Getting Married and Wedding vocabulary
Weddings – The Big Day!

to get married TO someone / to marry someone / to get divorced FROM someone
a priest marries you
to be engaged, an engagement party/ring (fiancée – the woman / financé – the man), to pop the question, to get down on one knee (to propose), to make wedding vows (vow = strong promise – votos matrimoniales)
church / registry office (registro civil)

      

Listening to The News – News and current affairs vocabulary

The News (news is an uncountable noun – some news, a piece of news, I have good/bad news)

a newspaper (a paper): National/local paper, Daily paper
What’s the difference between a tabloid and a broadsheet?
the gutter press – gutter = alcantarilla, canaleta – newspapers that focus on sensational journalism, usually about the lives of famous people.
phone tapping – pinchazo telefónico
reporter – periodista
headlines – titular, cabecera
foreign correspondent – corresponsal extranjero, corresponsal en el extranjero
anchorman – presentador
foreign, international news / home, national news
editor / editorial
to write a column / to write a piece (blog post)
researcher – investigador, investigadora
journalism – journalist, photo-journalist
articles – artículo
supplements
circulation (readership) – tirada
proof reader – a person who checks for errors

Silent letters (I say the Spanish word, you say the English word before you hear it)

/t/
listen – escuchar
soften – ablandarse, suavizarse
whistle – silbar (chiflar)
fasten – atar, abrochar
Christmas – Navidad
castle – castillo

/k/
knife – cuchillo
knee – rodilla
knowledge – conocimiento
knit – tejer, hacer punto
knob – pomo, picaporte (a knob of butter)
know – conocer, saber
knot – nudo

      

ACADEMIC ENGLISH

Academic English style is generally evident in a:
Journal (like a technical/academic magazine); Text book; Essay; Academic article; Report; Dissertation; Thesis; etc. WRITTEN
Lecture; Talk; Workshop; Presentation; Tutorial; Seminar; Conference; etc. SPOKEN
Different style of language compared to General English. Key features include:

More abstract, more impersonal, more structured, more organised, usually formal (written), often more technical, often more complex, avoids ambiguity, may include references to other sources.

-Avoid personal pronouns, eg. I, me, you, us, etc.

-Use the Passive (to be impersonal):
eg. the liquid was heated to 20 degrees C; it can be seen that the species evolved.