Health, Environment and Safety
The USA
Great Britain, The UK and the British Isles
Vocational vocabulary
Movies
100
A type of equipment used to protect the head.
What is a helmet, safety helmet or hard hat?
100
This person is traditionally given credit for discovering America.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
100
These four countries make up the United Kingdom.
What are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland?
100
A common type of fishing vessel boat that uses a wide, cone-shaped net to catch fish.
What is a trawler?
100
This movie is inspired by "Black Lives Matter" and shows the life of a student who witnesses her friend being shot by the police.
What is "The Hate U Give"?
200
Personal protective equipment worn to prevent drowning.
What is a life jacket (personal flotation device)?
200
A group of people who came with the Mayflower in year 1620 because of religious persecution in Britain.
Who are the Pilgrim Fathers?
200
A revolution that greatly changed British society in the last half of the 1700s.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
200
A type of fishing vessel that use a line of baited hooks.
What is a longliner?
200
This movie illustrates the American Dream through the eyes of Chris Gardner.
What is "Pursuit of Happyness"?
300
The letters "PPE" stand for this important safety term.
What is Personal Protective Equipment?
300
This document (1776) stated the American colonists' intention to break free from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
The somewhat confusing name of privately run schools in Britain.
What are public schools?
300
Cage-like devices used to capture crustaceans such as lobsters, crabs and crayfish.
What are fish traps or pots?
300
A movie that is useful to watch when working with social issues in the UK.
What is "Sorry We Missed You"?
400
This environmental problem occurs when too much feed or waste enters the water and affects water quality.
What is pollution?
400
This law motivated people to settle in the American West and secured people free land.
What is The Homestead Act?
400
The era or period of time when Britain was at its peak and a global superpower.
What is the Victorian Age?
400
A fishing method or type of equipment that is used to surround and capture large schools of fish.
What is seining or purse seine?
400
This movie is based on the true story of Solomon Northup who was kidnapped and sold as a slave in the South.
What is "12 Years a Slave"?
500
Aquaculture operators monitor this value to ensure the water is not too acidic or too alkaline for fish.
What is pH?
500
This term is used to describe reasons why people want to leave a country.
What is a push factor?
500
A saying made to illustrate the large size of the British Empire
What is "The sun never sets on the British Empire"?
500
A type of net that is attached to the sea bed and held upright in the water by floats.
What is gill net?
500
These movies portray the life of the "Italian Stallion" and his career as a boxer.
What are the Rocky movies?