[Green Renaissance]
Michael lives in the old Victorian town of Oamaru, on the South Island of New Zealand. He is a ‘Trad’ – a Traditional. He embraces the good aspects of the past and tries to live a life that is a little more gentle than the modern day consumer world.
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Vocabulary chunks to learn after watching the video :
- A brief period of my life
- Some sort of dress up
- An item of clothing
- How i approach my life
- My normal is very odd and different
- I’m a trad, which means I try to live somewhat a traditional lifestyle
- I have a very conservative view
- Modern fashionable things
- A bit gentler than the consumer world
- The handmadeness of an object, the personal touch
- Book binding
- Sewing a book with a needle and thread
- I am amazed that the world in holding itself together
- Our lifestyle is destroying the planet
- The generation 7 times down the line
- We don’t question or think about things that much
- How are you benefiting other people
- How are you benefiting the planet
- There’s gotta be give and take
- I would always say follow your passion
- To give me the option of choice and freedom
Vocabulary in Chunks 