RECYCLING PROJECT

Here is my power point presentation for the recycling project:

TRAVEL PROJECT

My presentation of "Travel Project" for geography:

CURRICULUM VITAE

My curriculum vitae:

GLOSSARY UNIT 4 ENGLISH

-MOHAWK: it's a kind of hair cut.

-CATWALK: the way the models walk in a fashion show.

-CASHIER: the person to whom you pay when you buy in a shop.

-GONE ABROAD: travel to another country to work.

-EARRINGS: a decorative jewel for hanging in the ear.

AMERICAN ENGLISH VS BRITISH ENGLISH

The first column is written in “British English” and the second column in “American English”:

-Aerial = Antenna.

-Anticlockwise = Counterclockwise.

-Aubergine = Eggplant.

-Autumn = Fall.

-Bank holiday = National holiday.

-Bank note = Bill.

-Bill = Check.

-Biscuits = Cookies.

-Bonnet = Hood.

-Cellar = Basement.

-Centre = Center.

-Carrier bag = Shopping bag.

-Caretaker = Janitor.

NELSON MANDELA

I have chosen Nelson Mandela to the social science project, because I think that is a man that has done very important things to help the world.

Here is the poster:

http://elianvs99.edu.glogster.com/nelson-mandela/

GLOSSARY UNIT 1 PHYSICAL EDUCATION

-TO DODGE: to avoid by moving or shifting quickly aside.

-MATS: mats are used for safety in gymnastics, and in training new skills. Landing mats are usually blue, but can also be almost any other color.

-TO KNEEL: kneeling is a human position in which the weight is distributed on the knees and feet on a surface close to horizontal.

-BRIEF: something that don´t takes a lot of time.

-CHASE: to run after someone or somthing.

-BASELINE: the boundary line at either end of a court, as in basketball or tennis.

-DOT LINE: a line that is composed of more than one dot.

-FATTY ACIDS: fatty acids are the building blocks of the fat in our bodies and in the food we eat. During digestion, the body breaks down fats into fatty acids, which can then be absorbed into the blood.

-TO CHEAT: to play in a bad way.

-WALL BARS: bars that are incrusted in the wall, to do things like climb on it.

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF FORESTS

I have chosen the “International Day of Forests” because I think that is an interesting event. 

This event is celebrated on the 21^st of March, and it was created in 2011, so it is a very recent festivity. The activities that you can do on this day include tree planting and other community events, which are different in each place. Also on this day you can take photos or do videos related with the topic of things that you can do to save the planet from the deforestation and things like that.

This event was created by the organization that is called United Nations Forum on Forests and with collaboration of FAO, which means “Food and Agriculture Organization”.

There is an email address of the organization of this event, and you can send an email saying why you want to participate in this event and what things you are going to do to contribute to save the world from the people who destroy the trees.

So if you want to help the world, you only have to respect it and participate in protecting it, so that we have Nature and not a lot of factories everywhere in the future.

10 WAYS TO REDUCE THE CLIMATIC CHANGE

-Take a shower instead of a bath.

-Never leave the lights turned on when you are not in the room.

-Never leave the door open when the heating is on.

-Try always you can to go walking instead of going by car.

-Never leave the water from the tap on, because you spend a lot of water.

-Is better if you water the garden with sprinklers instead a hose.

-Is better to take the bus instead the car.

-Use low consumption bulbs.

-Turn off the TV when you aren´t watching it.

-Buy a hybrid car.

GLOSSARY UNIT 2 GEOGRAPHY

-OASES: a fertile patch in a desert occurring where the water table appoaches o reaches the ground surface.

-LIVESTOCK: cattle, horses, poultry, and similar animals kept for domestic use but not as pets.

-SCRUB: to rub, a surface, hard, with or as if with a brush, soap, and water, in order to clean it.

-LOGGING: the work of felling, trimming, and transporting timber.

-DEFORESTATION: To clear of trees of a determinated zone.

-TAIGA: the coniferous forests extending across much of subartic North America and Eurasia.

-TUNDRA: a vast treeless zone luing between the ice cap and the timberline of North America and Eurasia and having a permanently frozen subsoil.

-JUNGLE: an equatorial forest area with luxuriant vegetation, often almost impenetrable.

-DESERT: a region that is devoid or almost devoid of vegetation, because of low rainfall.

-STEPPE: an expensive grassy plain usually without trees.

-DECIDUOUS FOREST: shedding all leaves annually at the end of the growing season and then having a dormant period without leaves.

-RIPARIAN FOREST: denoting or relating to the legal rights of the owner of land on a river bank,such as fishing or irrigation.

GLOSSARY UNIT 2 ENGLISH

-IF YOU BLOWN YOUR OWN TRUMPET: if you are boasting about your achievements and abilities.

-IF YOU HAVE A BEE IN YOUR BONET: if you are obssessed with something and you can't stop thinking in it.

-IT´S IN SOMEONE´S GENES: when that person has the same personality traits as theirs parents, or does a similar job.

-IF YOU SCRATCH MY BACK, I´LL SCRATCH YOURS: if you do something for me, I'll do something special for you that you're not able to do by yourself.

-TO DO NOT HAVE A HAIR OUT OF PLACE: to be a charming person o to have a tidy an clean appearance.

-LOST FOR WORDS: you are sock of something and you don't know what to say.

-TO HAVE A FLASH OF INSPIRATION: you get a sudden idea that helps you to create or achieve what you were hoping to do.

-TO BE A COLD FISH: if someone is described with this expression it means that he/she is unfriendly and doesn't show her/his feelings or emotions.

-PACKED LIKE SARDINES: to describe people in a very crowded space.

-CHOCK A BLOCK: to describe people in a very crowded situation in the street.

-LIKE A DUCK TO WATER: it means that you discover when you start doing a new activity that you are very good at it.

RECYCLING IN HONG KONG

On the internet, I have found that Hong Kong produces a lot of types of solid rubbish or waste. There are a lot of waste reduction programes. There is a label that is called Wastewise, and this label help Hong Kong bussinesses and organisations to reduce the amount of waste generated in factories. You can also help recycling at home things like domestic waste participating in a program that is called "Sour separation of domestic waste". Doing this kind of things day a day, you can help a lot to reduce rubbish or waste.

GLOSSARY UNIT 1 GEOGRAPHY

-INLET: is a thin channel of water that leads inland from the sea. Inlets created by glaciation are called fjords and are usually found on montainous coastlines.

-HEADLAND: is a small area of land that projects out into the sea.

-PLAIN: is a large, open, flat or slightly undulating area of land. 

-GULF: is an area of sea surrounded by land on three sides. It forms the shape of an arc. A bay is similar but generally smaller.

  

-PENINSULA: is a large scale headland surrounded by water on three sides. A peninsula can be conected to the land by a thins stretch of land called isthmus.

-ISLAND: is a piece of land completately surrounded by water. A group of related islands close together form an archipielago.

-MOUNTAIN: is a large landform that is higher than the surrounding land. A mountain range is a continuous chain of mountains.

-BASIN: is an area of land that is drained by a river or a lake and that is lower than the surrounding area.

-VALLEY: is a linear depression in the land. A river valley is V-shaped due to action of a river running through it. Glacial valleys are U-shaped because they have been formed by a moving glacier.

-PLATEAU: is a flat area of land which sits a certain altitude above sea level.

-OCEANIC RIDGE: is an underwater mountain range that generally covers a large area and reach high altitudes.

-OCEANIC TRENCH: is a long depression on the ocean floor that can be thousand of metres deep.

-CONTINENTAL SHELF: the undersea extension of continent that descends gradually to depths of around 400 m. The shelf might extend for only a few kilometres under the sea, or it may extend for many.

-CONTINENTAL SLOPE: is a steep underwater area that links the continental shelf with the ocean floor.

-ABYSSAL PLAIN: is a flat area of the ocean floor. They are found at depths of between 3000 and 7000 m.

-CLIFF: is a vertical, or near vertical, rock exposure.

THE ORIGIN OF THE CHICKEN FILLET

I have choosen the origin of the chicken fillets because I like them. On the internet I have found that the origin is that a farmer killed a chicken and he didn´t know what to do with all the parts of the chicken that you can eat, so he set some parts of this on a frying pan and he eats these pieces of chicken and they were great, and this is the origin of the chicken fillet.

GLOSSARY UNIT 1 ENGLISH

-TO BE AS EASY AS PIE: if something is very easy.

-TO BE PIE-EYED: if someone is very drunk.

-TO HAVE A FINGER IN MANY PIES: to be involved in lots of different activities.

-TO BE A BAD EGG: if someone bad or dishonest.

-TO PUT ALL YOUR EGGS IN ONE BASKET: to have only one option or plan.

-TO GET EGG ON YOUR FACE: if someone make an embarrassing mistake.

-TO TAKE THE BULL BY THE HORNS: to deal with a difficult situation in a brave and firm way.

-TO KEEP YOUR HEAD ABOVE WATER: to manage to survive not having much money, time or things like that.

-TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE: Two people working together are more likely to solve a problem than one     person doing it alone.

-TO DROPE WEIGHT: to lose weight.

-TO PURGE: to vomit voluntarily. Normally is relationated with people that have anorexia o bullimia.

-TO DO SOMETHING COMPULSIVELY: to do sth. without thinking and continuously.

-TO FOLLOW YOUR FOOTSTEPS: to do the same as you.

-TO BE FULL OF BEANS: to be full of energy.

-TO SPILL THE BEANS: to tell someone, something secret.

-TO HAVE NOT GOT A BEAN: to have not got money.

-TO BE A HOT POTATOE: to be a delicate issue.

-TO BE LIKE TWO BEANS IN A POD: to look like very similar.

-TO BE NOT YOU CUP OF TEA: to do not like much a sport, person, type of music or things like that.

-I WOULDN´T DO IT FOR ALL THE TEA IN CHINA: If you don´t want to do something and you will never do it.

-TO BE AS GOOD AS A CHOCOLATE TEAPOT: to be completely useless.

-TO BE PLENTY MORE FISH IN THE SEA: to be other choices in a situation.

-TO BE THE ICING ON THE CAKE: to be the last good thing of a plan that makes it totally better.

-TO BE JUST NOT CRICKET: to do something unfair or dishonest.

-TO TOY WITH: to play with somebody´s feelings seriously.

-TO BE A TOYBOY: to be younger than your girlfriend.

-TO BE LIKE A TON OF BRICKS: to be very heavy.

-TO FLY THE NEST: to leave your parent´s home for the first time.

-TO HAVE A NEST EGG: to have an amount of money saved for the future.

- I WASN´T BORN YESTERDAY: if someone knows that you are cheating him or her.

-TO HAVE A WHALE OF TIME: to have a lot of fun.

-TO BE THE SIZE OF A WHALE: to be large and overweight.

-TO BE GONE BANANAS: to act in a crazy way.

-TO HAVE A SECOND BITE OF THE CHERRY: to have a second opportunity.

-TO LIE BY OMISSION: to lie by not telling all the truth.

-TO TAKE SOMETHING WITH A PINCH OF SALT: to be very careful with something.

-TO BE THE BIG CHEESE: to be the most important or powerful person in a group or organization.

-TO BE CHALK AND CHEESE: that two persons are very different to each other.

-A LITTLE BIRD TOLD ME: if someone knows something, that you didn´t tell to him or her.

-TO BE OR TO HAVE A BIG MOUTH: to talk too much, specially about things which should be kept in secret or avoided.

-TO BE ALL THE COLOURS OF THE RAINBOW: to be very colourful.

-TO PLAY WITH FIRE: to do something which could be dangerous.

-TO ADD FUEL TO THE FIRE: to make a bad situation even worse.

-IT´S A CASE OF SOUR GRAPES: in English if somebody pretends not to be impressed by something because  he/she feels jealous we use this expression.

WELCOME TO MY BILINGUAL PORTFOLIO!

Hi everybody!

I am Elián and this is my portfolio. I like going out with friends, playing football, riding the bicicle and playing GTA.

I hope that this idea that Ascen has had is more entertaining than the original portfolio, because it was very boring. I think this is going to be more interactive and we will be more free to personalize our portfolio.

Bye!