New words

When you study a material such as the one you are using right now, it’s important to understand the words you use. In that way, it will be easier to learn what you are studying and you will enjoy each of the activities. You will come across the following vocabulary in some of the sections of this material. Learning it now will help you in the reading, listening, writing and speaking activities that you will find later on this material. But remember, if you need help with any other word you don’t understand, you can always access an online dictionary.

We suggest https://dictionary.cambridge.org/es/diccionario/ingles-estudiantes/ because a dictionary gives you lots of information about words: if they are formal or informal, their conjugation in case they are verbs, synonyms, just to mention a few.

Listening practice

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Share something with somebody

To have or use something at the same time as someone else

Realize something

To notice or understand something that you did not notice or understand before

Cause a scandal

To make something happen

Raise a son/daughter

To look after and educate a child until they have become an adult

Notice something

To see something and be aware of it

Appear

To seem to be a particular thing or have a particular quality

Encourage someone

To make someone more likely to do something, or make something more likely to happen

Claim something

To say that something is true, although you have not proved it

Prevent something

To stop something happening or to stop someone doing something

Defeat

To win against someone in a fight or competition

Drop something

To let something you are carrying fall to the ground

Surrender

To stop fighting and admit that you have been beaten

Hold

To organize an event

Last

To continue to happen, exist, or be useful

Multiple choice exercise

Read the following sentences and choose the correct option. You can click on “Check your answers” at the end of the exercise to read the definition of the word.

1. She was walking and --- civic space with fascists.

To have or use something at the same time as someone else.

2. She was --- her daughter.

To look after and educate a child until they have become an adult.

3. The shortest war only --- 45 minutes.

To continue to happen, exist, or be useful.

4. They --- people to wear those masks.

To make someone more likely to do something, or make something more likely to happen.

5. Plague doctors believed that flowers --- people from breathing polluted air.

To stop something happening or to stop someone doing something.

6. Germany was --- during the Second World War

To win against someone in a fight or competition.

7. After the atomic attack, Japan held / surrendered / noticed

To stop fighting and admit that you have been beaten.

8. Plague doctors --- that the Black Death caused fever.

To say that something is true, although you have not proved it.

Remember that the best way of learning a new word is trying to use it in context. Try to notice the vocabulary you studied in this section in the different parts of this material.