Education

Question 1

Education System

Answer 1

2 play-school /nursery school
5 infant school or junio school
12 Comprehensive school
Grammar school (competitive entry)
18 College, polytechnic or university

Question 2

Saltarse clases

Answer 2

To skip classes / lectures

Question 3

Universidad publica o privada

Answer 3

State or private University

Question 4

Superdotado

Answer 4

(noun) gifted children

Question 5

Aplicado

Answer 5

(adj) straight A student

Question 6

Ser aceptado en una universidad (formal)

Answer 6

To secure a place at ….

Question 7

Educational institution with a very good reputation (very formal)

Answer 7

seats of learning

e.g. She secured a place at one of the country’s most prestigious seats of learning

Question 8

Subjects which all the students on the course have to do

Answer 8

Core subjects

Question 9

specific books which students must study

Answer 9

set texts

Question 10

Su atención divaga

Answer 10

His attention occasionally wanders

Question 11

Su concentración es variable

Answer 11

His concentration wavers

Question 12

Hacer novillos

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To play truant

Question 13

Empezar las vacaciones

Answer 13

We break up on 18 December and go back on 8 January

Question 14

Not completing a course

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To drop out

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To practise and improve your skills or your knowledge of something usually something you learned in the past but have partly forgotten

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To brush up on

Question 16

empollar

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To mug up on (informal)

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Aprobar raspado

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To scrape though

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(informal) learning as much as you can

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To swotting up

Question 19

Practising and improving your skills or you knowledge of something

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To polish up

Question 20

To read a lot about a particular subject in order to learn about it

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To read up on

Question 21

To read small parts of a book or magazine

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To dip into

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To read aloud

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To read out

Question 23

Write

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To write out
To note down
To jot down (quick to remember)
To scribble down
To make out ( all the necessary information on an official document)
To fill in 
To fill out

Question 24

To male it less critical or offensive

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To tone it down

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Aparecer

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crop up

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To mention briefly

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To touch on

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To give all the details or explain clearly

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To set … out

Question 28

Jealousy (noun)

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The green-eyed monster

Question 29

Suddenly

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at one fell swoop

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To have eaten me out of house and home (informal)

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To eat all the food there is in my house

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To make my hair stand on end

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Frighten me very much

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In the twinkling of an eye

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In an instant

Question 33

A search that has no hope of success

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a wild goose chase

e.g. The police were sent on a wild-goose chase looking for the money that the criminals had already spent.

Question 34

People unlucky in love

Answer 34

The film is a classic love story about star-crossed lovers

Question 35

There are always difficulties to face in romantic relationships

Answer 35

The course of true love never did run smooth

Question 36

Caused problems for himself (by doing something that he thought would help him or that would hurt other people)

Answer 36

The price minister was hoist with his own petard when …