Lengua inglesa 3: Vocabulary

VOCABULARY STUDY PROGRAM

LENGUA INGLESA III

In the Vocabulary Study Program, all the lexical items that you need to study from all the
course texts (written and spoken) have been itemized and classified according to different
categories in order to help you learn them and also to help you distinguish between different
types of lexical items in your future and independent English language learning. But also,
and most importantly, because vocabulary knowledge involves much more than knowing the
meaning of words in isolation; it also involves knowing the word or words that tend to
associate or collocate with other words. These associations will assist you in committing
words to memory and also in defining the semantic area of given words. In other words, if
you don’t learn collocations as part of your L2 lexical stock, the resulting irregularities will
mark your speech and writing as deviant and odd and decidedly non-native. The collocations
and idiomatic expressions that are included in the Vocabulary Study Program will help you
both recognize the importance of acquiring fluency and a certain native-likeness in your
speech and writing and effectively put you in the way to awarding precisely those
characteristics to your English.
You will also study vocabulary from the coursebook selected for LENGUA INGLESA III:
Use of English Exercises for Advanced Learners (tests 1 through 6), but those lexical items
are not included in this program.

READINGS

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Reading 1 - Section 1: Health care services

Address (v), affluent (n), aid (n), alleged, amount (v), average,
awareness, benefit, budget, compensation, contribution, cover (n), decline
Noun, adjectives,
(n), deduction, drug, escalating (adj), extensive, facilities, few, fund (v),
adverbs, verbs
grant (n), grow, income, increase, lack, lawsuit, operate, profit (n), push
up, rise, scope, salary, sue, ultimately, wages
Access to, amount to, deduct from, depend on/upon, derive from,
Gramatical
difference in, difficulty in, insure for, pay for, pass onto, result from, risk
collocations
of, stem from, subscribe to, suspect of, threat to
Lexical Fall ill, inner city locations, insurance premium / policy / scheme / cover,
collocations labour union, life expectancy
Linking words Although, consequently, nevertheless, therefore
Reading 1 – Section 2: Housing
Amenities, deprivation, large, low-cost, low / Average, fund, growth,
Noun, adjectives,
high-rent, mobility, mortgage, purchase, income, increase, rise
adverbs, verbs
recession, slum, suburbs, subsidies, veiled
Gramatical Assistance in, bias towards, fail to, provide for, Pay for, threat to
collocations result in, subject to
Lexical Housing market, implement code / regulation /
collocations law, low-income people
Linking words However, since, while Although, consequently

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Reading 1 – Section 3: Attitudes to social services

Collapse, decrease, large, less, self-reliance, Cover, decline, fund,
Noun, adjectives,
shameful, shaming, think out, thrift, welfare grow, increase, lack,
adverbs, verbs
rise
Cause of, concern with, due to, in favour of, on Bias against, depend
Gramatical
welfare, preference for, unwillingness to on, dependency upon,
collocations
provide for, stem from
Lexical Income tax, opinion poll, take on responsibility Contribution, insurance,
collocations unemployment benefit
Linking words In the meantime, on one level Nevertheless

Reading 2 - Junk food county

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Allocate, binge on, convenience store, dearth, fill Purchase, obese,
up, food stamps, forgo, grocery store, grim, obesity, inner-city,
Noun, adjectives,
high-calorie, household, leafy greens, median, operate, income,
adverbs, verbs
nutrition, nutritionist, nutritious, oncoming, struggle (v), nonprofit
pricey, stock (v)
Gramatical At the mercy of, at risk of
collocations
Do a study, fall below the poverty line, fall into a Make a budget
Lexical
category, have a heart attack, live on a farm,
collocations
pluck an apple, run a program
Linking words According to

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Reading 3 - University Plan Sparks Anger

Award (v), bar (obstacle), body, breed (n), concern
Noun, adjectives, dismiss, display, doctorate, enroll, go ahead
adverbs, verbs with, impoverished, out of step, range, shut out,
sign up, spokesman
Gramatical Apply for, fundamental to, in place, specialise in
collocations
Award a degree, break a link, carry out
Lexical research, draw up criteria, make aware of, make
collocations a mockery of, open the way (for), open up the
door (to)
Linking words

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Reading 4 – New! Improved! It’s school!

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belittle, celebrity (n/adj), chair (v), come up Burden, fund, average,
with, cook up, core, dropout (person), drop out, costly
Noun, adjectives, drunk driving, foster, mentor, overdue, (radio)
adverbs, verbs station, remind (s/one to do sth), set out (to do
X), slick, stepping stone, text messaging, truant,
upcoming, well-to-do
Gramatical Aim at, on track
collocations
Attend school, get a diploma, get information, launch a campaign /
Lexical
get the word out, implement a program, try program, increase /
collocations
one’s best raise awareness (on)
Linking words

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Reading 5 - The Power of No

Apiece, baby boomer, backpack, basics, blitz, Affluent, average,
bug (v), career ladder, cave in, cheer on, come budget, costly, self-
down to, commercial (n), counter, crave, reliant, suburb, thrift
discouraging, distorted, elite, entitlement, figure
out, forfeit, gadget, give in, grocery, handout,
Noun, adjectives, haranguing, launch, legacy, mall, mar, nag,
adverbs, verbs outfit, outlet, overindulgence, overwhelmed,
pamphlet, parental, parenting, paycheck, peer,
pester, price tag, quaint, raise, rise, salvage,
self-absorption, self-centeredness, shell out,
spoil, struggle, treat (v), thrive, utilities,
weaken, whim, yield, zeal
Assault on, based in, beg for, escape from, fail aim at
Gramatical to, go without, grow out of, guilty for, impact
collocations on, in the heat of, provide with, reach out for,
spend on, warn of (v)
achieve goals, back on track, cope with, do
chores, do the laundry, draw the line, enforce
limits / rules / values, get in the way of, have a
meltdown, hold firm, hold the line, lawn
mowing, live within one’s means, make a
Lexical
difference, make it clear (that), not to miss a
collocations
beat, offer a deal, pull up a grade, set limits, set
sight on, spring break, stick to a budget, stick to
a rule, take action, take out the garbage, tidal
wave, walk the line between X and Y, work
overtime
Linking words In addition to

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LISTENINGS

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Listening 1 - Obesity in the U.S.

Noun, adjectives, Bombard, epidemic, overweigth, increasing, Nutrition, obese,
adverbs, verbs metabolism, prompt (v), raw, sedentary obesity
Gramatical Snack on sth
collocations
Lexical Collect data, brisk walk, develop an illness /
collocations disease, fill out a questionnaire, heart illnesses
Linking words

Listening 2 - Housing in the US

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Noun, adjectives, Pleased, point blank, property, segregated Funds, enforcement
adverbs, verbs housing, nonprofit
Gramatical
collocations
Lexical Buy a home, file a lawsuit, rent a home, suffer /
collocations experience discrimination
Linking words

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Listening 3 - Education in Spain, the UK, and the US
Academics, advisor, A-Levels, assess, Doctorates (people),
assignment, bachelor degree, certificate, dropouts (people),
college, compulsory, coursework, credits, dean, mentor, truant
degree, diploma, examination, faculty (people),
fail, freshman, GCSEs, grades, graduate school,
graduates (people), junior (n), kindergarten,
Noun, adjectives, lecturer, MA, major (n), mandatory, master’s
adverbs, verbs degree, marks, middle school, minor (n), move
on, MSc, nursery school, pass grade, PhD (in X),
primary school, private school, professor,
provost, public school, reader, rector, report (n),
school (v), schooling (n), secondary school,
seminar, senior (n), smock, sophomore, thesis,
tutor, tutorial, uniform, vicechancellor
Gramatical Acquainted with, apt to (sth / do sth), on the
collocations basis of
Lexical Award credits, do research, enrol in a course, Apply for a course,
collocations enter the job market, pass course, register for a attend school, award

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course, take an examination, take into degrees, carry out

consideration, take notes, receive a diploma, studies, enrol in a
receive education, write a dissertation/doctoral course, get information,
thesis pursue postgraduate
studies
Linking words

Listening 4 – SAT Results

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Noun, adjectives, Bottom line, lag, major (adj), release (v), Average, college
adverbs, verbs roughly, trend, yield
Gramatical
collocations
Lexical Remain flat, undergo a change, write an essay,
collocations writing skills
Linking words

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Listening 5 - Teens and summer jobs

Noun, adjectives, Bleak, commitment, daunting, hire, paycheck, Mall,struggle (v), retail
adverbs, verbs pick up (intr v), reluctant, workplace store
Gramatical In sight, on time,
collocations
Complete a task, do adding / substracting / Fill out an application,
Lexical dividing / multiplying, fierce competition, find / job market
collocations land a job, find work, job hunting, job skills,
have an attitude
Linking words

Listening 6 – Teenage girl violence

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Assault, bully, contact sports, eating disorders,
Noun, adjectives, knock down, molestation, physical abuse,
adverbs, verbs punch, rough-and-tumble, sexual abuse,
tendency (to), troubled
Gramatical At home, to the cheers of, Subject to
collocations
Lexical Acknowledge a problem, engage in physical
collocations aggression,
Linking words

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