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.

E-mail

Hiiiii :) This is the e-mail Alba and I had to write:

Hi, we are Alba and Rocío and we are going to be your landladies here in Villamayor.

We are really glad to meet you Louis and Stan, we haven’t spoken to you that much but we think you guys are amazing. We think we are going to get on really well.

 We’ve heard that you guys are from Doncaster, right? It’s a nice place, just as beautiful as our town.

Since you are used to the cold, we suppose, maybe it would be a good idea to go to an ice park near Villamayor.  We don’t exactly know where we are going to take you, but it doesn’t mind though, because we can discuss it together, it sounds good to you?

We think that the best clothes to bring here are winter clothes, because in this zone when it comes to winter, it is really cold.

Monday: On Monday you arrive, so it just left a few hours and we can’t do anything else because you’ll be very tired.

Tuesday: We’ll wake up a little bit late, because we are not very early-rising people. We will have breakfast at home and then we’ll go to visit all the interesting monuments in Salamanca. We’ll eat in Salamanca too, and then we’ll go wherever you want. We’ll do the same on Wednesday and Thursday, because we don’t have enough time to see all the interesting things in Salamanca.

On Friday, we’ll stay at home until the night, when we will go to different discos until we see the sun.

On Saturday we will relax at home and we will have a film’s night. We’ll order something to eat home, if that’s okay.

On Sunday, sadly, you’ll have to return to Doncaster so we’ll only have the morning to say goodbye.

We are looking forwards to seeing you. Hope you are alright, bye. Xx.   

Poster

Hiii this is my poster for the shop.
Hope you like it xx.

Glossary Unit 6

·      National sovereignty: The supreme, absolute, and uncontrollable power by which an independent state is governed and from which all specific political powers are derived; the intentional independence of a state, combined with the right and power of regulating its internal affairs without foreign interference.

·      Constitutional Monarchy: A constitutional monarchy is a form of government in which a monarch acts as head of state within the parameters of a written, unwritten or blended constitution. It differs from absolute monarchy in that an absolute monarch serves as the sole source of political power in the state and is not legally bound by any constitution.

·      The Crown: The power, position, or empire of a monarch or of a state governed by constitutional monarchy.

·      Arbitrator: A person chosen to settle the issue between parties engaged in a dispute.

·      Decentralized Government: To distribute the administrative functions or powers of (a central authority) among several local authorities.

·      Motion of no confidence: A vote on a motion put by the Opposition censuring an aspect of the Government's policy; if the motion is carried the Government is obliged to resign. It’s also called vote of censure.

·      Ministers: A person appointed by or under the authority of a sovereign or head of a government to some high office of state, especially to that of head of an administrative department.

·      Municipality: A political unit, such as a city, town, or village, incorporated for local self-government.

·      Town Council: An elected group of people who are responsible for public areas and services, such as roads, parks etc, in a particular town.

·      Mayor: The head of government of a city, town, borough, or municipal corporation.

·      Councilors: A member of a council, as one convened to advise a governor.

·      Province: A territory governed as an administrative or political unit of a country or empire.

·      Self-government: Political independence; autonomy.

·      Statute of Autonomy: he condition or quality of being autonomous; independence.

·      Subsidiarity: The principle of devolving decisions to the lowest practical level.

·      Autonomous Community: Self-governing; independent; subject to its own laws only.

·      Exclusive authority: The exclusive power to enforce laws, exact obedience, command, determine, or judge.

·      Share authority: The shared power to enforce laws, exact obedience, command, determine, or judge.

·      Post-industrial society: A term used by social theorists to describe the stage of economic development that follows industrialization. The postindustrial society emphasizes not the production of goods, but of services, which depend on intelligent designers and users of technology.

·      Well-being: The state of being healthy, happy, or prosperous; welfare.

·      Life expectancy: The probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.

·      Illiteracy: The condition or quality of being ignorant or unknowledgeable in a particular subject or field.

·      Extended family: A family group that consists of parents, children, and other close relatives, often living in close proximity.

·      Nuclear family: A family unit consisting of a mother and father and their children.

·      Single parent family: A family unit with a mother or father and unmarried children.

·      Same sex marriages : A pair who associate with one another.

The Spanish Constitution

Helloo to everyone(:
I think the Constitution is way too important for our country (Even though we don't follow all the articles in there, but...) because the Constitution tries to show the rest of the world how our country works supposedly, and I think it is interesesting too, and if we hadn't this Constitution this country will probably be such a dictatorship, for example, without rights and duties. So yeah, I think having a Constitution is better than having none.
Here, I leave you the link of the Spanish Constitution if you want to learn more about our country http://www.congreso.es/portal/page/portal/Congreso/Congreso/Hist_Normas/Norm/const_espa_texto_ingles_0.pdf
Byeee xx