Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Colombia
The Planet Word crew has enough words to return home, but will they? Let's join them and travel to different places of Colombia!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Here's a message from the future from a planet-loving, spaced-out hippie about water conservation and mindful water consumption habits.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
The Planeta Palabra gang encounters a young Gypsy boy who explains to them about the Gypsy nation of Rom and its culture, providing them with a ton of new words in the process.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Mr. John encounters a group of Boy Scouts who teach him to recycle as a part of his journey to "recycle" words to save Planet Word.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
The crew continues their search for words by connecting the wordometer to the television set. As their journey is going much more rapidly than expected, what could possibly go wrong now?
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Fulanito and De Tal enlist the help of José Daniel, who they meet on planet Earth. Will his legend of "Charca Larga" ("Long Pool") provide them with enough words to continue to recover their planet?!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Two Colombian children speak about their love for different kinds of diving: a young boy who practices the sport of high diving in a swimming pool and a girl who loves the freedom of scuba diving in the limitless sea.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Recently, in the nearby Alpha-Betus Galaxy, Planet Word experienced a catastrophe upon losing all its words and hence their corresponding objects!!! So, some wise “John Does" set out on their ship in search of words to save their planet.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Colombia
Colombia's Aterciopelados ("The Velvety Ones") delivers another smooth song with a political message. This time, the band questions immigration policies and asks who has the right to dream of a better life.
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
Should government pump money into the economy and generate jobs by financing giant public works projects? In the extremely close Mexican presidential election of 2006 (which he lost), Andrés Manuel López Obrador made it clear that that his answer is a decisive ¡Sí!
Difficulty: Intermediate
Mexico
Viviana really enjoys studying Political Economy at the UAM [Autonomous Metropolitan University]. She tells us about her major and the plans that she has for the future and shares some insights about the large social gap that exists in Mexico.
Difficulty: Beginner
Spain
Can money buy happiness? That’s the subject of this friendly debate between Ester and her friend…Ester. It seems that too much reasoning has split our El Aula Azul friend in two. Can money at least cure our friend Ester?
Difficulty: Adv-Intermediate
Mexico
Political campaigns are tough (and they can get even tougher after the voting). In this video documenting Andrés Manuel López Obrador’s presidential race, we learn some of the tricks of the trade in Mexico.
Difficulty: Beginner
Mexico
Útilies. It relates to school supplies, including notebooks, pens, pencils, crayons, paper, scissors… anything children need to get through the school year. Not a big deal for the middle class, but it can be a serious challenge to those of lesser means. López Obrador made it a campaign promise that útilies would be provided free to all children throughout Mexico, just as he did for the children of Mexico City while he was mayor.
Difficulty: Beginner
Mexico
Just, as immigration is a big campaign issue in the US, emigration touches a nerve in Mexico. When Andrés Manuel Lopéz Obrador ran for president of Mexico in 2006, he wanted to make it clear that his goal was to create jobs, in Mexico, so that would-be migrants would feel less need to flee north.
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