ENGLISH GLOSSARY
ENGLISH GLOSSARY
23 UNIT 6 terms
Saving our planet
- Bottle
- Noun
- An object that can be of plastic or glass where there are water or others many different drinks.
- Example: Could you give me the bottle, please?
- en: Botella
- Bury
- Verb
- Is when someone put something under the ground
- Example: The dog burry a bone in the garden.
- en: Enterrar
- Cardboard
- Noun
- It’s a little bit more thick than a paper.
- Example: I’m going to buy the cardboard this afternoon
- en: Cartulina
- Carton
- Noun
- Something thicker than a cardboard. It’s normally used for make boxes where you can save many types of things.
- Example: There were a lot of carton boxes here.
- en: Cartón
- Cloth
- Noun
- Is necessary for make clothes
- Example: this dress is made of a different cloth
- en: Tela
- Container
- Noun
- Like a bin but more big, it’s situated on the street and people throw their trash there.
- Example: I throw the trash to the containers every night.
- en: Contenedor
- Cotton
- Noun
- It’s a type of cloth and it’s so soft
- Example: My sister prefer to buy cotton clothes
- en: Algodón
- Cut down
- Verb
- Is when someone reduce the time of life of a tree cutting it
- Example: Alice said that wasn’t good for the environment that people were cutting down the trees
- en: Talar
- Decompose
- Verb
- Is when a material isn’t in good conditions
- Example: The plastic decompose very slowly
- en: Descomponer
- Disposable product
- Noun
- It’s refers to different material that once you have used it you should throw it.
- Example: I bought disposable spoon for the party
- en: Productos desechables
- Dump
- Noun
- Is where all the rubbish is situated
- Example: In our city there isn’t a dump.
- en: Vertedero
- End up
- Verb
- Is when suddenly something or a situation finishes in somewhere or it’s solve of a different way that you thought.
- Example: She won the award because she ended up with the pollution in her city
- en: Terminar
- Endanger
- Adjective
- We say it when someone or something is not at all save
- Example: The panda is endangered
- en: En peligro de extinción
- Energy source
- Noun
- It refers to all types of energy like solar or hydraulic energy. It can be renewable or not.
- Example: They are looking for new energy sources
- en: Fuentes de energía
- Glass
- Noun
- It’s using for make different objects like bottles or jars.
- en: Vidrio
- Landfill
- Leather
- Noun
- It’s a type of cloth and we can found it in some jackets or shoes.
- Example: Pamela doesn’t like a leather jacket
- en: Cuero
- Natural resource
- Noun
- It refers to all materials that the land gives to us
- Example: Actually there are a lot of natural resources
- en: Recursos naturales
- Peel
- Verb
- When you cut the skin of a vegetable
- Example: I don’t like to peel the fruit
- en: Pelar
- Pollute
- Noun
- It refers to all situations that contaminate the world
- Example: Nowadays, the pollution is increasing.
- en: Contaminación
- Shell
- Noun
- Is the skin of the nuts but this is harder
- Example: I try to remove the shell but I can’t
- en: Cascara
- Wildlife
- Noun
- When we want to tell something about the animals life we say it
- Example: She is interested about the wildlife
- en: Vida salvaje
- Wool
- Noun
- It’s a type and cloth. Is more soft and also thicker.
- Example: My grandma made for a me a sweater of wool
- en: Lana