Cómo preparar un examen: vocabulario clave en inglés con definiciones

Vocabulario en inglés: preparar un examen

How to prepare for an exam

• Revise: study information you learned before
• Critical: very important
• Neurons: nerve cells
• Retrieve: get something back
• Distributed practice: repeated testing over a longer period of time
• Cramming: learn lots of information in a short period of time
• Elaborate: add more information
• Conceptual: based on ideas

Vocabulario en inglés: fumadores y prohibiciones

Smokers to face one more ban

• Habit: something you do frequently without even thinking and that is difficult to give up
• Controversy: disagreement expressed in a heated and public way
• Campaigning: working in an organised and active way to achieve an objective
• Second-hand smoke: the smoke from other people's cigarettes
• Asthma: an illness about which you hear a lot about when people discuss the effects of tobacco smoke and pollution on people's lungs. People with asthma sometimes have difficulty to breathe
• Fine: the money you pay as a punishment for having breached the law
• Vulnerable: someone exposed to harm who can't defend themselves
• Personal space: the area around a person's body which if invaded makes them feel uncomfortable

Vocabulario en inglés: tareas domésticas

Domestic chores

• Chore: a boring job that needs doing
• Threshold: the point at which you begin to feel something
• Aversion: strong dislike

• Minimum: least amount needed
• No bad thing: a good thing
• Gendered: specific to one sex
• Pinny or pinafore: apron
• Give and take: compromise
• Earning capacity: ability to earn money

Vocabulario en inglés: el exceso de azúcar

Too much sugar

• Have a sweet tooth: like sugary things
• Processed food: any food that has been changed in some way by freezing it, putting it in tins, combining foods or adding chemicals
• At a glance: with a quick look
• Fat-free: without any fat in it
• Avoid something at all costs: do everything you can to avoid it
• Demonise: make someone or something seem very bad

Vocabulario en inglés: el voto obligatorio

Compulsory voting

• Right: (here) somebody's legal claim to vote
• General election: a vote for a government that runs the whole country
• Compulsory: something that you have to do
• Duty: something you have a responsibility to do
• Engender: give rise to
• Slapdash: doing something quickly and carelessly
• National service: compulsory government service that usually means military service
• Conscription: (same as national service)
• Over and done with: finishing something difficult or unpleasant as quickly as possible
• Pick (a political party) out of a hat: to choose randomly rather than making an informed choice
• Spoil: waste