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Name:…………………………………………………..
WORD in a sentence
In the background is the
second-hand CARAVAN [1]
he calls home: he was
lucky enough to get a
parking spot at a local
ORGANIC [2] farm.
His day is taken up with
FORAGING [1] for food in
the supermarket SKIPS [2],
fertilizing his crops with
“humanure”
Mark lives without
earning, spending,
stealing or saving a single
PENNY
He earned enough money
to buy an apartment and
a car, he even SPLASHED
OUT ON a yacht.
After talking with a friend
about matters such as
deforestation, BOTTOM-
TRAWLING [1] and
SWEATSHOPS [2] – he
decided to do something
RADICAL [3].
I had been feeling
Class:……………………
UNIT 3 – TO HAVE AND HAVE NOT
3A – READING AND VOCABULARY
A DIFFERENT LIFE
PoS Pronunciation Meaning Extra examples
[1]
N /ˈkær.ə.væn/ A wheeled vehicle for living or Each summer they took
travelling in, that contains beds her on a caravan
and cooking equipment and can holiday
be pulled by a car
[2]
N /ɔːˈɡæn.ɪk/ Not using artificial chemicals in Supermarket have
the growing of plants and recognized the
animals for food increasing popularity of
organic food
[1]
V /ˈfɒr.ɪdʒ/ Go from place to place The chef offers special
searching for things that you dishes of wild and
can eat or use foraged food, including
snails.
[2]
N /skɪp/ A large, open metal container
for rubbish, used during
building work
N /ˈpen.i/ The smallest amount of money I keep pennies and
possible other small coins in a
jar.
Phr.v /splæʃ/ Spend a lot of money on buying They splashed out
things that are pleasant to have $3000 on a holiday
but that you do not need
[1]
N /ˈbɒt.əm trɔːl/ Using fishing boats to drag large Bottom-trawling
nets along the seafloor to catch releases as much
fish carbon as air travel
[2]
N /ˈswetʃɒp/ A place where people work for The report claims many
low wages in poor conditions toy companies only
worry about sweatshop
conditions during
periods of bad publicity
[3]
Adj /ˈræd.ɪ.kəl/ Relating to the most important We need to make some
parts of sth or sb, complete or radical changes to our
extreme operating procedures
[1]
Adj /ˌəʊ.vəˈwel.mɪŋ/ Difficult to fight against She felt an
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OVERWHELMED [1] by the
HORRORS [2].
[2]
The MECHANIZATION of N /ˌmek.ə.naɪˈzeɪ.ʃən/
our livelihoods and the
general flat-packing of
the Earth.
People weren’t Phr.v
considering how these
things were produced or
how they were eventually
DISPOSED OF.
[1]
Mark didn’t LIVE BEYOND
HIS MEANS [1] or go
OVERDRAWN [2]; he had
no budget to stick to, so
he didn’t really struggle [2]
to MAKE ENDS MEET [3].
[3]
It was no longer a Idiom
question of BEING
STRAPPED FOR CASH, as
money wasn’t part of the
equation
Life wasn’t about making Phr.v
a profit or loss, about
FRITTERING AWAY
money on the next
holiday.
I had no bank account, no Phr.v
money, nothing to FALL
BACK ON
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overwhelming need to
tell someone about
what had happened.
N /ˈhɒr.ər/ Things that are very shocking or Nuclear war is one of
frightening the horrors that face
the modern world.
The process of introducing a The decline in farm
machine to do sth that used to population was caused
be done by hand by increased
mechanization of
agriculture.
/dɪˈspəʊz/ Get rid of sth or deal with sth so It took only 5 minutes
that the matter is finished for the world champion
to dispose of his
opponent
Idiom Spend more money than you The Browns are deeply
have in debt because they
are living beyond their
means
Adj /ˌəʊ.vəˈdrɔːn/ Take more money out of your Banking is free as long
bank account than the account as the account is no
contained more than $1000
overdrawn
Idiom Have enough money to pay for It’s not easy to make
the things that you need ends meet with a big
family, but somehow
we manage.
/stræpt/ Having little or not enough I can’t come to the club
money tonight – I’m a bit
strapped for cash
/ˈfrɪt.ər/ Waste money, time or an She fritters so much
opportunity money away on
expensive make-up
Use sth, especially a form of When the business
financial support, when other failed, we had to fall
things have failed back on our savings.
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But LIVING ON THE Idiom
BREADLINE was a
challenge.
Some people criticized N /rɪˈdʒek.ʃən/
him; they saw his
REJECTION of money as
ultimately unsustainable,
a pipe dream.
Who would freely choose Adj
to be without cash, to be,
in effect, POVERTY-
STRICKEN
It required patient as Adv
even small tasks took an
INORDINATELY long time.
How does he do it – and, Adv
perhaps more
INTRIGUINGLY, why does
he do it?
[1]
Materialism and the
desire to SQUANDER [1]
cash on things he didn’t
need were replaced by
ENGAGEMENT [2] with his [2]
local community.
If all this CONSUMERISM N /kənˈsjuː.mə.rɪ.zəm/
and environmental
destruction brought
happiness, it would make
some sense.
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 /ˈbred.laɪn/ Have difficulty paying for
essential things like foods
The act of refusing to accept,
use, or believe someone or
something
/ˈpɒv.ə.tiˌstrɪk.ən/ Extremely poor
/ɪˈnɔː.dɪ.nət.li/ Much greater than usual or
expected
/ɪnˈtriː.ɡɪŋ.li/ Very interesting because of
being unusual or not having an
obvious answer
V /ˈskwɒn.dər/ Waste money/ supplies/
opportunities by not using them
to your advantage
N /ɪnˈɡeɪdʒ.mənt / Being involved with somebody
or something in an attempt to
understand it
The situation in which too much
attention is given to buying and
owning things that are not
really necessary
Too many men left the
children and mothers
living on the breadline
I’ve applied for ten jobs,
and I’ve had ten
rejection letters.
My grandparents
arrived in this country
as poverty-stricken
immigrants
He was an inordinately
talented drummer
The album is
intriguingly titled “The
Revenge of The
Goldfish”
They’ll happily
squander a whole
year’s savings on two
weeks in the sun
He was known for his
engagement with the
problems of the most
difficult students
Consumerism is so
popular that people
spend millions of dollars
on electronic but don’t
have any money in
savings.