Vocabulary

focus
Unit 10: Why
we buy

Mtra. Amelia Hernandez Grande

Practicante Edith Monserrat Reyes Capilla
 Describing
materials
10.1 Green
clothes
 Materials
it is anything people use to
make things.
Cotton
Wood
Polyester
Metal
Glass
Wool
Stone
Plastic
Leather
 She looked pretty in a simple
Cotton cotton dress
The backpack is made of hard-
Polyester wearing polyester.

There is a tiny glass window that allows you to

Glass see into the oven.
They cut enormous blocks of stone out
Stone of the hillside.
The car's interior is very impressive -
Leather wonderful leather seats and a wooden
dashboard.
 He gathered some wood to
Wood build a fire.

Metal Silver, gold, and platinum are

precious metals.

Wool Put on your red wool cardigan - it'll be

nice and warm.

Plastic Those flowers aren't real - they're

made of plastic.
Adjectives
 made by people, often as a
Artificial copy of something natural

Soft not hard or firm to the

touch.

Heavy weighing a lot

easily damaged, broken, or

Fragile harmed

Waterproof not allowing water to go

through
 Junk food is made with artificial colours
Artificial or flavours.

Add enough milk to form a soft dough.

Soft
Protons are nearly 2000 times as heavy
Heavy as electrons.

She was so weak and fragile.

Fragile
Waterproofed fabric pants are more
Waterproof expensive than plastic pants.
 as found in nature and not involving
Natural anything made or done by people

Hard firm and solid, or not easy to bend,

cut, or break

Light not weighing a lot

Strong physically powerful or energetic

Warm to (cause to) become warm (=

less cold)
 We visited some natural hot springs
Natural in Japan.
Some materials, like steel or diamond, are very hard.
Hard They can be difficult to cut or to bend into a different
shape.

The boxes were really light, so I was able to carry

Light them all up to my apartment at the same time.

Strong Brick is a popular material for houses because it

is very strong.

Warm After we finished the hike, we had a hot drink

and lit a fire to keep warm.
 Production
and
distribution
10.2 Global
or local?
Production
refers to the process of making or growing
something.

Distribution
describes the action of sending
something to the place it needs to be.
For example:

"Farmers produce food. The food is

then distributed to grocery stores."
 to find and stop an animal
Catch that is trying to escape

All of the fish at this restaurant were

caught by local fishermen.

to send goods to another

Export country in order to sell them
there
The US exports many products such as food, machines,
and automobile parts to other countries.
 If something freezes
Freeze
or is frozen, it becomes hard and
solid because it is very cold.

You can freeze fresh fish so you can

keep it for many months.

to draw or plan something

Design before making it

Our company designs clothes. Our designs

are sent to a factory that makes the clothes.
 to make something,
usually in large
Manufacture numbers in a factory

My car was manufactured in the US.

But some of the parts were made in
other countries.

to send something from one

Ship place to another
The books are being shipped from
China. They will be here in two
weeks.
 to put something in a safe place
Store
until it is needed
I've just sold my apartment, and since
I'll be living overseas for the next three
months, I rented a locker to store my
furniture until I return.
tif a plant grows, or you grow it, it
Grow
develops from a seed to a full plant
We grew these carrots in our garden. We
planted them about three months ago.
 If you pick flowers, fruit, etc., you
Pick take them off a tree or out of
the ground.
The tomatoes in the garden are
ready. Let's go pick them.

to move goods or people

Transport from one place to
another
Many bananas are grown in Central America
and are transported by truck to North America.
 to take things such as letters,
Deliver packages, or goods to a person
or place
Someone delivered the pakage this
morning.

to bring something into your

Import country from another country
for people to buyplant
All of the coffee for our coffee shop is
imported from overseas.
Produce to make or grow something

All the fruit and vegetables that we sell are produced

right here on the farm.