Unit 1 Vocab
a situation in which people, groups or countries are involved in a serious disagreement or argument
conflict
the act of using energy, food or materials
consumption
list all BASIC consonant sounds in "sufficient"
/s//f//n//t/
I like to _____ with my friends on Saturdays.
hang out
Make a sentence with "accurate"
many answers possible
1. a person who has come to live permanently in a country that is not their own; 2. to change something in order to make it suitable for a new use or situation
1. immigrant; 2. adapt
1. the time of year when the crops are gathered in on a farm; 2. the animals kept on a farm, for example cows or sheep
1. harvest; 2. livestock
List ALL consonant sounds in 1. privilege; 2. ethanol
1. /p//r//v//l//dʒ/; 2. /θ//n//l/
Okinawa is a _______ group of islands in the Pacific Ocean.
remote
"racism" and "discrimination" are synonyms. There is another pair of synonyms in unit 1 vocabulary. What is it?
adjust/adapt
1. the practice of treating somebody or a particular group in society less fairly than others; 2. the fact of belonging to a particular race; 3. the quality of somebody’s voice, especially expressing a particular emotion
1. discrimination/racism; 2. ethnicity; 3. tone
1. able to feel better quickly after something unpleasant such as shock, injury, etc. 2. to try very hard to do something when it is difficult or when there are a lot of problems; 3. enough for a particular purpose; as much as you need
1. resilient; 2. struggle; 3. sufficient
List ALL consonant sounds in 1. struggle; 2. consumption; 3. racism
1. /s//t//r//g//l/; 2. /k//n//s//m//p//ʃ//n/; 3. /r//s//z//m/
______ need to ______ to their new country.
immigrants; adjust/adapt
What is the difference between racism and discrimination?
racism - discrimination based on RACE; discrimination - could be based on race, gender, job, age, etc.
1. completely necessary; extremely important; 2. willing to listen to, think about or accept different ideas; 3. very direct; saying exactly what you think; 4. arranged or organized in a neat, careful and logical way
1. essential; 2. open-minded; 3. blunt; 4. orderly
1. the space where things can be kept; 2. very fat, in a way that is not healthy; 3. the existence of a large number of different kinds of animals and plants which make a balanced environment; 4. involving the use of natural products and energy in a way that does not harm the environment
1. storage; 2. obese; 3. biodiversity; 4. sustainable
Write the following word using IPA symbols: queue
/kju:/
The _____ of beef is bad for the environment because it is a _____ of water.
consumption, waste
give the number of syllables AND non-basic consonant sounds of the following words: 1. malnutrition; 2. ethnicity; 3. ambitious; 4. adjust
1. 4 /ʃ/; 2. 4 /θ/; 3. 3 /ʃ/; 4. 2 /dʒ/
1. a line of people, cars, etc. waiting for something; 2. determined to be successful, rich, powerful, etc.; 3. a person who is considered by other people to be strange or unusual; 4. to succeed in doing or completing something; 5. that is neither very good, large, hot, etc. nor very bad, small, cold, etc.
1. queue; 2. ambitious; 3. eccentric; 4. accomplish; 5. moderate
1. to support something publicly; 2. to give money to somebody or an organization to help pay for something; 3. food, money, medicine, etc. that is given to help people in places where there has been a war or natural disaster; 4. a person or company that is involved in a particular organization, project, system, etc; 5. very different from each other and of various kinds
1. advocate; 2. subsidize; 3. relief; 4. stakeholder; 5. diverse
What short vowel sounds are in the following words? 1. factory; 2. struggle; 3. blunt
1. /fæktri/ /fæktəri/; 2. /strʌɡl/; 3. /blʌnt/
_______ is a type of _______ food, which can reduce _______ because it does not need to travel long distances.
locally-grown food, sustainable, greenhouse gas emissions
Make ONE sentence which has all these words in it: malnutrition, sufficient, diverse
different answers possible