sábado, 3 de mayo de 2014

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.

miércoles, 30 de abril de 2014

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.

lunes, 28 de abril de 2014

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.

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.