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
global warming - (The Kyoto Protocol to stop global warming was signed by 141 countries.)
green belt - (The green belt areas have protected the countryside for more than 50 years.)
greenfield site - (Planning turned down the application to build 250 homes on that greenfield site.)
greenhouse - (Matthew's growing tomatoes in his greenhouse.)
greenhouse effect - (Is there a difference between the greenhouse effect and global warming?)
harmful - (The public have finally recognised the harmful effects of smoking.)
have one's say - (You can have your say, but it probably won't change anything.)
hydropower - (They should build more hydro power stations.)
in practice - (Its OK in theory, but in practice it just doesn't work!)
industrial - (Industrial production has risen by 0.5% since November.)
intend - (I never intended to hurt her feelings.)
introduce - (Ken Livingstone introduced a road pricing scheme for London.)
issue - (This is a very important political issue.)
label - (Take the labels off the bottles before you take them in the bottle bank.)
lack - (Her qualifications are fine, but she lacks experience.)
local government - (Harrow Council are advertising for graduates interested in working in local government.)
made up of - (The jury was made up of five men and seven women.)
mayor - (A London mayor introduced the congestion tax.)
measurement - (What are the measurements of your bathroom?)
meet a need - (This new software meets a widespread need for a reliable, fast virus checker.)
monolingual - (They used monolingual dictionaries in class.)
nuclear - (After the accident in Fukushima, many people have demonstrated against nuclear power stations.)
obligation - (America honoured its obligations to its allies.)
oblige - (Politeness obliged me to offer her my seat on the bus.)
organic - (Organic farming is better for the environment.)
over-packaged - (In supermarkets, some of the fruit is over-packaged.)
parliament - (Iceland has the oldest parliament in the world.)
plant - (Eight new nuclear plants will be built in various parts of the UK.)
power - (We all felt that the chairman had too much power.)
process - (The process of learning a foreign language is often slow!)
prohibited - (Smoking is prohibited in all public places in England.)
public transport - (There was no public transport running at that time of night, so we caught a taxi.)
purpose - (The purpose of this meeting is to elect a new chairman.)
rainforest - (The rain forest of South America is slowly disappearing.)
refill - (Roger bought some refills for his pen.)
remove - (Remove the old wallpaper and fill any holes in the walls.)
renewable - (It's a six-month lease but it's renewable.)
returnable - (Drinks are often sold in returnable bottles in Austria and Germany.)
reusable - (Sally bought some reusable containers.)
reuse - (The bottles are designed to be reused up to 20 times.)
