SELF-ASSESMENT- THIRD TERM

This year is almost finished, and I have learn a lot in all the subjects.

In English I think I've improved during the year. I learnt new ways to express myself better and I feel very greatfull. Also games with Clarissa were very useful to learn expressions that I didn't know before. I like the dynamis of the classes and how Cristina taught us.

In Geography, at the beginning it was a bit difficult because it was the first time that we gave that subject in English but during the year Teresa helped us with the explanations and that has served me. thank you very much!

In P.E we have practised many sports and  we have learnt several topics about first aid, flexibility, endurance. Also I have enjoyed in all the classes. 

Thank you all for this year!! 

3rd TERM PROJECT- BENICASSIM

OUR DESTINATION IS NEVER A PLACE, BUT A NEW WAY TO SEE THINGS

BENICASSIM
Come here!!

TERTIARY SECTOR VOCABULARY

Customs union: a group of states that agree to havethe same takes an imported goods
Superstores: very large supermarkets or shops selling household goods.
Tour operator: person who organizes trips or tours
Retail: is the activity of selling goods to the public
Motorway:

Imports: are products bought from another country
Bulky goods: Mercancías voluminosas
Freight: refers to the movement of goods by trains,ships..
Seasonal
Dual carriageways: is one of the two sides of a dual carriageways
Wholesale: is the activity of buying and selling goods
Cruise:

SELF-ASSESSMENT- Second Term

This term I think that I improve in vocabulary about crimes and criminals and also my level of grammar but I have to improve my translation.

In Clarissa’s class I enjoyed a lot and also I learnt new things.

In geography I’ve learnt many types of government, the political system in Spain…that are topics that I like to treat. Now I know how to describe agricultural landscape and more vocabulary of economic sector. I learnt about Sri lanka in my project, for me It has been interesting but on the other hand it has been a bit long.

Outside the English class I heard songs, sometimes I watched films with subtitles

In physical education I have learnt some topics of how to do acrosport

In conclusion I’m happy with all the subjects 

ECONOMIC SECTORS VOCABULARY

FISHING PRODUCTION

Hake: Merluza
Sardine: Sardina
Whiting: Pescadilla
Anchovy: Anchoa
Tuna: Atún
Trout: Trucha
Carp: Carpa                                   
Turbot: Rodabayo
Herring: Arrenque
Oysters: Ostras
Clams: Almejas
Cod: Bacalao

Mussels: Mejillones                                   
Shrimp: Camaron
Prawn: Gamba
Lobster: Langostas
Seaweed: Algas
Sole: Lenguado

 Sea bass: Lubina

Sea bream: Besugo

AGRICULTURE
Wheat: Trigo
Barley: Cebada
Millet: Mijo
Chickpeas: Garbanzos
Soybeans: Soja
Sisal: Sisal
Hemp: Cáñamo
Avocado: Aguacate

ECONOMY VOCABULARY

Economic activity: is what is carried out by humans in order to acquire goods that satisfy consumer needs.

Economic goods: are products and services generated by economic activity.

-Products: goods which are obtained directly from nature or which are turned into something.

-Services: activities carried out by humans to benefit society.

Factors of production: the resources that are required for the generation of economic goods.

Land: the environmental resource.

Rent: is the amount money that you have to pay to use a piece of land

Labor: mental and physical efforts of people applied to the production of goods and services.

Wages: are the amount of money that is regularly paid to them for the work that they do

Capital: is the money, buildings, and machinery and equipment used to produce goods and services.

Interest: is extra money that you receive if you have invested a sum of money

Entrepreneurship: is the risk-taking resource.

Profit motive: possibility of making money.

Economic agents: those elements that have a role in converting the factors of production into goods and services.

Primary sector: activities involved in obtaining resources directly from raw materials, including agriculture, livestock, fishing, forestry and mining.

Secondary sector: activities involved in converting raw materials into manufactured products (industry) or building houses and infrastructure.

Tertiary sector: activities that provide services for example: education, trade, tourism..

Economic system: the way a country organizes, produces. Distributes and administers its material and human resources and the economic goods that these generate, in order to provide for high level of well-being.

Market economy: companies buy and sell products and services freely

Planned economy: the state controls all the factors of production.

Subsistence economy: based on production for self-consumption

Price: is the amount of money that you have to pay in order to buy it

Natural resources: thing a person or country has that can be used or economic benefit.

Supply: the amount of a product that producers offer for sale at a specified price

Demand: the amount of a product or service that consumers purchase at a specified price

Consumer: person who uses goods or services.

Profit: difference between what it cost to make something or provide service what it is sold for.

Agricultural landscape

I choose this agricultural landscape from Asia

It's very expensive plot and also it can be:

•  A polyculture farming system because there are more than one crop within the same cultivation system.
• An open field beacause there isn't any boundaries.
• An intensive agriculture because there is a lot of plot and that requires the use of machinery.
• These can be palm or tea crops because they don't need to be irrigated.

Sri lanka's proyect

-This proyect about Sri lanka was made by Ana and Patricia

http://prezi.com/trwriqixqcxr/?utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=copy

AFRICA'S VIDEO ACTIVITIES

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 located in South of Europe and in Southwest of Asia
2. Africa is three times larger than The United States.
3. The savanna biome is defined in the video as a grassy plain which covers nearly half of Africa. The savanna characterized by scattered trees among a landscape of grasses and shrubs.
4. The most common animals that can be found there are elephants and giraffes.
5. The chaparral biome is located at northern coast of Africa and along the Mediterranean coast and in south of Africa.
6. The most famous deserts in Africa are the Sahara desert, the Namib Desert and the Kalahari Desert.
7. Oil, gold mines and rubber trees.

                                                   FIND THE MISSING WORDS

1.Africa runs 5 000 miles from the Mediterranean sea all the way down to the 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 region, you can see the same average temperature and average precipitation what that means is that you also see very similar plants and animals 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 barrier to cross.

4. It is not the rain itself that’s particularly important, it’s also the biodiversity There are many different plants and animals species 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 river 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 ninth longest river in the world.

6. Africa actually has its own version of the great lakes with famous lakes like Lake Malawi, Lake Victoria and Lake Tanganyika as well.

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 in Africa. You can find mountain ranges like, for example, the Atlas Mountains in northwestern Africa.

8. Africa also has some interesting mountains like mountain Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa which seems to just rise on its 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 elevations in Africa, but also lakes like Lake Tanganyika that is among the deepest in the world.

GEOGRAPHY: VOCABULARY UNIT 3

KEY WORDS AND TERMS

Population: is a group of people who live in a territory or a place at a particular moment in time.

birth rate: number of births that take place in a population over a year per 1000 inhabitants that occur during a year in a particular place.

death rate: number of deaths that take place in a population over a year per 1000 inhabitants that occur during a year in a particular place.

natural increase: is the difference between births and deaths, and it is expressed as a percentage. This percentage shows if a population is growing, stable or decreasing in size, as well as the rate at which it does so.

infant mortality rate: Is the number of deaths of infants under 1 year

life expectancy: describes how long a person may live in years. It’s an indicator of a country’s quality of life and, as with many other indicators, there are great differences between the situations in different countries.

dependency ratio: it´s a age-population ratio ofthose typically not in the labor force

family planning: people who decide to have a x number of children.

population piramids/age-gender structures: is one way to look at the demographics of a country. Demographics are population characteristics, such as age, gender, race, religion, or language. A population pyramid looks at only age and gender. It is constructed to show how many people in a particular age group are male of female. This is done using a horizontal bar graph. The result is a clear picture of how a country's population breaks down according to gender and age, and where the most people occur according to those two pieces of information.

fertility rate: Is the number of live births by the number of women ages 15-49 in a given year per 1000.

ageing population: the percentage of a worker's retirement income that is paid out by a pension program.

population distribution and population density:the world’s population is distributed very unevenly across the globe. There are certain regions which are truly barren and others which are extremely populated and which have very densely populated areas.

MEDC:more economically developed country (rich countries)

 LEDC:less economically developed country (poor countries)

A JOURNEY TO VALLADOLID

On Wednesdy 2nd of November we went to a school trip in Valladolid. First we went to the centre and we had free time. Later we went to Miguel Delibes cultural centre,in which we listened a contemporary music. When the concert finished we had lunch. Later we took the bus and we went to visit the wine museum and the castle of peñafiel in which we had a travel guide. After that ,we had a little lunch. Finally we returned to Villamayor.
My opinion about this school trip is that it was a good experience, we learned how it sounds the comtemporary music and we were delighted with that amazing place so we had a great time!!

GEOGRAPHY: DESCRIBING A LANDSCAPE

• Sahara Desert

      The Sahara is the world’s largest hot desert and one of the harshest environments on the planet. It        is the largest desert in the world

• Description 

  At 3.6 million square miles (9.4 million square kilometers), the Sahara, which engulfs most of        North Africa. The desert covers large sections of Algeria, Chad, Egypt, Libya, Mali, Mauritania,    Morocco, Niger, Western Sahara, Sudan and Tunisia.

The Sahara is bordered by the Atlantic Ocean on the western edge, the Atlas Mountains and the Mediterranean Sea to the north, the Red Sea on the east, and the Sudan and the valley of the Niger River on the south. The Sahara is divided into western Sahara, the central Hoggar (Ahaggar) Mountains, the Tibesti Mountains, the Air Mountains, an area of desert mountains and high plateaus, Ténéré desert and the Libyan desert, which is the most arid region. 

• Climate of Sahara

The Sahara’s northeasterly winds can reach hurricane level and often give rise to sand storms and dust devils. Half of the Sahara receives less than an inch of rain per year, and the rest receives up to 4 inches (10 centimeters) per year. The infrequent rain is usually torrential.The temperature variation is high because it has a cold nights and hot days. Due to this kind of climate in the sahara the landscape is mainly desertic with big dunes and few trees.

• Flora

Due to the dry condition, the Sahara contains almost no flora.  From the Mediterranean vegetation which covered the Sahara mountains before they became a desert. Plants were adapted to the climate to reduce evaporation and increase water absorption: very small leaves, very long roots which can reach the most humid, water accumulation in the tissues and leaves covered with wax (succulent).

      Red Acacia Tree 

                                                                          Doum palm

• Fauna

Animals have also created some strategies to preserve water and avoid hot weather: thick skin and underground life like the scorpions and insects, recuperation of water steam in pulmonary air by condensing it in nostrils, production of drained faeces and concentrated urine for some birds, loss of sudoriferous glands,  clear colored skin to reflect the sun, search for water and food at night, accumulation of water in internal pockets, increase of internal temperature to avoid perspiration…

Camel

Dromedary


Adax


Fenéc fox

                                                 

GEOGRAPHY VOCABULARY

VEGETATION:

Oak

                                                                             Beeches

Thickets

Heather

Meadows

Cork oak

Taiga forest: type of forest made up of
 ever green tree like firs 

Firs

Tundra

Birches

                                                                                        


                                                                                      

                                                                                        

GEOGRAPHY VOCABULARY

FAUNA:

Seal


Fallow deer


Stork


Vulture


Marten



Mink


Chamois


Marmot

GEOGRAPHY VOCABULARY

Land and coastal relief

PLATEAU: is a large area of high and fairly flat land

RAVINE: small canyon (barranco)

ESTUARY: is the wide part of a river where it joins the sea

BASIN: an area of land containing a river or a lake thst is lower that the surrounding area (depression)

PENINSULA: a piece of land surrounded by water on all the side except one

ISLANDS: a piece of land completely by water. A group of islands called ARCHIPELAGO

CLIFFS: is a high area of land with very steep side, especially one next to the sea

BUTTES: hill or mound (cerro)

MESAS: is a large hill with a flat top and steep sides

CREEKS: small stream

FLOOD PLAIN: (llanuras de inundación)

BUTTE

ESTUARY

                                                                                                                                              

                 

                            

                                                                                                                                          

RAVINE

                                                                                                       

UNIT 1 GEOGRAPHY: VOCABULARY

RAINFOREST: is a thick forest of tall trees which is found in tropical areas

WILD PIG: animal (jabalí)

COAST: land by the sea

MOUNTAIN RANGE: group of mountains

HILL: colina

OASIS: is small area in a desert where water and plants are found

EARTHQUAKE: is a shaking of the ground caused by movement of the earth´s crust

POPULATION: is all the people who live in a country

RAINFALL: measure of rain (precipitación)

STREAMS: riachuelo

DAM: pantano

DUE TO: debido a