2nite: Tonight
Luv.U: Love You
CU: See You
Don't b l8: Don't be late
CUL8R: See You Later
RUOK?: Are You Ok?
PLZ: Please
W: With
GR8: Great
THX 4: Thank you
Yo <3 U: I love you
M8: Mate
LOL: Laughing Out Loud
4ever: Forever
XCNT. Excelent
HAND: Have A Nice Day
U: You
PS: Parents
R: Are
B: Be
&: And
sábado, 22 de marzo de 2014
Idioms
To ask for the moon: To make unreasonable demands for things or to wish something impossible to achieve or to obtain.
Hold the fort: You make care of a place when the person normally in charge is away
Under the table: Is a phrase used to described secretive behaviour often suggesting corruption or illegality
To horse around: Like goof off
When someone has chickened out fo something: they have failed to do something ot they haven't tried to do it because they were afraid.
When you say is a wise old owl you mean they are very experienced in life
A night owl is someone who stays up late into the night
When you say someone is in safe hands you mean they are being cared for someone who is confident and skilled
A safe pair of hands:is a similar expression it referes to somone who cabn be a good job avoiding mistakes
If someone tells you to hold your tongue it means they want you to stop talking because the don't like what you are saying
If a situation is black and white it means you have a clear opinion about you can easily see what you know what is right or wrong.
Money doesn't grow on trees: means you must not spend to much money as there is a limited amount of it.
Money is not object: means that you have a lot of money available to spend.
Let the cheaps fall where they may: means to allow things to happen no matter what the consequences are.
When you say something is as cheap as chips you mean it is very cheap.
If you are chasing your tail you are very busy a lot of things but not achieving very much.
Hold the fort: You make care of a place when the person normally in charge is away
Under the table: Is a phrase used to described secretive behaviour often suggesting corruption or illegality
To horse around: Like goof off
When someone has chickened out fo something: they have failed to do something ot they haven't tried to do it because they were afraid.
When you say is a wise old owl you mean they are very experienced in life
A night owl is someone who stays up late into the night
When you say someone is in safe hands you mean they are being cared for someone who is confident and skilled
A safe pair of hands:is a similar expression it referes to somone who cabn be a good job avoiding mistakes
If someone tells you to hold your tongue it means they want you to stop talking because the don't like what you are saying
If a situation is black and white it means you have a clear opinion about you can easily see what you know what is right or wrong.
Money doesn't grow on trees: means you must not spend to much money as there is a limited amount of it.
Money is not object: means that you have a lot of money available to spend.
Let the cheaps fall where they may: means to allow things to happen no matter what the consequences are.
When you say something is as cheap as chips you mean it is very cheap.
If you are chasing your tail you are very busy a lot of things but not achieving very much.
viernes, 21 de marzo de 2014
Email to the English Family
Hello
Simpson family!
We
are so excited to receive you in our town. We can do a lot of things this week,
so here there're some of them.
You
land in Spain on Monday and we are going
to receive you at the airport. One thing that you must kno is that we'll have
some posters with your names.
After
that we will eat in an italian Restaurant that is located at the airport's
social plant. Then all of us are gonna come to Villamayor, and you are going to
see your house.
We
think that if all of that happens after these 'welcome plans' it will be around
6 o'clock pm. If yoy wanted we would show you town and the main places.
On
Tuesday in the morning, we are going to visit Salamanca and all of the
important places like the University in which you will search the frog...you
are going to understand it later on.
In
the afternoon we are going to the Tormes, that is a shopping centre where you
can buy clothes or whatever you want, and we could see a film.
On
Wednesday we are going to visit our high school, you'll see how we work and you
are going to stay in one class for one hour. After lunch we will go to the
river to ride the bikes and in this way you are going to see the nature that is
around our town.
On
Thursday is here and a bus is waiting for us! This is a speacial day, we are
gonna go to Valladolid. Here you can visit Janeiro's Shopping centre. This is
one of the biggest places for shopping that we've ever seen. You will go to
shops like H&M or the Primark (You have it in London too)
On
Friday you are gonna have a free day. We will do whatever you want, if you
prefer stay at home to sleep, we'll do it. If you want to walk around Salamanca
with us, we can do it. It means that on Friday you are leader.
On Saturday we are going with you to the
airport and you take the plane at 4pm.
SEE
YOU SOON Xx.
Power Point
This power point is about my ideal city about future because I life think in future but it's better live the present because there is only a life...
Glossary 7 (Social Sciences)
Argumento : un plan secreto para lograr algún propósito, especialmente uno que es ilegal o clandestina
Suelo : la capa superior de la superficie terrestre de la Tierra que se compone de partículas desintegradas roca, humus, agua y aire
La rotación de cultivos : el sistema de cultivo de una secuencia de diferentes cultivos en el mismo terreno con el fin de mantener o aumentar su fertilidad
Agricultura intensiva: implica el uso máximo de la tierra, el tiempo o algún otro recurso
Suelo : la capa superior de la superficie terrestre de la Tierra que se compone de partículas desintegradas roca, humus, agua y aire
La rotación de cultivos : el sistema de cultivo de una secuencia de diferentes cultivos en el mismo terreno con el fin de mantener o aumentar su fertilidad
Agricultura intensiva: implica el uso máximo de la tierra, el tiempo o algún otro recurso
Agricultura extensiva: tener una gran medida, el área, el alcance, grado, etc; vasta
Agricultura de secano : Cuando los cultivos crecen con waterain.
La agricultura de regadío: la oferta o (tierra) con agua por medio de canales artificiales, zanjas, etc, especialmente para promover el crecimiento de los cultivos de alimentos
El policultivo : En una parcela que hay más de un tipo de cultivo.
Monocultivo: el cultivo continuo de un tipo de cultivo
Invernaderos : un edificio con paredes y techo transparente, generalmente de vidrio, para el cultivo y exhibición de plantas en condiciones controladas
La agricultura de subsistencia: el medio por el cual se mantiene la vida
La agricultura migratoria : para mover o hacer que desplazarse de un lugar o de posición a otra
Agropecuarias : tepetate, caballos, aves y animales similares que son mantenidas para uso doméstico, pero no como animales de compañía, especialmente en una granja o rancho
Ganadería ocupa : un edificio utilizado como un hogar, viviendo
Ganado : mamíferos bóvidos de la tribu Bovini (bovinos), esp las del género Bos
Forraje : alimentación a granel para el ganado, heno esp, paja, etc
Parte trasera: la parte posterior o trasera
Zonas de pesca : la ocupación de la captura de peces
Acuicultura : el cultivo de agua dulce y marinos, recursos tanto vegetales como animales, para el consumo o uso humano.
Las flotas : una serie de buques de guerra organizada como una unidad táctica
Banco de peces : Es un grupo de peces todos juntos.
Glossary 6 (Social Sciences)
Economic activity: of or relating to an economy, economics, or finance
Economic agent: capable of being produced, operated, etc, for profit; profitable
Goods: possessions and personal property
Economic agent: capable of being produced, operated, etc, for profit; profitable
Goods: possessions and personal property
Services: work performed for remuneration
Production: the act of producing; anything that is produced; product
Distribution: the act of distributing or the state or manner of being distributed
Marketing: an event or occasion, usually held at regular intervals, at which people meet for the purpose of buying and selling merchandise
Consumption: the act of consuming or the state of being consumed, esp by eating, burning, etc
Supply: the act of providing or something that is provided
Demand: to request peremptorily or urgently
Inflation:a progressive increase in the general level of prices brought about by an expansion in demand or the money supply
Profit: excess of revenues over outlays and expenses in a business enterprise over a given period of time, usually a year
Tax:a compulsory financial contribution imposed by a government to raise revenue, levied on the income or property of persons or organizations, on the production costs or sales prices of goods and services, etc
Raw material: material on which a particular manufacturing process is carried out
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: in a state of action; moving, working, or doing something
Inactive population: idle or inert; not active
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: for the entire time appropriate to an activity
Part-time contracts: for less than the entire time appropriate to an activity
lunes, 17 de marzo de 2014
Glossary 5 (Social Sciences)
National sovereignty: of, involving, or relating to a nation as a whole
Constitutional Monarchy: denoting, characteristic of, or relating to a constitution
The Crown: an ornamental headdress denoting sovereignty, usually made of gold embedded with precious stones.
Arbitrator: to settle or decide (a dispute); achieve a settlement between parties
Decentralised Government: o reorganize (a government, industry, etc) into smaller more autonomous units
Motion of no confidence: the process of continual change in the physical position of an object; movement
Ministers: a person appointed to head a government department
Municipality: a city, town, or district enjoying some degree of local self-government
Town Council: a densely populated urban area, typically smaller than a city and larger than a village, having some local powers of government and a fixed boundary.
Mayor: the chairman and civic head of a municipal corporation in many countries
Councilors: a member of a council
Province: a territory governed as a unit of a country or empire
Self-government: the government of a country, nation, etc, by its own people
Statute of Autonomy: an enactment of a legislative body expressed in a formal document
Subsidiarity: (in political systems) the principle of devolving decisions to the lowest practical level
Autonomous Community: (of a community, country, etc) possessing a large degree of self-government
Exclusive authority: excluding all else; rejecting other considerations, possibilities, events, etc
Share authority: a part or portion of something owned, allotted to, or contributed by a person or group
Post-industrial society: I don't know
Life expectancy: the statistically determined average number of years of life remaining after a specified age for a given group of individuals
Illiteracy: uneducated, ignorant, or uncultured
Extended family: a social unit that contains the nuclear family together with blood relatives, often spanning
three or more generations
Nuclear family: a primary social unit consisting of parents and their offspring
Single parent family: existing alone; solitary
Same sex marriages: being the very one
jueves, 6 de marzo de 2014
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