P.E: VOCABULARY

Have a nice day: Pasa un buen día

To carry on, to continue: Continuar

To Stretch: Estirar

To warm up: Calentar

To bring: Traer

To bounce: Botar

Listen up: Escuchar

Line up: Hacer una cola

To pass: Pasar

Endurance: Resistencia

Walking: Andando

GLOSSARY LESSON 2 (GEOGRAPHY)

Temperature: A measure of the warmth or coldness of an object or substance with reference to some standard value.

Oases: a small fertile or green area in a desert region, usually having a spring or well.

Precipitation: the act of precipitating; state of being precipitated.

Settlement: the act or state of settling or the state of being settled.

Livestock: the horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals kept or raised on a farm or ranch.

Scrub: Chemistry . to remove (impurities or undesirable components) from a gas by chemical means, as sulfur dioxide from smokestack gas or carbon dioxide from exhaled air in life-support packs.

Holm Oak Tree: is a large evergreen oak native to the Mediterranean region

Logging: the process, work, or business of cutting down trees and transporting the logs to sawmills

Deforestation: to divest or clear of forests or trees

Savannah: is a grassland ecosystem characterized by the trees being sufficiently widely spaced so that the canopy does not close

Taiga: the coniferous evergreen forests of subarctic lands, covering vast areas of northern North America and Eurasia.

Tundra: one of the vast, nearly level, treeless plains of the arctic regions of Europe, Asia, and North America.

Jungle: a wild land overgrown with dense vegetation, often nearly impenetrable, especially tropical vegetation or a tropical rain forest.

Desert: a region so arid because of little rainfall that it supports only sparse and widely spaced vegetation or no vegetation at all.

Steppe: an extensive plain, especially one without trees.

Deciduous forest:a type of forest characterized by trees that seasonally shed their leaves .

Evergreen forest: is a forest consisting entirely or mainly of evergreen trees that retain green foliage all year round.

Riparian forest: is a forested area of land adjacent to a body of water such as a river, stream, pond, lake, marshland, estuary, canal, sink or reservoir.

Meadows:a tract of grassland used for pasture or serving as a hayfield.

Grassland:an area, as a prairie, in which the natural vegetation consists largely of perennial grasses, characteristic of subhumid and semiarid climates.

NATURAL DISASTERS:

Climate change:a long-term change in the earth's climate, especially a change due to an increase in the average atmospheric temperature

Greenhouse effect: an atmospheric heating phenomenon, caused by short-wave solar radiation being readily transmitted inward through the earth's atmosphere but longer-wavelength heat radiation less readily transmitted outward, owing to its absorption by atmospheric carbon dioxide, water vapor, methane, and other gases; thus, the rising level of carbon dioxide is viewed with concern.

Atmosphere: the gaseous envelope surrounding the earth

Drought:a period of dry weather, especially a long one that is injurious to crops.

Acid rain: precipitation, as rain, snow, or sleet, containing relatively high concentrations of acid-forming chemicals, as the pollutants from coal smoke, chemical manufacturing, and smelting, that have been released into the atmosphere and combined with water vapor.

Hurricane: a violent, tropical, cyclonic storm of the western North Atlantic, having wind speeds of or in excess of 72 miles per hour (32 m/sec).

Tornado: a localized, violently destructive windstorm occurring over land, especially in the Middle West, and characterized by a long, funnel-shaped cloud extending toward the ground and made visible by condensation and debris.

Tsunami: an unusually large sea wave produced by a seaquake or undersea volcanic eruption.

Sea levels rising: when the sea level is upper

Sandstorm: a windstorm, especially in a desert, that blows along great clouds of sand

Flood: a great flowing or overflowing of water, especially over land not usually submerged.  

UNIT 1 GLOSSARY

Take the bull by the horns: To confront a problem head-on and deal with it openly.

Two heads are better than one: Two people working together have a better chance of solving a problem than one person working alone.

To keep your head above the water: Survive financially.

It´s as easy as pie: Something very easy.

Pie-eyed: Someone very drunk.

To have a finger in many pies: Someone is involed in lots of different activities.

A bad egg: If we want tosay that someone is bad or dishonest.

Don´t pull all your eggs in one basket: You should never trust only one plan.

He got egg on his face: If someone makes a mistake which makes him/her look stupit.

Breaking point: The weak part of a person or an instrument.

Dropped: Lose weight.

Purging: Vomit but doing by yourself not accidentally.

Compussively: Doing something a lot of time without think.

Long term effects: Effects that they appeared after that you doing something.

Follow in your footsteps: Doing the same of other person.

Full of beans: If someone is full of energy.

I haven´t got a bean: If someone haven´t got money.

Spill the beans: If we want  to tell us something secret.

It´s a hot potato: If there is a delicate issue and people can´t agree.

They´re like two peas in a pod: If two people look very similar.

It´s not my cup of tea: If there´s something we don´t like much.

I wouldn´t do it for all the tea in China: If there´s something we would never do it.

It´s as good as a chocolate teapot: If something is complety useless we say this expression.

He is gone bananas: When someone is very emotional and starts shouting and behaving in a crazy way.

It´s a case of sour grapes: If someone pretends not to be impressed by something bacause he/she feels jaelous.

A second bite of a cherry: An other opportunity. Try to do something a second time.

Chairperson: Who controls the debate.

Adjudicator: Who says who dinner.

Time-keeper: Who controls the time.

Teams: Groups.

Speaker: Who talks in the team.

There are planty more fish in the sea:It means that there are other  choices in a situation.

The icing on the cake: It is used to refer to something good which is added to an already good thing or situation. 

It´s jus not cricket: If something is unfair or dishonest.

To toy with (somebody or something): Means not to take someones feeling´s seriously.

Toyboy: Is the younger boyfriend of an older person.

Like a tone of bricks: It is used to express something that is heavy. It can be literally.

To fly nest: Means to heave your parents home for live somewhere else.

A nest egg: Its an amount of money you have saved in the future.

I wasn´t born yesterday: If someone is telling you a very obvious lie.

To have a whale of time: Means to have a lot of fun while doing something.

Size of a whale: It is an impolite way of saying someone is large.

Horoscopes: A diagram of the heavens, showing the relative position of planets and the signs of the zodiac, foruse in calculating births, foretelling events in a person's life, etc. 

Fortune teller: A person who claims the ability to predict the future.

Tarot reader: A person who reads your future in a special cards.

The big cheese: Is the most important or powerful person in a group or organization.

Chalk and cheese: We use this expression to define two people who are very different to each other.

Alittle bird told me: If you have some information but you don´t want to reval who told you.

Tobe or tohave a big mouth: you talk too much especially sbout things which should be kept in secret or avoided.

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