ESL Vocabulary: Vacation In Arizona
1. Attraction - noun - the action of provoking interest in someone or something
2. Enthusiast - noun - a person who is very interested in a particular subject
3. Horde - noun - a large group of people
4. Fragile - adjective - easily broken or damaged
5. Satiate - verb - satisfy to the fullest
6. Incorporate - verb - take in or contain as part of a whole
1. What is feminism?
2. Why isn't there something called "masculinism"?
3. Can men be feminists?
4. Why do you think there are some women who are against feminism?
5. "When men are oppressed it is a tragedy, when women are oppressed it is tradition." Letty Cottin Pogrebin
6. Could you date someone who was a radical feminist?
1. What is real estate?
2. What qualities do you have to have to be a good real estate agent?
3. What are some key factors that affect the real estate market?
4. What are some of the downsides of being a real estate agent?
5. “ Don’t wait to buy real estate, buy real estate and wait.” T Harv Eker
What does this quote mean to you?
6. With $USD 300k, where would you want to invest in real estate?
ESL Vocabulary: ( Real Estate )
1. Buyer’s Market: A Buyer’s Market is going to be ideal for someone who is looking to buy a house.
2. Seller’s Market: A Seller’s Market describes a period in time where it is better to be someone selling one’s home rather than attempting to buy one.
3. Appreciation: This is how much the home or property increases over time based on a few things such as home improvements, location, market fluctuation, and so on.
4. Equity: This is how much of the property or home the homeowner truly owns at the moment.
5. Foreclosure: A foreclosure occurs when a property owner is unable or has not made the previously agreed-upon payments for their mortgage.
6. Amortization: This is the amount of loan debt that decreases over time. This is achieved through the repayment of the principal.
1. How does this picture represent feminism ?
2. simple past
1. Bring about - to make something happen
2. Bring along - to take someone or something with you when you go somewhere
3. Bring back - re-kindle memories or feeling
4. Bring down - to reduce
5. Bring forward - to change the date or time of an event so that it happens earlier
6. Bring in - to use the skills of a particular person or group
Conversation Questions with Bring
1. Do you think success brings about more problems in people's lives?
2. If you traveled to another continent would you want to bring along someone with you ?
3. What movie could you watch that would bring back memories of your childhood?
4. Do you feel like anyone directly or indirectly tries to bring you down emotionally?
5. Is it awkward to request for a meeting or an appointment be brought forward?
6. What industry brings in the most money for your country?
1. Oblivion - noun - the state of being unaware or unconscious of what is happening around one
2. Novelty - noun - the quality of being new, original or unusual
3. Impulsive - adjective - acting or done without forethought
4. Dissociate - noun - disconnect or separate
5. Thrill - noun - a sudden feeling of excitement and pleasure
6. Brought up - phrasal verb - to bring a person to maturity through nurturing care and education
1. Rapid - adjective - happening in a short time or at a great rate
2. Combustion - noun - the process of burning something
3. Grasp - verb - seize and hold firmly
4. Ignite - verb - arouse or inflame
5. Incentive - noun - a thing that encourages or motivates someone to do something
6. skyrocket - verb - increase very steeply or rapidly
1. Take up
2. Give up
3. Make up
4. Look up
5. Show up
6. Set up
7. Keep up
8. blow up
9. get up
10. end up
A. eventually do / decide
B. continue at the same rate
C. find, search for
D. arrive
E. start
F. quit
G. get out of bed
H. invent, lie about something
I. arrange
J. explode
1. Bang for your buck
2. Beyond your means
3. Cash Cow
4. Cut your losses
5. Feel the pinch
6. Highway robbery
A. To charge a high price for something beyond what it’s worth. An excessive profit or advantage from a financial transaction.
B. More than you can afford. To live beyond your means is to live outside of your wealth bracket.
C. A descriptor of a business or product that generates a continuous flow of income.
D. Experiencing financial hardship
E. To get the value for your money.
F. Abandoning a plan or a project that is obviously going to be unsuccessful before more money is lost or the circumstances become worse.
1. Salary - noun - a fixed regular payment
2. Expenses - noun - the cost incurred in or required for something
3. Gross per month - phrase - everything you earn in a month before taxes
4. Hence - adverb - as a consequence; for this reason
5. Remuneration - noun - money paid for work or service
6. Income - noun - money received on a regular basis
1. What is passive income?
2. Do you think people work hard to find a way to make passive income in your country?
3. Which do you prefer passive income or active income?
4. What do you think is the average salary in your country?
5. "Your salary is the bribe they give you to forget your dream." Do you agree with this quote?
6. What makes people rich: their salary or their spending habits?
1. What are blood diamonds?
2. Why do people buy blood diamonds ?
3. What do diamonds represent symbolically?
4. Would you use diamonds to decorate your home?
5. " And when you become a diamond you'll understand why life had to put pressure on you." - What do you think this quote means?
6. If you found you had a blood diamond, what would yo do with it?
1. What is danger?
2. How does danger affect people ?
3. Why are some people attracted to danger?
4. Is it good to avoid danger at all costs?
5. "Danger hides in beauty and beauty in danger." Belva Plain - Do you agree with this quote?
6. What is something dangerous you would like to try?
1. To bury your head in the sand - to refuse to think about an unpleasant situation
2. At your wit's end - at the end of ones ideas or mental resources
3. Wound up - in a state of physical or nervous tension
4. Butterflies in your stomach - to feel nervous
5. Give somebody the creeps - to make someone frightened or nervous
6. To be shook - emotionally or physically disturbed; upset
ESL Vocabulary ( Fear )
1. Fear is a vital response to physical and emotional danger that has been pivotal throughout human evolution, but especially in ancient times when men and women regularly faced life-or-death situations.
2. Today, the stakes are lower, but while public speaking, elevators, and spiders don’t present the same type of immediately dire consequences that faced early man, some individuals still develop extreme fight-flight-or-freeze responses to specific objects or scenarios.
3. But when someone’s fear is persistent and specific to certain threat, and impairs his or her everyday life, that person might have what’s known as a specific phobia.
4. At least 60 percent of adults admit to having at least one unreasonable fear, although research to date is not clear on why these fears manifest.
5. One theory is that humans have a genetic predisposition to fear things that were a threat to our ancestors, such as snakes, spiders, heights, or water, but this is difficult to verify, although people who have a first-degree relative with a specific phobia appear more likely to have the same one.
A. Pivotal - adjective - of crucial importance in relation to the development of something
B. Stakes - noun - a sum of money or something else of value gambled on the outcome of a risky game or venture
C. Dire - adjective - extremely serious or urgent
D. Impair - verb - weaken or damage
E. Manifest - verb - show a quality by one's acts or appearance; demonstrate
F. Predisposition - noun - tendency to suffer from a particular condition, hold a particular attitude or act in a particular way
1. What is fear?
2. How does fear affect people?
3. Do you think fear is ever a good thing?
4. How can someone overcome their fears?
5. "Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not the absence of fear." Mark Twain - Do you agree with this quote?
6. What are three things you think people are the most afraid of?
1. Is having a nice patio or balcony important to you?
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ESL Vocabulary: Vacation In Arizona 1. Attraction - noun - the action of provoking interest in someone or something 2. Enthusiast - noun -...
