ENGLISH

UNIT 3

AFFORD: to be able to.

BARGAIN: an advantageous purchase.

BE WORTH: cost.

BRAND: Make or version of a product.

WASTE: to consume, spend.

CATCH UP: to seize.

JOIN IN: take part.

MISS OUT: skip.

PICK UP: collect.

TAKE UP: start.

TRY OUT: try.

CUSTOMER: a person who purchases goods or services from another.

FRACTION: a number usually expressed in the form.

HALF-PRICE: it costs the half part of the start price.

SHOP OWNER:  a person that owns a shop.

SPORTS GEAR: sport team.

GEOGRAPHY

AFRICA VIDEO.

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

1. Where in the world is Africa?
2. How many times is Africa larger than The United States?
3. How is the savanna defined in the video?
4. Which animals can be found in the savanna biome?
5. Where is located the chaparral biome in Africa?
6. Which are the most famous deserts in Africa?
7. The main natural resources mentioned in the video are .....

1. Africa is localated in the south of  Europe and in the southwest of Asia.
2. Africa s three times larger than United States.
3. The savanna is a grassy plain which covers nearly half of Africa.
4. In the savanna we can find animals like elephants and giraffes.
5. The chaparral is localated in the norther coast of Africa and in the south of Africa
6. The most famouses  deserts in Africa are the Sahara, Namib and Kalahari.
7. Gold mines,  rubber trees and oil.

FIND THE MISSING WORDS

1.      Africa runs 5 000 miles from the Mediterranean sea all the way down to cape of good hope and 4 600 miles from cape verde all the way over to Somalia.

2.      Biomes are climate zones and throughout that area, throughout that climate zones , you can see the same average temperature and average precipitations what that means is that you also see very similar animals and plants living in that region.

3.      The most famous desert in Africa is, of course, the Sahara desert. Now, some parts of the Sahara desert are sandy, like you can see here. Other parts of the Sahara desert are rocky  but in either case, the fact that it is very dry is going to make it a very difficult period to cross.

4.      It is not the  rain itself that’s particularly important, it’s also the environment diversity. There are many different fauna and vegetaion. That can be found in the rain forest and that’s one of the thing that makes the rain forest so  valuable not just in Africa but throughout the Earth.

5.      The Nile is the most famous river in Africa, because is the longest river in the world. But there is also the congo river which is the  nineth longest river in the world.

6.      Africa actually has its own version of the Great Lakes with famous lakes like Lake Malawi, lake Victoria, lake Kivu  and lake Tanganyika.

7.      All the Africa is a plateau. Meaning that Africa itself is an elevated land. But that doesn’t mean you can’t find any  mountains ranges in Africa. You can find mountain ranges like, for example, the atlas in northwestern Africa.

8.      Africa also has some interesting mountains like Mt. Kilimanjaro , the highest pick in Africa which seems to just rise on it own out of the  ground.

9.      The Great Rift Valley refers to a region of Africa that is  literally, being split apart. There are some tectonics plates that are located within or near Africa, that are, actually, moving away from each other, and what’s doing is creating not just some of the highest elevantions in Africa, but also lakes like tanganiyka that is among the deapest in the world.

POPULATION

VOCABULARY

BIRTH RATE: number of births that take place in a population over a year.
DEATH RATE: number of deaths that take place in a population over a year.
NATURAL INCREASE: crude birth rates minus the crude desth rate. 
INFANT MORTALITY RATE: is the number of deaths of infants under 1 year dividing by the number of births in a year, per 100.
LIFE EXPECTANCY:  is the average years that one person may expect to live.
BIRTH CONTROL: methods of restricting the number of children born.
DEPENDENT POPULATION:  part of the population that does not work and relies on others for the goods and services they consume. 
DEPENDENCY RATIO: measure showing the number of dependents, aged zero to 14 and over the age of 65, to the total population, aged 15 to 64.
FAMILY PLANNING:  is the practice of controlling the number of children in a family and the intervals between their births, particularly by means of artificial contraception or voluntary sterilization. 
POPULATION PIRAMIDS/ AGE-GENDER STRUCTURE: is one way to look at the demographics of a country. .
REPLACEMENT RATE: A replacement rate is the percentage of a worker's pre-retirement income that is paid out by a pension program upon retirement.
FERTILITY RATE: the ratio of live births in an area to the population of that area; expressed per 1000 population per year.
AGEING  POPULATION:  is a phenomenon that occurs when the median age of a country or region rises due to rising life expectancy and declining birth rates.
POPULATION DISTRIBUTION: the arrangement or spread of people living in a given area.
POPULATION DENSITY: is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume.
MEDC: is a sovereign state that has a highly developed economy and advanced technological infrastructure relative to other less industrialized nations..
LEDC: is a nation or sovereign state with a less developed industrial base and a low Human Development Index (HDI) relative to other countries.
OVERPOPULATION: occurs when a species' population exceeds the carrying capacity of its ecological niche.
UNDER POPULATION: can refer to the decline in population of any organism, but this article refers to population decline in humans.

SELF-ASSESSMENT

Now I can speak better, the thing that I liked more are the projects.  My greatest strength is grammar and the weakness is translation and vocabulary. I think I did well grammar and I confused in translation and the definitions about the vocabulary. I think that I need help about translation, we can practice more. Outside class I went to particular class of English, did the homework, projects and put things in the blog. The translation, vocabulary, participate more en class and speak less. I learnt about culture of Aborigean, the live in other countries...

UNIT 2

VOCABULARY

DISAPPOINTING: causig or bringing about disappointment.
DRAMATIC: exciting, with lots of action.
DULL: not interesting, boring.
ENJOYABLE: something that is fund and makes you happy.
ENTERTAINING: affroding entertainment.
HILARIOUS: extremely funny.
INFORMATIVE: giving information; instructive.
ORIGINAL: new and different.
PREDICTABLE: when it´s easy to guess what will happend. 
REALISTIC: based in solmething real.
SPECTACULAR: wonderful to see, watch or look at.
TERRIFYING: causing or bringing terror.
TALENT: a special, often crative skill.
SPECIAL EFFECTS: unusual visual and sound effects.
AUDIENCE: the group of people listening to or viewing a public event.
BOX OFFICE: a office of a cinema... at which tickets are sold.
INCOME: payment for goods or forservices, or from rents or investments.
AWARD: a prize.
BEGINNING: an act of starting.
BESTSELLER: a product that sells very well at a giventime.
CRITIC: a person who writes reviews.
ENDING: the end.
FILM DIRECTOR: a person who tells actors what to do in a film.
HIT: success.
MAIN CHARACTER: the most important person in a film, book...
NOVELIST: a person who writes stories.
PLOT: what happens in a book or film.
REVIEW: a critical article.
SETTING: a place where a book, film... take place.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

• Endurace and flexibility                   
• Basketball

GEOGRAPHY. VALLADOLID

We went to Valladolid the 2 of November. First we went to the main square of Valladolid and we had free time, next we saw a concert of contemporanean music,that I didn´t like too much. Then we had free time to ate. Finally we went to Peñafiel a village of Valladolid and saw the castle and wine museum.
I had a good time.