jueves, 20 de febrero de 2014

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 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.

sábado, 15 de febrero de 2014

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.

martes, 11 de febrero de 2014

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.

martes, 4 de febrero de 2014

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