AT A LOSS FOR WORDS

Photocopy from 21st November_four in a row_collocations: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THUTVsLTRwdXJrSW8/edit?usp=sharing
Photocopy from 26th November_woodlouse_elder-eldest: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THTE85VU0xaF9GcHc/edit?usp=sharing
Photocopy from 26th November_Buried Alive:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THZ0o0eWY2aFF6aEk/edit?usp=sharing

Photocopy from 28th November_Spanish pianist: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THOTBRQmdIVlJBeVE/edit?usp=sharing

Photocopy from 28th November_Thanksgiving turkey: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THMHFlUXJrLU9KRmc/edit?usp=sharing
video:
 

STRIKE OUT ON YOUR OWN

News, news, news
Madrid street cleaners on strike: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THdmV3SkFJRF9jWFU/edit?usp=sharing
video: http://www.reuters.com/video/2013/11/09/rubbish-piles-up-in-madrid-as-refuse-col?videoId=274473664




Fend for yourself_strike out on your own: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THS1ZsRTN6eERMbnM/edit?usp=sharing
Crime in cruises:    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THZVU2aE93bXpLMTQ/edit?usp=sharing

BE ALL EARS

Last Tuesday we did a listening test. How did it go? How did you find it? As I told you, it is a test that you can find on the Durango Official School's website:
    http://www.eoidurango.net/es/departamento.php?Id_Departamento=3&Id_Seccion=262

You can listen to it again. I have prepared the script for you, in case there is something you can't get:
     https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THcEZqUC0ydGlydGM/edit?usp=sharing

And now, why not taking another test? Try the following one, from the official language schools in Galicia:

Link to the listening test  from June 2013 at official language schools in Galicia:  http://www.edu.xunta.es/web/sites/web/files/content_type/news/2012/10/31/inc1coa.pdf
Link to the audio: http://www.edu.xunta.es/web/sites/web/files/content_type/news/2012/10/31/inc1audio.mp3
Link to the answer key: http://www.edu.xunta.es/web/sites/web/files/content_type/news/2012/10/31/inc1coasoluc.pdf

TAKING THE PLUNGE

GOCE satellite & Erasmus funding: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THRHJkbjQ5UkY5WVU/edit?usp=sharing

THIRD TIME IS THE CHARM

Photocopy from 7th November_in mourning: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THNVRVNUQ4TUJIc1U/edit?usp=sharing

7-UP

The UP Series

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series

http://youtu.be/BeWpnkTKLp4

14-UP

http://youtu.be/P-behHAaixE

21-UP

http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9fe_1321555650

42-UP

http://www.metacritic.com/movie/42-forty-two-up/trailers/1082672 2'13”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gHoAO8s6Tw 3'

49-UP

http://www.pbs.org/pov/fortynineup/

56-UP

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/11/12/_56_up_trailer_7_up_documentary_installment_opens_in_the_u_s_in_january.html

http://youtu.be/ppK4RWjQoDg

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2141156/Catch-Seven-Up-kids-They-dreamed-astronauts-jockeys-fifty-years-on.html

IT RUBS ME THE WRONG WAY

Photocopy 1 from 5th November_peevish: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THMFJhV1ZYTVBQcjA/edit?usp=sharing
Photocopy 2 from 5th November_Buried Alive II: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THM2RULW9adVJfdlU/edit?usp=sharing
News_Saudi Arabia_No woman, no drive: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THYkhfN0kwMXM3Nk0/edit?usp=sharing

ROUGH IT

Parenting pet peeves:  http://youtu.be/tpqYxYTM3rM
Travel pet peeves:   http://youtu.be/cR971qlOlkY 
driving pet peeves:  http://youtu.be/_niNIZHAjxA 


Photocopy from 31st October: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THUnRSNVBfNjdsbVU/edit?usp=sharing  
Approximation_further information:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THMldDY01hUGhHRjg/edit?usp=sharing