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miércoles, 18 de junio de 2014

Glossary Social Science unit 9

Unit 9

Freigh: goods or produce the transported by ship, aircraft, train, lorry 
or van

Capital flows: the money that is moved around the world

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.

Balance of payments: all monetary transactions between a country 
and the world

Retail: a type of trade in which businesses sell small quantities of goods 
directly to consumers.

Wholesale: trade in which buyers purchase large quantities of goods 
and sell them, in smaller quantities, to other companies.

Trade bloc: a group of countries that join together to form an area with 
special trade regulations.

Transport network: the connection of road, 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. It can 
be tangible or abstract and it decides the prices of goods and services

Infrastructure: the basic physical and organizational structures needed 
for an economy to function.

Trade: the buying and selling of goods to meet the needs of the 
population.

Bartering: the first way of trading in history

Tourism: a sector dedicated to travel for recreational, leisure or 
business purposes.

Information society: society in which revolutionary advances an IT 
dominate the economy

Public services: cover basic need of population

Private services: offer personalised services to companies

My project about badminton

BADMINTON
Warm up:
          -General: Firstly, we are going to play the games:
 ‘The best hamburger’ and ‘Gavilan’
Thoose games are perfect to warm up our melabolism and every part of the body.
I will explain them below.
Then we warm up our muscles, triceps, bíceps, cuádriceps... in the rail in the pavilion.
Because if not, we can broke our tendons doing exercice, we cannot practice sport without warm up.
         -Specific: in groups of four we are going to play badminton passing the birdie and saying the names of the people.
Then, we are going to play in pairs with the net, practicing the different passes that exist in badminton
Main part:
We have to play a match four vs four.
We are going to do something similar to a badminton league, everybody in a group, and the team who win the league, is going to have an award.
Cool down:
To finish, we are going to play the game ‘stop’ and walk a little bit, to relax our body and calm down
Hamburger: We divide the class into four groups,each one is going to have a name that is an ingredient to do a hamburger(like cheese, up and down bread, tomato…)  and someone, ( probably the teacher) is going to say how he or she wants the hamburger, everybody have to run to a place and be lay in the correct order on the floor.
Gavilan: is the same as bulldog, anything change



domingo, 4 de mayo de 2014

The mop

The Mop
It was created by Manuel Jalon in 1496 the first ones.
The invent made Manuel Jalon  so popular, and very very rich.
At the beginig they were used to clean boats by the crewmen, and they were very simples.
Then, they started been commun by the people and the invent was wanted by everyone.

It is probably one of the best inventions all over the world

sábado, 22 de marzo de 2014

Glossary social science

Plot: an area of land where crops are grown
Soil:  the top layer of the land surface of the earth that is composed of disintegrated rook particles, humus , water and air
Crop rotation: the practice of growing different types of crops in the same area sequential seasons
Aquaculture: and activity that consist of farming marine animals and plants in pool, ponds aor enclosed areas of the coast
Extensice agriculture: an agricultural system that uses small inputs of labour, fertilizers and capital, relative to the area of land that is being farmed
Dryland farming: farming in which the fieldsreceive only rainwater 
Irrigated farming:  farming in which the field dont receive only rainwater
Livestock farming:  farmed basing on rearing animals to obtain products
Housed livestock: livestock fed with fodder in farm buildings
Fishing ground: an area of water that is used for fishing

Glossary social sience

Economic activity: the different processes involved in the production and consumption of goods and services.
Economic agents: a person, group, or institution involved in the economy.
Goods: tangible economic products that are usually consumed after production
Services: ecoomis activities that are intangible
Production: an activity that provides goods and services for consumption
Distribution: the marketing, delivery and sell of goods and services
Marketing: the act of researching, promoting and adversiting a product or service in order to sell it
Consumption: the use of a product or service to satisfy needs or desires
Supply: availability of something  for use or sell
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 gains of a business after all expenses have been met
Tax: a monetary contribution to the government requiered of people, groups or business
Raw material: material on which a particular manufacturing process is carried out
Employer: a person that emplys workers
Employee: a person who is hired to work for another  or for a business,firm etc  in return for payment