Geology!

Hey, Ivana! Maybe you know this website, but it looked really interesting. I thought I'd share it with you.

Types of Forces

Explanation for laypeople, once more :)

Tacoma Narrows Bridge

Here are some interesting videos I found related to the unit we're working on.





And this is a great website with information and vocabulary about bridges for laypeople like me :)

OSHA website

Last class we were talking about occupational safety. I believe you're going to enjoy this link, where you have a lot of info and vocabulary on PPE.


 

Saying Dates

I came across this really interesting blogpost about the way we say the years in English. This has been a rather difficult topic after the year 2000 and I think this post is pretty clear on the subject.
Hope you find it as interesting as I did.
Click here to read the post.

Risk vs. Hazard (thanks Gerónimo!)

Last class we were talking about their differences and Gerónimo did an excellent job explaining this in terms a layperson can understand.

Hazard is the potential to cause harm; Risk, on the other hand, is the likelihood of harm (it means, the probability of future harm).
A good example to differentiate Hazard and Risk is the regasification ship that came to the petrochemical pole in Bahia Blanca last year. Some people thought that the presence of the ship near the city posed a high RISK to health. It wasn't this way. The presence of the ship represented a HAZARD or DANGER because it has stored inside an explosive gas in large quantities. The population was not at risk because the probability of an explosion happening was very low, or what is called an Acceptable Risk which is a relative term and depends on the control of the hazard to reduce the risk.

Chemistry Lab Vocabulary

As they say in English: "Better late than never".
Sorry for the delay, but I had some technical issues with my printer and I couldn't use the scanner.
Here you have the images with the vocabulary. Hope you find them useful. Click on the image to expand it.

Last class...

I believe we learned a lot of new vocabulary. I was wondering if you were going to remember all of it, so I tried to put the most important words together. Here they are: