sábado, 25 de enero de 2014

Glossary Unit 4 (English)


Mohawk: It’s a type of hairstyle.
Let down: To disappoint.
Stilettos: High and thing high heels.
Hence: Therefore.
Survey: Questioner.
Bum-bag: A small bag worn on a belt, round the waist.
Cuisine: Food.
Fashion stakes: World of fashion.
Sloppy-joes: Tracksuit pants.


EXPRESSIONS
1. To ask for the moon means to make unreasonable demands for things or to wish something impossible to achieve or to obtain.
2. When you hold the fort it means that you take care of a place when the person normally in change is away.
3. Under the table: is a phrase used to describe secretive behaviour often suggesting corruption or illegality.
4. To horse around means to behave in a silly way making noise and causin distruption.
5. When you say someone has chickened out of something you mean they have failed to do something or they haven't tried to do it because they were afraid.
6. when you say someone is a wise old owl you mean they are very experienced in life.
7. A night owl is someone who stays up late into the night.
8. When you say someone is in safe hands you mean they are being cared for someone who is confident and skilled.
9. A safe pair of hands is a similar expression to refers to someone who can be trusted to do a good job avoiding mistakes.
10. If someone tells you to hold your tongue it means they want you to stop talking because they don't like what you are saying.
11. If a situation is black and white it means you have a clean opinion about it. You can easily see what you think is right and wrong.
12. The phrase money doesn't grow on trees means you must not spend too much money as there is limited amount of it.
13. The phrase money is no object means that you have a lot of money available to spend.
14. Let the chips fall where they may means to allow things to happen no matter what the consequences are.
15. When you say something is as cheap as chips you mean is very cheap.
16. If you are chasing your tail you are busy doing a lot of different things but not achieving very much.

Glossary Unit 4 (Social Sciences)

Free movement- Legal permission for goods, capital, services, or workers to leave one country and enter another country without extra taxes, legal documents, official limits, etc.
Common market - A group of countries that have a formal agreement for trading among themselves and how they trade with countries outside the group.
Monetary union- Two or more countries with a single currency, or different currencies having a fixed mutual exchange rate monitored and controlled by one central bank.
Cohesion- Tendency to unite.
Treaty - A formal agreement or contract between two or more states, such as an alliance or trade arrangement.
Heterogeneity - The quality or state of being heterogeneous.
Homogeneous- Composed of unrelated or differing parts or elements.
Outsourcing- To work to another company.
Fragmentation - A piece broken off or detached.
Development - The act or process of growing or progression. 
Budget - An itemized summary of expected income and expenditure of a country or company
Citizenship - The condition or status of a citizen, with its rights and duties.
Duty - A task or action that a person is bound to perform for moral or legal reasons
Funds - Money that is readily available.
Investment - The purchase of goods that are not consumed today but are used in the future to create wealth.
Subsidy -A financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, for reasons of public welfare, the balance of payments, etc.
Skeptical- Not convinced that something is true.
Surplus - A quantity or amount in excess of what is required.
Seafaring- The act of travelling by sea.
Outskirts - Outlying or bordering areas,districts,etc.
Profitable - Affording gain, benefit, or profit.
Highway- A public road that all may use.
Motorway - A main road for fast-moving traffic.
Hierarchy - A system of persons or things arranged in a graded order.
GDP - Gross Domestic Product. is the market value of all officially recognized final goods and services produced within a country in a year, or other given period of time.
CAP - Common Agricultural Policy. The system in the European Union for setting prices for farm products and limits on the amounts that can be produced, and for organizing various payments to farmers.
CFP – Common Fisheries Policy.Set of rules for managing European fishing fleets and for conserving fish stocks.

A cover magazine :)

Hi guys!
This is the cover magazine that I created with Lucía about hair dye.
Hope you like it. Xx

martes, 7 de enero de 2014