Language
This term describes a sign language grouping that includes British, Australian, and New Zealand Sign Language.
BANZSL
This word describes making an area more attractive or visually appealing.
Beautification
This adjective describes someone who is selflessly concerned with helping others.
Altruistic
The theory suggesting classical music temporarily improves spatial reasoning is known as this.
The Mozart Effect
Nomads move seasonally in search of this for their animals.
Food and water
In sign language, raising your eyebrows and tilting your head forward typically indicates this.
A question
When high-street brands increase rents and push out original residents, this process is taking place.
Gentrification
The emphatic form used in this sentence is what type?
“Older people do matter.”
Auxiliary “do” for emphasis
According to a video, music activates how much of the brain?
All parts of the brain / There’s not a single part not activated
This weather pattern in Mongolia can cause the deaths of millions of animals.
Dzud (a winter disaster where extreme cold, heavy snow, or ice prevents livestock from grazing, causing massive starvation and freezing of animals)
According to a blog post, sign languages emerged in this way — not because educators invented them.
They emerged organically from communities
A relative clause that adds essential information to define a noun is called this type of clause.
Defining relative clause
The phrase meaning “to contact someone for help or support” is this two-word expression.
Reach out
This phrase is used in presentations to simplify a complex idea:
“To ______ it simply.”
put
The adjective describing a lifestyle where people settle permanently in one place.
Sedentary
In ASL, signing behind your body refers to this time frame.
The past
In London accents, the letter “h” is often pronounced in this way.
It is dropped (silent)
This rhetorical device is used in the question:
“Have you ever stopped to think about…?”
Rhetorical question
Which present tense is typically used to describe general scientific facts?
Present simple
One major industrial threat to nomadic peoples in northern Russia is the discovery of this natural resource.
Oil
The concept described as recognizing deafness as a gain rather than a loss is called this.
Deaf gain
Negative inversion example: Complete this structure —
“________ have we seen as many cases as this year.”
Seldom
Complete this emphatic inversion structure:
“Never before in history ______ humans created so much waste.”
have
According to a video, what has shown that musical taste is linked to personality traits?
Numerous studies / Research studies
The article uses descriptive imagery, personal storytelling, and reflective questions as examples of this reading technique.
Engaging the reader