Madrid has recently mentioned that it has plans to create a LOW-EMISSION zone in the city centre and would ban all cars from polluting the city. The suggested TOLL is similar to the ones implemented in other European coutries such as London, Milan and Germany – called the CONGESTION CHARGE.If this gets the GO-AHEAD then only certain cars that achieve the Euro lll emission standards or higher would be allowed in the city centre and the rest would have to pay.
German cities require Euro lV and Diesel Particulate Filters for vehicles – this is a strict ENFORCEMENT.
Residents in the city would be EXEMPT from these measures - as they are in London, because they live in the city centre and therefore would not be expected to pay.
However if this goes ahead it would have a major impact on daily commuters and business deliveries and could reduce revenue activity and SCARE people from coming into the city.
What do you think of this issue?
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March 2012
250 EXTRA hours of daylight a year?
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VVpFc9xERdY
This month we ‘Spring Forward’ and move the clocks on by one hour to move into Summertime. In the UK MP’s are deliberating whether to permanently move the clocks forward by one hour to continuously keep the same time.
By putting the clocks forward, (Spring Forward or Fall B...
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Did you know that children today find it much easier to use an iPhone than to tie their shoelaces? A report shows today that as many as 45 per cent of children in the UK aged between five and 13 cannot tie their shoelaces but 67 per cent know how to use their iPhones and DVD players.
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P4 - tag questions
Use: Tag questions are used to verify if a statement is true or not. Something we use them in a sarcastic tone to make a strong point.
Tag Questions:...
P4 - Modals (could) for expressing ability, request, permission, possibility
subject + could + main verb
Can you use modal verb?
Use - Could does not change
Remember: Could cannot be used with to
I could to swi...
P2 - expressing future actions with "to be going to"
We use 'will' and 'be going to' to express future actions but what is the difference?
Future tense - things that are going to happen
Two ways to talk about the future:
Will - Tomorrow I will eat a sandwich
To be going to - I am going to eat pasta...
P2 - exclamations
Please Help Me!
What a lovely day!
Don't do that!
That's amazing!
Exclamations are often used outside of formal writing to express strong feelings such as, surprise, joy, anger.
It is used at the end of the sentence instead of a full stop. Exclamations ofte...
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The history of the English language series concludes with this final video that shows how English has now spread around the world and is spoken by over 1.5 billion people. It's interesting to note that only 1/4 of these people are native English speakers. So there's no reason to not learn English!...
St. Patrick's Day - Don't make a parade out it!!!!
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y07at1bU89Q
Many people around the world celebrate St Patrick's Day on the March 17th
He is the most commonly recognised Patron saint of Ireland and commemorates Christianity being introduced to this Emerald Isle.
However - St Patrick was not Irish; he was from Wales and therefore Welsh. He used t...
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Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson recently challenged the way we educate our children and made a profound case stating that schools undermine rather than nurture.
He feels that ‘‘we are educating people out of their creativity,'' and that children today are ignored and stigmatized....