English Vocabulary and Grammar: Suffixes, Verbs, Questions

English Vocabulary and Grammar

Vocabulary: Suffixes -ful and -less

  • Useful: útil
  • Useless: sem utilidade
  • Powerful: poderoso
  • Powerless: impotente
  • Fearful: amedrontado
  • Fearless: destemido
  • Harmful: prejudicial
  • Harmless: inofensivo
  • Careful: cuidadoso
  • Careless: descuidado
  • Meaningful: significativo
  • Meaningless: sem significado
  • Thoughtful: pensativo
  • Thoughtless: impensado
  • Hopeful: esperançoso
  • Hopeless: sem esperança

Vocabulary: Mysterious Events

  • Abduction: rapto
  • Disappearance: desaparecimento
  • Discovery: descoberta
  • Escape:
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Characters and Settings in a Chilean Novel

Characters and Settings

Santiago, born in Chile in 1924, came from a family of doctors and lawyers. He interrupted his studies to work for a year as a pastor in Magellan and then returned to finish his studies at the University of Chile and Princeton. He was a professor of English literature at the Catholic University of Chile, editor of the journal Ercilla for four years, and for two years a teacher at the Writers Workshop at the University of Iowa. He has twice received a Guggenheim Fellowship

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Exam Solutions: English Exercises and Opinions

June 2015 A

1.

a) 2nd, 5th line: we – suggesting…you

b) 3rd, 3rd line: much – secure.

2.

a) f. wearable – phenomenon

b) f. 2nd, 3rd line: many – life.

c) t. 4th: this new – glasses.

3.

a) sport: locate. b) safe: secure.

c) shadow: eclipse. d) control: monitor

4.

b/c/b

In my opinion, portable technology has been very useful, since it has allowed us to communicate with people who live far away from us or inform us about anything without having to be connected to a plug.

In the future, I think that portable

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Insights on Names, Diamonds, Sales, and More

What’s in a Name?

In Britain, if parents don’t get permission for their first naming option for their child, they have to choose another. Some rules to consider when naming a child:

  • Taboo words are not allowed.
  • Names must be chosen from an official list.
  • Names must not contain certain characters.

Keywords: fashion, chose, equally, such as

Diamonds

Diamonds, optically unique, are found in mines. The process involves extreme heat and pressure applied to carbon, transforming it into a diamond crystal. The

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Spain: Women in the Workplace, Crime Rates, Earthquakes, and Hackers

Women at Work in Spain

Introduction: A few years ago, women in Spain and in other countries primarily worked at home, taking care of children and doing housework while men worked outside the home. Nowadays, women are working in traditionally male-dominated jobs. But are they completely integrated?

Discrimination in the Workplace

Firstly, women often earn less money than men when performing the same job. Even when a woman and a man have the same education, a man working as a teacher, doctor, or police

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Music and Innovation: Vocabulary & Grammar Essentials

UNIT 5: Music

Vocabulary

Types of music: classical, country, dance, folk, heavy metal, hip hop, indie, jazz, nu metal, pop, punk, R&B, reggae and rock.

Advertise

Anunciar (publicitat)

Award

Premi

Ban

Prohibir

Buy

Comprar

Download

Descarregar

Invent

Inventar

Manage

Pay

Pagar

Produce

Produir

Record

Gravar

Release

Treure a la venta

Replace

Aplaçar

Sell

Vendre

Use

Utilitzar

Grammar

Present Passive

Affirmative

Negative

I’m paid

I’m not paid

You’re paid

You aren’t paid

He/She/ It’s paid

He/She/ It isn’t paid

We/You/ They’re

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