Unit 1 and 2
This noun phrase describes a large mass of ice, like those found in the northern hemisphere that are slowly melting.
Ice sheet
This noun phrase refers to the nervous feeling you get when you arrive in a place with a very different culture from your own.
Culture shock
This noun refers to a humorous image or piece of text that spreads very quickly on the internet.
Meme
This phrase means to travel using a very small amount of money.
Travel on a shoestring
This noun is a word that has become very popular, especially relating to a particular subject or activity.
Buzzword
This phrasal verb means to accept some work or responsibility, like a new role in a family business.
Take on
This grammatical structure is used after the phrase "I can't get used to..."
A gerund (or verb+ing)
This structure is used for creating emphasis, as in the sentence "What the study proved was highly unusual."
A cleft sentence (or What-cleft)
This type of clause, often starting with "that," can function as the object of a verb, as in "Scientists speculate that implants will be common."
A noun clause
This grammatical form is required after a preposition, such as "in" or "without," as in "He left without ___ (say) goodbye."
A gerund (or verb+ing)
In the sentence "We absolutely must follow the company rules," this word is a quantifier expressing strong obligation.
Must
This adjective describes someone who is not willing to let anything prevent them from doing what they have decided to do.
Determined
This noun phrase refers to images produced by a computer, often used for special effects in blockbuster movies.
Computer-generated imagery (CGI)
This noun phrase is the thing that makes a product or service special or different from others (abbreviation: USP).
Unique selling point (USP)
This verb means to delay doing something until later, usually something you don't want to do.
Procrastinate
This noun refers to the set of ideas, beliefs, and ways of behaving of the people who work in a particular company.
Office culture
This noun is the ability to understand how someone feels because you can imagine what it is like to be them.
Empathy
This conditional is used to talk about a highly unlikely situation in the future and its consequence.
Second conditional
This phrasal-prepositional verb means to admire or respect someone.
Look up to
This future tense is used to describe an action that will be in progress at a specific time later, emphasizing its duration.
Future progressive
This verb tense is used in the sentence "Scientists have been worried about the melting ice for years.
Present perfect progressive (or present perfect continuous)
This adjective means "completely correct or true in every detail," a necessary quality for scientific data.
Accurate
This phrasal verb means to continue to do or use something, and not change it. (Vocabulary: Phrasal Verbs)
Stick with