I’m a Trad

[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.

[Green Renaissance visit their site HERE]

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

 

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Vocabulary chunks to learn from video :

• If they could speak
• They would invite you in
• This extraordinary part of the world
• It is wide open for sharing
• Our culture … welcomes all cultures
• Let us show you around
• Natural wonders
• Throw you head first
• Beautiful countryside
• Throughout this precious land
• You’re welcome here
• Make yourself at home

Alone in Paradise

[Great Big Story]

Vocabulary chunks to learn after watching the video :

• The landscape is vast
• The wilderness is almost unlimited
• On foot
• It’s a  challenge in itself
• We are at the mercy of the weather
• Our day-to-day life
• It covers over 12.000 square  km
• We have solar panels for power lighting
• Satellite communications
• We have the freezer which keeps our food and our produce cold
• We rely on rainwater for drinking water
• We live off the land
• Harvest a deal or catch a fish
• Capture the menu
• Go sea fishing
• Go up the river for a kayak
• The harshness of the environment
• People have like-minded passion for the environment
• Snow-capped mountains
• Glacier shaped bays
• Pristine rivers and clear water
• Nature as it should be

 

Work in a gentle way doing work you love

[Happen Films]

Read more about Living the Change HERE

Vocabulary chunks to learn after watching the video :

• The creation of culture that is generous and abundant
• An infrastructure of care, woven into neighborhoods
• In the heart of Oxford
• Go and do work in the community
• Cover the costs
• Pay urban gardeners to go out and mentor edible landscapes
• We get to touch base with some of the pensioners
• Have ears for what their knowledge base is
• Providing a social contact for them
• Share their knowledge around food gardening
• We can engage in the conversations around that
• Facilitates something that otherwise wouldn’t have been here
• The kind of changes that need to be made in urban areas
• Builds community
• Affordable healthy food
• Less reliant on unsustainable imported goods
• Shipped from all over the world
• The abundance of food that can be grown in an urban space
• We’ve got huge amounts of food going here
• Can be as self-sufficient as you want to be
• Part of what we are working towards for ourselves
• To live quite simply
• Working really hard in some sort of frantic way
• We can work in a gentle way doing work we love
• Reduce our requirement for money
• Then we can love life
• Its far more fulfilling to be able to share that knowledge with people who don’t have it
• I can see eatable areas, eatable landscapes
• Sharing their food, sharing seeds, swapping seeds
• This model taken into another town, and put in place
• That would be a pretty significant success

 

 

Get out and walk

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Map of the area in New Zealand :

Further information @ Great walks NZ

When you need to snap out of it

[Kit Kat Australia  & New Zealand]

Vocabulary chunks to learn from video :

• This won’t fit
• Not the way it looks in the instructions
• This is ridiculous
• Where are the words
• It’s like they want you to fail
• Hello, what’s this
• Have you tried turning it clockwise
• Let’s give it a go then
• When you need to snap out of it
• Have a break have a KitKat
• This is called a help line