ENGLISH - UNIT 1 - GLOSSARY

VOCABULARY

• VAT: Value Addict to Taxes
• Tips: an extra money you give to a waiter or a driver to thank him or her for the service.
• Compulsory: something you must do because of a rule.
• Familiar: something you know.
• Easy-going: relaxed
• Direct: saying exactly what you mean.
• Acceptable: something that you can allow.
• Fair: appropriate.
• Cocky: too confident.
• Nevertheless: however, even so.
• Currency: money system.
• Demonstration: public protest.
• Bustling: full of people.

EXPRESSIONS

• Breaking news: something important.
• He is short-sighted: a person who is myopic.
• fell homesick: a person who go to another country and miss her or his house.
• settled into: when a person is comfortable in a house of another country.