Our Land is Your Land

Week 5
This is a chapter about immigration.

Distinguish between:

To emigrate = to leave your country of birth in order to settle in a different, host country

To immigrate = to arrive and settle in a new adoptive country

Page 8 – Read the short text Ellis Island

Page 9 – Read the short text Tales from Ellis Island

Vocabulary

To chance – to happen

Clerk – people who work in an office and handle official documents (functionar public)

To file – to move forward, usually in a line

Page 10/11 – Read texts A, B, C

Vocabulary

Text A – Russian Girl

To clasp /unclasp = to hold your hands together with the fingers of one hand in between the
fingers of the other hand

To well = to be about to flow out

To be at a standstill = a situations in which something stops moving or taking place

To brim over = to be extremely full, so that something is falling out

Text B – German Boy

Literacy = ability to read and write

To memorize = to learn by heart

Siddur = Jewish prayer book

Text C – Polish Baby

To tremble = to shake
Quota – an amount of something that someone is officially allowed to do/own (cota)

To hail = to come from

Stumped = bewildered, baffled, confused

Page 11 – ex. 6 Vocabulary Work

Week 6

Page 13 / ex. 5 , 6 (“enemy” and “friend” are nouns and the other words are supposed to be
regarded as verbs – “to love, to hate, to talk, to laugh”. Find at least two synonyms for each,
ideally more.)

Workbook

Page 6 / ex 3

Page 8 / ex. 6 (1,2)

Page 9 / ex. 6 (3), 7 (the use of prepositions)

Vocabulary – to giggle = to laugh out loudly

To chuckle = to laugh as if you do not want anybody to notice that

To snigger = to laugh as if you are making fun of smbd/smth

To deter = to prevent smbd from doing smth (impiedica)

To police = to control / secure an area or event by using policemen

To endorse = to express formal support or approval for smth/smbd

To avert = to prevent smth bad from happening (a preveni, a preintampina)

Gunboat diplomacy = strategy which involves threatening to use force against

one country unless they comply with your requests

Complacency = complacent attitude

Complacent (with) = to be extremely confident and relaxed about smth even if

you might have surprises and things might turn out badly
We’ll deal now with some exercises that focus on the difference between American
English and British English.

Page 10 / ex. 8

Students’ book

Page 16 / ex. 1, 2, 4

Vocabulary

When we tell time AmE – of, after vs. BrE – to, past

Compare – It is five minutes of six.(AmE) –Este sase fara cinci.

It is five minutes to six. (BrE)

It’s a quarter after four. (AmE) – Este patru si un sfert.

It’s a quarter past four. (BrE)

Week 7
Page 15 / ex 1

Answers
Page 11 – ex. 6 Vocabulary Work

Text A

1- clasps and unclasps

2- tears are welling in her eyes
3- her pride was wounded
4- everything is at a standstill
5- the tears brimming over

Text B
1- called me aside
2- faced
3- certain
4- memorized
 5- served the purpose

Text C
1- trembling
2- that was a blow
3- had another shot
4- hails from
5- I was stumped

Page 13 / ex. 5

2- talented, gifted

3- convincing, forceful

4- trick, mislead, fool, deceive

5-strategy

6- thoroughly, exhaustive
7- irritates, bugs, frustrates
8- essential, vital, crucial
9- risks
10- terrified, petrified, awe-stricken

Page 13 / ex. 6
Friend = companion, buddy, pal, ally, acquaintance, colleague
To love = to adore, to fancy, to have a crush on
To hate = to detest, to despise, to loathe, to abhor
To talk = to chat, to gossip, to discuss, to speak, to ramble (talk for a long time in a confusing
manner), to have a word with, to rant (talk without being logical or without saying
meaningful things)
To laugh = to chuckle, to giggle, to snigger

Page 6 / ex 3

Friend
1-acquaintances
2-companions
3-allies
Love
1- adores
2- had a crush on
3- fancy
talk
 1- gossip
2- chatting
3- have a word with
hate
1- loathe
2- abhorred
3- despises
laugh
1- sniggering
2- giggled
3- chuckled

Page 8 / ex. 6 (1,2)

6/1

1- immigration
2- borders
3- headlines
4- deterrence
5- the displaced
6- immigration policies
7- policing
8- asylum procedure
9- border personnel
10- imprisonment

6/2
1- economic migrants
2- asylum seekers
3- the dispossessed
4- human smuggler
5- refugees

6/3
1- mix
2- stability
3- identity
4- support
5- fervour
6- endorsement
7- headache
8- policies
 9- measures
10- statement
11- elections
12- diplomacy

Page 9 / ex. 7

1- for
2- to
3- against
4- to
5- to
6- on
7- to
8- as
9- at
10- on/about
11- in
12- at
13- against
14- on
15- with

Page 10 / ex. 8

2- a quarter past three

3- at the weekend
4- from Monday to Thursday/ from Monday until Thursday
5- write to me
6- different from
7- in the team
8- start again
9- named after
10- take away
11- garden in the back
12- for/ in a travel agency
13- go straight on

Page 16 / ex. 1

1 – BrE
2- AmE

Page 16 / ex. 2

1 – it’s five to four

Did you say five past?

No, five to four.

2- soccer = football

3 – to stand in line = to queue

4- really good; From Monday to/until Friday

5- mail = post; package = parcel; liquor store = off-licence; chips = crisps
6- on cable = on TV
7- check = bill
8- restroom = toilet

Page 16 / ex. 2

Cellphone = mobile phone

Bathrobe = dressing gown

Drugstore = pharmacy

Truck = lorry

Fall = autumn

Windshield = windscreen (parbriz)

Garbage = rubbish

Cookie = biscuit

Closet = cupboard

Sidewalk = pavement

Elevator = lift

Pants = trousers

Page 15 / ex 1
Scotland – a Scot – the Scottish – English

France – French – Frenchman/Frenchwoman – the French – French

Belgium – Belgian – Belgian – the Belgians – French, Flemish

The Netherlands/ Holland – Dutch – Dutchman/ Dutchwoman – the Dutch – Dutch

Denmark – Danish – a Dane – the Danish – Danish

Sweden – Swedish – a Swede – the Swedes – Swedish

Poland – Polish – a Pole – the Poles – Polish

Turkey – Turkish – a Turk – the Turks – Turkish

Spain – Spanish – a Spaniard – the Spaniards/ the Spanish – Spanish

Switzerland – Swiss – a Swiss – the Swiss – German, French, Italian

Argentina – Argentinean – an Argentine – the Argentines /the Argentineans – Spanish

Peru – Peruvian – a Peruvian – the Peruvians – Spanish

Iceland – Icelandic – an Icelander – the Icelanders- Icelandic

New Zealand – New Zealand – a New Zealander / Kiwi (informal) – the New Zealanders –
English

Afghanistan – Afghani – an Afghan – the Afghans – Farsi

As you can see, no clear-cut pattern exists. Therefore, these words describing nationalities
should be remembered as such and looked up in the dictionary when faced with uncertainty.