International Workers Day Vocabulary

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List of vocabulary items related to International Workers Day (May Day / Labor Day / Labor Day) 

Protest

A strong complaint expressing disagreement, disapproval or opposition:

Protests have been made by many workers who would be affected by the new company policy.
Farmers have united in protest against the planned new road.

To protest is the verb

They protested against the new manager's decisions

Demonstrations

The act of demonstrating as when a group of people march or stand together to show that they disagree with or support something or someone:

The workers are holding a demonstration to protest against the bad working conditions.
An anti-war demonstration in front of the US embassy.

Riot

A noisy, violent, and uncontrolled public gathering as by a crowd protesting against another group of people, employer, governments...

Riots erupted in the inner- city when a local young man was shot by police.

To riot is the verb = to take part in a riot:

Workers are rioting in the streets of the capital.

Rioters (noun)

Strike

To refuse to continue working because of an argument with an employer about working conditions, pay levels or job losses:

Workers have the right to strike and join a trade union.
Workers are striking for better wages and improved safety standards

A strike (noun.)

Go on strike

To start a strike

Unions

Also, trades union (British English) or labor union (American English.) An organization that represents the people who work in a particular industry, protects their rights, and discusses their pay and working conditions with employers:

The employer's decisions have been strongly criticized by the trade unions.

Related materials:

• Reading: International Workers' Day
• Reading: Trade Unions
• Vocabulary Lesson: Vocabulary related to International Workers Day
• Vocabulary Quiz: International Workers' Day and Trade Unions Vocabulary

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afraid (afréid) - temeroso, con miedo

alarmed (alármd) - alarmado

alert (alért) - alerta

amazed (améist) - asombrado




angry (ángri) - enojado

annoyed (anóid) - molesto

ashamed (ashéimd) - avergonzado

astonished (astónisht) - asombrado


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1. Choose a subject area that interests you very much. 
2. Write a short introduction to the subject trying to use as many vocabulary words concerning the subject as possible.
3. Using your introduction, arrange the principle ideas concerning the subject into a vocabulary tree.
4. To create a vocabulary tree, put the subject at the center of a piece of paper.
5. Around the central subject, put the principle areas relating to the subject. Example - verbs, descriptive adjectives, where, etc.
6. In each of these categories, write the appropriate vocabulary. If you need to, write sub-categories.
7. Create the same vocabulary tree in your native language
8. Your native language tree will be much more detailed. Use this native language tree as a reference point to look up new words and fill in your English tree.
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Monday 15 May 2015. Topic: Agreeing and Disagreeing
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1) Money, and in particular funding for the new project, remains a bone of ......... between the local government and the project team.

2) Sam and Terry are still at ........ over when the office party should take place. If they don't agree soon it won't happen!

3) The children were all playing happily when one of them wouldn't share the toys and all hell ........ loose.
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Tuesday 16 May 2015. Topic: Money
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4) Andrea is often accused of being penny-......... but I think she has a very sensible attitude towards money.

5) I was hoping to buy some nice clothes but we came away from the shops ........-handed.

6) If you want to help fight poverty you should put your money where your ........ is.
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Wednesday 17 May 2015. Topic: Business
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7) The new owner is known to be ruthless and his first action is likely to be getting rid of any dead ......... in the organisation.

8) If I can only get my foot in the ........ somehow I'm sure I can make an impression.

9) The deal isn't cut and ........ yet but I'm pretty confident we'll agree terms.
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Thursday 18 May 2015. Topic: Learning
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10) For us learning is ........ nature and most of the time we don't even realize that we're doing it.

11) When I was younger one of our neighbours took me ........ her wing and taught me how to play the piano.

12) I don't actually think he's a good teacher. He can blind you with ........ but that approach doesn't always help people learn.
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Friday 19 May 2015. Topic: Possibility and Probability
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13) We've received financial backing from several investors and the ........ is the limit now in terms of where the company goes from here. 

14) I don't know why you do the lottery. The odds are so ........ against you there's no chance of winning.

15) We've put an offer in for the house but it's all up in the ........ at the moment and we don't really know if we're going to get it. 

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A year or so ago, the BBC website published a rather silly article, where they invited readers to write in with the Americanisms which annoyed them most. The BBC published these without any comment, causing a bit of a stir in the (mostly American) linguistics blogosphere. In fact it turned out that many of these 'pet peeves' that people sent in weren't even Americanisms at all, and of the five examples the journalist had opened the article with, only one hadn't started life in Britain.

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Flocabulary... 18 Years in Rap...
For the High School Grads...

In 1994 - 4 million babies are born
In America. Let’s see what else was going on.
Nelson Mandela's elected in South Africa,
End of apartheid, spectacular.

95 - OJ's acquitted in LA,
OKC is bombed by McVeigh.
Israel gives back land to Palestinians,
"Toy Story," it makes a couple million.

96 - We cloned a sheep named Dolly,
Collecting Pokémon is a new hobby.
That’s the year that you could die from beef,
Whether it’s rap related or Mad Cow Disease.
Tupac dies, and in...

97 - Biggie,
So does Princess Diana, that's a pity.
Mother Teresa is RIP,
But NASA lands on Mars that’s totally sweet.

98 - Google gives us search every day,
Matthew Shepard gets killed 'cause he was gay.

99 - School shooting at Columbine,
Clinton gets acquitted, even though we caught him lying.

Some were scared of Y2K,
But we partied all night for a brand new day.
Oh hey, Bush barely beats Gore,
In fact, it’s decided by the Supreme Court.

2001 - Yeah, we’re on our science,
Map the genome, iPod arrives.
But America changed the hour,
When the two planes hit the two towers.
We invade Afghanistan, hunting Al Qaeda,
But Bin Laden won’t get found 'til later.

02 - Bush names an evil axis, lowers taxes,
American Idol smashes.

03 - Start of the the Iraq War,
Columbia explodes, death in Darfur.
Biggest US minority is now Latin,
Ask my primo, Pixar finds Nemo.

04 - W. wins four more,
Tsunami waves kill when they hit the shore.
Red Sox win, they reverse the curse,
And Facebook's started by a couple of nerds.

05 - Hurricane Katrina has no love,
The Pope dies, baseballers are on drugs,

06 - Nintendo’s "Wii," what’s next?
Saddam Hussein, he gets put to death.

07 - iPhone drops, yeah I cop it,
We see the crisis in the housing market.
But we have the first female speaker of the House,
Every year new barriers for women break down.

08 - Another barrier down, that’s evident,
Obama is the first black president.
Michael Phelps dominates the pool,
The economy tanks, banks act the fool.

09 - Stimulus, water on the moon,
RIP MJ, he is gone too soon.

2010 - Oil spill, that’s crazy,
Earthquakes in Chile and Haiti.
But some lives are saved, the miners freed!
I bet fresh air never smelled so sweet.

2011 - Occupy Wall Street,
We find Bin Laden, put his body in the sea.
Europe debt crisis is tough for the Greeks,
Steve Jobs dies, he’s resting in peace.

This year - Trayvon Martin is killed,
Tebowmania, Linsanity it’s real.

3.2 million high school graduates,
I hope you’re looking at the present, and you're grabbing it,
'Cause time passes in the blink of an eye,
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