Thursday, February 25, 2016

25th of February 2016

Hi classmates! It's Fernando
Today in class of Social Sciencess we have continued with the unit of The Industrial Revolution.
Today we have seen the consequences of the Industrial Revolution, which are: development of consumer society, massive exploitation of resources: balance between population and resources broke up, pollution, acceleration of the urbanization precess and cyclical crysis in capitalism: related to lack of prevision and overproduction. 
Today we have been talking about consumer society.
Source:http://www.newsky24.com/the-consumer-society/

Then we have continued with class-based society and we have seen the differences between the middle ages and the industrial revolution.
Source:https://socl120.wordpress.com/category/social-class/
New vocabulary:
consumer society- sociedad de consumo
consumerism- consumismo
unsustainible development- desarrollo no sostenible
global warming- calentamiento global
cyclical crisis- crisis cíclica
vicious circle- circulo vicioso
purchasing power- poder adquisitivo
low cost- de bajo coste
afford- permitirse
employer- empleador
employee- empleado
recession- recesión
put pressure on- presionar
strike- huelga
repercusion- repercusión
class based society- sociedad de clases 





3 comments:

Lucía Villafranca said...

Good work Fernando, be careful with the word vocabulary, you've written "bocabulary". :)

Paqui Pérez Fons said...

Hello,

You journal is too short. You should explain things better, as we did in class: the consequences of the industrial revolutions and the new groups of the class-based society.

And as I have said many times, you have to add the sources of the pictures.

These are the corrections:

Today in class of Social Sciences we have continued with the unit of The Industrial Revolution.
Today we have studied the consequences of the Industrial Revolution, which are: development of consumer society, massive exploitation of resources: balance between population and resources broke up, pollution, acceleration of the urbanization process and cyclical crises in capitalism, related to lack of prevision and overproduction.
Today we have been talking about consumer society.

Then we have continued with class-based society and we have seen the differences between the middle ages and the industrial revolution.

New vocabulary:
unsustainable development- desarrollo no sostenible


Bye.

Fernando Ortiz Monreal said...

Thanks you both for your corrections.