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Glossary of social sciences units 9 and 10

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

 -Exports: goods or services that are sold outside the countrie

 -Imports: goods or services that are brought into a country

 -Balance of trade: the difference between the monetary value of the exports and the imports of a country. -Balance of payments: all monetary transactions betweencountries

 -Retail:  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

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Recycling

Curituba-Brazil

The mayor of Curitiba has astrict vision of recyvling. First Jaime Lerner , the mayor, builds parks insted of canals and use sheep too cut the grass and other important change in the travel is that if you give rubbish in the stations and you get a bonobus, in Curitiba you can see that many people go in public-transport because it is very cheap

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Physical education glossary

-winger.A player stationed in one side
-double dribble. when a player catch the ball with the ands and bound it again
-six metre line . The diving line between the goalkeepers and the players
-speed up. increment your heart rate 
-withstands. means that you suport something pyshically
-freethrows. when someone in the other team have a fault you can htrow a freethrow
-overhall. in general
-listen up. listen carefully 
-full back. a defensive position
-eneable.make possible

Take the bull by the horns : to deal with a difficult situation in a brave and firm way.

*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.

*Honest: means when a person dont lie and say always the true 

*As easy as a pie : if something is very easy.

*Pie-eyed : if someone is very drunk.

*Have a finger in many pies : to be involved in lots of different activities.

*A bad egg : if someone bad or dishonest.

*Pull all your eggs in one basket : to have only one option or plan.

*He/She get egg on your face : if someone make an embarrassing mistake.

*Drop weight : to lose weight.

*Purge :to make your self vomit

*Follow your footsteps : to do the same as you.

*Be full of beans : to be full of energy.

*Spill the beans : to tell someone, something secret.

*Have not got a bean : to have not got money.

*Be a hot potato : to be a delicate issue and people can,t agree

*Be like two peas in a pod : two people that are very similar

 *He/She gone bananas : to act in a crazy way.

Take the bull by the horns : to deal with a difficult situation in a brave and firm way.

*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.

*Honest: means when a person dont lie and say always the true 

*As easy as a pie : if something is very easy.

*Pie-eyed : if someone is very drunk.

*Have a finger in many pies : to be involved in lots of different activities.

*A bad egg : if someone bad or dishonest.

*Pull all your eggs in one basket : to have only one option or plan.

*He/She get egg on your face : if someone make an embarrassing mistake.

*Drop weight : to lose weight.

*Purge :to make your self vomit

*Follow your footsteps : to do the same as you.

*Be full of beans : to be full of energy.

*Spill the beans : to tell someone, something secret.

*Have not got a bean : to have not got money.

*Be a hot potato : to be a delicate issue and people can,t agree

*Be like two peas in a pod : two people that are very similar

*Its 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.

*As good as a chocolate teapot : to be completely useless.

*Plenty more fish in the sea : to be other choices in a situation.

*The icing on the cake : to be the last good thing of a plan that makes it totally better.

 *He/She gone bananas : to act in a crazy way.

*A second bite of the cherry : to have a second oportunity

*Its a case of sugar grapes: If somebody pretends not to be inpressed by something because he/she feels jelous we use this expression

* Plenty more fish in the sea : to be other choices in a situation.

 *the icing on the cake : to be the last good thing of a plan that makes it totally better.

*Just not cricket : to do something unfair or dishonest.

*Toy with : to play with somebody´s feelings seriously.

*A toyboy : to be younger than your girlfriend.

*Like a ton of bricks : to be very heavy.

*Fly the nest : to leave your parent´s home for the first time.

*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.

*Have a whale of a time : to have a lot of fun while doing something

*To be the size of a whale : to be large and overweight.

*To lie by omission : to lie by not telling all the truth.

*Take somethingbwith a pinch of salt : to be very careful with something.

*The big cheese : to be the most important or powerful person in a group or organization.

*Thalk and cheese : that two persons are very different to each other.

*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.

*All the colours of the rainbow : to be very colourful.

*Play with fire : to do something which could be dangerous.

*Add fuel to the fire : to make a bad situation even worse.

*A big fish in a small pond:mean that someone is very important in a small group

*Cold fish:that someone is unfrendly

*Paket like sardines:To describe people that is in  very crowded space 

*Like a duck to water : it means that you discover when you start doing somethin that yo

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