
Vocabulary
Personality
Argumentative arrogant bossy easy-going eccentric honest loyal narrow-minded open-minded sensible sensitive
Relationships
Ask out chat up fancy get on well with fall in love fall out
go out with someone make up split up break off get back together
Propose get engaged get married get divorced love at first sight
Use of English
1. Take part in Be a part of Join in Participate in
2. Take into account consider
3. Make sense of understand
4. Have a row argue
5. Make fun of laugh at
6. Play a part in be a cause of
7. Lend a hand help(out)
8. Lose track of forget
9. Let somebody know tell somebody
10. Get in touch with be/keep/stay in touch with contact
lose touch with be out of touch with
11. Apologise for say sorry for
12. Promise give somebody somebody’s word
13. Look in (on) visit
14. Set off the alarm cause the alarm to go off
15. Look down on someone feel superior to someone
16. Set upon attack
17. Set back delay the structure built away from
18. Look on watch
19. Look into investigate
Unit 2
Vocabulary
Natural landscapes
Dune mountain hill valley lagoon desert lake pond field forest wood jungle beach shore coast plain bush hedge waterfall
Mountain biking kayaking wind-surfing climbing
Collective nouns and idioms
A flock of a herd of a pack of a bunch of
Audience cast crew crowd gang panel staff team
Get sth. off your chest Lie through one’s teeth
Pay through the nose for sth. Get on someone’s nerves.
Somebody’s heart is in the right place give somebody the cold shoulder
Put a brave face on it behind somebody’s back
Use of English
1. Be addicted to / hooked on
2. In danger of / at risk of
3. Be full of / be covered with / be filled with
4. The reason for / the cause of
5. Be in agreement / be of the same opinion
6. Be frightened of / be worried about
7. Arrived in/ at depend on dressed in have effect / influence on
8. Be married to made by hand base on be good at / do well in
9. All over / around the world fall in love with in danger drive to some place smile at sb. Talk to / with / about
10. At first sight after a fashion at a loss for the best on balance
11. Give up on TV no longer / not any longer
Unit 3
Vocabulary
Extreme adj.
Ancient astounded boiling exhausted filthy freezing furious gorgeous hideous hilarious spotless starving
Enormous immense giant gigantic massive vast awful terrible appalling dreadful
Micro mini tinny miniature fantastic gorgeous brilliant amazing fabulous
Totally completely absolutely utterly extremely rather quite very a bit
Adj. Collocation
perfectly safe / honest desperately close (in a competition) / unlucky
Wildly exaggerated / in accurate seriously injured / ill
Stunningly beautiful / attractive bitterly cold / disappointed
Use of English
1. First-born only children compete for compete against each other on the other hand develop skills tend to do / be likely to do
2. Adventurous creative humorous rebellious risk-taking unconventional
3. Draw the line certain amount of go too far take away from
4. Pull phrasal verbs
pull apart - separate pull off - manage to achieve pull over - move the car to the side of the road pull through - to survive pull yourself together - take control of your feelings
5. Put phrasal verbs
Put up with - tolerate
Put somebody down - humiliating
Put somebody up - accommodate
Put sth. down to sth. - explain
Put down - suppress
Put up - provide / increase
Put somebody up to sth. - persuade
Put in some time
Put across - make others understand
Put out the fire
Put it on - pretend
Put through
Put forward a new policy / plan
Put away / back - tidy put off
Unit 4
Vocabulary
Films
Action adventure animation comedy tragedy crime disaster horror historical drama
Musical romantic comedy science-fiction war western
Boring gripping scary funny powerful terrible moving slow violent serious
Acting costumes ending locations music special effects plot stunts
TV programmes
Cartoon quiz show sports broadcast cookery programme reality TV show chat show documentary sitcom weather forecast news bulletin soap opera
Series guest star host commentator contestant
Use of English
1. Take phrasal verb
Take somebody back - remember / allow somebody to come back home
Take something back - return / admit that something you said was wrong or doesn’t work
Take in - understand / deceive
Take off - pretend to be / become successful
Take on - employ / agree to do
Take apart - take into pieces / easily beat
Take up - start / shorten
2. Article
Grammar reference page 92
Unit 5
Vocabulary
Verbs connected with speech
Bellow scream shriek shout
Grumble mumble murmur mutter whisper
Boast about confess to insist on complain about object to beg for
Probability
Certain to happen - It’s inevitable that... It’s bound to ... There is no doubt that...
Almost certain to happen - It’s likely that ... The chances are that... The odds are that...
Not at all certain to happen - It’s unlikely that... I doubt that... The odds are against...
Certain not to happen - There’s no chance that... There’s no way (that)....
Idiom
Speak out against something
Speak your mind
Get to the point
Get the wrong end of the stick
Talk about someone behind their back
Talk down to someone
Talk someone into / out of (doing) something
Use of English
Negative prefix
1. In - active sane complete
2. Im - possible patient probable polite practical
3. Un - injured sympathetically friendly likely aware questionable wrap
4. Dis - allow honest appear
Other prefix
5. Mis - behave understand (wrongly or badly)
6. Re - build range (again)
7. Under - cooked estimate (less than usual or not enough)
8. Semi - circle final (half)
9. Anti - clockwise social (against or the opposite of)
10. Over - optimistic eat (more than usual or too much)
Unit 6
Vocabulary
Travel
Platform check-in departure lounge customs hand luggage baggage overhead locker suitcase sail wing cabin mast bus driver
flight attendant ticket inspector propeller barge ferry hovercraft
Scooter passport ticket ticket office visa
Board a plane pick up a passenger get onto a motorbike
Change train cancel a flight get into a car
Boot brakes engine handlebars ignition roof saddle steering wheel
Tyre windscreen
Use of English
1. Come up to scratch not satisfactory
2. A dream come come true a really enjoyable experience
3. As far as ... go compared to ..
4. When it comes to as far as ...is concerned
5. Not come easily to somebody
6. Go to show prove
7. Go from bad to worse the situation gets even worse
8. Come to mind think of
9. After as even though / even though in case unless whereas / while As if / as though and / as well as since / seeing that so that / in order that
If / whether
Unit 7
Vocabulary
Phrasal verbs
Leave out-omit lock sb. up-imprison speed up-accelerate send back-return
Ask for-request work out-calculate get out of-vacate bring up-raise
Find out-discover turn down-reject set off-depart run into-encounter
Hold up-delay fill in-complete hang on-wait send in-submit
Own up-confess make off-escape make up-invent come across-encounter
Let somebody down-disappoint stand by-support sum up-summarise
Run after-chase call off-cancel turn on-attack cut off-disconnected
Carry on-continue bring up-mention
Body movements
Blink clap click your fingers duck gasp shiver
Sigh stamp wave
Use of English
1. Get (suffer from an illness, understand, make someone do something, achieved, become, arrive, buy..)
2. Get at-criticise
3. Get down-depress
4. Get in-arrive
5. Get on-grow older
6. Get out of-avoid
7. Get through-use
8. Get up to-reach
Unit 8
Vocabulary
Food
Bitter chewy crunchy fatty greasy mild plain rich salty spicy stodgy sweet tasteless tasty tender
Curry olives ice-cream fried-chicken steak boiled rice coffee
Fried boiled roast grilled barbecued baked stewed
Word pairs
Bread and butter wait and see fun and games law and order take it or leave it
Give and take sick and tired pick and choose safe and sound peace and quiet
Bits and pieces more or less back to front sooner or later now and then
Ups and downs table and chairs fish and chips knives and forks pots and pans
Salt and pepper side by side go on and on go from strength to strength
Bit by bit a heart to heart more and more all in all face to face
Use of English
1.Adjective suffixes
-y sunny hairy rainy funny …
-al financial national traditional…
-able breakable reliable acceptable
-ous dangerous enormous various mysterious…
-ful hopeful powerful faithful painful…
-less useless careless hopeless…
2.Word formation
Verb noun adjective
Support support supportive
Attract attraction attractive
Enjoy enjoyment enjoyable
Offend offence offensive
Inform information informative
Admire admiration admirable/admiring
Respect respect respectful/respectable
Imagine imagination imaginative
Unit 9
Vocabulary
Compound adjectives
Bald-headed bad-tempered brown-eyed curly-haired easy-going
Long-legged rosy-cheeked suntanned warm/break-hearted
Absent/broad-minded self-centred/disciplined big/hard-hearted/headed
Body idioms
Ankle calf elbow heel hip palm shin thigh waist wrist
Arm brains eye face foot hand leg tongue
Keep an eye on
Twist someone’s arm
Pull someone’s leg
Put your foot in it
Be on the tip of your tongue
Give somebody a hand
Keep a straight face
Pick someone’s brains
Gale blizzard heatwave downpour
Blustery dense gentle mild stifling torrential
Chilly cold freezing soaking wet damp
Hazy misty foggy breeze wind gale
Downpour rain shower warm hot scorching
Use of English
1.Cross your mind
2.Make up your mind
3.Have in mind
4.Catch your eye
5.Be up to your eyes in sth.
6.Not see eye to eye
7.Set your heart on sth.
8.Break your heart
9.Your heart sinks
Unit 10
Vocabulary
Mental activities
Suspect – you think it might be true but you aren’t sure
Consider – that is your opinion
Doubt – you think it probably isn’t true
Recollect – you think about it at a later date
Contemplate – you think about it for quite a long time
Analyse – you think about it in a logical way
Memorise – you learn it so that you won’t forget it
Comprehend – understand
Remind – make you think of
Occur – it comes to your mind suddenly
Expressions with mind
Mind you own business do you mind if… I don’t mind sth./doing change your mind make up your mind mind your head spring to mind take your mind off something be bored out of your mind be in two minds about something bear something in mind would you mind doing
Emotions and mental states
Positive: cheerful contented enthusiastic grateful
Negative: anxious depressed frustrated nervous
Anxious – anxiety nervous – nervousness cheerful – cheerfulness
Contented – contentment depressed – depression enthusiastic – enthusiasm
Frustrated – frustration grateful – gratitude miserable – misery
Furious – fury confused – confusion excited – excitement
Guilty – guilt thrilled – thrill jealous – jealousy
Use of English
9. verb – noun -tion expression donation domination contribution investigation
dedication……
-ment management excitement employment replacement achievement commitment…..
10. adjective – noun -ness happiness weakness politeness …..
-ity similarity popularity punctuality sensitivity responsibility…..
Unit 11
Vocabulary
Gadgets and their parts
Battery life internet access ringtones wireless text
Mobile phone search engine artificial intelligence instant messaging
Keyboard computer screen website laptop text message
Compound nouns verb+prep.
Breakthrough – an important step forwards towards an agreement or goal
Dropout – somebody who leaves education without completing their studies
Setback – a problem which makes it harder to reach your goal
Break-up – the ending of a relationship
Printout – a paper copy of a computer document
Break-in – illegal entry into a building
Put-down – a comment intended to make somebody feel stupid
Giveaway – something which reveal the truth
Technology verb + noun collocations
Enter a password insert a disk shut down a computer
Visit a website click on a link plug in a power cable
Use of English
A ban on something
Be responsible for
Spend money on
Rely on
Something wrong with
Contribution to
Apply for
Demand for
Be similar to
Be compatible with
In order to do
Unit 12
Vocabulary
Achievement and success
Fulfill/realise a/an ambition reach a/an target achieve success
Manage to do something succeed in doing something
Achievable achievement realisation success successful
Compound adjectives noun+verbing
Eye-catching heart-warming time-consuming labour-saving
Thirst-quenching record-breaking meat-eating mouth-watering
Attention-grabbing money-making
Make and do
Make a decision an arrangement an excuse a mess progress a suggestion
Do somebody a favour research your best the housework the shopping
It won’t do. Make the most of sth./sb.
Use of English
10.false/untrue information
11.false teeth
12.broad/wide river
13.broad idea
14.personal/private matter
15.high/tall building
16.tall glass high mountain
