight budget (with very little money)
• sorprendente
tiring /ˈtaɪərɪŋ/ Adjective • presupuesto

if something is tiring, it makes you feel tired
direction /dɪˈrekʃ(ə)n/ Noun
it was quite tiring watching a whole film in English | the direction a person or group takes is the sort of activities
the journey was long and tiring that they become involved in
Adjective: tired | Verb: tire his life took a new direction after he moved to Berlin | after
I was still tired even though I’d slept for a couple of hours school, our lives moved in different directions
• extenuante • dirección
element /ˈelɪmənt/ Noun

Student’s Book Pages 118–119 the elements of something are all the different things that
aim /eɪm/ Verb come together to make it
if something is aimed at a particular group of people, it Collocates: elements of something
is meant to be noticed or bought by those people. If an the final chapter added another element of surprise to the plot
activity is aimed at achieving something, it is done in order | the most important element of his success was luck
to succeed in achieving it
Collocates: aim to do something • elemento
we aim to finish the project in December | a new magazine
festival /ˈfestɪv(ə)l/ Noun
aimed at teenagers
a festival is a period of time during which a lot of events
Noun: aim take place somewhere, such as concerts, theatre
Collocates: with the aim of (doing) something performances, films, etc.
he joined the army with the aim of becoming a captain within the movie was first shown at an international film festival |
three years the festival is held every year in August
• aspirar • festival
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focus /ˈfəʊkəs/ Noun middle-class /ˌmɪd(ə)l ˈklɑːs/ Adjective

focus is close attention that you pay to something the middle class is one of the groups which people in a
Collocates: focus on something | focus of something society are divided into according to their jobs, education,
background, etc. People from that class are middle-class
the world’s focus has moved on to climate change | the
people
economy became the main focus of the president’s attention
the film is aimed at a middle-class audience | a middle-class
Verb: focus
area of Leeds
Collocates: focus on something
Noun: middle class
• foco my grandfather always wanted to be a member of the middle
class
heart disease /ˈhɑː(r)t dɪziːz/ Noun
heart disease is a serious problem with someone’s heart that • de clase media
makes them ill, and that can kill them
prison /ˈprɪz(ə)n/ Noun
Collocates: die of heart disease
a prison is a building where someone is sent as a
he died of heart disease two years after returning to the USA | punishment for breaking the law. Prisoners live there for
I stopped eating butter and cheese in the hope of preventing months or years until the end of their punishment
heart disease
Collocates: send someone to prison | be in prison | spend
time in prison
• enfermedad vascular
the king was sent to prison | he spent ten years in prison for
illegally /ɪˈliːɡ(ə)li/ Adverb robbing a bank
if something is illegal, it is against the law. If something is Verb: imprison | Noun: prisoner
done illegally, it breaks the law
he was imprisoned for his political activity
after two weeks, most films have been illegally copied |
the drugs were illegally brought into the country • prisión
Adjective: illegal || Opposites – Adverb: legally |
Adjective: legal productive /prəˈdʌktɪv/ Adjective
a productive person or area of activity is one that produces a
it’s illegal to buy alcohol if you’re under 18
lot of things
• ilegalmente India has the most productive film industry in the world |
people who work from home are just as productive as their
invade /ɪnˈveɪd/ Verb colleagues in the office
when an army invades a country, it goes in there and tries to Adverb: productively
take control of the country by fighting
she worked more productively in the morning, before it got
England was last invaded in 1066 | 20,000 soldiers were too hot
waiting for the order to invade
Noun: invasion | Noun: invader • productivo / a
Collocates: launch an invasion
promote /prəˈməʊt/ Verb
the invasion was successful and a new government was set up if you promote something, you support or encourage it, and
want people to know good things about it
• invadir
the film aims to promote Benin culture | she believes in
leading /ˈliːdɪŋ/ Adjective promoting peace through education
a leading person or thing is one of the best or most Noun: promotion
successful of their kind Collocates: promotion of something
he’s a leading Nollywood director | a leading mobile phone our department deals with the advertising and promotion of
manufacturer (company that makes mobile phones) all our services
• destacado / a • promocionar
reach /riːtʃ/ Verb

to reach a place, level, or situation means to get there after a
journey or after a period of development
the industry has reached a crossroads and it’s not clear what
its future will be | I finally reached home after an eight hour
journey | have you reached a decision yet (have you decided
something)?
• alcanzar

source /sɔː(r)s/ Noun Student’s Book Pages 120–121
the source of something is the reason for it or the place
where it came from abstract /ˈæbstrækt/ Adjective
abstract art does not try to show people or things in a
Collocates: source of something realistic way but uses shapes and colours in order to create
their low-budget approach has been the source of several particular feelings or effects
problems | the sun is our source of light and heat he made strange, abstract sculptures | his work was completely
abstract, but full of life and colour | the drawing was simple,
• fuente
almost abstract
sunglasses /ˈsʌnˌɡlɑːsɪz/ Noun Noun: abstract
sunglasses are glasses that have dark glass in them to he stopped painting abstracts and took up photography
protect your eyes from strong sunlight
why don’t you get some sunglasses for the summer? | I always • abtracto / a
keep a pair of sunglasses in the car
album /ˈælbəm/ Noun
• gafas de sol an album is a CD with several different songs on it, usually
by the same band
talent /ˈtælənt/ Noun Collocates: release an album | an album comes out
talent is a great skill or ability to do something very well
they’re going to release their next album (make it available for
anyone with talent can make films | she had an extraordinary sale) in November | her latest album has just come out (has just
talent for singing gone on sale)
Adjective: talented
• álbum
• talento
author /ˈɔːθə(r)/ Noun
unclear /ʌnˈklɪə(r)/ Adjective an author is someone who writes books as a job, or
if something is unclear, no one knows or understands it very someone who has written a particular book
well Collocates: author of something | a best-selling author
it’s unclear what will happen to the factory in the future | my favourite author is Henning Mankell | Beevor is the author
the exact meaning of the message was unclear of a number of books on history
Opposite – Adjective: clear
it’s perfectly clear that she was telling the truth • autor / a
band /bænd/ Noun

• confuso / a
a band is a group of musicians who play music together
valuable /ˈvæljʊb(ə)l/ Adjective Collocates: a rock/punk/brass/jazz band | a dance band |
an object that is valuable is worth a lot of money. You can a live band
also say an experience is valuable if you learn something he plays guitar in a rock band | they hired a live band for the
useful from it. Be careful if you see the word invaluable. party (the musicians were there, not a recording of them)
It looks as if it should mean “not valuable”, but it actually
means “very valuable” • banda
I learnt a valuable lesson that day | it’s a beautiful necklace, even
though it’s not very valuable composer /kəmˈpəʊzə(r)/ Noun
a composer is someone who writes music, especially
Adjective: invaluable classical music
she gained invaluable experience during her three months at Shostakovich was the greatest Russian composer of the 20th
the BBC century | my favourite composer is Beethoven
• valioso / a Verb: compose | Noun: composition
work /wɜː(r)k/ Noun • compositor / a

a work is a painting, book, piece of music, etc. made by an
artist exhibition /ˌeksɪˈbɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun
an exhibition is an event where people can go and look at
Collocates: a work of art paintings and other works of art. Some exhibitions last just a
the British stole many valuable works of art | Shakespeare’s day and others go on for months
most famous work is Hamlet Collocates: an art exhibition | an exhibition of something |
put on/stage/hold an exhibition
• obra
I saw an exhibition of Henry Moore’s work last year | there’s an
art exhibition in the school hall on Saturday
• exhibición
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fan /fæn/ Noun novel /ˈnɒv(ə)l/ Noun

if you are a fan of someone or something, you like them a novel is a book that tells a story
very much I prefer reading novels to poetry | she spent three years writing
I’m a big fan of tennis | a group of her fans were waiting her first novel
outside the theatre Noun: novelist
he was a novelist and poet
• seguidor / a
fiction /ˈfɪkʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount • novela

fiction is stories about people and events that are not true,
painting /ˈpeɪntɪŋ/ Noun
which you read for pleasure. Books about real people and
a painting is a picture that someone has made using paint
events are called non-fiction
Collocates: an oil painting | a watercolour painting
I really enjoy reading crime fiction | I write fiction in my spare
time I’m going to hang this painting in the bedroom | his works
include a number of oil paintings (using paint that is made
Adjective: fictional || Opposite – Noun: non-fiction
from oil)
• ficción Verb: paint | Noun: painter
figure /ˈfɪɡə(r)/ Noun • pintura

a figure is something that is in the shape of a human,
especially in art poetry /ˈpəʊɪtri/ Noun uncount
poetry is writing that uses words very carefully, often in
an abstract sculpture based on human figures | the two figures
short lines and with endings to lines that sound like each
in the painting represent love and loyalty
other
• figura do you read much poetry? | modern poetry can be quite
difficult to understand
imagination /ɪˌmædʒɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount Noun: poet | Noun: poem
your imagination is your ability to think and make pictures
in your mind about things, people, or events that you have • poesía
never seen
Collocates: a vivid imagination | use your imagination | portrait /ˈpɔː(r)trɪt/ Noun
in your imagination a portrait is a painting, photograph, or drawing of someone
which is meant to show what they look like
in my imagination, I thought he was taller | draw a plan of your
house, or use your imagination and make one up a full-length portrait of the queen (showing the whole body,
not just the face) | a portrait of his grandfather hangs in the
Verb: imagine | Adjective: imaginative
hall
• imaginación
• retrato
instrument /ˈɪnstrʊmənt/ Noun
rehearse /rɪˈhɜː(r)s/ Verb
a musical instrument is something such as a piano, violin, or
if you rehearse, you practise something such as a play or
trumpet that you use to make musical sounds
concert before you perform it in front of an audience
Collocates: a musical instrument
Collocates: rehearse for something
a shop selling musical instruments | what instrument do you
they’re rehearsing for the end-of-year concert | we’ve only got
play?
three days to rehearse and then we have to film the first scene
Adjective: instrumental
Noun: rehearsal
the last track on the album is an instrumental piece (just music,
Collocates: a dress rehearsal
with no singing)
a full dress rehearsal (when the performance is done from start
• instrumento to finish as if for real with the actors wearing the costumes)
landscape /ˈlæn(d)ˌskeɪp/ Noun • ensayar

a landscape is a painting or photograph of
the countryside
he paints mainly landscapes and seascapes (pictures
of the sea) | I think a landscape would look good on
this wall
• paisaje

sculpture /ˈskʌlptʃə(r)/ Noun taste /teɪst/ Noun
a sculpture is an object that is a work of art made from your taste in something is how much you like it, or what
wood, stone, plastic, etc. The art of making these works is sorts of things you like
also called sculpture Collocates: taste in something | for someone’s taste | to
she studied sculpture at art school | in the hall was a sculpture someone’s taste
of a lion we get on really well even though we’ve got very different
Noun: sculptor tastes | she has very good taste in music (she likes only good
he painted portraits to earn money, but he really wanted to be music)
a sculptor Adjective: tasteful | Adverb: tastefully
• escultura • gusto
suspense /səˈspens/ Noun uncount

suspense is a feeling of excitement you have when you do
not know what is going to happen but you think it will be
surprising or exciting
Collocates: keep someone in suspense
I’d read the book, so there was no suspense when I saw the
film | Forsyth keeps you in suspense right up until the very last
chapter
• suspense
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Student’s Book Page 123 fix /fɪks/ Verb
if you fix something somewhere, you put it there in such
spare /speə(r)/ Adjective a way that it will stay there, for example by using nails or
something that is spare is not used usually, but is available if screws
it is needed
the shelves were fixed to the wall with metal brackets | I’ve been
you can sleep in the spare room | make sure you have a spare trying to fix a new handle on the door
tyre in the boot
• arreglar
• extra
hammer /ˈhæmə(r)/ Noun
Student’s Book Pages 124–125 a hammer is a tool that consists of a handle and a heavy
metal end which you use to knock nails into wood
bin /bɪn/ Noun I dropped a hammer on my foot | you’ll need a hammer and
a bin is a container where you put things that you some nails
don’t want
Verb: hammer
Collocates: a rubbish bin | a litter bin
just throw it in the bin | use the rubbish bin by the gate • martillo
Verb: bin
handle /ˈhænd(ə)l/ Noun
if you don’t want it any more, just bin it a handle is a part of something that you hold on to when
you are using it
• contenedor
the handle of the frying pan was too hot to hold | the door
bucket /ˈbʌkɪt/ Noun handle was stuck
a bucket is a container with a handle and an open top that
you use for carrying water. The amount that a bucket can • mango
contain is a bucketful
join /dʒɔɪn/ Verb
Collocates: a bucket of water if you join things together, you attach them to each other
a plastic bucket | as a joke, she threw a bucket of water over me and fix them so that they stay together
Noun: bucketful I need to join these bits of paper together | join the two pieces
of plastic with glue
• cubo
• unir
dark /dɑː(r)k/ Adjective
if somewhere is dark, there is no light there or only a very mortgage /ˈmɔː(r)ɡɪdʒ/ Noun
little light if you have a mortgage, you have borrowed an amount of
it’s really dark in the garden now | the inside of the cinema money to pay for a house or flat and you are paying the
was dark money back over a long period of time
Noun: dark | Noun: darkness Collocates: pay off a mortgage | take out a mortgage
Collocates: be in darkness we had to take out a mortgage to buy the house | he won a lot
I’m afraid of the dark of money and paid off his mortgage
• oscuro / a • hipoteca
deposit /dɪˈpɒzɪt/ Noun nail /neɪl/ Noun

a deposit is a sum of money you pay before you rent a nail is a thin pointed piece of metal that you push into
something. If the place or thing you rented is in good wood by hitting it with a hammer in order to fix something
condition when you finish using it, the money is given back in place or hold things together
to you hammer the nail into the wall here | I dropped a bag of nails on
Collocates: a refundable/returnable deposit the floor
the deposit will be 15% of the rental price | bike hire is £10 Verb: nail
an hour, with a £50 returnable deposit (a deposit that will be
given back to you) • clavo
• depósito

needle /ˈniːd(ə)l/ Noun stapler /ˈsteɪplə(r)/ Noun
a needle is a thin, pointed piece of metal with a small hole a stapler is a small machine which pushes thin pieces of
at one end for thread to go through. You use needles for stiff metal through sheets of paper in order to hold them
sewing things together
My button’s come off. Can I borrow a needle and some thread can I borrow a stapler? | I’ve got two staplers and I can never
(long thin piece of cotton, wool, etc. for sewing)? | find either of them
a sewing needle | I couldn’t see well enough to thread the Noun: staple | Verb: staple
needle (push the thread through the small hole)
• grapadora
• aguja
store /stɔː(r)/ Verb
oven /ˈʌv(ə)n/ Noun if you store something somewhere, you keep it there until
an oven is a piece of equipment in your kitchen that can get you need it
very hot, and which you use to cook food in
we store our camping gear in the spare room |
Collocates: a gas/electric oven | turn an oven on/off | a hot/ my parents stored our furniture for us when we were waiting to
low oven move into our new flat
bake it in a hot oven for 40 minutes | did you remember to turn Noun: storage | Noun: store
the oven off?
Collocates: in store
• horno our furniture was in store for three weeks
pan /pæn/ Noun • guardar

a pan is a metal container that you use for cooking food
heat the milk in a small pan | a frying pan Student’s Book Pages 126–127
• sartén bar /bɑː(r)/ Noun
a bar is a solid piece of something that is longer than it is
plaster /ˈplɑːstə(r)/ Noun wide
a plaster is a small piece of sticky material that you put over Collocates: a bar of something
a cut on your skin in order to protect it
a bar of chocolate | a bar of soap
put a plaster on the cut | you can take the plaster
off now • barra
• apósito burn /bɜː(r)n/ Verb

if you burn something, you destroy it by making it
shelf /ʃelf/ Noun catch fire
a shelf is a flat surface attached to a wall, which you can put
they recycle 50% of their waste, and burn the rest | lots of
things on
houses burned down in the Great Fire of London
Collocates: the top shelf | the bottom shelf
there’s some toothpaste on the shelf in the bathroom | I spent • quemar
the afternoon putting up shelves in the kitchen (fixing them to
the wall) can /kæn/ Noun
a can is a metal container, especially for drinks or food.
Noun: shelving
A can is also the amount of drink or food inside it
• estante Collocates: a can of something
she drank two cans of lemonade | can you buy a can of beans
sort out /ˌsɔː(r)t ˈaʊt/ Phrasal verb for lunch?
if you sort a place out, you organise the things there so that
Adjective: canned
everything is in order
we’ll have to give everything a good clean and sort the place • lata
out | you’re not getting any more pocket money till you’ve
sorted out your bedroom carton /ˈkɑː(r)t(ə)n/ Noun
a carton is a container for liquid, especially food liquids such
• ordenar as milk. A carton is also the amount of liquid inside it
Collocates: a carton of something
spill /spɪl/ Verb
if you spill a liquid, you accidentally let it fall out of its a carton of orange juice | an empty milk carton
container
• cartón
I’ve spilt milk all over the chair | she spilled some hot tea on her
hand | don’t spill your coffee
• derramar
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consume /kənˈsjuːm/ Verb estimate /ˈestɪmeɪt/ Verb

if you consume food, you eat it or drink it. If you consume if you estimate something, you guess how much it is using
other things, you use them and then have to throw them the information you have available, although you know you
away. Economists refer to people who buy and use things cannot say what the exact amount is
as consumers let’s try and estimate the cost of the holiday | I estimated that
everything we produce and consume leads to waste | there were over 200 people there
he consumed a huge plate of pasta Noun: estimate | Adjective: estimated
Noun: consumer | Noun: consumption Collocates: a rough estimate
energy consumption has been reduced this year at a rough estimate it will cost between two and three
thousand pounds
• consumir
• calcular
convince /kənˈvɪns/ Verb
if you convince someone, you succeed in making them gas /ɡæs/ Noun
believe something that they did not believe to start with gas is any substance such as air which is not solid and not
Collocates: convince someone of something | convince liquid. Some kinds of gas are used in homes and factories
someone that for energy or cooking
the professor is trying to convince me that I could waste less cows and sheep produce a lot of gas which causes global
| the article wouldn’t convince all its readers, but it was well warming | natural gas is lighter than air
written
Adjective: convincing | Adjective: convinced • gas
it was a very convincing article get rid of /ɡet ˈrɪd ɒv/ Phrase
if you get rid of something, you throw it away or destroy it
• convencer because you no longer need it or use it
dispose of /dɪˈspəʊz ˌɒv/ Phrasal verb I need to get rid of some of my old clothes | I can’t get rid of the
if you dispose of something, you succeed in throwing it smell of fish in the kitchen
away because you no longer need it or use it
• deshacerse de
what’s the best way to dispose of old batteries? | the company
is disposing of all its old computer screens guilty /ˈɡɪlti/ Adjective
Noun: disposal | Adjective: disposable if you feel guilty about something, you feel bad because
Collocates: disposal of something you think you have done something wrong or unhelpful.
In a court, if a judge or jury says someone is guilty, they are
once a year they organise the disposal of
saying that person committed a crime
broken furniture
Collocates: guilty about (doing) something | guilty of
• desechar something
I feel really guilty about leaving you to finish the work | he gave
efficiency /ɪˈfɪʃ(ə)nsi/ Noun me a guilty look when I asked him where the money was
the efficiency of a machine is how well it works, and how
Noun: guilt
little energy it wastes. A person’s efficiency is their ability do
something well without wasting any time or effort his feelings of guilt kept him awake that night
100% efficiency is impossible | we need to improve our
• culpable
efficiency in this office
Adjective: efficient | Adverb: efficiently || Opposites – jar /dʒɑː(r)/ Noun
Noun: inefficiency | Adjective: inefficient | a jar is a glass container for food such as jam or honey
Adverb: inefficiently Collocates: a jar of something
a jar of honey | you can recycle your old bottles and jars
• eficacia
• tarro

lead to /ˈliːd tʊ/ Phrasal verb recycle /riːˈsaɪk(ə)l/ Verb
if one thing leads to another, it is the reason for the other if you recycle things that you no longer need or use, you
thing happening send them away so that they can be treated in special
Collocates: lead to someone doing something factories and used again somehow
can watching too much television lead to bad behaviour in you can recycle those plastic bottles | we’ve been recycling our
children? | his exam results led to him getting a place at Oxford old newspapers for years
University Noun: recycling
we should do more to encourage recycling
• conducir
• reciclar
mine /maɪn/ Verb
to mine coal, gold, salt, etc. means to dig it out of the sack /sæk/ Noun
ground a sack is a large bag made of a rough material used for
China mines over 47% of the world’s coal | diamonds have keeping things in or carrying things
been mined here for over 40 years Collocates: a sack of something
Noun: mine | Noun: mining | Noun: miner a sack of potatoes | three sacks of coal
Collocates: a coal/gold/salt, etc. mine
her father worked in the coal mine • saco
site /saɪt/ Noun

• extraer
a site is a place where something is or where something
pick up /ˌpɪk ˈʌp/ Phrasal verb happens. On the internet, a site (also a website) is a
if you pick something up, you lift it up from the place where particular set of connected pages
it is with your hands Collocates: a building site
he picked up a carton from my shopping basket | I bent down they looked at sites where rubbish had been burned | it’s on the
to pick the money up from the floor site of a much older church
• recoger • sitio
pot /pɒt/ Noun slightly /ˈslaɪtli/ Adverb

a pot is a container that is used for cooking, keeping food in, slightly means a little but not very much
or growing plants in I felt slightly sick | the cost of rail travel has gone up slightly
Collocates: a pot of something this year
a pot of yoghurt | we keep the pots and pans in a cupboard Adjective: slight
next to the cooker
• apenas
• cacerola
sticker /ˈstɪkə(r)/ Noun
preserve /prɪˈzɜː(r)v/ Verb a sticker is a piece of paper, usually with writing or a picture
if you preserve something, you keep it fresh and in good on it, that you can attach to something
condition, or you stop it from going bad or being destroyed you have to put a sticker on the bag to show that you have
they use chemicals to preserve the food | experts are working paid | a sticker on the sofa said it was reduced to £750
to preserve the painting
Noun: preservation • pegatina
Collocates: the preservation of something throw away /ˌθrəʊ əˈweɪ/ Phrasal verb
the preservation of the old bus station will be very expensive if you throw something away, you put it somewhere where
it will be taken away because you do not want it or need it
• preservar any more
in Switzerland, people have to pay to throw things away |
record /ˈrekɔː(r)d/ Noun
I threw away two pairs of shoes because they didn’t fit me
your record in a particular activity is how well or badly you
any more
have done in it
Collocates: a record in doing something | a record on • tirar
something
Estonia has the best record on rubbish in the EU | she has a
good record in finishing projects on time
• récord
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tin /tɪn/ Noun click /klɪk/ Verb

a tin is a metal container, especially for drinks or food. A tin if you click on something on a computer screen, you press a
is also the amount of drink or food inside it button on the mouse to make the computer do something,
Collocates: a tin of something for example to open a new document or page on a website
a tin of tomatoes | she drank two tins of cola Collocates: right-click | left-click | double-click
Adjective: tinned click on the link to see a video of the event | double-click the file
name to open the document (click twice)
• lata Noun: click
it takes about six clicks to get to the right page on
ton /tʌn/ Noun
the website
in Britain, a ton is a unit of weight that is equal to 1,016 kilos.
In the USA, a ton is a unit of weight equal to 907 kilos. In
• hacer clic
Europe and other parts of the world, 1,000 kilos is a tonne,
which is also called a metric ton clue /kluː/ Noun
the car weighed just over a ton | about 30,000 tons of steel a clue is a small piece of information that helps you discover
were used in the building the truth about something
Collocates: give someone a clue | look/search for clues |
• tonelada find a clue
tray /treɪ/ Noun she gave me some clues about what my present was going to
a tray is a flat piece of plastic, wood, or metal which you use be | the police are searching the car for clues
to carry things on, such as glasses of drink or plates of food
• pista
Collocates: a tray of drinks/coffee/tea
a tray of sandwiches | she brought out the drinks on a tray embarrassing /ɪmˈbærəsɪŋ/ Adjective
if something is embarrassing, it makes you feel a little
• bandeja ashamed and worried about what people will think of you
it was a bit embarrassing, because I couldn’t remember his
waste /weɪst/ Noun uncount
name | can you stop asking embarrassing questions?
waste is things that are no longer needed and that people
want to get rid of Adverb: embarrassingly | Adjective: embarrassed |
Verb: embarrass | Noun: embarrassment
they recycle 50% of their waste, and burn the rest | household
waste is collected once a week Collocates: embarrassed by/about something
his exam results were embarrassingly bad
• desechos
• vergonzoso / a
Student’s Book Pages 128–129 exhausted /ɪɡˈzɔːstɪd/ Adjective
blow /bləʊ/ Verb if you are exhausted, you are very tired
if something blows somewhere, it moves there because of sit down – you must be exhausted | I got home exhausted after
the wind walking from the station
Collocates: blow away | blow open | blow shut | blow down Adjective: exhausting | Noun: exhaustion
| blow in I just want to sleep. It’s been an exhausting day
I use it to stop papers on my desk blowing away | the door blew
shut • agotado / a
• volar hand /hænd/ Verb

if you hand something to someone, you give it to them by
break up /ˈbreɪk ˌʌp/ Phrasal verb putting it in their hand
if two people break up, they decide to stop having a Collocates: hand someone something | hand something to
romantic relationship with each other someone
a couple of weeks after that, we broke up | I broke up with she handed me a rock from the beach | he handed the letter
Jennifer last week to me
Noun: breakup
she’s still recovering from her recent breakup • entregar
• separarse

link /lɪŋk/ Noun Student’s Book Page 130
a link is a place on a computer screen that connects to a
different page or different information if you click on it base /beɪs/ Verb
if a writer bases a story on certain things, he or she uses
Collocates: click on a link | a link to something those things as the main part of the story
click on the link to see a video of the event | I found it from the Collocates: base something on something or someone
link on the BBC website
Dodgson based the stories on places that they knew about |
• vínculo Liddell’s daughter was the girl that Alice was based on |
he based his first novel on his own experience of growing up
rock /rɒk/ Noun in Blackburn
a rock is a large, heavy stone
we climbed over the rocks to get to the sea | a huge piece • basar
of rock hometown /ˈhəʊmtaʊn/ Noun
your hometown is the place where you live or the place
• roca
where you grew up
shame /ʃeɪm/ Noun she’s my best friend from my hometown | she had to leave her
if you say that something is a shame, you mean it is hometown and move to New York
unfortunate or disappointing
Collocates: a shame that | a shame to do something • ciudad natal
can’t you come to the party? Oh, what a shame | it’s a real influence /ˈɪnfluəns/ Verb
shame that they closed the factory if you influence someone, you have an effect on the way
they behave or develop
• lástima
the city has also influenced a number of other writers |
Foster was heavily influenced by classical music
Noun: influence | Adjective: influential
Collocates: have influence on/over someone
or something
he has a lot of influence in the school
• influenciar
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Student’s Book Pages 134–135 election /ɪˈlekʃ(ə)n/ Noun
an election is an event when people choose their members
according to /əˈkɔː(r)dɪŋ ˌtuː/ Preposition of parliament by selecting the person they want from a list
when you want to say who told you something or where of candidates
you read something, you can say according to someone
Collocates: a general election
according to the government, inflation fell last month | it will
be really hot tomorrow, according to the there’ll be an election in May | who did you vote for in the
weather forecast election?
Verb: elect
• de acuerdo a
• elección
average /ˈæv(ə)rɪdʒ/ Adjective
the average of a set of quantities is the result of adding up electronic /ˌelekˈtrɒnɪk/ Adjective
all the quantities and dividing that number by the number electronic machines such as computers or televisions
of quantities there are. For example, the average of 2, 7 and use electricity that has passed through silicon chips or
9 is 6, because 2+7+9 makes 18, and 18 divided by 3 is 6 transistors
the average salary is about $35,000 a year | average house electronic goods are cheaper there | all our electronic
prices rose again last year equipment was damaged in the flood
• promedio • electrónico / a
cost of living /ˌkɒst əv ˈlɪvɪŋ/ Noun singular goods /ɡʊdz/ Noun plural
the cost of living in a place is the amount of money people goods are things that are made to be sold in shops
need in order to be able to pay for everything they need, it’s cheaper to buy electronic goods online | the goods are
such as food, clothes, rent, etc. transported by road
the cost of living has gone up a lot in the last five years |
the cost of living in London is higher than in Manchester • bienes
inflation /ɪnˈfleɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount

• costo de vida
when there is inflation, the price of things that you buy
currency /ˈkʌrənsi/ Noun increases regularly
a country’s currency is the money that is used there. For inflation hasn’t been this low for 20 years | inflation rose to over
example, the currency of the USA is the dollar 20% in the 1970s
Collocates: a strong/weak currency | foreign currency
• inflación
it’s cheaper to travel abroad when our currency is very strong |
the single European currency, the Euro pace /peɪs/ Noun
the pace of something is how fast or slowly it moves or
• moneda changes
currently /ˈkʌrəntli/ Adverb Collocates: the pace of life
things that are happening currently are happening now the pace of life in New York is very fast | the pace of change in
inflation is currently quite low | where is he currently working? the computer industry has been extreme
Adjective: current
• ritmo
• actualmente popularity /ˌpɒpjʊˈlærəti/ Noun uncount
designer /dɪˈzaɪnə(r)/ Adjective someone’s popularity is the fact of being liked by a lot of
designer goods are made by famous designers and are very people
expensive and fashionable the government has been losing popularity | the Harry Potter
she wore a designer dress to the party | he got a designer watch books enjoy huge popularity
for his birthday Adjective: popular || Opposites – Adjective: unpopular |
Noun: unpopularity
• diseñador / a
• popularidad

unemployment /ˌʌnɪmˈplɔɪmənt/ Noun uncount earn /ɜː(r)n/ Verb
when there is unemployment somewhere, a lot of people money you earn is the money you are paid for doing
there do not have a job your job
Collocates: high unemployment | rising unemployment Collocates: earn money | earn a living
there’s a lot of unemployment in the area | the early 1980s was he delivers newspapers before school in the morning to earn
a time of high unemployment some money | we all need to earn a living (have a job that pays
Adjective: unemployed | Noun: the unemployed us enough to live)
Noun: earnings
• desempleo average earnings rose again last year
weak /wiːk/ Adjective
• ganar
something that is weak is not very strong
I can’t use my phone because the signal is too weak | I was too fall /fɔːl/ Verb
weak to get out of bed if something falls, it becomes lower in amount, level, price,
Noun: weakness | Adverb: weakly etc.
the weakness of the pound against the Euro made our holiday his weight fell to just 50 kilos | unemployment has been falling
in Rome very expensive for the last six months
• débil • caer
grow up /ˌɡrəʊ ˈʌp/ Phrasal verb

Student’s Book Pages 136–137 to grow up means to go through the process of being a
child and then becoming an adult
assume /əˈsjuːm/ Verb
if you assume that something is true, you believe it is true what do you think they enjoyed when they were growing up?
even though you cannot know for certain | what do you want to be (what job do you want) when you
grow up?
Collocates: assume that
we always assumed he wasn’t very successful | we shouldn’t • crecer
assume it will be sunny tomorrow | she didn’t answer the door,
so I assumed she was out interest /ˈɪntrəst/ Noun uncount
Noun: assumption when you pay back money that you borrowed from a bank,
the interest is the extra money that you pay them on top of
Collocates: make an assumption
the actual amount you borrowed. Interest is also money you
people make assumptions about him because of the way receive when you keep money in a bank
he looks
I have to pay interest on the loan | they charged him 15%
interest
• suponer
attention /əˈtenʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount • interés

attention is the thought or interest you give to something
invest /ɪnˈvest/ Verb
you are watching or listening to
if you invest in something, or invest money in it, you spend
Collocates: pay attention (to something) | give your some money in a way that you hope will increase the total
attention to something | undivided attention amount of money that you have, for example by buying
you need to pay attention in class | I could tell that he wasn’t shares in a company that will increase in value
giving me his full attention Collocates: invest in something
he had invested his money very wisely | should I invest in
• atención
property?
doll /dɒl/ Noun Noun: investment | Noun: investor
a doll is a toy that looks like a baby or a small person Collocates: a good investment
a wooden doll (one made of wood) | by the age of nine she buying a house is a good investment
thought she was too old to be playing with dolls
• invertir
• muñeca
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minimum /ˈmɪnɪməm/ Adjective valuable /ˈvæljʊb(ə)l/ Adjective

the minimum amount of something is the smallest amount an object that is valuable is worth a lot of money. You can
that is allowed or possible also say an experience is valuable if you learn something
£700 is the minimum amount I’ll accept for the car | the useful from it. Be careful if you see the word invaluable.
minimum temperature last night was three degrees It looks as if it should mean “not valuable”, but it actually
below freezing means “very valuable”
Noun: minimum || Opposite – Adjective: maximum | what are the most valuable things you own? | it’s a beautiful
Noun: maximum necklace, even though it’s not very valuable
Collocates: a minimum of something | a maximum Adjective: invaluable
of something his advice proved invaluable
I need a minimum of 20 minutes to get ready
• valioso / a
• mínimo
wage /weɪdʒ/ Noun
owe /əʊ/ Verb your wage is the amount of money you are paid for your
if you owe someone money, you have to give it to them job, especially if you are paid every week. If you are paid
because you borrowed it from them or because you have every month, you usually talk about your salary
to pay them for something they have done for you or sold Collocates: an hourly/daily/weekly wage
to you the minimum wage then was £5.73 an hour | they’ve always
Collocates: owe someone something | owe money to paid low wages at that factory
someone
I owe you three Euros from yesterday | do you owe any money • salario
to anyone?
worth /wɜː(r)θ/ Adjective
the amount of money that something is worth is its value
• deber
it’s a nice painting, but it isn’t worth much | my watch is worth
population /ˌpɒpjʊˈleɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun over £300
the population of a place is all the people who live there
three-quarters of the population own a car | the population of • valor
Australia is just over 23 million
• población
account /əˈkaʊnt/ Noun
possession /pəˈzeʃ(ə)n/ Noun if you have a bank account, you have an arrangement with a
your possessions are all the things that you own bank so that they take care of your money and let you write
your will says what must happen to your possessions after cheques, take your money from cash machines, etc.
you die | until she was eight, the doll was her most precious my salary goes into my current account (the account I use for
possession paying bills and regular things) on the first of the month |
I want to open an account
• posesión
• cuenta
saying /ˈseɪɪŋ/ Noun
a saying is a well-known expression that people often use activity /ækˈtɪvəti/ Noun
as the saying goes: “many hands make light work” | I tried to activity is something that happens or that someone does
learn as many French sayings as I could for a particular purpose
your card was cancelled because of some irregular activity |
• dicho there’s been a lot of activity on the website since we started
a weekly competition
turn into /ˌtɜː(r)n ˈɪntuː/ Phrasal verb
if you turn something into something else, you change it • actividad
so that it stops being the old thing and becomes the new
thing. If one thing turns into another thing, it changes
completely and stops being what it was and becomes the
other thing
Dad used to find bits of wood and turn them into toy boats
and dolls | it used to be a garage, but we’ve turned it into an
office
• convertir

argue /ˈɑː(r)ɡju/ Verb go up /ˌɡəʊ ˈʌp/ Phrasal verb
if you argue with someone, you have an angry discussion if something goes up, it increases
with them because you do not agree with what they say unemployment went up by 2% last year | petrol prices have
Collocates: argue about something | argue with someone been going up since the winter
even as children they were always arguing | don’t argue, just do
what I say! • aumentar
Noun: argument irregular /ɪˈreɡjʊlə(r)/ Adjective
Collocates: an argument about something | an argument something that is irregular is not usual or expected and
with someone might not be honest or legal
we had a long argument about politics I work irregular hours (I don’t start and finish at the same time
every day) | some of his business activity was a
• discutir bit irregular
Adverb: irregularly
condition /kənˈdɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun
the condition of something is the particular state it is in, for we were paid for the work, but very irregularly
example whether it is broken or not
• irregular
Collocates: in good/bad condition
it’s not in perfect condition | it’s ten years old but still in very good joint /dʒɔɪnt/ Adjective
condition joint things are shared or owned by two people at the same
time
• condición I have a joint account with my partner (an account that two
people use at the same time) | the two presidents made a joint
cover /ˈkʌvə(r)/ Verb
announcement after the conference
if your insurance covers certain things, the insurance
company will pay you if any of those things break or Adverb: jointly
happen to you
• conjunto / a
Collocates: cover someone against something | be covered
to do something | be covered for something loan /ləʊn/ Noun
we’re covered against flooding and fire | I’m covered to drive a loan is an amount of money that someone borrows
any car, not just my own Collocates: take out a loan | repay a loan
Noun: cover I took out a loan to buy the car | it took her three years to repay
I took out insurance cover before going on holiday the loan
• cubrir • préstamo
direct debit /ˌdɪrekt ˈdebɪt/ Noun manage /ˈmænɪdʒ/ Verb

a direct debit is an arrangement with your bank that lets if you manage to do something, you succeed in doing it,
a company take money from your account regularly, for even though it might be quite difficult
example to pay for your electricity or for your rent Collocates: manage to do something
Collocates: pay by direct debit | set up a direct debit | I haven’t managed to save much money yet this year | did you
cancel a direct debit manage to get the tickets for the match on Saturday?
it’s easier to pay your bills by direct debit | you can set up a
direct debit online or over the phone • lograr
• débito directo mark /mɑː(r)k/ Noun

a mark is a small area of dirt or damage on the surface of
fare /feə(r)/ Noun something
the fare is the amount of money you have to pay for a the coffee cup left a mark on the table | when he gave the car
particular journey on public transport or in a taxi back there were marks on the passenger door | the dog left bite
Collocates: bus/train/air fare | one-way/return fare | marks on my arm
standard/second class/first class fare | taxi/cab fare
train fares have just gone up again | the return fare to New York • marca
is £475
• tarifa
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payment /ˈpeɪmənt/ Noun speed up /ˌspiːd ˈʌp/ Phrasal verb

a payment is an amount of money that you pay at a if something speeds up, or if you speed it up, it starts to move
particular time or happen more quickly
Collocates: make a payment the software is really good and will speed things up | we can
I borrowed £1,200 and will make 12 monthly payments of £105 speed up when we get on to the motorway
| the final payment is due at the end of July
• apresurar(se)
Verb: pay
Collocates: pay (something) for something
PHRASAL VERBS WITH UP
• pago Sometimes, up in a phrasal verb means an increase and down
shows a decrease:
point out /ˌpɔɪnt ˈaʊt/ Phrasal verb
The car sped up / slowed down.
if you point something out, you tell someone it exists or is
true Unemployment has gone up / gone down a lot.
Collocates: point something out to someone However, more often, the meaning is not obvious. Always
think of the two words as having one meaning.
he pointed out that it was going to be very cold on the journey |
she pointed out to him that he was wrong again He’s gone down with flu. (he’s caught flu)
She’s given up smoking. (she’s stopped smoking completely)
• señalar
recession /rɪˈseʃ(ə)n/ Noun take out /ˌteɪk ˈaʊt/ Phrasal verb

if there is a recession, there is much less business activity if you take out a loan or an insurance policy, you arrange to
than usual, so some businesses do not make enough borrow money from a bank or buy an insurance policy
money and some people lose their jobs we can’t afford to take out a mortgage so we’re still renting
Collocates: a global/worldwide/world recession | a deep/ a flat | don’t forget to take out travel insurance before you go
severe recession | go into recession | be in recession to Spain
I’m going to move back home before the recession here gets
any worse | the whole world is facing a global recession • adquirir
transfer /trænsˈfɜː(r)/ Verb

• recesión
if you transfer someone or something, you move them to
separately /ˈsep(ə)rətli/ Adverb another place
if things are separate, they are not together. If things I want to transfer some money to my son in Germany | the boy
happen separately, they do not happen at the same time was transferred by plane to a hospital in Melbourne
your new PIN will be sent separately | dry food like flour and Noun: transfer
sugar is stored separately, away from any liquids the company does airport transfers (takes people from the
Adjective: separate | Verb: separate airport to their hotels)
• por separado • transferir
software /ˈsɒf(t)ˌweə(r)/ Noun uncount used /juːst/ Adjective

software is programs used by computers. Computer if you get used to something, you start being able to use
equipment is called hardware it or understand it easily because it is no longer new or
Collocates: download/install/update software | a software surprising to you
engineer | computer software Collocates: get used to doing something
it takes a few hours to download the software | I had a few after a day or two in France I was quite used to driving on the
problems installing the software right | I could never get used to calling my teacher John instead
of Mr Simms
• programa
• habituado / a

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Student’s Book Page 141 buffet /ˈbʊfeɪ/ Noun
a buffet is a meal at a social event or in a hotel or restaurant
ceremony /ˈserəməni/ Noun in which people take food from a large table and sit
a ceremony is a formal event which involves a traditional set somewhere else to eat it
of actions
there was a buffet, and everyone helped themselves | they
Collocates: a wedding/funeral ceremony serve a good breakfast buffet at the hotel
wedding ceremonies are frequently performed in the park | the
opening ceremony of the Olympic Games • bufet
Adjective: ceremonial
chat /tʃæt/ Verb
a ceremonial parade will take place in Moscow on if you chat, you talk to someone in a friendly and informal
May 8th way
• ceremonia Collocates: chat to someone

we chatted for a while before his train arrived | she spent the
parade /pəˈreɪd/ Noun journey chatting to her aunt on the phone
a parade is a big event when a lot of people or vehicles go Noun: chat | Adjective: chatty
through the streets of a town as part of a big celebration
Collocates: a chat with someone
the parade will set off from the Town Hall | there were street
parades, followed by fireworks in the evening Nice to see you! Have you got time for a chat?
• desfile • conversar
religious /rəˈlɪdʒəs/ Adjective clear /klɪə(r)/ Verb

someone who is religious believes in a god and follows the if you clear a place, you make it empty by removing
rules of a particular religion. A religious activity is one that is everything from it
organised by a particular religion the second DJ completely cleared the dance floor | police
many of them were deeply religious | many religious leaders cleared the area around the accident
disagreed with the government | she taught religious
• vaciar
education in the local school
Noun: religion convert /kənˈvɜː(r)t/ Verb
they did not belong to any organised religion if you convert something, you make it into something
different
• • religioso / a Collocates: convert something into something
it used to be a factory, but they converted it into an events
Student’s Book Pages 142–143 venue a few years ago | the house has been converted into flats
background /ˈbækˌɡraʊnd/ Adjective Noun: conversion
if an object is in the background, it is behind the main we’ve had a loft conversion done (the space under the roof has
thing you are looking at. Sounds you can hear but are not been made into a room)
listening to are in the background
Collocates: background music | background noise | in the • convertir
background distant /ˈdɪstənt/ Adjective
it was good background music | the TV was on in the if someone is distant, they are not very friendly or interested
background | you could see it in the background in the people around them
they were a bit cold and distant, to be honest | he’s become
• fondo rather distant since he lost his job
bowl /bəʊl/ Noun
a bowl is a round, deep dish with an open top that you use • distante
to serve food
a few bowls of olives | a glass bowl
• bol

gorgeous /ˈɡɔː(r)dʒəs/ Adjective round /raʊnd/ Adverb
someone who is gorgeous is very attractive. Something that if you have people round, they come to your home on a
is gorgeous is beautiful or tastes wonderful social visit
Collocates: absolutely/utterly gorgeous | drop-dead Collocates: have someone round | come round | go round
gorgeous I had a few friends round for dinner | why don’t you come
his new girlfriend is absolutely gorgeous | thank you for the round on Thursday after work?
flowers, they’re gorgeous
• alrededor
• precioso / a
ruin /ˈruːɪn/ Verb
impressive /ɪmˈpresɪv/ Adjective to ruin something means to spoil it completely
something that is impressive is very good and makes you there was a big argument which ruined the rest of the
admire it evening for me | I know it will just ruin my life if I don’t get in to
the organisation of the whole event was very impressive | university
his piano playing was really impressive
Adverb: impressively | Verb: impress • arruinar
an impressively large collection of CDs set up /ˌset ˈʌp/ Phrasal verb
if you set something up, you make all the necessary
• impresionante preparations for it to start and to work properly
mix /mɪks/ Verb we’ve set up a new website | I run the company now, but it was
if you mix at a social occasion, you move around talking to my father who set it up
lots of different people rather than just talking to one or
two people the whole time • crear
No-one was really mixing at the party | she was very shy and supposed /səˈpəʊzd/ Adjective
found it difficult to mix if something is supposed to happen, it has been planned
and is meant to happen in a particular way. If you say that
• mezclar(se) something is supposed to be true, most people believe it,
although you are not sure
occasion /əˈkeɪʒ(ə)n/ Noun
an occasion is an event that is important Collocates: supposed to be
Collocates: a special occasion | mark the occasion don’t tell her about the party – it’s supposed to be a surprise
| I haven’t read it, but it’s supposed to be a really good book |
what was the occasion for the party? Was it someone’s
you’re supposed to buy a ticket before you get on the train
birthday? | I only wear this dress on special occasions
• supuesto / a
• ocasión
surprise /sə(r)ˈpraɪz/ Noun
pick at /ˈpɪk ˌæt/ Phrasal verb
a surprise is something exciting or shocking that happens
if you pick at food, you eat only small amounts of it
which you did not expect
there were some crisps for guests to pick at | I wasn’t hungry so
Collocates: by surprise
I didn’t eat the chicken and just picked at the salad
it was a pleasant surprise to get your email |
• picotear the question took me by surprise
Verb: surprise | Adjective: surprising | Adjective: surprised |
reception /rɪˈsepʃ(ə)n/ Noun Adverb: surprisingly
a reception is a big formal party for a celebration such as a
wedding, or in order to welcome someone somewhere • sorpresa
Collocates: a wedding reception | an official reception |
hold a reception venue /ˈvenjuː/ Noun
a venue is the place where an event is happening or is going
my brother’s holding his wedding reception on a boat |
to happen
a reception for 500 people was held in the evening
it’s an amazing venue for a party | the World Cup is held at
• recepción various venues across the country
• lugar
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to establish something means to start it or build it so that it
age /eɪdʒ/ Noun will last for a long time
you can refer to certain periods of time as a particular
Age. For example, the period when people used stone for London was established by the Romans | my grandfather
making things is called the Stone Age. A later period is called established the company in 1963
the Iron Age because people discovered iron and used it to Noun: establishment
make tools, weapons, etc. the first business establishments here opened in 1905
Collocates: the Stone/Bronze/Iron Age | the Age of Steam |
the Atomic/Nuclear Age • establecer
people have lived in the region since the Stone Age | exporter /ɪkˈspɔː(r)tə(r)/ Noun
the 19th century was the age of steam and steel an exporter is a company or country that sells goods to
other countries. Countries or companies that buy goods
• era from other countries are importers
civil war /ˌsɪv(ə)l ˈwɔː(r)/ Noun Thailand is one of the world’s largest rice exporters | by 2020
a civil war is a war fought between groups of people within the US will be a net exporter of gas (it will sell more gas abroad
one country than it buys from other countries)
the English civil war was nearly 400 years ago | after the Verb: export | Noun: export
revolution of 1917, Russia faced several years of civil war
• exportador / a
• guerra civil
force /fɔː(r)s/ Verb
communist /ˈkɒmjʊnɪst/ Adjective to force someone to do something means to make them do
communism is the political system that controlled Russia it even though they really do not want to
and the Soviet Union from 1917, and a lot of Eastern Europe Collocates: force someone to do something
from 1945 until 1991. They had a communist political the last Kazakh nomads were forced to live on farms or work in
system, and that period in their history is the communist industry | my parents never tried to force me to go to university
period | I forced myself to get out of bed at five o’clock
in 1920, Kazakhstan became part of the communist Soviet
Union | the communist party of the Soviet Union • forzar
Noun: communism | Noun: communist
free spirit /ˌfriː ˈspɪrɪt/ Noun
Russian communism came to an end in 1991 a free spirit is someone who does only what they want to
do and does not behave in the way people are expected to
• comunista behave. If you call someone a free spirit, you admire them
economic /ˌiːkəˈnɒmɪk/ Adjective because of the way they live
a country’s economy is all the business activity that goes on as a child she had been very wild, a free spirit | Bev was a free
and the money that is moving around the country. Things spirit and always said exactly what she thought
related to the economy are economic
• espíritu libre
there were political and economic problems in the country | the
economic situation is getting worse friendship /ˈfren(d)ʃɪp/ Noun
Noun: economy | Noun: economics friendship is the state of being someone’s friend and the
the economy is recovering after the crisis of 2008 feelings friends have for each other
Collocates: develop a friendship (with someone) | a close
• económico / a friendship
empire /ˈempaɪə(r)/ Noun on 22nd March, we celebrate friendship and unity |

an empire is a group of countries that is controlled by she developed a strong friendship with Picasso
just one country. An empire is also a group of companies Noun: friend | Adverb: friendly
controlled by one person or organisation Collocates: a close friend | best friend
the Roman Empire lasted about 500 years | Murdoch created a
global business empire • amistad
Noun: emperor | Noun: empress | Adjective: imperial
• imperio

grass /ɡrɑːs/ Noun uncount leader /ˈliːdə(r)/ Noun
grass is a low green plant that grows all over the ground. It the leader of an organised group is the person who is in
is made up of thin pointed green leaves charge of it and who is responsible for all the big decisions
they moved around to find grass and water for their animals | effective schools need effective leaders | Churchill was a great
he’s cutting the grass in the back garden leader
Adjective: grassy Verb: lead | Noun: leadership
• césped • líder
independent /ˌɪndɪˈpendənt/ Adjective Muslim /ˈmʊsləm/ Adjective

if a country is independent, it controls itself and does not a Muslim is someone who belongs to the religion of Islam.
have another country ruling it Muslim traditions and beliefs are based on Islam
Collocates: become independent Iran is a Muslim country | she was born into a
the United States became independent in 1776 | Mugabe is the Muslim family
only leader Zimbabwe has had since it became independent Noun: Muslim
Noun: independence
• musulmán / a
Collocates: gain independence
the country is fighting for its independence occupy /ˈɒkjʊpaɪ/ Verb
to occupy a country means to stay and control it after
• independiente invading it
the Vikings eventually occupied half the country | Macau was
invade /ɪnˈveɪd/ Verb
previously occupied by Portugal
when an army invades a country, it goes in there and tries to
take control of the country by fighting Noun: occupation
the Vikings first invaded Britain in 786 | 20,000 soldiers were during the occupation no one was allowed to leave the city
waiting for the order to invade
• ocupar
Noun: invasion | Noun: invader
Collocates: launch an invasion parliament /ˈpɑː(r)ləmənt/ Noun
the invasion was launched (started) on June 6th a parliament is a group of people who have been chosen
to make the laws and govern a country. In the English Civil
• invadir War, Parliament was all the people who did not want the
king to control the country, but who wanted to choose a
Islam /ˈɪslɑːm/ Noun uncount group of people to rule
Islam is the religion that follows the teachings of she was elected to parliament in 2010 | a member of
Mohammed. People who belong to this religion are called parliament
Muslims
Adjective: parliamentary
Islam was introduced to the region in the eighth century |
major world religions, such as Christianity, Islam • parlamento
and Judaism
Adjective: Islamic party /ˈpɑː(r)ti/ Noun
a political party is an organised group that tries to get
• islam elected and become the government in a country
she joined the Labour party when she was 16 | the two main
key /kiː/ Adjective parties each got over 40% of the votes
a key event, thing, or person is one that is very important in
a particular situation • partido
two key events had an important influence on the region |
write down the three key points from chapter 1 political /pəˈlɪtɪk(ə)l/ Adjective
politics is the work of getting power and running a country.
• clave Things that are to do with politics are political, and the
people involved are politicians
king /kɪŋ/ Noun his political career ended when he lost the election
a king is a man who rules a country, and whose son or in 1997 | there were two main political parties in
daughter will rule after he dies. A woman who rules a the country
country in this way is a queen. In Britain, the queen is
Adverb: politically | Noun: politics | Noun: politician
the head of the country, but she has a parliamentary
government that makes the laws she was politically active at university
the king was killed in 1649 | Henry VIII is probably the most
• politico / a
famous English king
• rey
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producer /prəˈdjuːsə(r)/ Noun shortage /ˈʃɔː(r)tɪdʒ/ Noun

a producer of something is a company or country that if there is a shortage of something, there is not enough of it
makes that thing or that takes it out of the ground Collocates: a shortage of something
Collocates: a producer of something there were serious food shortages during the winter | there’s a
Kazakhstan is now the 11th largest producer of oil and gas in shortage of teachers in London
the world | Scotland is a major producer of wood Adjective: short
Verb: produce Collocates: be short of something | run short
of something
• productor / a
• escasez
rapidly /ˈræpɪdli/ Adverb
if something happens rapidly, it happens very quickly trade /treɪd/ Noun uncount
the population grew rapidly | things improved rapidly after the trade is the business activity of buying and selling or goods
election our company does a lot of trade with China | he believes in free
Adjective: rapid trade (the ability to buy and sell goods with another country
a period of rapid population growth without paying taxes when goods go into a country)
Verb: trade | Noun: trader
• rápidamente Collocates: trade with someone
region /ˈriːdʒ(ə)n/ Noun
• comercio
a region is a large area of a country
people have lived in the region for thousands of years | it can get unique /juːˈniːk/ Adjective
very cold in the northern and eastern regions of Russia if something is unique, there is only one of it, and there is
Adjective: regional nothing else that is the same
the band had a unique style of music | I met a lot of interesting
• región and unique people
Adverb: uniquely
resource /rɪˈzɔː(r)s/ Noun
resources are things that you have and can use. Natural her language ability makes her uniquely qualified for the job
resources are things like coal, gas, oil, iron, etc. that are in the (no one else has the same skills as her)
ground and that can be taken out and used
• único / a
they are an exporter of natural resources | the university library
is a fantastic resource -wing /wɪŋ/ Noun
in politics, people who are on the left-wing have ideas that
• recurso are based on socialism and equality. People on the right-
wing believe in capitalism
route /ruːt/ Noun
a route is the roads and direction you follow to get from one Michael Foot was a politician on the left-wing of the Labour
place to another party, while Tony Blair was on the right-wing | she thought that
Johnson was too right-wing so she didn’t vote for him
the Silk Road trade route went through Talaz | I’m going to try a
different route when we go to Scotland next week
• de derecha / de izquierda
• ruta
rule /ruːl/ Verb

to rule a country means to have power and control over it
Collocates: rule over something
America was once ruled by Britain | Stalin ruled over Russia and
another 14 Soviet republics
Noun: rule | Noun: ruler
Collocates: be under someone’s rule
the area was under British rule for 200 years
• gobernar

Student’s Book Pages 146–147 grateful /ˈɡreɪtf(ə)l/ Adjective
if you are grateful to someone, you are glad that they have
come up /ˌkʌm ˈʌp/ Phrasal verb helped you or given you something
when the sun comes up, it appears in the sky at the
beginning of the morning and it becomes light. At the end Collocates: be/feel grateful to someone | be/feel grateful
of the day, the sun goes down and it becomes dark for something
we reached the peak just as the sun was coming up | I’ll always be grateful to the doctor who saved my sight |
I watched the sun come up then went inside for breakfast the families were very grateful for the work she did
Opposite – Phrasal Verb: go down Adverb: gratefully | Noun: gratitude

any suggestions will be gratefully received
• salir
• Agradecido / a
consider /kənˈsɪdə(r)/ Verb
if you consider something, you think about it carefully peak /piːk/ Noun
before making a decision a peak is the top of a mountain
Collocates: consider doing something we reached the peak just as the sun was coming up | Mont Blanc is
have you considered going to university? | I considered taking the highest peak in Europe
the job, but in the end decided to go travelling for a year
• pico
Noun: consideration
Collocates: give consideration to something | regret /rɪˈɡret/ Noun
under consideration if you have regrets about something, you feel bad about it
and wish things had happened differently
they gave serious consideration to the idea of opening a new
shop in Leeds Collocates: have (a) regret
one of my biggest regrets was that I missed his memorial
• considerar service | he has finally expressed regret for his unacceptable
behaviour
controversial /ˌkɒntrəˈvɜː(r)ʃ(ə)l/ Adjective
if something or someone is controversial, different people Verb: regret
hold different opinions about them very strongly and Collocates: regret that | regret doing something
cannot agree about them he regretted sending the email while he was still angry
Collocates: highly/deeply controversial | a controversial
subject/issue/topic | a controversial decision • lamento
he was a controversial figure, but I liked him | the government restore /rɪˈstɔː(r)/ Verb
has done a few controversial things recently if you restore something that was broken or not working
Adverb: controversially | Noun: controversy properly, you repair it or do something so that it starts
Collocates: cause controversy working normally again
controversially, there were no women teachers in luckily, my sight was restored | we must restore peace to the
the school country after the war
Noun: restoration
• controvertido / a restoration of the cathedral took over 20 years
experimental /ɪkˌsperɪˈment(ə)l/ Adjective
• restaurar
an experiment is a scientific test that you do to see what
happens under certain conditions. Activities that you do severely /sɪˈvɪə(r)li/ Adverb
like this are experimental severely means extremely badly
the medicine was still in the experimental stage | my eyes had been severely damaged in an accident at work |
the experimental methods of Dr Hughes he became severely depressed after losing his job
Adverb: experimentally | Verb: experiment | Adjective: severe | Noun: severity
Noun: experiment
Collocates: experiment on someone or something | carry • severamente
out/conduct an experiment
it has been proved experimentally that the plant will not grow
in the dark
• experimental
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sexual discrimination /ˌsekʃuəl dɪˌskrɪmɪˈneɪʃ(ə)n/ Student’s Book Page 148

Noun uncount
discrimination is behaviour that deliberately deals with a continent /ˈkɒntɪnənt/ Noun
person or group of people unfairly and unequally. Sexual a continent is one of the seven large areas of land on the
discrimination or sex discrimination is unfair treatment of earth. They are Asia, Africa, North America, South America,
someone because of their gender (whether they are male Antarctica, Europe, and Australia
or female); racial discrimination is unfair treatment of people Asia is the largest continent, and Australia is the smallest |
because of the colour of their skin when he got to Cuba, Columbus thought he had discovered a
Collocates: racial/gender/sex discrimination continent, not an island
she fought for women’s rights and against sexual • continente
discrimination | there was no evidence of racial discrimination
in the school earth /ɜː(r)θ/ Noun
Verb: discriminate the earth is the planet that we live on
Collocates: discriminate against someone he now knew the earth was round | the earth is about 4 billion
years old
• discriminación por razón de género
• tierra
sight /saɪt/ Noun uncount
someone’s sight is their ability to see things flat /flæt/ Adjective
she lost the sight in one eye after the accident | the doctors something that is flat is level and even, not round or curved
saved my sight by operating straight away people used to think the world was flat | put the board on a flat
surface
• vista
• plano / a
stage /steɪdʒ/ Noun
a stage is a particular period of time during a process persuade /pə(r)ˈsweɪd/ Verb
Collocates: the early/final stages of something if you persuade someone to do something, you talk to them
and give them reasons which make them do it
we’re still in the early stages of the project | the building is in its
final stage, and should be finished next month Collocates: persuade someone to do something | persuade
someone that
• estapa Columbus persuaded the king to give him some money |
I tried to persuade him to change his mind
surgeon /ˈsɜː(r)dʒ(ə)n/ Noun Noun: persuasion | Adjective: persuasive |
a surgeon is a doctor who cuts people’s bodies open in Adverb: persuasively
order to repair them or replace parts of them
after a little persuasion, he agreed to lend me his car
thanks to my surgeon, I can now see my two kids | it takes years
of training to become a surgeon • persuadir
• cirujano / a voyage /ˈvɔɪɪdʒ/ Noun
a voyage is a long journey, usually across the ocean on a
welcoming /ˈwelkəmɪŋ/ Adjective ship
if someone you do not know is welcoming, they are very
friendly to you when you arrive somewhere Columbus did not have enough money to pay for his voyage
himself | the sea was very rough on the first day of the voyage
the people there were very welcoming when we arrived |
a hotel with a welcoming atmosphere Noun: voyager
Verb: welcome | Adjective: welcome • travesía
Collocates: make someone welcome
• acogedor / a

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Outcomes • Pre-Intermediate • Word lists • Spanish • Unit 1

actor /ˈæktə(r)/ Noun an engineer is someone whose job is making or mending

• construcción law firm /ˈlɔː ˌfɜː(r)m/ Noun

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• gerente research /rɪˈsɜː(r)tʃ/ Noun uncount

studio /ˈstjuːdiəʊ/ Noun appointment /əˈpɔɪntmənt/ Noun

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list /lɪst/ Noun quiet /ˈkwaɪət/ Adjective

main /meɪn/ Adjective relaxation /ˌriːlækˈseɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun uncount

manage /ˈmænɪdʒ/ Verb rush /rʌʃ/ Verb

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advise /ədˈvaɪz/ Verb fight /faɪt/ Verb

attitude /ˈætɪˌtjuːd/ Noun fixed /fɪkst/ Adjective

install /ɪnˈstɔːl/ Verb WORD FAMILIES

salary /ˈsæləri/ Noun

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pair /peə(r)/ Noun thick /θɪk/ Adjective

unique /juːˈniːk/ Adjective

warm /wɔː(r)m/ Adjective

• de segunda mano • molesto / a 

bargain /ˈbɑː(r)ɡɪn/ Noun drop /drɒp/ Verb

deliver /dɪˈlɪvə(r)/ Verb globally /ˈɡləʊb(ə)li/ Adverb

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online /ˈɒnlaɪn/ Adverb return /rɪˈtɜː(r)n/ Verb

• pedir selection /sɪˈlekʃ(ə)n/ Noun

stock /stɒk/ Noun uncount loose /luːs/ Adjective

button /ˈbʌt(ə)n/ Noun • liso / a

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• apropiado / a protect /prəˈtekt/ Verb

tight /taɪt/ Adjective • proteger

Collocates: a local council | a town council Opposite – Phrasal Verb: get on

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playground /ˈpleɪˌɡraʊnd/ Noun traffic lights /ˈtræfɪk ˌlaɪts/ Noun plural

COMPOUND NOUNS delayed /dɪˈleɪd/ Adjective

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line /laɪn/ Noun • reparación

plenty /ˈplenti/ Pronoun • poner

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huge /hjuːdʒ/ Adjective nightmare /ˈnaɪtˌmeə(r)/ Noun

load /ləʊd/ Noun • transporte público

replacement /rɪˈpleɪsmənt/ Noun service /ˈsɜː(r)vɪs/ Noun

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delicious /dɪˈlɪʃəs/ Adjective • apropiadamente

rude /ruːd/ Adjective

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get past /ˌɡet ˈpɑːst/ Phrasal verb

cloth /klɒθ/ Noun

offer /ˈɒfə(r)/ Noun request /rɪˈkwest/ Noun

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tap /tæp/ Noun • consistir

experiment /ɪkˈsperɪˌment/ Verb link /lɪŋk/ Verb

habit /ˈhæbɪt/ Noun • mezcla

include /ɪnˈkluːd/ Verb • correcto / a

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space /speɪs/ Noun uncount

• estómago spread /spred/ Verb

cards /kɑː(r)d/ Noun fishing /ˈfɪʃɪŋ/ Noun uncount

client /ˈklaɪənt/ Noun gear /ɡɪə(r)/ Noun uncount

• construcción law firm /ˈlɔː ˌfɜː(r)m/ Noun

• gerente research /rɪˈsɜː(r)tʃ/ Noun uncount

• de segunda mano • molesto / a

• pedir selection /sɪˈlekʃ(ə)n/ Noun

button /ˈbʌt(ə)n/ Noun • liso / a

• apropiado / a protect /prəˈtekt/ Verb

tight /taɪt/ Adjective • proteger

line /laɪn/ Noun • reparación

plenty /ˈplenti/ Pronoun • poner

load /ləʊd/ Noun • transporte público

delicious /dɪˈlɪʃəs/ Adjective • apropiadamente

tap /tæp/ Noun • consistir

habit /ˈhæbɪt/ Noun • mezcla

include /ɪnˈkluːd/ Verb • correcto / a

• estómago spread /spred/ Verb

messy /ˈmesi/ Adjective • caña

home /həʊm/ Adjective • resultado

• abono de temporada • cronometrar

• repostería escape /ɪˈskeɪp/ Verb

personal /ˈpɜː(r)s(ə)nəl/ Adjective • título

• pareja character /ˈkærɪktə(r)/ Noun

guest /ɡest/ Noun • paciente

succeed /səkˈsiːd/ Verb • boda

Some adjectives are formed from verbs by adding –ive. • aceptar

Verb: combine • personal

• combinación stand for /ˈstænd fɔː(r)/ Phrasal verb

• finales off /ɒf/ Adverb

expenses /ɪkˈspensɪz/ Noun plural • ganancia

impatient /ɪmˈpeɪʃ(ə)nt/ Adjective • presionar

• presión arterial • experimento

facility /fəˈsɪləti/ Noun • electricidad