MY COMIC: THE CRAZY DINING ROOM

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GLOSSARY OF GEOGRAPHY (UNIT 7)

Plot: An area of land where crops are grown. It can vary in sixe, shape or borders

Soil: The subtance on the surface of the Earth in which plants grow, produced mainly by the weathering of rock.

Crop rotation: The practice of growing different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons. This method improves sil fertility and resistance to disease and pests

Intensive agriculture:  is an agricultural production system characterized by a low fallow ratio and the high use of inputs such as capital, labour, or heavy use of pesticides and chemical fertilizers relative to land area.

Extensive agriculture: An agricultural system that uses small inputs of labour, fertilisers, and capital, relative to the area of land that is being farmed.

Dryland farming: Farming in which the fields receive only rainwater.

Irrigated farming: Farming in which the water from groundwater, reservoirs or rivers is brought to fields.

Polyculture:  is agriculture using multiple crops in the same space, in imitation of the diversity of natural ecosystems, and avoiding large stands of single crops, or monoculture. It includes multi-cropping, intercropping, companion planting, beneficial weeds, and alley cropping.

Monoculture:  is the agricultural practice of producing or growing a single crop or plant species over a wide area and for a large number of consecutive years

Greenhouses:  is a building in which plants are grown

Subsistence agriculture: A type of agriculture in which farmers only grow enough food to feed themselves and their families.

Shifting cultivation:  is an agricultural system in which plots of land are cultivated temporarily, then abandoned and allowed to revert to their natural vegetation while the cultivator moves on to another plot

Livestock farming: Farming bassed on rearing animals to obtain products.

Housed livestock: Livestock fed with fodder in farm buildings. This type of livestock must pass strict sanitary and quality controls

Cattle: are the most common type of large domesticated ungulates.

Fodder:  is any agricultural foodstuff used specifically to feed domesticated livestock, such as cattle, goats, sheep, horses, chickens and pigs.

Rear: To care for, breed and grow animals until maturity.

Fishing grounds: An area of water that is used for fishing.

Aquaculture: is the farming of aquatic organisms such as fish, crustaceans, molluscs and aquatic plants.

Overfishing:  is a form of overexploitation in which fish stocks are depleted to unacceptable levels, regardless of water body size.

Fleets: is an aggregate of commercial fishing vessels

School of fish: many fishes together

GLOSSARY OF GEOGRAPHY (UNIT 6)

Economic activity: the different processes involved in the production and consumption of goods and services

Economic agent: a person, group or institution involved in the economy

Goods: tangible economic products, such as food, that are usually consumed after production

Services: economic activities, such as banking or education, that are intangible

Production: an activity that provides goods and services for consumption. the production of goods combines natural resources, skills, financial investment and labour

Distribution: the marketing, delivery and sale of goods and services

Marketing: the act of researching, promoting and advertising a product or service in order to sell it

Consumption: the use of a product or service to satisfy needs or desires

Supply: availability of something of use or sale

Demand: the desire to own something in the market and the willingness to pay for it

Inflation: a rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in the economy or a decrease in value of the purchasing power of money

Profit: the monetary gain of a business after all expenses have been met

Tax: a monetary contribution to the government requires of people, groups or business

Raw material: material on which a particular manufacturing process is carried out

Telecommuting: the use of home computers, telephones, etc, to enable a person to work from home while maintaining contact with colleagues, customers, or a central office

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: people currently employed in the production of goods and services  and the people who are unemployed or looking for their first job

Inactive population: people not in active service

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:  a person works a minimum number of hours defined as such by his/her employer.

Part-time contracts: a form of employment that carries fewer hours per week than a full-time job.

MY IDEAL CITY

OUR E-MAIL; BY PABLO HONORATO AND CARLOS PÉREZ

Dear family Parkinson, we are very happy to welcome you in our house. We are looking forward to seeing you! We hope these days are going very fast.       

   

We have prepared a timetable with a lot of activities to do.

The first day, we are gonna pick you up to the airport. Then, we go to our welcome party at home. The party will end so late, so the first day we will be sleeping during all the morning to rest, for going to do puenting in the evening.

            
            The second day, we are going to go to a karting circuit. We will eat there a kebab, and in the evening, we would go to the cinema, for watching “The wolf of Wall Street”
            
            The third day, if all of you want, we can go to the Tormes river, to do kayaking.
            
            The fourth and fifth day, we are gonna go fishing to the Almendra Lake.

            

            The sixth day, we are going to the country for spending  there all the day.

            

            The seventh day, we can go to Salamanca for going around it, for visiting all the monuments.

            

            That’s all family! See you soon.

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 take care of a place when the person normally in charge is away

Under the table: is a phase used to describe secretive behaviour often suggesting corruption or illegality

To horse around: like goof off

When someone has chickened out of something: they have failed to do something or they haven´t tried to do it because they were afraid 

When you say someone 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 refers to someone who can be to do a good job avoiding mistakes

If someone tells you to hold your tongue it means they want you to stop talking because they don't like what you are saying

If a situation is black and white it means you have a clear opinion about it and you can easily see what you think is right and wrong

Money doesn't grow on trees: means you must not spent 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 chips 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 doing a lot of things but not achieving very much

GLOSSARY OF GEOGRAPHY (UNIT 5)

National sovereignty: the authority of a state to govern itself or anotherstate

Constitutional monarchy:  a system of government in which the king is the head of state but the parliament chooses the government. The government manages the politics of the state

The crown: the part of a constitutional monarchy represented by the king

Arbitrator: a person chosen to decide a dispute or settle differences. In a constitutional monarchy, the king is the arbitrator between governmental institutions

Decentralised government: a system of government in which decision-making is devolved to a local level and is therefore closer to the citizens

Motion of no confidence: a motion put by the Opposition censuring an aspect of the Government's policy

Ministers: government officials that, together with the president, make up the Spanish cabinet

Municipality: the most basic administrative body in the Spanish territory

Town council: the organization that governs each municipality in Spain

Mayor: This person with the councillors make up the town council

Councillors: These people with the mayor make up the town council and they choose the mayor

Province: an administrative body made up of several municipalities in the Spanish territory

Self-government: a system of government in which a community or region has authority to govern itself without the intervention of any other authority

Statue of autonomy:  a law describing the institutions, laws and responsibilities for each of the autonomous communities in the Spanish territory

Subsidiarity: the principle of devolving decisions to the lowest practical level so that services are closer to the citizens

Autonomous community: one of 17 regions that form part of the Spanish territory with its own devolved government

Exclusive authority: the local government has this authority over laws related to town planning, housing, monuments, healthcare and education

Share authority: the local government and the state has this authority over laws related to transport or the labour market

Post industrial society: a society in which the economy is has undergone a shift from production of goods to the provision of services

Well-being: the level of satisfaction of a population as measured by education levels, healthcare, life expectancy and consumption

Life expectancy: the number of years a person or population is expected to live

Illiteracy: a person who doesn't know to write and to read

Extended family: made up of grandparents, parents and children

Nuclear family: made up of parents and children

Single parent family: made up of a father or a mother and children

Same sex marriages:  two people of the same sex who live together as a family

ENGLISH GLOSSARY (UNIT 5)

Power station: a place where the energy is distributed

Liveable: pleasant to live

Stability: the quality of being stable

Dwellers: population

Aussie: another way to say Australian (informal)

Stiletto: a small dagger

Rank: level

Hence: therefore

Bum-bag: you wear it round your waist. You used it to carry little things

Sloppy-joes: track suit pants

THE BIG QUESTION: IS THE CONSTITUTION NECESSARY?

I think that the constitution is a good idea to get the correct laws, it commands above any other law, and any law have to obey the constitution.

The different between Spain and any other couuntry that haven't got a constitution is that the politicians can of that country can make a lot of laws and that this laws could not be just and the people of the country can reveal because of that.

In summary I think that is a good idea to have everyperso happy with they're laws and also is a good idea to control a possible revolution

OUR COVER MAGAZINE: MCFASHION

 

GLOSSARY OF GEOGRAPHY (UNIT 4)

Budget: A sum of money to be used for a specific purpose by a government

Free: movement: The unrestricted movement of goods, services, people and capital

Cohesion: The act of uniting or staying together

Common market: A market based on common policies and the free movement of goods, services, people and capital


Fragmentation: When production processes occur in different phases, in different places

Development: The act or process of growing or making progress

Funds: The financial resources used by governments or political institutions for a specific purpose

Heterogeneity: A thing that consist of dissimilar elements or parts

Homogeneous: Made up of the same kind of people or things

Investment: The act of using something (time, money, effort, etc.) to achieve a goal

Monetary union: The sharing of the same currency between two or more state. In 1992, the concept of a monetaru union was agreed upon in the EU

Ombudsman: A government official or body who investigates complains by private citizens against government institutions

Outsourcing: Part of a company's work is sent to another company, sometimes in a different country, because it's cheaper or more efficient option


Self-sufficient: Being able to meet one's needs without external assistance

Solidarity: A union or fellowship created from common responsibilities and interest, feelings or purposes

Citizenship: The condition or status of a citizen, with its rights and duties

Duty: A task or action that a person is bound to perform for moral or legal reasons

Sceptical: Not convince that something is true

Surplus: A quantity or amount in excess of what is required

Seafaring: The act of travelling by sea


Outskirts: Outlying or bordering areas, districts, etc., as of a city 

Profitable: Affording gain, benefit, or profit

Highway-motorway: A public road that all may use

Hierarchy: A system of persons or things arranged in a graded order 

GDP: Gross Domestic Product

CAP: Common Agricultural Policy: (in the EU) the system for supporting farm incomes by maintaining agricultural prices at agreed levels

CFP: Common Fisheries Policy

Subsidy: A type of financing offered by a government

Treaty: A formal agreement between two or more states related to international relations

GLOSSARY OF THE LOST WORLD

Perplexed: Confuse

Beard: The hair that grows in the face of a man

Sceptical: Not be sure if something is true

Prove: Demostrate/justify

Beaks: The projecting jaws of a bird 

Remains: Cadaver/fossil

Pinnacle: The highest peak or level of something

Footprint: An indentation or outline of the foot of a person or animal on a surface

Bit: A small piece, portion, or quantity

Stick: A small thin branch of a tree

Chin: The front part of the face below the lips

Entire: Whole/complete

Towards: About to happen 

Spears: A weapon consisting of a long shaft with a sharp pointed end of metal, stone, or wood that may be thrown or thrust

Weapons: An object or instrument used in fighting

Nodd: To lower and raise (the head) briefly, as to indicate agreement 

Ropes: A thick cord

Hatchets: A short axe

Branches: Is a small tree part

Whisper: To speak in a soft tone

Grotesque: Strangely

Chief: The leader in a group


Clerk: A worker in a office

THE FAIRTRADE

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