ENGLISH GLOSARY

Word Definition
Amusement a commercially operated park having various devices for entertainment (such as a merry-go-
park round and roller coaster) and usually booths for the sale of food and drink.

Art gallery a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th
century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a
place for art in the 1590s.

Ballet a theatrical art form using dancing, music, and scenery to convey a story, theme, or atmosphere.

Bowling alley also known as a bowling center, bowling lounge, bowling arena, or historically bowling club, it is
a facility where the sport of bowling is played. It can be a dedicated facility or part of another,
such as a clubhouse or dwelling house.

Concert a public musical performance in which a number of singers or instrumentalists, or both,

participate.

Ice-skating a Scottish word meaning 'course', it was used as the name of a place where curling was played.
rink Early in its history, ice hockey was played mostly on rinks constructed for curling. The name was
retained after hockey-specific facilities were built.

Opera an extended dramatic composition, in which all parts are sung to instrumental accompaniment,
that usually includes arias, choruses, and recitatives, and that sometimes includes ballet.

Planetarium a model or representation of the solar system.

Theater a building in which plays, motion pictures, or shows are presented to the audience by actors.

Water park an amusement park with facilities (such as pools and wetted slides) for aquatic recreation.

Battery a container consisting of one or more cells, in which chemical energy is converted into electricity
and used as a source of power.

Cloth a pliable material made usually by weaving, felting, or knitting natural or synthetic fibers and
filaments terry cloth a linen cloth.

Glass a hard, brittle substance, typically transparent or translucent, made by fusing sand with soda and
lime and cooling rapidly. It is used to make windows, drinking containers, and other articles.

Leather a material made from the skin of an animal by tanning or a similar process.

Metal any of various opaque, fusible, ductile, and typically lustrous substances that are good conductors
of electricity and heat, form cations by loss of electrons, and yield basic oxides and hydroxides
especially : one that is a chemical element as distinguished from an alloy.

Paper a material made from fibers (as of wood or cloth) and in the form of thin sheets or a sheet or
piece of such material Fold the paper in half.
 Plastic any of numerous organic synthetic or processed materials that are mostly thermoplastic or
thermosetting polymers of high molecular weight and that can be made into objects, films, or
filaments.

Rubber a tough elastic polymeric substance made from the latex of a tropical plant or synthetically.

Trash anything that is worthless and of low quality; waste.

Wood the hard fibrous substance consisting basically of xylem that makes up the greater part of the
stems, branches, and roots of trees or shrubs beneath the bark and is found to a limited extent in
herbaceous plants.

READING SUPPORT

Chinese Horoscope

According to the Chinese culture, it is the year you are born that is important, not the month. Each year is represented by
an animal. These are the predictions for this year.

Rat Dragon Monkey

Your luck won’t be that good. Next
year will be better.
Ox
You'll meet someone special.
Tiger
You'll have problems at school. Don’t
be impulsive!
Rabbit
This year will be fun!
You'll get extra money. You won't have any problems with
Snake your family.
You won’t travel this year. Pig
Horse You'll get good news this year!
There will be many changes in your Dog
life. You’ll make new friends. Be careful
Goat with one of them!
You'll fight with an old friend. Rooster
You’ll become popular. Keep your
feet on the ground!

Snow White

A long time ago, when the snowflakes fell like feathers, a Queen sat sewing at a window. She pricked her finger on a needle
so that three drops of blood fell upon the snow. How pretty her red blood looked dazzling on the whiteness! The Queen
said: “Ah me, if only I had a child with skin as white as snow, and lips as red as blood, and hair as black as the ebony
window.”

In the spring, she had a child who was just as she had imagined, and everyone called her Snow White. But alas! The good
Queen died, and the King married a new Queen, whose heart was evil. This Wicked Queen had a magical mirror, and when
she stood and gazed into it, she asked:Wicked Queen from Snow White“Mirror, mirror on the wall, who is the fairest of
them all?”

And when the mirror replied: “Thou, oh Queen, are the fairest of them all,” her vain heart rejoiced.