Chuletas y apuntes de Inglés de Bachillerato y Selectividad

accomplishment assoliment

award premi

defeat derrota

endurance resistència

limbs extremitats

performance rendiment

request sol·licitud

strength força

training entrenament

willpower força de voluntat

advance avançar

enhance millorar

fail fallar

lengthen allargar

overcome superar

overturn bolcar

seek buscar

struggle lluitar

take up prendre

devastating devastador

unfair injust

have a head start tenir avantatge

hit below the belt cop baix

learn the ropes aprendre les cordes

the ball is in your court la pilota està al teu camp

throw in the towel llançar la tovallola

raise:

a flag ondejar una bandera

an issue plantejar una qüestió

set

an alarm establir una alarma

a date establir una data

a precedent crear un precedent

a record batir un rècord

win

an argument guanyar un argument

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Past Simple

Formula:

• Positive: Subject + Verb (Past Simple)
• Negative: Subject + didn't + Verb (Infinitive without 'to')
• Question: Did + Subject + Verb (Infinitive without 'to')?

Usage:

• To talk about completed actions or facts in the past.
• To refer to things that happened repeatedly in the past.
• To describe states in the past.

M. started to write music at the age of five. (M. empezó a componer a los cinco años.)
What time did you finish your homework? (¿A qué hora acabaste de hacer los deberes?)
We went to F. every summer in the 1990s. (En los años 90, íbamos a F. todos los veranos.)
She told me that story three times yesterday! (¡Ayer me contó esa historia tres veces!)
I lived in London for five years. (Durante 5 años viví en Londres.)
I was

Verbos y Adjetivos

→ Ignore: Ignorar → Accomplish: Lograr

→ Destroy: Destruir → Fulfil: Cumplir

→ Share: Compartir → Disrupt: Interrumpir

→ Enable: Activar/Permitir → Isolate: Aislar

→ Accept: Aceptar → Promote: Promocionar

→ Encourage: Animar → Achieve: Lograr

→ Upgrade: Actualizar → Envy: Envidia

→ Misunderstand: Malinterpretar → Litter: Basura

→ Succeed: Tener éxito → Injure: Lastimar

→ Disapprove: Desaprobar → Shortage: Escasez

→ Beat: Golpear → Award: Premio

→ Attempt: Intentar → Decrease: Disminuir

→ Overlook: Ignorar → Important: Importante

→ Impressive: Impresionante → Manage: Dirigir

→ Frightening: Aterrador → Assistance: Ayuda

→ Delighted: Encantador → Aid: Ayuda

→ Cope: Superar →

• Assess: evaluar
• Accurately: exactament
• Achieve: aconseguir
• Behavior: comportament
• Baggage: equipatge
• Bear in mind: tenir en compte
• Bias: parcialitat
• Breakthrough: atravessar
• Be aware of: ser conscient de
• Bribe: sobornar
• Bullet-proof: blindat
• Candidate: aspirant
• Concerned: preocupat
• Conceited: presumir
• Current: actual
• Complain: queixar-se
• Charge: cobrar
• Cough: tos
• Commission: encàrrec
• Devise: inventar
• Deal with: tractar amb
• Dawn: amanecer
• Dizzy: marejat
• Exclusive: exclusiva
• Employees: empleats
• Fancy: luxos
• Flashy: ostentós
• Fit: encaixar
• Fed up: estar fart
• Gossip: xafarderia
• Greedy: avar
• Gadgets: aparells
• Hooked: enganxat
• Haggle: regatejar
• Hesitate: vacilar
• Job seekers: buscadors de feina
• Kidnap: segrestar
• Knowledge: coneixement
• Link: enllaç
• Loads: quantitat
• Nearly: estar a punt
• Notice:

Relationships:

1. Break someone’s trust (traicionar la confianza de alguien)

2. cheer up (aixecar l’anim)

3. couple (parella)

4. deserve (merèixer)

5. drift apart (distanciar-se)

6. envious (gelós)

7. fall out (barallar-se)

8. fate (destí)

9. forgive (perdonar)

10. get butterflies in one’s stomach (nerviosa/ sentir maripossas)

11. gossip (explicar xafarderies)

12. hold a grudge (tenir rancúnia)

13. left out (ignorat)

14. make a commitment (comprometre’s)

15. meant for each other (fets l’un per l’altre)

16. on one’s mind (a la ment)

17. on purpose (expressament)

18. row (baralla)

19. spread rumours (escampar rumors)

20. well-being (benestar)

Expressions with “over”

• bend over backwards (esforçar-se al màxim)

• get it over with (treure’s de sobre algo)

• go mad over (tornar-se boig)

• head over heels (bojament)

• in over

chore: feina // apply for: sol·licitar // provide: aportar

fiance: promès // bring up: treure un tema

nephew: nebot // fit in: adaptar-se // side with: al costat de..

niece: neboda // grow apart: allunyar-se

peer: parell // involve: significar // stand out: ressaltar

sibling: germà // live up to: igualar // stay away: allunyar-se de..

look up to: admirar algú // take after: assemblar-se a..

name after: posar-li un nom algú (mot) // tease: burlar/molestar

alike: semblant // get a job: conseguir un treball

aware of: adonar-se de.. // get along: progressar

easy-going: pausat/lent // get an award: obtenir un premi

likely: probable // get back: tornar // get to school: anar a l’escola

spoilt: consentit // get dark: enfosquir

strict: estricte // get divorced:

Lista de Phrasal Verbs Comunes

A continuación, se presenta una lista de phrasal verbs comunes en inglés, junto con sus traducciones y sinónimos:

• Admirar a alguien: to look up to somebody
• Agarrarse a algo: to hold on to something = to hang on to something
• Alcanzar a alguien: to catch up with somebody
• Buscar (en un libro, etc.): to look up
• Causar: to bring on/about something
• Ceder ante: to give in to something
• Ceñirse a: to stick to something = to follow something
• Chocar contra: to crash into = to bump into = to drive into = to collide with
• Continuar con: to get on with something = to carry on with something
• Convertirse en: to turn into + sustantivo = to become + sustantivo/adjetivo
• Convertir a alguien en: to turn somebody into something
• Cuidar de: to

Can

Habilidades

• I can swim.
• Can I come in?
• He can’t go now.

Could

• Habilidad en el pasado.
• Posibilidad.
• Imposibilidad.
• Sugerencias.
• He could read Russian.
• They could be in Tokyo.
• I couldn’t buy the car.
• You could try next year.

May

• Posibilidad.
• Permiso.
• Prohibición.
• It may rain tomorrow.
• May I come in?
• You may not smoke here.

Might

• Posibilidad remota.
• It might snow.

Will

• Predicciones.
• Decisiones.
• They will come.
• I will buy a Harley.

Would

• Peticiones formales.
• Acciones pasadas.
• Preferencias.
• Would you marry me?
• I would play tennis when I was 10.
• I would rather go to the cinema.

Shall

• Peticiones formales.
• Acciones futuras.
• Shall I open the window?
• I shall visit her.

Should

• Ought to.
• Consejos.
• You should buy her a diamond.

Must

• Obligación.
• Prohibiciones.
• I must study.
• You must

Vocabulari professional

Commute: viatjar (diàriament de casa a la feina)
//Dare: atrevir-se a; desafiar
// Deliver: lliurar, portar
// Earn: guanyar (diners / un sobrenom)
// Fast learner: aprendre ràpidament
// Field: sector
// Fire: acomiadar / fer fora (de la feina)
// Good at multitasking: que té facilitat per fer diverses tasques a la vegada
// Guarantee: garantir, asegurar
// Hold down a job: conservar una feina
// In charge of: responsable de (fer-se càrrec de)
// Income: ingressos, sou
// Job hunting: buscar feina
// Job offer: oferta de feina
// Land a job: aconseguir una feina
// Like clockwork: a l’hora; segons la previsió; com un rellotge
// Minimum wage: salari mínim
// On the job: treballant, a la feina
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Blood is thicker than water: vincle familiar

Fit in: encaixar-se

Stay away: allunyar-se

Side with: estar al costat de

Reject: rebutjar

Stand out: destacar

Named after: anomenat en honor a

Aware of: conscient de

Peers: companys

Involves: implica

Teased: burlat

Apply for: sol·licitar

Likely: probable

Proud: orgullós

Alike: igual

Strict: estricte

Get divorced: divorciar-se

Niece: neboda

Siblings: germans

Get engaged: comprometre's

Spoilt: espatllat

Nephew: nebot

Easy-going: de tracte fàcil

Fiancé: promès

Chores: tasques domèstiques

Get along: portar-se bé

Take after: assemblar-se a

Grown apart: s'han separat

Live up to: estar a l'altura

Bring up: criar

Look up to: mirar amb admiració