Unit 1: Vocabulary about Youth
Qualities of youth
- Adventure: willingness to take the risk.
- Imagination: the mental ability to form new ideas.
- Passion: intense enjoyment, interest, or excitement.
- Ambition: a strong desire to do or achieve something.
- Vigor: physical strength or good health.
- Creativity: the ability to generate new methods or innovative ideas.
- Vitality: the state of being strong and active.
- Talent: natural aptitude, ability or skill.
- Audacity: courage, fearless, disposition to do something.
Nouns | Adjectives |
Vitality | Vital |
imagination | Imaginative |
Talent | Talented |
Audacity | Audacious |
Enthusiasm | Enthusiastic |
Skill | Skillful |
vigor | Vigorous |
adventure | Adventurous |
Courage | courageous |
motivation | Motivated |
creativity | creative |
Ambition | ambitious |
Gift | Gifted |
Some Youth think adults are: old-fashioned, intolerant, severe, bossy, undemocratic, mean, nosy, authoritarian
Some Adults think youths are: rebellious, intolerant, strong-headed, thoughtless, careless, immature, untidy, disobedient, adventurous.
Definitions
Genius: عبقرية(noun) someone who has an extremely high level of intelligence, artistic ability, or skill at a particular activity
Competent: كفئ (adjective) good at your job or at something else you do
Competence: كفاءة (noun) the state being good at your job or at something else you do
Vigour: (noun) effort and energy to try to do something
imagination: خيال (noun) the ability to form pictures or ideas in your mind.
imaginative: خيالي (adjective) able to think of new and interesting ideas.
creativity: إبداع (noun) the ability to use your skill or imagination to produce new ideas or new things.
creative: مبدع (adjective) - a creative person is good at thinking of new ideas or way of doing things - using your imagination to think of new ideas or ways of doing things:
Adventurous: مغامر (adjective) wanting to do new, exciting, dangerous things
Adventure: مغامرة(noun) an exciting experience in which dangerous or unusual things happen
Innovation: تجديد (noun) a new idea, method etc that is used for the first time, or the use of new ideas.
Challenge: تحدي (noun) something new, exciting, or difficult that needs a lot of skill and effort to do
Motivation: حافز (noun) the reason why you want to do something
Skill: مهارة (noun) ability to do something well, especially because you have practiced it.
Skilful: مهاري(adjective)
Talent: موهبة (noun) a natural ability to do something well
Gift: موهبة - هبة (noun) - something that you give to someone as a present - a natural ability to do something
Gifted: موهوب (adjective)
Ambition: (noun) a strong determination to become successful or powerful
Ambitious: طموح (adjective) having a plan to achieve something very great but very difficult
Enthusiasm: حماس (noun) a strong feeling of interest, excitement, or admiration about something
Enthusiastic: (adjective) متحمس
Audacity: جرأة (noun) brave or shocking behaviour
Audacious: جريء(adjective)
