Glossary unit 5 City life

To ask for the moon: to make unreasonable demands for things or to wish something impossible to achieve or to obtain.
Hold the fort: you take care of a place when the person normally in charge is away. Under the table: is a phase used to describe secretive behaviour often suggesting corruption or illegality.
Chickened out of something: they have failed to do something or they haven´t tried to do it because they were afraid.
Wise old owl: you mean that someone is very experienced in life.
A night owl: is someone who stays up late into the night.
Someone is in safe hands: they are being cared for someone who is confident and skilled. A safe pair of hands: is a similar expression it refers to someone who can be to do a good job avoiding mistakes.
Hold your tongue: means they want you to stop talking because they don't like what you are saying.
A situation that is black and white: means that you have a clear opinion about it and you can easily see what you think is right and wrong.
Money doesn't grow on trees: means you must not spent to much money as there is a limited amount of it.
Money is not 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.
It's as cheap as chips: you mean that something is very cheap.
Chasing your tail: you're very busy doing a lot of things but not achieving very much.

Is the constitution necessary or not?

Perhaps, yes it is. Even if some people aren't agree with it, they have to respect it too. Probably, the constituion gives specific features that make our country different than the other ones. It regulates all the laws that are stablish and those ones that aren't yet, and also it makes somepoints in which all the new laws must respect and don't break them.

Glossary unit 5

Autonomous comunity: one of 17 regions that form part of the Spanish territory with its own devolved government.
Constitutional monarchy: a system of government in which the king is the head of state but the parliament chooses the government.
Councilors: government officials that, together with the mayor, make up the town council. The royal crown: the part of a constitutional monarchy represented by the king. Descentralise goverment: a system of government in which decision-making is devolved to a local level and therefore closer to the citizens.
Mayor: person who governs the town council of a municipality.
Ministers: government officials that, together with the president, make up the Spanish cabinet.
Motion of confidence: Cortes Generales’ request to the president to resign due to a common disagreement with the government’s politics.
Municipality: the most basic administrative body in the Spanish territory.
National sovereignity: other countries’ impossibility of having influence in a country’s laws.
Nuclear family: type of family made up of parents and children.
Self-government: a system of government in which a community or region has authority to govern itself without the intervention of any other authority.
Share authority: autonomous communities’ power of developing the laws passed by the Parliament and adapting them to their territory features.
Own council: the organization that governs each municipality in Spain.
Well being: the level of satisfaction of a population as measured by education levels, healthcare, life expectancy and consumption.