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FACULTAD DE CIENCIAS ADMINISTRATIVAS

DEPARTAMENTO DE IDIOMAS

VOCABULARY LIST

MODULE 6

UNIT 6

1. ACCENT: Word as the syllable we utter more strongly or intensely

2. BEST-SELLING: A literary or musical work that is very successful at commercial level.

3. BILLBOARDS: A panel for the display of advertisement in public places, such as alongside highways or
on the side s of buildings

4. BOX-OFFICE: The place in a cinema or theatre where tickets are sold

5. CANT STAND: to hate someone or something

6. CARTOONS: a drawing, especially in a newspaper or magazine, that tells a jokeor makes

a humorous political criticism

7. CAST: the actors in a film, play, or show

8. CLIPS: a small object usually made of metal or plastic, used for fasteningthings together
or holding them in position

9. COMPOSER: a person who writes music

10. DOCUMENTARIES: a film or television or radio programme that gives facts andinformation about
a subject

11. DUBBED: to give something or someone a particular name, especiallydescribing what you think of it,
him, or her:

12. FAILURE: The fact of someone or something not succeeding

13. FILMMAKER: someone who is in charge of making a film

14. GAME SHOWS: a television programme where people score points by answeringquestions or doing
thing

15. I CANT STAND: to hate someone or something

16. IM GETTING TIRED OF:

17. LIVE GIGS: a single performance by a musician group of musicians, especially playing modern or pop
music

18. MEDICAL DRAMA: Is a television program or film in which events center upon a hospital
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19. NEWS PROGRAMS: A program devoted to current, often using interviws and commentary

20. PREQUEL: a film, book, or play that develops the story of an earlier film, etc. bytelling you
what happened before the events in the first film, etc

21. PLOT: the story of a book, film, play, etc

22. REALITY TV: television programmes about ordinary people who

are filmed in realsituations, rather than actors

23. RELUCTANT: not willing to do something and therefore slow to do it

24. REVIEWS: to think or talk about something again, in order to makechanges to it or to make
a decision about it

25. ROLE: the position or purpose that someone or something has in asituation, organization, society,
or relationship

26. SCRIPT: the words of a film, play, broadcast, or speech

27. SEASON: one of the four periods of the year; spring, summer, autumn, orwinter

28. SITCOMS: a situation comedy

29. SOAP OPERAS: a series of television or radio programmes about the lives andproblems of
a particular group of characters. The series continuesover a long period and is broadcast (several times)
every week.

30. SPORTS EVENTS:

An activity involving physical exertion and skill that is governed by a set of rules or customs and oftenunderta
ken competitively.

31. STAND-UP COMEDY:

Is a comedy style where the performer ("actor and comedian") goes directly to a live audience.

32. SUBSCRIBED TO: to agree with or support an opinion, belief, or theory

33. SUBTITLES: ] a word, phrase, or sentence that is used as the second part of abook title and
is printed under the main title at the front of the book

34. TALK SHOWS: a radio or television programme on which famous guests areasked questions about
themselves, or members of the public discussa particular subject

35. TO BE ADDICTED TO: Passionate person and very inclined to an activity

36. TO BE NOMINATED: to officially suggest someone for an election, job, position, orhonour

37. TO BE SET IN: When something unpleasant sets in, it begins and seems likely tocontinue in
a serious way
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38. TO SHOOT: to try to do something:

39. TO STAR: a very large ball of burning gas in space that is usually seenfrom the earth as
a point of light in the sky at night

40. TO STREAM: water that flows naturally along a fixed route formed by
a channelcut into rock or ground, usually at ground level

41. TO SUSCRIBE TO: to pay money to an organization in order to receive a product, use
aservice regularly, or support the organization

42. TO TAKE TURNS: do something in turns; "We take turns on the night shift"

43. TO TURN INTO: to change or develop from one thing to another

44. TO TURN OUT: to happen in a particular way or to have

a particular result,especially an unexpected one

45. TO TURN UP: If a better situation or an opportunity to do something turnsup,

it happens or becomes available unexpectedly or in a way that was not planned

46. TO TREND: a general development or change in a situation or in the way

thatpeople are behaving

47. TRASHY:

48. TRILOGY:

49. VIEWS:

50. VISUAL EFFECTS: