HOW TO BE SPANISH: AN ARTICLE AND A REPLY

You may have heard of the article recently published by The Sunday Times titled How to be Spanish. (To see and download full article, click here) Different media in Spain have echoed the article, incensed by the collection of clichés it features.

A British contributor to El País, Simon Hunter, has replied to the Sunday Times'  chief travel writer  by giving his own view of the matter. READ IT HERE.

What's your stand? Are you outraged, offended, disgusted, or on the contrary, have you been amused by it all? Are the clichés true (or partially true)? Is the tone of the article derisive or simply taunting/frank/amusing/you-name-it?  

I wanna hear your thoughts about the issue!!

PS. Here's Murcia Today's article commenting on the matter.

HIGH-SPEED RAIL CONFLICT IN MURCIA

We've been talking about city life so this news is relevant since it has a direct impact on part of the population of the city of Murcia, and has outraged every citizen.

What do you know about the conflict and the protests? Think about it in English before you read the report! Then click on the link and read it.

High speed rail tunnel protests spread to the center of Murcia

Murcia Today is a good source of news in English about Murcia so check it out. These are the latest regional news

LEARNING ENGLISH IN SPAIN

From this useful resource to improve your reading comprehension skills, El Pais in English, here are the links to two articles on learning English in Spain. Ideally, this could be done in pairs, where each of the students reads one of the articles, then they exchange information and opinions about them.

“The traditional method of teaching English isn’t working”

Are native teachers necessarily the best?