English Vocabulary and Grammar: Key Terms & Usage

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Essential English Vocabulary

Environmental Terms

  • Average: Promedio, media
  • Carbon footprint: Huella de carbono
  • Crop: Cosecha, cultivo
  • Dump: Verter, tirar
  • Eco-friendly: Ecológico
  • Endangered: En peligro de extinción
  • Flooding: Inundación
  • Fossil fuel: Combustible fósil
  • Greenhouse effect: Efecto invernadero
  • Hazardous: Nocivo, tóxico, peligroso
  • Landfill: Vertedero
  • Large-scale: A gran escala, masivo
  • Leak: Filtrar
  • Melt: Derretirse
  • Moisture: Humedad
  • Soil: Suelo, tierra
  • Thaw: Descongelar
  • Waste: Residuos

Common Idioms

  • Black
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Road Safety Awareness: Preventing Accidents

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Comments on “It Could Happen” by Gustavo Almela

Personal Information

  • Name: Sara
  • Surname: Hernandez Gonzalez
  • Course: 1
  • Specialty: Early Childhood Education

1. Article Reading (Comprehension)

[Stage prior to any comments]

2. Technical Data

  • Title of Article: “It Could Happen”
  • Author: Gustavo Almela, AESLEME secretary
  • Pages: 15-19

3. Relation to Prior Knowledge

I relate this to when a family member had an accident without a seat belt, for example.

4. New Aspects Learned

I didn’t realize the problem of diving accidents

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Grammar Practice: Enhance Your English Proficiency

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English Grammar Exercises

A. 9

  1. They will look after the puppies.
  2. … before we came across any water.
  3. The letters BBC stand for British…
  4. … job you must fill in this form.
  5. He considered the matter over carefully, but…
  6. When the noise died down, the lecturer…

B. 9

  1. Sorry, I forgot to buy the chocolate.
  2. I will remember meeting Mr. Mandela.
  3. It is important to avoid stepping on small…
  4. When we stopped working, we started chatting.
  5. He regrets moving to the capital.

C. 9

  1. The rise in prices (h. resulted)…
  2. It wasn’t
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Master English: Vocabulary, Grammar, and Pronunciation

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Essential English Vocabulary and Grammar

Phrasal Verbs

  • Going out with: Salir con
  • Fell for: Enamorarse
  • Split up with: Separarse de
  • Got on well: Seguir adelante bien
  • Fell out with: Pelearse con
  • Get over: Superar
  • Brought up: Traer, crecer
  • Grew up: Crecer
  • Put up with: Aguantar
  • Told off: Decir, fuera
  • Look up to: Mirar hacia arriba
  • Let down: Decepcionar
  • Told off: Regañó
  • Looked up: Miró hacia arriba
  • Get on: Subió
  • Falling out: Se cayó
  • Got over: Superó

Relative Pronouns

  • Who: People
  • Which: Things
  • That: People or things
  • Whose:
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Sarah Sprenger’s Oregon Trail Memories, 1852

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Sarah Sprenger’s Recollections of Oregon, 1852

Author: Sarah Sprenger

The food during this time consisted of buffalo meat and antelope meat. The latter was preferred due to its consistency. Food was cooked with greasewood or sagebrush. They had iron pots and teakettles for cooking, and used Dutch ovens for baking, with coals placed both under and over the oven.

To make butter, they put milk in a large can and hung it on a wagon.

Indians were often seen. Once, in the Nez Perce country, a chief offered

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Watersheds of Spain: Atlantic, Cantabrian, and Mediterranean

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Items 3 – 4

Atlantic Watershed

Cantabrian Watershed

1. Publication.

  • Title: The Lord of the Zero
  • Author: Mª Isabel Molina
  • Publisher: Alfaguara

Main Theme

The main issue is discrimination against people because of their religion.

This book tells the story of Joseph, a boy who lived in the Moorish Caliphate of Córdoba and was studying at a Muslim school. His classmates called him Sidi Sifre because he had an amazing ability for mathematical calculation. Due to this gift, he aroused the envy of one of his

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