Saturday, March 18, 2017

Vocabulary

GEOGRAPHY

Livestock: The horses, cattle, sheep, and other useful animals kept or raised on a farm or ranch
Goods: Possessions movable effects or personal property.
Currency: Money in circulation as a medium of exchange in a country
Herd: A number of animals feeding, traveling, or kept together;
Forestry: The science of planting and taking care of trees and forests.
Mining: The act, process, or industry of extracting ores, coal, etc., from mines.
Workforce: The total number of workers in a specific undertaking
Wholesale: The sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers.
Retail: The sale of goods to individual consumers
Inflation: A steady rise in the level of prices
Employment: An act or instance of employing a person or thing
Unemployment: The state of being unemployed involuntarily
Economic Activities: Actions that involve the production, distribution and comsumption of goods and services at all levels within a society
Economic Goods: Products and services generated by economic activity
Factors of production: Resources that are required for the generation of economic goods
Capital: Money, buildings and machinery and equipment used to produce goods and services. Payment for investing capital is called interest.
Economic system: Ways in which a country produces, organises, distributes and administers its material and human resources, and the economic goods that these generate, in order to provide for a high level of well-being
Capitalism: An economic system in which investment in and ownership of the means of production and distribution are privately or corporately owned.
Communism: A theory or system of social organization based on the holding of all property in common, with ownership by the state. This system has never worked out
Ore: A metal-bearing mineral that can be mined at a profit, or a mineral or natural product serving as a source of some nonmetallic substance, as sulfur
Scarce: Insufficient or rarely found or seen
Retail: The sale of goods to individual consumers
Wholesale: The sale of goods in quantity, as to retailers
Entrepreneurship: A person who organizes and manages an enterprise, esp. a business, usually with considerable daring, skill, and financial risk.
Entrepreneur: A person who organizes and manages an enterprise, esp. a business, usually with considerable daring, skill, and financial risk.
Wages: Money paid or received for work or services
Steel: A form of iron made with carbon.
Offshore: At a distance from the shore

Thursday, March 16, 2017

Agricultural landscape

GEOGRAPHY

I have chosen this fotograph because I think here you can distinguish quite well the type of plots and farming systems, even though we can't appreciate the type of rural settlements that it is
As you can see in this pic it is an open field because there are no boundaries 
You can also see that is clearly monoculture since there is joust one type of crop 
It is an irrigated farming because you can see that it is being watered by an irrigation system
If in this picture we saw houses near this field we would have to say if it the rural settlements were scattered or concentrated

Saturday, March 11, 2017

Vocabulary

ENGLISH

ESSAY: A short piece of writing on a particular theme or subject
TOW: To pull or haul(a car,etc) by a rope, chain, etc 
SERIAL: Anything published, broadcast, etc, in parts at regular
GESTURE: A movement or position of the hand, arm, body, head, or face that expresses an idea, opinion, emotion, etc
GAP: A break or opening
NOD: To make a slight, quick bending movement of the head, as in agreement, greeting, or command
AMUSING: Having committed an offense, crime, violation, or ilegal actions
THRILLED: To (cause to) feel a sudden wave of emotion or excitement
BURST OUT: To give sudden expression to a feeling
SOOTHED: To offer comfort to
FORGERY: The crime of falsely making or changing writing or a signature. The person who commits that crime is called forger
ARSON: The crime of deliberately setting fire to property, this crime is commited by an arsonist
BURGLARY: The crime of breaking into and entering the house, office, etc of another person to steal. The person who commits this crime is a burglar
PICKPOCKET: To steal from pockets of other people. The person who does that is called a pickpocket
HIJACK: To seize (an airplane or other vehicle) by threat or by force. The person who commits rhis crime is a hijacker
FRAUD: Trickery carried out for profit or to gain some unfair or dishonest advantage. The person who commits that crime is a fraudster
MUG: An assault or threat of violence upon a person, with intent to rob. The person who does that is a mugger
BLACKMAIL: An act of frightening someone into making a payment of money, as by revealing secrets. The person who blackmails is called blackmailer
SPEED: The act of practice of exceeding the speed limit. The person who speeds is called speeder
PLASTER: A solid preparation spread upon cloth or other  material to from a case, then applied to the bod. It is used for holding a broken limb in place
CELLS: A small room, such as in a convent or a prison
JURY: A group of people who are sworn to decide a case or give a verdict by examining the evidence in a court
INNOCENT: Free from legal wrong 
GUILTY: Having committed an offense, crime, violation, or ilegal actions
RUN OVER: To hit with a vehicle, causing severe injury or death results



Thursday, March 2, 2017

Acrosport

P.E

The order of the figures and transitions is correct, although the names on top of the figure/transition is wrong. Ex: in the 1st figure it says 3rd figure and the correct one would be 1st

Saturday, February 18, 2017

Vocabulary of Marco Polo

ENGLISH AND GEOGRAPHY

TO RAISE: to serve in the capacity of parent to
FABRIC: a cloth made by weaving, knitting or felting fibers
FRIARS: man who is a member of a Roman Catholic mendicant order
TO WORSHIP: reverence for God, a sacred personage, or a sacred object
TO WEAVE: to lace together so as to form a fabric 
TO WHISPER: to speak with soft, quiet, hushed sounds, with little or no vibration of the vocal cords
CANE: a long, hollow woody stem with joints, such as the bamboo plant
MARBLE: limestone that has been changed into a hard rock , used in sculpture and in buildings
WIDOW: a women whose husband has died and she has not remarried anyone
THREAD:
COAL: a mineral substance made of carbon, used as a fuel
WAVE: a movement of the hand, as a greeting
CELL: a small room, such as in a convent or a prison

Sunday, February 5, 2017

Vocabulary

ENGLISH

bargain: something on sale at a lower price than its true value, meaning that it has a great discount
sales: a special offering of goods reduced prices
worth: good or important enough to justify
afford: to have enough money to...
closing down sales: a sale in which items are sold cheaply before a shop goes out of buisness
brand new: having just (or  relative recently) being or been made or acquired or discovered
wake boarding: sport in which you are pulled along the surface of the water by a boat while doing jumps and turns on a boars
trail biking: 
bow: a strong, flexible strip of wood or other material, bent by a string stretched between its ends and used for shooting arrows










arrow: a slender, long stick with feathers at the back end and a point at the tip that is shot from a bow









target: an object, usually marked with ringed circles, to be aimed at in shooting practice or contests


 










come along: to proceed or advance
join in: to become involved in an activity with other people
catch up: to reach the same quality or standard as someone or something else
miss out: to fail to use an opportunity to enjoy or get an advantage from something
take up: to begin to do something
try out: to use something to see if it works well
fill up: to make something full, or become full
queue up: to wait in a line for something
set up: the way in which things are organized or arranged 
wash up: to clean something using water