| A | B |
| Customs | Long established ways of doing things. |
| Translator | A person who changes words from one language into another. |
| Ancestral Village | the place where your parent, grandparents, or other relative were born. |
| Immigrants | People who move to a new country to live. |
| Head Tax | A fee that eacxh Chinese person had to pay to enter Canada. Ended in 1923. |
| Famine | When people in a certain place have little or nothing to eat. |
| Authorities | Official in control. Has the right to command or act. |
| Twinned | Towns, cities, provinces, or even schools in one country set up ties with those in another country. |
| Export | To send articles or goods out of one country for sale or use in another. |
| Diplomatic relations | Established when two countires set up dealings with each other. |
| Endangered species | This is a plant or animal which is threatened with extinction. |