UNIDAD 9

DRY ˈCLEANER’S: a shop where you can take clothes etc to be dry-cleaned

ECONOMICAL: using money, time, goods etc carefully and without wasting any

ELEGANTE: beautiful, attractive, or graceful

ELEPHANT: a very large grey animal with four legs, two tusks (=long curved teeth) and a

trunk (=long nose) that it can use to pick things up

ESTATE AGENT: someone whose business is to buy and sell houses or land for people

EXCHANGE : the act of giving someone something and receiving something else from them

FACTORY: a building or group of buildings in which goods are produced in large quantities,

using machines

FAN: someone who likes a particular sport or performing art very much, or who admires a

famous person

FASHIONABLE: popular, especially for a short period of time

FEATURE: a part of something that you notice because it seems important, interesting, or

typical

FIGURE: a number representing an amount, especially an official number.

FLOOR: the flat surface that you stand on inside a building

FORTUNE: a very large amount of money

GENEROUS: someone who is generous is willing to give money, spend time etc, in order to

help people or give them pleasure

-larger or more than the usual size or amount

GIFFT SHOP: a shop that sells small things that are suitable for giving as presents

GROUND FLOOR: the floor of a building that is at ground

HAIRCUT: the style your hair is cut in

HANDBAG: a small bag in which a woman carries money and personal things

HIGH: measuring a long distance from the bottom to the top

HOTEL: a building where people pay to stay and eat meals

ICE RINK: a specially prepared surface of ice where you can ice-skate

IMPRESSIVE: something that is impressive makes you admire it because it is very good,

large, important etc

INSTRUCTION: a statement telling someone what they must do

ITEM: a single thing, especially one thing in a list, group, or set of things

ITEM OF CLOTHING: ARTICULO DE LA ROPA

JACKET: a short light coat

- the part of a suit that covers the top part of your body

JEWELLERY: small things that you wear for decoration, such as rings or necklaces

LEATHER: animal skin that has been treated to preserve it, and is used for making shoes, bags

etc

LOSE: to stop having a particular attitude, quality, ability etc, or to gradually have less of it
MARCH: if soldiers or other people march somewhere, they walk there quickly with firm

regular steps

MEDICINE: a substance used for treating illness, especially a liquid you drink.

ORNAMENT: a small object that you keep in your house because it is beautiful rather than

useful

- decoration that is added to something

PARCEL: an object that has been wrapped in paper or put in a special envelope, especially so

that it can be sent by post

PERSONAL: belonging or relating to one particular person, rather than to other people or to

people in general

PETROL: a liquid obtained from petroleum that is used to supply power to the engine of cars

and other vehicles

PHARMACY: a shop or a part of a shop where medicines are prepared and sold

POST OFFICE: a place where you can buy stamps, send letters and packages etc

POWERFUL: a powerful person, organization, group etc is able to control and influence

events and other people’s actions

PRE-OWNED: if something that is for sale is pre-owned, it has been owned and used by

someone else before – used especially in advertisements to make something not sound old

PRETTY: fairly or more than a little

PRODUCT: something that is grown or made in a factory in large quantities, usually in order

to be sold
QUALITY: how good or bad something is

- something that people may have as part of their character, for example courage or intelligence

RENT: to regularly pay money to live in a house or room that belongs to someone else, or to

use something that belongs to someone else

SAUSAGE: a small tube of skin filled with a mixture of meat, spices etc, eaten hot or cold

after it has been cooked

SCARF: a piece of cloth that you wear around your neck, head, or shoulders, especially to

keep warm

SEA LEVEL: the average height of the sea, used as a standard for measuring other heights and

depths, such as the height of a mountain

SECOND-HAND: second-hand things are not new when you get them, because they were

owned by someone else before you

SHIRT: a piece of clothing that covers the upper part of your body and your arms usually has

a collar, and is fastened at the front by buttons

SHOE: something that you wear to cover your feet, made of leather or some other

SHOPPER: Someone who buys things in shops

SILK: a thin smooth soft cloth made from very thin thread which is produced by a silkworm

SOUVENIR: an object that you buy or keep to remind yourself of a special occasion or a place

you have visited

SPACE: the amount of an area, room, container etc that is empty or available to be used

STAFF: the people who work for an organization

STORE: a place where goods are sold to the public. In British English, a store is large and

sells many different things,

STYLISH: attractive in a fashionable way

SUNGLASSES: dark glasses that you wear to protect your eyes when the sun is very bright

TAKE OFF: to remove a piece of clothing

TALL: a person, building, tree etc that is tall is a greater height than normal

TINY: extremely small

TOOTHPASTE: a thick substance that you use to clean your teeth

TOP: the highest part of something

TOP SPEED: the fastest speed a vehicle can move at

TOY: an object for children to play with

UNCOMFORTABLE: not feeling physically comfortable, or not making you feel comfortable

UNTIDY: not neat NO ORGANIZADO

UNUSUAL: different from what is usual or normal

VINTAGE : vintage wine is good quality wine made in a particular year

VIOLENT: involving actions that are intended to injure or kill people, by hitting them,

shooting them etc

WATERFALL: a place where water from a river or stream falls down over a cliff or rock

WELL-PAID: providing or receiving good wages

WINDOW: a space or an area of glass in the wall of a building or vehicle that lets in light