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: Intermediate
Venezuela
Aranza, a young girl from Venezuela, tells us about her quarantine experience and gives us some tips to prevent the COVID-19 virus from spreading.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Carlos gives us an overview of the coronavirus, including its origin and some of the most utilized terminology associated with this illness which, in just a few months' time, has become an unprecedented global pandemic.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Carlos delves into some of the devastating effects the coronavirus has had, and will continue to have, on the global economy, and poses an interesting question: How do you think the coronavirus will change the world permanently?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Fermin tells us about the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic in Spain, including the varying social reactions and official alarm and confinement orders.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
In the second part of this video about Spain's experience with the coronavirus, Fermin shares with us some of people's reactions to confinement, both negative and positive.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ecuador
Mary from Ecuador shares with us her experience during the global quarantine due to COVID-19. Among other things, as schools remain closed, her teachers keep sending her a ton of homework.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Ecuador
In this video, Mary introduces some items and products used to protect us against the Coronavirus and gives us some good advice for using them.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Venezuela
Of Venezuelan origin, Eugenia resides in Germany. On a visit to Margarita Island, in the Venezuelan Caribbean, she was surprised by the arrival of the coronavirus. Let's listen to her story to gain some insight into the daily occurrences that affect our lives in the days of this global pandemic.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Ramifications of the coronavirus are constituting a so-called "new normal" worldwide. In Europe, countries like Spain have been severely affected, with devastating economic consequences for such crucial industries as travel. Let's learn a bit more about the reality of Spain in the days of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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: Intermediate
Venezuela
The coronavirus pandemic has affected almost every country in the world. Zulbany and Axel, two young people from Coro, Falcón State, Venezuela, share with us how it has changed their lives.
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: Beginner
Ecuador
From Quito, Ecuador, Julia informs us about the effects that COVID-19 has had on her great city.
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
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: Intermediate
Spain
The Small Business Act for Europe (SBA) is a regulation which aids Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) to establish themselves more quickly, simply and with less capital than was previously possible.
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
Spain
Seville's Nervión Plaza Shopping Center employs a total of seventy-two cameras recording twenty-four hours a day in order to, among other things, assist in theft prevention.
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
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
Watch what happens when mall security catches a thief red-handed.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Twenty twenty-two has been a disastrous year for the environment of many countries including Spain due to a staggering number of fires caused by both natural and manmade causes.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Spain
Have you ever noticed the media's seemingly incessant focus on a particular topic, only to be promptly eclipsed by something entirely different? Let's hear Soledad's opinion about this constant bombardment of information and its capacity to affect us.
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