Unit 1: Family Life - English 10 Global Success

Comprehensive vocabulary and grammar review for Unit 1: Family Life, focusing on family-related terms, character traits, household tasks, and the Present Simple Tense.

Achieve

Achievement

đạt được

thành tựu

Appreciate

Appreciation

trân trọng, đánh giá cao

sự cảm kích, sự đánh giá

Benefit / Beneficial

An advantage or profit gained from something; resulting in good or having a favorable effect.

Bond

A strong connection or relationship between people or groups.

Breadwinner

The member of a family who earns the money that the family needs to live.

Celebrate / Celebration

To acknowledge a significant happy day or event with a social gathering; the action of marking one's pleasure at an important event.

Character / Characteristic

The mental and moral qualities distinctive to an individual; a feature or quality belonging typically to a person, place, or thing.

Cheer up

A phrasal verb meaning to make someone feel happier or to become happier.

Choose / Choice

To pick out or select as being the best or most appropriate; an act of selecting or making a decision when faced with two or more possibilities.

Equal / Equalize / Equality

Being the same in quantity, size, degree, or value; to make things the same; the state of being equal.

Damage

Physical harm caused to something in such a way as to impair its value, usefulness, or normal function.

Difficult / Difficulty

Needing much effort or skill to accomplish, deal with, or understand; the state or condition of being hard.

Discuss / Discussion

To talk about something with another person or group of people; the action or process of talking about something in order to reach a decision.

Divide

To separate or be separated into parts.

Fair

Treating people equally without favoritism or discrimination; also refers to a beautiful or light complexion, or a public event like a market.

Grateful / Gratitude

Feeling or showing an appreciation of kindness; thankful; the quality of being thankful.

Grocery / Groceries

A grocer's shop or business; food and other small items that you buy in a food store or supermarket.

Grow up

To advance to maturity and become an adult.

Heavy lifting

The act of lifting or carrying heavy objects; difficult or demanding work.

Homemaker

A person, especially a housewife, who manages a home.

Honest / Dishonest / Honesty

Free of deceit and untruthful; fraudulent or not truthful; the quality of being truthful.

Household chore

A routine task, especially a household one like cleaning or cooking.

Housework

Work that you do to keep a house clean and tidy, such as cleaning, ironing, and cooking.

Instead of

As a substitute or replacement for; in place of.

Laundry

Clothes, sheets, etc., that need to be washed or have just been washed.

Life skill

A skill that is necessary or very useful as you go through life, such as cooking or managing money.

List

A number of connected items or names written or printed consecutively.

Manage / Management

To be in charge of or handle something; the process of dealing with or controlling things or people.

Manner

A way in which a thing is done or happens; the way in which a person behaves toward others.

Prepare / Preparation

To make ready for use or consideration; the action or process of making ready.

Put out

A phrasal verb meaning to discard or throw away things (e.g., rubbish).

Raise

To lift up or, in a family context, to care for a child until they are an adult.

Respect / Respectful / Respectively

A feeling of deep admiration; showing deference or honor; in the order previously mentioned.

Responsible / Responsibility

Having an obligation to do something; the state or fact of having a duty to deal with something.

Result

A consequence, effect, or outcome of something.

Routine

A sequence of actions regularly followed; a fixed program.

Rubbish / Garbage / Litter / Waste

Rubbish/Garbage: objects no longer needed. Litter: small waste (paper, cans) left in public. Waste: materials no longer needed, often requiring disposal.

Spot / Spotless / Spotlessly

A small round mark or to detect something; perfectly clean or without marks; in a way that is perfectly clean.

Strength / Strengthen

The quality or state of being strong; to make or become stronger.

Succeed / Success / Successful

To achieve the desired aim or result; the accomplishment of an aim; having achieved success.

Support / Supportive

To give assistance or technical help; providing encouragement or emotional help.

Task

A piece of work to be done or undertaken.

Truth / Truthful

The quality or state of being true; telling or expressing the truth.

Value / Valuable / Valueless / Invaluable

Importance or worth; worth a great deal of money; having no value; extremely useful or indispensable.

Washing-up

The act of washing dishes, cutlery, and other kitchen utensils after a meal.

Present Simple Tense

Tense used for regular actions, habits, schedules, general truths, and permanent states. Formula: $\text{S (I, We, They)} + V(\text{bare})$ or $\text{S (He, She, It)} + V(s/es)$. Keywords: always, often, usually, sometimes, seldom, rarely.