ELECTION DAY IN CATALONIA

21D - CATALAN ELECTIONS 2017: LIVE COVERAGE IN EL PAIS IN ENGLISH: click here to follow the news.

And good practice of the passive ;)

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

TECHNOLOGY IN THE NEWS

The BBC News website has a section for TECH with all sorts of news about technology, including videos. What are you waiting for? Check it out!!! Click here.

LAW & CRIME + THE MEDIA

StudentNewsDaily.com 

Check out this website that can help you improve your reading skill. This is what they say about themselves:

StudentNewsDaily.com is a non-profit current events website for high school students. Our goal is to build students’ knowledge of current events and strengthen their critical thinking skills. This is done by providing comprehension and critical thinking questions along with published news articles and other current events items from various news organizations.

You can start by reading and listening to the news story from October 2016 about hackers. Click here.

Also check the guidelines to write a letter to the editor. 

CURRENT NEWS: PANAMA PAPERS

In connection with the topic CRIME AND LAW,  please read this article about the just disclosed Panama papers.

Click here to read it in the original El Pais English Edition website.

Click here to read the class document. Try to work out the meaning of the highlighted words.

MORE ON EXTREME SPORTS

How can the misunderstanding of two simple words cause a deadly accident? Read the article from El Pais English Edition and watch the video on their website.

Think about the risks involved in this kind of activity: 
- What are the odds that you have an accident or mishap? 
- What benefits can you get from bungee jumping or other risky sports?

HEALTHCARE IN SPAIN - THE GUARDIAN ARTICLE

Check this article published on The Guardian website section for Spain News:

Immigrants in Spain to lose right to public healthcare.

KEY TO NEWS WORKSHEET

This is the key to the vocabulary activities about the news (collocations and phrasal verbs) that we checked in class on Thursday. For those of you who did turn up, you only have to check the collocations activity. Click on the post title.

NEWS HEADLINES

In this unit we work with news stories and headlines so why don't you take a look at the news headlines in the BBC gadget to the right of the posts, and try to understand the specific vocabulary used in this kind of texts?

READ NEWS ABOUT SPAIN IN ENGLISH

El Pais English Edition is an excellent source for vocabulary related to news stories that have taken place in Spain. Have a look at some of the articles and practise delivering an oral summary of one of them. Click on the link to download the 8-page-long edition.

A NEWS WEBSITE FOR STUDENTS

This link will take you to the Breaking News English website index. Check the latest news lessons and the archive - you can listen to and read the news, and do a good range of exercises. Hope you make the most of it!

ARTICLE: ARE SPANIARDS STILL PIRATES?

Read this recent article (2017) from El Pais in English about Internet piracy in Spain. Do you think illegal downloading in this country has fallen in the past years? Check it out. Click here.

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