English basic vocabular 3
Standard english vocabular for beginners and lower intermediate
Standard english vocabular for beginners and lower intermediate
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Cartes-fiches
my goodness - (My goodness! What are you doing here at this time of night?)
needle - (Gran couldn't find the needle because it was so small and her eyes were bad.)
nightmare - (Years after the accident I still have nightmares about it.)
non-fiction - (I read a lot of non-fiction.)
novel - (Emma' is a novel by Jane Austen.)
oversleep - (Jimmy had overslept, and was late for work yet again!)
plot - (The police said that there was a plot to bomb the UN headquarters.)
portrait - (there was a portrait of her mother in the bedroom.)
pour - (The rain has been pouring down all day.)
prejudice - (Women still face prejudice in the workplace.)
pride - (He wore his medals with pride.)
prison - (He visits his Dad in prison every week.)
readable - (The book is informative and highly readable.)
represent - (Mr Kobayashi was chosen to represent the company at the conference.)
respond - (The patient has responded well to the treatment.)
response - (The police were delighted with the public's response to their appeal for help.)
romance - (Hemingway's romance with his nurse inspired him to write 'A Farewell to Arms'.)
sculpture - (When we were in Florence we saw Michelangelo's sculpture of David.)
sentence - (A convicted murderer is often sentenced to life imprisonment.)
servant - (Many young girls became domestic servants.)
sew - (Mum sewed Harry's name into the neck of his school blazer.)
short story - (I'm not fond of short stories – I prefer full-length novels.)
snore - (Marie snores so loudly I can't sleep in the same room.)
spear - (Robinson threw the spear as far as he could.)
spook - (I'm not easily spooked.)
spooky - (It was very spooky walking through the graveyard at night.)
stare - (She was sure she'd seen him somewhere before, and couldn't stop staring at him.)
stiff - (As a child I was scared stiff of going down to the cellar.)
suited - (With her qualifications she's ideally suited for the job.)
symphony - (Bruckner's Fifth Symphony was completed in 1875–6.)
tell off - (My mum is always telling me off for wearing dirty shoes in the house.)
terrified - (A terrified little girl came rushing out of the house.)
terrify - (Her husband's violence terrified her.)
terrifying - (It was 30 years before he told anyone of his terrifying experience.)
therapist - (Vince stutters badly, and is seeing a speech therapist.)
thriller - (Connelly's latest thriller will be another bestseller.)
tune - (Sam was humming a little tune.)
twist - (All his short stories have an unexpected twist in the plot.)
violence - (There is too much sex and violence on TV these days.)
violent - (Statistics showed an increase in violent crime.)
