Glosario Esencial de Vocabulario Académico y Expresiones en Inglés

Glosario Académico y Expresiones en Inglés

Verbos y Acciones Escolares

• Revise: revisión. Prepare for an exam…
• Cram: atiborrar. Learn a lot of things…
• Hand in: entrega. Give a piece…
• Assignments: asignaciones. Piece of work.
• Skip: salta. Miss/stay away from.
• Playing truant: hacer novillos. Stay away from school without…
• Mess around: perder el tiempo. Behave in a silly…
• Bother: molestar. Upset.
• Disruptive: disruptivo. Causing problems…
• Get stuck: atascarse. Be unable to do sth.
• Scrape through: pasar muy justo por. Pass an exam by just…
• Pass with flying colours: aprobar con nota. To pass an exam easily.
• Put on: poner
• Drop out: abandonar
• Get on: subir a
• Liven up: animar
• To apply for: para solicitar. Make a formal request.
• To bully: para intimidar. A person who deliberately...
• To expel: para expulsar. Officially make leave a school
• To graduate: para graduarse. A person who has been awarded...
• To retake: para volver a tomar. Take again.

Entorno Escolar y Universitario

• Budget: presupuesto. The amount of money available
• Clerk: secretario. A person who looks after documents in an office.
• Have a say in: tener voz y voto en. Give an opinion about.
• In charge of: a cargo de. Responsible for.
• Portrayed: retratado. Shown or described.
• Rowdy: ruidoso. Noisy and causing trouble
• Subjects: temas
• Homework: tarea
• Timetable: calendario
• Lunches: almuerzos
• Exams: exámenes
• Classroom: aula
• Uniform: uniforme
• Sports: deportes
• Rules: normas
• Boarding: internado. The provision of regular meals...
• Campus: campus. The grounds and buildings…
• Deadline: fecha tope. The latest time or date by...
• Degree: grado. The amount, level, or extent to…
• Fees: honorarios. A payment made to a professional...
• Lecture: conferencias. An educational talk to an...
• Professor: profesor. A university academic of the...
• Pupil: alumno. A person who is taught by another...
• Secondary: secundario. Coming after primary.
• Seminar: seminario. A small group of students at university...
• Undergraduate: de licenciatura. A university student…
• A level: un nivel. Exam for university

Conceptos Generales y Precisiones

• Strong points: puntos fuertes. Things you are good at.
• A point: un punto
• Parent: padre
• Relative: relativo
• Ordinary: ordinario
• Vulgar/rude: vulgar / grosero
• Character/individual: personaje / persona
• Prove: demostrar
• Try/try on: intentar / probarse
• Subject: una persona o cosa que está siendo discutida, tratada o que da lugar a algo.

Modismos y Expresiones Idiomáticas

• Was too complicated for me to understand: Went right over my head.
• Wanted it very much: quería mucho. Set his heart on it.
• Do them very easily without thinking too much: hacerlas muy fácilmente. Do them standing on his head.
• He suddenly felt extremely disappointed and upset: muy decepcionado y molesto. His heart sank.
• She didn't have a real passion for it: no tenía pasión por ello. Her heart wasn't in it.

Estructuras y Preposiciones Comunes

• To be in charge of: estar a cargo de
• On the basis of: sobre la base de
• Hope of: la esperanza de
• There is a lack of: hay una falta de
• There is a decrease in: hay una disminución en
• I have some difficulty in: tengo algunas dificultades para
• Be in two minds: estar indeciso
• Be in tears: estar llorando
• Be in (big) trouble: estar en un (gran) problema
• To have strong influence on: tener gran influencia en
• To need lessons on sth: necesitar lecciones sobre algo
• Be on edge: estar nervioso / al límite
• Do sth on purpose: hacer algo a propósito
• Be on one's way: estar en camino
• Be out of order: estar fuera de servicio
• Be out of breath: estar sin aliento
• Be out of the championship: estar fuera del campeonato