C

F
G
B

D
A
 F
A
D
G
B

After only a short time though, both my brother and I were quite fluent
Eva seemed upset about something and I just couldn’t find the right words to make her feel better.

These teens used quite a lot of words that I hadn’t learnt (at school).
I started going to modern Greek classes on Saturdays.
I said lots of wrong things but my motto is that if you want to learn something properly, you just have
to stick with it and take a few risks.
 B F
E C
D
A
 experiment

cosy

bother
futuristic

complex

massive

blossom
B

C
G

D
A

E
C
F
A
D

E
B
G
 impact on

sustainable
modern trend

make use of

environmental awareness
 be a pain

broke the ice

language barrier

improved

remain

stuck with
got back to normal
fluent
settle down
motto
 G
A
F
E
C

international friends love going on holiday with me cos I don’t struggle to communicate like they do.
I realise I’ve tried to make some English expression sound Spanish and it doesn’t even exist!
Sometimes we use both languages in the same sentence – you don’t even notice you’re doing it when you’re bilingual.

I often get asked how I can remember so many words … People are really curious about my language abilities.
They want to know …
I have no issues with my identity – until it comes to football and then I never know which team to support … I don’t
know who to cheer for … I don’t know …
 were
could
would have
had been

find
will
were would

had
would
spacious cramped

neat messy

massive tiny
 didn’t

could

rather
1 hang up: put your clothes on hangers
2 put up (on): hang/stick posters and pictures on the walls
3 tidy up: put your things away so the room looks neat
4 clear up: tidy up things that have been left lying around,
or tidy up aft er a party or aft er having visitors around
5 sort out: go through your belongings, especially clothes,
papers, etc, and throw away things you no longer need
6 put away: put things in cupboards and drawers, etc. and
not leave them in piles around the room
 rather not miss/we did not miss

wish (that) I was/were

only Alex had studied

Jeni had (only) known Spanish / (only) Jeni had

known Spanish

(that) they hadn’t walked

if I hadn’t gone/been
Rail:
Air: Sea:
board,
board, brake, cabin, crew, departure lounge, board, cabin, crew, deck, network, (‘pilot’ can be
brake,
network, used as
guard,
pilot, terminal, traffic, tunnel (wind, for a verb to mean ‘take a ship into the harbour),
network,
testing aircraft ) port, terminal
platform,
(e.g. ferry), traffic
terminal, track,
traffic, tunnel
 out
on

for

into

of

for
after

through

on
to