NEW YORK

I would like to go to New York because I love USA. I think it is a very good city to visit because it has beautiful thing as the Empire State, Central Park or The Statue of Liberty. I would like to visit this year with the highschool in the echange because I think I will be a good trip. I would like also to visit some cities near New York as Philadelfia or New Jersey. I think it will be better than the trip to London. It was so nice to visit another country with my classmates and I hope I will do it again.

WELCOME TO MY BLOG

Hi everybody, I know it is so late to post this but after uploading other things I want to say that I hope you will have lucky in this year because is the last year in this highschool and we have to do our best. I think this trimester was very bad for all of us because we can do it better, see you at class ;)

HANDBALL

GLOSARY UNIT 10

Cereals: Grasses grown for the edible components of the grain.

Mortgage: A loan to finance the purchase of private residencial or commercial property.

Speculation: Investment in stocks but wtih the risk of lost.

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

Agricultural landscape: A landscape transformed to cultive crop and rear livestock.

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

Domestic tourism: The tourists don´t leave their country.

Large-scale tourism: Travel of a long period and distance from your country.

Tour operators: Companies that helps you economicly with your large-scale travel.
 
High-speed rail: A rail build for high-speed trains.

Peak season: Time in which the people normally go out, this time is in summer.

Off-peak season: The rest of the year, the people go less on holidays this time.

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

GLOSARY UNIT 9

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

Capital flows: The movement of goods or money

Exports: Goods that are sold outside of the country.

Imports: Goods that a country buy from other country

Balance of trade: The difference between the money of imports and exports.

Balance of payments: Is the record of all monetary transactiones between a country and the rest of the world.

Retail: Type of trade that sells directly to the consumer.

Wholesale Trade in which buyers purchase large quantities of good and sell them to another company.

Trade bloc: Area of countries with a special trade regulations.

Transport network: The connections that facilitate the transport of good and people.

Market: The meeting of buyers and sellers of goods and services.

Infrastructure:  The basic structure we need to make an economy function.

Trade: The buying and selling of goods.

Bartering: The exchange of goods between two or more countries.

Tourism: A sector dedicated to travel for recreational, leasure or business purposes.

Information society: Society where the information technology is envolved in the economy.

Public services: Services that are free for the consumers and they are paid by the state.

Private services: Services sold by a business, separated from the state, it isn´t free.

TRAVEL TO ASTURIAS

GLOSSARY UNIT 8

Mechanization: It is the process between do something manual or with machines.

Mining: It is the work in the mines.
 
Mineral: The raw material obtein in a mine

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

Industry: Any ecnomic activity that produces a service or transforms raw materials into consumer goods.

Irrigated farming: Farming in wich the water from groundwater is boughtto fields.

Energy:  Power that comes from physical y chemical resources.

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.

Workforce: The employees required to produce goods and services.

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

Solar panel: Is a panel that attracts the solar rays for having energy

Renewable energy: Is an ilimited amount of energy.

Non-renewable energy: Is a limited amount of energy.

Traditional energy: Common sources of energy.

Alternative energy: Sources that are developing.

Dam: Is an artificial barrier to control the rivers.

Guild: Is a group of shops that sell the same products.

Heavy industry: A industry with large amount of sources.

Light industry: A industry with few sources. 
Cutting-edge industries: A industry with a high level of technology.

Craftsperson: A person who makes products using basuc tools and manual labour.

MODERN TIMES

EXTRA WORK FOR ENGLISH

E-MAIL TO ITALIAN FAMILY

Hi Italian family!

DAY ONE

We are glad to receive you in our town. We have planed all the things we´re going to do during these days.

On Monday you will arrived around 8:00 so we will see you our town and we will go to sleep at 10:00

DAY TWO

Next day in the morning we are going to have breakfast in a café and then we will go to visit the high school.

We will have lunch in the street (sandwich), after this we will visit the casa liss and the shells house. Then we will go to the restaurant to eat potato omellete.

DAY THREE

We go to the swimming pool to visit our friend Tendero and then we will have lunch at a restaurant next to it.

In the afternoon we´re going to the cathedral of Salamanca one of the prettiest in the world.

In the night we´re going to the pub

DAY FOUR

We have breakfast in the Valladolid bar.

We will go to bullring to see the famous Jose Tomás 

 In the afternoon we will go to the Santa María´s reservoir.

DAY FIVE

In the morning we will go to the mayor square to see the Cervantes monument, the university, the frog of it and the astronaut 

In the afternoon we will go to the Salmantino´s football match and we will go to buy gummy in the cubero´s shop 

AND THIS IS ALL FOR OUR DAYS

 See you soon 

BFN Family!!!  

IDIOMS

To ask for the moon: means to ask for something impossible

To horse around: means to do crazy things.

Chickened out: means that someone is afraid to do something.

Hold the fort: means to take care of a situation.

Under the table: means that is a secret act in a situation.

Let the chips fall where they may: means that you have to left the things happen.

As cheap as chips: mean it is very cheap

Chasing your tail: means you are very busy doing a lot of things but not achieving 

Wise old owl: means that a person is very experiented in life.

A night owl: means that someone stays up late at night.

Safe hands: means that someone is protect by a good person.

A safe pair of hands:means that a person can do things very good.

Hold your tongue:means that you can´t say anything of something.

Black and white: means that you can distinguish the right and the wrongs things.

Money doesn't grow on trees: Means that you haven´t got so much money so don´t spend a lot.

Money is not object:means that you can a lot of money and you can pay a thing.

very much

COMIC OF ENGLISH

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GLOSSARY UNIT 7

Plot: A zone for farming

Soil: Is where we put the seats.

Crop rotation: Is an old way to farm in wich we divide the plot in part and in each part we plant different things.


Intensive agriculture= Is a way to obtain the more products posibles by exploting the plot.

Extensive agriculture= Is a way of farming that requires machinery.

Dryland farming: Is a plot that needs rain.

Irrigated farming: Is plot that rarely needs rain.

Polyculture: Is a plot where there are different products.

Monoculture: Is a plot where is only a type of product.

Greenhouses: Is a cover plot.

Subsistence agriculture: An agriculture where the products are for the consume of the owner.

Shifting cultivation: Is a migratory cultivation

Livestock farming: Is to get products from the animals

Housed livestock: Is a house where the animals are for being raise.

Cattle: A group of animals

Fodder: A chemical food for animals in a farm

Rear: Is the same as raise. Help the animals to grow

Fishing grounds: Zone where you can fish.

Aquaculture: A way to grow up the fishes.

Overfishing: To pass the number of fish that you can fish

Fleets: Group of ships prepared to fish

School of fish: group of fishes together.

GLOSSARY UNIT 4

Fragmentation= When production processes occur in different phases, in different places.

Development= To make a progress.

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

Citizenship= To  became from a city.

Duty= What we have to do.

Funds= The financial resources used for a purpose.

Investment= The act of using something to achieve a goal.

Subsidy Free movement= A type of financing offered by the government

Common market= A market of comon policies.

Monetary union= A zone whit the same type of coin

Cohesion= The act of staying together

Treaty= An agreement in to two or more institutions

Heterogeneity= A thing that consist of dissimilar elements or parts

Homogeneous= A thing that consist of similar elements or parts

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.

Skeptical= A person that don´t believe in anything.

Surplus= An excedent of possesions

Seafaring= A person that works in a ship

Outskirts= The zone around a city

Profitable= A thing good for you

Highway-motorway= A large road

Hierarchy= A system where there is a king that governs and there are people that obey the king.

GDP=

CAP= Comon Agricultural Policy

CFP= Comon Fisheries policy

POSTER OF FAIR TRADE

GLOSSARY UNIT 6

Economic activity=  Is the movement of money in the market.

Economic agent= A person involved in economy.

Goods= Products for consuming, such us foods.

 

Services= Economic activities that are tangible.

Production= An activitie that provides godos  and servicies for consumption

Distribution= The work of deliver the goods.

Marketing= The act of promoting a product.

Consumption= The act of buy a good.

Supply= Availability of something for use or sale.

Demand= The desire to own something in the market and the willigness to pay for it.

Inflation= A rice in the general prices.

Profit= The monnetary gain of a business after all expenses have been met.

Tax= A monetary contribution to the government.

Raw material= A product before make it for consumption.

Telecommuting= The advertising-.

Employer= A person that Works in a business.

Employee= A work.

Self-employed= A person that makes his own business.

Active population= People that can work. 16-67 years old.

Inactive population= People that cannot work because of a illness or don`t have the age to work.

Disabled= A person that have a illness and cannot work.

Retired= People that don`t because they are older tan 67.

Full-time contracts= Work with 8 hours a day working.

Part-time contracts= A work with 4 hours a day working.

LA GRAN PREGUNTA

Do you think that having a constitution is important for us?
I think that have a constitution is very important because if not we cannot have rights and will be a desaster. Also is important because to add a law, this have to respect the constitution and that is very good becuase we agree with it.

MY IDEAL CITY

GLOSSARY UNIT 5

National sovereignty= The total control of the country

Constitutional Monarchy= A system in which the king kings but don´t govern.

The Crown= The simbol of the monarchy.

Arbitrator= The person that control a debate.

Decentralised Government= A government in which the country is separed in to comunities.

Motion of no confidence= A motion in which the president can´t be out of the government.

Ministers= The people that help the president to governs.

Municipality= A village or city.

Town Council= Is the government of a municipality.

Mayor= The president of the municpality.

Councilors= The people that help the mayor.

Province= A group of municipalities in the same zone, like Salamanca.

Self-government= A system in which they can govern without other authority.

Statute of Autonomy= Where the laws are for a comunity agree with the constitution

Subsidiarity= The principle of devolving decisions to the lowest practical level.

Autonomous Community= A group of provinces, like Castille-Leon.

Exclusive authority= Is the free of decide things to do in your city.

Share authority= Is the duty of to the same in your city.

Post-industrial society= The service sector is the most important one.

Well-being= Is the feeling of pleasure and comfort.

Life expectancy= Is the average that a person can live

Illiteracy= Is the person that do´t go to the school and don´t know to write or to read.

Extended family= Is the tipical famiy of the 1980s very big.

Nuclear family = The tipical family of now.

Single parent family= Is a family of only a girl and a boy and no kids

Same sex marriages= Is a homosexual family.