FLORIDA PANTHER

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GLOSSARY ENGLISH

Colonies: All the countries that used to be British colonies.

Napoleon: A French military and political leader who became very powerful during the French Revolution.

Welsh: Language which is spoken in Wales.

Defeat: The state of being beaten in a battle, competition, election, etc...

Wales: Is an independent area belonging to England.

Patting: Something you tap it or hit it lightly, for example, with your fingers.

Bloody foreigner: An expression to say that you don't like people coming from other countries.

Olive skin: Darker colour skin tone.

Zebra crossing: A place in which pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.

Pale: Something that is pale is whitish and not strong or bright in colour.

Sun tanned: Coloured by the sun.

Sniffing: Draw in air through enough to make a sound, or to introduce something inside the nose.

"When in Rome, do as the romans do": "A donde fueres, haz lo que vieres".

The bee gees: A music group from Wales.

Peck: When you take only a small amount of food.

Related: Something that is connected or associated with another thing.

Brochure: A small booklet or pamphlet, often containing promotional material or product information.

Baggage claim: An area in an airport where arriving passengers can collect the luggage that has been carried in the hold of the aircraft.

Camping: A place where tents, huts or other temporary shelters are set up.

Rest stop: Designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily.

Mobile homes: A large trailer, fitted with parts for connection to utilities, that can be installed on a relatively permanent site and that is used as a residence.

Recline: To lie back or down.

-V.A.T: Value Added Tax, a tax levied on the difference between the cost of materials an the selling price of a commodity or service.

Luggage: Containers for a traveller's belongings.

Journey: The act of travelling from one place to another.

"Save and sound": "Sano y salvo".

Taking time off from working: Stop working temporarily.

Travel arragement: The things that you do before a journey.

Board: To enter or go aboard in an aircraft, for example.

Boarding  pass: A pass that authorizes a passenger to board on an aircraft.

Hostel: A supervised, cheap lodging place for travellers, especially for young travellers.

Mysterious: Something strange that don't have any explanation.

Haunted: A place, which is frequented or visited by ghosts. 

Dark: Lacking or having very little light.

Spooky: Something scary.

Gloomy: Something partially or totally dark.

Cemetery: A place where the dead are buried, normally near a church.

Shriek: A shrill and piercing cry.

Alley: A narrow street or passageway between or behind city buildings.

Spectre: A visible incorporeal spirit.

Moonlight: The light reflected from the surface of the moon.

Coward: A person that isn't brave.

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

• In Japan make the gesture of a finger to his temple turning means to think (if the finger Is rotated forward) or insanity (if you turn back)
• The colour of mourning is white in the Middle East and many parts of Asia and Africa 
• The Japanese people don't usually look at their eyes, they look more their neck
• To call someone, the Japanese extend their hand Palm down and they move their fingers
• The Arabs do not trust people in hurry, for them means that the other does not want relationship but only money

GLOSSARY OF GEOGRAPHY (UNIT 10)

Cereals: Grasses grown for the edible components of their grain, such as rice and wheat.

Mortgage: A loan to finance the purchase of private residential or commercial property.

Speculation: Investment in stocks, property of other assets in the hope of gain, but with the risk of loss.

Crop: A cultivated plant to be harvested as food, animal fodder, fuel or for any other economic purpose.

Agricultural landscape: A landscape that has been transformed by people to cultivate crops and/or rear livestock.

Cultural heritage: The things, places and practices that define who we are as individuals, as communities, as nations or cultures.

Domestic tourism: Tourism in which tourists do not leave their own country.

Large-scale tourism: Travel and accommodation offered to large groups at affordable prices by tour operators.

Tour operators: A company that combines tour and travel components to cater for large-scale tourism.

High-speed rail: A type of rail transport involving high-speed trains.

Peak season: The season when travel is most active and rates are highest.

Off-peak season: The season when travel is less active and rates are lower.

Recession: A business cycle contraction; a general slowdown in economic activity.

GLOSSARY OF GEOGRAPHY (UNIT 9)

Freight: goods or produce transported by ship, aircraft, train, lorry or van.

Capital flows: the money that is moved around the world

Exports: goods or services that are sold outside the country where they are produced.

Imports: goods or services that are brought into a country from abroad for sale.

Balance of trade: the difference between the monetary value of the exports and the imports of a country.

Balance of payments: all monetary transactions between a country and the world

Retail: a type of trade in which businesses sell small quantities of goods directly to consumers.

Wholesale: trade in which buyers purchase large quantities of goods and sell them, in smaller quantities, to other companies.

Trade bloc: a group of countries that join together to form an area with special trade regulations.

Transport network: the connection of road, railway lines, ports or airports that facilitate the transport of goods and/or people.

Market: the meeting of buyers and sellers of goods and services. It can be tangible or abstract and it decides the prices of goods and services

Infrastructure: the basic physical and organizational structures needed for an economy to function.

Trade: the buying and selling of goods to meet the needs of the population.

Bartering: the first way of trading in history

Tourism: a sector dedicated to travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.

Information society: society in which revolutionary advances an IT dominate the economy

Public services: cover basic need of population

Private services: offer personalised services to companies

GLOSSARY OF GEOGRAPHY (UNIT 8)

Mechanization: The use of machinery in the production process

Mining: The process of extracting minerals from the ground

Mineral: a naturally occurring solid chemical substance such as bauxite. Most minerals need to be transformed to enable them to be used for manufacturing products


Fossil fuels: fuel that is formed by the decomposition of buried organic material, and exposure to heat and pressure, producing substances such as coal, oil and gas.

Industry: any economic activity that produces a service or transforms raw material into consumer goods.

Irrigated farming: is the artificial application of water to the land or soil.

Energy: power that comes from the utilization of physical or chemical resources to provide light and heat or to work machines.

Biomass: organic material used as a fuel that releases energy when burned

Management: the people that run a company and ensure that goods and services of a high enough quality are produced and sold at competitive prices.


Workforce:  the employees required to produce goods and services.

Wind turbine: a device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy to drive machinery or generate electricity.

Solar panel:  is a set of solar photovoltaic modules electrically connected and mounted on a supporting structure.


Renewable energy: is generally defined as energy that comes from resources which are naturally replenished on a human time-scale such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, waves and geothermal heat.  

Non-renewable energy: is a resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in meaningful human time-frames.

Traditional energy: refers to the energy sources that are most commonly used

Alternative energy: is any energy source that is an alternative to fossil fuel. These alternatives are intended to address concerns about such fossil fuels.

Dam: is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams.

Guild: is an association of artisans or merchants who control the practice of their craft in a particular town. 

Heavy industry: does not have a single fixed meaning as compared to light industry. It can mean production of products which are either heavy in weight or in the processes leading to their production.

Light industry:  is usually less capital intensive than heavy industry, and is more consumer-oriented than business-oriented (most light industry products are produced for end users rather than as intermediates for use by other industries).

Cutting-edge industries: industries that employ advanced technology

Craftspersons: a person who makes products using basic tools and manual labour.