UNIT 2 - VOCABULARY

Appeal: It is atractive for you. It grabs your attention

Broadcast: Transmit (a programme or some information) by radio or television

Facts: A thing that is known or proved to be true/Information used as evidence or as part of a report or news article

Advertise: Describe or draw attention to (a product, service, or event) in a public medium in order to promote sales or attendance

Suceed in +ING: Achieve the desired aim or result

Claim: State or assert that something is the case, typically without providing evidence or proof

Appear: Present oneself formally in a court or tribunal.

Promote: Support or actively encourage (a cause, venture, etc.); further the progress of

Convince: Persuade (someone) to do something

To got a few hours to spare: Means that you have just a few free hours

Get them to come along: The sama as get involved

Expect: Regard (something) as likely to happen

Race: To get money for the disadvantaged people

Earn: To get money for you

Backwards: In the direction of one's back

The average: A number expressing the central or typical value in a set of data, in particular the mode, median, or (most commonly) the mean, which is calculated by dividing the sum of the values in the set by their number

Believe it or not

Dates back: To have existed for a particular length of time or since a particular time

That's how...: Used when you are extremely surprised, confused, or angry about something

Soap operas: a series of television or radio programmes about the lives and problems of a particular group of characters. The series continues over a long period and is broadcast (several times) every week.

Caugh: To force air out of your lungs through your throat with a short, loud sound

Slot: A long, narrow hole, especially one for putting coins into or for fitting a separate piece into

Grab your attention: To take hold of something or someone suddenly and roughly

Come up: Realize

Kitchen towel: A lint-free towel for use in a kitchen, as for drying washed dishes, wiping up liquid, etc

Launch a campaign: To begin something such as a plan or introduce something new such as a product, in this case, to start a new advertising campaign

Guerrilla advertising: It's an advertisement strategy to promote products or services on the streets or other public places with little money. This involves getting the attention of the public. It was popularized by Jay Conrad Levinson in the book Guerrilla Marketing, 1984

Despite this: Without being affected by; in spite of

Persuade: To make someone do or believe something by giving them a good reason to do it or by talking to that person and making them believe it

Think of: Occur

Billboard: A very large board on which advertisements are shown, especially at the side of a road

IT'S PELTING WITH RAIN! ↘
IT'S RAINING HEAVILY! → It's raining a lot
IT'S POURING CATS AND DOGS!  ↗

It's never too late!

Electrical appliances: The electrical equipment used in the home, especially in the kitchen

Devices: An object or machine that has been invented for a particular purpose/A machine, for example a phone or computer, that can be used to connect to the internet

Wheel(s): A circular object connected at the centre to a bar, used for making vehicles or parts of machines move/A steering wheel (= a wheel inside a vehicle that the driver turns to make the vehicle go in a particular direction)

Cakes, pastry, sweets, bakery: A type of sweet cake made of special pastry and usually containing something such as fruit or nuts

Dub: To change the sounds and speech on a film or television programme, especially to a different language

Café, coffe shop: A restaurant where simple and usually quite cheap meals are served

Shave: To remove hair from the body, especially a man's face, by cutting it close to the skin with a razor, so that the skin feels smooth

After-shave

Attic: The space or room at the top of a building, under the roof, often used for storing things

Cellar: A room under the ground floor of a building, usually used for storing things

Run over: To hit and drive over someone or something with a vehicle

Run into: Collide with

Run out of: Stop having something

Trouble: Problems or difficulties
To take a rest/an exam

Sold out: When a film, concert, etc. is sold out, all of the tickets for it have been sold/When a shop is sold out of something, there is no more of that thing left to buy in it

Groceries: Items of food sold in a grocery or supermarket

Essays: A short piece of writing on a particular subject, especially one done by students as part of the work for a course

To make plans 

Supply: Provide

Charge: Ask you to pay

Consume: Use

Refund: Give us back

Purchase: Buy

Browse: Spend some time looking

Bargain: A very cheap product

Bid: To offer a particular amount of money for something that is for sale and compete against other people to buy it, especially at a public sale of goods or property

Script: The words of a film, play, broadcast, or speech

Love ir or hate it

Research: A detailed study of a subject, especially in order to discover (new) information or reach a (new) understanding

Vending machine: A machine where you can buy food, drinks...

To pack: To put something into a bag, box, etc

It fits me: It means that you see well wearing it on you

Narrow: Having a small distance from one side to the other, especially in comparison with the length

Fang floss: Floss for the vampires!

Spot: A spot is an advertisement

Mass media: The mass media is a diversified collection of media technologies that reach a large audience via mass communication. The technologies through which this communication takes place include a variety of outlets

Until then 

I can't cope with: It means that the situation overcops you

What did you get up to?: "Get up to + something" is a British and informal expression. It just means "do something." So "What did you get up to" means "What did you do?" Perhaps if someone wanted to ask you about how you spent your free time and also implied about the rest of it

The usual sights: The places where everyone goes

Very cosy: Comfortable and pleasant, especially (of a building or a person) because of being small and warm

Manage: To succeed in doing or dealing with something, especially something difficult

Suitable: Acceptable or right for someone or something

Gorgeous: Very pretty

Atonished: Very surprised

Packed: Very crowded

Endless: Without end

Boiling/Boiling hot: Very hot

Exhausted: Very tired

Astounding: Very surprising

Filthy: Very dirty

Spotless: Very clean

Hilarious: Very funny

Hideous: Very ugly

Starving: Very hungry