Apuntes Inglés

Unit 1: Challenges

2/5
- Set achievable goals: so, before starting, I always think about my objectives.
- Face challenges: you mustn’t be afraid of them.
- Rises to the challenge: even if it’s something very difficult.
- Make my dream come true: I wanted to do this since I was a child.
- Burning ambition: I finally managed to achieve.
- Have the right attitude: If you are a positiveperson, it will be easier.
- Daunting challenge

4/7 Learning languages vocabulary
- Pick up: learn without consciously studying.
He picked up all the major European languages.
The best way to pick up new vocabulary is by reading a lot.

- Let (sth) slide: neglect sth or allow it to get worse.
I wanted to learn languages, and I let everything else slide.
It’s easy to let foreignlanguage slide if you don’t use them regularly.

- Sheer delight: pure pleasure.
Their motivation, they said, is the sheer delight of mastering a new form of expression.

- Master: become an expert.
It’s impossible to master a foreign language completely.

- Garble: say sth badly, in a confused way, nonsensically.
Some master linguistics confess that they live in fear of garbling their variouslanguages.

- Information overload: too much to remember.
For most students, more than ten new words per lesson equals information overload.

- Cram: put too much into a small space.
I’m afraid to cram any more words into my head.

- On the ball: very attentive/aware.
You have to be really on the ball to understand foreign idioms.

- Babble: speak too quickly and not clearly.Police in Rio picked up an illegal *alien babbling unintelligibly. (*foreigner)
- Unintelligibly: speak in a way that is impossible to understand.
Text:
- Drifting
- Wince: Many polyglots wince being called superhuman.


11/8
a.

- Succeed in
- Opt for
- Stem from
- Lacking in
- Lack of (noun)
- Riddle with
- Distinguished from [dis- + from]
- Appeal to
- Bothering about- To be nervous about
- Benefit from



2/9
SAY HOW MUCH YOU KNOW / DO NOT KNOW.
I Know I do not know
I’m pretty sure I haven’t a clue
I know it like the back of my hand I don’t know off the top of my head
I know it by heart I’ve never heard of him
I know it inside out I don’t know offhand
I’m fairly positive I know next to nothing (about)
I’m certain it is I haven’t the faintestidea

5/12

- Potential
- Deal
- Pursued
- Facing
- Believe in
- Persevered
- Heading
- Push


1. Williams had the potential to become a tennis champion.
2. Ralf had to deal with criticism from his colleagues.
3. Ellen pursued her dream of sailing solo around the world.
4. McManus is facing the biggest challenge of his career.
5. If you believed in yourself, you can achievealmost everything.
6. Woods found the course tricky at first, but persevered and came through to the final.
7. If you win this championship nothing will stop you from heading straight to the top.
8. Encourage your kids to try new things, but don’t push them too hard.

Prefixes
1/15

- Multi-talented
- Semi-professional
- Sub-standard
- Unimpressive
- Superhuman
- Arch-rivals
-Overcautious
- Under-prepared
- Single-handedly
- Outplayed
- Misfired
- Irrelevant


2/15

- Misunderstood
- Unaware
- Semi-retired
- Outnumbered
- Overweight
- Underestimated

















Unit 2: Community
2/19

- Cost of living
- Cosmopolitan
- Infrastructure
- Mild
- Freedom
- Healthcare
- Standard of living
- Monuments
- Crime rate
- Unemployment- Congestion
- Pollution
- Tension
- Areas
- Cultural
- Nightlife
- Stunning
- Bustling
- Charming


4/21
Verb+ing: Imagine, avoid, don’t mind, fancy, can’t stand, recommended.
Verb+infinitive: can afford, want
Verb+object+infinitive without to: advise, encourage, urge, persuade
Verb+prep+ing: think of, look forward to, object to.

- I’m thinking of taking a break.
- If you...