Why should you care about World Population Day? – The Hindu (July 13, 2016)
On one hand, there are countries, such as China and India, that are taking measures to control their fastly growing population. Meanwhile, Japan’s population saw a big drop in 2013 and continues to decline. What does it imply? Click the link below to watch the video published on “The Hindu”.
Source: Why should you care about World Population Day? – The Hindu.
Advice: Turn on “Subtitles/CC button” of the video to read the content. It helps you to improve both listening & reading comprehension skills.
Today’s Word List:
- Establish (verb) – set up, form, start, initiate.
- Address (verb) – attend to, deal with, concentrate/focus on.
- UNDP – United Nations Development Programme.
- Underline (verb) – emphasize, highlight, focus (attention) on.
- Poverty (noun) – penury, destitution, deprivation.
- Gender Equality (noun) – It is the view that everyone should receive equal treatment and not be discriminated against based on their gender.
- Make up (phrasal verb) – comprise, form, compose, constitute, account for.
- Fall (verb) – decrease, decline, lessen.
- Negative Population Growth – a decrease in the population of a country due to multiple factors.
- Fertility rate – It measures the average number of children a female could give birth to over her entire lifetime.
- Affluence (noun) – wealth, prosperity, richness, luxury.
- Cultural imperatives – a set of (very important) beliefs imposed on an individual/a group within the society.
- Demographic (adjective) – Relating to the structure of populations.
- Migrant (noun) – immigrant, expatriate, asylum seeker, exile, refugee.
Note:
- Click each one of the words above for their definition, more synonyms, pronunciation, example sentences, phrases, derivatives, origin and etc from http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/ .
- Definitions (elementary level) & Synonyms provided for the words above are my personal work and not that of Oxford University Press.
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