Vocabulary

• look at: To use your eyes to focus on something
• for example: As an illustration or instance.
• at work: Located at one's place of employment
• at home: In one's own residence or country.
• at school: Present and attending school.
• speak to: To address or communicate with someone.
• have to: Must do
• talking about: To discuss a particular topic.
• on the phone: Talking on the telephone.
• in general: Typically; usually; on the whole.
• in question: Being doubted or disputed; under discussion.
• after dinner: Following the meal of dinner.
• in pairs: Divided into or working as two people together.
• phone in: Call someone by phone, often to report or notify remotely.
• go out: To leave a building (e.g. a house)
• in the house: Located inside a building used as a dwelling.
• work at: To have a job at a particular place or organization.
• practice: The office and place for legal or medical work
• positive: Showing agreement or support for something
• negative: The opposite to a positive electrical charge
• conversation: Talking with other people; discussion or chat
• emotional: Causing, feeling, or appealing to the emotions
• permission: Right to do something as allowed by another
• complete: To finish or reach the end of doing something
• break: To create a new record e.g. running the 100m dash
• contraction: Process of becoming smaller in length/size
• excuse: To allow someone not to do (jury service, etc.)
• credit: System to buy something and pay for it later
• lot: What happens to a person in life from chance; fate
• sign: Indication that something exists or will happen
• personal: Done by or to a particular person; individual
• continue: To do something without stopping, or after pausing
• damage: Physical harm that is done to something
• drive: A person's ambition and motivation to do something
• excellent: Extremely good
• verb: Word that expresses an action or state
• change: To exchange one set of clothes for another
• quit: To leave a job
• question: To ask for or try to get information
• cell: Smallest unit of living things in biology
• fast: In a way that is difficult to move or change
• affirmative: Saying 'yes'; confirming; agreeing to
• shoot: To kick or throw a ball at a goal
• part: Division of a book
• fine: Good, acceptable or satisfactory
• partner: One you have a business/personal relationship with
• check: Paper showing how much you owe at a restaurant
• work: The product of some artistic or literary endeavor
• picture: General situation or state of being
• time: Speed at which music is played; tempo
• officer: Person of high position in an organization
• homework: Work that a student is given to do at home
• policeman: Male police officer