Essential English Vocabulary and Advanced Grammar Masterclass
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Vocabulary Reference
Personality Adjectives
- Argumentative: argumentatiu/arrogant
- Arrogant: arrogant
- Bossy: mandón
- Easygoing: facilón
- Eccentric: excèntric
- Honest: honest
- Loyal: leial
- Narrow-minded: curt de mires
- Open-minded: ment oberta
- Sensitive: sensible
- Sensible: sensat
Common Verbs and Collocations
- Take part in (join in): participar
- Account (consider): tenir en compte
- Make sense of (understand): donar sentit / entendre
- Have a row (because of): tenir una discussió/baralla
- Make fun of (laugh at): burlar-se
- Play a part in (argue): tenir un paper en
- Lend a hand: donar un cop de mà
- Lose track of: perdre la pista de
- Let her know: deixar que-ho sàpiga
- Get in touch with: estar en contacte amb
- Say sorry: disculpar-se
- Give him/her word: donar la paraula
Nature and Environment
- Lagoon: llacuna
- Pond: estany
- Field: camp
- Hedge: tanca / cobertura
Collective Nouns
- A flock of: bandada (birds, sheep)
- Herd of: ramat (cows, goats, cattle)
- Pack of: paquet / manada (cards, dogs)
- Bunch of: grapat / ram (flowers, bananas)
- Set of: conjunt (cutlery, keys, dishes)
Groups of People
- Audience: audiència
- Cast: persons acting in a play or film
- Crew: people working on a ship or a plane
- Crowd: multitud
- Gang: group of people who may cause trouble
- Panel: experts
- Staff: people working in an organisation
- Team: people who play sport together or work together
Extreme Adjectives
- Ancient: molt vell
- Astounded: molt sorprès
- Boiling: molt calent
- Exhausted: molt cansat
- Filthy: molt brut
- Freezing: molt fred
- Furious: molt enfadat
- Gorgeous: molt guapo
- Hideous: molt lletj
- Hilarious: molt divertit / content
- Spotless: molt net
- Starving: molt gana
Phrasal Verbs with "Put"
- Put up with: suportar
- Put (algú) down: criticar / humiliar
- Put (algú) up: acollir
- Put (algo) down to: a causa de
- Put down: stop something
- Put up: donar / pujar
- Put down (prices): rebaixar
- Put up to: convèncer
- Put in: spend
- Put across: explain clearly
- Put out: apagar
- Put on: cridar l'atenció / posar-se (roba)
- Put through: connectar per telèfon / influenciar negativament
- Put forward: proposar
- Put away: guardar
- Put off: ajornar
Grammar Reference
Future Tenses and Meanings
- Will: for instant decisions.
- Going to: for plans.
- Present simple with a future meaning: used for timetables/routines or after time conjunctions like when, as soon as, by the time...
- Future continuous: for actions happening in the future (e.g., I'll be taking), planned events, or polite and less direct questions (e.g., Will you be...).
- Future perfect simple: for completed actions or events in the future (e.g., They'll have travelled).
- Future perfect continuous: to state how long an action in progress will have lasted in the future (e.g., He'll have been training).
Verb Patterns
| Verb + Infinitive | Verb + -ing Form | Verb + Infinitive / -ing Form |
|---|---|---|
| agree, dare, decide, expect, fail, happen, hope, manage, mean, offer, prepare, pretend, promise, refuse, seem, want | avoid, can't face, can't help, can't stand, can't mind, enjoy, fancy, feel like, finish, give up, imagine, keep, postpone, practise, put off, recommend, risk, spend time, suggest | begin, continue, hate, like, love, prefer, start |
Past and Perfect Tenses
- Past simple: I left work at 10:30.
- Past continuous: Jackson was looking for the right address.
- Present perfect simple: I've had this skateboard since I was 6.
- Present perfect continuous: You have been spending too much money recently.
- Past perfect simple: I wanted some pasta, but my brother had eaten it all.
- Past perfect continuous: By the age of 18, my dad had been working in a factory for six years.