Vocabulary Builder: Food, Society, and Legal Terms
Tema 6: Food Vocabulary
Fatty: Causing weight gain.
Free-range: Kept or produced in natural conditions.
Home-made: Made by oneself.
Raw: Uncooked.
Bland: Tasteless.
Edible: Can be eaten.
Revolting: Disgusting.
Tough: Hard to break/cut.
Staple diet: Usual food.
Takeaway food: Food served to go.
Examples:
- You’d better go to the beach.
- I heard my brother singing in his bedroom.
- I regret to tell you.
- I’d like to be taller.
- We’ll go on driving to the hotel.
- I think it’s worth studying to pass the exam.
- If you don’t like eating food, don’t go…
- Did you remember to buy…?
- I’ve forgotten to take my wallet.
Antonym of Sour: Sweet.
Synonyms:
- Sour – Bitter
- Hake – Bacalao
- Clams – Almejas (molluscs eaten as seafood)
- Tuna – Atún
- Sardine – Sardina
- Barnacle – Percebe
- Mejillones – Musel (Mussels)
Tema 7: Social Interactions
- Turn people away: Reject
- Build bridges between people: Connect people
- Isolate people: Separate so as to be alone
- Shut people out: Exclude
- Bring people together: To join people with united action
- Civil servant: Someone who works for a government
- Summit: A meeting of political leaders from different countries
- Social circle: A group of people who know each other personally
- Field: An area of knowledge or study
- Bedrock: The knowledge on which other theories or ideas are based
- Pass it on: Give it to someone else after receiving it yourself
- Fascinated: Very interested
- Remote: Far away from cities
- Wicked: Evil
- Lay down: Dictate a rule
- Stop by: Make a short visit
- Manifiestos: A public declaration of intentions, opinions
- Policies: An organized force for maintaining order
- Empower: To give official or legal power
- Bill: A proposal for a new law
- Lobby: Try to persuade an official body to do something
- Issue: Problem
- Overthrow: Remove somebody from power by force
- Execute: Carry out
- Campaigning against: Taking action in order to prevent something
- Attend: Go
- Agree: Share the same point of view
- Prejudice: Any opinion or feeling before careful thought
- Tasks: A piece of work assigned to a person
- Wheelchair: A special chair mounted on wheels for use by invalids
Additional Vocabulary
- Ancestors: A person in your family who lived a long time ago
- Tasteless: Having no flavour
- Blinding: Extremely bright
- Taste buds: A group of cells, found especially on the tongue
- Discover: To find out
- Profitable: Making a profit
- Swallow: To move your throat in order to make food or drink go down
- Stroke: To gently move your hand over a surface
- Kilt: A skirt with many folds
- Make matters worse
- Mother tongue: The first language that you learn when you are a baby
- Stay true to your roots
- Gets away with: To receive something
- To sue: Take legal action against someone
- Sell-by-date: Is the item expiration date
- To purchase: Is to sell
- Overcome with guilt
- Unreliable: When you can’t trust him
- Apologize: To say sorry for something bad you have done
- Witness: A person that sees a crime or an accident
- Off work: When he or she is absent from work due to a personal problem
- Face the music: He has to cope with the consequences
- Striving something: Is making an effort to get something
- Give up: This means you let someone sit on your seat
- Can’t stand: When something or somebody is unbearable
- Striped clothes: Are clothes whose pattern is with squares
- Cast-offs: Are clothes people don’t want any more
- Doing a good deed: Doing a good action
- Withdraw: You take out money from a bank
Reported Speech
Verb + to + infinitive: Agree, demand, offer, promise, refuse, claim
Verb + sb + to + infinitive: Advise, allow, ask, encourage, order, permit, remind, want
Verb + “ing” form: Accuse sb of, apologise for, admit (to), boast about, complain to sb about, deny, insist on, suggest
Verb + that-clause: Agree, exclaim, explain, inform, suggest