Green Line Oberstufe



|Introduction |

|Word/phrase |Translation |Usage/memory aid |

|migration |Migration |movement of people from one country or locality to another |

| | |migration → emigration → immigration |

| | |→ out-migration → in-migration |

| | |Fr. migration (f); Lat. migratio (f) |

|diversity |Vielfalt; Verschiedenheit |We speak of cultural diversity when people of different races, |

| | |ethnicity, nationalities, languages, religions and sexual orientation |

| | |live in a community. |

| | |diversity = variety |

| | |diversity → diverse (adj) |

|National identity |

|sense of belonging |Zugehörigkeitsgefühl |National identity is a person’s sense of belonging to a nation. |

| | |If you feel attached to a group of people, you have a sense of |

| | |belonging to this group. |

|inborn |angeboren |Sth is inborn when it exists from birth. |

| | |inborn = inherited = innate |

| | |inborn ↔ acquired, learned |

|trait |Charakterzug; Merkmal |a characteristic feature of a thing or person |

| | |characteristic = feature = character |

| | |Fr. trait (m) |

|ancestry |Abstammung; Herkunft; Vorfahren |He is of Turkish ancestry. |

| | |ancestry = descendants |

| | |ancestry → ancestor (n) |

|ethnicity |ethnische Zugehörigkeit; |In my town there are people of different ethnicities. |

| |Volkszugehörigkeit |Ethnicity is the fact of belonging to a group that has common national |

| | |or cultural traditions. |

|out-dated |veraltet; überholt |The way he thinks about Europe is out-dated, so much has changed! |

| | |out-dated = old-fashioned |

| | |out-dated ↔ modern |

|population |Bevölkerung; Population |the ageing UK population |

| | |the total number of persons inhabiting a country, city, or any district|

| | |or area |

| | |population → populous (adj) |

| | |Fr. population (f) |

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