GLOSSARY UNIT 1 ENGLISH

-RELATED: Something that is connected or associated with another thing.

-BROCHURE: A small booklet or pamphlet, often containing promotional material or product information.

-BAGGAGE CLAIM: An area in an airport where arriving passengers can collect the luggage that has been carried in the hold of the aircraft.

-CAMPING: A place where tents, huts or other temporary shelters are set up.

-REST STOP: Designated paved area beside a main road where cars can stop temporarily.

-MOBILE HOMES: A large trailer, fitted with parts for connection to utilities, that can be installed on a relatively permanent site and that is used as a residence.

-RECLINE: To lie back or down.

-V.A.T: Value Added Tax, a tax levied on the difference between the cost of materials an the selling price of a commodity or service.

-LUGGAGE: Containers for a traveller's belongings.

-JOURNEY: The act of travelling from one place to another.

-"SAVE AND SOUND": "Sano y salvo".

-TAKING TIME OFF FROM WORK: Stop working temporarily.

-TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS: The things that you do before a journey.

-BOARD: To enter or go aboard in an aircraft, for example.

-BOARDING PASS: A pass that authorizes a passenger to board on an aircraft.

-HOSTEL: A supervised, cheap lodging place for travellers, especially for young travellers.

NEW YORK, WHY IS THE BEST CITY

In my opinion, New York is one of these cities that you have to visit at least once in your life, because it has all the things that you need, and another thing is that you can see an enormous amount of skyscrapers; in each street there can be maybe four of them.

Also, I would like to go to New York because it has, in my opinion, one of the most amazing parks that you can see in a city, and that is Central Park, which has around 3,4 square kilometres of extension! There is other natural place that I would like to visit, that is near New York, and that is the Niagara Falls, which are told to be very large, and which are also one of Nature’s “magic shows”.

One of the most important things that you have to visit in New York is the Liberty Statue, it has to be awesome to see it from the ground, and also to go to the top of it and see all those beautiful views of the sea and the city. Another place that is a mark of New York is Chinatown; I think this site will be, if we go, my favourite, because it’s like to be in China, but being in another continent.

To finish, I would like to go to two of the most important streets in New York, which are Time Square and Wall Street, because both of them has a lot of things to see like all the publicity with light posters in Time Square or the  big statue of a bull in Wall Street.

GLOSSARY UNIT 0 ENGLISH

-COLONIES: All the countries that used to be British colonies.

-NAPOLEON: A French military and political leader who became very powerful during the French Revolution.

-WELSH: Language which is spoken in Wales.

- DEFEAT: The state of being beaten in a battle, competition, election, etc...

-WALES: Is an independent area belonging to England.

-PATTING: Something you tap it or hit it lightly, for example, with your fingers.

-BLOODY FOREIGNER: An expression to say that you don't like people coming from other countries.

-OLIVE SKIN: Darker colour skin tone.

-ZEBRA CROSSING/ PEDESTRIAN CROSSING: A place in which pedestrians can cross a street and where drivers must stop to let them cross.

-PALE: Something that is pale is whitish and not strong or bright in colour.

-SUN TANNED: Coloured by the sun.

-SNIFFING: Draw in air through enough to make a sound, or to introduce something inside the nose.

-"WHEN IN ROME, DO AS THE ROMANS DO": "A donde fueres, haz lo que vieres".

-THE BEE GEES: A music group from Wales.

-PECK: When you take only a small amount of food.

CULTURAL DIFFERENCES

Hi everybody! I look forward to a great year and to learning a lot; and hopefully we will be going to New York together.

And now a little bit about cultural differences that I have heard of or read about.

In the world, there are a lot of countries and each of them have their own cultural traditions, so I'm going to mention some of them:

-In Japan, you must eat with chopsticks, not like in other countries in which you eat with fork, spoon, knife...  Also, you mustn't wear shoes inside the house; doing that is considered rude, and when you are going to eat, you sit directly on the floor, you haven't got chairs in many traditional homes.

-In the United States, if you say or write that the Global Warming doesn't exist, and the police catch you, you go directly to jail.

-In Denmark, at the dinner, the host decide where the people have to sit at the table, and the dinner is also served much earlier, around seven o'clock. The country is very prepared for the use of bicycles, so the cities are generally really "green cities", with no contamination.

GLOSSARY UNIT 10 GEOGRAPHY

-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.

-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 in whichtravel is most active and rates are highest.

-OFF-PEAK SEASON: the season in which travel is less active and rates are lower.

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

GLOSSARY UNIT 9 GEOGRAPHY

-FREIGHT: goods or produce transported by ship, aircraft, train, lorry or van.

-CAPITAL FLOWS: money that is transported 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: 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: a sistem used before the invention of money, involving the exchange of certain goods for others.

-TOURISM: a sector dedicated to travel for recreational, leisure or business purposes.

-INFORMATION SOCIETY: a society in which the creation, distribution, and manipulation of information has become the most important economic and cultural activity.

-PUBLIC SERVICES: services that cover basic need of population.

-PRIVATE SERVICES: services that offer personalised services to companies.

TRAINING FOR SPEED (CORRECTION)

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