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 

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