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...

by Radmila Gurkova

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...

by Radmila Gurkova

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...

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...

by Radmila Gurkova

LIBRARY/BOOKCASE/BOOKSHOP Library - I went to the library to study. ...

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...

by Radmila Gurkova

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 ...

by Radmila Gurkova

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...

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...

by Radmila Gurkova

Do you know the difference between lend and borrow? Borrow – to take something that belongs to somebody else. Example: Can I borrow your umbrella? ...