Let´s continue learning English with this movie, this time with the interesting and absurd conversation between Mr Navorsky and Mr Dixon
This might be a
little bit more difficult but with the vocabulary list below you should
understand everything.
Vocabulary
JFK: IATA code for New York´s John F. Kennedy airport.
Immigration: the act of someone coming to live in another country.
Interpreter: someone whose job is to change what someone else is saying into another language.
To suspend: to stop something from being active.
To issue: to produce or provide something official.
To revoke: to say officially that an agreement, permission, law, etc. is no longer in effect.
Visa: an official document that allows you to enter or leave a particular country.
In a nutshell: expression that means “using as few words as possible”.
Military coup: a sudden illegal, often violent, taking of government power by an army.
Casualty: a person injured or kill in a serious accident or war.
Leadership: the position or fact of being the leader.
Big Apple: common name for New York city.
To seal the borders: to close the borders of a country so no one can enter or leave it.
Asylum: protection or
safety, especially that given by a government to people who have been forced to
leave their own countries for their safety or because a war.
Refugee: a person who has escaped their own country for political, religious or economic reasons or because of a war.
Unacceptable: too bad to be accepted, approved of, or allowed to continue.
Twilight zone: an area where two different ways of life or states of existence meet. It´s also a Tv show related to ghosts and mysteries.
Dilemma: a situation in which difficult choice has to be made between two different things you could do.
To detain: to force someone officially to stay in a place.
Crack: a very narrow space between parts of something.
To sort out: to deal successfully with a problem or situation.
International Transit Lounge: A waiting room at an international airport for passengers changing flights.
Free: having unlimited movement.
Uncle Sam: a popular way to
name the Government of the U.S.A.
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