Unit 7: Tertiary Sector

We can prepare this unit with the help of these two presentantions:

1) Tertiary sector I: It follows very well the main contents of this unit

2) Tertiary sector II:  slightly shallower, but very clear and with good geographic cartography

3) Tertiary sector III: In English

VIDEOS:

1) A.V.E. in Spain

2) Necessary and unnecessary infrastructures in Madrid: the empty radiales 

3) Basic historical evolution of the sea transport

4) Ports as links between sea and land transportation

5) Some data about tourism in Spain in 2015

6) Cheap mass-tourism in Spain

Dossier: Cape Town and water supply problems: anthropic action, environment and our world today

On next units, concepts such as anthropic action on the environment, nature, misery, development or unequalieties will become always more and more important. On this sense, we will work on the commentary, under the geographer´s point of view, of two recent news about water supply on Cape Town.

1) Spanish: "Ciudad del Cabo, la agonía de quedarse sin agua", El País, Feb, 12th 2018

2) English: "Why Cape Town is running out of water, and who´s next", National Geographic, March 5th, 2018 

Read both texts and answer these questions:

1- Where Cape Town is? Look for some data about it, in terms of location, population, climate and some History. You can include some drawing or photograph (non less than a page).

2- What is the basically the problem on Cape Town? What are the reasons why the water supply is running out?

3- What is said on the texts, about relationship between enviromental problems and poverty? How could be both of them related? Justify your answer.

4- What is the situation of most of reservoirs and lakes around Cape Town? What other cases in the world are similar to these?

5- Imagine some consecuences of this trouble on a big city, such as Cape Town. Could you guess anything like that on Madrid? Write a fact file (about 10 lines minimum) about a day without water on your life. 

U6: The Secondary sector

We can prepare this unit, focused to the Secondary sector of economy, through these two presentations:

1) Presentation #1: Shorter, a good introduction

2) Presentation #2: Longer

3) Presentation #3: In English 

4) Presentation #4: Secondary sector on Spain

 

VIDEOS:

1) Mining in current Spain  

2) Coltan mining in current Africa 

3) Renewable sources of energy  

4) Fossil fuels  

5) Oil and gas formation

6) The I & II Industrial Revolutions

7) II Industrial Revolution: chain production (Charles Chaplin´s "Modern times")

8) Chinese economic growth

9) The B.R.I.C.S.

10) Detroit: a city in bankrupt

11) Reduction of the Secondary sector in Spain because the crisis 

12) Construction as a problem in Spain 

13) Recovery of construction in Spain

14) Secondary sector in Spain

15) Industrial delocation on Spain  

16) Industrial delocation on Catalonia: political unstability & economical risks

Unit 5: The Primary Sector

We will prepare this unit with the help of the following presentations:

1) Presentation #1: This will be very useful for the class; it is clear, not too long and includes the main contents of this unit 

2) Presentation #2: Also very good, following very much the  contents in our book.  

3) Presentation #3: Primary sector in Spain

4) Agriculture, in English (good for vocabulary) and very similar to our book

5) All primary sector, a summary in English


Extra and supporting contents:


1) You can watch HERE a video about the "Mar de Plástico" en Almería; an excellent example of the innovative and highly technified agriculture

2) Video about hydroponic agriculture in Japan 

3) Video about fish farming and geodesic domes

Unit 4: Economic activities and geographical spaces

This is our first unit focused to Geography this year, we will work with this discipline from here to June. 

We will prepare this unit with the help of THIS PRESENTATION 

Unit 3: The XVIIth Century

AQUÍ tienes una presentación para ayudarnos a preparar el tema de los "Austrias Menores" en el s. XVII

AQUÍ tienes otra, que puedes consultar


In this link you have a good presentation about the Unit 4 from our book, focused to the XVIIth Century in Europe, the Hispanic Monarchy and the colonies. 

Here you are the final scene of the Spanish movie "Alatriste", based upon the novels of Arturo Pérez Reverte. This scene is placed on the Battle of Rocroi (1,643), the first defeat of the Spanish Tercios. This battle decided the sign of the Thirty Years War (1,618-48), when Spain lost the European hegemony in favour of France.  

2/3 of this presentation, after the main contents in demography, economy and politics, are focused about the History of art, with many examples from the Baroque in architecture, sculpture and painting throughout Spain and Europe.  

On the other hand, the previous presentation ignores the English Revolution (actually, at least two different social and political processes) in the XVII th Century. You can learn something about these facts here and here. As usual, all these materials are simple supports to the contents present in our book and explained in the class. 

  

Unit 2: The Spanish Empire

You can prepare this unit with the help of THIS presentation, related with the Spanish Empire under the Catholic Monarchs and the Habsburgs

 1) Presentation 1: The Catholic Monarchs

2) Presentation 2: The Habsburgs

"Rendición de Granada" Óleo sobre lienzo (Francisco Padilla y Ortiz 1882)

"Colón ante los Reyes Católicos" Óleo sobre lienzo (Emmanuel Leutze 1843)