jueves, 29 de noviembre de 2012

Industrial Revolution (2)


1.     What is the industrial capitalism?

2.     What was the most important source of profits under commercial capitalism?

3.     What was the most profitable economic activity under industrial capitalism?

4.     What interests were served by economic liberalism and industrial capitalism?

5.     What were the objectives of economic liberalism and industrial capitalism?

6.     What were the social consequences of economic liberalism and industrial capitalism in the 19th century? Why? What were the effects of state passiveness during the 19th century?

7.     What society model replaced the states system of the Ancien Régime?

8.     The people’s social status in the class society depended on…

9.     Which two social groups appeared with the Industrial Revolution?

10.                       A synonym for proletariat. Definition of proletariat.

11.                       Which three social groups form the class-based society?

12.                       What factors determined the people’s social class?

13.                       Why the class-based society is open?

14.                       What were the upper class characteristics during the 19th century?

15.                       Which groups formed the upper class in 19th century?

16.                       Which groups formed the middle class in 19th century?

17.                       Which groups formed the working class in 19th century?

18.                       How was the Spanish upper class in the 19th century?

19.                       Why did the urban population grow during the Industrial Revolution faster than rural population?

20.                       How was the urban development during the 19th century?

21.                       What were the effects caused by demolition of walls in European cities in the 19th century?

22.                       What new residential areas appeared in the 19th century?

23.                       How were the middle-class neighbourhoods during the 19th century?

24.                       How were the working-class neighbourhoods during the 19th century?

25.                       What benefits did the capitalists obtain with the industrialization?

26.                       Why did the working-class political movements emerge in the 19th century?

27.                       How were the working conditions in factories during the Industrial Revolution?

28.                       What were the causes for working accidents in the 19th century?

29.                       Why did children work during the Industrial Revolution?

30.                        Did the right to strike exist in the 19th century?

31.                       Thinking question, six lines, and three points. What happened to an injured worker during the Industrial Revolution before and after the Factory Acts?

32.                       Why didn’t factory owners like the workers protests?

33.                       Why did some governments ban worker’s associations?

34.                       Who were the Luddites?

35.                       When were the first trade unions founded?

36.                       What were the trade unions? How did they operate?

37.                       When did the Chartists movement appear?

38.                       What did the Chartists demand?

39.                       A synonym for Marxism.

40.                       Who were the Socialism thinkers?

41.                       What were the three main Marxist concepts?

jueves, 22 de noviembre de 2012

Industrial Revolution

    Las mismas instrucciones que para las actividades en castellano. Esto debe estar para el lunes, aunque no se corrija ese día.

1.     Which revolutions took place between 1750 and 1870?

2.     The traditional estates system was ended by the combination of...

3.     Where and when was the Industrial Revolution originated?

4.     Why did living conditions improve in Europe during the 18th century?

5.      Why did the enclosure of agricultural land increase agricultural production?

6.     The Agricultural Revolution produced more food and raw materials thanks to

-      Enclosure of agricultural land

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7.     What were the reasons for increase of domestic trade in Great Britain?

8.     What were trade profits used in Great Britain for?

9.     What was James Watt’s invention? When was it invented?

10.                       Why were capital investments essential to the Industrial Revolution?

11.                       What were the results of the bourgeoisie presence in British governments?

12.                       What were the most important economic areas in the Industrial Revolution?

13.                        Complete the phrase.

In the textile industry the new …………………… and …………………. machines increased …………………. and its consequences were………………………………………………………….

14.                       Explain the division of labour in factories.

15.                       What name did Stephenson’s steam locomotive have?

16.                       What features did the first industrialized countries in 19th century have?

17.                       Were the foreign investments in the 19th century positive for Spanish industrialization? Why or why not?

18.                       What factors explain the slow Spanish industrialization in late 19th century?

19.                       What is economic liberalism?

20.                       Who was the main liberal thinker?

21.                       According to the economic liberalism why should many manufacturers be able to produce the goods that they want?

22.                       According to the economic liberalism theory we can obtain better-quality products and lower prices by…

23.                       Why should the merchants be able to import and to export goods without restrictions according to Mr. Smith?

sábado, 17 de noviembre de 2012

ACTIVIDADES PARA EL MARTES 20 DE NOVIEMBRE

    Para este martes 20 de noviembre hay que traer hechas a clase las siguientes actividades:
    - Las preguntas del tema 6 del libro en inglés 6.THE PRIMARY SECTOR.ACTIVITIES. publicadas el 9 de noviembre.
    - Escribe en orden alfabético las palabras en inglés de la lista que viene a continuación, y escribe su significado en castellano al lado de cada palabra.

12. POPULATION. FULL VOCABULARY.

Actual, presente, de hoy en día
Alojamiento, viviendas
Alojamiento en condiciones inseguras
Amplio, extendido
Anunciar, hacer publicidad
Arrastrar
Asilo de ancianos
Current
Housing
Unsafe shelter
Widespread
To advertise
To pull
Nursing home
Banda
Beca
Gang
Scholarship
Calcular
Característica, rasgo
Centros de día
Chabola
Clima templado, clima suave
Comportamiento xenófobo
Condiciones de vida
Contribuyente
Control de la natalidad
Corriente migratoria, flujo migratorio
Crecimiento demográfico, crecimiento de la población
Crecimiento natural
Crecimiento natural de la población
Crecimiento negativo
Cuota, pago, precio
Cuotas de inmigración
Cuotas para inmigrantes
To estimate
Feature
Day care centres
Slum
Mild climate
Xenophobic behaviour
Living conditions
Taxpayer
Birth control
Migratory flow
Population growth
Natural growth
‘Natural’ population increase
‘Negative growth’
Fee
Immigration quotas 
Quotas for immigrants
Demografía
Densidad de población
Desaceleración
Desempleo
Dictadura
Distribución desigual de los recursos
Demographics
Population density
Slowing down
Unemployment
Dictatorship
Uneven distribution of resources
Economía estancada
Edad laboral o edad de trabajar
Empujar
Enfermedad (una concreta)
Enorme, en gran escala
Enriquecimiento
Entrada, afluencia
Esperanza de vida
Esperanza de vida media
Establecerse, asentarse
Estático
Estímulo religioso/social
Etapa
Experto, cualificado, especializado
Stagnant economy
Working age
To push
Disease
Massive
Enrichment
Influx
Life expectancy
Average life expectancy
To settle
Static
Religious/social encouragement
Stage
Skilled
Fábrica
Fenómenos
Forma de vida, estilo de vida
Fuera, en el extranjero
Fundamentalista, fanático religioso
Factory
Phenomena
‘Way of life’
Abroad
Fundamentalist
Gueto, barrio marginal, judería
Ghetto
Habitante
Hambruna, carestía, escasez
Inhabitant
Famine
Inexperto, no cualificado, no especializado
Información, datos
Inmigrante
Inmigrante ilegal
Unskilled
Data
Immigrant
Ilegal immigrant
La política del gobierno
Leyes de inmigración
Llegada masiva, llegada en masa
Government policy
Immigration laws
Mass arrival
Marginación
Mayor [sustantivo]
Meseta castellana
Migración masiva, migración en masa
Mortalidad infantil
Mortalidad infantil elevada
Movimientos migratorios
Mundialización, “globalización”
Marginalization
Elderly
Castilian plateau
Mass migration
Infant mortality
High infant mortality
Migratory movements
Globalization
Nivel de vida
Standard of living
Obligatorio
Ocio, tiempo libre
Compulsory
Leisure
País de asilo, país de acogida
Patrimonio de la Humanidad, “herencia de la Humanidad”
Población envejecida
Política (de un gobierno)
Política de control de natalidad
Política de planificación
Políticas de planificación familiar
Preocupación
Progresar
Proporción
Asylum country
World heritage
‘Ageing population’
Policy
Birth control policy
Policy planning
Family planning policies
Concern
To get ahead
Ratio
Ralentizar, reducir la velocidad de
Razones ambientales
Realizar, llevar a cabo
Reemplazo de la población
Refugiado
Resumir
To slow down
Enviromental reasons
To implement
Population replacement
Refugee
To summarize
Salario, jornal, sueldo
Salud
Sanidad, higiene
Sociedad de acogida
Superpoblación
Superpoblar
Wage
Healthcare
Sanitation
Host society
Overpopulation
To overpopulate
Tasa bruta de mortalidad
Tasa bruta de natalidad
Tasa de crecimiento demográfico
Tasa de crecimiento natural
Tasa de fecundidad
Tasa de mortalidad
Tasa de mortalidad infantil
Tasa de mortalidad media
Tasa de natalidad
Tasa de natalidad elevada
Tasa de natalidad media
Tasa global de fecundidad
Trabajador doméstico
Crude death rate
Crude birth rate
Population growth rate
Rate of natural increase 
Fertility rate
Death rate
Infant death rate
Average death rate
Birth rate
High birth rate
Average birth rate
Total fertility rate
Domestic
Un gran crecimiento natural de la población
High natural population increase