miércoles, 26 de marzo de 2014

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.

jueves, 20 de marzo de 2014

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.

martes, 18 de marzo de 2014

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.