IDIOMS

-To ask for the moon means to make unreasonable demands for things or to wish something impossible to achieve or to obtain.

-When you hold the fort it means that you take care of a place when the person normally in charge is away.

-Under the table is a phrase used to describe secretive behavior often suggesting corruption or illegality.

-To horse around means to behave in a silly way making noise and causing disruption.

-When you say someone has chicken out of something, you mean they have failed to do something or they haven’t tried to do it because they were afraid.

-When you say someone is a wise old owl you mean they are very experienced in life.

- A night owl is someone who stays up late into the night.

-When toy say someone is in safe hands you means they are being cared for someone who is confident and skilled.

-A safe pair of hands is a similar expression it refers to someone who can be trusted to do a good job avoiding mistakes.

-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.

-If a situation is black and white it means you have a clear opinion about it you can easily see what you think is right and wrong.

-The phrase money doesn’t grow on trees means you mustn’t spend too much money as there is a limited amount of it.

-The phrase money is no object means that you have a lot of money avaible to spend.

-Let the chips fall there where they may means to allow things to happen no matter what consequences are.

-When you say something is as cheap as chips you mean it’s very cheap.

-If you are chasing your tail you are very busy doing a lot of different things but not achieving very much.

SOCIAL SCIENCE GLOSSARY (UNIT 4 AND 5)

UNIT 4

Common market: a market based on common policies and the free movement of goods, services, people and capital.

Monetary union: the sharing of the same currency between two or more states.

Cohesion: the act of uniting or staying together.

Treaty: a formal agreement between two or more states related to international relations.

Heterogeneity: a thing that consists of dissimilar elements or parts.

Outsourcing: part of a company’s work is sent to another company, sometimes in a different country, because it’s a cheaper or more efficient option.

Fragmentation: when production processes occur in different phases, in different places.

Development: the act or process of growing or making progress.

Budget: a sum of money to be used for a specific purpose by a government.

Funds: the financial resources used by governments or political institutions for a specific purpose.

Investment: the act of using something to achieve a goal.

Subsidy: a type of financing offered by a government.

UNIT 5

Arbitrator: a person chosen to decide a dispute or settle differences. In a constitutional monarchy, the king is the arbitrator between governmental institutions.

Autonomous community: one of 17 institutions that form part of the Spanish territory with its own development government.

Constitutional monarchy: a system of government in which the king is the head of the state but the parliament chooses the government. The government manages the politics of the state.

Councilors: government officials that, together with the mayor, make up the town council.

Crown (the): the part of a constitutional monarchy represented by the king.

Decentralised Government: a system of government in which decision-making is develolved to a local level and is therefore closer to the citizens.

Life expectancy: the number of years a person or population is expected to live.

Ministers: government officials that, together with the president, make up the Spanish cabinet.

Municipality: the most basic administrative body in the Spanish territory. It’s made up of one or several settlements.

Post-industrial society: a society in which the economy has undergone a shift from the production of goods to the provision services.

Province: an administrative body made up of several municipalities in the Spanish territory.

Self-government: a system of government in which a community or region has authority to govern itself without the intervention of any other authority.

Statute of Autonomy: a law describing the institutions, laws and responsibilities for each of the autonomous communities in the Spanish territory.

Subsidiarity: the principle of devolving decisions to the lowest practical level so that services are closer to citizens.

Town Council: the organization that governs each municipality in Spain. It’s made up of the mayor and councilors.

MY IDEAL CITY

Here is my Power Point presentation:

LETTER

Hi family.

We are very excited because you come here to meet us. We have planed a lot of things to do during the time you are going to stay here in Salamanca.

Now we are going to tell you what we are going to do in this week.

The first day we’re going to pick up you at Barajas’s airport at three o’clock. Then we go to our home by bus and then we have free time to meet our families during the rest of the day.

The second day we’re going to do a long walk around the village for you to know it. We could eat at the countryside unless it rains. After that, we are going to visit the Helmántico Stadium and if we have time we will play soccer, do any other activity or whatever you want. At night you are going to have dinner with your families.

The third day at the morning we probably will visit the quarry of the town. You’re going to eat with your families and after having lunch we are going to take the bus to Salamanca to visit Plaza Mayor and we will eat some tapas.

The fourth day after you eat with your families we are going to take the bus to go to Salamanca and visit the religious monuments like the old and new Cathedrals. Then you can go shopping. After that we’re gonna return to Villamayor and you can do what you want in the town with the families.

The fifth day we are going to Salamanca again to play a game that consists on a treasure hunt in different monuments around the city.

The sixth day you could propose us some activities to do.

SOCIAL SCIENCE

Do you think that having a Constitution is important for us?
I think that having a Constitution is important for us because if we don't have it we all don't know our rights and obligations and if we don't know the things we can't do, we probably, for example, can be arrest or have  a citation  of something we have do.