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1 Lifestyle
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a musical instrument is something such as a guitar,
chat  /tʃæt/ Verb violin or piano that can make musical sounds
if you chat, you talk to someone in a friendly and I wish I could play a musical instrument | a shop that
informal way sells all sorts of musical instruments | how many
chat to someone musical instruments can you play?
it was nice to see people and chat at the party | they
chat on social media | we chatted for a while before play  /pleɪ/ Verb
his train arrived | she spent the journey chatting to if you can play a musical instrument, you are able to
her aunt on the phone make music on it
Noun: chat | Adjective: chatty I’m learning to play the piano | can you play the
guitar? | she can play several instruments
a chat with someone
Noun: player
Nice to see you! Have you got time for a chat? | I
had a long chat with my neighbour yesterday | my she’s a very good piano player
granddaughter’s only three but she’s very chatty social media  /ˈsəʊʃəl ˈmɛdɪə/ Noun
(talks a lot in a friendly way) social media is apps such as Facebook, Twitter,
clubbing  /ˈklʌbɪŋ/ Noun Instagram, etc., which people use to share pictures
if you go clubbing, you go to a nightclub to dance and send messages to each other
and have fun we chat on social media every day | my dad doesn’t
go clubbing do social media (doesn’t use it) | social media is very
useful for keeping in touch
I go clubbing every Saturday night | you’re too young
to go clubbing | he was out clubbing all night walk  /wɔːk/ Noun
if you go for a walk, you go outside and walk
countryside  /ˈkʌntriˌsaɪd/ Noun somewhere for pleasure
countryside is land that is not in a city or town and
where there are not many buildings go for a walk | a long walk
open countryside | unspoilt countryside | in the we went for a long walk in the country | let’s go for
countryside a walk | did you have a nice walk? | the weather is
perfect for a walk
some beautiful open countryside (countryside where
you can see things like rivers and trees and not
buildings or roads) | we sat on the train watching the Pages 10–11
countryside go by | I prefer living in the countryside asleep  /əˈsliːp/ Adjective
| we went for a walk through some lovely unspoilt if you are asleep, you are sleeping
countryside (countryside that has not been damaged
by roads or buildings) fall asleep | fast asleep
she fell asleep (started being asleep) in front of the
cycle  /ˈsaɪk(ə)l/ Verb TV | he’s asleep upstairs | don’t wake the baby – he’s
if you cycle somewhere, you go there riding on a asleep | he was fast asleep (very asleep) in bed | I’m
bicycle half asleep (very tired)
I like to cycle through the countryside | we cycled
along the bike lane | I cycle to school every day | he board game  /bɔːd geɪm/ Noun
cycles to work, even when it rains | I used to drive to a board game is an indoor game that you play using
work, but now I cycle | we cycled 300 kilometres in a board, moving pieces around on it according to the
four days numbers that are shown when you throw a dice (a
small cube with the numbers one to six on each side)
Noun: cyclist
it was raining, so we played board games all
a group of cyclists went past us | my dad’s a keen afternoon | my favourite board game is Monopoly | it
cyclist can take hours to finish a board game
jogging  /ˈdʒɒɡɪŋ/ Noun break  /breɪk/ Noun
jogging is the activity of getting exercise by running, when you are at work or doing a task, a break is a
but not very fast time when you stop working and relax for a short
go jogging while before starting to work again
I go jogging with my sister every morning | I’m going a lunch/tea/coffee break | a short/long break | take a
to start jogging regularly after Christmas | jogging break | be on your break
will help you get fit I haven’t got time to take a break | I usually take a

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break at about 11 | I worked from 8 till 4 without I often wake up at seven | we often go to the theatre
a break | that was a long break | I had to go to the in Guildford | do you often feel tired? | how often do
bank during my lunch break | a ten minute break | you go to the cinema?
he’s on his break at the moment
once or twice  /wʌns ɔː twaɪs/ Phrase
Verb: break
if you do something once or twice, you do it a very
the meeting starts at 9 and we’ll break for lunch at small number of times, but the exact number of
12:30 times is not important
check  /tʃek/ Verb I visit my grandparents once or twice a year | he
if you check something, you look at it to see if came to see us once or twice last year | yes, I met her
anything has changed about it or to make sure that once or twice in Sheffield | turn the fish over once or
it is still in good condition twice while it’s cooking
check something for something play  /pleɪ/ Verb
he checked his phone for messages before the if you play a game or a sport, you take part in it
meeting started | I check my emails on the train shall we play cards? | we played football all
going to work | you should check the weather afternoon | I’m learning to play tennis | it was
forecast before you set off | check the website to raining, so we played board games all afternoon
make sure the plane is still on time
stay up  /steɪ ʌp/ Phrasal verb
eat out  /iːt aʊt/ Phrasal verb if you stay up, you stay awake for longer than usual
if you eat out, you go to a restaurant to have a meal and go to bed later than you usually do
instead of eating at home
stay up late
we eat out once or twice a week | I can’t afford to
I sometimes stay up late to finish my homework | we
eat out | eating out in restaurants is very expensive |
stayed up till 3 o’clock to watch the football from
let’s eat out tonight
Japan | I often used to stay up all night when I was
exercise  /ˈeksə(r)saɪz/ Noun at university | I had to stay up until Andy came home
exercise is activity that you do with your body to because he didn’t have a key
help you stay fit and healthy
stressed  /strest/ Adjective
do exercise | get exercise if you are stressed, you are very worried about
you need to do more exercise | I don’t get enough something and cannot relax
exercise | if you don’t get enough exercise, you’ll I’m feeling very stressed about the new job | I got
get ill | I play football on Sundays for the exercise | really stressed before my driving test | you look
swimming is good exercise stressed – why don’t you have a day off?
Verb: exercise Noun: stress
you should exercise regularly to stay fit be under stress
get home  /gɛt həʊm/ Phrase he’s under a lot of stress at work | moving house can
when you get home, you arrive back to where you cause a lot of stress
live
tired  /ˈtaɪə(r)d/ Adjective
I got home late last night | what time do you usually if you are tired, you want to sleep because you have
get home from school? | I want to get home before done a lot of activity
it’s dark
feel tired
get up  /gɛt ʌp/ Phrasal verb I’ve been feeling tired all day | it was hard work, but
when you get up, you get out of bed after you have I don’t feel tired yet | all that running made me tired
finished sleeping | try to get some sleep if you’re tired | he looks tired
I usually get up about 8 | what time do you get up? | Adjective: tiring
I got up late this morning | she got up at 6:30 | I hate it was very tiring working in the garden all afternoon
getting up in the dark in winter | we get up late at
weekends | I’ve got to get up early tomorrow TV  /ˌtiː ˈviː/ Noun
a TV is a television – a machine that shows moving
hours  /ˈaʊə(r)z/ Noun plural pictures along with sounds, especially of programmes
your hours are the number of hours you have to that are specially made
spend at work every day or every week
watch TV | be on TV
work long hours
I like watching TV | a TV set | what’s on TV tonight? |
workers are demanding higher wages and shorter a TV programme | watching sport on TV | we’ve got
working hours | I’ve been working very long hours three TVs in the house
this week | my hours are 9 till 5
two or three times  /tuː ɔː θriː taɪmz/ Phrase
often  /ˈɒf(ə)n/ Adverb if something happens two or three times, it happens
if something happens often, it happens regularly or a few times, but the exact number is not really
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she wakes up two or three times in the night | I tried I do a lot of exercise | I’m going to do some
ringing you two or three times, but your phone gardening this afternoon | who’s going to do the
always went to voicemail | I’ve only used it two or dishes (wash them) | you should do your homework
three times | I go back to Prague two or three times before you have dinner
a year
explanation  /ˌɛkspləˈneɪʃən/ Noun
usually  /ˈjuːʒʊəli/ Adverb an explanation is a statement that gives information
if something usually happens, it happens most times about and reasons for something so that people can
when it is possible for it to happen understand what it is or why it happened
she’s usually late for work | I usually visit my gran on one explanation is that the family is very important
Sundays | they usually go to school by bus here | another explanation suggested the string was
too weak | see the next chapter for a full explanation
wake up  /weɪk ʌp/ Phrasal verb | what is the explanation for your behaviour? |
if you wake up, you stop being asleep and become there’s a scientific explanation for this
awake. If you wake someone up, you make them
Verb: explain
stop sleeping and become awake
explain something to someone
wake up early/late
she’s good at explaining ideas | can you explain what
I woke up early and went for a walk | the baby often
you mean, exactly? | she tried explaining it to me
wakes up during the night | she woke up at six in the
morning | I usually wake up before the alarm clock explorer  /ɪkˈsplɔːrə(r)/ Noun
goes off | can you wake me up at seven? | don’t make an explorer is someone who goes to places in order
a noise – I don’t want the baby to wake up to find out about them, especially places that no one
Adjective: awake has been to before
are you awake yet? | I was still awake when it started Columbus, the explorer who discovered America,
getting light was Italian | the first European explorer came to New
Zealand in 1642 | the island was named by explorer
James Cook | Spanish explorers arrived here in 1536
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Verb: explore | Noun: exploration
active life  /ˈæktɪv laɪf/ Noun
Henry Hudson explored the islands in 1607 | the
an active life involves regular exercise that helps
exploration of space
someone stay fit and healthy
lead an active life go  /ɡəʊ/ Verb
my parents have led very active lives | your dog if you go fishing, go swimming, go dancing, etc., you
should be living a more active life travel to a place where you do that particular activity
we’re going shopping this afternoon | Dan’s gone
beyond  /bɪˈjɒnd/ Preposition swimming, but he’ll be home soon | shall we go
beyond a certain age means older than that age. For clubbing on Saturday? | I haven’t been jogging for
example, if someone lives beyond the age of 80, they weeks
are older than 80
very few people live beyond the age of 100 good health  /gʊd hɛlθ/ Noun uncount
if someone is in good health, they are fit and well
card  /kɑː(r)d/ Noun and do not have any illnesses
a card or a playing card is a small piece of cardboard be in good health
that has numbers or pictures on it, used for playing
doing yoga will help keep you in good health | my
games. A pack of cards usually has 52 cards in it. If
grandfather has always enjoyed good health | you
you play cards, you play a game using a pack of cards
should eat more fruit for good health
play cards | a pack/deck of cards | deal the cards
do you like playing card games? | let’s have a game hiking  /ˈhaɪkɪŋ/ Noun
of cards | he always cheats when he plays cards | it’s if you go hiking, you walk a long distance in the
your turn to deal the cards (give them out to the country for pleasure
players at the start of the game) | shuffle the cards go hiking
first (mix them up so that no one knows what order we went hiking in the mountains in Scotland | my
they are in) hobbies are hiking and playing the piano | a hiking
holiday
catch  /kæʧ/ Verb
if you catch fish or other animals, you succeed in Verb: hike | Noun: hiker
getting them so that you can kill them and eat them we hiked from Forres to Findhorn at the weekend
he didn’t catch a single fish all afternoon | Dad said | she could see two hikers coming down the side of
he wanted to catch a rabbit for tea the hill

do  /duː/ Verb karate  /kəˈrɑːti/ Noun

if you do something, you become involved in a karate is a sport that started in Japan, in which two
particular activity. Often, the real meaning is in the people fight each other using their hands and feet
name of the activity and do is a general word which do you prefer judo or karate? | his brother does
just means ‘carry out some action’
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karate on Tuesday afternoons | she went to karate meal | drink this - it’ll make you feel better | how do
classes for several years you feel about nature? Does it interest you?

lifestyle  /ˈlaɪfˌstaɪl/ Noun feel like  /fiːl laɪk/ Phrase

someone’s lifestyle is the way they live, the things if you feel like doing something, you want to do it. If
they do for work and pleasure, the way they spend you feel like something, you want to have it
their money, etc. feel like (doing) something
a healthy lifestyle | a simple lifestyle | an active what do you feel like doing after a long day at
lifestyle work? | I feel like a sandwich (I want to eat a
they’re doing less exercise now because of their sandwich) | do you feel like going to the cinema
new lifestyle | we lived a simple lifestyle out in the tonight?
country | his lifestyle hasn’t changed since he got his
new job | our job is to encourage a healthy lifestyle lower  /ˈləʊə(r)/ Adjective
for our customers if something is getting lower, it is becoming smaller
in number or quantity
nothing  /ˈnʌθɪŋ/ Pronoun get lower
if you do nothing, you do not do anything at all
the number of visitors is getting lower every year |
I spent the afternoon doing nothing | she went home the level of the water was getting lower
because there was nothing to do at the office | you
can’t sit at home all day doing nothing physical health  /ˈfɪzɪkəl hɛlθ/ Noun
your physical health is the state of your body and
surfing  /ˈsɜː(r)fɪŋ/ Noun whether you are in good condition or not
surfing is the activity of standing on a flat board and
lack of exercise is having an effect on their physical
riding on a wave in the sea as it comes onto a beach
health | he was over 90 but his physical health was
it was too cold to go surfing | I did a lot of surfing in still good | she was in poor physical health
Cornwall last summer | this beach is good for surfing
Noun: surfer relaxed  /rɪˈlækst/ Adjective
if you feel relaxed, you are calm and not worrying
a group of surfers came into the café
about work or problems
yoga  /ˈjəʊɡə/ Noun their contact with nature helped them feel more
yoga is a system of exercises that help you control relaxed | everyone was relaxed and enjoyed the party
your breathing and become fitter and more relaxed | he looked relaxed and happy
she teaches yoga on Thursday evenings | I used to do Verb: relax | Noun: relaxation | Adjective: relaxing
yoga when I was at university | I feel a lot healthier I walk in the park to relax | listening to music helps
since I started doing yoga me relax | I play chess for relaxation | the weekend
is for relaxation | a nice relaxing bath | we had a
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better  /ˈbetə(r)/ Adjective that  /ðæt/ Conjunction

if you feel better, you feel well again after you have you use that after some verbs to introduce
been ill, or you start to feel happy and relaxed after something that describes what you are saying,
you have been working hard or being in a difficult thinking, or feeling
situation do you feel that nature is good for us? | he didn’t
feel better | get better think that it was a good film | Terry said that he
I’ll feel better after a cup of tea | don’t come back wanted to go home
to work until you’re feeling better | he said he felt
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unless you take the medicine
abbreviation  /əˌbriːviˈeɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun
feel  /fiːl/ Verb an abbreviation is a short way of writing something
if you feel like something or feel like doing using just the first letter of each word, or the first
something, you think you want to do it now, few letters of a word
although you might not always want to do it. If DOB Is an abbreviation for “date of birth” |
you feel that something is true, you believe it is his tweets are full of abbreviations that I don’t
true. If you feel better, you are happier or healthier understand | the abbreviations are explained on
than you have been recently. What you feel about page 60
something are the ideas and beliefs you have about
it address  /əˈdres/ Noun
feel like (doing) something | feel that | feel better your address is the number of your house or flat and
the name of the street and town where you live
I feel like an ice cream | she felt like shouting for joy
| I always felt that table tennis wasn’t a serious sport he asked for my address and telephone number |
| her father felt that it would be disappointing if she have I given you my new address since we moved
didn’t go to university | you’ll feel better after a hot house? | what’s your address?

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backache  /ˈbækeɪk/ Noun fill in a form  /fɪl ɪn ə fɔːm/ Phrase

if you have a backache, your back hurts if you fill in a form, you write information in spaces
the bed was really uncomfortable and now I’ve got on a piece of paper or on a computer screen, for
backache | I’ve had a really bad backache all day | I example your name, address, credit card number, etc.
just wish this backache would go away please fill in this form and return it to the hospital | I
had to fill in a lot of forms to get my new passport
contact details  /ˈkɒntækt ˈdiːteɪlz/ Noun plural
your contact details are your address and telephone gender  /ˈdʒendə(r)/ Noun
number where someone can write to you or get in on a form, where it says gender, you have to write
touch with you male or female depending on whether you are a
can you give me your daytime contact details? man or a woman
(where you are during the day, for example at work)
headache  /ˈhedeɪk/ Noun
| I’m afraid I don’t have any contact details for him |
if you have a headache, your head hurts, for example
we will not give contact details of our employees to
because you are ill
journalists
a splitting headache
cough  /kɒf/ Noun I had a headache so I stayed at home | I’ve got a
if you have a cough, you cough a lot splitting headache (an extremely painful one) | all
a bad cough that loud music gave me a headache | she took an
he didn’t go to school because he had a bad cough | aspirin for her headache (to make it better) | I get a
I felt all right yesterday but I woke up with a cough headache if I drink coffee
this morning | she had a bad cough all last week
ill  /ɪl/ Adjective
Verb: cough if you are ill, you are not well and have a problem
he was coughing all night | my chest hurts when I with your health
cough feel ill | be seriously ill
cough sweet  /kɒf swiːt/ Noun I’ve been feeling ill all afternoon | I was too ill to go
a cough sweet is a medicine to help you stop coughing to school | he was taken ill last night (he suddenly
became ill) | she’s still seriously ill (very ill) in hospital
a packet of cough sweets | these cough sweets taste
| he fell ill and died while he was on holiday
horrible | lemon flavour cough sweets
Noun: illness
country of origin  /ˈkʌntri ɒv ˈɒrɪʤɪn/ Noun he had some sort of illness all last week
your country of origin is the country where you were
born marital status  /ˈmærɪtl ˈsteɪtəs/ Noun
I live in Germany, but my country of origin is Turkey your marital status is whether you are married or not
| his country of origin is India, but he has a British married
passport | after twenty years in the US she decided to what is your marital status? | please inform us if
return to her country of origin there is a change in your marital status | your driving
licence does not show your marital status
dependent  /ˈdʒendə(r)/ Noun
your dependents are people like your children or medication  /ˌmedɪˈkeɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun
elderly parents who rely on you to provide their medication is the medicine that someone is taking
food, clothing and a home because they are ill or to avoid becoming ill
a married man with three dependents | how many take medication | be on medication
dependents do you have? are you on any medication? | is he taking any
Adjective: dependent medication? | the doctor recommended trying a
they have two dependent children and a son who is different kind of medication
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medicine  /ˈmed(ə)s(ə)n/ Noun
earache  /ˈɪəreɪk/ Noun medicine is stuff that doctors give to people who are
if you have earache, you feel pain in an ear or in ill to make them better
both ears take medicine
I always get an earache after I’ve been swimming | a bottle of medicine | he had to take his medicine
being outside in the cold wind gave him earache | my every morning | the doctor gave me some medicine
earache kept me awake all night for my headaches | this medicine is very strong

emergency  /ɪˈmɜː(r)dʒ(ə)nsi/ Noun next of kin  /nɛkst ɒv kɪn/ Noun

an emergency is a serious or dangerous situation your next of kin is your closest relative, for example
that requires immediate action your husband or wife if you are married, or your
in case of emergency father or mother
who should we contact in case of emergency? | call police are still looking for the victim’s next of kin | his
me on this number if there’s an emergency mother was listed as his next of kin | the next of kin

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have been informed (the close relatives of someone sick  /sɪk/ Adjective
who has just died have been told about it) if you are sick, you are not well and food that you
have eaten comes back out of your mouth
occupation  /ˌɒkjʊˈpeɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun
feel sick | be sick
an occupation is a job. This word is used in forms and
formal writing I need some fresh air – I feel a bit sick | that curry
made me sick | I think I’m going to be sick | you’ll be
please supply your name, address and occupation |
sick if you eat any more ice cream
what is your occupation?
sore throat  /sɔː θrəʊt/ Noun
operation  /ˌɒpəˈreɪʃ(ə)n/ Noun
if you have a sore throat, your throat (area at the
if someone has an operation, doctors cut into their
back of your mouth and inside your neck) hurts
body in order to repair it or take something out
I’ve got a really sore throat | she had a runny nose
he had an operation on his knee | a minor operation
and a sore throat | smoking will give you a sore
(not very serious) | she needed an emergency
throat
operation | a heart operation | the operation was
successful spouse  /spaʊs/ Noun
Verb: operate your spouse is your husband or wife
operate on someone employees could bring their spouses to the company
they operated on my uncle to fix his broken shoulder party | friends and spouses were welcome | his spouse
died a year ago
pill  /pɪl/ Noun
a pill is a small, solid piece of medicine that you stomach ache  /ˈstʌmək eɪk/ Noun
swallow when you are ill to make you better if you have a stomach ache, your stomach hurts
the doctor gave me some pills for my cough | the you’ll get stomach ache if you eat too quickly |
pills are quite big, so break them in half before you chocolate always gives me a stomach ache | he didn’t
try to swallow them | I have to take two pills in the go to school because he had a bad stomach ache
morning and three in the evening | these pills will
surgery  /ˈsɜː(r)dʒəri/ Noun
make you sleepy, so you shouldn’t drive
surgery is a medical treatment that involves cutting
place of issue  /pleɪs ɒv ˈɪʃuː/ Noun into someone’s body in order to repair or take out a
on a passport, the place of issue refers to the part that is diseased or damaged
particular passport office which was responsible for you may need further surgery | she had to have
preparing the passport and sending it to you emergency surgery | heart surgery | brain surgery
place of issue: Passport Office, Peterborough
surname  /ˈsɜː(r)ˌneɪm/ Noun
postcode  /ˈpəʊs(t)ˌkəʊd/ Noun your surname is the name that everyone in your
a postcode is a short series of numbers and letters family has
at the end of someone’s address to help a delivery what’s your surname? | Elton John’s real surname
person find the exact building is Dwight | she changed her surname when she got
I can never remember my postcode | all postcodes married | Jones is a very common surname in Wales
in Swansea begin with the letters SA | the letter got
temperature  /ˈtemprɪtʃə(r)/ Noun
here even though they didn’t put the postcode on
if you have a temperature, your body is too hot
the envelope
because you are ill
qualifications  /ˌkwɒlɪfɪˈkeɪʃənz/ Noun plural have a temperature | a high temperature | take
your qualifications are the exams you have passed someone’s temperature
and the courses of study you have successfully I’ve got a temperature and my whole body aches |
completed, for example at university he had a high temperature so his mother kept him
do you have any qualifications? | he left school with off school | I felt quite ill, but my temperature was
no qualifications | if you don’t get any qualifications, 37, which was normal | when I took her temperature
you won’t get a good job (measured it) it was 38.5
Verb: qualify | Adjective: qualified
qualify as a doctor/lawyer, etc.
he qualified as a doctor last year | a qualified lawyer
(one who has passed the exams and can work as a
lawyer)

runny nose  /ˈrʌni nəʊz/ Noun

if you have a runny nose, your nose fills with liquid
because you are ill
have you got a tissue? I’ve got a runny nose | she
woke up with a sore throat and a runny nose | I’ve
got a runny nose and I’ve been coughing all day

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