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Grammar bank 6D, p.137 = homework

Mean

Flirt

Borrow

Give advice (UNC= some advice / a piece of advice)

Cupboard / ˈkʌbərd / || / ˈkʌbəd/

Be friends (with somebody)

To be someone's friend:

I've been friends with the Murkets for twenty years.

Stay friends.

Definitely   / ˈdefɪnɪtli/

Government / ˈɡʌvərnmənt / || / ˈɡʌvənmənt/

A bunch of flowers

Keep the money

Another day

Other days

Bake a cake

This book is a must.

Without her knowing

Live music

And you could walk

You should wait for your friend to get home

Worse ¹ /wɜːrs / || /wɜːs/

Work ¹ /wɜːrk / || /wɜːk/

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Dairy products

Di‧e‧ta‧ry

Related to the food someone eats [↪ nutritional]:

Special dietary requirements

A varied diet

It’s the food I eat the least.

The Freshman fifteen refers to an amount (somewhat arbitrarily set at fifteen pounds) of weight often gained during a student's first year at college.

The expression is commonly used in the United States and Canada. In Australia and New Zealand it is sometimes referred to as First Year Fatties, Fresher spread, or Fresher Five, the latter referring to a five kilogram gain.

The purported causes of this weight gain are increased alcohol intake and the consumption of fat and carbohydrate-rich cafeteria-style food and fast food in university dormitories. Many dining halls in United States universities are all-you-can-eat style and offer copious dessert choices. In addition, lack of sleep may lead to overeating and weight gain, because it lowers the level of leptin. Other causes includemalnutrition, stress, and decreased levels of exercise. All of these factors can affect each person in a different way. Studies confirm many of these causes. Colleges and universities have recently been cracking down on this common problem and are trying to educate people on how to prevent it. This problem has grown so much that students are focusing on how to stop the freshman fifteen before it even happens.^[1]

Convert Pounds to Kilos: 15 Lbs = 6.8Kgs

Veggies

Avellana sustantivo femenino hazelnut

Legumes = pulse (chickpeas, beans or lenses)

kidney beans

green beans

Sausages to a steak

I eat all types of food / a little bit of everything.

Di‧et

1 [uncountable and countable] the kind of food that a person or animal eats each day

Balanced/healthy/poor etc diet

It is important to have a balanced, healthy diet.

The effects of poor diet and lack of exercise

Vegetarian/high-fibre/Western etc diet

Diet of

They exist on a diet of fish.

Bamboo is the panda's staple diet (=main food).

In somebody's diet

The importance of vitamins and minerals in your diet

2 [countable] a limited range and amount of food that you eat when you want to get thinner

Go/be on a diet

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millennium /mɪˈleniəm/

A plot twist

All the rage

Dairy / ˈderi / || / ˈdeəri/ ≠ daily

Mussel / ˈmʌsəl/ -mejillón

Muscle / ˈmʌsəl/ sustantivo

a.    countable or uncountable ( Anat ) músculo m

Fry (in oil)

Boil (in hot water)

Bake (bread and cakes in an oven)

Roast (meat or vegetables in an oven)

Microwave (using a microwave oven)

Grill/broil       American English (using a grill)

Steam, toast, simmer, poach, barbecue, stir-fry, sauté, char grill

Raw (not cooked)

Rare (used about meat that has been cooked for a short time)

Medium

Well-done (used about meat that has been cooked for a long time)

Cook

vegetable / ˈvedʒtəbəl/

fruit /fruːt/

Dressing

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Can’t stand

Spoken used to say that you do not like someone or something at all, or that you think that something is extremely unpleasant [= can't bear]:

I can't stand bad manners.

I know he can't stand the sight of me.

Can’t stand (somebody/something) doing something

Lily can't stand working in an office.

I can't stand people smoking around me when I'm eating.

Can’t stand to do something

She can't stand to hear them arguing.

CAN:

Possibility

Used to say that something is possible:

I am confident a solution can be found.

There can be no doubt that he is guilty.

The boxes can be stored flat.

Can he still be alive after all this time?

May

1

Possibility

If something may happen or may be true, there is a possibility that it will happen or be true but this is not certain [= might]:

I may be late, so don't wait for me.

Some chemicals may cause environmental damage.

There may not be enough money to pay for the repairs.

Well, I may have been wrong.

They may have called while you were out.

It may be that Minoan ships were built and repaired here.

Your job may well involve some travelling (=it is fairly likely).

Gramática

a) Posibilidad vs Probabilidad

"Can" indica que algo es posible (las circunstancias lo permiten o alguien tiene la habilidad de hacerlo).

I can play tennis quite well

I can open that door with my key

I can run for two hours

This car can go faster than 200 km per hour

You can go to France without a passport

"May" indica que algo es probable; equivale a "perhaps"

My friend may win the race

The sky is very dark. It may rain

b) Permiso

Se utilizan ambos verbos modales, con los siguientes matices:

- Tener permiso: "can" es más habitual.

I can smoke in the office

- Dar permiso: "may" es más habitual, "can" más informal.

You may smoke here if you want

You may use my computer

You can take my car (informal)

Si el permiso viene de un tercero se utiliza "can".

You can smoke here (la ley lo permite o las normas de esta oficina)

- Pedir permiso: "can" es más habitual y también más informal

Can I smoke in the office? (informal) / May I smoke in the office?(formal)

Can I speak to you? (informal) / May I speak to you? (formal)

c) Petición

- Solicitar algo: Se utilian ambos verbos modales

May (Can) I get your dictionary?

- Pedirle a alguien que haga algo: se suele utilizar "can"

Can you give me that book?

d) Ofrecimiento

Se utiliza ambos verbos modales

Can (May) I help you?

Knife – knives

Half - halves  

Wolf – wolves

Wife – wives

Shelf – shelves

Leaf – leaves

night /naɪt/

might ¹ /maɪt/

eight ¹ /eɪt/

bought /bɔːt/

laugh ¹ /læf / ||/lɑːf/

enough ¹ /ɪˈnʌf/

tough ¹ /tʌf/

though ¹ /ðəʊ/

Donkey

Pet

Squirrel

Goldfish

I like colourful fishes

Neighbour

carpa sustantivo femenino

1 ( Zool ) carp

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Cockroach

Breed

vi‧per [countable]

1      a small poisonous snake

2      literary   someone who behaves in an unpleasant way and harms other people

Praying mantis

Jilguero sustantivo masculino goldfinch

Lynx

Wolf

Bear

Scorpions

Viper

Bull

Woodpecker

Cheetah

Leop‧ard / ˈlepəd/ [countable]

1 a large animal of the cat family, with yellow fur and black spots, which lives in Africa and South Asia

2

 A leopard can't change its spots

Used to say that people cannot change their character

morena sustantivo femenino ( Zool ) moray (eel);

Prey

Dromedary

Donkey

Hen – chick – chicken ≠ rooster - cock

muscle  /ˈmʌsəl/ músculo

mussel / ˈmʌsəl/ sustantivo
mejillón m

Kilometers per hour

Sand

Go for / have a swim ≠ have a bath

I would flush it down the toilet.

I would swim near the shore.

Sand

Lie past tense lay past participle lain present participle lying, third person singular lies

1

Flat position

a) [Intransitive] to be in a position in which your body is flat on the floor, on a bed etc

Lie on/in etc

He was lying on the bed smoking a cigarette.

Don't lie in the sun for too long.

BUT

Lie past tense and past participle lied, present participle lying, third person singular lies [intransitive]

1 to deliberately tell someone something that is not true:

I could tell from her face that she was lying.

Lie to

I would never lie to you.

http://www.englishexercises.org/makeagame/viewgame.asp?id=5373

http://es.scribd.com/doc/28039701/Comparing-Animals

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corn

wheat

yeast

ground cereal grain (here wheat)

brussel sprouts

cauliflower

cabbage

broccoli

pods

bark

roots

stalk

berry

sugar beet

sugar cane

shoots

Grammarbank 6C: homework

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1 [countable] bread that is shaped and baked in one piece and can be cut into slices:

A loaf of bread

White/wholemeal/granary etc loaf British English

A sliced loaf British English

As well as something/somebody

In addition to something or someone else:

They own a house in France as well as a villa in Spain.

As well as doing something

The organization gives help and support to people in need, as well as raising money for local charities.

salt ¹ /sɔːlt/

flower ¹ /flaʊər / ||/ ˈflaʊə(r)/

Flour /ˈflaʊə(r)/ is defined as finely ground cereal grain such as wheat, corn,… 

Pod [countable]

1 a long narrow seed container that grows on various plants, especially peas and beans:

A pea pod

➔ like two peas in a pod

Broc‧co‧li [uncountable]

A green vegetable that has short branch-like stems

Broccoli / ˈbrɑːkəli / || / ˈbrɒkəli/ n uncountable
brócoli m, brécol m

Cau‧li‧flow‧er /ˈkɒlɪflaʊə(r)/ [uncountable and countable]

A vegetable with green leaves around a firm white centre

Brus‧sels sprout [countable] /spraʊt/

A small round green vegetable that looks like a very small cabbage

Cab‧bage/ ˈkæbɪdʒ/

1 [uncountable and countable] a large round vegetable with thick green or purple leaves

Calcium / ˈkælsiəm/

Pimentón sustantivo masculino

a.    (dulce) paprika;
(picante) cayenne pepper

BOTH

Herbs and spices both come from very small plants.

They are both used in relatively small amounts.

Both of them are really cauliflower.

EITHER

Either apple (the two of them) looks good

Sugar comes from either sugar cane or sugar beet.

NEITHER- not one or the other of two people or things [↪ either]:

Neither vegetable contains calcium.

You see to mountains but neither of them are formed of rock.

Neither of them contains any berries, seeds or roots.

Neither ... nor ...

Used when mentioning two things that are not true or do not happen:

He can neither read nor write. (=he cannot read or write)

Hilary was neither shocked nor surprised by the news.

Neither Matt nor Julie said anything.

ALL

All types of bread contain yeast.

All peas grow in bunches.

All commercially produced sugar comes from…

EACH

Each pod contains several peas.

You notice that each tree is actually broccoli.

EVERY

Every kind of bread contains ground cereal grain.

NONE

WORD CHOICE: 

none, neither

Use none to talk about a group of three or more things or people• None of my friends came.To talk about two things or people, use neither• Neither of my parents wanted me to marry him.

GRAMMAR

none of can be followed by a plural noun or an uncountable noun• None of these diets worked.• None of the money was missing.

neither of is followed by a plural noun• Neither of the rooms was free.After the plural noun, you can use a plural or singular verb. You should use a singular verb in formal writing• None of us care OR cares what happens to him.• None of us is able to escape the consequences of our actions.!! Do not use another negative word (eg 'not') with none• We got 3 points and they got none (NOT they didn't get none).• I didn't want any of them (NOT I didn't want none of them).➔ See also none