Health, Fitness, Education, and Modern Life: Key Terms
Health and Fitness Vocabulary
- Strenuous: Exhausting
- Push yourself: To strive harder
- Overdo it: To do too much
- Aren’t into: Not interested in
- Stay in shape: Maintain physical fitness
- Sedentary lifestyle: Inactive way of life
- Junk food: Unhealthy food
- Balanced diet: Healthy eating plan
- Nutrients: Nourishing substances
- Skip: To miss
- Crash diets: Extreme weight-loss diets
- Body Mass Index (BMI): Measure of body fat
- Set goals: Establish objectives
Phrasal Verbs
- Work out: Exercise
- Cut out: Stop consuming
- Get round to: Finally do something
- Put on: Gain weight
- Stick to: Adhere to
Phrase Building
Take:
- Take drugs
- Take advantage of somebody/something
- Take advice
- Take it easy (relax)
- Take part in
- Take somebody/something for granted (underappreciate)
- Take something seriously
Put:
- Put pressure on somebody (pressure)
- Put somebody/something at risk
- Put something out of your mind
- Put your arm around somebody
- Put your hand up
- Put your mind to something (concentrate)
- Put yourself in my position
Education Vocabulary
- Cram: Study intensely
- Strong points: Strengths
- Playing truant: Skipping school
- Bother: Care, mind
- Disruptive: Causing disturbance
- Get stuck: Need help
- Scrape through: Barely pass
- Pass with flying colors: Pass easily
- Revising: Studying
- Hand in: Submit
- Skipped class: Missed class
- Mess around: Behave inappropriately
More Education Vocabulary
- A-level: Advanced level
- Boarding school: School with lodging
- Campus: University grounds
- Deadline: Due date
- Degree: Academic qualification
- Fees: Tuition costs
- Lecture: Educational talk
- Professor: University teacher
- Pupil: Student
- Secondary school: High school
- Seminar: Small class discussion
- Subject: Area of study
- To apply for: To request admission
- To bully: To intimidate
- To expel: To dismiss from school
- To graduate: To complete a degree
- To retake: To repeat an exam
- Undergraduate: University student
Idioms and Expressions: Head and Heart
- It was too complicated for me to understand: It went right over my head
- Wanted it very much: Set his heart on it
- Do them very easily without thinking too much: Do them standing on his head
- He suddenly felt extremely disappointed and upset: His heart sank
- She didn’t have a real passion for it: Her heart wasn’t in it
Collocations with Prepositions
Noun + Preposition
- Ella is in charge of making the costumes for the party.
- I need some lessons on how to use the new software.
- Since the smoking ban, there has been a decrease in the number of smokers.
- She wrote a letter of complaint about the service.
- There is a lack of good sports facilities in this area.
- Do you have any suggestions for dealing with the situation?
In/On/Out of + Noun
- In: Be in two minds (undecided), be in tears (crying), be in trouble (in a difficult situation)
- On: Be on edge (nervous), do something on purpose (intentionally), be on one’s way (coming)
- Out of: Be out of order (broken), be out of breath (gasping), be out of the championship (eliminated)
Material World Vocabulary
- Splash out: Spend a lot of money
- Designer labels or brands: Luxury brands
- Junk: Trash
- Window-shopping: Looking at goods without buying
- Browsing: Looking around in shops
- Unethical: Morally wrong
- Exploit: Take advantage of
- Advertisements: Commercials
- Material possessions: Physical belongings
- Bargains: Good deals
- Eco-friendly: Environmentally friendly
- Online auction sites: Websites for bidding on items
- Making a purchase: Buying something
Money Vocabulary
- Overdrawn: Negative bank balance
- Well off: Having a lot of money
- Broke: Having no money
- Can’t afford: Unable to pay for
- Money to burn: Excess money
- In debt: Owing money
- Owes: Has a debt to
- Wealthy: Rich
- Stingy: Miserly
- Borrowed: Took money temporarily
- Saving up: Accumulating money
- Charge for: Demand payment
- Waste: Squander
- Lend: Give money temporarily
- Overcharged: Charged too much
- Clubbed together: Pooled money
- Forked out: Paid a lot, often unwillingly
- Sold out: All items sold
- Down and out: Destitute, homeless
Common Expressions
- Error and trial: Learning through mistakes
- Sick and tired: Fed up
- Cheap and cheerful: Inexpensive but good
- Peace and quiet: Tranquility
- Neat and tidy: Orderly
- Now and then: Occasionally
- Give and take: Compromise
Conditional Sentences
First Conditional: Things that might happen in the future. If + present + will. (If I study, I’ll pass)
Second Conditional: Less probable situations. If + past + would + infinitive. (If I had studied, I would have passed)
Third Conditional: Past events that did not happen. Past perfect + (would, could, might). (If I had studied, I would have passed)
Conditional Conjunctions
- Even if: Regardless of whether
- As long as: Provided that
- Unless: Except if
- Provided that: On the condition that
Wishes and Regrets
- I wish / If only + past simple: A wish for the present
- I wish / If only + past perfect: Regret about the past
- I wish / If only + would: Complaint about others