domingo, 15 de diciembre de 2013

Glossary 4

Lipstick: It is like a make-up but is for the lips
Sunglasses: This object is to protect the eyes to the sun
Piercings: This is a complement to decorate the body
Flip-Flop: A backward handspring
Make-Up: It is to look better and to be prittiest

Glossary 3

Lifeguards: Person who guard the people against the risk of drowing
Engineers: A person trained in any branch of the profession or ingeneering.
Hairdressers: Person who cut the hair.
Cleaners: A person who clean houses or is an assistant
Judges: A public official with authority to hear cases in a court of law and pronunce a judgment upon them
Pilots: A person who is qualified to operate an aircraft.
Film Producer: A person who paid all the film and all te marketing
Nurses: A person who tends the sick, injured, or infirm
Cashiers: A person responsible for receiving payments for goods, services, etc...
Surgeons: A medical practioner who specilizes in surgery
Cooks: To prepare by the action of heat, as by boiling, baking, etc...
Company Directors:
Bus Drivers: Person who is driving a bus an he/she has a travel to do everyday
Childminders: Person who look after children.
Shop Assistants: Person who tend the people who need help to looking for something.


lunes, 9 de diciembre de 2013

Glossary (Geography)

State:The territory occupied by a such comunity
Sovereignty: Supreme and undestricted power; as a state
Constitution: The act of contituting or state of beging constituted
Democracy: Gorvenment by the people or their elected representives
Monarchy: A form of goverment in which supreme authority.
Dictatorship:The rank, office, or period of rule of a dictator
Globalisation: The process enabling financial and inverstement market
Regional: Limited a region
Cultural Diversity: Relating to artistic or social pursuits
Universal Suffrages:
Legislative Power: Having the power or funtion
Executive Power: The branch of the government responsible to carrying out laws
Judicial Power: Pople who break the laws go to the tribunal.
Supranational: Beyond the authority or jurisdiction of one national government
Mass Culture:
UN: United Nations
NGO: Non- Govermental Organisation                                             
Civil Servant: A member of the civil service
Justice: The quality or fact of beging just
Liberty: The power of choosing, thinking and acting for oneself
Subsidiarity: The principle of devolving decisions
Culture: The total of the inherited ideas.
Multiculturalism: Designed for the cultures of several different races
Interculturalism:
Referendum: Vote on such measures
Elections: The selection vote a person of persons

Glossary (Geography)

Temperate: Having a climate intermediate between tropical and polar climate; moderate or mild in a temperature.
Oasis: A fertile patch in a desert occurring when the water table approaches or reaches the ground surface
Precipitation: The deposition of these Earth's surfaces
Savannah: Opens glasslands, usually with scattered bushes or trees.
Taiga: The coniferuos forest extending across much North America.
Tundra: A vast treelees zone lying between ice cap and the timberline of Noth America
Jungle: An equatorial forest area with luxuriant vegetation, often almost impenetrable
Livestock: Cattle, horses, poultry, and similar animals kept for domestic use but not as pet.
Settlement: The act or state of setting or beging settled
Scrub: To rub (a surface) hard, with or as if with a brush, soap, and water, in order to clean it
Decidous Forest:
Evergreen Forest:
Riparian Forest:
Holm Oak Tree: This tree is foind in rivers
Logging: A section of the trunk or a  main branch of a tree
Glassland: It is a land of grass
Meadows: An area of glassland
Deforestation: It is when the people cut the trees

jueves, 28 de noviembre de 2013

Glossary (Physical Education)

1-Average: It means the medium age
2-Sore: It is when you do some execise and then you have (not always) a little hurt that it during days.
3-Winger: A player stationed in a wing
4-Bursts: To be full to the point of breaking open
5-Steady: Not able to be moved or disturbed easly
6-Halfway: At or to half de distance; at or to the middle
7-Dribble: To propel (the ball) by repeatedly tapping it with the hand, foot or stick
8-Slight: Small in quantity or extent
9-Goalkeeper: A player in the goal whose duty is to prevent the ball; puck, etc
10- Surfaces: The area or size of such a face

martes, 19 de noviembre de 2013

OTTAWA (Canada)

Every year, about the 24th of May there is a special day against the ill-treat of the animals, it is about the people who kill the animals to make them clothes. For example a snake and the people make boots with its skin.
Also this day the people are planting trees, also the people collect bottles and cans, and recycle the paper and the plastic in the park. It is a serious thing and the life of the animals are very important. The people who work every year are from different places in America, nut also people come from Spain, French, Italy, United Kingdom...

martes, 5 de noviembre de 2013

Glossary (Geography)

Gulf: An area of sea surrounded by land three sides. It forms the shape of an arc.
River Basin: An area of land that is drained by a river or a lake and that is lower that the surrounding area.
Cliff: A high, steep, or overhanging face of rook.
Plain: A large, open, flat or slightly undulating area of land.
Actitude: It's a high point/ A high location or area
Bay: Is a like a gulf but generally smaller
Eurasia: It the fragture between two"placas"
Plateau: A flat area of land which sits at a certain altitude about the sea level.
Massif: A large mountain mass o compact group of connected mountains
Inlet: A thin channel of water leads in land from th sea.
Erosion:The process of eroding or the condition of begin eroded.
Headland: A small area of land that projects out into the sea
Peninsula: A large scale headland surrounded by water or three sides.
Isthmus: A thin stretch of land that connects a peninsula with the land.
Oceanic Trench: A long depression on the ocean floor that can be thousands of metres deep
Oceanic Ridge: An underwater mountain range that generally covers a large area and reaches high altitudes.
Continental Shelf: The undersea extension of a continental that decends gradually to depths of around 400m.
Continental Slope: A steep underwater area thet links the continental shelf with the ocean floor
Mountain: A large landform that is higher than the sourrounding land.
Basin: An area of land that is drained by a river or a lafe and that is lower than the surrounding sea.
Valley: A valley is a linear depression in the land.

Saint Paul

There in Saint Paul there qre some collection point to collect and recycle unwanted phones. There phones are thrown at Eco-Cell, if you throw you old phone you received a fund to throw it.
Saint Paul has a point where you carry you rubbish and disposable things, there you can throw bottles, cans, wood, book, electronic machines. In this place the people threw the last year 124'000 things and it raised a lot of money: 7.810.000 pounds only in metal, wood, fabric, filler.

domingo, 13 de octubre de 2013

THE CHERRY

The cherries were spread through most of Europe, Asia and the North of Africa. This delicious fruit has been consumed since the prehistoric times. A form of cherry was introduced into England close to Sittingbourne by order of Henry VIII, Henry VIII has tasted the cherries in Flanders. The word "cherry" come from the classical Greek. Today a city situated in the North of Turkey is the place where the cherry was exported for the first time to the rest of Europe



martes, 8 de octubre de 2013

GLOSSARY 1 AND 2

-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 are together they are likely  to salve a problem that one person going it alone.
- To keep your head above water: Means you are just managing to survive despite not, having much money.
- It's as easy as pie: Means when something is ver easy
-Pie-eyed: Means if someone is very drunk
-To have a finger in many pies:Means when someone have activities; it means you are involved in lot of differen activities.
-A bad egg: In English if we want to say someone is bad or dishonest we can call him/her a bad egg.
-Don't pull your eggs in one basket: You should never rely on only one plan in case it goes wrong.
-He got egg on his face: If someone makes or mistake which makes him/her look stupid, we can say this expression.
-Full of beans: In English if someone is full of beans means that he is full os energy.
-I haven't a beans: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: If you have and important and difficult secret or issue and people can't agree we call it "a hot potato"
-They're like two beans in a pod:If two people look very similar we use this expression.
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-Breaking point: It is when you can't listen bad things any more.
-Dropped (weight):When you lose weight.
-Purging:Vomit (make yourself vomit)
-Compulsively:When you do things witout thinking.
-Long term effects/short term effects: Things happen after purging.
-Follow your footsteps: Do things that other person does.
-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...Then you use this expression.
-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 chocolate teapot: In English if something is completely useless we say this expression.
-He's gone bananas:In English if somethig is completely useless we say this expression.
-It's a case of sour grapes: In English if somebody pretends not to be impressed by something.
-A second bite of the cherry: In English if we try to do something a second time because we faulet at first, we use this expression.
-There are plenty more fish in the sea: It means that are other choices in a situation. It is often said to comfort someone who had a romantic break up.
-The icing on the cake: It is 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 unfair or dishonest.
-To toy with(somebody or somebody):Means not to take someone's feeling seriouly.
 -A toyboy:Is the younger boyfriend of an older person
-Like a ton of bricks:  It is 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 something that is overweight)
-To fly the nest: Means to leave your parents' home for the firt time to go and live somewhere else.
- A nest egg: It 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 have a lot of fun while doing something.
-Size of a whale: It is an impolite way of saying they are large and overweight.
-Geneticaly engineered: Some food that hasn't got a change.
-Geneticaly modified:  Some food that has a change in their composition.
.Geneticaly modified organisel: Food that has a change.
-The big cheese: Is the most important or powerful person in a group or organitation
-Clack and cheese: We use this expression to define two people who are very different to each other.
-A little bird told me: I f you have some information but you do not want to reveal who told you. then you use this expression
-To be or to have a big mouth: It means you talk too much especially about things which should be kept in secret or avoided
-All the colours in the rainbow: It means it is very colourful.
-Chasing rainbows: Refers to someone who is always loofing for something more rewarding but it is unlikely to find it.
-If you are playing with fire: You are doing sonething which is could be dangerous.
-If you add fuel to the fire:It means you make a bad situation even worse.
-If you have a flash of impiration: It means that you get a sudden idea that helps you create or achive what you were hoping to do.
- A big fish in a small pond: Ifwe 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 the he/she is unfriendly and doesn't  show her/his emotions.
-Packed like sardines (Chack a block): To describe people in a very crowded space.
- 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 own trompet: You are boasting about your achievements and abilities.
-If you have a bee in you bonet: About something,you are obssessed with it and can't stop thinking about it.
-It's in someone's genes: When tat person has a same personality traits as their parents, or does a similar job.
-I scratch my back and I'll scratch your: Means if you do something for me,I'll do something for you especially if it is something you would not have been able to do for youself.
-If you say someone does not have a hair out of place it means  their appearance is very fidy or is perfect.

martes, 1 de octubre de 2013

WELCOME TO MY BLOG

Hello  guys!!!!
Welcome  to my new blog, here I´m going to publish some comments about the things I'm going to do in our English class, apart from making these commments I am going to make glossaries about the words I don't undestand, the glossaries are going to be per unit.
Also I will publish some pictures or some videos about me... about the videos I can put some videos about the unit we will learn this year, so I hope you will enjoy the blog.
Bye. Vega Polo.