GLOSSARY

VOCABULARY LEARNT IN CLASS:
  
 -Olive skin: type of skin between brown and white.
-Pedestrian crossing: zebra crossing
- Pale: very white
-sun tanned: moreno
- sniff: smell
- "When in Rome , do as the romans do": behave as the other people if you travel to foreign countries
- Actually: en realidad
- Pins the blame: echar la culpa
-Blurs: when you can´t see properly
- Motto: frase hecha
- terrific time: brilliant
- "Save and sound": sanos y salvos
 - steam: vapor
 failure: fracaso
-No wonder!!: ¡¡y de que forma!!
-though: aunque
-little/few


 TRAVEL VOCABULARY:

- Taking time off from work: Días libres
- Board: get on the plane
- Hostel: low cost
-Motel: medium cost
- Hotel: expensive
-travel arrangements: all that is necessary for going on vacations
- Itenerary: itinerario
-Boarding pass and passport: the documents you need for traveling
-Book a flight: reservar un vuelo
-currency: money
- Luggage/buggage/carry on: equipaje
- suitcase: maleta
- couch surfer
- miss your train: perder el tren
- catch the train: coger el tren

IDIOMS:

-give away: give things you don´t use
- give up: rendirse
- give back: devolver
- give in: surrender/ you cannot do something
- meet: conocer
-Know: saber
- get around: dar una vuelta
- Get on: subir en autobús, tren avión...
- get off: bajar de un autobús, tren, avión...
-get in: subir en un coche
- get out: bajar de un coche
-get ahead: sucess
- gett back: volver
- on time: you arrive in the last moment
-in time: you arrive before

EXPRESSIONS FROM CALIFORNIA:

-Living it up: enjoyning
-Hood: short for neighborhood
-dude: you/colega
- alrighty: okay
- what´s up : what´s going on?
-that's hecka cool!!: very cool!!
- Let's bail!!: pirarse
- that food was a bomb!!: tasty
-Bro, why you are putting me on blast ?: embarrase someone
-Why did you call me out in front of ...: reveal another's mistake
- super awesome: great
-you are rocking those clothes!!: wearing it with style
-heavy: very sad

FRIGHTFUL IDIOMS:

-Scare the living daylights out of you: make someone scared
-gave up the ghost: stop working
-scared stiff: very frightend
-As if you've seen a ghost: very white and pale
- gives me the creeps: make someone uncomfortable
- scaredy-cat : coward
- come back to haunt you: be a mistake(karma)
-ghost town: deserted

SCARY WORDS :

-mysterious: misterioso
-haunted: encantado
-dark: oscuro
-spooky: siniestro
-gloomy: dark/ cold place sitio sombrío
-alley: narrow and dark street
churchyard: the back of the church
- graves: tumbas
- deed: strange writting
- shriek: grito

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

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Check out this link.
 It's very interesting and there you can see the most important differences between several countries and their cultures.
You must know these things before you go to other countries, if not you may have serious problems there :)
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4th BILINGUAL

Hello guys!! ;)
We have just started our last year here, in the high school and the best thing is that we are all toghether again!
I'm sure that this year will be so funny and we will enjoy a lot in class.
Also I think we will learn a lot of new vocabulary and we will improve our pronunciation.
The only thing we must do is work hard and don´t goof off too much jajaja.
It will be great!!

See you tomorrow :)  :)

BASKETBALL WARM UP

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GENERAL WARM UP:

Before you begin doing anything, the body needs to warm up a little, lasting 5-10 minutes. Jog around or jump with the rope. You can do some series of dynamic movements like:

High Knee Walk

High Knee Skip
High Knee Run
Butt Kicks
Straight Leg Walk
Backwards High Knee Skip
Backwards Run
Defensive Slide
You can play some games before you continue with the warm up. The aim of the general warm up is to elevate the heart rate and respiratory rate. This increases the blood flow and helps with the transportation of oxygen and nutrients to the working muscles. This also helps to increase the muscle temperature, allowing for a more effective static stretch.

STATIC STRETCHING:

Then you start stretching to protect you from  having a serious injury: (these are some of the most important)

NECK (both sides)  

DORSAL AND TRICEPS        

                                                                                                                                      

   DORSAL

CALF MUSCLES        

ADDUCTORS              GROINS

The purpose of stretches is to increase the range of motion of your joints. Hold each stretch for 15-25 seconds.

SPECIFIC WARM UP:

Later you can start doing some passes with your partners and bouncing the ball, do some games or shoot baskets, doing competitioncompeting against your team mates and learn new plays/ games that your coach will teach you for the match.
All these games help you to improve your technique with the ball.

Finally you can play a match with your partners where you will put into practise all you have learned.

STRETCHING AND COOL DOWN:

You must stretch all your muscles again to prevent having injuries.




                                                                                                                                                                                                              Alba Montiel.

GLOSARY UNIT 10- GEOGRAPHY

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

GLOSARY UNIT 9- GEOGRAPHY

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

2.Capital flows: the money that is moved around the world

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

11.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

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

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

14.Bartering: the first way of trading in history

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

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

17.Public services: cover basic need of population

18.Private services: offer personalised services to companies

GEOGRAPHY- UNIT 8.

1.MECHANIZATION: the use of machinery in the production process.
 2.MINING:  the process of extracting minerals from the ground.  
3.MINERAL: a naturally occurring solid chemical substance such as bauxite.
 4.INDUSTRY:  any economic activity that produces a service or transforms raw material into consumer goods.
 6.ENERGY: power that comes from the utilization of physical or chemical resources to provide light and heat or to work machines.  
7.BIOMASS: organic material used as a fuel that releases energy when burned.
8.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.
 9.WORKFORCE: the employees required to produce goods and services.
 10.WIND TURBINE: a device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy to drive machinery or generate electricity.
 11.SOLAR PANEL: a device that convert solar energy from the sun into electricity by a chemical reaction inside it.
12.REWANABLE ENERGY: energy source that is inexhaustible.
 13.NON-REWANABLE ENERGY: energy source that is limited.
14.TRADITIONAL ENERGY: energy source that is commonly used.
 15.DAM: barrier built across a river to create a body of water for a hydroelectric power station.
 17.GUILD: a group of people that shared the same job and had its own hierarchy.
 18.HEAVY INDUSTRY: industry that makes goods that cannot be immediately consumed.
 19.LIGHT INDUSTRY: industry that produces goods that are ready for consumption.
 20.CUTTING-EDGE INDUSTRY: industry that employs advanced technology.
 21.CRAFTPERSON: a person who makes products using basic tools and manual labour.
 22.FOSSIL FUEL: 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.

INVENTIONS

 THE CREDIT CARD

It was invented by Alfred Bloomingdale and Frank McNamara in 1950 in America.
This two men were eating in a restaurant. When they finished and they had to pay, they didn't have enough money in their wallets.
McNamara had to call his wife to bring him money.
After this embarrased situation they decided to create an invention.
Now people use it everyday for paying easily and for taking their money everywhere.
;)

GEOGRAPHY- MODERN TIMES

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GEOGRAPHY- UNIT 6 AND 7

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: material on which a particular manufacturing process is carried out

Telecommuting: the use of home computers, telephones, etc, to enable a person to work from home while maintaining contact with colleagues, customers, or a central office

Employer: a person, business, firm, etc, that employs workers

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 living in one's own business or through freelance work, rather than as the 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

Inactive population: people not in active service

Disabled: lacking one or more physical powers, such as the ability to walk or to coordinate one's movements, as from the effects of a disease or accident, or through mental impairment

Retired: to give up or to cause (a person) to give up his work, a post, etc, esp on reaching pensionable age

Full-time contracts:  a person works a minimum number of hours defined as such by his/her employer.

Part-time contracts: a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job.

Plot: An area of land where crops are grown.  (size, shape, borders...)

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. This method improves sil fertility and resistance to disease and pests

Intensive agriculture:  is an agricultural production system characterized by a low fallow ratio and the high use of inputs such as capital, labour, or heavy use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers relative to land area.

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.

Polyculture:  is agriculture using multiple crops in the same space, in imitation of the diversity of natural ecosystems, and avoiding large stands of single crops, or monoculture. It includes multi-cropping, intercropping, companion planting, beneficial weeds, and alley cropping.

Monoculture:  is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop or plant species over a wide area and for a large number of consecutive years

Greenhouses:  is a building in which plants are grown

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

Shifting cultivation:  is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot

Livestock farming: Farming bassed on rearing animals to obtain products.

Housed livestock: Livestock fed with fodder in farm buildings. This type of livestock must pass strict sanitary and quality controls

Cattle: are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

Fodder:  is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, goats, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.

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

Fishing grounds: An area of water that is used for fishing.

Aquaculture: is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants.

Overfishing:  is a form of overexploitation in which fish stocks are depleted to unacceptable levels, regardless of water body size.

Fleets: is an aggregate of commercial fishing vessels

School of fish: many fishes together (banco de peces)

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Letter- Alba and Elisabeth

Hii Carol:

We are Elisabeth and Alba. We’re from Spain and we’re very excited to have you in our country. Also we are really nervous and we have a surprise for you.

We have planed some activities for this week:

So… you’re going to arrive here on Sunday night and we’re going to pick you up at the airport, and you’re going to meet our family.

The next day morning probably you’ll be very tired, so we can sleep or see a movie…

In the afternoon we can walk around the city and visit some interesting places and we can eat an ice cream in the “Plaza Mayor”!!!

We can have dinner in a typical restaurant or in a pizzeria.

In the second and the third day we are going to visit Alba’s House in León. And we’ll visit the cathedral or a very big gummy’s shop that has 3 floors.

The next we can go to Asturias to Alba’s house again and we can go to the beach, We’ll visit some parks and we can go to play basket and tennis. Also we are going to Oviedo and Gijón. There we can go shopping or to Ikea.

We’ll go to Galicia to Elisabeth’s house and stay some days there. We’ll go to the beach and some natural places.

On Saturday we are going to return to Salamanca. And you will meet our friends, if you want… And we are going  to a party.

And the last day we are going to take you to the airport because it’s time to return home.

We hope you’ll have a good time with us.

And remember that we can do a lot of things and you can tell us some things about Canada.

See you soon!!!! XXXOOO

                                                                       Elisabeth and Alba