VOCABULARY

fun-fair: an amusement park.

regrets: to feel sorrow or remorse for an act.

complaints: an expression of discontent or regret.

pity: a cause or reason for sorrow or regret.

lift: move or bring something upward from the ground.

reach: to get or to get as far as in moving or travelling.

AEROBIC VS ANAEROBIC

When we use our body for practising exercise or even for making the things that we do everyday, we need and energy to be able to have the capacity of actually doing it. For that, our body uses two types of different metabolism to provide the fuel needed to our muscles: AEROBIC and ANAEROBIC. There's some differences between them that we must understand if we want to know how our body works.
 
ANAEROBIC METABOLISM: 

- Is the one we use when a lot of effort is necesary but not for a very long time (short burst of energy); for example, when we go for an sprint.
- What occurs is that our lungs cannot put the amount of oxigen needed into the bloodstream to our body to keep working properly, so our body creates energy through the combustion of carbohydrates in the absence of oxygen.

AEROBIC METABOLISM:

- Other way, anaerobic metabolism is the one we use when we do a longer exercise, which also needs a big amount of enery, but that will be provided little by little during a longer time; for example, when we go running, cycling or walking.
- In this case, our body creates the energy we need by burning carbohydrates, amino acids and fats in the presence of oxygen.



When we practise a sport or we make excercise activities, our body changes from one metabolim to another depending on what it needs in that moment.
Anaerobic metabolism is not as efficent as aerobis metabolism is; but, on other way, the anaerobic one can only use glucose and glycogen, while aerobic can also use fats and protein.

But, after all, our body is able to choose between them and use the one that adapts better to what it needs at that moment, which is completly amazing! This is definitely a very extense and interesting topic with a lot of parts to know about, and in the end, knowing about this also means that we know about our own body.

Reading Vocabulary

During some of our English lessons, we are reading a very interesting book about the witchcraft and witch-hunt in the city of Salem, Massachusetts, during the XVI century.



We've already read six chapters, and we had the opportunity to learn a pretty good amount of new vocabulary.

- Fit: a sudden attack, or manifestation of a disease.
- Cheat: to lie or defraud.
- Come over: to move forward a a particular person or place.
- Trial: the examination before a judicial tribunal of the facts puts in issue in a case.
- Hang: to attach or suspend so as to allow free movement.

Physical Education Project

1. What is the FNP? Explain all its phases and give some examples. 

The FNP (Propioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitation) is a method used to improve in a easy and quickly way the flexibility skills and capacity. This method has got more popular during the last years due to how simple is it.
The FNP emerged as a therapeutic method of muscle rehabilitation in victims of blows and accidents, then was adopted by sports and physical activity, to increase the levels of flexibily on athletes.

It has four different phases:
1.- Massive stretching: (20 seg) Stretching in the way that we must do it properly depending of what type of the body we are working with.
2.- Isometric contraction: (8 seg) We must contract the muscle we are working with. We have to have the help of one partner, so he or she can help us giving us a resistance.
3.- Rest: (3-5 seg) We rela for a few moments before we continue with the exercise.
4.- Massive strectching: (20 seg) We repeat the first phase, but now, we will see a great improvement in our capacity.

Now, we'll see some examples:
 - QUADRICEPS.

 

- HAMSTRINGS.

2. Explain the General Syndrome of adaptation and all its phases.

It was discovered and desarrollated by Hans Seyle, and its consist of observating the human and his different posibilities of respond in cases of stress or danger. 

It says that is the thing that is alterating us is too intense, our body and brain won't be able to adapt to it, but, if that thing is not that much intense, we will be able to adapt and find a solution for the situation. Basically, that our capacity to adapt and asume the new situation will depend on the intensity of whatever is changing our situation or circunstances.

It has three dieffrent phases: Alarm phase, resistance phase, and exhausatation phase.

Example. We can see ourselfs in this situation when we got stuck in an elevator, when we loose our keys or mobile phone, when we get lost in a city that we don't know yet... etc

3. Explain the Thereshold law by Arnold Schult. Ilustratte with a example.

Basically, it talks about de need of a minimun stimulus necesary so there can be a modification on our organism. 

Example: our organism starts getting modificated when we have been practising a sport for a while. If we have just starsted, or we preactise it, for example, once a year; our body won't be changed. 

4. What is the training load and what are its components. Explain and give examples. 

Is a textual feedback on the strenuousness of a single training session. The calculation is based on the consumption of critical energy during exercise. It make diferrent training sessions results comparable.

Its components are volume and intensity, and they must be increasd if we want to improve our skillls or capacity. 

Example: If I play tennis and I want to improve my capacity, I must increase the volume and intensity of my exercises everyday, each one of then a little bit harder that the previous one. 

5. Explain the principles of training according to the classification of Oliver and Zintl.

- OLIVER (1985): three different groups;

· Principles related to the stimulation of physical conditioning.

· Principles related to the systems to witch said stimulus is direted.

· Principles related to the response to said stimulus.

- ZINTL (1991): three diffrent groups again;

· Those who initiate the adaptation.

·Those who guarantee adaptation.

·Those who exercise an specific control of adaptation. 

VOCABULARY

Sensitive: responsive to the feelings of others.
Sensible: having, using or showing a good sense.
Bitter: characterized by hostility.
Dependable: worthy of trust.
Eager: someone who is always ready to do whatever.

IDIOMS

During our bilingual extra hours, we've been learning some different expresions and words that we can use when we're talking in English to improve our level. 
These are some of them.

- Party foul
- Paint the town red
- Blowout
- Social butterfly
- The life of the party
- Wallflower
- Party crusher
- Wet blanket
- Party pooper
- Had a whale of a time

- Aching heart
- Eat one's heart out
- Follow one's heart
- Have a heart of stone
- Heavy heart
- Have a heart of gold
- Bleeding heart

- Couch potatoe

New course update 

We´ve started the new and last year on the highschool. Once more, I'll be using my blog to put together all the works and projects from my different biligual subjects.
Let's begin!