Merry christmas

It's christmas time and it's the time when all the family meet. Many people eat as much as they all all the typical food of this season. Here I let you a song that is called 3000 miles and is from Emblem3, a good band (when they composed the song, they were 3 but actually they are only 2)
 It's about how you miss your home, it's feels like if you are like 3000 miles away, feels like is forever.
Enjoy the song, the holidays, the family, the presents and try to have positive hopes for the year that is coming!

!!!!!!!!

I read this: 

''Plastic in our oceans might not present the immediate danger to humanity that toxic waste or fracking does, but the problem has officially reached terrifying proportions. An alarming new study released Wednesday reveals that the ocean is cluttered with 270,000 tons of plastic that is broken up to more than five trillion pieces.

And it's having a lethal effect on the world's oceans.''

I won't say anymore, we have to take the bulls by the horns to change this, and it has to be fast!

Let's read and watch a film!

'The Fault in Our Stars' Or TFIOS is one of the best books and films that I ever read or watch. It's about Hazel Grace and Augustus Water, two teenagers in love but with cancer. The story tells who the can pass the problems but, will they have a happy ending? Discover it!

(I liked more the book than the film, but just because I love books and if you want to know all the story, with more details, just read it. Don't be afraid of read a book, they have many things to tell us!)

*The main song that is in the film is ''All of the stars'' from Ed Sheeran, he has an amazing voice and the song is really really good*

Here is the trailer.

Natural disaster project

Here I leave the project that we made during the last month about a storm and a tornado in Ohio! It was so funny and so interesting, hope you enjoy it!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LMfI2-Fsh_k&feature=youtu.be

Glossary Unit II-III

-Ash: Gray or black powdery matter that reminds after burning.

.Bruise: an injury due to bruising.

-Warm (about or off)

-Aid: to provide support or to relief.

-Shelter: something beneath, behind, or within which one is protected, as from storms, cold, danger...

-Burglar: one who commits burglary

-Murder: the unlawful killing of a person.

-Sway: to swing or move from side to side.

-Sheller: the protective calcareous or membranous outer layer of an egg.

-Flood: a great flowing or overflowing of water.

-Damn: slang, potentionally offensive (hated)
-Slang: very unformal speech
-Trust: have confidence in
-Hostage: person taken prisioner
-Fear: be afraid of
-Tied: informal, figurative
-Stain: a mark, blot, spot.
-Loaded: carrying or having a load

Do They Know It’s Christmas?

I just wanted to upload a video about how many famous people met in a studio for recorded a song for all the people that have ebola, especially the children, They just sang 'Do they know it's christmas?'' Bands like one direction or singers like Ed Sheeran or Sam Smith has collaborated. It's for a good thing so if you can, buy the song. You can download on ITunes now!

Disasters

            Natural disasters                                                                         Mand-made disasters

1. Earthquake                                                                                 Oil Spill
2. Volcanic eruption                                                                       Pollution
3. Tsunami                                                                                     Fires
4. Hurricane                                                                                  Acid rain
5. Tornado                                                                                    Global warming
6. Storms                                                                                       Deforestation
7. Asteroids
8. Lightning
9. Floods
10. Landslides
11. Sand Storm
12. Droughts

Spooky story

London in the moonlight is something that many people have to see. But it changes when is the night of Halloween, every 31th of October.
One day, I was returning to my home (Okay, it was not a normal day, it was halloween) When I crossed a corner, in front of me appeared a new house. It was new in the neighborhood, I'm sure of it. The house looked old and in ruins, but I didn't mind and I continued walking. I was near my house when I heard a female scream, I took a look behind me but I only saw shadows and foggy. I walked faster but suddenly I heard another mysterious sound. That gave me the creeps. I heard steps and whispers. A cold wind surrounded me and I saw like a ghost. I took a look again to the house and I understood that it was haunted. I was nervous and I started running. Another shriek. And another. And another one...but it was louder.

I entered in a alley, sh*t. I was lost. 
Someone said me ''you look as if you've seen a ghost'' but it was what I saw.

That's my story. what's yours?

Glossary Unit I

-Scare the living daylights out of: make someone scared
-Gave up the ghost: stopped working
-Scared stiff: very white, pale
-As if you've seen a ghost: you look scared
-Scaredy-cat: coward
-Gives me the creeps: uncomfortable
-Come back to haunt you: be a mistake
-A ghost town:deserted
-Hood: short of neighborhood
-Pale: very white
-Dude: You
-Alrightly: Okay
-What's up?: What's going on? How are you?
-That's hecka cool!: hecka would mean the same as very
-Yo, let's bail!: Yo is short of you, it means you leave
-That burrito is so bomb:that burrito is very good
-Bro, why you putting me on blast?: to embarrass someone in public
-Give away: you give away things that you don't need
-Give up: something that you stop doing
-Give out: you give out something, several people will get it
-Give back: something that doesn't belong to you
-Give in: you admit that you cannot do something
-Get around: Travel
-Get on: to mount
-Get off: to dismount
-Get ahead: advance
-Get back: To return
-On time: puntually
-In time: eventually
-Meet: to come together
-Know: to recognize (be familiar with...)
-Bustting: crowded
-Sightseeing: tourist attraction

New York or London, that's the question

I really love New York, but I really love London at the same time. But I have to choose only one so I'll choose the American one: New York.

I have chosen this because it's like a city of dreams. I mean, is a big city in which you'll find many things to buy and to do. There are many cultures and a lot of different religions, and you can learn many things.

I want to discover the rich part of the city and I want to see the famous neighborhood called ''The Bronx'' I want to eat in Chinatown and I'd like to be at the top of the Empire State holding a camera.

I would like to take a video about the thousands of people that daily go to the big apple and drink coffee in a Starbucks. I just want to discover why many people fall in love with New York. Because like Frank Sinatra said in his song called ''New York'': I wanna wake up in a city that doesn't sleep...

And that's what I want.

Different cultures

Hello mates!
We started a new year with an interesting activity about the differences cultures around the world.
Here's the link of a page about the different forms of celebrate christmas.
Hope you like it and see you on Monday!

http://www.whychristmas.com/cultures/spain.shtml

Volleyball

General warm up:

First of all you will run for one minute. In the race you can include some exercises like swimming.

Then you will stretch from bottom to top. This means that you will start from the ankles and you will end with the fingers.

The first step is to make circles with the ankles, 30 seconds per ankle. Then you continue up and stop the knees. You put them together and, as with the other exercise, you make circles. First to one side and then to the other side.

The third step is doing the same but with the waist and with the wrists. And then you move your fingers.

These are called articular movements.

In terms of muscular exercises, you will start stretching your calves. You put your foot behind the other.

Then you cross your legs and put one hand on your knee.

And you will continue by stretching  your arms and shoulders.

These ones are muscular streching and articular movements.

Then it’s the time for playing! (Specific warm up)

In pairs you will take a ball and start with the exercises. They consist of passing the ball doing the different types of hits, trying to combine different hits and not always doing the same hit. It will be perfect if, while you are doing this, you and your partner try to move along  the court. After 10-15 minutes doing this, you will make groups of 4 and, with a net, you will play two against two (remember that you must use the hits)

For the cool down, you will do the same as you did in the general warm up.

Geography (Unit X)

-Cereals: Grasses grown for the edible components to their grain.
-Mortgage: A loan to finance the purchase of private residential or commercial property.
-Speculation: Investment in stocks, property or other assets in the hope of gain, but with the risk of loss.
-Crop: A cultvated plant to be harvested as food, animal fodder, fuel or for any other economic purpose.
-Cultural heritage: The things, places and practices that define who we are as individuals.
-Domestic tourism: Tourism in which tourists do not leave their own country.
-Large-scale tourism:  Travel and accommodatio offered to large groups at affordable prices by tour operators.
-Tour operators: A company that combines tour and travel components to cater for large-scale tourism.
-High-speed rail: A type of rai transport involving high-speed trains.
-Recession: A business cycle contractio a general slowdown in economic activity.

Geography (Unit IX)

-Freight: Goods or produce transported by ship, aricraft, train, lorry or van.
-Flow: the movement of goods or money.
-Exports: goods or services that are sold outside the country where they are produced.
-Imports: goods or services that are brought into a country from abroad for sale.
-Balance of trade: the difference between the monetary value of the exports and the imports of a country.
-Retail: A type of trade in which businesses, such as shops, sell small quantities of goods directly to consumers.
-Wholesale: Trade in which buyers purchase large quantities of goods and sell them, in smalles quantities, to other companies. Individual consumers do not have access to these markets.
-Trade bloc: A group of coutries that join together to form an area with special trade regulations.
-Transport network: The connection of roads, railway lines, ports or airports that facilitate the transport of goods and/or people.
-Market: The meeting of buyers and sellers of goods and services. Markets can be tangible or abstract.
-Infrastructure: The basic physical and organisational structures needed for an economy to function.
-Trade: The buying and selling of goods to meet the needs of the population.
-Tourism: A sector dedicated to travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.
-Public services: Services that cover the basic needs of the population and contribute to its well-being, such as education and healthcare.
-Private services: Services that are offered and managed by private companies.

Madrid!

Glossary

-To be on the right track you are doing or thinking something in a way which could lead you a good outcome.
-To be on fire the same as to be on the right track, in spanish could mean 'estar en racha'
-If you say you are as busy as a bee or called yourself a busy bee it means you are very busy.
-To go under the knife it means to have an operation.
-If someone is two-faced, it means they say nice things about someone to their faces, but say bad things about them behind their back.
-To feel blue menas to feel bad.
-A grey area is a topic with no clear solutions often because there are no known rules or because it's hard to decided what is right or wrong.
-Shades of grey it's the same as a grey area.
-Pie in the sky to talk about something good that we would like to happen but which is unlikely to.
-In English if someone wastes time trying to create something that has already been made, we say they're reinventing the wheel.

Geography (Unit VIII)

-Mechanisation: The use of machinery in the production process.
-Mining: The process of extracting minerals from the ground.
-Mineral: A naturally occurring solid chemical substance such as bauxite. Most minerals need to be transformed to enable them to be used for manufacturing products.
-Fossil fuels: Fuels that are formed by the decomposition of buried organic material, and exposure to heat ad pressure, producing substances such as coal, oil and gas.
-Industry: Any economic activity that produces a service or transforms raw materials into consumer goods.
-Energy: Power that comes from the utilization of physical or chemical resources to provide light and heat.
-Biomass: Organic material used as a fuel that releases energy when burned.
-Management: The people that run a company and ensure that goods and services of a high enough quality are produced and sold at competitive prices.
-Workforce:  The employees required to produce goods and services.
-Wind turbine: A device that converts kinetic energy from the wind into mechanical energy to drive machinery or generate electricity.
-Solar panel: is a set of solar photovoltaic electrically connected and mounted on a supporting structure.
.Renewable energy: is generally defined as energy that comes from resources which are naturally replenished on a human timescale.
-Non-renewable energy: is a resource that does not renew itself at a sufficient rate for sustainable economic extraction in meaningful human-frames.
-Traditional energy: Refers to the energy sources that are most commonly used, such as oil.
-Alternative energy: refers to sources that are still being developed, such as solar energy.
-Dam: is a barrier that impounds water or underground streams.
-Guild: is an association of artisans or merchants who control the practice of their craft in a particular town.
-Heavy indsutry: It can mean production of products which are either heavy in weight or in the processes leading to their production.
-Ligh industry: is usually less capital intensive than heavy industry, and is more consumer-oriented than business-oriented.
-Craftperson: A person who makes products using basic tools and manual labour.

Microphone

This invention was created by Emilie Berliner in 1876. It was made because some chemists wanted to discover how to make a lauder sound and for record. In 1964, James West and Gerhard Sessler invented one of this, but it was more confortable and not too heavy. Today, this machine is used in many situations like in concerts or in parties. There are many types of it.

Modern times

Badminton

You must run for two or three minutes. After this small warm up you strech:
1.Strech your neck in both directions, right and left.
2.Your shoulders. Point your elbow upwards, with your hand behind your head and strech. Do it with both shoulders.
3.The posterior part of the shoulders. Hold you arm horizontally across the front of your body. With the other hand pull it. Do it with both sides.
4.Quadriceps strech. Support yourself with one hand while standing one leg. To increase the strech, pull the foot higher behind the body.
5.The fingers strech. Hold out you arm with the palm facing down. Drop the fingers and palm at the wrist. Repeat with the other hand.
Hold out your arm with the palm facing down. Grab your fingers with the other hand and pull them back and towards the body. Repeat with the other hand.

Mad about mobiles!

I did this comic because sometimes, when we are in the street (for instance) and we are surrounded by friends...suddenly we fall with our mobile phone in our hands and we are more worried about if this tool works or if it is broken than if we have any hurts.

Geography (Unit VII)

-Plot: An area of land where crops are grown. 
-Soil: The subtance on the surface of the Earth in which plants grow, produced mainly by the weathering of rock.
-Crop rotation: The practice of growing different types of crops in the same area in sequential seasons.
-Extensive agriculture: An agricultural system that uses small inputs of labour, fertilisers, and capital, relative to the area of land that is being farmed.
-Dryland farming: Farming in which the fields receive only rainwater.
-Irrigated farming: Farming in which the water from groundwater, reservoirs or rivers is brought to fields.
-Polycultures: The land is divided up into small plots and farmers grow a variety of crops.
-Monocultures: Farmers grow a single crop.
-Subsistence agriculture: A type of agriculture in which farmers only grow enough food to feed themselves and their families.
-Livestock farming: Farming bassed on rearing animals to obtain products.
-Housed livestock: Livestock fed with fodder in farm buildings.
-Rear: To care for, breed and grow animals until maturity.
-Fishing ground: An area of water that is used for fishing.

Geography (Unit VI)

-Economic activity: The different processes involved in the production and consumption of goods and services.

-Economic agent: A person, group or institution involved in the economy.

-Goods: Tangible economic proudcts, such as food, that are usually consumed after production.

-Services: Economic activities, such as banking or education, that are intangible.

-Production: An activity that provides goods and services for consumption. The production of goods combines natural resources, skills, financial investment and labour.

-Distribution: The use of a product or service to satisfy needs or desires.

-Marketing: The act of researching, promoting and advertising a product or service in order to sell it.

-Consumption: A business that producess or markets the goods and services that reach the market.

-Supply: Availability of something for use or sale.

-Demand: The desire to own something in the market and the willingness to pay for it.

-Inflation: A rise in the general level of prices of goods and services in the economy or a decrease in value of the purchasing power of money.

-Profit: The monetary gain of a bussiness after all expenses have been met.

-Tax: A monetary contribution to the government required of people, groups, or businesses.

-Raw material: Is the basic material from which goods, finished products, or intermediate materials are manufactured or made.

-Employer: A person or a business that employs workers.

-Employee: An individual who works part-time or full-time under a contract of employment.

-Active population: It refers to all the people who can work.

-Inactive population: It refers to all the people who can't work.

My ideal city

Fair trade

http://luciavilloria1.edu.glogster.com/fair-trade

Email

 Hello Simpson family!

We are so excited to receive you in our town. We can do a lot of things this week, so here there're some of them.

You land  in Spain on Monday and we are going to receive you at the airport. One thing that you must kno is that we'll have some posters with your names.

After that we will eat in an italian Restaurant that is located at the airport's social plant. Then all of us are gonna come to Villamayor, and you are going to see your house.

We think that if all of that happens after these 'welcome plans' it will be around 6 o'clock pm. If yoy wanted we would show you town and the main places.

On Tuesday in the morning, we are going to visit Salamanca and all of the important places like the University in which you will search the frog...you are going to understand it later on.

In the afternoon we are going to the Tormes, that is a shopping centre where you can buy clothes or whatever you want, and we could see a film.

On Wednesday we are going to visit our high school, you'll see how we work and you are going to stay in one class for one hour. After lunch we will go to the river to ride the bikes and in this way you are going to see the nature that is around our town.

On Thursday is here and a bus is waiting for us! This is a speacial day, we are gonna go to Valladolid. Here you can visit Janeiro's Shopping centre. This is one of the biggest places for shopping that we've ever seen. You will go to shops like H&M or the Primark (You have it in London too)

On Friday you are gonna have a free day. We will do whatever you want, if you prefer stay at home to sleep, we'll do it. If you want to walk around Salamanca with us, we can do it. It means that on Friday you are leader.

 On Saturday we are going with you to the airport and you take the plane at 4pm.

SEE YOU SOON Xx.

Glossary (Unit V)

-To ask for the moon: To make unreasonable demands for things or to wish something impossible to achieve or to obtain.
-When you hold the fort: It means that you take care of a place when the person normally in change is away.
-Under the table: Is a phrase used to describe secretive behaviour often suggesting corruption or illegality,
-To horse around: Means to behave is a silly way making noise and causing disruption.
-When you say someone has chickened out of something, you mean 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 is someone who stays up late into the night.
-When you say someone is in safe hand you mean they are being cared for someone who is confident and skilled.
-A safe pour of hands is a similar expression, it refers to someone who can be trusted to do a good job avoiding mistakes.
-If someone tell you to hold your tangue it means they want you to stop talking because they don't like what you are saying.
-If a situation is black and white it means you have a clear opinion about it. You can easly see wha you think is right or wrong.
-The phrase money doesn't grow on trees means you must not spend too much money as there ir a limited amount of it.
-The phrase money is no object means that you have a lot of money avaible 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's very cheap.
-If you are chasing your tail you are very busy doing a lot of different things but no achieving very much.

Geography (Unit V)

-Constitutional monarchy: A system of government in which the king is the head of state but the parliament chooses the government.
-The crown: The part of a constitutional monarchy represented by the king.
-Arbitrator: A person chosen to decide a dispute or settle differences. In a constitutional monarchy, the king is the arbitrator between governmental institutions.
Decentralised government: A system of government in which decision-making is devolved to a local level and is therefore closer to the citizens.
-Ministers: Government officials that, together with the president, make up the Spanish cabinet.
-Municipality: The most basic administrative body in the Spanish territory. It's made up of one or sseveral settlements.
-Town council: The organisation that governs each municipality in Spain.
-Counciliors: Government official that, together with the mayor, make up the town council.
-Province: An administrative body made up of several municipalities in the Spanish territory.
-Self-government: A system of government in which a community or region has authority to govern itself without the intervention of any other authority.
-Statute of Autonomy: A law describing the institutions, laws and responsabilities 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 citizens.
-Autonomous community: One of 17 regions that form part of the Spanish territory with its own devolved government.
-Post-industrial society: A society in which the economy has undergone a shift from the production of goods to the provision of services.
-Well-being: The level of satisfaction of a population as measured by education levels, health care, life expectancy and consumption.
-Life expectancy: The number of years a person or population is expected to live.

Answer

I think that to have a constitution is very important for us and our country. Without it maybe we wouldn't know our rights or something like that. And we have to know where are the limits in the society and we cand do it with the laws.
It's important to understand how is the goverment or how it works...or something like this. http://www.constitucionespanola.com/descargas/constitucion-espanola-1987.pdf

Geography (Unit IV)

-Arbitrator: A person chosen to decide a dispute or settle differences. In a constitutional monarchy the king is the arbitrator.

-Branch: Any member or part of a system. The Spanish Constitution divides power into three branches: the legislature, executive and judiciary.

-Councillors: Government officials that, together with the myor, maje up the town council.

Decentralised government: A system of government in which decision-making is devolved to a local level and is therefore closer to the citizens.

-Life expectancy: The number of years a person or population is expected to live.

-Political party: A political organisation that aims to elect its candidates to office. Political parties can be national or regional in Spain.

-Self-governmet: A system of government in which a community or region has authority to govern itself without the intervention of any other authority.

-Subsidiarity: The principle of devolving decisions to lowest practical level so that services are closer to citizens.

-Well-being: The level of satisfaction of a population as measured by education levels, health care, life expectancy and consumption.