TO PRACTISE...

Letter to an English family!!

MY IDEAL FUTURE CITY

Hope you like it!! ;D

VOCAB, IDIOMS, EXPRESSIONS AND SO ON. UNIT 5

• To free up = to make sth. available.
• To ask for the moon = to make an unreasonable request/ to wish sth. imposible to achieve or to obtain.
• To hold the fort = to take care of a place when its owner is away.
• To be under the table = to be sth. illegal/ to have sb. a secretive behaviour often suggesting corruption or illegality.
• To horse around = to behave in a silly way making noise and causing disruption.
• To have chickened out of sth.= to have failed to do sth./ to have not tried to do sth. because being afraid.
• To be a wise old owl =to be very experienced in life.
• To be a night owl = to usually  stay up late into night.
• To be in safe hands = to be cared for sb. who is confident and skilled.
• To be a safe pair of hands = to be reliable when doing some work.
• To be sth. black and white = to have sth. advantages and disadvantages.
• To hold the tongue = to stop talking when bothering other person.
• "Money doesn't grow on trees" = "You sholdn't spend too much money as there is a limited amount of it".
• "Money is no object" = "Don't worry, there is much money available to spend".
• "Let the chips fall where they may" = "Let things to happen no matter what the consequences are".
• To be as cheap as chips = to be very cheap.
• To chase your tail = to be very busy doing a lot of different things but not achieving them.

GEOGRAPHY? WHAT'S THAT? UNIT 5

• ARBITRATOR: a person chosen to decide a dispute or settle differences.
• AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITY: one of 17 regions that form part of the Spanish territory with its own devolved government.
• CONSTITUTIONAL MONARCHY: a system of government in which the king is the head of state but the parliament chooses the government.
• COUNCILORS: government officials that, together with the mayor, make up the town council.
• THE CROWN: the part of a constitutional monarchy represented by the king.
• DECENTRALISED GOVERNMENT: a system of government in which decision-making is devolved to a local level and therefore closer to the citizens.
• EXCLUSIVE AUTHORITY: autonomous communities’ power of making and passing laws related to town planning, housing, monuments, health care and education.
• EXTENDED FAMILY: type of family made of grandparents, parents and children.
• LIFE EXPECTANCY: the number of years a person or population is expected to live.
• ILLITERACY: inability to read or write
• MAYOR:  person who governs the town council of a municipality.
• MINISTERS: government officials that, together with the president, make up the Spanish cabinet.
• MOTION OF NO CONFIDENCE: Cortes Generales’ request to the president to resign due to a common disagreement with the government’s politics.
• MUNICIPALITY: the most basic administrative body in the Spanish territory.
• NATIONAL SOVEREIGNITY: other countries’ impossibility of having influence in a country’s laws.
• NUCLEAR FAMILY: type of family made up of parents and children.
• POST-INDUSTRIAL SOCIETY: a society in which the economy is has undergone a shift from production of goods to the provision of services.
• PROVINCE: an administrative body made up of several municipalities in the Spanish territory.
• SAME-SEX MARRIGE: type of family in which both parents are a same-sex couple who have adopted children.
• SELF-GOVERNMENT:  a system of government in which a community or region has authority to govern itself without the intervention of any other authority.
• SHARE AUTHORITY: autonomous communities’ power of developing the laws passed by the Parliament and adapting them to their territory features.
• SINGLE PARENT FAMILY: type of family made up of a mother or a father and children.
• STATUTE OF AUTONOMY: a law describing the institutions, laws and responsibilities for each of the autonomous communities in the Spanish territory.
• SUBSIDIARITY: the principle of devolving decisions to the lowest practical level so that services are closer to the citizens.
• TOWN COUNCIL: the organization that governs each municipality in Spain.
• WELL-BEING: the level of satisfaction of a population as measured by education levels, healthcare, life expectancy and consumption.