-ED AND -ING ADJECTIVES

GRAMMAR UNITS 3 AND 4

UNIT 3: PHRASAL VERBS

Join in: participate

Catch up: reach someone who is in front of you

Try out: test something to see how good it is

Picked up: learn a new skill by chance

Taken up: start a new hobby

Miss out: lose an oppotunity to do something enjoyable


Fill up: be empty

Queue up : wait in a queue to do something

Set up: build something

Turn up: appear suddenly in a place

Wash up: clean the dishes after eating

VOCABULARY UNIT 3: SHOPPING

Shopping online: when you buy somethng throughout the computer.

Saving money: keep money because you want to buy something.

Brands: types of shops or clothes (Ralph lauren, lacoste, chanel..)

Worth: its good to buy it because you are gonna use it a lot.

Sales: when the shops have cheaper prizes.

Discount: pay less for something.

Bargain: someting that was really expensive and you could buy it really cheap.

Afford: you have enough money to pay it.

Borrow: take something from someone.

Lend: give something to someone.

Waste: spend your money in something that you aren't going to use.

NEW PROJECT

Hi, we are Alba and Lucía from 3ºA and this is our project of Jamaica


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POLITICAL ORGANISATION VOCABULARY

State: is a political unit with a supreme authority over a territory and its inhabitants.

Nation: a group of people who share common costums, origins, history and languaje.

Country: a territory distingued by its people, colture, language, geography, etc.

Inhabitant: a person or animal that is permanent resident of a particular place.

Citizens: a resident of a city or a town, especially one entitled to vote and enjoy other privileges there.

Worldwide: applying or extending throughout the world; universal.

Civil servants: goverment workers; usually hired on the basis of the competitive examinations.

Taxes: money you have to pay to the government so that it can pay for public services.

Border: the line that divides two countries or areas.

Law: the whole system of rules that everyone in a country or society must obey.

VIDEO OF AFRICA: ACTIVITIES

ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS

1. Where in the world is Africa?

Africa is a continent located south Europe and southwest  Asia .

2. How many times is Africa larger than The United States?

Africa it’s three times the size of the United States.

3. How is the savanna defined in the video?

The savanna is the wild  open grasslands of Africa.

4. Which animals can be found in the savanna biome?

The animals that can be found in the savanna biome are giraffes and elephants

5. Where is located the chaparral biome in Africa?

The chaparral biome is located in the northern coast  of Africa along the mediterranean coast and also it can be found in South Africa.

6. Which are the most famous deserts in Africa?

The most famous deserts are the Sahara desert, the Namib  desert and the Kalahari desert.

7. The main natural resources mentioned in the video are ....

Gold mines, oil and rubber tres.

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  the 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 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 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   That can be found in the rainforest   and that’s one of the thing that makes the rain forest so  variable 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  second 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 .

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 in northwestern Africa.

8.      Africa also has some interesting mountains like  Kilimajaro  mountain , the highest  peak 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  tectonic 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  Tanganyika that is among the  deepest in the world.