Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Intermediate 1
Intermediate 1
Intermediate 1
Vocabulary
● Home improvement: converting or modernizing a home
● Neutral: colors like brown, grey and white
● Overwhelming: very strong or too intense
● Dark: colors like black or brown
● Rearrange: move to another location
● Replace: exchange an item for another
● Combine: look good together
● Get rid of: discard
● Repaint: to paint again
● Redo: do something again
● Work well
● Repair
● Option
● No
○ I don’t think so
○ No, I don’t like that idea
Vocabulary
● Private life: The things I do at my house are part of my private life, nobody
knows about them except me!
● Have privacy: I only have privacy in my bedroom. I can be alone there
and nobody knows the things I do
● No one else’s business: My private life is no one else’s business. The
only person who needs to know about it is me and only me!
● In public: He always plays his guitar in public so people can listen to him
● Public figure: Mariah Carey is a public figure. If she goes to a public
space, many people will recognize her
● The general public: The incredibly rich take cars, taxis, and even
helicopters to work. However, the general public has to use public
transportation
● Right: If the government does something that you don’t agree with, it is
your right to protest. No person can stop you from expressing your opinion
● Disturb: Paparazzi disturb celebrities all the time, even when the celebrity
is only trying to relax
Giving permission and Expressing prohibition
● Permission
○ I can eat in the cafeteria
○ I am permitted to park at ICPNA’s parking lot
○ I am allowed to use my cell phone
○ You must watch your hands
○ Drinking water is permitted during class
○ Asking questions is allowed in the classroom
○ I am supposed to do my homework every day (EXPECTATION)
● Prohibition
○ I can’t go to the party
○ I am not permitted to park at ICPNA’s parking lot
○ You are not allowed to go into the teacher’s room
○ You must not eat in the classroom
○ Eating candy isn’t allowed in the classroom
○ Talking on the phone isn’t permitted during class
○ No eating allowed in the classroom
○ No talking permitted during class
UNIT 2
Vocabulary
● Retirement: when someone gets older and stops working
● Community: a group of people living together
● Retirement community: a place where older people live
● Childhood
● Adolescence
● Adulthood
● Infant (baby) - Toddler - Child (Kid) - Adolescent (Teenager) - Adult
(Grown-up)
● Infant - Toddler - Kid - Teenager - Adult - Elder
Vocabulary
● I get my news online
● I get my news on TV
● I get my news on the radio
● International news (about the world)
● National news (about my country)
● Local news (about my city)
● News program
● News site
● Entertainment news
● Sport news
● Tabloid news
● News story
● Trump was in the news recently
● Tell someone the news
● Hear the news
● Spread the news: expand the news
● Word of mouth: someone told me