English: Curriculum Vitae

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Social sciences: unit 3 vocabulary

Constitution: is the collecting of a country's fundamental laws. It shapes the type of government, the rights and Obligations of the citizens, the institutions and the workings of the state.

State: is a group of institutions that organise the lifes of the people who life in the same territory.

Civil cervant: a member of civil service.

Justice: the administration of la according to prescribed and accepted principles.

Liberty: the power of choosing, thinking and acting for oneself.

Referendum: a direct question asked to the citizens with which they can agree or disagree.

Universal suffrage: all citizens can vote in the elections.

Sovereignty: authority of a sovereing

Democracy: form of government that the citizens can vote for they representative in the elections.

Monarchy: a form of government in which supreme authority is a king or queen. 

Dictatorship: form of government in which one person (dictator) with absolute power, governs.

Globalisation: common cultural identity with the power in the supranational institutions.

Regionalisation: different cultural identity with the power in the institutions closest to the citizens.

Cultural diversity: cultural variety and differences that exist in the world, a society or an institution.

Legislative power: the authority under the constituon to make laws and to alter or repeal them.

Executive power: the authority to execute the laws and set states policy.

Judicial power: the authority to apply the law, that is, judge and punish citizens who break it.

Supranational: beyond the authority of one national government, as a project or policy that is planned and controlled by a group of nations.

Mass culture: phenomenon in wich increasingly large numbers of people with shared preferences influence the direction of society.

UN: United Nations

NGO: Non-Governmental Organisations: entities with humanitarian and social aims.

Subsidiarity: the principe of developing decisions to the lowest practical level.

Culture: is the collection of common customs, knowledge and ways of living that a group of people recognise as their own and, at the same time, as something that differentiates them from other groups.

Multiculturalism: coexistence of different cultures in a specific time and place.

Interculturalism: coexistence of different groups of humans beings on the basis that cultural relations enrich Election: the selection by vote of a person from among candidates for a position.

Unit 3: vocabulary

Employment: ocupation, work
Lifeguard: a person that takes care of the people in the sea or in the pool and saves them if they are in risk.
Cashiers: a person responsible for receive the payment in a shop.
Surgeon: a person that is operates other people if they are ills and its necesary to do it.
Childminder: baby-sitter
Gone abroad: travel to another country
Earn money: make money

American english vs. British english

There are a lot of differences between UK english and USA english in the spelling and also in the pronunciation. Here are some examples:


AMERICAN ENGLISH                                                     BRITISH ENGLISH

bill                                                                                        banknote
fall                                                                                        atumn
eggplant                                                                                aubergire
zero                                                                                      nought
hunder pants                                                                         pants                                                            
block flats                                                                             appartament buildings
trunk                                                                                     boots
check                                                                                    cheque
sick                                                                                       ill
hood                                                                                     bonnets
defense                                                                                 defence
grain                                                                                      corn
lite                                                                                         light
sick                                                                                       dizzy
honor                                                                                     honour
analize                                                                                    analyse
fulfil                                                                                        fulfill
nite                                                                                         night
tyre                                                                                         tire
cookies                                                                                   biscuites
elevator                                                                                   lift
rest rooms                                                                               toilet
shoccer                                                                                   football
subway                                                                                   underground
pants                                                                                       troursers
flat                                                                                           appartament
parking lot                                                                               car park                                            
eraser                                                                                      rubber
soda                                                                                        fizzy drink
flashlight                                                                                   torch
truck                                                                                        lorry
store                                                                                        shop
candy                                                                                       sweets
fauce                                                                                        tap
pharmacy                                                                                 chemist's

Social Sciences: Human Rights

This is my poster about the human rights. I select one famous singer in England and also in the world: Ed Sheeran. 
http://elisabethdd.edu.glogster.com/ed-sheeran-and-the-human-rights

Physical Education: Vocabulary

To dodge: to avoid

Diseases: troubles

Withstand: resist

Lack: to do something wrong in a game.

Varying: changing

To tag: pillar

To cheat: hacer trampas

Stiff muscle: rigidez muscular

To involve: implicar/conllevar

Fatty acids: Ácidos grasos

Geography: physical and political Spain's maps

These are the physical and political maps of Spain.

PLANT LIFE DAY

The 14th of every May, everybody in the USA celebrate a day to plant flowers and trees. The main purpose of this day is plant new plants for the future. The schools always participate in this event because of its importance and also to teach the new generations. 
Our school also participated. While some students were collecting bottles and cans, others were digging a hole to plant firs. The majority of the neighbourhood were planting flowers. At the end of the day we improve our park. Now there are a lot of new types of plants and everything is clean, so many birds come.

How can we reduce the effects of Climate Change?

We have to reduce the effects of Climate Change, but how? Here are some examples we cand do in our daily life:

-Have a shower instead a bath.
-Take the bus for short distances.
-Use the sunlight during the day and only switch on the lights at night.
-Turn off the lights when we leaf a room.
-Practice the 3 "R"
-Don't use sprays.
-When you go shopping, use the same bags and don't buy more.

GEOGRAPHY Unit 1: Vocabulary

-Inlet: a thin channel of water that leads inland from the sea.
-Fjords: inlets created by glaciation.
-Headland: a small area of land that projects out into the sea.
-Peninsula: a large scale headland surronded by water on three sides.
-Island: a piece of land completely surronded by water.
-Archipelago: a group of related islands close together.
-Gulf: an area of sea surronded by land on three sides. It forms the shape of an arc.
-Bay: a generally smaller gulf.
-Mountain: a large landform that is higher than the surronded area.
-Mountain range: a continuous chaine of mountains.
-Basin: an area of land that is drained by a river or a lake and that is lower than the surronded area.
-Valley: is a linear depression in the land. Can be a river valley, with a V-shaped form ( due the action of a river), and glaciar valleys, with a U-shaped form ( due the action of a glaciar)
-Plateau: a flat area of land which sits at a certain altitude above sea level.
-Plain: a large, open, flat or slightly undulating area of land.
-Continental shelf: the undersea extension of a continent that descends gradually to depths of around 400m.
-Continental slope: a steep underwater area that links the continental shelf with the ocean floor.
-Abyssal plain: a flat area of the ocean floor. They are found at depths of between 3000 and 4000 m.
-Oceanic trench: a long depression on the ocean floor that can be thousands of meters deep.
-Oceanic ridge: an underwater mountain range that generally covers a large area and reaches high altitudes.
-Cape: land that extends into the sea on a continental scale.
-Woop-woop: a place there's nothing and it's far away.
-Drought: when for a long period of time doesn't rain.

Unit 2: vocabulary

-Trash: rubbish
-Soil: ground
-Lid: top of a bottle, that you can remove to open the bottle.
-Per capita: per person
-Mine: the place where you found resources
-Cattle station: a very big farm.
-Smog: a mix of mog and smoke.
-Coal: black substance that is burned as fuel.
-Till: until, instead.

Idioms: 2

Idioms:

-The big cheese: is the most important or powerful person in a group or organitation.
-Chalk and cheese: we use this expression to define two people who are very different to each other.
-A little bird told me: if you have some information but you don't want to reveal who told you, then you use this expression.
-To be or to have a big mouth: it means you talk to much especially about things which should be kept in secret avoided.
-All the colors of the rainbow: it means it is very colorful.
-Chaising rainbows: refers to someone who is always looking for something more exciting and rewarding but it is unlikely to find it.
-If you are playing with fire: you are doing something which could be dangerous.
-If you add fuel to the fire: it means you make a bad situation even worse.
-Lost for words:ypu haven't words to talk because you are very angry or upset.(You are shock)
-If you have a flash of inspiration: it means that you get a sudden idea that helps you create or archive what you where hoping to do.
-A big fish in a small pond: if we describe someone with this expression, it means that he/she is very important or have a lot of influence but only in a small area or group.
-Cold fish: If someone is described with this expression it means that he/she is unfriendly and doesn't show his/her feelings or emotions.
-Packed like sardines: to describe people in a very crowded space.
             -Chock a block: (the same) but used in traffic.
-Like a duck to water: it means that you discover, when you start doing a new activity, that you are very good at it.
-If you blow your own trumpet: you are boasting about your archivements and abilities.
-If you have a bee in your bonet(abot something): you are obssessed with it and can't stop thinking about it.
-It's in someone's genes: when that person has the same personality traits as their parents, or does a similar job.
- You scratch my back and I'll scratch your: means if you do something for me, I'll do something for you especially if it something you would not have been able to do for yourself.
-If you say someone does not have a hair cut of place, it means their appearance is very tidy or is perfect.

RECYCLING PROGRAMMES: CURITIVA, BRAZIL

Curitiba is the most envirommental city in Brazil. This city has a different way to recycle.
In 1980s the Mayor of Curitiba worked with a team to design and create a "healthy" city. They wanted to include green areas, waste recycling and transportation projects.
In curitiba the poor people go to a green-point and there they can exchange their trust for food, like rice, beans, eggs, bus tickets...that the city buys inexpensively to the state's farmers. Also the poor people can bring their own food that they farm to exchange with other people to get other products.
The people there use the bus for most all, so they don't contaminate the atmosphere and they don't need to buy fuel, so they can use this money for other things.
Also they don't need a lot of factories to produce things and the people come to the green point instead of the car.
Now the city can recycle and reduce the 70% of the total waste.

My ecological side

This is a voice thread that I do to show my normally habits.
My slogan is:
BETTER HABITS, BETTER LIFE


This is the link:

https://voicethread.com/share/5094386/

I hope you will like it. :)

The origin of the pizza

Probably the pizza was invented since the first works with bread. In the Ancient Greece the people ate a king of bread with herbs, spices, garlics and onions. But the origing of the pizza is situated in the Ancient Italy. The greeks normaly cooked bread with a circle form, and then, they cut it in triangles.
In the 17 th century, in Napoles, was cooked the first pizza with tomato. In 1889 was added the cheese.

UNIT 1: VOCABULARY

-"Breaking point": Need help (I can't more)
-Dropped (weight): Lost weight
-Purging: when you provoke to vomite.
-Compulsively: when you do something once and again without thinking (adiction)
- Long/short term effects: consecuences in a long period of time/ consecuences that happening fast.
-Follow in your footsteps: to do exactly what that person does.
-GE: Genetically Engineered (no natural, no organic, is changed)
-GM: Genetically Modified
-GMO: Genetically Modified Organism
-Omission: you don't lie, but you don't saying all the truth. "Lying by omission"

More Words:
Dice: Cube                                   Wheat: cereal used to make bread                                             
Shield : protect                             Factual: objective, real, sure.
Dry: there is no water on it            Tarot readers: person that predict your future reading cards with images.
Baking powder: ingredient used to make cakes( It causes cakes to rise in the oven)  
Future tellers: person that predict your future.
(make) a sticky: (make) a substance that can stick to other things                        
Whisk up: move or mix something very fast.
Raw: natural food( it's no cooked)  Banned: drugs used to improve your power, resistance...
Bland: insipid                                  Crop: plants that grow in large cuantities
Aware: if you are aware, you know about it                                         
Plot of land: area of land.              "Take it with a pinch of salt": take something with calm.

Idioms:1

Idioms:
-To take the bull by the horns: means to deal with a difficult situation in a brave and firm way.
-Two heads are better than one: means that when two people work together they are more likely to solve a problem than one person doing it alone.
-To keep your head above water: means you are just managing to survive despite not having much money/time/things.
-It´s not my cup of tea: in English, if there's something we don't like much: a sport, a type of music, a person...
-I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China: We use this expression if there's something we would never do it.
-It's as good as a chocolate teapot: In English if something is completely useless we say this expression.
-There are plenty more fish in the sea: It means that there are other choices in a situation. It's often said to comfort someone who had a romanic break-up.
-The icing on the cake: It's used to refer to something good which is added to an already good thing or situation.
-It's just not cricket: is used in English to say that something is unfaur or dishonest.
-To toy with(somebody/something): means not to take someone's feelings seriously.
-A toyboy: is the younger boyfriend of an older person.
-Like a ton of brinks: it's used to express something that is very heavy. This expression can be used literally (to describe a heavy weight) or idiomatically (to describe a great surprise or someone that is overweight)
-To fly the nest: means to leave your parents' home for the first time you go and live somewhere else.
-A nest egg: is an amount of money you have saved in the future.
- I wasn't born yesterday: if someone is telling you a very obvious lie, you can use this expression.
-To have a whale of a time: means to have a lot of fun doing something.
-Size of a whale: it is an impolite way of saying they are large and overweight

Expressions with food:
-It's as easy as pie: if something is very easy.
-Pie-eyed: if someone is very drunk.
-To have a finger in many pies: it means you are involved in lot of different activities.
-A bad egg: in English if we want to saythat someone is bad or dishonest we call call him/her a bad egg.
-Don't pull all your eggs in one basket: you should never rely on (trust) only one plan in case it goes wrong.
-He got egg on his face: if someone makes a mistake which makes him/her look stupid.
-Full of beans: In English if someone is full of beans means that he/she is full of energy.
-I haven't got a bean: means that you have no money at all.
-Spill the beans: In English if we want to tell us something secret, we can say to them "Spill the beans".
-It's a hot potato: In English, if there is a delicate issue and people can't agree.
-They're like two peas in a pod: if two people look very similar we use this expression.
-He's gone bananas: In English if someone is very emotional and starts shouting and behawing in a crazy way, we can say this expression.
-It's a case of sour grapes: In English if somebody pretends not to be impressed by something because she/he feels jealous, we use this expression.
-A second bite of the cherry: In English if we try to do something a second time because we failed at first, we use this expression.

   

Welcome:

Hello everybody and welcome to my blog. I think that this blog will be a great idea.
Here we can write all the vocabulary and expressions that we learn everyday. Also we can put all the new things we do.
So, luck for everyone in that new portfolio and let's start.