Bookcase/Bookshelf - Finally put my books on the bookshelf!!!
Bookshop/Bookstore - Where is the nearest bookshop?
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November 2011
Spain election victor Rajoy warns ‘no miracles’
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsUQvKS6x74
Conservatives in Spain are celebrating a landslide victory.
Spain's Popular Party leader Mariano Rajoy has told supporters their country's voice must be respected again, after a resounding election win.
At the end of a campaign dominated by the debt crisis, the centre right PP secured 186 seats i...
What does the iceberg expression mean?
THE TIP OF THE ICEBERG
Example: 'He acknowledges the Occupy Wall Street movement for exposing the inequalities in society, wa...
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTm4riLuEZk
Countdown
This famous show has been on TV for many years. In 1991, a Spanish version of the show was released, called Cifras y Letras (numbers and letters).
The aim of the game is to come up with the longest word possible, using the 9 available l...
This week in your classes - Raj Rajaratnam jailed for 11 years for insider trading. The famous money scandal turns into a topic in your classes
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nAYAnwWsfQ
Raj Rajaratnam, a former billionaire described by the government as "the modern face of illegal insider trading" was sentenced Thursday to 11 years in prison, the longest insider trading sentence ever.
A former hedge-fund manager has been sentenced to 11 years in jail for one of t...
English tips #7 - What is the difference between i.e. and e.g.?
by Radmila Gurkova
i.e. – that is
e.g. – for example
examples:
i.e. - We will have caramel corn, roasted pumpkin seeds, witches' brew and ghost cookies on this spooky night, i.e., Halloween.
e.g...
For + Noun To + verb
To talk about purpose of an action
FOR example: I am going to London for an interview
TO example: I have come to Barcelona to see friends
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httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDV9x_B8mmE
An actress who starred in "The L Word" has ignited a firestorm after claiming she was marched off a Southwest Airline flight for a lesbian kiss.
Leisha Hailey called for a boycott of the carrier after a flight attendant told them that a passen...
TED Talk-Justin Hall-Tipping: Freeing energy from the grid
by Radmila Gurkova
httpv://youtu.be/rsuB-6-n-MM
Why can't we solve these problems? We know what they are. Something always seems to stop us. Why? I remember March the 15th, 2000. The B15 iceberg broke off the Ross Ice Shelf. In the newspaper it said "it was all part of a normal process." A little bit further on in the article it said "a loss that would normall...