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
  

PET PEEVES

Photocopy from Tuesday 29th October:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THeDNpT1J1SHFVdkU/edit?usp=sharing

News, news, news_Bushfires in Australia:       https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THTXF5T3poc3NXX0k/edit?usp=sharing

Videos about bushfires in Australia:

  VIDEO 1: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-24599925

  VIDEO 2: http://www.nbcnews.com/video/nightly-news/53324063/#53324063

  VIDEO 3: http://www.euronews.com/2013/10/13/australia-homes-and-cars-destroyed-in-nsw-fires/

  VIDEO 4: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/10/18/world/asia/australia-bushfires/

  VIDEO 5: http://www.skynews.com.au/national/article.aspx?id=916479&vId=4195680&cId=National

  VIDEO 6: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/video-news/video-australian-firefighting-helicopters-collect-water-to-combat-bushfires-29671768.html

SUCH A WHINER!

Are teachers whiners, always moaning about their students not doing their homework? Am I a whiner, I wonder. Yes, I  think I am. Anyway, if you do not want to have to put up with my whining, make sure you have a look at the links below:











Photocopy from 24th October: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THVVlCcjFVTDBFTmM/edit?usp=sharing 
Article about whining: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THUTNUWDVqOUdIQkE/edit?usp=sharing


Last Thursday we talked about strikes, the right to strike and whether it is effective means of protest or not. Read the document below if you want to find some useful expressions to talk about this topic:

Strikes:  https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_Nb3d84W0THRWRDcWdTVkJCQXM/edit?usp=sharing  
Today on Your Call: Are strikes effective in today's labor climate? (radio programme):http://kalw.org/post/today-your-call-are-strikes-effective-todays-labor-climate 
The Madeleine Brand Show: Grocery stores narrowly avoided a strike, but do strikes work?:  http://www.scpr.org/programs/madeleine-brand/2011/09/20/20747/do-strikes-work/
Debate: Do you support the BBC strikes?  http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/comment/debate-do-you-support-the-bbc-strikes/5052140.article