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

SOCIAL SCIENCES- UNIT 5

1.The Crown: is the part of a constitutinal monarchy represented by the king.

2.Decentralised Government: a system of government in which decision-making is devolved to a local level and is therefore closer to the citizens.

 

3.Motion of no confidence:it is a motion put by the Opposition that censures an aspect of the Government's policy

 

4.Municipality: the most basic administrative body in the Spanish territory. It's made up of one or several settlements.

 

5. Arbitrator: a person chosen to decide a dispute or settle diffences. (In a constitutional monarchy, the king is the arbitrator between governmental institutions.)

 

6.Town Council: it is the organisation that governs each municipality in Spain.

 

 7.Constitutional Monarchy: it is a system of government in which the king is the head of the state but the parliament chooses the government. The government manages the politics of the state.

 

8.Mayor: it is person that governs the town hall.

 

9.Councilors: they are government officials that with the mayor make up the town council. They elect the mayor

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10.Province:it is  an administrative body made up of several municipalities in the Spanish territory.

 

11.Self-government: a system of government in which a community or region has authority to govern itself without the intervetion of any other authority.

 

12.Statute of Autonomy: it is a law describing the institutions, laws and responsabilities for each of the autonomous communities in the Spanish territory.

 

13.Subsidiarity: the services the municipality can provide and they not be provided by the autonomous community.

 

14.Autonomous Community: they form  the Spanish territory with its own government.

 

15.Exclusive authority: it is a local government power over laws related to town planning, housing, monuments, health care and education.

 

16.Share authority:it is the  local government and state power over laws related to transport or labour market

 

. 17.National sovereignty: all Spanish citizens elect the members of the Congress of  Deputies, the Senate, the autonomous parliaments, the town halls and the European Parliament (every four years.)

 

 18.Constitutional Monarchy: it is a system of government in which the king is the head of the state but the parliament chooses the government. The government manages the politics of the state.

 

19.Post-industrial society: it is a society in which the economy has undergone a shift from the production of goods to the provision of services.

20.Well-being: the level of satisfaction of a population  measured by education levels, health care, life expentancy and consumption.

 

21.Life expentancy: the number of years a person or population is expected to live.

 

22.Illiteracy: person who is unable to read and write.

 

23.Extended family: is a big family with grandparents, parents, children...

 

 24.Ministers: they are government officials that with the president, make up the Spanish cabinet.

 

25.Nuclear family: is a contemporary family with parents and children.

 

26.Single parent family: is a family with a mother or father and children.

 

27.Same sex marriages: marriage between to people of the same sex

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

I think it is very impoprtant because it is the most important rule and all the other spanish laws have to adapt to it and like this get a democratic state.