2 Possessions

Page 21 television /ˈtɛləˌvɪʒən/ Noun

possessions /pəˈzeʃ(ə)nz/ Noun a television is a box that shows moving
pictures
your possessions are all the things that you
own on television
when the house burned down, we lost nearly all What’s on television tonight? | I like watching
our possessions | until she was eight, the doll television| a television set | a television
was her most precious possession | he program | watching sports on television |
disappeared last month, taking only a few we’ve got three televisions in the house
personal possessions
desk /dɛsk/ Noun
Verb: possess
a desk is a table that you use to do work on in
we lost everything we possesssed in the fire your office or classroom or at home

roller skates /ˈroʊlər skeɪt/ Noun there’s a computer and a phone on my desk | a
wooden desk | a messy desk | I put the
roller skates are shoes that have a line of
magazine on your desk
wheels underneath
a pair of roller skates | Can I try your roller lamp /læmp/ Noun
skates? | roller skates are not allowed in school a lamp is an object on a desk or table that gives
off light
Verb: roller-skate | Noun: roller skater
there’s a lamp next to the computer | It’s dark
she roller-skated down the hill | the park is
in here, can you turn on the lamp? | the lamp
popular with cyclists and roller skaters
was broken
shelf /ʃɛlf/ Noun
computer /kəmˈpjutər/ Noun
a shelf is a flat surface attached to a wall or in a
a computer is a machine that stores
cabinet which you can put things on
information, videos, music, pictures, etc., and
a shelf of something | the top shelf | the that you use at school or at work
bottom shelf
I’ve got over 2000 songs on my computer |
the batteries are on the bottom shelf | the How old is your computer? | a laptop computer
shelves were full of cans of food | there are | I watch TV programs on my computer
some towels on the top shelf in the bathroom |
I need more shelves for my books | the shelves picture /ˈpɪktʃər/ Noun
in the supermarket were nearly empty at the a picture is a drawing, painting, or photo that
end of the day you put on the wall because it looks nice

Pages 22–23 there are two pictures on the wall behind my

desk | the room will look nice once we put
couch /kaʊtʃ/ Noun some pictures up | it’s a picture of the
a couch is a long, soft chair that two or more mountains above Zakopane
people can sit on at the same time
blinds /blaɪnd/ Noun
there’s a big couch in the living room | they sat
blinds are things you use to cover a window
down on the couch | we need to buy a new
and stop the light coming in or going out
couch | she lay on the couch for a few minutes
| a comfortable couch | we sat on the couch the blinds are green | open the blinds and look
watching TV outside | the blinds are stuck (they won’t move
and can’t be opened)
chair /tʃɛr/ Noun
a chair is a piece of furniture that you sit on curtains /ˈkɜːt(ə)nz/ Noun
curtains are large pieces of cloth that hang
a table and chairs | this chair is broken | an
across a window to stop light coming in or
uncomfortable chair | we need another chair in
going out
here
 draw the curtains a bottle of water | an empty bottle | a glass
bottle
the curtains are open | it was getting dark so I
drew the curtains | she got out of bed and camera /ˈkæmərə/ Noun
opened the curtains a camera is an object that you use to take
cabinet /ˈkæbənɪt/ Noun photographs
a cabinet is a piece of furniture that you keep I always take my camera when I go for a walk |
things in an expensive camera | it’s a very simple
camera that’s easy to use
a kitchen cabinet | put it back in the cabinet | a
cabinet under the sink | the plates are in the first-aid kit /fɜːsteɪd ˌkɪt/ Noun
cabinet | I found my shirt at the back of a
a first-aid kit is things like bandages and
cabinet | she found some old photos in a
medicines that you keep in case someone has
cabinet
an accident and gets hurt or feels ill
drawer /ˈdrɔər/ Noun take a first-aid kit if you’re going up the
a drawer is a part that you can push in and pull mountain | there’s a first-aid kit in the cabinet
out of a piece of furniture, and that you use to | Have you got a first-aid kit? | always keep a
keep things in first-aid kit in your car
the top drawer | the bottom drawer glove /glʌv/ Noun
the knives and forks are in the top drawer | I gloves are pieces of material that you wear on
keep my passport in the top drawer of my desk your hands to keep them warm when it is cold
| have a look in the bottom drawer outside

rug /rʌg/ Noun a pair of gloves | he took his gloves off and put
them in his pocket | don’t forget your gloves–
a rug is a small carpet
it’s cold outside | leather gloves | she was
there’s a rug in front of the window | a wearing gardening gloves (to protect her hands
beautiful Turkish rug | it has the soft feel of a and stop them from getting dirty)
wool rug | a blue rug with blue cushions
hat /hæt/ Noun
plant /plænt/ Noun a hat is a piece of clothing that you wear on
a plant is a living thing such as a tree or a your head
vegetable
take your hat off | I don’t like wearing hats | a
there’s a plant next to the television | the fur hat
garden is full of plants | edible wild plants (that
you can safely eat) | this very popular plant knife /naɪf/ Noun
grows well indoors a knife is a sharp tool that you use to cut things

carpet /ˈkɑrpət/ Noun cut the string with a knife | a kitchen knife | Be
careful with that knife! It’s sharp
a carpet is a large piece of material that covers
a floor map /mæp/ Noun
there’s a blue carpet on the floor | don’t spill a map is an image of an area that shows you
your coffee on the carpet | my dad bought this where roads, hills, mountains, etc. are
carpet in India a map of Scotland | Can you show me your
Pages 24–25 street on the map? | I’ll never find it without a
map | a street map of London (giving the
boot /but/ Noun names of all the streets) | a tourist map | Can
boots are big heavy shoes you read a map? | the map shows how high
a pair of boots | take your boots off before you the hills are
come in | my boots are very muddy (covered in pen /pɛn/ Noun
mud) | I need some new boots for the winter
a pen is something that has ink in it and that
bottle /ˈbɑtəl/ Noun you use to write with
a bottle is a container for liquids
 write your answers with a pen | Can I borrow Dutch /dʌtʃ/ Adjective
your pen? | don’t forget to take a pen for your someone or something that is Dutch comes
exam | I lost my pen in school today
from the Netherlands
flashlight /ˈflæʃˌlaɪt/ Noun the Dutch hockey team | Rembrandt is
a flashlight is an object you can carry with you probably the most famous Dutch painter | the
and that gives off light Dutch government | they sell Dutch cheese in
my local store
my flashlight isn’t working anymore | a
powerful flashlight | Kerstin shone the Belgian /ˈbɛldʒɛn/ Adjective
flashlight straight into his eyes | it’s a useful
someone or something that is Belgian comes
app that turns your phone into a flashlight
from Belgium
diving /ˈdaɪvɪŋ/ Noun uncount Brussels is the Belgian capital | Belgian beer |
diving is the activity of swimming deep below Simenon was a Belgian writer | a box of
the surface of the sea, usually wearing special Belgian chocolates
equipment so that you can breathe while you
are under the water for a long time English /ˈɪŋglɪʃ/ Adjective
someone or something that is English comes
I tried diving on vacation last year, but I didn’t
from England
like it | we spent most of the afternoon diving
near the coral reef | diving equipment is very the English soccer team | his mother is English
expensive but his father is French | Shakespeare is the
most famous English writer | English literature
Verb: dive | Noun: diver
the deepest I’ve ever dived is 200 feet | two of French /frɛntʃ/ Adjective
the divers needed help to get back onto the someone or something that is French comes
boat from France

climbing /ˈklaɪmɪŋ/ Noun uncount French food is very good | Paris is the French
capital | a store selling French cheese | the
climbing is the activity of climbing rocks or
French flag
mountains for pleasure
we’re going climbing in France next month | Do Brazilian /brəˈzɪliən/ Adjective
you enjoy climbing? | a climbing vacation | someone or something that is Brazilian comes
climbing is great fun from Brazil
Verb: climb | Noun: climber I like Brazilian coffee | the Brazilian soccer
team | the Brazilian government | her mother
Edmund Hillary was the first person to climb is Brazilian
Mount Everest | a group of mountain climbers
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kayaking /ˈkaɪækɪŋ/ Noun uncount
kayaking is the activity or sport of using a large /lɑrdʒ/ Adjective
kayak (a boat like a canoe that you use with a something that is large is quite big
single paddle) he lives in a large apartment in Hampstead | I
we’d never been kayaking before, and it was need a sweater, a large one | London is a very
great fun | kayaking is easy to do even if you large city | What’s the largest size of shoes you
have no experience | kayaking is very good sell?
exercise
medium /ˈmidiəm/ Adjective
Pages 26–27 something that is medium is not large and not
small but between the two in size
British /ˈbrɪtɪʃ/ Adjective
someone or something that is British comes What size coat do you want? Medium or large?
from Britain | the shirts are available in medium or large
size | a medium-sized cup of coffee
a British car | the British government | a British
citizen | the British Embassy in Paris
one /wʌn/ Pronoun my computer is very slow - it’s completely
you use one when you are referring to useless | our tent was useless. It let in water
every time it rained | the camera is useless at
something you have already named
taking photos in the dark
I’d like one of those envelopes, please. A green
one | those are the ones I was telling you about modern /ˈmɑdərn/ Adjective
| I tried to buy a new jacket but I couldn’t find something that is modern is new and
one that I liked fashionable

ad /æd/ Noun her house is very modern | they have a lot of

modern furniture | modern computers are very
an ad is a short piece of text, often with a
powerful | people are living longer thanks to
picture, or a short movie on TV that tries to
modern medicine
make people want to buy a particular product
I saw an ad for it on TV | there are too many slow /sloʊ/ Adjective
ads on TV | the great thing about the BBC is something that is slow does not move or work
that there are no ads | a front page ad in a fast
national newspaper | an ad for a new
my computer is very slow | my car is very slow
smartphone
at getting up hills | we’re making very slow
backpack /ˈbækˌpæk/ Noun progress at the moment
a backpack is a large bag that you carry on Adverb: slowly || Opposite: Adjective: fast
your back, for example, when you are on a
the bus came slowly around the corner | she
walking vacation
likes driving fast cars
leave your backpack in the tent | my backpack
was absolutely full | I could see her brightly small /smɔl/ Adjective
colored backpack from a long way away | a something that is small is not big
waterproof backpack
a small couch for two people | Cambridge is
old /oʊld/ Adjective quite a small city | his feet are very small | a
small café | she was carrying a small dog | the
something that is old is not new. Someone who
hotel was nice but the rooms were rather small
is old is not young
an old car | the cathedral is very old | they’re expensive /ɛkˈspɛnsɪv/ Adjective
going to build a modern laboratory to replace something that is expensive costs a lot of
the old one | my grandfather is a very old man money

laptop /ˈlæpˌtɑp/ Noun an expensive watch | I like expensive clothes |

it’s a good restaurant, but too expensive for us
a laptop is a computer that you can carry
| an expensive meal | that’s a nice dress–was it
around with you. Laptops can fold when you
expensive? | it was very expensive to take a
are not using them so the screen covers the
taxi to the airport
keyboard to make them easy to carry
Opposite: Adjective: cheap
I dropped my laptop and broke it | I bought a
new laptop last week | he shut down his laptop a cheap hotel | tickets for the concert were
and put it in the desk drawer quite cheap

bad /bæd/ Adjective useful /ˈjusfəl/ Adjective

something that is bad is not good something that is useful is good and can do
things you want it to do
that’s a bad idea | this bike is very bad at
cycling through mud | burning coal is bad for these shelves are very useful | there’s plenty of
the environment useful information on the internet | these
pockets are useful for keeping money in | she
useless /ˈjuslɪs/ Adjective gave me some very useful advice
something that is useless does not work
properly
Pages 30–31 mailbox /ˈmeɪlˌbɑks/ Noun
miss /mɪs/ Verb a mailbox is a hole outside a house or in the
door of a house or apartment where letters
if you miss someone or something, you are sad
can be delivered
because you are away from them and you will
not see them for a long time my new passport just came in the mailbox | the
envelope was too big to fit in the mailbox
Did you miss me? | I really missed my dog
when I went on vacation | You’ll miss me when Page 32
I’m gone! | one thing I didn’t miss when I left
school was math classes currency /ˈkɜrənsi/ Noun
a country’s currency is the money that is used
forward /ˈfɔrwərd/ Verb there. For example, the currency of the USA is
if you forward a letter or parcel to someone, the dollar
you send it to them after it has been delivered
the single European currency, the euro | banks
to an address where they no longer live
were selling sterling (the currency of the UK)
Can you forward this to the people who lived and buying foreign currency
here before you? | the envelope arrived here,
but it said “Please forward” at the top | I don’t pound /paʊnd/ Noun
know his new address, but I’m sure they’ll the pound is the unit of currency in the UK. The
forward his letter symbol for it is £

good luck /gʊd lʌk/ Phrase a pound is worth about $1.35 | I paid ten
pounds for the book | a one-pound coin | a
you say “Good luck” to someone to tell them
ten-pound note
you hope they will be successful in something
they are about to try and do euro /ˈjʊroʊ/ Noun
Good luck with your exam | we all said good the euro is the unit of currency used in 19
luck to her when she left to take her driving test European countries. The symbol for it is €
| Are you starting your new job tomorrow?
the concert tickets were one hundred euros
Good luck
each | £1 is about €1.12 | they use the euro in
apartment /əˈpɑrtmənt/ Noun Germany
an apartment is a group of rooms on one floor dollar /ˈdɑlər/ Noun
of a building, where someone lives. The usual the dollar is the unit of currency used in the
British word is flat USA and some other countries. The symbol for
we shared an apartment in Gas Street | a two- it is $
bedroom apartment in Paris | a city-center a ten-dollar bill (paper money worth $10) | a
apartment | there’s an apartment for sale in pound is worth about one dollar thirty-five
the next building cents | it cost me $40 to get a taxi here
package /ˈpækɪdʒ/ Noun money /ˈmʌni/ Noun uncount
a package is a box or large letter that is sent by money is the coins and bills that you can use to
mail and delivered to someone’s house buy things
a large package arrived for me| I was I forgot to bring any money with me | Have you
expecting another package this morning | I’ll got enough money for the train ticket? | How
send the package to your home address | much money have you got? | it costs a lot of
What’s in the package? | she opened the money to fly to Australia | my old car isn’t
package and found a new phone worth much money