MAPS OF SPAIN!!!!!!!!

Here there are the maps of spain, the physical and the political.
This maps are for the bilingual class of geography.

PHYSICAL

POLITICAL

GLOSSARY OF UNIT TWO!!!!!!!!

EXPRESSIONS
  
-Lost for words: If you are shock and you can't speak.
-If you have a flash of inspiration: It means that you get a sudden idea that helps you to create or achieve what you were hoping to do.
-A big fish in a small pond: It means that he/she is very important or have a lot of influence but only in a small area or group.
-Cold fish: If someone is unfriendly and doesn't show his/her feelings emotions.
-Packed like sardines: To describe people in a very crowded space.
-Chock a block: For example, the streets are chock a block with cars today, it means the streets are full of cars.
-Like a duck to water: It means that you discover when you start doing a new activity that you are very good at it.
-To pass a law: "Aprobar una ley".
-To blow your own trumpet: If you are boasting about your achievements and your abilities.
-To have a bee in your bonet: If you are obssessed with it and can´t stop thinking about it.
-It´s in someone´s genes: When that person has the same personality traits as their parents, or does a similar job.
-If you scratch my back, I will scratch yours: It means if you do something for me, I will do something for you, especially if it is to do for yourself.
-He does not have a hair out of place: It means their appearence is very tidy or is perfect.


VOCABULARY

-Soil: Where you put a plant.
-Pollution: Contamination.
-Aerosols: "Aerosoles".
-Coal: "Carbón".
-Cattle station: Big farm.
-Methane: "Metano".
-Smog: The mix of smoke and fog.
-Jars: "Jarras".
-Cans: Tins.
-Waste: "Desechos", "restos".
-Laundromat: The place where you put your clothes for cleaning them.
-Ass: Asno.

THE ORIGIN OF THE PIZZA

pizza was invented by egiptians, greeks and romans 3000 years ago.
The firsts pizzas were flat biscuits made of barley and water.
After the fall of the Roman Empire, Germany brought to Rome, bisons, and with the milk of the bisons, they did mozzarella.
And they brought tomatoes of South America.
With mozzarella, tomatoe sauce and flat biscuits, they did similar pizzas as we do actually.

GLOSSARY OF UNIT ONE!!!!!!!!

EXPRESSIONS WITHOUT CATHEGORY

-To take the bull by the horns: Means to deal with a difficult situation in a brave way.
-Two heads are better than one: Means that when two people work together, they are more likely to solve a problem tahn one person doing it alone.
-To keep your head above the water: Means you are just managing to survive despite not having much money.
-Follow in you footsteps: To do exactly what you want, following steps.
-To be in a good mood: To be very happy
-There are plenty more fish in the sea: It means that there are other choices in a situation.
-It's just not cricket: It is used to say that something is unfair or dishonest.
-To toy with (somebody or something): Means not to take someone's feelings seriously.
-A toyboy: Is the younger boyfriend of an older person.
-Like a ton of bricks: It is used to express someting that is very heavy. This espression can be used literrally (to describe heavy weight), or idiomatically (to describe a great surprise or someone that is overwheight)
-To fly the nest: Means to leave your parents' home for the first time to go and live somewhere else.
-I wasn't born yesterday: If someone is telling you a very obvious lie.
-To have a whale of time: Means to have a lot of fun while doing something.
-Size of whale: It is an impolite way of saying someone is large.
-A little bird told me: If you have some some information but you don't want to reveal who told you.
-To be or to have big mouth: It means you talk too much especially about things which should be kept in secret or avoided.
-All the colours of the rainbow: It means it is very colorful.
-Chasing rainbows: Refers to someone who is always looking for something more exciting and rewarding but is unlikely to find it.
-If you are playing with fire: If you are doing something which could be dangerous.
-If you add fuel to the fire: It means you make a bad situation even worse.

FOOD EXPRESSIONS

-Full of beans: Full of energy.
-I haven't got a bean: You don't have money.
-Spill the beans: If you want someone to tell you a secret.
-It's a hot potatoe: If there is a delicate issue and people can't agree.
-They're like two peas in a pod: If two people are very similar.
-It's not my cup of tea: If there's something we don't like much.
-I wouldn't do it for all the tea in China: You never do it, whatever they give you.
-It's as good as a chocolate teapot: If something is completelly useless.
-He's gone bananas: If someone is very emotional and starts shouting and behaving in a crazy way.
-It's a case of sour grapes: If somebody pretends not to be impressed by something because she/he feels jealous.
-A second bite of the cherry: If we try to do something a second time because we failed at first.
-The icing on the cake: It is used to refer to something good which is added to an already good thing or situation.
-A nest egg: Is an amount of money you have saved in the future.
-Take it with a pinch of salt: When you don't know something and you must be careful with it.
-To be a bad egg: To be bad or dishonest.
-To pull all your eggs in one basket: To rely on only one plan.
-To get egg on your face: To make an embarrasing mistake.
-The big cheese: Is the most important or powerful person in a group or organization.
-Chalk and cheese: We use this expression to define two people who are very different to each other.

VOCABULARY

-Pie: Kind of cake.
-Breaking point: The point at which physical, mental, or emotional strength gives way under stress.
-Dropped weight: You lost weight.
-Purging: You make yourself vomit.
-Compulsively: You do an action everytime without thinking of that.
-Long or short term effects: Like secondary effects or like the consecuences after you do something.
-Baking powder: "Levadura".
-Teaspoons: For coffee and tea.
-Tablespoons: For eat soups or things like that.
-Whisk up: "Derramar".
-GE Food: Genetically engineered food.
-GM Food: Genetically modified food.
-GMO Food: Genetically modified organism food.
-Omission: Lying by omission.
-Banned: "Prohibido".
-Crop: "Cultivo".
-Plot of land: "Parcela".
-To chase: To hunt.
-Reward: "Recompensa".

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