Language Activities
Electronics
Electronics
Vocabulary
Vocabulary
Association Game
Translation Flip Card
Contextual Clues
Other Language and Cultural Notes
Business Related Modules
Philippine Economics
Philippine Government
The Rebel Coins
DID YOU KNOW…
…that even before the establishment of formal
banking in the Philippine Islands during Spanish times, there was
already an abundance of Mexican and other
Latin American coins circulating in the Philippines?
.
…that such abundance of coins was a result of
heavy importation of goods from Mexico?
.
…that most of these were so-called "rebel
coins" because they were minted in countries that had rebelled
against Spain?
.
…that in order to legalize the circulation of
these coins, the Spanish captain-general in the Philippines issued a
decree in 1828 requiring the countermarking of
the coins with the inscription "MANILA" on the obverse side?
.
…that when the independent Latin American
countries gained the recognition of Spain, the practice of countermarking
was discontinued in the Philippine Islands
starting in 1837?
- air conditioner - aircon
- alarm clock - orasang alarm
- alternating current - alternating current
- amperage - amperahe
- amplifier - amplifier
- amplitude - amplitude
- artifact - artipakto
- battery - baterya
- beam - sinag
- binary code - kodigong binary
- blender, liquifier - blender
- to broadcast - isahimpapawid
- cable - kable
- camera - kamera
- cassette - kaset
- channel - channel
- circuit - sirkto
- coffeemaker - coffee maker
- computer - kompyuter
- condenser - condenser
- conductor - konduktor
- copper - tanso
- curler - pangkulot
- current - current
- detector - detektor
- digital - digital
- direct current - direct current
- dishwasher - panglinis ng pinggan
- dryer - pantuyo
- electric shaver - pang-ahit
- electricity - elektrisidad
- electron - elektron
- electronic - elektroniko
- electrostatic - elektrostatik
- fan - bentilador
- filter - filter
- freezer - freezer
- frequency - frequency
- generator - generator
- hair dryer - pantuyo ng buhok
- high fidelity - high fidelity
- insulator - insulador
- integrated circuit - integrated na sirkito
- iron - plantsa
- liquifier, blender - blender
- microphone - mikropono
- microprocessor - microprocessor
- microwave - microwave
- mixer - tagapanghalo
- modulation - modulasyon
- optic - may kinalaman sa mata
- oscillator - oscillator
- parallel circuit - magkaparis na sirkito
- power - lakas
- receiver - tagatanggap
- record - tala
- to record - itala
- record player - rekord player
- refrigerator - pridyider
- remote control - remote kontrol
- resonance - katunugan
- scanner - taga-scan
- screen - iskrin
- short wave - maikling alon
- silicon - silikon
- sound - tunog
- speaker - ispiker
- stereo - stereo
- stereophonic - stereophonic
- stove - kalan
- tape recorder - tape recorder
- television - telebisyon
- toaster - toaster
- tooth brush - sipilyo
- transformer - transpormer
- tripod - tripod
- turbine - turbine
- typewriter - makinilya
- vacuum - vacuum
- vacuum cleaner - vacuum cleaner
- vector - vector
- videocassette - videocassette
- volt - boltahe
- voltage - boltahe
- washer - panghugas
- watt - watt
- wave - alon
- wire - alambre