VOCABULARY: UNIT 3

·         Murder: the unlawful killing of a person, when done deliberately

·         Thief: a person who steals, esp. secretly or without open force

·         Hooligans: a young hoodlum.  

·         Hijacker: the person who  steal from a truck or other vehicle after forcing it to stop
·         Kidnapper:  to carry off (a person) by force or trickery, esp. for use as a hostage or to get money.

VOCABULARY: UNIT 2

·         Tectonic plates: referring to the forces or conditions within the earth that cause movements of the crust.

·         Rub against each other: rozar con otras

·         crack: injuries

·         Ripple: referring to the forces or conditions within the earth that cause movements of the crust.

·         Flashlight:  also called torch

·         Warning: Run!

·         Pretended: look like something

·         Broke out: something that happened

·         As: while

·         Firstaid kit: the persons that go to the dissaster.

·         Ash cloud: when a day is misty

·          ground for dead people

GLOSSARY: THRILLER

• • Manwolf: thriller symbol that it´s that the men are wolves too.
  • Door slam: to shut a door with force and noise
  • Evil: profoundly immoral and malevolent
  • Underworld: the mythical abode of the dead, imagined as being under the earth
  • Darkness: the partial or total absence of light
  • Zombie: the body of a dead person that is magically filled with what seems to be life and set to perform tasks as a mute slave without free will.
  • Full moon: the moon when the whole of its disk is showing
  • Cementery: a burial ground for dead people
  • Grave: a place in the ground in which to bury a dead body
  • Copses: a small group of trees
  • Mummis: (especially in ancient Egypt) a body of a human being or animal that has been ceremonially preserved by removal of the internal organs, treatment with natron and resin, and wrapping in bandages.
  • Black cats: thriller symbol
  • Ghost: an apparition of a dead person that is believed to appear or become manifest to the living, typically as a nebulous image
  • Witches: a woman thought to have evil magic powers. Witches are popularly depicted as wearing a black cloak and pointed hat, and flying on a broomstick.
  • Bat: a flying nocturnal mammal,often the size of a mouse.
  • Haunted house: inhabited or frequented by ghosts

VOCABULARY II

• Sitcom: a situation comedy.
• Au-pair: a young foreign person, typically a woman, who helps with housework or child care in exchange for room and board.
• Unemployed: (of a person) without a paid job but available to work.
• Beau: a boyfriend or male admirer
• Bough: a main branch of a tree
• Homonyms: each of two or more words having the same spelling but different meanings and origins
• Homophones:each of two or more words having the same pronunciation but different meanings, origins, or spelling.
• Fabric: cloth, typically produced by weaving or knitting textile fibers
• Rotten: suffering from decay
• Orange: it's the color of the dawn

VOCABULARY: UNIT 1

• Van: a covered vehicle, usually a large truck or trailer, used for moving goods or animals.
• Suitcase: a piece of luggage, for carrying clothes while traveling.
• Claim: to demand by or as if by a right.
• Rascals: things that doesn't have importance for a person
• Turf: a layer of matted earth formed by grass and plant roots.
• Sprained an ankle: to overstrain or twist (the ligaments around a joint) so as to injure without a fracture or break
• Crutch: a staff or support to assist a person in walking, usually having a crosspiece at one end to fit under the armpit
• Scredule: a plan for carrying out a process or procedure, giving lists of intended events and times.
• On your own: live alone, independent
• Host: a person who receives or entertains other people as guests.
• Slang: a type of language that consists of words and phrases that are regarded as very informal, are more common in speech than writing, and are typically restricted to a particular context or group of people
• Risk: a situation involving exposure to danger.
• Misty: full of, covered with, or accompanied by mist.

GLOSSARY: INTRODUCTION. UNIT 0

• Flip-flops: Clothing flat rubber sandal with a thong fitting between the first two toes.
• Knot: a tying tightly together of the two ends of a cord, rope.
• Stir: move a spoon or other implement around in (a liquid or other substance) in order to mix it thoroughly.
• Drop: to (cause to) fall.
• Everglades: a swampy and partly forested region in S Florida, mostly S of Lake Okeechobee.
• Valey girl: a fashionable and affluent teenage girl from the Valley in southern California.
• Brackish: (of water) slightly salty, as is the mixture of river water and seawater in estuaries