Module 1

Acquaintance: someone you know, but do not know well.

Addict: someone who likes something too much and can’t live without it.

Amazing: very surprising.

Apart from: except for.

Apply for: to make a formal request, usually in writing, for something such as a
job or a university place.

Apply to: to make a formal request, usually in writing, for something such as a
university place.

Assistant: someone whose job is to help customers in a shop.

Be born: give birth to, start your life.

Be into: to be interested in something.

Be supposed to: use to express what is expected or intended to happen,

especially when it does not happen.

Bored: tired and impatient because something is uninteresting or you have

nothing to do.

Can’t stand: to hate someone or something.

Care: the process of looking after yourself or someone else.

Care: a worry or problem.

Classmate: someone who is in the same class as you at school or college.

Come from: where someone was born/grew up.

Constantly: all the time, or regularly.

Depressing: making you feel sad.

Digital native: someone who has grown up with digital technology and uses it
in their life.
Early bird: someone who gets up early, and is more alert and works better
early in the day.

Equally: to the same level or amount.

Essential: important and necessary.

Exactly: used to emphasize that something is completely correct in every

detail.

Explanation: something you say or write to describe how something works or

to make something easier to understand.

Fantastic: extremely good.

Fitness: when you are healthy and strong enough to play sports or do physical
work.

Flight: a journey in a plane.

Footprint: a mark made by a foot or shoe.

Foreign: from a country that is not your own.

Gain: to increase in size or weight.

Get dark: it gets dark when night begins.

Get in touch: to phone, write to, text or email someone.

Get to know: to become familiar with a person.

Go grey: when someone’s hair starts to lose its original colour and become
grey.

Go on: to use a computer to visit websites.

Grumpy: slightly angry and easily annoyed.

Guilty: unhappy and ashamed because you have done something you should
not have done, or have not done something you should have done.

Hairstyle: the style in which your hair has been cut or shaped.

Half-brother: a brother who is the child of only one of your parents.

Hang out: to spend a lot of time at a particular place or with particular people.

Holidays: a period when you rest and do not go to work or school.

Hop: to move somewhere quickly.

I’m good: alternative to ¨I’m fine. Originally American, now common in UK.

Impatient: wanting to do something as soon as possible.

Intensively: doing something with a lot of work or effort in a short time.

Interested in: if you are interested in something, you want to know more about
it and you give it your attention.

Internet: the internet is a system that allows people using computers around
the world to exchange information.

Ironing: the activity of making clothes smooth with an iron.

Let (sb) know: to tell someone something.

Lifestyle: the way that someone lives, including their work and activities, and
what things they own.

Marital status: whether you are married or not.

Meet up with: to meet someone in order to do something together.

Middle-aged: people between the ages of about 40 and 60 years.

Moderation: sensible control of your behavior and ideas.

Mother-in-law: the mother of your husband or wife.

Multitask: to do more than one thing at the same time.

Multitasking: when a person does more than one thing at the same time.

Musician: someone who plays a musical instrument, especially as a job.

Night owl: someone who is more alert and works better at night, at the end of
the day.

On the go: very busy.

On the phone: talking to someone using as telephone.

One-to-one: between only two people.

Oscar: a prize that is given each year in the US for the best film, performance
in a film etc.

Paperwork: work such as writing letters or reports.

Personal care: the process of looking after yourself.

Postcode: a group of letters and numbers that you write at the end of an
address.

Productive: producing or achieving a lot.

Profile: a short description that gives the main details of what someone or
something is like.

Pronounce: to make the sound of a word.

Psychologist: someone who studies the way people’s minds work.

Pull a face: to change you expression to make people laugh or to show that
you do not like something.

Put off: to delay doing something.

Remain: to stay in the same place.

Remind sb of sb: if someone reminds you of another person, they make you
think of that person because they are similar.

Researcher: someone who studies a subject in detail to discover new facts

about it.

Saying: a well-known phrase that people use to give advice.

See: to understand or realize something.

Seem: how someone or something seems is how they appear to you.

Silly: stupid or not sensible.

Skill: an ability to do something well after you have learned it and practiced it.

Social worker: someone who works with people in difficulty; mental, social or
economic.

Socialize: to spend time with other people for enjoyment.

Sound: it sounds great = it seems great from what you tell me.

Special: different from other things or people in some way and often better or
more important.

Stepmother: a woman who is married to your father, but who is not your
mother.

Still: used to emphasize that something continues to happen.

Still: not moving.

Switch: to change from one thing to another thing.

Symbol: something that has a particular meaning or represents a particular

organization or idea.

Task: a piece of work you must do.

Tell: to give someone information by speaking or writing to them.

Tidy up: to make a place look tidy.

Tube: the tube is the railway system under the ground in London.

Unfortunately: used to say that you wish something was not true.

Vote: to show by marking a paper; raising your hand etc whether you support a
particular plan.

While: during the time that something is happening.

Workplace: the room or building where people work.

Wow: used when you think something is impressive or surprising.

Wrong: not correct.

Module 2
A while: a period of time.

Accurate: exact and correct.

Anchor: a heavy metal object that is lowered into the water to prevent a ship or
boat from moving.

Apparently: used to say that you have heard that something is true, although
you are not completely sure about it.

Argue: to shout and say angry things to someone because you disagree with
them.

Ashamed: feeling very sorry or guilty about something bad you have done.

Association: a memory or feeling that is related to a particular person, place,

event, etc.

Bang: to hit part of your body against something by accident.

Behave: to do things of a particular kind.

Black out: to suddenly become unconscious.

Brain: the part of your body inside your head which you use to think, feel and
move.

Branch: a part of a tree that grows out of the trunk (= the main part of it)

Budgie: a budgerigar (= a small brightly colored bird that people keep as a pet)

By heart: to learn or be able to remember all of a piece of writing or music,

without notes, etc.

Caffeine: a substance in coffee, tea and some other drinks that makes you feel
more active.

Challenging: difficult in an interesting or enjoyable way.

Cherry tree: a tree that produces cherries, small round red or black fruit with a
stone in the middle.

Choppy: choppy water has lots of waves and is not smooth to sail on.

Clever: intelligent, quick-thinking.

Connection: a relationship between things.

Connection: a link between two or more parts of a system.

Criticize: to say what faults you think someone or something has.

Crossword puzzle: a game in which you write the answers to clues in boxes
arranged in a black and white pattern.

Cut out: to remove something by cutting it with a knife or scissors.

Detailed: including a lot of information.

Encourage: to try to help someone succeed, for example by giving them

confidence or determination.

Experience: if you experience something; it happens to you.

Experience: knowledge or skill that you learn when you do something yourself,
or when something happens to you.

Experience: something that happens to you.

Fall in love: to start to like someone in a romantic or sexual way.

Fall off: to drop off something on which you are standing or sitting towards the
ground.

Familiar: well-known to you and easy to do.

Familiar: too friendly or informal.

Get back: to return to a place.

Get into trouble: to be told off for doing something wrong.

Homesick: sad, because you are away from home.

Hygienic: clean and likely to prevent diseases from spreading.

Lack of: when there is not enough of something.

Limited: not much or not many.

Mate: a friend, informal.

Not any longer: if something does not happen any longer, it used to happen in
the past but it doesn’t happen now.

Not any more: if something does not happen any more, it used to happen in
the past but it doesn’t happen now.

Nursery school: a school for children between three and five years old.

Oxygen: a gas in the air that all living things need.

Password: a secret word that you must use before you can operate a computer
system or enter a place.

Perch: to be in a position on top of something or on the edge of something.

Photographic memory: a memory that recalls words, pictures or an event as

accurately as if someone was looking at a photograph.

Pocket money: a small amount of money that parents give regularly to their
children, usually every week or month.

Practice: when you do something regularly to improve your skill.

Praise: to say that you admire someone or something they have done,
especially publicly.

Punish: to do something unpleasant to someone because they have done

something wrong.

Remember: if you remember a fact, a name or a person or thing from the past,
they come back into your mind.
Remember: to not forget something that you should do.

Remind: if you remind someone about something, you make them remember it
or remember to do it.

Revision: when you study information you have already learned to remember it
better, usually for a test.

Schooldays: the time in your life when you go to school.

Scientific: relating to science.

Significantly: noticeably or importantly.

Skid: to slide around out of control.

Sleepover: a party for children or teenagers in which they stay the night at
someone’s house.

Strict: a strict person makes sure that people always obey rules and behave
well.

Strict: a strict instruction or order must be obeyed completely.

Tame: a tame animal or bird is not wild any more because it has been trained to
obey people and not fear them.

Tangled: twisted together untidily.

Tell off: to talk angrily to someone because they have done something wrong.

Traffic jam: a long line of vehicles on the road that cannot move or that move
very slowly.

Tragically: in a way that is very sad; used about a less serious matter for
emphasis.

Upbringing: the way that your parents care for you and teach you to behave
when you are a child.
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Abandoned: not being used or looked after any more.
Announcement: an official statement about something that has happened or will
happen.
Arty: showing an interest in art in a way that seems pretended.
Bargain: something you buy cheaply or for less than its usual price.
Bay: a place where the coast curves around the sea.
Bazaar: a market in Asian and Middle Eastern countries.
Bookstall: a small shop with an open front that sells books and magazines,
especially at a railway station.
Canal: a long narrow area of water made for ships or boats to travel along.
Citizen: someone who lives in a particular town, state or country.
Cliff: a large area of rock with steep sides, often beside the sea.
Coastline: the land along the edge of the sea.
Complex: a group of buildings or one large building used for a particular purpose.
Cosmopolitan: a cosmopolitan place has people from many different parts of the
world.
Cost of living: the amount of money you need to spend on things like food and
clothes.
Crowed: very full of people or things.
Curry: meat or vegetables cooked in a spicy sauce.
Deer: a large wild animal that can run very fast, eats grass and has horns on its
head.
Docks: the area around and including a port.
Ethnic food: the food of people of a particular race or nationality in a place where
most other people are of a different race.
Exhibition: a public show where people can go and see painting, photographs,
etc.
Famous for: known about by a lot of people.
Farmland: land used for farming.
Further: at or to a longer distance away.
Get off: to leave a public vehicle, usually a bus or train.
Haggle: to argue about the amount that you will pay for something.
Hall: a building or large room for public events such as meetings or concerts.
Harbour: an area of water next to the land where ships can stay safely.
Home to: the town or area where something can be found or someone lives.
Huge: very large.
Mosque: a building where Muslims go to pray.
Mysteriously: happening in a way that is strange or difficult to explain or
understand.
Overland: across land, not by sea or air.
Politics: ideas and activities relating to how a place is governed and who has
power.
Polluted: full of pollution, dirt.
Populated: if an area is populated, people live there.
Rainforest: tropical forest with tall trees that are very close together, growing in
area where it rains a lot.
Restless: unable to relax and keep still, especially if you are uncomfortable.
Rocky: covered with rocks or made of rocks.
Ruins: the part of a building that is left after the rest has been destroyed.
Seagull: a common grey and white bird that lives near the sea.
Seasick: feeling ill because of the way a boat or ship is moving.
Sights: the interesting places to visit in a town or city.
Ski slope: a hill for skiing, often indoors and artificial.
Slightly: a little.
Spectacular: very impressive.
Temple: a building where people in some religions go to pray.
Tourist: someone who is visiting a country or place for pleasure.
Touristy: somewhere that many tourists visit, or somewhere that is trying to get
tourists to visit it.
Valid: a valid ticket, document or agreement is legally or officially acceptable.
Waters: a large area of water, for example, an ocean, river or bay.
Wonder: something that makes you feel admiration.
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Able-bodied: physically strong and healthy, especially compared to someone
who is disabled.
Abuse: to do cruel or violent things to someone.
Alone: only one thing.
Alone: without any other people, or without help from anyone else.
Amputate: to cut off someone’s arm, leg, finger etc during a medical operation.
Black: angry or disapproving.
Bone: one of the hard parts that form the frame of the body.
Bounce: if something such as a ball bounces, it hits a surface and then
immediately moves away from it.
Breathing: taking air into the lungs and sending it out again.
Bring up: to look after children until they are adults.
Charming: very pleasing or attractive.
Charts: the official list of the most popular songs, produced each week.
Chase: to quickly follow someone or something, especially to catch them.
Coffee table: a low table in a living room.
Comic book: a magazine that tells stories using sets of pictures.
Communicate: if people communicate with each other, they give each other
information by speaking, writing etc.
Conference: a large meeting, often lasting for several days, at which members
of an organization, profession etc discuss things related to their work.
Courage: bravery, the quality you have when you do not let fear affect you in a
frightening situation.
Courageous: not afraid when you are in a frightening situation.
Cover version: when a singer sings or records a song that was originally sung
by another singer.
Creative: a creative person is good at thinking of new ideas.
Creature: an imaginary animal or person, or one that is strange and frightening.
Dedicate: to give all your attention and effort to one thing.
Dedicated: working very hard at something because you think it is important.
Deserve: if you deserve something, you should get it because of something you
have done.
Developing country: a developing country is a poor country that is trying to
increase its industry and trade and improve life for its people.
Diagnose: to find out what illness a person has.
Directly: with nothing in between.
Disabled: someone who is disabled cannot use a part of their body properly.
Do a lot for: to perform actions or activities in support of a charity, society etc.
Egotistical: believing that you are much better or more important than other
people.
Exceptionally: extremely.
Exhausted: extremely tired.
Extract: a small part taken from a story, poem etc.
Fearsome: very frightening.
Flinch: to move backwards suddenly because you are afraid or hurt.
Focus: to give all your attention to one particular thing.
Found: to start an organization.
Frightened: feeling very nervous and worried because something bad might
happen.
Gig: a concert at which musicians play popular music or jazz.
Give away: to give something you own to someone without asking for money.
Give up: to stop doing something, especially something that you do regularly.
Groundsman: someone who looks after the place where a sport is played.
Hang on: used to tell someone to wait for you, informal.
Hatred: from hate, an angry feeling that someone has when they dislike
someone or something very much.
Heart: the part of you that feels emotions.
Horrifying: very shocking or upsetting.
House arrest: to be kept as a prisoner by a government, inside your own
house.
Inspiration: to be so good or successful that people admire you and want to
achieve something themselves.
Leader: the person who is in charge of a group, organization, country etc.
Living: alive now.
Lock: to fasten something with a key.
Nominate: to officially suggest that someone should be given an important
position or prize.
Nomination: the act or process of suggesting that someone should be given an
important position or prize.
Numerous: many.
Obsessive: thinking about something all the time.
Outstanding: excellent and impressive.
Paint: to make a picture of someone or something, using paint.
Panicky: feeling so frightened that you cannot think clearly or behave sensibly.
Promise: to say that you will definitely do something.
Publicity: attention that someone gets from newspapers, television, etc.
Pushy: someone who is pushy does everything they can to get what they want
from other people.
Put down: to put something onto a surface such as a table or the floor.
Quit: to stop doing something.
Racket racquet: a piece of equipment that you use for hitting the ball in games
such as tennis.
Rarely: not often.
Remarkable: excellent and unusual.
Retire: to stop working or playing a sport because you are too old to carry on.
Right now: now, or immediately.
Roar: a deep, loud noise.
Role model: someone you admire and try to copy.
Row: to make a boat move across water, using oars (=long poles)
Ruthless: not caring if you have to harm other people to get what you want.
Savings: money that you have saved, usually in a bank.
Self-confident: feeling sure that you can do things successfully.
Shoot: to move quickly in a particular direction.
Shoot: to take photographs or make a film of something.
Split up: if people split up, they end their marriage or relationship.
Stuff: the things that belong to someone, informal.
Suffer: to experience physical or emotional pain.
Teach: to give classes or instruction in a particular subject.
Think: to use your mind to decide about something, imagine something etc.
Unbeatable: something that is unbeatable is the best of its kind and unlikely to
be beaten.
Voice: the sounds you make when you speak.
What a shame: spoken used to say that a situation is disappointing and you
wish that it was different.
Whisper: to say something very quietly, using your breath rather than your
voice.
Will: determination to do something that you have decided to do.
Yell: to shout something very loudly, informal.