MY CURRICULUM VITAE

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VOCAB, IDIOMS, EXPRESSIONS AND SO ON. UNIT 4

• Heels = high-heeled shoes.
• Catwalk = fashion show walkway.
• Mohawk = hairstyle that consists on a large mohican.
• Tred = trendecy.
• Mourning = time in which people worship sb. who has recently died.
• To gather = to join together.
• Liar = who lies repeatedly.
• Request = sth. sb. ask for.
• Lecture = long speech.
• Envelope = in which letters are given.
• Remains = what is left.
• Pinnacle = high peak.
• Abyss = large and deep hole on earth.
• Hatchet = small axe.
• Footprint = which is made by sb. who steps the ground.
• Pool = puddle.
• Ape = animal which belongs to monkey's family.
•  To whisper = to talk softly.
• Trap = stratagem.
• To embrace = to hug.
• Clerk = worker.
• Beak = which birds have on their mouth.
• Cheek = part of the face that swells when sb. is chewing.
• Tuxedo = formal clothing for men
• Jogging suit = track suit.
• Outdated = not current.
• Bathrope = cotton clothing used for drying oneself after shower.
• To let down = to disappoint.
• Hence = therefore.
• Survey = questionnaire.
• Bum-bag = sort of purse tied around someone's waist.
• Sloppy-joes = the bottom part of a track suit.

VOCAB, IDIOMS, EXPRESSIONS AND SO ON. UNIT 3

 

• Knot = tie.
• First aid = emergency medical help.
• Accomplishment = sth. you achive but you found it difficult.
• Chilminder = the person who looks after children.
• Cashier = the person who works in a supermarket cash.
• Motto = phrase or slogan sb. says and have a major impact on.
• Fellow =  person who works with you and at the same level as you.
• To be sacked = to dimiss.
• To apply for a job = request a job.
• Working day = that which is not day off.

BOB DYLAN, THE ONLY ONE!

Considered one of the best artists ever seen, Bob Dylan as a singer and poet has created many songs and excellent artworks related to Human Rights, no discrimination and peace. Every single album of him has a social protest which invite people to reflex about what is happening in the world.

http://armen15.edu.glogster.com/bob-dylan-the-master

GEOGRAPHY? WHAT'S THAT? UNIT 3

• CIVIL SERVANT: a person employes in the civil service.

• CONSTITUTION: a collection of a country’s fundamental laws that shape the government, institutions and rights and obligations of citizens.

• CULTURAL DIVERSITY:  the quality of diverse or different countries.

• CULTURE: the collection of common customs, knowledge and ways of living that a group of people recognise s their own.

• DEMOCRACY: a government, in which the people have power, exercised either directly or through elected representatives.

• DICTATORSHIP: a system of government in which one person with absolute power governs.

• ELECTION: the selection by vote of a candidate from among several political parties to the president of a nation.

• EXECUTIVE POWER: one of three branches of the state with responsibility for executing laws, setting state policy and managing public affairs.

• GLOBALISATION:  the integration and development of a worldwide economic system.

• JUDICIAL POWER:  one of three branches of the state with responsibility for interpreting and applying the law.

• JUSTICE: the administration of law according to prescribed and accepted principles.

• LEGISLATIVE POWER: one of three branches of state with authority to approve, amend and repeal laws.

• LIBERTY: the power of choosing, thinking and acting for oneself.

• MASS CULTURE: a worldwide culture characterized by similar patterns of consumption.

• MONARCHY: a system of government in which the monarch exercises unrestricted power to dictate laws, govern and judge.

• MULTICULTURALISM=INTERCULTURALISM: the preservation of different cultures or cultural identities within a unified society, as a state or nation.

• NGO (non-governmental organization): an entity with humanitarian and social aims.

• REFERENDUM: submission of an issue of public importance to the direct vote of the people.

• REGIONALISM: division of a country into administrative regions having partial autonomy.

• SOVEREIGNTY: the authority to rule over an area.

• STATE: the supreme public power within a sovereign political entity.

• SUBSIDIARITY: when the institutions closest to the citizens make the important decisions.

• SUPRANATIONAL:  beyond the authority of one nation government.

• UN (United Nations): a supranational organization composed of over 190 member states.

• UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE: a system of democratic elections whereby all citizens of voting age can participate regardless of their gender or economic situation.

OUR TRIP TO BRAZIL

Wow...Brazil...beaches...relaxing...World Cup...amazing...!!

Here  I post our presentation about a task which has tested everything we've learnt since the onset of the course. A TRAVEL PROJECT.

What is it about? I don't know... Guess it or... just see it!!

I hope you like it!!

http://es.slideshare.net/Armen15/our-trip-to-rio-de-janeiro

ENDURANCE AND HANDBALL (1ST TERM, P.E.)

TO WITHSTAND: to resist or to remain firm in endurance or opposition.

TO ENABLE: to provide power.
TO SUPPLY: to provide something that is wanted or needed.
TO TRIP: to make someone fall dawn voluntarily.
TO CLINCH: to block someone by surrounding him with your arms.
SLIGHT: very little.
INFRINGEMENT: action not allowed by the rules or laws.
TO DISMISS: to send away someone.
WINGER: a player stationed on the wing.
TO DISRUPT: to bother someone by doing something.

SALONE DEL GUSTO!!

Would you like to taste new flavors, meet new people or enjoy yourself by eating all kind of food in the world? Yes? So, take the trouble and go to Salone del Gusto!!

Salone del Gusto is a really special event where people from many countries display their food products. It is the greatest trade fair on Earth. There, people are able to do everything: from sampling items or taking part in one of the many workshops or activities, to even getting good value for money of what they eat.

This incredible event takes place every year in Turin, Italy, and it was created because of the Slow Food Movement, which defends the food of good quality- the food that takes people time to prepare it and eat it- against junk food.

Don’t mind you forget your belt, you won´t need it…

UK vs. USA

These are the main different words between British English and American Eanglish:

BRITISH ENGLISH                   AMERICAN ENGLISH

AUTUMN                                       FALL
BILL                                               CHECK
BANKNOTE                                  BILL
BISCUIT                                        COOKIE
BOOT                                             TRUNCK
CARAVAN                                    TRAILER
CAR PARK                                    PARKING LOT
CHEMIST'S                                    PHARMACY
FILM                                               MOVIE
FLAT                                              APARTMENT
HOLIDAY                                      VACATION
LIFT                                                ELEVATOR
LORRY                                           TRACK
MOBILE PHONE                           CELL PHONE
PAVEMENT                                   SIDEWALK
PETROL                                         GAS
POLICEMAN                                 COP
POST                                               MAIL
PUB                                                 BAR
PUBLIC TOILET                            REST ROOM
RUBBER                                         ERASER
RUBBISH                                        GARBAGE
SWEET                                            CANDY
TIN                                                   CAN
TORCH                                            FLASHLIGHT
TRAFFIC LIGHTS                          STOP SIGNALS
TROUSERS                                     PANTS
UNDERGROUND                           SUBWAY
WAISTCOAT                                  VEST
WARDROBE                                   CLOSET
ZEBRA CROSSING                        CROSSWALK

OUR WORLD

I guess we should do the following things to reduce the Climate Change:

·   Rolling up the blind instead of switching on the lights.
·   Turning off the gadget we are not using.
·   Turning off the light when we are not using them.
·   Buying ecological fuel for our car.
·   Turning the heating on just when it is necessary.
·   Turning the heating to 21ºC.
·    Practising the three "R".
·    Do not wasting water or foodstuff.
·    Do not using spry deodorants.

GEOGRAPHY? WHAT'S THAT? UNIT 2.

• ACID RAIN:  precipitation that contains a high concentration of pollutants released into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels such as coal or oil.
• CLIMATE CHANGE: natural process by which it produces a large variation in the average temperature of a region.
• DECIDIOUS FOREST:  a kind of large group of trees that lose all their leaves in autumn.
• DEFORESTATION: clearing of trees of a forest usually produced by human activity such as logging or fire.
• DESERT:  an area of land that receives less than 250 mm of rain per year and can be hot, cold or polar.
• DROUGHT: a prolonged period of scanty rainfall.
• EVERGREEN FOREST: a kind of large group of trees that keep all their leaves in every season of the year.
• FLOOD: the inundation of land that is normally dry through the overflowing of a body of water.
• GRASSLAND:  land, such as a prairie, on which grass predominates.
• GREENHOUSE EFFECTS: process by which it produces a raising temperature because of the disappearing of the ozon layer.
• HOLM OAK TREE: an evergreen Mediterranean oak tree, widely planted for ornament.
• HURRICANE: a destructive storm or tropical cyclone.
• JUNGLE: an area with lush vegetation and high rainfall with an equatorial climate.
• LIVESTOCK: domestic animals raised on farms.
• LOGGING: the work of felling trees and transporting the logs for sale.
• MEADOW: an area of grassland.
• OASIS: a small area in a desert with water and vegetation.
• RIPARIAN FOREST: a kind of large group of trees that are close to a river and are water by it.
• PRECIPITATION: a form of water (rain, snow, etc.) that falls to Earth’s surface.
• SANDSTORM: a strong wind that whips up clouds of sand, especially in a desert.
• SAVANNAH: a flat grassland in tropical or subtropical regions.
• SCRUB: low trees or shrubs that grow in areas with little rain.
• SEA LEVEL RISING: increasing of the sea level by melting the Artcic and Andarctic ice-cap due to the action of the climate change.
• SETTLEMENT: a place where people have gone to live and where no or few people lived before.
• STEPPE: a grassy plain usually without trees.
• TAIGA: the forests located in the Earth’s northern regions consisting of evergreen trees.
• TEMPERATURE: the degree of hotness of a body, substance, medium or place.
• TORNADO: a violent storm usually characterized by a dark funnel-shaped cloud causind damage along its path.
• TSUNAMI: a large, often destructive, sea wave produced by a submarine erthquake or volcanic eruption.
• TUNDRA: the vast, treeless area in the Arctic regions with low-growing vegetation such as lichens and mosses.

CURITIBA, A NEW HOPE!

This modest but amazing city in South Brazil is one of the best models to keep track of in terms of environment and ecology. Everywhere you look at is surrounding by trees, grass, green parks and no dirt!

Its downtown has a great ecologist architectural beauty. It has been chosen the Ecological Capital of Brazil and it has won in between fifty prizes on behalf of the most important organizations- it is tested that Curitibian citizens have a better quality of life and, as a result, a longer life expectancy. (All its factories are non-polluting ones. On the other hand, those which are not this way are forced to be built very far from the residential area).

Curitiba also uses a new main of public transport that reduces the 15% more than the habitual ones. In 1990, it created the University of Free Environment for bringing up every student to take care of Earth and promote the recycling.

Finally, in 1991, a new picking up rubbish program began. The icing on the cake! In poor communities, Government buys reusing things and pays people with vegetables and fruits or bus tickets. It means it lets people to wok and get foodstuff. It gives them a chance in life!

ME AND ENVIRONMENT

If mankind has improved so much, why do we still continue sending out smoke signals?

https://voicethread.com/share/5095570/

SPAIN, PHYSICAL AND POLITICAL

Here I post some maps of  Spain, for you all to know the main geographical  features of my country and it´s handing out.

VOCAB, IDIOMS, EXPRESSIONS AND SO ON. UNIT 2

 

• To have a flash of inspiration = to get a sudden idea that helps you to create or achieve what you were hoping to do.
• To be a big fish in a small pond = to be very important or to have a lot of influence in a small area or group.
• To be a cold fish = to do not know to show your feelings or emotions.
• To be lost for words = to be very shocked about sth. so you can’t say any single word. 
• To be packed like sardines = to be in a very crowded space (room, concert, stadium...).
• To be chock a block = to be in a very crowded space (street).
• To be like a duck to water = to feel comfortable and relaxed as you are very good at sth. .
• To blow your own trumpet = to boast about your achievements and abilities.
• To have a bee in your bonet about sth. = to be obssessed with sth. and cannot stop thinking about it.
• To be in someone's genes = to have the same personality traits as your parents, or do a similar job.
• To do not have a hair out of place = to be a charming person or to have a tidy, clean or perfect appearance.
• "If you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" = "If you do sth. for me, I'll do sth. special for you that you're not able to do by yourself".

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• Trash = rubbish.
• Smog = smoke + fog.
• “Per capita” = per person.
• Soil = dirt/ earth.
• Coal = combustible which is formed down in earth as time goes by and normally used for making fire.
• Cattle station = large and limited area where thousands cows/ pigs/ sheep live.
• Cardboard = soft and thin material usually used for making cartons.
• Can = tin.
• Jar = Big glassed container.
• To pass a law = to get the approval of a rule. 
• Landfill = dump.
• Lundromat = large shop plenty of enormous washing machines and dryers where you go to wash dirty chothes.

GEOGRAPHY? WHAT'S THAT? UNIT 1.

• ABYSSAL PLAIN: a flat area of the ocean floor.
• ALTITUDE: the height of a thing above a reference level (sea level).
• ARCHIPELAGO: a group of related islands close together.
• BAY: a smaller gulf.
• CAPE: a headland or promontory. 
• CLIFF: a high, steep or overhanging face of rock.
• COAST: the line or zone where the land meets the sea or some other large expanse of water.
• CONTINENT: the part of the Earth's crust that rises above the oceans and is composed of sialic rocks.
• CONTINENTAL SHELF: the undersea extension of a continent that descends gradually.
• CONTINENTAL SLOPE: a steep underwater area that links the continental shelf with the ocean floor.
• DELTA: the flat alluvial area at the mouth of some rivers where the mainstream splits up into several distributaries.
• EROSION: the group of natural processes by which material is worn away from the earth’s surface.
• EURASIA: the large mass of land that joins Europe and Asia together.
• FAULT: a fracture in the earth's crust resulting in the relative displacement and loss of continuity of the rocks on either side of it.
• FJORD:  an inlet created by glaciations.
• GEOGRAPHICAL FEATURES: the components of the Earth.
• GULF: an area of sea surrounded by land on three sides.
• HEADLAND: a small area of land that projects out into the sea 
• ICEBERG: a large mass of ice floating in the sea 
• INLET: a thin channel of water that leads inland from the sea.
• ISLAND: a piece of land completely surrounded by water.
• ISTHMUS: a thin stretch which connects a peninsula with the land.
• LAGOON: a body of water cut off from the open sea by coral reefs or sand bars.
• MASSIF: a large mountain mass or compact group of connected mountains forming an independent portion of a range.
• MARSH: a low poorly drained land that is sometimes flooded and often lies at the edge of lakes or streams.
• MOUNTAIN: a large landform that is higher than the surrounding land.
• MOUNTAIN RANGE: a continuous chain of mountains.
• OCEANIC RIDGE: an underwater mountain range that generally covers a large area and reaches high altitudes. 
• OCEANIC TRENCH: a long depression on the ocean floor that can be thousands of metres deep.
• PENINSULA: a large scale headland surrounded by water on three sides.
• PLAIN: a large, open, flat or slightly undulating area of land.
• PLATEAU: a flat area of land which sits at a certain altitude above sea level.
• RELIEF: the projection of forms or figures from a flat ground, so that they are partly or wholly free of it.
• RIVER BASIN: an area of land that is drained by a river and that is lower than the surrounding area.
• TRIBUTARY: a stream, river, or glacier that feeds another larger one.
• VALLEY: a linear depression in the land.

MUSTARD AND ITS ORIGINS

Many scientists said that the mustard was invented in the Ancient Rome, mixing grape juice and mustard seeds. They used to have it such as a medicine for making the memory bigger and the mood happier.
Later on, in the Middle Ages, nobility and merchants employed it to make the meat tastier and for dissembling the awful flavor of the fish in bad condition.
Nowadays, in the current society, we use mustard a lot. Above everything, it has an important role in the junk food.

VOCAB, IDIOMS, EXPRESSIONS AND SO ON. UNIT 1.

• To be as easy as a pie = to be very easy. 
• To be pie-eyed = to be very drunk. 
• To have a finger in many pies = to be involved in lots of different activities. 
• To be a bad egg = to be bad or dishonest. 
• To pull all your eggs in one basket = to rely on only one plan. 
• To get egg on your face = to make an embarrassing mistake. 
• To take the bull by the horns = to deal with a difficult situation in a brave and firm way. 
• To keep your head above water = to manage to survive despite not having much money, time or things.
• “Two heads are better than one” = “Two people working together are more likely to solve a problem than one person doing it alone.
• To drop weight = to lose weight.
• To purge = to vomit voluntarily. 
• To do sth. compulsively = to do sth. without thinking and continuously.
• To follow your footsteps = to do the same as you. 
• To be full of beans = to be full of energy. 
• To spill the beans = to tell sb. sth. secret. 
• To have not got a bean = to have not got money.
• To be a hot potato = to be a delicate issue. 
• To be like two peas in a pod = to look like very similar with sb.
• To be not you cup of tea = to do not like much a sport, person, type of music...
• "I wouldn`t do it for all the tea in China" = "I wouldn`t do it once in a blue moon".
• To be as good as a chocolate teapot = to be completely useless.
• To be plenty more fish in the sea = to be other choices in a situation. 
• To be the icing on the cake = to be the last good thing of a plan that makes it totally better. 
• To be just not cricket = to be sth. unfair or dishonest. 
• To toy with sb. = to play with somebody´s feelings seriously. 
• To be a toyboy = to be younger than your girlfriend.
• To be like a ton of bricks = to be very heavy/ to be a really fat person/ to be a great surprise. 
• To fly the nest = to leave your parent´s home for the first time. 
• To have a nest egg = to have an amount of money saved for the future. 
• "I wasn`t born yesterday" = "I know you`re cheating me".
•  To have a whale of a time = to have a lot of fun. 
• To be the size of a whale = to be large and overweight. 
• To be gone bananas = to act in a crazy way. 
• "It`s a case of sour grapes" = "He/ she is pretending not to be impressed by sth. because he/ she feels jealous. 
• To have a second bite of the cherry = to have a second opportunity.
• To lie by omission = to lie by not telling all the truth. 
• To take sth. with a pinch of salt = to be very careful with sth.
• To be the big cheese = to be the most important or powerful person in a group or organization.
• To be chalk and cheese = to be (two people) very different to each other. 
• "A little bird told me" = " I know sth. about you, but I don`t want to reveal who said it to me".
• To be or to have a big mouth = to talk too much, specially about things which should be kept in secret or avoided.
• To be all the colours of the rainbow = to be very colourful. 
• To be sth. chasing rainbow  = to be sth. very difficult and unlikely to achieve it.
• To play with fire = to do sth. which could be dangerous.
• To add fuel to the fire = to make a bad situation even worse.

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• Self-esteem = self-respect/ self-confidence/ amour-propre/ pride. 
• Earl = nobleman/ aristocrat.
• Bland = insipid. 
• Breaking point = the moment of truth in which you normally fall down.
• Term effects = all those bad end results that happen as time goes by.
• To omit = to skip.
• Factual = realistic.
• Mug = vessel/ cup.
• Wheat = grain.
• To ban = to forbid.
• Crop = harvest/ yield.
• Plot of land = smallholding.
• Fortune teller = diviner 
• Tarot reader = mystic person who "guess" your future by a card game.
• GE = genetically engineered
• GM = genetically modified 
• GMO =genetically modified organism 

WELCOME TO MY FIRST BLOG!!

Wow...So, at last!!!...It was driving me mad!! I have been having problems with the e-portfolio since Tuesday morning!! But at the end...here I am!! 

I have never had any blog in my life, so this is something new for me. I recognize I don`t have any idea about how it works and the facts it has. Let me some time to check out and explore the app. I promise you all, it will change as time goes by:  the wallpaper, the topic, and so on. 

Well, I´ll try to do my best in this blog and upload juicy entries, images and videos.  As I was looking forward to it, I`ll take care about it like if it would be my own son. Ha-ha. To sum up, I`ll keep it up-to-date!!

Bye!! I`ll get back soon!! :D