Boost Your Well-being: Health, Jobs, and Grammar Tips
Health
Daily Habits
- Exercise daily
- Practice positive thinking
- Get enough sleep
- Engage in yoga and meditation
- Maintain a healthy eating pattern
Food Vocabulary
- Fried squid (calamares fritos rebozados)
- Dress a salad (aliñar)
- Hard pork sausage (chorizo)
- French fries
Common Terms
Diet; rice; dinner; appetite; eats; works; exhausted; slept; exercised; recover; happy; sad; strength; writer; builder; nutritious food; loose appetite/weight; gain weight; balanced meal/diet; watch weight/health; light meal; catch a cold; quick recovery/meal. Discomfort; overweight; unfit; multivitamins; inedible; unhealthy; depackaged.
Idioms
- Got the weight of the world on his shoulders (tener muchas responsabilidades)
- Worth her weight in gold (persona responsable y trabajadora)
- Pull sb’s leg (tomar el pelo)
- Tease/bother sb (meterse con alguien)
Other Useful Phrases
Stretch of road (tramo); rested (descanso); figured out (darse cuenta); be wrong (equivocarse); overcooked; inedible; steak (filete); rare (crudo); multivitamins; be in poor health; as far as I’m concerned; balanced diet; reliable; get on well; physical strength; due to; unpleasant (desagradable).
Jobs
Key Qualities
- Flexible working hours
- Physical strength
- University degree
- Professional training
- Attractive appearance
- Good people skills
- Knowledge of languages
Personality Traits
Courageous; patient; calm; creative; adventurous; friendly; organized.
Work-Related Terms
Town hall; town council; suspend (hechar/suspender); narrow (cerca); open wide (abrir bien boca), former mayor (anterior alcalde); ran a business; go-getter (ambicioso); fulfill (llenar tiempo con algo).
Employment Vocabulary
- Be hired/given a job
- Company/business
- Be unemployed/lose a job
- Overtime/extra work hours
- Retire/stop working
- Apply for/make a formal request for
- Employee/worker
- Be fired/be without a job
- Part-time job
- Previous job experience
- Job application
- Go back to work
- Steady job
- Be out of work
- Job title
- Job satisfaction
Important Skills
Reliable; ambitious; helpful; application; employer; responsible; productive; employment; experienced; challenging; professional; assistance. Promote; retire; work; knowledge; appear; organize.
Idioms
- Nerves of steel
- The gift of the gab (talented speech)
- A good bedside manner (sb u can trust on)
Other Phrases
Complete the assignment (completar la misión).
Gerunds & Infinitives
- I’ll never forget seeing the Eiffel Tower.
- I forgot to buy the newspaper.
- He regrets staying at home.
- I regret to tell you that we can’t do anything.
- I remember buying the tickets.
- Remember to take your passport.
- She stopped training for a few weeks.
- We stopped to have lunch.
Reported Speech
- He says that he has got a part-time job.
- My mum asked me if I had had an exam.
- I asked what the job requirements were.
- The teacher told us to be quiet.
- The policeman ordered me not to park my car there.
- He suggested going to the cinema the following day.
- She suggested that I try the new restaurant.
Verbs with Prepositions
- Apply for (solicitar)
- Wait for (esperar)
- Listen to (escuchar a)
- Arrive at (llegar a un lugar)
- Arrive in (llegar a ciudad o país)
- Hear about (enterarse de)
- Hear of (oir hablar de)
- Talk about (hablar de/sobre algo)
- Talk to/with (hablar con)
- Think about (opinar sobre; parecer; pensar en)
- Think of (pensar en)