Vocabulary

Instructions

During this route you will hear or read a lot of new English words. In this assignment you're going to build a vocabulary file to help you remember these new words.

Step-by-step plan
  1. Open the app Pages and make a new file.
  2. Name this file Vocabulary File English Cambridge Portfolio Term [__fill in__].
  3. Make a table with 4 columns and 26 rows
  4. Fill the column's headers as follows below.

 

English Grammatical category Example sentence Dutch translation and/or English definition
       
       
       
      (etc)

 

➜ During your portolio work, you're going to fill this table with new words you see or hear that you want to remember. The table below is filled in as an example.

 

English Grammatical category Example sentence Dutch translation and/or English definition
transferred verb (from transfer) Passengers were transferred to Heathrow airport. move from one place to another
shenanigans noun (only used in plural) The chairman was accused of financial shenanigans. secret or dishonest activity or manoeuvring
palatial adjective Diana's palatial apartment in Kensington Gardens... resembling a palace in being spacious and splendid
between a rock and a hard place idiom the alternative was equally untenable—she was caught between a rock and a hard place.

faced with two equally undesirable alternatives.