CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

Hey everyoneee!!

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 :)
BFN

http://www.cicb.net/en/home/examples

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

    BASKETBALL

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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.
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