Vocabulary
Places Part 1
Places Part 2
The Korean Wave
We Are All Beautiful
100

Many people __________ to help Hualien earthquake victims without asking for anything in return. 

volunteered

100

This small nation has strict laws against smoking in public, littering and jaywalking.  Are the people really happy there? 

Singapore

100

Bollywood movies are eye-popping Hindi-language movies, which became globally popular in the late 1990s to the early 2000s, are from this country.

India

100

You would not want to be a contestant on this Netflix TV show, unless you are really good at cutting cookies, playing marbles or stopping quickly during Red Light/Green Light.

Squid Game

100

Sudanese model Alek Wek was the first African model to appear on the cover of this influential magazine in November 1997.

Elle

200

The state of being very poor. 

poverty

200

In some parts of this country, many people do not have jobs, enough food, or access to education but they are happy.

Mexico

200

Piet Hendrikse, an engineer from this country, came up with the idea of the Q Drum. 

South Africa

200

BTS is so popular globally, that as of 2020, it had over 40 million people in its fan base, collectively known as this.

ARMY

200

Back in the 1990s fashion designers did not want photographers to post photos from fashion runway shows online for this reason. 

They were afraid that their ideas would be copied.

300
Able to invent things and have original ideas.

creative

300

According to the 2010-2019 World Database of Happiness, this country was #1 with an 8.2 rating.

Denmark

300

EarthEnable has installed flooring made of locally sourced clay, pebbles and sand to 15,000 homes in this country.

Rwanda

300

This movie wowed audiences at the Cannes Film Festival before it won Best Picture at the Academy Awards in 2020. 

Parasite

300

This is what we call a person who is able to generate interest in something by posting about it on social media, so that their followers are interested in it too.

an influencer

400

One ________ of solar energy is that it is renewable.

benefit

400

The home country of William Kamkwamba, where a 2001 severe drought caused great hardship for their people. 

Malawi 

400

The New Year's Eve, graduation, funeral and farewell song "Auld Lang Syne" is a traditional folk song from this country.

Scotland

400
The name of Blackpink's album, which hit number one on the Billboard 200 in its first week, in 2022. 

Born Pink

400
Members of the popular K-pop group Blackpink have been hired by these two fashion companies to model their designs. 

Dior and Chanel

500

Possibly able to develop into something in the future.

potential

500

People who live here, in the capital of Portugal, work an average of 31 hours a week and enjoy nice sunny weather (about 300 days of sunshine per year).

Lisbon

500

You would not expect women dressed in traditional folk clothing to be practicing their skateboarding moves in this country, since skateboarding started in Southern California, but that's the kind of thing globalization can do!

Cochabamba, Bolivia

500

Blackpink made history again by becoming the first all-female K-pop group to play at this music festival, one of the largest in the world. 

Coachella.

500

These three factors have driven our changing understanding of beauty.

Technology- social media- raising social awareness

Economy- competition for sales in India, East Asia

A young generation of consumers- they want to see themselves represented