VOCABULARY: UNIT 2

*Spooky: Asustado
*Alley:  Callejón
*Scary-cat: Gallina
*Oil Spill: derramar petróleo
*Gas leak: escape de gas
*Wipe out: extinguir
*To be fond of: ser aficionado
*To strike: huelga
*To Drill: entrenar
*Sway: oscilar
*Shelter: refugio
*To hijack: secuestro
*Smoge: niebla
*To manage: apañarse

VOCABULARY, EXPRESIONS...

* Olive Skin: moreno
* Pale Skin: piel pálida
* Sun tanned: bronceado
* V.A.T: iva
* Crowded: abarrotado
* Bustling City: ciudad activa
* Save and Sound: "sanos y salvos"
* Travel Arrangements: planes de viaje
* Itinerary: itinerario
* Hostel: albergue
* That burrito is so bomb: delicioso
* Bro, why do you putting me on blast: verguenza
* Super awesome: genial, magnifico
* Heavy: triste
* To Rock: con mucho estilo
* Living it up: disfrutar
* Railways: ferrocarriles
* Hood: abreviación de neighbourhood
* Alrighty: O.k
* What´s up?: como estas?
* That's Hecka cool: guay
* To Bail: dejar un lugar
* Steam: vapor
* Failure: fracaso
* Ford Mayor: alcalde

NEW YEAR!!

Hi everyone! we had start a new year again:(so we have to work hard and try to get good marks.

The first activity that we have is to search of cultural differences like:

  + Bulgarians say "YES" when they shake their head from side to side and they say "NO" shaking          their head from up to down.

  + In Bangladesh, children can be imprisoned for cheating in their final exams.

 Bye, see you soon:)

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GLOSSARY UNIT 9 (SOCIAL SCIENCE)

Freight: goods or produce transported by ship, aircraft, train, lorry or van.

Capital flows: the money that is moved around the world

Exports: goods or services that are sold outside the country where they are produced.

Imports: goods or services that are brought into a country from abroad for sale.

Balance of trade: the difference between the monetary value of the exports and the imports of a country.

Balance of payments: all monetary transactions between a country and the world

Retail: a type of trade in which businesses sell small quantities of goods directly to consumers.

Wholesale: trade in which buyers purchase large quantities of goods and sell them, in smaller quantities, to other companies.

Trade bloc: a group of countries that join together to form an area with special trade regulations.

Transport network: the connection of road, railway lines, ports or airports that facilitate the transport of goods and/or people.

Market: the meeting of buyers and sellers of goods and services. It can be tangible or abstract and it decides the prices of goods and services

Infrastructure: the basic physical and organizational structures needed for an economy to function.

Trade: the buying and selling of goods to meet the needs of the population.

Bartering: the first way of trading in history

Tourism: a sector dedicated to travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.

Information society: society in which revolutionary advances an IT dominate the economy

Public services: cover basic need of population

Private services: offer personalised services to companies

GLOSSARY UNIT 10 (SOCIAL SCIENCE)

Cereals- Grasses grown for the edible components of their grain, such as rice and wheat.

Mortgage- A loan to finance the purchase of private residential or commercial property.

Speculation-Investment in stocks, property of other assets in the hope of gain, but with the risk of loss.

Crop- A cultivated plant to be harvested as food, animal fodder, fuel or for any other economic purpose.

Agricultural landscape- A landscape that has been transformed by people to cultivate crops and/or rear livestock.

Cultural heritage-The things, places and practices that define who we are as individuals, as communities, as nations or cultures.

Domestic tourism-Tourism in which tourists do not leave their own country.

Large-scale tourism-Travel and accommodation offered to large groups at affordable prices by tour operators.

Tour operators-A company that combines tour and travel components to cater for large-scale tourism.

High-speed rail-A type of rail transport involving high-speed trains.

Peak season-The season when travel is most active and rates are highest.

Off-peak season-The season when travel is less active and rates are lower.

Recession-A business cycle contraction; a general slowdown in economic activity.

GLOSSARY(UNIT 8)

Mechanization: The use of machinery in the production process

Mining: The process of extracting minerals from the ground

Mineral: a naturally occurring solid chemical substance such as bauxite. Most minerals need to be transformed to enable them to be used for manufacturing products

 Fossil fuels: fuel that is formed by the decomposition of buried organic material, and exposure to heat and pressure, producing substances such as coal, oil and gas.

Industry: any economic activity that produces a service or transforms raw material into consumer goods.

Irrigated farming: is the artificial application of water to the land or soil.

Energy: power that comes from the utilization of physical or chemical resources to provide light and heat or to work machines.

Biomass: organic material used as a fuel that releases energy when burned

Management: the people that run a company and ensure that goods and services of a high enough quality are produced and sold at competitive prices.


Workforce:  the employees required to produce goods and services.

Wind turbine: a device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy to drive machinery or generate electricity.

Solar panel:  is a set of solar photovoltaic modules electrically connected and mounted on a supporting structure.

 Renewable energy: is generally defined as energy that comes from resources which are naturally replenished on a human time-scale such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves and geothermal heat.

Non-renewable energy: is a resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in meaningful human time-frames.

Traditional energy: refers to the energy sources that are most commonly used

Alternative energy: is any energy source that is an alternative to fossil fuel. These alternatives are intended to address concerns about such fossil fuels.

Dam: is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams.

Guild: is an association of artisans or merchants who control the practice of their craft in a particular town.

Heavy industry: does not have a single fixed meaning as compared to light industry. It can mean production of products which are either heavy in weight or in the processes leading to their production.

Light industry:  is usually less capital intensive than heavy industry, and is more consumer-oriented than business-oriented (most light industry products are produced for end users rather than as intermediates for use by other industries).

Cutting-edge industries: industries that employ advanced technology

Craftspersons: a person who makes products using basic tools and manual labour.

CHARLES CHAPLIN (SOCIAL SCIENCE)

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MY IDEAL CITY

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IDIOMS

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 charge is away

Under the table is a phrase used to describe secretive behaviour often suggestion corruption or illegality

To horse around means to behave in a silly way, making noise and caussing disruption

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 it refers to someone who can be 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 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

When you say something is as cheap as chips you mean it is very cheap

If you are chasing your tail you are very busy doing a lot of things but not achieving very much

GLOSSARY OF UNIT 7 (SOCIAL SCIENCE)

Plot: An area of land where crops are grown

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

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

Polycultures:  mixed farming
Monocultures: single-crop farming

Subsistence agriculture: A type of agriculture in which farmers only grow enough food to feed themselves and their families

Livestock farming: Farming bassed on rearing animals to obtain products

Housed livestock: Livestock fed with fodder in farm buildings

Rear: To care for, breed and grow animals until maturity

Fishing ground: An area of water that is used for fishing

GLOSSARY UNIT 6 (SOCIALSCIENCE)

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:  An unprocessed natural product used in manufacture

Telecommuting: To communicate by means of telecommunication

Employer: To engage the services of; put to work

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 livelihood directly from one's own trade or business rather than as an 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

FAIR TRADE

GLOSSARY UNIT 5 (SOCIAL SCIENCE)

• NATIONAL SOVEREIGNTY= Sovereignty is the power of a state to do everything necessary to govern itself, such as making, executing, and applying laws; imposing and collecting taxes; making war and peace; and forming treaties or engaging in commerce with foreign nations

• CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY =  a monarchy governed according to a constitution that limits and defines the powers of the sovereign. Also called: limited monarchy

• THE CROWN= the part of a constitutional monarchy represented by the king

• ARBITRATOR=  A private extraordinary judge chosen by the parties who have a matter in dispute, invested with power to decide the same. Arbitrators are so called because they have generally an arbitrary power, there being in common no appeal from their sentences, which are called awards

• 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= is primarily a statement or vote which states that a person in a superior position - be it government, managerial, etc. - is no longer deemed fit to hold that position. This may be based on said person falling short in some respect, failing to carry out obligations, or making choices that other members feel are detrimental

• MINISTERS= government officials that, together with the president, make up the spanish cabinet

• MUNICIPALITY= is also used to mean the governing body of a municipality.A municipality is a general-purpose administrative subdivision

• TOWN COUNCIL= is a democratically elected form of government for small municipalities or civil parishes. A council may serve as both the representative and executive branch.

• MAYOR=  is the highest-ranking officer in the municipal government of a town or a large urban city.

• COUNCILORS=  is a member of alocal government council, such as a city council

• PROVINCE=  is a territorial unit, almost always an administrative division, within a country or state

• SELF-GOVERNMENT=  is an abstract concept that applies to several scales of organization

• STATUTE OF AUTONOMY=  is a law hierarchically located under the constitution of a country, and over any other form of legislation (including organic laws)

• SUBSIDIARITY= is an organising principle of decentralisation, stating that a matter ought to be handled by the smallest, lowest, or least centralised authority capable of addressing that matter effectively

• AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY=  is a first-level political and administrative division of Spain created in accordance with the Spanish constitution of 1978, with the aim of guaranteeing the autonomy of the nationalities and regions that integrate the Spanish nation

• EXCLUSIVE AUTHORITY= is a government's assertion of its legitimate authority over a certain territory, part of which another government controls with stable, de facto sovereignty

• SHARE AUTHORITY= the local govenrment and the state over laws related to the transport or the labour market

• POST- INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY= a society in wich the economy has undergone a shift from the production of goods to the provision of services

• WELL- BEING= The term is used in a wide range of contexts, including the fields of international development, healthcare, and politics

• LIFE EXPECTANCY=  is the expected (in the statistical sense) number of years of life remaining at a given age

• ILLITERACY= is the inability to read and write one's own name and further for knowledge and interest, write coherently, and think critically about the written word

• EXTENDED FAMILY= defines a family that extends beyond the nuclear family, consisting of grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins all living nearby or in the same household

• NUCLEAR FAMILY=  is a term used to define a family group consisting of a pair of adults and their children. This is in contrast to a single-parent family, to the larger extended family, and to a family with more than two parents

• SINGLE PARENT FAMILY= a person who has a dependent child or dependent children and who is widowed, divorced, or unmarried

• SAME SEX MARRIAGES=  a law permitting same-sex marriage

Do you think that having a constitution is important for us?

The constitution of a country is the law of the laws and you must have the obligation to comply the laws and rigths that the goverment approves, Lately, there are many people that are not agree with this laws and they don't respect.
If this constitution were obeyed properly, we will ensure a better life expectancy for all.

GLOSSARY (SOCIAL SCIENCE) UNIT 4

Free movement: the unrestricted movement of goods, services, people and capital in a common market.

Common market: a market based on common policies and the free movement of goods, services, people and capital.

Monetary union: the sharing of the same currency between two or more states. In 1992, the concept of a monetary union was agreed upon in the European Union.

Cohesion: the act uniting or staying together.

Treaty: a formal agreement between two or more states related to international relations.

Heterogeneity: a thing that consists of dissimilar elements or parts.

Homogeneous: made up of the same kind of people or things.

Outsourcing: part of a company's work is sent to another company, sometimes in a different country, because it is cheaper or more efficient option.

Fragmentation: when production processes occur in different phases, in different places.

Development: the act or process of growing or making progress.

Budget: a sum of money to be used for a specific purpose by a goverment.

Citizenship: is the fact of belonging to a community because you live in it, and the duties and responsibilities that this brings. 

Duty: are taxes which you pay to the government on goods that you buy.

Funds: the financial resourses used by governments or political institutions for a specific purpose.

Investment: the act of using something ( time, noney, effort etc.) to achieve a goal.

Subsidy: a type of financing offered by a goverment.

Skeptical:  Marked by or given to doubt; questioning.
Surplus: Total assets minus the sum of all liabilities.

Seafaring:  Following a life at sea.
Outskirts: outlying areas (as of a city or town).
Profitable: beneficial or useful.

Highway-Motorway: the main form of transport in the EU.

Hierarchy: Categorization of a group of people according to ability or status.

GDP: Gross Domestic Product.

CAP: Common Agricultural Policy.

CFP: Common Fisheries Policy.

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