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GLOSARIO DE INGLÉS
(Educación Media)
Adjective: A word that describes a noun or a pronoun.
Adverb: A word that describes or gives more information about a verb, adjective,
adverb or phrase.
Adverbs of degree: They tell us about the intensity of an action, and adjective, or
another adverb.
Adverbs of manner: They tell us how something happens.
Chart or Table: An arrangement of facts or numbers in rows or columns.
Clue: A sign or a piece of information that helps you to solve a problem or answer
a question.
Cognate: Languages and words that have the same origin, or that are related and
in a similar way.
Collocation: A sequence of words or terms that co-occur more often than it would
be expected by chance.
Conditional sentences: They are used to express that the action in the main
clause can only take place if a certain condition is fulfilled.
Discuss: To talk about a subject with someone and tell each other your ideas or
opinions.
Draft: A piece of text, a formal suggestion, or a drawing in its original state, often
containing the main ideas and intentions but not the developed form.
Edit: To make changes to a text, deciding what will be removed and what will be
kept in, in order to prepare it for being printed and/or published.
Extract: A particular part of a book, poem, etc.
First person: Referring to personal pronouns I (singular, referring to yourself) or
we (plural, referring to yourself with others). I and We are said to be in the
subjective case because they can be used as the subject of a sentence.
Graphic organizer: (also known as knowledge map, concept map, story map or
concept diagram) Communication tool that uses visual symbols to express
knowledge, concepts, thoughts, or ideas and the relationship between them. Its
main purpose is to provide a visual aid to facilitate learning.
Guess: To give an answer to a particular question without all the facts and so
cannot be certain if it is correct.
Infinitive: The basic form of a verb, without an inflection binding it to a particular
subject or tense. It usually follows to.
Label: To describe someone or something using a particular word or phrase.
Match: To choose someone or something that is suitable for a particular person,
activity or purpose.
Modal verbs: They are used to express ideas such as possibility, obligation, and
necessity.
Noun: A word that refers to a person, place, object, event, substance, idea, feeling
or quality.
Pattern: A particular way in which something is done, is organized, or happens.
Phrase: A group of words which are often used together and have a particular
meaning; a phrase functions as a part of speech and includes a head (or
headword), which determines the nature of the unit.
Preposition: A word (one of the parts of speech) that shows the relationship
between a noun or pronoun and other words in a sentence.
Prediction: A statement about what somebody thinks will happen in the future.
Pronoun: A word that can replace a noun or another pronoun; they are used to
make sentences less repetitive. Grammarians classify pronouns into several types:
personal, demonstrative, interrogative, indefinite, relative, reflexive and intensive.
Proofread: To find and correct mistakes in text before it is handed in, printed or
put online.
Provided: Given, offered, presented.
Punctuation: Special symbols that are added to writing to separate phrases and
sentences, to show that something is a question, etc.
Question: A sentence or phrase used to find out information; in an exam, a
problem that tests a person´s knowledge or ability.
Role play: To pretend to be someone else, especially as a part of learning a new
skill.
Rule: A principle of a system, such as a language or science.
Sentence: A group of words that are put together to mean something. It is the
basic unit of language which expresses a complete thought.
Spelling: The way in which words are formed with the correct letters in the correct
order.
Statement: An affirmative or negative sentence that is not a question or command.
Structure: The way that words or part of speech are arranged or put together.
Subject: The person or thing which performs the action described by the verb.
Support: To help to show something to be true.
Synonym: A word or phrase that means the same as another one.
Tense: Form of a verb that shows us when the action or state happens, past,
present or future.
Tone: A writer´s attitude towards subject, audience, and self. It is primarily
conveyed through diction, point of view, syntax, and level of formality.
Tongue twister: A sentence or phrase that is intended to be difficult to say.
Verb form: English verbs have five basic forms: The base form, the –S form, the
ING form, the past form, and the past participle form. There are two types of past
forms, for regular and irregular verbs.