domingo, 14 de diciembre de 2014

JESSICA`S VOCABULARY

-Hood: Short form to neighborhood

-Dude, Bro: Guy

-Whats up?: What's going on?

-Alrighty: Okay.

-Bomb: Very good.

-Blast: To embarass someone in public. 

-Call out: Reveal another mistakes.

-Awesome : Great.

-To rock : To be incredible

-To bail : To live a place

-To rock: To be incredible

   

LONDON VS NYC

The aspects I prefer London are:

- The travelling to London is cheaper because going to New York is so expensive and we are in crisis. Probably families cannot pay it.
- In London there are so many places to visit: Trafalgar square, Buckingham Palace, London Eye... and I think in Ney York there are less things to do.

The aspects I prefer New York are:

- It is different place, it is not in Europe and is something new for us. Different culture, different organization... And is good to know different places.
- Everything there is cheaper: Clothes, electornic items,.. and everything is advanced. In London everything so expensive and you cannot buy so many things.

So I don´t prefer anyone because both cities have good things and bad things.

lunes, 27 de octubre de 2014

WELCOME TO THIS NEW COURSE!!!!

Hi again friends, how are you?
So here we are in forth year of ESO... so many days together, so many hours, so many different moments... We change faces, we grow, we become adults, people with different thinks, with hobbies but with something in common, ENGLISH and don´t forgetting that we´re friends.. I hope we will have a great course.
BFN
Carlos Muñoz.

martes, 29 de abril de 2014

Socials glossary

Mechanization: to equip (a factory, industry, etc) with machinery.


Mining: the act, process, or industry of extracting coal, ores, etc, from the earth.

Mineral: any of a class of naturally occurring solid inorganic substances with a characteristic crystalline form and a homogeneous chemical composition.

Fossil fuels: any naturally occurring carbon or hydrocarbon fuel, such as coal, petroleum, peat, and natural gas, formed by the decomposition of prehistoric organisms.

Industry: organized economic activity concerned with manufacture, extraction and processing of raw materials, or construction.

Irrigated farming: Farming that is suppling with water by means of artificial canals, ditches, etc, esp to promote the growth of food crops.

Energy: the capacity of a body or system to do work.

Biomass: the total number of living organisms in a given area, expressed in terms of living or dry weight per unit area.

Management: the members of the executive or administration of an organization or business.

Workforce: the total number of workers employed by a company on a specific job, project, etc.

Wind turbine: a device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy to drive machinery or generate electricity.

Solar panel: a flat section that is relating to the sun.

Renewable energy: Energy sources that are inexhaustible.

Non-renewable energy: Energy sources that are limited.

Traditional energy: Refers to the energy sources that are most commonly used.

Alternative energy: a form of energy derived from a natural source.

Dam: a barrier of concrete, earth, etc, built across a river to create a body of water for a hydroelectric power station, domestic water supply, etc.

Guild: a group of people that shared the same job and had its own hierarchy.

Heavy industry: industry that makes goods that cannot be immediately consumed.

Light industry: industry that produces goods that are ready for consumption.

Cutting-edge industries: industry that employs advanced technology.

Craftsperson: person who makes products using basic tools and manual labour.

sábado, 22 de marzo de 2014

Cover magazine

GERMANY

Constitution

Hi mates!
I think that Constitution is very important and necessary in our lives because there are all the rights and laws we have, and the most important, it is the same for everybody. We must have this things because without that everybody did as they want.

MY IDEAL CITY

Power station: a place where the energy is distributed

Liveable: pleasant to live


Stability: the quality of being stable


Dwellers: population


Aussie: another way to say Australian (informal)


Stiletto: a small dagger


Rank: level


Hence: therefore


Bum-bag: you wear it round your waist. You used it to carry little things


Sloppy-joes: track suit pants

social glossary

National sovereignty: the authority of a state to govern itself or another state

Constitutional monarchy:  a system of government in which the king is the head of state but the parliament chooses the government. The government manages the politics of the state

The crown: the part of a constitutional monarchy represented by the king

Arbitrator: a person chosen to decide a dispute or settle differences. In a constitutional monarchy, the king is the arbitrator between governmental institutions

Decentralised government: a system of government in which decision-making is devolved to a local level and is therefore closer to the citizens

Motion of no confidence: a motion put by the Opposition censuring an aspect of the Government's policy

Ministers: government officials that, together with the president, make up the Spanish cabinet

Municipality: the most basic administrative body in the Spanish territory

Town council: the organization that governs each municipality in Spain

Mayor: This person with the councillors make up the town council

Councillors: These people with the mayor make up the town council and they choose the mayor

Province: an administrative body made up of several municipalities in the Spanish territory

Self-government: a system of government in which a community or region has authority to govern itself without the intervention of any other authority

Statue of autonomy:  a law describing the institutions, laws and responsibilities for each of the autonomous communities in the Spanish territory

Subsidiarity: the principle of devolving decisions to the lowest practical level so that services are closer to the citizens

Autonomous community: one of 17 regions that form part of the Spanish territory with its own devolved government

Exclusive authority: the local government has this authority over laws related to town planning, housing, monuments, healthcare and education

Share authority: the local government and the state has this authority over laws related to transport or the labour market

Post industrial society: a society in which the economy is has undergone a shift from production of goods to the provision of services

Well-being: the level of satisfaction of a population as measured by education levels, healthcare, life expectancy and consumption

Life expectancy: the number of years a person or population is expected to live

Illiteracy: a person who doesn't know to write and to read

Extended family: made up of grandparents, parents and children

Nuclear family: made up of parents and children

Single parent family: made up of a father or a mother and children

Same sex marriages:  two people of the same sex who live together as a family

viernes, 21 de marzo de 2014

Social glossary

Economic activity: the different processes involved in the production and consumption of goods and services

Economic agent: a person, group or institution involved in the economy

Goods: tangible economic products, such as food, that are usually consumed after production

Services: economic activities, such as banking or education, that are intangible

Production: an activity that provides goods and services for consumption. the production of goods combines natural resources, skills, financial investment and labour

Distribution: the marketing, delivery and sale of goods and services

Marketing: the act of researching, promoting and advertising a product or service in order to sell it

Consumption: the use of a product or service to satisfy needs or desires

Supply: availability of something of use or sale

Demand: the desire to own something in the market and the willingness to pay for it

Inflation: a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in the economy or a decrease in value of the purchasing power of money

Profit: the monetary gain of a business after all expenses have been met

Tax: a monetary contribution to the government requires of people, groups or business

Raw material: material on which a particular manufacturing process is carried out

Telecommuting: the use of home computers, telephones, etc, to enable a person to work from home while maintaining contact with colleagues, customers, or a central office

Employer: a person, business, firm, etc, that employs workers

Employee: a person who is hired to work for another or for a business, firm, etc, in return for payment

Self-employed: earning one's living in one's own business or through freelance work, rather than as the employee of another

Active population: people currently employed in the production of goods and services  and the people who are unemployed or looking for their first job

Inactive population: people not in active service

Disabled: lacking one or more physical powers, such as the ability to walk or to coordinate one's movements, as from the effects of a disease or accident, or through mental impairment

Retired: to give up or to cause (a person) to give up his work, a post, etc, esp on reaching pensionable age

Full-time contracts:  a person works a minimum number of hours defined as such by his/her employer.

Part-time contracts: a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job.

jueves, 20 de marzo de 2014

My comic!

Dear family Jones,
We are very happy to receive you here in Spain. We hope you spend a good time with us. Here we can do lots of great things, but you are only going to be here for five days, so we’ll try to do the best activities for you to have a good time.
The first day we will try to go to Warner Bros in Madrid, but this activity depends on the weather, so we will plan it the day before you come.
The second day we will go to Aveiro. It’s a place in Portugal where much people go to have a bath on the beach. There you can also buy some souvenirs.
The third day will be a special day for your children because we are going to one of the most famous zoos in Spain, Cabárceno. It is located in the northern part of Spain, near Santander.
The fourth day we will visit Barcelona, where we can see the famous cathedral “La SagradaFamilia” and “Parque Güell”.
During your last day we will go to the biggest football stadium in Europe, Nou Camp, and “El Palau Sant Jordi”. After that we will go to Prat Airport to fly back to Liverpool.
See you next week,
Javier Vicente and Carlos Muñoz.

miércoles, 19 de marzo de 2014

Social glossary

Plot: An area of land where crops are grown. It can vary in sixe, shape or borders

Soil: The subtance on the surface of the Earth in which plants grow, produced mainly by the weathering of rock.

Crop rotation: The practice of growing different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons. This method improves sil fertility and resistance to disease and pests

Intensive agriculture:  is an agricultural production system characterized by a low fallow ratio and the high use of inputs such as capital, labour, or heavy use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers relative to land area.

Extensive agriculture: An agricultural system that uses small inputs of labour, fertilisers, and capital, relative to the area of land that is being farmed.

Dryland farming: Farming in which the fields receive only rainwater.

Irrigated farming: Farming in which the water from groundwater, reservoirs or rivers is brought to fields.

Polyculture:  is agriculture using multiple crops in the same space, in imitation of the diversity of natural ecosystems, and avoiding large stands of single crops, or monoculture. It includes multi-cropping, intercropping, companion planting, beneficial weeds, and alley cropping.

Monoculture:  is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop or plant species over a wide area and for a large number of consecutive years

Greenhouses:  is a building in which plants are grown

Subsistence agriculture: A type of agriculture in which farmers only grow enough food to feed themselves and their families.

Shifting cultivation:  is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot

Livestock farming: Farming bassed on rearing animals to obtain products.

Housed livestock: Livestock fed with fodder in farm buildings. This type of livestock must pass strict sanitary and quality controls

Cattle: are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

Fodder:  is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, goats, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.

Rear: To care for, breed and grow animals until maturity.

Fishing grounds: An area of water that is used for fishing.

Aquaculture: is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants.

Overfishing:  is a form of overexploitation in which fish stocks are depleted to unacceptable levels, regardless of water body size.

Fleets: is an aggregate of commercial fishing vessels

School of fish: many fishes together

martes, 4 de marzo de 2014

English Glossary

 -TO ASK FOR THE MOON: Means to make unreasonable demands for things or to wish something impossible to achieve or to obtain.
 -When you HOLD THE FORT it means that you take care of a place when the person normally in change is away.
 -UNDER THE TABLE: Is a phrase used to describe secretive behaviour often suggesting corruption or illegality.
 -TO HORSE AROUND: Means to behave in a silly way making noise and causin distruption.
 -When you say someone has CHICKENED OUT of something you mean they have failed to do something or they haven't tried to do it because they were afraid.
 -When you say someone is a WISE OLD OWL you mean they are very experienced in life.
 -A NIGHT OWL is someone who stays up late into the night.
 -When you say someone is IN SAFE HANDS you mean they are being cared for someone who is confident and skilled.
 -A SAFE PAIR OF HANDS is a similar expression to refers to someone who can be trusted to do a good job avoiding mistakes.
 -If someone tells you TO HOLD YOUR TONGUE it means they want you to stop talking because they don't like what you are saying.
 -If a situation is BLACK AND WHITE it means you have a clean opinion about it. You can easily see what you think is right and wrong.
 -The phrase MONEY DOESN'T GROW ON TREES means you must not spend too much money as there is limited amount of it.
 -The phrase MONEY IS NO OBJECT means that you have a lot of money available to spend.
 -LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY means to allow things to happen no matter what the consequences are.
 -When you say something is AS CHEAP AS CHIPS you mean it is very cheap.
 -If you are CHASING YOUR TAIL you are busy doing a lot of different things but not achieving very much.


lunes, 27 de enero de 2014

Glossary (Social science)

BUDGET:  A sum of money to be used for a specific purpose by a government.
CAP: Common Agricultural Policy.
CFP: Common Fisheries Policy.
CITIZENSHIP: The condition or status of a citizen, with its rights and duties.
COHESION:  The act of uniting or staying together.
COMMON MARKET: A market based on common policies and the free movement of goods, services, people and capital.
DEVELOPMENT: The act or process of growing or making progress.
DUTY: Something you must do.
FRAGMENTATION: When production processes occur in different phases, in different places.
FREE MOVEMENT: The unrestricted movement of goods, services, people and capital in a common market.
FUNDS: The financial resources used by governments or political institutions for a specific purpose.
GDP: The Gross Domestic Product.
HETEROGENEITY: A thing that consists of dissimilar elements or parts.
HIERACHY: Social system  in which some people order and the rest obey.
HIGHWAY/MOTORWAY: Large road by where main ground transport goes by from one city to another.
HOMOGENEOUS: Made up of the same kind of people or things.
INVESTMENT: The act of using something to achieve a goal.
MONETARY UNION: The sharing of the same currency between two or more states.
OUTSKIRTS: The bordering areas of a city.
OUTSOURCING: Part of a company’s work is sent to another company, sometimes in a different country because it is a cheaper or more efficient option.
PROFITABLE : Something by which you gain some benefits.
SEAFARING: Related to the sea.
SKEPTICAL:  Doubtful.
SUBSUDY: A type of financing offered by a government.
SURPLUS:  What is left over after producing excessively.
TREATY: A formal agreement between two or more states related to international relations.