Pathways Book (National Geographic) UNIT 8 (Listening & Speaking/Reading & Writing)

VOCALBULARY LIST

1. Conscious of : noticing or realizing that something is happening

2. Constantly : happening over a period of time without stopping
3. Copies : things made to look exactly like the original thing
4. Forever : for all time
5. Huge : very large
6. Public : for everybody’s use, not private
7. Repeat : to do something again, to happen again
8. Sculptures : works of art made by shaping stone, wood, or other materials
9. Solid : hard or firm
10. Temporary : lasting only a short time
11. Sand : powder made of very small pieces of rock (on beaches and in deserts)
12. Chalk : colour stick for write on board
13. Blind : unable to see
14. Commissioned : a fee paid to someone for transacting a piece of business or performing a service
15. Spontaneous : produced without being planted
16. Gallery : a room or building devoted to the exhibition of works of art
17. Inventive : adept or prolific at producing inventions : CREATIVE // an inventive mind
18. Respected : a relation or reference to a particular thing or situation
19. Afford : to be able to bear the cost of
20. Album : a book with blank pages used for making a collection
21. Appeal : to arouse a sympathetic response
22. Award : to confer or bestow as being deserved or merited or needed
23. Interpret : to explain or tell the meaning of : present in understandable terms
24. Lively : full of live
25. Lyrics : the words of a song
26. Perform : to show something (art, music)
27. Simple : easy
28. Song : a word for music
29. Strings : are the thin wires on musical instruments such as guitars and violin
30. Appearance : is the way you look
31. Audience : is a group of people watching a concert or other event
32. Circumstances : are the conditions of your life, for example, how much money you have
33. Composer : someone who write music
34. Disabled : you have a conditions that makes it difficult to move arround
35. Encourage : give someone hope of confidence
36. Energetic : very active, doesn’t feel tired
37. Founder : someone who started open something or to do something
38. Instrument : to make music
39. Choreographer : creates dance
40. Polio : dieases
41. Fan : an enthusiastic devotee (as of a sport or a performing art) usually as a spectator
42. Stunning : strikingly impressive especially in beauty or excellence
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43. Open-minded : receptive to arguments or ideas

44. Traditional : of or relating to tradition : consisting of or derived from tradition
45. Escape : get away from it
46. Improve : to make it better
47. Issue : important topic that people have different views on
48. Medicine : if you are ill or injured eat medicine to make you feel better
49. Rescue : you save the person from dance
50. Responsibility : is a job you have to do
51. Regularly : yo do it often
52. Bond : is strong connection or a feeling of friendship
53. Situation : is what is happening at a particular time
54. Treat : they make the person weel again
55. Slave : some one who is owned by other people and worls for them without being paid
56. Liberating : people means freeing them from the control of other people
57. Vulnerable : weak and without protection
58. Trafficker : is someone who illegally buys or sell something

EXERCISE

1. ________ noticing or realizing that something is happening

2. ________ happening over a period of time without stopping
3. ________ things made to look exactly like the original thing
4. ________ for all time
5. ________ very large
6. ________ for everybody’s use, not private
7. ________ to do something again, to happen again
8. ________ works of art made by shaping stone, wood, or other materials
9. ________ hard or firm
10. ________ lasting only a short time
11. We usually see it in art ________ or a museum
12. It’s often ________ by a wealthy person of the government
13. Traditional artist are often ________ many people appreciate their work
14. The artist don’t get paid, and the art is ________, not planned
15. Graffiti artists are often ________ they create new, exciting arts forms
16. We save our money for a long time, and now we can ________ to buy a piano
17. The sow was fun and the music was ________, so everyone wanted to dance
18. It’s a ________ piece of music, so it was easy for my son to learn
19. It’s a good music, but I can’t understand the ________.
20. She’s going to ________ at the tango club
21. Yo can download just one ________. That cost more less than downloading the whole ________
22. The trumpet can be a loud instrument, but its sound ________ to me
23. He ________ popular songs in a interesting way
24. They’re playing at a music competition. There are several ________ for the best musicians
25. ________ are the thin wires on musical instruments such as guitars and violin
26. ________ are the conditions of your live, for example, how much money you have
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27. ________ you have a condition that makes it difficult to move around
28. ________ is a group of people watching a concert or other event
29. ________ is the way you look
30. ________ you write music
31. A musical ________ is an object you use to make music
32. If you ________ music, you play it in front of a group of people
33. Staff Benda Bilili Band expectsthe message of hope and confiedence in their song can ________
people towork hard
34. The ________ ofa group is the person who started it
35. An ________person is very active and does noet feel tired
36. A ________ creates dance
37. If something is ________, it is very beautiful
38. If you are a ________ of something, you like it a lot
39. If something is ________, it has existed for a long time
40. If you are ________, you like to experience things you have never tried
41. If you exercise ________, you can stay helathy
42. One ________ that people talk about a lot today is the environment
43. Education and training can ________ the lives of people in poor countries. When people receive
an education , they can get jobs or start businesses. In this way, they are able to ________ from a
live of poverty
44. ________ for AIDS patients in Africa is expensieve
45. A ________ between people. Is a strong connection or a feeling of friendship
46. If you ________ someone. You save the person from danger
47. A ________. Is a job you have to do
48. A ________. Is what is happening at a particular time
49. If doctors or nursres ________ someone with an illness, they make the person well again
50. A ________ is someone who illegally buys or sell something
51. Someone who is ________ is weak and without protection
52. ________ people means freeing them from the control of other people
53. the – Jason deCairs Taylor – to – ocean – need – reefs – life – ocean – is – of – and – conscious –
help
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54. graffiti – get – planned –artists – the – paid – not – and – do – art – is – not – spontaneous – the
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55. ukulele – many – the – people – appeals – because – not – is – it – expensive – fairly – play –
easy – to – and – to
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56. to – Staff Benda Bilili – circumstances – wanted – its – to – strong – even – difficult – audience –
positive – in – tell – be – and
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