Glossary-Unit 1

-Pain: aburrido
-Get your butt out: mueve tu culo fuera
-Pedestrian crossing: paso de cebra
-Olive skin-Spain
-Sweden-white
-Africa-blanck
-Hospital-pale skin
-Like sunn- suntanned
-When in Rome, do as the romans do: donde fueres haz lo que vieres
-Bustling:lleno
-Related
-Recline
-Baggage claim
-Save and sound: sanos y salvos
-Taking time off fromwork: vacation
-Board
-Hostel
-Living it up: living well in a place
-Gold rush: fiebre del oro
-Railways
-Silicon valley
-Publi/private
-Roots
-Draught
-Highway
-Hood: short for neighborhood
-Dude
-Alrighty:okay
-What´s up?: What´s going on?
-That burrito is so bomb: bomb means that are very good
-Bro, why you putting me on blast?:  to put someone "on blast" is to call them out in front otrer people
-Sucess: exito
-Reliable: fiable
-Fiew:fiable
-Little: incontable
-cucumber: pepino

Different cultures

-In china is normal eat insects

-In many the finguer up is surly

-Crossings legs is an insult too

-In Buddist countries you can´t touch the head of someone because is sacred

-In Africa the white color is for mourning

Handball

Baseball

Glossary unit 10

-Cereals: Grasses grown for the edible components of their grain, such as rice and wheat.

-Mortgage: A loan to finance the purchase of private residential or commercial property.

-Speculation: Investment in stocks, property of other assets in the hope of gain, but with the risk of loss.

-Crop: A cultivated plant to be harvested as food, animal fodder, fuel or for any other economic purpose.

-Agricultural landscape: A landscape that has been transformed by people to cultivate crops and/or rear livestock.

-Cultural heritage: The things, places and practices that define who we are as individuals, as communities, as nations or cultures.

-Domestic tourism: Tourism in which tourists do not leave their own country.

-Off-peak season: The season when travel is less active and rates are lower.


-Large-scale tourism: Travel and accommodation offered to large groups at affordable prices by tour operators.

-Tour operators: A company that combines tour and travel components to cater for large-scale tourism.

-High-speed rail: A type of rail transport involving high-speed trains.

-Peak season: The season when travel is most active and rates are highest.


-Recession: A business cycle contraction; a general slowdown in economic activity.

Glossary unit 9

-Freight: goods or produce 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

Unit 8

-Mecanización: Dotar a algo con la maquinaria.

-Minería: El acto, proceso, o de la industria de extracción de carbón, minerales, etc de la tierra.

-Minerales: Cualquiera de una clase de sustancias de origen natural inorgánicos sólidos con una forma cristalina característica y una composición química homogénea.

fósiles combustibles: un depósito de hidrocarburos derivado de la materia de una época geológica anterior vivía y se utiliza como combustible.

-Industria: la actividad económica organizada dedicada a la fabricación, la extracción y transformación de materias primas, o la construcción.

La agricultura de regadío-: La agricultura basada en la distribución artificial y la aplicación de agua a las tierras de cultivo para iniciar y mantener el crecimiento de las plantas.

-Energía: Una fuente de poder.

-Biomasa: El número total de organismos vivos en un área determinada, expresado en términos de vida o el peso seco por unidad de área.

-Gestión: Los miembros del ejecutivo o la administración de una organización o empresa.

-Fuerza de Trabajo: El número total de trabajadores empleados por una empresa en un trabajo, proyecto específico, etc

-Turbina de viento:  Es un motor rotatorio que extrae energía del flujo de viento .

-El panel solar: Un grupo de células solares conectadas.

-Energías renovables: Cualquier tipo de energía que es incansable.  

-No renovable de energía: Cualquier tipo de energía que puede ser terminado.  

Tradicional energía: Energía que se ha utilizado desde la antigüedad se conoce como la energía convencional o tradicional.

-Energía alternativa: Una forma de energía derivada de fuentes naturales, como el sol, el viento, las mareas o las olas.

-Madre: Una barrera de hormigón, tierra, etc, construida a través de un río para crear un cuerpo de agua para una central hidroeléctrica, el suministro de agua para uso doméstico, etc

-Alianza: Una asociación de hombres que comparten los mismos intereses.

-Heavy industria: se refiere a un tipo de negocio que normalmente lleva un alto costo de capital, altas barreras de entrada y baja transportabilidad.

-Light industria: Una sección de la industria secundaria de una economía caracterizada por menos operaciones de trabajo intensivo de capital intensivo y más.

-De vanguardia industrias: Se refiere a los dispositivos tecnológicos, las técnicas o los logros que emplean la más actualizada y de alto nivel.

-Artesano: Una persona que practica un arte con gran maestría.