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.