Vocabulario en Inglés: Falsos Amigos, Sinónimos, Prefijos y Sufijos
Texto 1: Mobiles make the world go around
Mobiles make the world go around.
Falsos amigos (false friends)
Notice (darse cuenta), pavement (acera), sensitive (sensible), hesitate (vacilar), avoid (evitar), put away (colocar), go in, pretty, strict, rare, object.
Sinónimos
- Clearly (obviously)
- Bothered (disturbed)
- Appears (seem)
- Arrives (shows up)
- Hardly ever (rarely)
- Irritated (annoyed)
- Hesitate (doubt)
- Put away (keep)
- Go in (came in)
- Pretty (quite)
- Strict (hard)
- Rare (strange)
- Object (dissaprove)
- Deal (agreement)
Adverbios de frecuencia y expresiones de tiempo
Already y yet siempre van al final de la frase. Already se usa cuando la respuesta es afirmativa; yet se usa cuando la respuesta es negativa o no sabemos la respuesta.
Expresiones de tiempo: when, while, before, after, as soon as, by the time, until, during, yesterday, all night, a week later, last summer, it all began when..., suddenly.
Conectores
En el móvil.
Sufijos de adverbios y adjetivos
disappointed, embarrasing, boring, surprised, amusing, frightened, surprisingly, miserably, happily, dramatically, fantastically, comfortably, suddenly, confidently, guiltily, easily.
Texto 2: Crazy about English
Falsos amigos (false friends)
Command (dominio), insane (loco), ardent (ferviente).
Sinónimos
- Devised (create)
- Self-consciousness (shyness)
- Banned (prohibited)
- Restraint (limitation)
- Insane (crazy)
- Enable (action)
Antónimos
- Fail (succeed)
- Unknown (popular)
- Extrovert (shy)
- Artificial (natural)
- Innovate (conventional)
- Decreases (grow)
Vocabulario: inglés americano vs. británico
- Lorry (brit) / truck (ame)
- Fall (ame) / autumn (brit)
- Sweets (brit) / candies (ame)
- Torch (brit) / flashlight (ame)
- Holiday (brit) / vacation (ame)
- Petrol (brit) / gas (ame)
- Film (brit) / movie (ame)
- Flat (brit) / apartment (ame)
- Tin (brit) / can (ame)
- Taxi (brit) / cab (ame)
- Lift (brit) / elevator (ame)
- Intersection (brit) / junction (ame)
- Garbage can (ame) / dustbin (brit)
- Trunk (ame) / boot (brit)
Prefijos
Misbehave, rearrange, indirect, interdependent, coexist, enclose, nonmembers, bicycle, unimportant, misunderstood, overpopulated, nonsmoking, encourage, coworkers, antivirus, preview, bilingual, nonadvantages, preadolescence, enables, unlikely, nonnative, relearn, discourage, imperfect, mispronounce.