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
acid - (Sulphuric acid is used in a number of chemical processes.)
acid rain - (If acid rain freezes, does it make acid snow?)
affect - (Smoking affects your health.)
agricultural - (Agricultural land was sold to a company to build houses.)
alternative - (Is there an alternative to the present system?)
appliance - (There's plenty of space for all the usual kitchen appliances.)
area - (I'm not really familiar with that area of the company's activities.)
bio-fuel - (There has been a lot in the news recently about bio-fuels.)
bottle bank - (There are some bottle banks outside the supermarket.)
brownfield site - (New buildings in cities are usually built on brown-field sites where there were buildings in the past.)
bullet point - (The important section was highlighted with bullet points.)
carbon - (Carbon is a chemical substance found in all living things.)
carbon dioxide - (We were asked to research carbon dioxide emissions due to human activity.)
cardboard - (I've put all his books in a cardboard box.)
charge - (The hotel charges $125 a night.)
chemical - (People have been put in prison for dumping dangerous chemicals in rivers.)
china - (The teacups were made out of china.)
coal - (Put some coal on the fire.)
congestion - (I always try to avoid rush hour as the traffic congestion is so bad.)
council - (The Valentine's Day music and light show was arranged by the local council.)
crops - (The farmer grew a variety of crops.)
damage - (Len admitted that he was responsible for the damage to the car.)
decent - (For the first time in his life he's earning a decent salary and can afford a nice car.)
deforestation - (Most deforestation has taken place in the tropical forest in South Americas.)
deposit - (They deposited all the bottles in the nearest bottle bank.)
dump - (The company were fined for illegally dumping waste.)
ecologist - (Ecologists are studying the life-cycle of the honey bee.)
efficiently - (His new assistant works very efficiently.)
energy - (Britain's energy reserves were at an all-time low.)
environmentally friendly - (How environmentally friendly is your school?)
exchange - (The players exchanged shirts at the end of the game.)
face - (She didn't recycle her rubbish and faced a fine of €1000,00.)
factory - (The car factory is to reopen soon, and its new Chinese owner will build MGs.)
feel - (We feel he has treated her very badly.)
fine - (She was fined for speeding.)
focus - (He felt he needed to focus more on his career.)
footprint - (We followed the footprints of a deer in the snow.)
forced - (There was a problem with the plane, and we were forced to spend a night at the airport.)
fossil fuel - (Environmentalists would like to see fossil fuels replaced by renewable energy sources.)
fuel - (The plane was running low on fuel.)
