Monday, August 24, 2020

Video lesson#18: The Terminal (second part)

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 is no longer in effect.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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