Difficulty: Advanced
Spain Andalusia
The Ideas Club asks some high school students from Cordoba about the advantages of studying at the library vs. at home and for their suggestions on how to improve libraries.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Venezuela
We spoke with Carlos, an architect in Falcón State, Venezuela, who explains to us his view of the quarantine due to COVID-19 and how he sees the world emerging when the pandemic is over.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Venezuela
Sisters Zony and Zulbra from Coro, Venezuela share with us how their daily lives are affected not only by the coronavirus pandemic, but also by their country's current economic and fuel crises.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
The European Parliament's decision not to extend the fishing agreement with Morocco comes as a hard blow to the Andalusian fishing industry, whose workers are left jobless for months and demand compensation from the European Union.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
The Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought was named after Russian scientist and activist, Andrei Sakharov, and was established by the European Parliament in 1988 to recognize individuals and groups whose lives have stood for free thought and the defense of human rights. This segment focuses on the 2011 awards, where five Arab activists were honored.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Watch what happens when mall security catches a thief red-handed.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Who steals from clothing stores and why? Find out who is responsible for most of the thefts and at what point shoplifting is considered more than just a minor offense.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
Video surveillance systems are becoming an increasingly common way to try to thwart and/or catch shoplifters.
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Spain
As robberies increase in Spanish stores along with the worsening of the economic crisis, shopkeepers are forced to reconsider their security systems.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Carlos keeps teaching us more environmental terms, which he will reinforce by reciting a typical paragraph we might hear during a news segment on the environment.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
In this episode of News Vocabulary, Carlos focuses on commonly used environmental terms, explaining their meanings and giving us examples in context.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Carlos explores some additional economic terms in the second part of this video, concluding the lesson with a text to review the words we have learned thus far.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
In part three of his series on financial vocabulary, Carlos discusses some terms related to the stock market, complete with a brief text to review them in context.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Carlos teaches us additional financial vocabulary with lots of useful example sentences to heighten our understanding.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Carlos introduces us to several business and finance-related terms. Let's learn their meanings as well as hearing them in plenty of example sentences that are similar to those we might hear or see in the written or spoken news.
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