Family

Blood relative

Some one who is related to you by birth, from the same blood line.

My brother is a blood relative.

Extended family

The family members who are not part of your nuclear family, so your aunts,
uncles and cousins.

I have a small extended family.

maternal

Someone in your mother's side of the family. 

My maternal grandparents are in their 90s.

Nuclear Family

Members of the family with direct ties (mother, father, children).

My  nuclear family is very important to me.

paternal

Someone in your father's side of the family. 

I never met my  paternal  grandfather. He died before I was born.

Education
 degree

 course

 undergraduate degree (licenciatura)

 graduate degree (Masters and doctorate/PhD)

 revise

 cheat

 pass

 fail

 discipline (rules)

 subject (english, geography, maths)

 course unit or curricular unit

 uniform

 strict

 timetable

 schedule

 curriculum

 detention

 'teacher's pet'

 term

 semester

 mid term

 results

 marks

 grades
School Institutions

 Kindergarten = pre-school education

 Primary school

 Secondary school

 College = further education

 Higher education = university education = tertiary education

 Post-graduate school = university for students studying degree level

School Subjects

 Math
 Language
 Literature
 Science
 Physics
 Biology
 Chemistry
 Natural Science
 Geography
 Religious Studies
 History
 Information Technology (IT)
 Physical Education (PE)
 Cookery = domestic/ food science
 Handicrafts
 Art
 Music
Work
 Part-time

 Full-time

 Temporary

 Permanent

 Contract

 Working hours

 Training course

 Qualifications

 Experience

 Self-employed

 Resigned - to quit your job

 Retire - to terminate your time of work due age or number of years.

Work + preposition
I work at... a school, university, home.

I work for... a multinational company.

I work in... an office, a library.

I work with... clients, staff, my boss.

I work as... a manager, a teacher, a cook.

I am in charge of... the (...) department division, office.

I am responsible for... a team of (...) customer loans, human resources.

to get / find work

to be offered work / a job
to make a living as a …
What do you do for a living?
to get a higher position /to be promoted /to achieve something

to apply for a job

to be a workaholic (to love work too much)
to be someone’s opposite number (to be a rival)
to be dog-tired from work /to be bushed from work
a heavy workload

to be underpaid
opposite:to be overpaid

to hammer out a deal/to work out a deal/to sign a contract/to close a

contract

opposite: to back out of a deal

Hours of work

to do shift work (nights one week, days the next week)

to be on flexi-time (to have flexible working hours)
to work nine-to-five (regular day work)
to work full-time
to work part-time

Not working

to go/be on strike
to get the sack (to be thrown out of a job)

to be fired (more formal)

to be made redundant (thrown out, no longer needed)
to be laid off (more informal than made redundant)
to give up work
to be on/take sick leave
to take early retirement (to retire at 55)

Types of work

paperwork /desk work /office work /secretarial work

handwork /manual work

teamwork (to work together in a team)

People

good, hard, productive, motivated fast, slow, professional, average,

unemployed, voluntary, migrant, seasonal … worker
worker /employee
colleague /coworker /teammate /workmate
Consumerism
Verbs:

to buy

I am going to buy a new dress.

I bought my mother a bunch of flowers.

to purchase

I need to purchase a new phone.

He purchased the train tickets.

to acquire

You have to acquire the books for the course.

Have you acquired the equipment you need?

to go shopping

I am going shopping next weekend.

They went shopping yesterday.

Nouns:

assistant

cash register

clerk (person who works in a shop/service)

consumption

credit card

debit card

debt

deliveries

department store (e.g. Corte Inglês)

garbage

mall (American)

mass consumption
payment

retail

rubbish

shipping

shop

shopping centre

store

vouchers

waste

Categories/articles

accessories

bargains

bedding and linen

beverage

books

clothes/clothing

electronics

equipment

furniture

garden/outdoors

groceries

health & beauty

household supplies

instruments

kitchen appliances

lighting

tools
toys
Glossary:

 storeroom (noun, countable) a room where a shop keeps items until

somebody needs them
 changing room (noun, countable) a room in a shop in which people
can put on clothes before buying them in order to see whether they
look good in them
 tight (adjective) clothes that are tight and close against your body
when you wear them
 loose (adjective) loose clothes that are large and do not fit your body
tightly
 cash register (noun, countable) a machine with containers for
holding notes and coins that shows customers in shops how much
they have to pay
 type (verb, transitive/intransitive) to write letters or numbers using
the buttons on a keyboard or a keypad
 PIN (noun, countable) personal identification number: a set of four
numbers that you put into a machine in order to use your bank card
 exchange (verb, transitive) if a shop exchanges something that you
bought there, it allows you to change it for something of a similar
type or value
 rack (noun, countable) an object in a shop where clothes hang, so
that customers can look at them and decide if they want to buy them
 check (verb, transitive/intransitive) to make certain of something,
for example by looking at the information again or by asking
someone
Time off
 leisure
 fun
 hobby/hobbies
 free time activities
 downtime
 day off
 vacation (AmE)
 holiday (BrE)
 break 
 recess
 interval
 pause
 rest
 respite

Official (time off work, for example):

 sick leave
 maternity leave
 sabbatical
 leave of absence
 retirement
 lay off
 suspension (punishment)

Useful expressions and usage

 I'm on a break
 I'm going to take a break
 I need a break
 Have a break
 Taking it easy
 I need some time off