- city-slicker
a person who lives in a city, and has no experience of or knowledge about living in the countryside - frontiersman
a person who lives on the border between cultivated land (= land used to grow crops) and wild land, especially in the past in the US - overspill
people who move out of a crowded city and into other towns or villages near the city - snowbird
a person who lives in the north in summer and somewhere warmer in winter - squatter
a person who lives in an empty building or area of land without the permission of the owner
Egészítsétek ki a következő mondatokat az előzőleg megtanult szavak egyikével.
1. The film portrays him as a heroic _______ of the Wild West.
2. You know our airport is much busier during winter
and spring when _______ move to warmer destinations and then come back.
3. A _______ often gains a culture shock when coming to the farm.
4. You shouldn’t leave your parents’ house without a lodger,
otherwise _______ will move in soon.
5. This lovely house is in the possession of an _______ from Budapest.
keys/megoldások:
1. frontiersman;
2. snowbirds;
3. city slicker;
4. squatters;
5. overspill
Vocabulary
cultivated land | megművelt földterület |
crops | haszonnövények |
permission | engedély |
owner | tulajdonos |
to portray | ábrázolni |
to gain a culture shock | kulturális különbségek miatt kialakuló sokkot kapni |
lodger | bérlő/albérlő |
to be in the possession of | valaki birtokában/ tulajdonában lenni |