NEW WORDS

Hiiiii everyone, in these past weeks I've learnt some words such as, burglar alarm or even the abbreviation ASAP. I've learnt, for example, that:
"Scrumptious" means Delicious
"Burglar alarm" is an alarm that goes off when someone breaks into your house.
"ASAP" means As Soon As Possible.

I've also learnt that trees don't listen when dogs are barking at them, but that's another whole story.

So, you really learn when you are really interested, even more when you are lucky and can count on somebody whose language is the one you want to studied. And I've thought about all the possible ways to learn English, and to learn how to love it as well and this is what I came with:


http://newspaperblackout.com/ (This thing is sick, I'm telling you)

Some books

https://lhsfreshmanforum.wikispaces.com/file/view/13+Reasons+Why.pdf
http://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/literature/books_in_PDF/1904%20Peter%20Pan.pdf
http://thedanyaal.com/library/entertainment/Twilight.pdf

Some songs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFg_8u87zT0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIm1GgfRz6M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EbJtYqBYCV8


And well these are my tricks pretty much, there are more ways to learn English obviously, but I wouldn't do it in any other way (Regardless of the grammar learnt at school. This is mostly vocabulary and maybe pronunciation)

Love ya.
See ya.
Bye.
Xx.

You make me shiver

They say in life there are two kinds of people.

They say there are good people and bad people, say bad things happen for a reason and everything out there is a consequence of the kind of person you choose to be.

There are three kinds of people: there are good people, bad people and people that aren’t people. And it’s funny, knowing there are three types of people; it’s funny when you feel you know more than anyone else in the world, funny how you can tell in a crowded place which kind of person they are just by looking into their eyes. And it shouldn’t delight you knowing every single story as much as it does, but you don’t care because, well, you don’t really care about anything.

Truth is, there are a lot more “non-people” than you know. They surround you just as any other living person does and you don’t even notice. How could you? You don’t know there are three kinds of people; they’ve always taught you good people are gentle and caring people while bad people can be rough and rude. You’ve never heard about those people who apparently aren’t people at all, well, in fact you’ve had but you can’t remember. They always give you the opportunity to be bad or good, but what happens to all those people that don’t choose –can’t choose- to be bad or good? What about those people who are destined to be the third kind of person? No one has taught them how to be them; they’re too innocent, too lost to keep going. They know nothing about the world, they feel confused and they can never be good enough. They are rejects.

And you might be wondering why me, a good person, knows almost everything about a kind of person that no one has noticed before.

Easy.

Because I fell in love with one.

And you will never notice when you fall for someone, will never know how hard and fast you've fallen until you feel you've touched the bottom of a never ending waterfall. It will start with sneaky touches, the need to touch that someone constantly and feel their warm breath against your cheek will become something essential in your life and then, suddenly, it ends. (It doesn’t, it never does)

I was freezing by the time I arrived in the forest. It was starting to darken out, and the shadows formed by the enormous trees were giving me the creeps. I was walking down a thin path that seemed to come to a stop where the fading lights of the city didn’t get to shine. The more steps I took, the more scared I was, it was completely dark except for the light of the full moon and a weak gleam coming from between the trees. My mobile phone was dying and the only thing illuminating my eyes was weak gleam coming from the deep of the forest; it seemed it was an abandoned house. I couldn’t tell.

I was starting to calm down, my eyes used to the darkness and the city behind my back soon forgotten, when something got my eyes pricking with fresh tears.

A shriek was heard.

Shit

“Boys it’s not funny, I’m scared stiff over here!” I screamed trying to give myself reassurance. The high pitched squeak was heard again, this time closer. My desire of cursing was getting higher by the time. “Stop it!”

There was a dead silence, and then something started shuffling behind the leaves. I closed my eyes hard, prying for this to be a bad dream, when a loud thump brought me back to reality. I shouted at the top of my lungs, and then bit my lip so hard I could feel the blood dripping down my chin. I started crying, hugging my knees to my chest and trying to hide in the wet grass even though all I was doing was getting dirty. I couldn’t care less.

I heard some steps that I was sure weren’t made by my boots; they were getting closer while my mouth was opening and my lungs were getting filled with oxygen, ready to scream. Then, I felt a soft hand harassing my tear-stained cheek, and fluttering my eyelashes I opened my bloodshot eyes in fear.

Standing in front of me there was the most breath-taking boy I’d ever seen. His eyes were spooky red but there was something that made me feel secure, I knew deep in there his eyes were the most beautiful shade of blue that could exist, and his plump lips where bruised and dry while his eyebrows were frowned in the cutest way possible. He had gorgeous brunette hair in a fringe falling wildly in every direction that contrasted with his porcelain cheeks. He was covered in dirt and his shirt was ripped open, showing more purple bruises and cuts, and his arms and wrists were full of cuts (Some of them fresh and other almost fading)

“Are you okay?” He asked concerned, catching all my tears with his thumbs “I’m not going to hurt you, promise”

Instead of answering, I pulled his wrist to my lips and kissed gently all the scars I could see on his arm. “Don’t do that again, yeah?” I whispered softly, afraid of breaking the broken boy. He looked so fragile, so innocent and his eyes were wide and so lost. He was so tiny and I got the need to rock him in my arms and kiss him to sleep. I wasn’t scared anymore, I wasn’t a coward.

My black wings came out and they started glowing.

And in that moment, everything got back into pieces.

A fallen angel fell in love with the broken boy.

“Yeah”

Glossary

Glossary

* Olive skin: Brown skin

* Pedestrian crossing: Zebra crossing

* Living it up: Enjoying life

* Root: The part of a plant that grows underground, gets water from the ground, and holds the plant in place

* Draught: Lack of rain

* Dome: A roof or ceiling that is rounded or in the form of a part of a sphere

* Travel arrangements: The way that things are organized for a particular trip

* Itinerary: A detailed plan for a journey, especially a list of places to visit; plan of travel

* Brochure: Pamphlet

* Baggage: Luggage and carry-on luggage

* Claim: Slogan

Expressions

* That’s hecka cool: Something that’s very cool

* Yo, let’s bail: You (yo), let’s leave (bail)

* Something is so bomb: Very good

* Call someone out: Reveal another’s mistake in front of people

Would you rather…?

People always have a favorite place in the entire world: a city, a park, a monument or even the spot right in the middle of nowhere that it’s just a rocky land yet it always brings you the best memories ever. Everyone is different but so alike at the same time, because even though each one has a favorite place, they all agree on one thing: They have one, that special place that makes your heart swell with adoration and fondness is always present when someone says “Think of somewhere nice”. And I have mine.

My favorite place just happens to be a city –a big city, might I add- and if I could spend my whole live living there, I would. New York is a great city and all of that, the best one if you want to have a crazy night and pretend to fall in love with strangers for just one day, but London is my priority. I can’t even explain why I worship it so much, can’t even think of a single day when I wasn’t in love with the city, and, can anyone fall in love with such a thing as a city? I think you can, because for me, London is the most beautiful and breath-taking thing ever; it makes me feel cozy and secure. I don’t even know why anymore, I just know I love how fresh and new it seems, the green of the trees giving the city a look of comfort and quietness. Maybe it’s the way the shadows cover the streets when the sun goes down that has me enamored, or the way people live so careless, nothing giving them an actual reason to be sad because in this own styled city nothing really matters. I would love to see the sunset from the London Eye, stare at the sky while it turns orange and all of the buildings lose their bright, glassy colors, making beautiful shadows on the streets people with different stories walk through.

And I don’t know why I like London so much I would give literally everything  to be there two hours, but I just know if things worked like that, I sure would.

New school year!

Hi everybody, as you might know we are starting a new year -Our last high school year, hopefully!- and I'm so excited because each year is different and spontaneous, bringing us great surprises and showing us how to be more mature. So in this first post I'm going to talk about different cultural gestures because I think it’s important to understand other people and how they behave, so then we don’t hurt their feelings by offending them with our own traditions.

 Did you know? 

* In America a firm handshake is considerate an heterosexual act and indicates self-confidence, but if you give a limp handshake it can be interpreted as a sign of weakness or homosexuality. However, in Africa a limp handshake is the correct way to do it.

Also

* Shaking the head in an horizontal direction in most countries means “no”  while in India means “yes”.

Glossary

GLOSSARY UNIT 9 & 10

Freight: Commercial transport that is slower and cheaper than express.

Capital flows: The movement of money for the purpose of investment, trade or business production.  

Exports: Goods or services sold to a foreign country or countries.

Imports: Goods or services that are bought from foreign countries.

Balance of trade: The difference between a country's imports and its exports.

Balance of payments: A statement that summarizes an economy’s transactions with the rest of the world for a specified time period.

Retail: The sale of goods individually or in small quantities to consumers.

Wholesale: The business of selling goods to retailers in larger quantities than they are sold to final consumers but in smaller quantities than they are purchased from manufacturers.

Trade bloc: A set of countries which engage in international trade together, and are usually related through a free trade agreement or other association.

Transport network: The complete system of the routes pertaining to all means of transport available in a particular area, made up of the network particular to each means of transport.

Market: An event or occasion usually held at regular intervals, at which people meet for the purpose of buying and selling merchandise.

Infrastructure: The stock of fixed capital equipment in a country, including factories, roads, schools, etc, considered as a determinant of economic growth.

Trade: The act or an instance of buying and selling goods and services either on the domestic markets or on the international markets.

Bartering: To trade in exchange for other goods, services, etc, rather than for money.

Tourism: Tourist travel and the services connected with it, esp when regarded as an industry.

Public services: A service performed for the benefit of the public, especially by a nonprofit organization.

Private services: Intellectual or manual work performed by a service provider in serving a customer.

Cereals: Any grass that produces an edible grain, such as oat, rye, wheat, rice, maize, sorghum, and millet.

Mortgage: An agreement under which a person borrows money to buy property and the lender may take possession of the property if the borrower fails to repay the money.

Speculation: Investment involving high risk but also the possibility of high profits.

Crop: The produce of cultivated plants, vegetables, and fruit.

Agricultural landscape: An agricultural place or society is one in which agriculture is important or highly developed. 

Cultural heritage: Expression of the ways of living developed by a community and passed on from generation to generation, including customs, practices, places, objects, artistic expressions and values.  

Domestic tourism: Domestic tourism is the type of tourism where people visit tourist site within their own country.  

Large-scale tourism: A big amount of tourism.

Tour operators: A person or company that provides package holidays.

High-speed rail: A type of rail transport that operates significantly faster than traditional rail traffic, using an integrated system of specialized rolling stock and dedicated tracks.

Peak season: Time of the year during which demand is highest.

Off-peak season: Not in the period of most frequent or heaviest use.

 Recession: A temporary depression in economic activity or prosperity.

Volleyball

GLOSSARY

Glossary

Mechanization: To equip (a factory, industry, etc) with machinery.

Mining: The act, process, or industry of extracting coal, ores, etc, from the earth.

Mineral: Any of a class of naturally occurring solid inorganic substances with a characteristic crystalline form and a homogeneous chemical composition.

Fossil fuels: A hydrocarbon deposit, such as petroleum, coal, or natural gas, derived from living matter of a previous geologic time and used for fuel.

Industry: Organized economic activity concerned with manufacture, extraction and processing of raw materials, or construction.

Irrigated farming: The artificial application of water to land to assist in the production of crops.

Energy: A source of power.

Biomass: The total number of living organisms in a given area, expressed in terms of living or dry weight per unit area.

Management: The members of the executive or administration of an organization or business.

Workforce: The total number of workers employed by a company on a specific job, project, etc.

Wind turbine: A machine that converts wind energy to mechanical energy; typically connected to a generator to produce electricity.

Solar panel: A panel exposed to radiation from the sun, used to heat water or, when mounted with solar cells, to produce electricity direct, for powering instruments in satellites.

Renewable energy: Any naturally occurring, theoretically inexhaustible source of energy, as biomass, solar, wind, tidal, wave, and hydroelectric power, that is not derived from fossil or nuclear fuel.

Non-renewable energy: An energy resource that is not replaced or is replaced only very slowly by natural processes.

Alternative energy: Energy, as solar, wind, or nuclear energy, that can replace or supplement traditional fossil-fuel sources, as coal, oil, and natural gas.

Dam: A barrier of concrete, earth, etc, built across a river to create a body of water for a hydroelectric power station, domestic water supply, etc.

Heavy industry: Relates to a type of business that typically carries a high capital cost (capital-intensive), high barriers to entry and low transportability.

Light industry: A section of an economy's secondary industry characterized by less capital-intensive and more labor-intensive operations.

Cutting-edge industries: Technological devices, techniques or achievements that employ the most current and high-level IT developments; in other words, technology at the frontiers of knowledge.  

Craftsperson: A person who makes beautiful objects by hand. 

My Invent

The Microphone

It was invented in 1876 by Emile Berliner. It is used nowadays by almost every famous person. It converts sound waves into electrical voltages that are eventually converted back into sound waves thru speakers. They were first used with telephones and then radio transmitters. This is now used in big rooms where you can’t hear well; it helps to make the sound get higher. 

Modern Times

Hiii this is my power point about the film "Modern Times"

Modern times from RocioGarcia1991

DIDAPAGES

file:///C:/Users/Rocio/Documents/Larry%20Stories/Didapages/A%20new%20story/index.html Hii this is my book, xx

WARM UP

ICE SKATING Ice skating is a great form of exercise that increases your body’s flexibility and endurance with very low impact. • CARDIOVASCULAR ACTIVITIES: You burn calories as you skate on the ice, it’s a great cardiovascular workout with less stress on your knees and other joints, it boosts your cardio-vascular system which helps to reduce your risks of diseases like obesity, hypertension and diabetes, it improves your balance and agility, and builds character. It is a great way to tone your leg muscles, specifically the quadriceps and hamstrings and your arm muscles when you swing them as you skate. • WARM UP EXERCICES: Dynamic stretching is one of the most effective ways to warm up, whether you are warming up for a competition, testing, on-ice or off-ice training. Dynamic stretching serves to actively lengthen the muscles and involves movements that increase heart rate, blood flow, deep muscle temperature, respiratory rate, viscosity of joint fluids, and perspiration. Proper warm-up can take the beginning skater 30 minutes and the advanced skater 10 to 15 minutes. To begin a general warm-up, the skater should start with five minutes of aerobic activity (jumping rope, slide board, jogging in place, jumping jacks or on-ice power stroking). This will improve the flexibility of the muscles and prepare the body for dynamic stretches. • STRETCHING: Head: (repeat five times gently and slowly) 1) Look up and down 2) Bend head to the right shoulder, then to the left shoulder 3) • Turn head to the right, then to the left Upper Extremities: (repeat five to eight times for each arm) 1) Rotate wrists in circles, clockwise and counter-clockwise 2) Roll shoulders back and down (arms at sides) 3) Place hands on shoulders and circle elbows backwards, squeezing shoulder blades together 4) Stretch arms up over head, lengthening the spine, then lower arms and cross in front of the body. Repeat, this time bringing the arms up and then lower crossing arms behind the back Trunk: (repeat five times slowly) 1) Side bend to the right and then to the left (pain free range of motion) 2) Turn trunk to the right and then to the left (pain free range of motion) Lower Extremities: (repeat 10 to 12 times for each leg) 1) Rotate ankles in circles 2) Standing, place right toe behind the left foot, bend the left knee allowing the right heel to touch the (….?) Swing one leg out to the side, then cross in front of standing leg, swing the leg out to the side again and cross behind standing leg 3) Standing on one leg drawing a circle with the free knee 4) Walking forward, bend one knee backwards 5) Walking forward, bring one knee to chest; pull in the knee with same arm 6) Walking forward, bring one knee to chest; pull in the knee with opposite arm 7) Walking forward, kick one leg up while keeping the knee straight

 Hiiii this is my comic xx

Ideal city

Hiii I just post this because I wanted to say that I can't upload my city's powerpoint because it keeps telling me there's some type of error and I can't, so... Sorry :(

Glossary English

 Glossary

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 behavior often suggesting corruption or illegality.

To horse around: To behave in a silly way.

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: 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: 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 too much money as there is a limited amount of it.

Money is no 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 Social Sciences

GLOSSARY

·                 Economic activity: actions that involve the production, distribution and consumption of goods and services at all levels within a society.

·                 Economic agent: a person, company, or organization that has an influence on the economy by producing, buying, or selling.

·                 Goods: possessions and personal property

·                 Services: commodities, such as banking, that are mainly intangible and usually consumed concurrently with their production.

·                 Production: the creation or manufacture for sale of goods and services with exchange value.

·                 Distribution: a thing or portion distributed

·                 Marketing: the provision of goods or services to meet customer or consumer needs.

·                 Consumption: expenditure on goods and services for final personal use.

·                 Supply: to make available or provide.

·                 Demand: the amount of a commodity that consumers are willing and able to purchase at a specified price.

·                 Inflation: the rate of increase of prices.

·                 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.

·                 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: in a state of action; moving, working, or doing something.

·                 Inactive population: antonymous of active population. 

·                 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, on reaching pensionable age.

·                 Full-time contracts: for the entire time appropriate to an activity: a full-time job, a full-time student.

·                 Part-time contracts: for less than the entire time appropriate to an activity: a part-time job, a part-time waitress.

·                 Plot: a secret plan to achieve some purpose, esp one that is illegal or underhand.

·                 Soil: the top layer of the land surface of the earth that is composed of disintegrated rock particles, humus, water, and air.

·                 Crop rotation: the practice of growing different crops in succession on the same land chiefly to preserve the productive capacity of the soil.

·                 Intensive agriculture: farming that uses a lot of machinery, labour, chemicals, etc. in order to grow as many crops or keep as many animals as possible on the amount of land available.

·                 Extensive agriculture: farming that uses traditional methods and uses less labour and investment than more modern methods in order to farm fairly large areas of land.

·                 Dryland farming: a system of growing crops in arid or semiarid regions without artificial irrigation, by reducing evaporation and by special methods of tillage.

·                 Irrigated farming: The artificial application of water to the soil to produce plant growth.

·                 Polyculture: the raising at the same time and place of more than one species of plant or animal.

·                 Monoculture: the continuous growing of one type of crop.

·                 Greenhouses: a building with transparent walls and roof, usually of glass, for the cultivation and exhibition of plants under controlled conditions.

·                 Subsistence agriculture: farming that provides for the farm family's needs with little surplus for marketing.

·                 Shifting cultivation: a form of agriculture, used especially in tropical Africa, in which an area of ground is cleared of vegetation and cultivated for a few years and then abandoned for a new area until its fertility has been naturally restored.

·                 Livestock farming: domestic animals, such as cattle or horses, rose for home use or for profit, especially on a farm.

·                 Cattle: any domesticated bovine mammals.

·                 Fodder: bulk feed for livestock, straw, etc

·                 Rear: the back or hind part

·                 Fishing grounds

·                 Aquaculture: the cultivation of freshwater and marine resources, both plant and animal, for human consumption or use.

·                 Overfishing: to fish (a body of water) to such a degree as to upset the ecological balance or cause depletion of living creatures.

·                 Fleets: a number of warships organized as a tactical unit.