STARTER UNIT: ENGLISH GLOSSARY

Hi there. We've already finished Starter Unit so here's all the vocabulary and all the expressions that we learned during this unit. As you can see is a lot!!!

DEVICE: A thing made for a particular purpose; an invention, especially a mechanical or electrical one.

WIFI: A local área network that uses high frequency radio signals to transmit and receive data over distances of a few hundred feet.

SUBJECT: The topic of your email. What is it about?

ATTACHMENT: A document, a picture, a video... that you enclose to send by email to another people.

REHERSAL:The moment before you act. When you are practising for a performance.

DIDN'T GET MUCH SLEEP: Couldn't sleep enough time.

TO INVITE OVER: To invite someone to your house.

 TO BE INTO: When you are good at something.

COULDN'T SLEEP A WINK: Couldn't sleep nothing at all because you were awake all the night.

BOTHERING: Something that is disturbing or making angry

THOUGH: But

COMPLAIN ABOUT: When you protest someone or something.

APOLOGIZE: To tell someone that you are sorry for having done something that has caused problems or unhappiness for them.

EMBARRASED: Feeling shy

WORRY:To think about problems or unpleasant things that might happen in a way that makes you feel unhappy and frightened.

TAKE IT EASY!:Rest, relax or be calm.

YOU ARE DRIVING ME CRAZY: English expression that in Spanish means"Me estas rayando"

A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD GIRL: A girl that is 14 (catorceañera in Spanish)

DISAPPOINTED:  You are unhappy because someone or something was not as good as you hoped or expected.

FORTHNIGHT: 15 days

WHEN DID YOU LAST+INFINITIVE FORM OF A VERB?:

I LAST+PAST SIMPLE VERB

UPDATE:To make something more modern or suitable for use now by adding new information or changing its design.
                         
MIND:The part of a person that makes it possible for him or her to think,feel emotions, and understanding things.                        

STUMBLE: to walk in a way that doesn't seem controlled.

HIRE:to pay to use something for a short period.

ABROAD: In a foreign country.

STRANGER:someone you don't know.

FOREIGNER: From another country.

MEMORIES:Things that you remember about the past.

GET FIRED:Lose your job.

HAVE A SHOT: Have a small glass of alcohol.

IT'S AGES SINCE I LAST BOUGHT A STAMP: A long time ago.

GOTTA:  have got to

STORYTELLING: Telling a story(such as a fairytale...)

CHILHOOD:The period of time when someone is a child.

KNITTING:

PECK:When a bird pecks,it bites, hits or picks up something small with its beak.

FARMYARD: An area surrounded by or near farm buildings.

TUCK:To push a loose end of a piece of clothing or material into a particular place or position,especially to make tidy or comfortable.                          

COTTAGE: Little house in the countryside.

SIGHT: View

MEAN: Cruel, bad.

DROWN:To die by being unable to breathe underwater.

SELDOM: Once a year

HARDLY EVER: Rarely

NEARLY ALWAYS: Very often

BREAKING NEWS: Important news

GET ON/OFF :  We use this expression to refer to the bus, the train, the plane...

GET INTO/OUT : We use this expression to refer to cars and taxis

TAXES: A contibution for the support of a government required of persons,gropus or businesses within the domain of that governement

VAT: Value Added Tax:

TIPS: A small amount of money given to someone for performing a service.

USED TO: Used as an auxiliary to express habitual or accustomed actions,states etc taking place in the past but not continuing into the present.

WASTE: You don't get the properly use of the time.

FINNISH: A person from Finland.

NOREWEGIAN: A person from Norway.

EITHER:Used in negative sentences instead of"also" or "too"

NEITHER: Not either of two things or people.

MOLE:

COLLECT: To pick up.

SUNBURNED:Skin has become red by being in the strong hit of the sun for too long.