Dec 15, 2013

Dec 8, 2013

Glossary unit 3 The political organisation of society

State: it is made of a group of institutions that organise the lives of the people who live in the same territory. The laws and powers within it are the same for everyone.
Absolute monarchy: is a sistem of government in which the monarch exercises unrestricte power to dictate laws, govern and judge.
Constitution: a collection of a country's fundamental laws that shape the government, institutions and rights and oobligations of citizens.
Cultural diversity: the eqquallity of diverse or different cultures.
Democracy: a government in which the people have power, exercise either directly or through elected representatives.
Dictatorship: a system of government in which one person with absolute power governs.
Executive: one of three branches of state with responsability for executing laws, setting state policy and managingpublic affairs.

Dec 1, 2013

Glossay unit 2 Climates zones.

Bush: a large plant with lots of branches  that is smaller than a tree and grows close to the ground.
Deciduoud: a type of tree that loses all the leaves in autumn.
Livestock: domestic animals raised on farms.
Logging: the work of felling trees and transpoting he logs for sale.
Meadow: an area of grassland.
Mild: moderate, not extreme.
Pasture: an area with grass or anothersvegetation that is eaten by grazing animals.
Scrub: low trees or shurubsthat grows in areas with little rain.
Settlement: a place where people have gone to live and where no or no peoplelived before.
Steppe: a grassy place usually without trees.
Taiga: the forests located in the Earth's northenr regions consistingpf evergreen trees.
Tundra: the vasttreeless area in the Artic regions.


Been green one day, we can change a lot of things

Next weekend will begin our community new project. It consists in to clean our neighborhood and parks around the city. Every Saturday we are going to do different activities to help the environment. We are teenagers between 14 and 18 years old who want to change the world reducing pollution. People can be very messy, and they don’t take in to consideration the damage their producing to the environment, or just they don’t know this. So we’re gonna start doing different activities divide in diferent groups. I’ll clean up some parks, and my friend Jared is gonna be in another group. He will teach old people and also young people what can they do to improve their way of recycling. The other group is gonna share out flyers to people in different places, as parks, supermarkets, sports clubs… We hope with these methods to have a cleaner city in which you can play wherever and you won’t be able to see any filth.

Nov 29, 2013

Travel and famous singer

Here I upload my travel to Rome and Greece and my own poster about Shakira's foundation Pies Descalzos.

Nov 19, 2013

Same meaning different words

British english          American english              Meaning

Biscuits                   Cookies                           Galletas
Lift                          Elevator                           Ascensor
Car park                 Parking lot                       Aparcamiento
Trousers                  Pants                              Pantalones
Flat                         Apartment                       Apartamento
Torch                      Flashlight                         Linterna
Underground           Subway                           Metro
Rubber                    Eraser                              Goma
Autumn                    Fall                                  Otoño
Corn                        Grain                               Cereal
Ill                             Sick                                 Enfermo
Light                         Lite                                 Luz
Dizzy                        Sick                                Mareado
Night                        Nite                                Noche
Tire                          Tyre                                Neumático
Bonnet                      Hood                             Capucha
Aubergire                  Eggplant                         Berenjena
Nought                     Zero                               Cero
Lorry                       Truck                              Camión
Distric                      Poecinte                          Barrio/Zona
Boot                         Trunk                             Botas
Banknote                  Bill                                 Factura
Block of flats             Apartment buildings       Bloque de edificios
Chemist                    Druggist                         Farmacéutico
Soccer                      Football                         Fútbol


Spelling:

Analyce                      Analize                        Analizar
Fulfill                          Fulfil                             Rellenar
Defence                      Defense                        Defensa
Honoair                      Honor                           Honor
Colour                        Color                            Color
Centre                         Center                          Centro

Nov 16, 2013

Glossary unit 1 the earth's surface

Altitude: The height of a piece of land of landform above sea level.
Coast: the land bordering the sea.
Inlet: a narrow body of water leading inland from the sea.
Fault: a facture in a rock formation caused by a shfting of the Earth's crust.
Erosion: the natural wearing away and transportation
Massif: a large mountain mass or group of mountains forming an independent section of a range.
Basin: An area of land that is draines by a river or a lake and that is lower than the surronding area.
Valley: a linear depression in the land.
Plateau: a flat area of land which sits at a certain altitude above the sea level.
Plain: a large open flat or slightly undulating area of land.
Headland: a smal area of land that project into the sea.
Peninsula: a large scale headland surronded by land on three sides. A peninsula can be connected by an isthmus.
Gulf: an area surronded by land on threee sides. It forms the shape of an arc.
Island: a piece of land completely surronded by water.
Oceanic ridge: an underwater mountain range that generally  covers  alerge area and reaches high altitudes.
Oceanic trench: a long depression on the ocean floor that can be thousands of metres deep.
Abyssal plain: a flat area of the ocean floor. They are found at depths.
Continental shelf: the undersea extension of a continent that descends gradually to depths.
Continental slope:  a steep underwater area that links the continental shelf and the ocean floor.

Ef Glossary 1

Burst: go off
Supply: provide
Lack: there is not enough of something
Debt: someone lend you something and you have to return back it, for example money.
Vary: change.
Chase: whe a person runs after other to catch him.
Stiffs: hurts you feel in your body after  do a lot of exercise.
Trip: put your foot somewhere trying to make fell down someone.
Cheat: do something which is not aloud.
Clinch: is similar to hug, but  you do it to stop someone in a game.
Disease: is a sickness.
Brief: short.
Resume: continuous something you were doing.
Release: drop something you had.
Pretty: a coloquial way to say "very".
Performance: to make something in a correct way.







Glossary unit 3 Good job!

Earn money: get money working.

What do you do?
What d'ya earn a quid?                  Which is your job?
What do you do with your self?

Retal: It's use to refer shops in general
Trial period: a period of time in which a person is doing something he will have to do and another person marks his job.
Degree: a specifical studies a person choose to be able in the future to realice a work corectly.
Espressions you say when someone is calling you:
     -Who's calling?
     - Yes, that's me
Surgeon: a king of doctor who is speciallify in surgery.
Degree: studies a person do to be prepare for to do a job
Career: are your laboral experience.

Nov 11, 2013

What can I do in my daily life?

Hi!!!!! This list is made with the aim to increase my ecological size. If I'll be able to do all this things in my daily life, I'm sure that I will change a little bit the world just doing this intentions.

1.- Throw the waste in the correct bin.
2.- Turning off the taps and switching off the lights.
3.- Reusing shits that are use.
4.- Put the heating on till the house became hot and them, turning of it.
5.-Taking a shower instead a bath.
6.- Using natural lights during light hours.
7.- Don't open the windows if you are heating your house.

Nov 5, 2013

Recycling in my daily life


How I try to care the environment? Here I have put a link about what I think should people recycle, and an article about how people in Curitiba recycle in their daily life.

Video: https://voicethread.com/?#u4125496


How people recycle in Curitiba (Brazil):
The fame of this country is because it is a country as German or Norway. Not the most part of the population is hungry. There, there’s an impressive order of the public transporter that are as a light train but ten times more chip. It has got a lot of green parks too. People call the city as the Ecological capital of Brazil.  Curitiba won two mundial environment awards. It has factories, but it has clean technologies. They built them far from the cities, so the air is cleaner than in other countries.
The people instead throw the trash to the floor; they change the rubbish for season tickets bus. Also there’s a strange way to cut the grass. They don’t use machines; the use sheeps because they’re more ecological and economic. The mayor, rent some teenagers to keep the streets clean, and he diverted the water of the rain to the green parks; with this method, they saved up much money and water. Another way to recycling is how they separate the rubbish; they just divide into two groups, organic and inorganic. Some marginal neighborhoods have not got this option, so they go to another neighborhood and they change the trash by eggs, milk etc. The trash goes to a plant in which work people without resources, like handicapped immigrants or alcoholics.  The materials will be separated in diferent groups (glass, metal, paper, wood…) and they are distributing to many different factories. This way of recycling is as expensive as to have a dumping site.

With these methods, Curitiba is trying to give people a higher level of life.


If you love the people surronding you,
please, care them 
caring their and your enviorament. :)

Oct 26, 2013

Maps of Spain


            Hi guys!!!!! I did this two maps for geography. The first one is the political map and the second the main phisical features of Spain. May be if you do them, you're gonna learn these two maps easier than if you memorize  looking them.



























Oct 20, 2013

Glossary unit 2 Clean-Up times

It is my second list of vocabulary, but it is related to the unit two, that is about pollution in our society, and it trys to teach us more things about contamination and how people can change it.

Soil: it's a kind of sand.
Cattle: is group of animals.
Lost for words: you cannot speak because you're very impress.
Lid: An object use to close bottles, jars, briks...
Coal: a black mineral use to produce fire.
Cans: a recipient made of metal use to keep food.
Packed like sardines: use to describe  people in a very crowded space.
             *Chock a block: similar like packed like sardines but use for example to say that there're a lot of                    cars in the streets.
Like a duck to water: you discover when  you start doing a new activity that you are very good at it
You blow your own trumpet: you are oasting about your achievements.
You have a bee in your bonet: about something you are obssessed with it and can't stop thinking about it.
It's someone genes: when  a person has the same  personality traits as thier parents or does a similar job.
Damage: hurt something or someone.
If you blow your own trumpet: you are boasting about your achievements.
If you have a bee in your bonet: about something oyu are obssessed with it and you cannot stop thinking about it.
It's in someone's genes: when a person has the same personality traits or does a similar job as his parents.


Oct 15, 2013

Glossary unit 1 We are what we eat

I'm gonna writte some new expressions I had learnt. Some of them are related to the same word use in different contexts.

To take the bull by the hornsTo deal with a difficult situation in a brave and firm way.
To heads are better than one: When two people work together, they are more likely (probably) to solve a problem than one person doing it alone.
To keep your head above water: When you are just managing to survive despite not having (money, time, things...)
Self-steem: To feel confident on you.
Breaking point: He/she needs help, because he/she cannot continuous.
Dropped weight: To lose weight.
Purge: To provoke youre self vomit.
Vomit: When you're sick you purg in a involuntaire way.
Follow your footsteps: to be as an other person and do the same.
Powder: levadura.
To be in a good mood: to be happy.
Edible: something you can eat.
Scallion: a soft type of onion.
Tater: a kind of potatoe.
Wasted: something unuse.
Peeling: the sking of a fruit.
Shortcuts: to get the faster way.
Chairperson: a person who manage the debate.
There are plenty more fish in the sea: if someone wants something, he has another choices in a sitution. It is often said to comfort someone who had a romantic break-up.
The icing on the cake: something which is added to an alredy good thing or situation.
It's just not cricket: to say that something is unfair or dishonest.
To toy with: means to take smeone's feeling seriously.
A toyboy: is the younger boyfriend of an older person.
Like a ton of briks: 8you can use it literaly to say that something is very weight
It's a hot potatoe: if there's a delicate issue and people can´t agree.
They're like two beans un a pod: if two people look very similarwe say this expression.
Iwasn't born yesterday: you say this because someone is telling you an obviousli lie.
The big cheese: is the most important or powerful person in a group or organitation.
The chalk and cheese: nothing to do with each other, because they are two people very different to each other.
A little bird told me: if you have an information but you don't want to say who told you.
To be or to have mouth: someone told everybody about things he /she shouldn't say. He she must kept it in secret or avoided.


PIE:
It's as easy as pie: When something is very easy/ too easy
Pie-eyed: Someone very drunk.
To have a finger in many pies: Someone that has a lot of activities / you are involved in lots of things.
It's as easy as pie to be pie: Too easy to be easy.


EGG
A bag egg: if I want to easy that someone is bad as honest, we can call him I her a bad egg.
Don't pull all yur eggs in one basket: bus should never rely an only one plan in case it goes wrong.
He got egg on his face: When someone makes a mistake wich makes him/her look stupid.

BEANS
Full of beans: someone that is full of energy.
I haven´t got a bean: you have not money at all.
Spill the beans: We want to tell us something secret.

TEA
It's not my cup of tea: If there's something we don´t like much (a sport, a person, a type of music...) you can use this expression.
I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China: if there's something we wouldn't do it.
It's as good as a chocolate teapot: something completely useless.

FRUIT
He's gone bananas: someone very emotional that starts shouting and behaving in a crazy way.
It's a case of sour graps: if somebody pretends not to be impressed by something  because he/she feels jealous.
A second bite of the cherry: if we try to do something a second time because we fauled at first we say this.

NEST
To fly the nest: to live your parents' home for the first time to go to live somewhere else.
A nest egg: it's an amount of money you have served in the future.

WHALE
To have a whale of time: to have a lot of fun while doing something.
Size of a whale: it is an unpolite way saying they are large or overweight.

RAINBOW
All the colours of the rainbow: it is very colourfull.
Chasing rainbows: refers to someone who is always looking fo something more exciting and rewarding but it's unlikely to find it.

FIRE
You're playing with fire: you are doingsomething which could be dangerous.
If you add fuel to the fire: you make a bad situation even worse.



Oct 11, 2013

Nachos

Hi guys!!!!! I was investigating about the history of the nachos. Do you want to know what I have discovered? Ok, so I'm gonna start by the first question. Where were invented the nachos? Everybody thinks that they came from Mexico, but they are wrong. Nachos were made by a mexican but they are  from United States.            

Ignacio (the mexican who created the nachos and from his name came the name of this food) were working in a small restaurant in a town. TThe restaurant was closed, but three women married with militarists of E.E.U.U. wanted to have dinner, so Nacho needed to prepare something for the ladies. So he took some cheese and totopo and he served it to the diners. One of the ladies asked for the plate's name, but Nacho  didn't understand her and he responded  Nacho (his nickname). From this day, the fame of this plate was rising because it is easy to prepare and you choose the ingridients. 

                

Oct 2, 2013

My new portfolio

Hi everybody ;)I'm exciting because I think this new way of working can be interesting, and probably we are gonna pay more attencion than in the handwritting portfolio. So I hope from me and each one of you to make an effort to improve our marks. Good luck guys.