1/ Australia2/ Brunei3/ Cambodia4/ Canada5/ Chile6/ China7/ Colombia8/ Costa Rica9/ Ecuador10/ El Salvador11/ Guatemala12/ Honduras13/ Indonesia14/ Japan15/ Malaysia

The Pacific Rim includes the 30 countries that lie along the Pacific Ocean.

16/ Mexico17/ New Zealand18/ Nicaragua19/ North Korea20/ Panama21/ Papua New Guinea22/ Peru23/ Philippines24/ Russia25/ Singapore26/ South Korea27/ Taiwan28/ Thailand29/ United States of America30/ Vietnam

VOCABULARYVOCABULARY• diversity

[U]

Nowhere is the diversity of the plant kingdom more evident than in the world’s tropical rain forests.

a range of many people or things that are different from each other, the quality of including a range of many people or things.

VOCABULARYVOCABULARY• diverse (adj) •consisting of different

types•different from each otherThe Chinese people are

diverse.

•diversify (v) to develop a wider range of products, interests, skills, etc. to be more successful

Ex: The producer of ice-cream always tries to make more and more flavours for their product.

They diversify their product.

VOCABULARYVOCABULARY

•dynamism (n) [U] energy and enthusiasm to make new things happen or to make things succeed

•dynamite (n) [U] a powerful explosive (e.g. bomb)

•dynamic (adj) (of a process) always changing and making progress ; (of a person) having a lot of energy and a strong personality

• to extend (v) to cover a particular area, distance or length of time

• extension (n) the act of increasing the area of activity, group of people,etc. that is affected by sth

Ex: the extension of new technology into developing countries

• extensive (adj) covering a large area, great in amount

• extensiveness (n)

VOCABULARYVOCABULARY

VOCABULARYVOCABULARY•to rank (v) to have a particular position

compared with other things of the same type.

•to industrialize (v)

•industrialization (n)

•industrial (adj)

•industry (n)

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VOCABULARYVOCABULARY•to export (v) sell national products to

foreign countries•export (n) the national products that

are sold to foreign countries•exporter (n) a person, company or

country that sells goods to another country•to import (v) buy products from foreign

countries•import (n) the products that are bought

from foreign countries•importer (n) a person, company or

country that buys goods from another country

VOCABULARYVOCABULARY1

2

3

5

•region •state •continent •city •neighboring country 4 •coun

try

VOCABULARYVOCABULARY1

2

3

5

•region

•state

•continent

•city

•neighboring country 4

•country

VOCABULARYVOCABULARYmainland

territorial waterisland

NationalTerritory

đất liền

lãnh thổ quốc gia

hải đảo

hải phận

VOCABULARYVOCABULARYcapital city

official language

SocialFacts

population

Vietnam

- Capital : Hanoi- Official language : Vietnamese - Population: 82,689,518 (2004)

VOCABULARYVOCABULARY•to stimulate (v) to make sth

develop or become

more active ;

= ENCOURAGE

•stimulation (n) [U]

Ex: physical stimulation

visual stimulation

INDEXINDEX•The Pacific Rim

•diversity

•diverse

•diversify

•dynamism, dynamite, dynamic•extend, extension, extensive, extensiveness•rank

•industrialize, industrialization, industrial, industry•export, import, exporter, importer•city, state, region, country, continent•island, mainland, territorial water•capital, population, official language•stimulate, stimulation