UNIT 1 Learning (Glossary box) Flashcards
Foreign
From a country that is not your own ( A person is a foreigner)
Gist
SING The gist of something is the general meaning but not all the details
Text
The written part of a book, newspaper, etc
Recognize
know what somebody is or what something is because you have seen or heard
go through
Read something carefully from beginning to end
Identify
Recognize something and decide what it is
Guess
Give an answer to something without being sure of the facts
Context
The words before and after the new word phrase that help you to understand the meaning
Keep a record
Write something down to help you remember it
Make a note
Write something down down quickly to help you remember it
Construction
The way words are used together in a sentence
translation
A text that has been changed from one language to another
Repeat
say something again
Explain
Make something clear or easy to understand
Pronounce
Make a sound of a word or a letter
Opportunity
A time when it is possible to do something that you want to do
Experiment with
Try something to see what the result it has
Make mistakes
Not X do mistakes X
Revise
Study something again
Method
A way of doing something
Work
Get or have the results you want
Enthusiastic
Very interested in something or excited by it
Motivated
you want to do something - A strong desire to so something
After a while
After a period of time
Improve
Become better - get better - make progress
Express something ( sth )
Say or show what you think or feel
Effectively
In a way that gives you the result you want
Obvious
Easily seen and understood - clear
Encouraging
It gives you hope and makes you want to continue
Accurately
With no mistakes
Be aware of something (sth)
You know about something
Frustrating
Making you annoyed because you can not do something you want to do
Goal
A thing you want to be able to do in the future - to achieve
Everyday
Normal or usual
Expand
Become bigger or make something bigger
A wide range
A large number of different things
Complex
Not simple; often difficult to understand
fluent
Being able - the ability to speak a foreign language easily and well
In detail
Fully and including a lot of information
Appropriate
Right or suitable in a particular situation
Relevant to something (sth)
Useful for and connected to something (sth)
specialized
Having or needing a lot of special knowledge
Definition
An exact statement of what a word or phrase means. (Devine) V
Avoid doing something (sth)
You try not to do or experience it
idiom
A group of words whose meaning is different from the meaning of the individual words (Also expression)
Entry
One of a list of items included in a dictionary
Provide something (sth)
Give something (sth) to somebody (sb) , or make something (sth) available for somebody (sb)
Style
The way something (sth) written or spoken ( e.g. an informal style, a formal style).
Slang
Very informal words or phrases used in spoken language ( Between close friends )
Offensive
Rude and likely to upset somebody (sb) ( To offend somebody)
symbol
A letter, number or a sign that has a particular meaning
Syllable
A part of word which contains a vowel sound
Relate something (sth) to something (sth)
Connect something (sth) to something (sth) ( Related)
Build something (sth)
Make something (sth) bigger; increase something (sth)
Select something (sth)
Select is more formal ( Choose sth (SYN) )
Abbreviation
A short form of a word (e.g. a.m is an abbreviation meaning in the morning
Capital letter / Small letter
A B C / a b c
Pause
A short period of time when somebody (sb) stops talking
Separate Somebody(sb) Something(sth)
Keep people or things away from each other ( Devide (SYN) )
List
A series of names, items or numbers (e.g. a shopping list, a list of countries)
Omit something (sth) (FML)
if you Omit (sth) means , you don’t want to include it. ( Leave something out (SYN)
Interrupt something (sth)
Occur in the middle of something (sth) and stop it continuing
Details
Small pieces of information about something (sth)
Instead of somebody/something (sb/sth)
In the place of somebody/something (sb/Sth)
Connect something (sth)
Put two or more things together ( join something (sth) )
Such as
You use Such as to introduce an example ( Like (SYN) )
Alternative
One of two or more things that you can choose between
