Living with a foreigner
Fill in the gaps with the most suitable word or words from some of these in the box.
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barrier beliefs closed community come to terms with concerned cultural ties
diversity foreigner homesick isolated integration misunderstandings prejudice
respectful send back struggle unwilling to upping sticks for wage work papers
yearnings
1. ____Diversity______ is the condition of having or including people from different ethnicities and
social backgrounds. It is also a synonym of variety.
2. A ______________________ regular payment, usually on an hourly, daily, or weekly basis, made by an
employer to an employee, especially for manual or unskilled work.
3. The __________________________ between the ancient colonies and UK make easier
for many people to make the move and set up home in Britain.
4. Your _____________________ are some legal documents giving information required
for employment of certain people in certain countries.
5. ______________________ means the opposite of segregation.
6. He refuses to compete on Sundays because of his religious _____________________.
7. Initially the government was _____________________ accept more immigrants. However, the frontiers
were opened.
8. Many of the refugee areas are in ____________________ areas far from populated places.
9. Most people feel depressed or melancholy at being away from home and family. They suffer from
________________________.
10. A _______________________ is an opinion formed beforehand, especially an unfavourable one based
on inadequate facts, usually about a particular social group, such as a race or the followers of a
religion.
11. Due to the crisis, many Spanish young people thought of ___________________________ a job and a
better life so they moved abroad.
12. Lack of education can be a __________________________ to succeed in finding a good job.
13. Many families in poor countries depend on the money their relatives _____________________ from the
countries where they are settled for good.
14. People often fail to understand or interpret rightly the words or behaviour of people from a
different culture and these ___________________________ may make living together difficult.
15. To ____________________________ something means to accept an unpleasant or sad situation and no
longer feel upset or angry about it.
16. After leaving their country, Syrian refugees ________________ against all kinds of adversity every
day.
17. A ________________________ rejects links with other communities maintaining its own customs and
avoiding any ethnic mix.
18. Most Spanish people are really ______________________ about the high level of unemployment.
19. Children should be taught to be _______________________ to other cultures at home and at school.
20. Different people, different beliefs, different _________________, different hopes, different dreams.
