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?

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