Monday 31 October 2016

GEOGRAPHY: LANDSCAPE DESCRIPTION

LANDSCAPE

This is landscape located in Kauai (Hawaii) and it's the Waimea Canyon.

Hawaii has an ecosistem unique and specific climate characteristics . The climates that we can find in hawaii are: tropical zones (near the sea) , template zones and alpine zones (top of the mountain and volcanos)
Each island has dessert, tropical rainforest, tundra and template zones.
Temperatures are high all year and it has a very small anual variation in temperature range.
Hwaii has vegetation such as the coconut tree, breadfruit, bananas, mangoes, papayas, all of wich are introduced plants.
It has a few native mamals, the hoary bat, the monk seal ,wild pigs, horses, sheeps and goats.

Wednesday 19 October 2016

UNIT 1 NEW VOCABULARY

Boroughs: districts.

Compulsory: something that is obligatory.

Honest: telling the truth.

Dishonest: the oppposite of honest.

Familiar: something that you know.

Common: usual.

Easy-going: relaxed.

Direct: saying exactly what you mean.

Well-behaved: acting in the correct way.

Fair: appropiate.

Acceptable: something that you can allow.

Stubborn: a persone who always thinks he is right:

Tuesday 11 October 2016

LANDFORMS VOCABULARY

Ravine: barranco

Steep: empinado

Slope: ladera de la montaña

Narrow: estrecho

Wide: ancho

Plateau: meseta

Plains: llanura

Stream: arrollo

Estuary: estuario

Capes: cabos

Cliffs: acantilado

Continetal shelf: plataforma continental

Abyssal plain: floor of the ocean

Trench: fosa marina

Continental slope: talud continental


Monday 10 October 2016

UNIT 1 GEOGRAPHY: VOCABULARY

Dam: pantáno                                                 

Due to: debido a

Make up: to invent something                     

Harvest: cosechar

Anthropic: related to humans                        

Crop: cosechar                      

 Flood: when a lot of water goes into a city        

Earthquake: when the floor starts to move

Population: the people that live in a place






UGLY DUCKLING VOCABULARY

Humble house: a poor house.

Crumbs: things that fall when you eat bread.

Barn: a building where the farmer keeps the grass and the animals.

Off we go: let's go.

Indeed beautiful: extremly beautiful.

Eyes popped out of your head: you open to much your eyes because you are very surprised.

Monday 3 October 2016

NEW EXPRESIONS

Didn't get much sleep: you can't sleep because of something.

Invite someone over: say to a person to go to your house.

Be into something: do something very good because you like it a lot.

Couldn't sleep a wink: you can't sleep because you feel nervous.

UNIT 0 VOCABULARY


-Tool: instrument (herramienta)

-Willingness: you always want to participate

-Threaten: amenazar

-Disrupt: disturb

-Available: obtainable

- Tasks: homework

-Littering: throwing things to the floor

-Complain: when you don't like something

-Apologise: to say sorry

-Lipdub

-Get used to: acostumbrarse

-Jokes: silly things