ESOL 5A Unit 1 Vocabulary

An area that has its own laws and government.

• country

• transition

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• education

When you come to live in a country that is not where you were born.

• education

• country

• immigration

• employment

All the knowledge and skills someone has learned.

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• refuge

• opportunity

• education

The way a group of people live: their ideas, their customs, and their traditions.

• employment

• culture

• education

• immigration

Work someone does to earn money.

• culture

• refuge

• education

• employment

A good chance to do something.

• translate

• opportunity

• refuge

• education

A place where people go to be safe or to find shelter.

• refuge

• country

• employment

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Something that stands for something else.

• immigration

• country

• transition

• symbol

A change from one situation to another.

• culture

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• transition

• refuge

Change words and ideas from one language to another.

• education

• translate

• opportunity

• transition