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.

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.

DIFFERECES BETWEEN AMERICAN ENGLISH AND BRITSH ENGLISH

Bill / Banknote
Fall / Autumn
Eggplant / Aubergine
Zero / Nought
Underpants / Pants
Block flats / Apartment buildings
Trunk / Boot
Hood / Bonnet
Check / Cheque
Pharmacy / Chemist's
Grain / Corn
Defense / Defence
Lite / Light
Sick / Ill
Honor / Honour
Truck / Lorry
Analize / Analyse
Fulfil / Fulfill
Labor / Labour
Nite / Night
Precinte / District
Tyre / Tire
Cookies / Biscuits
Elevator / Lift
Parking lot / Car park
Pants /Trousers
Apartment / Flat
Subway / Underground
Flashlight / Torch
Eraser / Rubber

BE CAREFUL WITH BATTERIES

Yesteray it was the battery day. There was in front of Prado´s museum. The purpose was because the batteries are one of the things that is slowest to degrate and it is very contaminate. Then they were a lot of activities and we do an experiment. We put a fish in a glass without batteries and other fish in a glass with a battery. Then we saw that the fish in the battery´s glass start die. After that Íker Casillas came to this "manifestation" and he told us about we must recycle and things like that. And to finish we saw a documental movie that it explained effects about bad recycle with batteries.

THINGS THAT I CAN DOING TO IMPROVE OUR ENVIRONMENT

1. Use natural lights.
2. Turn of the faucet when Ibrush my teeth.
3. Use public transport.
4. Use energy save bulbs.
5. Recycle.
6. Disconnect the electronic things whe we don´t used
7. Reduce your using with sprays.

You can doing more than you think!

HONG KONG

In Hong Kong they taken the recycling very seriously because is a long populated cithety and there are a lot of contamination in it.
There are a lot of paper bins that at there they put their paper and they can reused.
There is a company too that they convert the plastic in fuel that now you cannot used but in the future probably you can.
These are good ideas for recycle and to improve the environment.

THE PINEAPPLE STORY

One day an apple fell down in the floor.
The apple spent days, months and years, and one day it dissapeared and the apple tree with it.
Next year it appeared a pine in the same side and a leave fell gown in the floor.
The pine leave spent days, months and years, and there one day it dissapeared and the pine tree with it.
And next year it appeared it appeared a pineapple tree in the same side.
Then one person eats it and it likes and he puts pineapple because this story.