Vocabulary

Travel and Holidays

Nouns
Accommodation
Buffet
Cabin
Campsite
Car-crash
Coach-station a terminal that serves bus passengers
Crew
Crossing
Cruise
Deck la cubierta
Departure-lounge Lounge where passengers can await departure
Destination
Double room A room for two
Expedition A journey for a scientific or special purpose
Flight
Fortnight A period of fourteen consecutive days
Guest house
Harbour A sheltered port where ships can take on or discharge cargo
Hitch hike to travel by standing on the side of the road and soliciting rides from passing vehicles
Hostel
Itinerary
Label
Life belt Life preserver. Flotation device
Luggage
Package tour
Passengers
Platform
Porter
Quay Platform usually built parallel to the shoreline
Runway A strip of level paved surface where planes can take off and land
Seat belt
Single ticket
Stewardess
Suitcase
Tour
Travel
Trip
Vacancy
Voyage A journey by sea

Verbs

To book
To check in
To declare (goods)
To delay (i.e. plane)
To deviate
To divert
To get off
To get to
To give a try (to have a go)
To go away for the weekend
To have a suspicion
To have very little on (To wear very
little)

To land
To look out (i.e. The hotel room looked out
over a beautiful garden.)
To pay (a bill)
To put up (a tent)
To relax
To spend the day
To sunbathe
To take off
To think of something (To have an
idea)
To unpack
To water-ski

Clothes and Appearance

Nouns and Adjectives.
Anorak
Appearance
Apron delantal
Belt
Blouse
Boots
Bow tie corbata de monitor
Briefcase Maletn, portafolios
Cap
Cleaners
Collar cuello
Costume
Cuff Puo de la manga
Dress
Dressing gown bata
Dungarees pantaloon de peto
Earrings
Fancy dress party
Fashionable
Fur
Glasses
Glove
Haircut
Handbag
Hat
Heels
Helmet
High-heeled boots
Informal
Inside out (i.e. Your pullover is on
inside out)

Jacket
Jumper
Knot tie
Mackintosh (Mac) Impermeable
Nightdress
Overalls mameluco
Overcoat Sobretodo
Parting Raya
Plain colour
Pocket
Pyjamas
Robe
Sandals
Scarf
Shawls
Shirt
Shoelaces
Shoes
Silk
Size
Skinny
Skirt
Sleeves
Slim
Socks
Sole Suela
Stockings
Stripped shirt
Suit
Suitcase
Swimming costume

Thin
Tie
Tights malla (ballet)
Unbuttoned
Underwear
Underweight

Uniform
Unsuitable
Waistcoat Chaleco
Wardrobe
Winter outfit Conjunto de invierno

Verbs
To be in style (i.e. A dress)
To be soaked
To be worn (i.e. a coat)
To change clothes
To get into wearing smthg
To get smthg taken in to make it
smaller
To get smthg taken up to make it
shorter
To give someone away (i.e.
fingerprints gave the thief away)

To grow out of (doesnt suit

anymore)
To have on (clothes)
To have smthg let down (A skirt)
To put aside (to save money)
To roll up (sleeves)
To undo buttons
To undress
To wear formal

People and Behaviour.

Adorable
Aggressive
Ambitious
Annoying
Bad-tempered
Brave
Cheerful
Conscious
Considerate
Courageous
Determined
Dishonest
Disobedient
Frank
Friendly
Gentle
Grateful
Greedy
Honest
Imaginative
Impolite
Jealous
Kind

Lazy
Lonely
Mean
Obedient
Proud
Punctual
Reliable
Rude
Selfish
Sentimental
Shy
Snobbish
Sociable
Strict
Stubborn
Sympathetic
Talkative
Thoughtful
Tolerant
Unfriendly
Unsympathetic
Violent

Argument

Discussion

Dispute
Generation
Married
Personality
Relations
Row

Single
To get divorced
To get engaged
To get to know someone
To grow up
To meet

Adult
Best-man
Bride
Colleague
Fianc (for a man)
Fiance (for a woman)
Neighbour

Nephew
Niece
Pensioner
Sister-in-law
Toddler
Twin
Widow

To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To
To

arrive = to turn up
behave like = to take after
have a good relationship with = to get on well with
make a present of = to give away
quarrel = to fall out
refuse = to turn down
rely on = to count on
respect = to look up to
stand = to put up with
visit my house = to call in