📕 Part 1: Your Country

This episode's vocabulary

Diverse (adj.) - including many different types of people or things.

Varied (adj.) - containing or changing between several different things or types.

A contribution/ make a contribution (noun/collocation) - something that you contribute or do to help produce or achieve something together with other people, or to help make something successful.

Rugged  (adj.) - (of land) wild and not even; not easy to travel over; strong and simple; not delicate.

Westernmost  (adj.) - furthest towards the west of an area.

A trait (noun) - a particular characteristic that can produce a particular type of behaviour.

A coastline (noun) - the particular shape of the coast, especially as seen from above, from the sea, or on a map:

Hospitality industry (collocation) - is a broad category of fields within the service industry that includes lodging, food and drink service, event planning, theme parks, and transportation. It includes hotels, restaurants and bars.

Mainstay (noun) - the most important part of something, providing support for everything else.

The Highlands (geographical name); Scottish Highlands:

Kilts (noun) - a skirt with many folds, made from tartan cloth and traditionally worn by Scottish men and boys:

Haggis  (noun) - a dish from Scotland consisting of different sheep's organs cut up with onions and spices and cooked inside a sheep's stomach:

Scottish fudge (name of the dish):

Prosperous  (adj.) - successful, usually by earning a lot of money.

Strike a balance between (idiom) - if you strike a balance between two things, you accept parts of both things in order to satisfy some of the demands of both sides in an argument, rather than all the demands of just one side.

A downside of (noun) - a disadvantage of a situation.

Detrimental (adj.) - causing harm or damage; These chemicals have a detrimental effect/impact on the environment.