CURRICULUM VITAE

GLOSSARY

UNIT 4

Lipstick: stick or pencil of make the lips

High heels: shoes with raised heels

Hood:  Head covering on garment

Sleeve: The part of a garment covering the arm

Sensible: practical

Outdated:  old-fashioned

Trendy: fashionable

Earrings: a jewellery of a ear

Heel: a part of the shoe situated at the end of it

Catwalk: fashion show walkway

Fashion: modern

Highlight: a bleached blonde streak in the hair

Lenses: a piece of glass or other transparent material

Mohawk: crest

Campaigning: transmit advertising

Mourning: a black dress, symbolizing grief over the death of someone

Gather: collect or congregate

Down to earth: with the feet on the land

GLOSSARY 

UNIT 3

Employment: work/job/profession

Abroad: to other country

Award: prize

Fellow: colloquial way of naming a person

Cashier: a person responsible for receiving payments for goods, services, etc. As in a shop

Childminders: babysitter

Degree: university studies with which you can get a professional title

Motto: a saying or slogan

Driver licence: a kind of card with which you can drive

GEOGRAPHY: GLOSSARY UNIT 3

State: The supreme public power within a sovereign political entity

 Sovereignty: The authority to rule over an area. In a democracy, the people have sovereignty because they vote for the government

Constitution: A collection of a country's fundamental laws that shape the government, institutions and rights and obligations of citizens

Democracy: A government in which the people have power, exercised either directly or through elected representatives

Monarchy:  Form of government in which the head of state reside in one person, usually a king or queen, through heredity and lifelong.


Dictatorship: A system of government in which one person with absolute power governs. they are supported by a political party, an ethnic group or the army

Globalisation: The integration and development of worldwide economic system

Regional: Relative to the region

Cultural diversity: The quality of diverse or different cultures

Universal suffrage: All adults can vote in elections of a democratic system

Legislative power: Make the laws. It is done by the parliament

Executive power: Execute the laws and the state policy. It is done by the government

Judicial power: Apply the laws and judge and punish the citizens who break it. It is done by the tribunals

Supranational: Beyond the authority of one national government

Mass culture: A worldwide culture characterised by similar patterns of consumption 

UN: Is a supranational organisation composed of over 190 member states. It was founded in 1945 to promote peace, security and economic development

NGO: An entity with humanitarian and social aims

Civil servant: A person who occupies a position or employment in the public service

Justice: Law, reason, fairness

Liberty: Freedom

Subsidiarity: Trend from state to subsidize community or private agencies

Culture: The knowledge, ideas, traditions and customs that characterize a people or an age

Multiculturalism: the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation

Interculturalism: It affects or refers to two or more cultures

Referendum: Juridical procedure by which is subjected to popular vote a law or a matter of special

Elections: Elections that we held to elect the representatives of the political parties in the House of Representatives and Senate

HUMAN RIGHTS

I hope you like my first presentation of this type of human rights.

I've made it about David Bisbal and I think that he is a very nice guy and he always tries to help people in everything that he can.

OUR TRIP TO BRAZIL

Are we going to do it? Maybe this year? I do not know but if we finally do it, we would have all sought

Here I show you the places and the things we are going to do if we go:

Our trip to Rio de Janeiro from Armen15

Glossary of physical education: general vocabulary and handball

To chase: to follow or run after (a person, animal, or goal) persistently or quickly

Lob shot: to shoot the ball in a high arc

To roll down: spin down

To slow down: decreases the speed


To tag: a children's game in which one player chases the others in an attempt to catch one of them who will then become the chaser

To cheat: not fair

Urgent: requiring or compelling speedy action

Save: the act of saving a goal

Wall bars: a structure or rampart built to protect and surround a position or place for defensive purposes

Target: objective

Line up: a row or arrangement of people or things assembled for a particular purpose

Brief: short duration

Fit: to be healthy

Feint: movement designed to distract an adversary

Baseline: a measured line through a survey area from which triangulations are made

Imbalance: lack of equilibrium

Referee: the person who controls the match

W.E.D

The world environment day is celebrated on the 5th of June every year. It is one of the most important ecological events worldwide. In this event can participate everyone volunteer who wants to do it. This event will take place all over the world and concentrating more on the most populated and polluted cities worldwide like New Dheli and cities that are located around. The aim of this day is to promote sustainable development of the environment and make aware people that everyone can do her/his bit to help to reduce pollution.

Activities to be undertaken on this day are:

- You will be able to participate in a race if you collaborate depositing and recycling the lids

- You can participate by planting a tree in the garden of your house

- There will be a talk in different places to explain activities that you can do at home to help the environment

- We will make a song with instruments made from recycled materials

- There will be a championship cars manufactured from recyclable materials. The winner will be awared

American English	British English
Color	Colour
Center	Centre
Rest room	Toilet
Cookies	Biscuits
Elevator	Lift
Soccer	Football
Subway	Underground
Pants	Trousers
Apartment	Flat
Eraser	Rubber
Flaslight	Torch
Hood	Bonnet
Sidewalk	Pavement
Gasolina	Petrol
Sweet	Desert
Autumn	Fall
Crazy	Mad
Eggplant	Aubergine
Zero	Nought
Underpants	Pants
Trunk	Boot
Check	Cheque
Block flats	Apartment building
Pharmacist	Chemist
Grain	Corn
Defense	Defence
Lite	Light
Sick	Ill
Honor	Honour
Truck	Lorry
Analize	Analyse
Fulfil	Fulfill
Labor	Labour
Sick	Dizzy
Nite	Night
Tyre	Tire

ACTIONS THAT REDUCE THE CLIMATE CHANGE

1.- We have to reuse the paper to contribute to the reduction of the deforestation

2.- Use bicycles and public transport instead of the car

3.- Don't have the heating turn on when we don't use it

4.- Reduce the use of aerosols

5.- Buy energy saving light bulbs

6.- In summer use the air conditioning only when it is necessary 

7.- Planting more trees

8.- Use less refrigerants

9.- Reuse, reduce and recycle

10.- Don't throw things in to the ground and throw it in a recycle bin

 GEOGRAPHY

Unit 2

Landscape: scenery

Temperature: physical magnitude that measures the warmth or coldness of a body or the atmosphere

Oasis: is an area with vegetation and water that is isolated in the desert

Precipitation: rainfall

Riparian forest: deciduous forest growing on both sides of the river courses

Grassland: is a biome formed by a succession of herbs and grasses, which develops in a temperate climate and experiences a warm season in the summer and cold in the winter season.

Settlement: place where is established a person or a community of people

Livestock: group of grazing animals that are bred for their exploitation

Scrub: land with bushes and weeds

Holm oak: Mediterranean tree that can be deciduous or evergreen

Logging: the work of felling, trimming, and transporting wood

Deforestation: destruction of a forest through logging or natural causes

Savannah: is a very big plain in the tropical climate

Taiga: vegetation formation with abundant coniferous forests

Tundra: vegetation of polar regions where there are't trees, and the ground is covered with mosses and lichens

Jungle: covered ground of very lush vegetation typical of tropical zones

Desert: a region that is almost devoid of vegetation because of low rainfall

Steppe: an extensive grassy plain usually without trees

Deciduous: the trees that lose their leaves during a part of the year

Evergreen: the trees that keep their leaves always

Meadows: large plain covered with grassy


Natural disasters

Drought: long period of dry weather

Acid rain: rain that contains a high concentration of pollutants

Hurricane: Wind with a enormous force, usually originated in tropical areas, which revolves in large circles

Tornado: is like a hurricane

Tsunami: a big wave generated by an earthquake on the seabed

Sea levels rising: increasing the sea level by melting

Sandstorm: dust storm

Polar caps are melting: the ice is becoming water because of the pollution and the greenhouse

Flood: a place cover of water

Climate change: weather modification has taken place about his record at regional and global levels.

Greenhouse effect: phenomenon in which certain components of a gas atmosphere planetary retain some of the energy emitted when the soil has been heated by solar radiation.

Atmosphere: is the layer of gas surrounding a celestial body.

CURITIBA

Curitiba is an example of recycling and environment for everyone.

In schools from Curitiba there are subjects related to environment and recycling to teach children to be responsible in these fields when they get to be adults.

At the beginning Curitiba was a city with much air pollution, mobility problems, *sewer water and it had a lot of trash.

Then the government created a recycling programme called Green Exchange that consists of each week two trucks go to different parts of Curitiba, one it is empty that is where you put the trash that you take for recycling and another truck is full of food that you can achieve from the recycle. With this programme little by little people were recycling more and more and now almost all the population has changed the mentality of thinking and they recycle everything.

Also there is another system. Previously in Curitiba was very difficult to move around the city, then the government invented a bus transit line that can *carry hundreds of people and so they can move around the city *easiness. Recycling the trash you can get a ticket and with this ticket you will have a free travel on the bus.

There are also many green spaces and parks with many plantations.

It is estimated that there are about fifty *square meters of green space per *inhabitant.

I think that Curitiba has done what it had to do and even more and it is now a city where many tourist go on vacations.

I think Spain should make a project like this because now with the crisis would be many people interested in recycling in order to have something to eat.

*Sewer water: waste water

*Carry: transport

*Easiness: facility

*Square meter: is the area within a square whose sides are one meter

*Inhabitant: occupant/resident

ECOLOGY PROJECT

Hey kids. How are you today?

As you will see, here I put you the slogan with the video about the ecological habits.

Slogan:

Don't be a trash. Recycle

I hope you like it

See you soon.

                    

OUR LAND

I am going to show you the political and physical map of Spain. Spain is a country that is at a high altitude and it is bordered to the north by France to the west by Portugal and to the south by Africa.

First the political:

The physical:

GEOGRAPHY

Unit 1

Geographical features: uneven terrain

Relief: set of geographic features

Coast: seashore

Erode: surface wear produced by friction

Flat: horizontal level

Continent: each of the large areas of land separated by oceans

Tributary: secondary river that flows into another principal

Delta: geographical feature produced by the deposition of sediments at the mouth of a river

Lagoons: natural reservoir of water smaller than a lake

Marsh: deep ground where water collects, with the bottom covered by mud

DIFFERENT TYPES OF RELIEF

Inlet: a thin channel of water that leads inland from the sea. Inlets created by glaciation are called fjords and are usually found on mountainous coastlines.

Headland/cape: a small area of land that projects out into the sea.

Peninsula: a large scale headland surrounded by water on three sides. A peninsula can be connected to the land by a thin stretch of land called isthmus.

Island: a piece of land completely surrounded by water.

Gulf: an area of sea surrounded by land on three sides. A bay is similar but smaller.

Oceanic ridge: an underwater mountain range that generally covers a large area and reaches high altitudes.

Oceanic trench: a long depression on the ocean floor that can be thousands of meters deep.

Abyssal plain: a flat area of the ocean floor. They are found at depths of between 3000 and 7000 meters.

Continental shelf: the undersea extension of a continent that descends gradually to depths of around 400m. The shelf might extend for only a few kilometers under the sea, or it may extend for many.

Continental slope: a steep underwater area that links the continental shelf with the ocean floor.

Mountain: a large landform that is higher than thee surrounding land. A mountain range is a continuous chain of mountains.

Basin: an area of land that is drained by a river or a lake and that is lower than the surrounding area.

Valley: is a linear depression in the land.

Plateau: a flat area of land which sits at a certain altitude above sea level.

Plain: a large, open, flat or slightly undulating are of land.

Cliff: a high, steep, or overhanging face of rock.

Massif: a geologically distinct mass of rock or a series of connected masses forming the peaks of a mountain range.

GLOSSARY

Unit 2

EXPRESSIONS

If you blow your own trumpet: you are boasting about your achievements and abilities

If you have a bee in your bonnet about something: you are obsessed with something and you can't stop thinking in it

It's in someone's genes: when that person has the same personality traits as theirs parents, or does a similar job

You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours: if you do something for me I'll do something for you, especially if it is something you wouldn't have been able to do for yourself

If you say someone does not have a hair out of place: their appearance is very tidy or is perfect.

Lost for words: you are sock of something and you don't know what to say

To have a flash of inspiration: you get a sudden idea that helps you to create or achieve what you were 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 her/his feelings or emotions

Packed like sardines: to describe people in a very crowded space. In a place enclosed

Chock a block: to describe people in a very crowded situation. In the street

Like a duck to water: it means that you discover when you start doing a new activity that you are very good at it

VOCABULARY

Pollution: contamination

Soil: sand

Rubbish: trash

Lid: object used to cover the bottles

Coal: mineral that is extract from the mines and we use it to combustion

Cattle station: is where the cattle reside

Nature: environment

Per capita: per person

Cans: tins

Smog: is a mix of the words smoke and fog

Methane: a gas that produce the greenhouse

Pass a law: is when the government creates a law and this is approved

THE ORIGIN OF THE COOKIES

It appears in 1930 in United Estates. It was in that year when Ruth Wakefield bought a house and took care of a humble* business. Soon her homemade recipes and their delicious desserts began attracting customers.

One day Ruth ran out of* the chocolate usually used for cookies and she had to use a bar that had given Andrew Nestlé. She cut into pieces the bar and added them to the dough*, thinking it would melt* and the result would be the same as usual but the chocolate chips maintained their shape* and became creamy. And this is the curious origin of the cookies

DIFFICULT VOCABULARY 

*Humble: modest/poor

*Run out of: be left without something

*Dough: batter/ bread
*Melt: thaw/dissolve

*Shape: form

                  GLOSSARY
  Unit 1

To take the bull by the horns: to deal with a different situation in a brave and firm way

Two heads are better than one: that two people working together are more likely to solve a problem than one person doing it alone

To keep your head above water: you are just managing to survive despite not having much money/time/things

PIE

It is as easy as pie: if something is very easy

Pie-eyed: if someone is very drunk

To have a finger in many pies: you are involved in lots of different activities

EGG

A bad egg: someone who behaves in a bad or dishonest way

Don’t pull all your eggs in one basket: you should never rely on only one plan in case it goes wrong

He got egg on his face: to be embarrassed by something that I do wrong

BEAN

Full of beans: full of energy

I haven’t got a bean: you don’t have money at all

Spill the beans: to say a secret

It’s a hot potato: if there is a delicate issue and people can't agree

They are like two peas in a pod: they are very similar

TEA

It’s not my cup of tea: if there is something we don’t like much

I wouldn’t do it for all the tea in china: if there is something we would never do it

It’s as good as a chocolate teapot: if something is completely useless

FRUIT

He’s gone bananas: to go mildly crazy

It’s a case of sour grapes: if someone pretends not to be impressed by something because he feels jealous

A second bite of the cherry: another opportunity to do something

OTHER EXPRESSIONS

There are plenty more fish in the sea: there are other choices in a situation. It’s often said to someone who had a romantic break up

The icing on the cake: something that makes a good situation even better                    

Its just not cricket: something is unfair or dishonest

To toy with: not to take someone’s feelings seriously

A toyboy: is the younger boyfriend of an older person

Like a ton of bricks: to express something that is very heavy

To fly the nest: to leave your parents' home for the first time in order to live somewhere else.

A nest egg: an amount of money you have saved for the future

I wasn’t born yesterday: if someone is telling you a very obvious lie

To have a whale of a time: to have a fun time

Size of a whale: an impolite way of say they are large or overweight

To be in a good mood: be in a good frame of mind

A little bird told me: if you have some information but you don't want to reveal who told you

To be or to have a big mouth: it means you talk too much specially about things which should be kept in secret or avoided

FIRE

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

RAINBOW

All the colours of the rainbow: it is very colourful

Chasing rainbows: refers to someone who is always looking for something more exciting or rewarding but it is unlikely to find it

CHEESE

The big cheese: is the most important or powerful person in a group or organization

Chalk and cheese: two people who are very different to each other 

EATING DISORDERS

Breaking point: The point at which physical, mental, or emotional strength gives way under stress.

Dropped: lose weight

Purging: to vomit

Compulsively: doing something every time without thinking

Term effects: the effects that happen after you do something

Follow in your footsteps: be like her/him

DEBATE

Chairperson: a person who presides a debate

Adjudicator: the person who decide the winner of the debate

Timekeeper: the person who controls the time

Speaker: the person who is talking in one moment

FOOD VOCABULARY

Baking powder: any mass which leavens the body with which it is mixed

Whisk up: stir something to dissolve

Sprinkle: dampen something on some food

Raw: that it is not well cooked or ripe

Cocoa: powder obteined by milling this seed

Teaspoon: is a portion smaller than a tablespoon

Tablespoon: portion that fits in a spoon

GE: genetically engineered

GM: genetically modified

GMO: genetically modified organism

OTHER VOCABULARY

Factual: real

Fortune tellers: a person who makes predictions about the future


Tarots readers: the person who adivines your future with a card game

Banned: not allow

Crop: the produce of cultivated plants

Plot of land: a small area of land covered by specific vegetation

Horoscopes: a prediction of someone's future based on the relative positions of the planets

Welcome to my blog¡¡¡

Hi. How are you?

Here I introduce you my portfolio blog, where I can write down my vocabulary and new expressions that I learn from now on in class.

I'm looking forward to using it because I see a great future with this proposal of our virtual portfolio.

I hope you all like it and if you have to tell me something or ask me something don´t forget to comment because I will be open to the world.

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