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Unit 4 - Urban Jungle Apuntes

This document contains vocabulary related to urban areas, including terms like slums, landmarks, wealth, crime rate, population density, housing, facilities, and overcrowding. It also includes modal verbs like can, could, may, must, have to, need to, and their uses. Additionally, it discusses modal perfects and negative prefixes.

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Unit 4 - Urban Jungle Apuntes

This document contains vocabulary related to urban areas, including terms like slums, landmarks, wealth, crime rate, population density, housing, facilities, and overcrowding. It also includes modal verbs like can, could, may, must, have to, need to, and their uses. Additionally, it discusses modal perfects and negative prefixes.

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Slums: Suburbi, barri pobre Landmarks: Punt de referència

Wealthy: Adinerat, adinerada Crime rate: Taxa de criminalitat


Population density: Densitat de població Picturesque: Pintoresc/a
Quality of life: Qualitat de vida Litter: Llençar escombraries
Alleys: Carreró Round the clock: Les 24 hores del dia
Housing: Habitatge/s Facilities: Servei/ instal·lació
Overcrowding: Superpoblació Skyscrapers: Gratacel

Residents: Resient/ habitant Land: Terreny, terres


Destroyed: Destruït Pavement: Vorera
Pay a fine: Pagar una multa Clear: claro/a
Commute: viajar diariamente Equal: igual
Free of charge: gratis Giant: gigante
Isolation: aislamiento Lack of: falta de
Let in: dejar entrar Mayor: alcalde/esa
Neighbourhood: vecindario Set foot (in): poner pie (en)
Trek: emigrar Unemployment: desempleo

Modals
Can: Ability/Request / Possibility
Be able to: Ability / Possibility
Can’t: Inability / Prohibition / Deduction
Could: Ability(past) / Request(polite) / Suggestion / Possibility
May, Might: Possibility
May: Request (polite)-> only if (May) it’s a question
Should / Ought to: Advise
Need to: Necessity / Obligation
Have to: Necessity / Obligation
Must: Obligation
Mustn’t: Prohibition
Don’t have to / Don’t need to: Lack of obligation
Needn’t: Lack of obligation
Would: Formal request / Offer
Must / Can’t / May: Speculating

Modal Perfects
Could have: Possibility to do sth in the past, but it wasn’t done in the end.
Can’t / Couldn’t have: Certainly that sth didn’t happen.
May / Might have: A guess about a past action.
Must have: Certainly about an event in the past.
Should / Ought have: Criticism or regret after an event.
Shouldn’t have: Criticism or regret after an event.
Would have: Desire to do sth which wasn’t actually done.
Needn’t have: No obligation / necessity.

cut in = interrompre
cut across = fer drecera
cut down on = reducir
cut off = cortar
turn out = resultar
turn into = convertir-se
turn up = presentar-se
turn down = rebutjar
turn back = tornar
turn against = enfrentarse

Negative Prefixes (Antònims)


1. un- : unhappy
2. dis- : dissatisfied, disleal
3. in- : inequality
↳ il- : illegal
↳ im- : impossible
↳ ir- : irregular
leal → disloyal

Prefixes with Specific Meanings


1. mega- : megacity
2. over- : overrated
3. under- : underrated
4. re- : Will I be able to reread the book?
5. mis- : misunderstand
6. co- : cooperate

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