Vocabulary

Unit 1: Making Friends

Neighborhood: This neighborhood has several good restaurants

Crowded: this morning the train was so crowded that I couldn't find a vacant seat and had to stand the whole way

Dislikes: Jacqui tries to hide her dislike of her mother-in-law for the sake of family harmony

Actually: My last name looks German, but actually, it's Dutch

Themselves: They served themselves from the buffet

Pineapple: Can you buy me a pineapple when you go shopping?

Wreck: There are a lot of wrecks in the waters around this coast.

Noisy: Mike didn't like going to the city because it was always so noisy

Shipwreck: More than 1,000 people died in the shipwreck of the Titanic

Talkative: The teacher separated the talkative pupil from his friends

Unit 2: interest

Pretty: Your daughter is so pretty in that dress

Polite: If you want to keep your job, you should always be polite to your boss

Nobody: Why would she want to date me? She's a supermodel, I'm a nobody

Leisure: Tom didn't like hurrying and spent years working on his book with leisure

Climbing: The rear wall of the house is covered in climbing plants

Found: We found a key on the ground

Whistle: The whistle signalled the end of the game

Lead Singer: He's always wanted to be the lead singer in a rock band.

Stronger: sleight of hand in the stone is stronger than scissor

Everybody: Everybody I know prefers chocolate to vanilla

Unit 3: Health

Clause: There's an escape clause which allows us to terminate the contract if necessary.

Stomachache: He had a dreadful stomachache after eating too much chocolate.

Sneeze:  Eugene's sneeze was so loud

Appointment: I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow, and a dentist appointment the day after.

Leaflet: The campaigners leafleted every house in the area

Headache: After being hunched in front of a computer all day Fiona got a tension headache

Kid: Stacy likes to visit with friends while the kids are at school

Cough: The baby girl has a cough, so her parents are taking her to the doctor

Relax: We're going to relax on the beach

Flu: I caught the flu

Unit 4: holidays and celebrations

Forward: The car moved slowly forward

Exchange: Many families exchange gifts on Christmas.

Enjoyment: Playing golf is Larry's only enjoyment

Wedding: The wedding pictures were beautiful

Hope: We hope that you will recover quickly

Lawyer: Ben went to law school to become a lawyer

Costume: Marla put on her monster costume and tried to scare her big brother.

Fireworks: We watched the fireworks over the bay from our hotel window

Trick-or-treating: Halloween custom: going door to door

Skeletons: Doctors have to know all the different bones in the human skeleton

Unit 5: Growing up

Was: Lucy was sad yesterday

Born: Mario was born in Chile

A few: That boy has come over a few times and always behaved himself

Childhood :I have few memories of my childhood.

Grow up: I grew up in a village in Southern Chile

Most: This plant has the most strawberries

A lot: There are a lot of people in there

Moved: When the singer dedicated her song to her father, the audience was visibly moved

Some: Some friends think that my jokes are funny

Mean: I don't mean her, I mean her husband

Unit 6: Around Town

Across: The post office is across the street from the police station

Just a: He has seemed to move just a bit to the left.

Any: Do you have any bread?

Excuse: Please excuse me. I didn't mean to step on your foot

Behind: Your car is behind of my car

Inside: He stayed inside the room for three hours

Outside: The kids are playing outside

street: This street has two lanes

Over here: Please, lift your bag over her

Near: Near her feet, she found a coin