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Constitution

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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.

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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

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.

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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.

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

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.