Top news 2016

CBS
The Mirror

CNN 



The Telegraph
US News - Slideshow

Fraud

Match the information to the business after listening
It is based in Ireland
It is based in Luxemburg
It paid 0 corporation tax
It paid other taxes
It paid the most in taxes
It reported losses,
It reported the most profit
It was the first to be accused


Starbucks – the first, reported losses, 0 corporation tax
Google – based in Ireland – paid the most in taxes
Amazon – the most profit – Luxemburg – paid other taxes

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Top 10 dumbest criminals

	CRIME	MISTAKE/S
10	Murder	Published a book about it
9	Burglary	Used permanent marker to cover their faces
8	Corruption of a minor	Asked the father for a refund
7	Robbery of a truck	Was on probation and tried to steal her urine sample which eventually tested negative
6	Murder	Sent a letter to friend asking him to kill a witness. It was returned and opened at the prison
5	Burglary	Burglars cannot be arrested at night
4	Burglary	Triggered the alarm, answered the phone, returned to the location of the crime
3	Corruption of minors?	Let his child drive because he was drunk
2	Burglary	Returned to the scene of the crime to get his wallet
1	Robbery	Tried to rob a gun shop with one of the shop’s unloaded guns

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Brexit

Reasons for Brexit

Brexit White Paper
Listen to David Davis, the Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union, explain the 12 points spelled out in the Brexit White Paper. Take notes about them:

Select below to see the 12 points:
Providing certainty and clarity
Taking control of our own laws
Strengthening the Union
Protecting our strong and historic ties with Ireland and maintaining the Common Travel Area
Controlling immigration
Securing rights for EU nationals in the UK, and UK nationals in the EU
Protecting workers’ rights
Ensuring free trade with European markets
Securing new trade agreements with other countries – We will forge ambitious free trade relationships across the world.
Ensuring the UK remains the best place for science and innovation
Cooperating in the fight against crime and terrorism
Delivering a smooth, orderly exit from the EU

Brexit consequences

Parliamentary vs. Presidential Democracy Explained

Democrats vs Republicans

Are global media creating a set of shared values, or detroying local customs?

What does he mean when he mentions...

Baywatch? it's a programme you can see all over the world and helps spread rich western countries lifestyles
Traffic is one way? - The media are spreading one set of ideas and lifestyles
The daily reality of life? – means people will never lose their connection to their clothes, habits, food…
They are to blame? – people that allow themselves to be influenced and as a consequence lose their values
The 21st C? – will make it safe for diversity

Go to YouTube to read the transcript.
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The danger of a single story

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Immigration

Watch this video about an integration programme in Germany and decide if the statements below are true or false.


1.Robert Bosch Stiftung was a philanthropist
2.The foundation provides legal advice
3.LISA’s goal is to help immigrants enter the job market
4.Project Tandem is carried out at Kyritz community centres
5.During the assessment candidates take part in an individual activity
6.Trainees taken on by companies have the necessary skills
7.There is a writing price for immigrants

Asnwers written in white. Select this line to see them: 1F (foundation), 2F, 3T, 4F (schools), 5T, 6T, 7T

Refugee Crisis

Video1 - Refugee crisis
Video2 - Xenophobia
Video3 - American Dream

Media vocabulary

 
 



TV Genres
TV and Radio Programmes

Working generations

The role of media

Life without Internet and TV

Life Without Internet and TV from Medill Cherubs on Vimeo.

Watch a video that captures the feelings and experience of living five weeks without Internet and TV. Complete the information below.

Liz – panicky
DJ – at first they are disappointed and upset. It was a struggle but it was helping them out
Alessandro – missed it specially not being able to chat
Danny – it was rough
Molly – it was emotionally crippling – she’s a big movie buff
Mary Lou – it’s difficult – it’s the university’s policy
Sam – loved being disconnected for once – she felt like she was in Lost
Ben – he was worried – he realized he didn’t need it to be entertained – it was not necessary

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2016 vs 2263

Scientific breakthroughs

Ethical concerns related to cloning


Top 10 things we wish science would figure out


Watch and complete the information indicated:

10 hypersleep - applications - erradictaing dangerous delays in healtg and hospital care - intergalactical travel
9 reanimating corpses - consequences - delaying death - doctors could work wonders and zombies could exist
8 similarities within the ancient world - examples - 2 pyramids with the same perimeter and tobacco and cocaine residues in Egyptian mummies
7 dinosaur extinction - 3 theories - asteroid impact, mass volcanic activity, steady climate change
6 cold fusion - advantages - affordable, practical, cleaner
5 travelling at the speed of light - problem - it is seen as apparently impossible and we've only reached 0,0037 % of speed of light
4 dark matter - can't be seen, felt or appreciated - 95% of the universe
3 black holes - what are they? areas in space with a strong gravitational pull
2 what triggered the big bang - what is it? a tiny ultrahot fog of energy that expanded; energy created more energy, stuff, life, us; from what may have been nothing, we go to a state of infinite density, temperature and violence
1 time travel - dream for? scientists and human kind in general

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My blackberry is not working

Technology everywhere!


Listen and find a word that matches these definitions:
Mobile smart device for sending emails, web browsing, text messaging, ...: Blackberry
To stop working: Freeze
Areas with no signal: Black spots
A mobile phone company: Orange
A computer program in a mobile phone: Application
The primary display screen of your computer or phone: Desktop
A particular day, month...: Date
A computer company: Apple
An electronic device that must be attached to a computer in order for it to use protected software: Dongle
To restart a computer: Boot
To fail suddenly: Crash
A popular games console: xbox
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Women and technology

Try an easy listening exercise

GM food

Watch the video and fill in the blanks.

1. Farmers in the past selected plants that were easier to pick and to cook.
2. New crops inherited the benefitial characteristics.
3. Farmers found that when the DNA was accidentally altered improvements happened.
4. Nowadays scientists can change DNA at specific spots.
5. These changes are specially useful for disease resistance.
6. We now have crops which need less water and fertiliser.
7. After decades consuming genetically engineered food no one has got ill.
8. If we design and test each product, there is no problem.
9. Supermarkets and big seed companies have offered us a variety of nutritious.

As always, the answers are written in white. Select the text to see them.
Leave a comment: What do you think of these products?

Technology

Do you need more practice? Try this



Fill in the blanks

1. Google cell phone is designed with Google applications in mind
2. The Nook has a partially coloured screen
3. In 2010 the first 3d tvs will hit the markets
4. Apple tablet will be like a touch screen portable laptop
5. The electric vehicle will be first sold in California
6. New applications will be created for all types of phones
7. Some social networks will shut down for hours due to hacking

As always, select the text to see the answers

Eurozone crisis article

Use a minimum of 5 of the grammatical structures we’ve seen so far or of the following ones:

As though
Nothing like
May as well
It’s high time
Owing to
Participle phrases
But for
All the same = despite what has just been said

Use some of these expressions too

To be on road to health
Show signs of recovery
Make ends meet
To put the spotlight on
To cast a shadow on
It remains to be seen
No use crying over spilt milk
The icing of the cake
To be in the grip of
Foot the bill
In the red / black
Boost
Workforce
Surge
Slump
Escalate
Struggling
Bleak – gloomy
Deficit – surplus
Low-income / high-income
expenditure

Crowdfunding

Money vocabulary - personal finances

Money Matters. A conversation with a lot of money vocabulary.

The Great Euro Crisis

Business and finance mindmap

Personal finances

Stock market

Vocabulary




Preferred stocks in Spain


Read more about preferred stocks in Spain

Fair trade

Watch the video and complete the sentences below







Every purchase matters