Vocabulary games, activities and exercises for
beginners and elementary students of English. There is a little
help for Spanish students of English. Some pages may load slowly because they have many recordings.
Actividades, ejercicios y juegos de vocabulario en Inglés para
principiantes. Hay un poco de ayuda para estudiantes hispanos
en algunas de las actividades. Algunas páginas pueden tardar en cargarse por tener muchas grabaciones.
Jessica Ferlic
Mayo 12: Tengo disponibilidad los martes y jueves de 9:00-16:00 y por las tardes lunes y miércoles.
List: 200
most frequent words in English
With Spanish help. Now with a list of English and Spanish
sentences.
Las palabras más frecuentes en inglés con
ayuda en Español.
1) to pander - to cater to the lower tastes and desires of others or exploit their weaknesses, especially in order to make money. (complacer, ceder, condescender)
2) to nitpick - to meticulously search for minor, even trivial errors in detail, and then criticize them. (sacarle faltas a todo)
3) to get/give/take a shellacking – to defeat decisively; to strike repeatedly and severely; to batter. (paliza)
4) visceral (adjective) - perceived/obtained through intuition (by illogical means from the gut) rather than from reasoning or observation. (visceral)
5) a riddle, to riddle - a question or statement requiring thought to answer or understand; a puzzle; a difficult problem. (acertijo, adivinanza)
6) to convey - to communicate or make known; impart; to pass on information. (comunicar, expresar)
7) compelling (adjective) – convincing, persuasive, arousing strong interest, having a powerful effect. (convincente, irresistible, apasionante)
8) to belittle - to represent or speak of as contemptibly small or unimportant; to disparage; to cause to make small. (menospreciar, quitar importancia a, minimizar)
9) utter (adjective) - complete; absolute; entire. (completo, total)
10) to dwell - to think moodily or anxiously about something; to fasten one's attention on something (dar vueltas a, pensar obsesivamente en).
1) to splash out – to spend freely or extravagantly on things that you want, but don’t need. (gastar libremente, derrochar dinero) 2)
to turn out - to end up; to result: The cake turned out beautifully. (resultó ser que ...) 3)
to overpay – to pay too much (pagar demasiado)
4)
to keep a low profile – to behave in a way that does not attract attention or public notice. (intentar pasar desapercibido)
5)
to value - to evaluate or estimate the worth or merit of something. (valor) 6)
to target - to aim at or for. (fijar como objetivo) 7)
to spice up - to add something to make it more interesting. (añadir un poco de picante, estimular, condimentar). 8)
to stick to - to remain firm, determined, or resolute; not to abandon (mantenerse firme y decidido, cumplir una promesa, seguir fiel a sus principios, aferrarse a sus principios) 9)
to acquire – to buy; to purchase; to get (comprar, consequir, adquirir) 10)
to draw the shutters on – to close down; to cause to cease operations (cerrar – “shutters” son persianas).
1) to backpack – to travel, hike or trek with a rucksack (verb and noun). (viajar con mochila).
2) to start off – to set out on a journey; to begin an activity (salir de viaje o empezar un viaje).
3) to stretch – to expand; to extend from one place to another; to extend oneself to full length (verb - extenderse) (noun – un tramo, trecho).
4) to wander – to move about without a definite destination or purpose. (deambular).
5) to traverse - to travel or pass across, over, or through (atravesar).
6) to join – to put or bring together so as to make continuous or form a unit (unirse).
7) to reminisce – to recollect and tell of past experiences or events (rememorar, recordar).
8) to grin - to smile broadly, often baring the teeth, as in aggression, amusement, glee, embarrassment, or other strong emotion. This word can be used differently than the word “smile” because people more often smile when they aren’t aggressive or threatening, for example, unless they are insincere. (sonreir)
9) to seem to be – to appear to be true, to appear to exist (parecía estar o ser).
10) to overcome – to prevail, to surmount obstacles (superar).
1) to scowl - to wrinkle the brows, as in frowning or displeasure; to put on a frowning look; to look sour, sullen, severe, gloomy, threatening, or angry (fruncir el ceño).
2) to repose – to rest (reposar, descanso).
3) to dash – to quickly run a short distance; to move with haste; to rush (salir corriendo, precipitarse en carrera)
4) to relish – to enjoy greatly; to take great pleasure in; to taste or eat with pleasure (hacer algo de buena gana o con apetito)
5) to spare – to give up; to part with; to do without; to make available (prescindir, hacer disponible, escatimatizar, reparar) E
6) to probe – to explore; to investigate; to question (investigar, explorar).
7) to quarantine - to retain in obligatory isolation or separation, as a sanitary measure to prevent the spread of contagious disease (poner en cuarentena).
8) to mangle - to change, mutilate or disfigure by cutting, tearing, rearranging etc. (destrozar, despedezar, aplastar).
9) to lecture – to speak about a specific subject before an audience or a class, as for the purpose of instruction (dar una conferencia o charla).
10) to feign – to give a false appearance of; to pretend (fingir).
English Lesson - Crazy Vocabulary
by Ed Wood on Englischbox
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Particulares de Inglés
El
libro que os hace falta para temas de vocabulario es: "English Vocabulary in Use Elementary with Answers" Es buenisimo.
(Hay otros libros más avanzados en la misma serie.)
Geek, nerd, dork and dweeb:
by TWIT and Tom Merritt at http://twit.tv/tnt31 (also Sarah Lane, Erik Lanigan, and Iyaz Akhtar)
Best with MS Internet Explorer 6.0 - Mejor con Internet Explorer 6.0 de Microsoft
Done with
Hotpotatoes by Martin Holmes
- realizado con Hotpotatoes de Martin Holmes
Word searches done with software from
Brainjar.com by Mike Hall
- Búsqueda de Palabras realizada con software de Brainjar.com
de Mike Hall
Hangman done with a program by
Robert Dominy
- Hangman realizado con un programa de Robert Dominy
Para un buen diccionario:
YourDictionary.com.
Para ayuda cuando, por ejemplo, no sabe las primeras dos letras de una palabra que acaba en "tion", se puede teclear "**tion" en este
diccionario de crucigramas.
Other games done with Spell
Master - Otros juegos realizados con SpellMaster.
Steven Starry
Alcorcón
May. 8: Profesor de inglés disponible para clases en empresas y clases particulares.