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Agrupación Musical do Rosal, winner of V Certame Galego de Bandas.
CONGRATULATIONS!

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

25 November 2011

In 1999, the UN General Assembly designated 25 November as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women. Violence against women and girls is a problem of pandemic proportions. At least one out of every three women around the world has been beaten, coerced into sex, or otherwise abused in her lifetime - with the abuser usually someone known to her.

Women's activists have marked 25 November as a day against violence since 1981. The date commemorates the brutal assassination of the three Mirabal sisters, political activists in the Dominican Republic, in 1960 on orders of Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo (1930-1961)(...)

From:www.who.int

PANDEMIC =  over a whole country or large part of the world 

ONE OUT OF... = una de cada...

COERCE = obligar, coaccionar

OTHERWISE =  de otra manera

End Violence Against Women is a powerful UK-wide coalition calling for urgent action to end all forms of violence against women and girls. 

A woman is raped every 9 minutes in Britain. Are rape jokes ok or part of the culture in which rape takes place? Watch We Are Man and see what you think.

RAPE = violar (sexualmente)
JOKES = chistes


From: www.endviolenceagainstwomen.org/uk

SCRIPT:

All right darling?

I tell you what, she could do with a good raping.  What man? I'm joking.

SHE COULD DO WITH... = le vendría bien..

RAPING = violación

Every 9 minutes a woman is raped in Britain

That's not WHO I am, I am man. 

Spain battles youth unemployment

LISTENING EXERCISE about the problem of youth unemployment in Spain.

If you cannot  work with this activity properly, change your browser or click on this link: http://www.edu.xunta.es/centros/iesasangrina/aulavirtual/mod/hotpot/view.php?id=12760
LEARN and ENJOY!

Adele's "Rolling In The Deep" cover

Excellent cover by Angie ( 10 years old), Gustavo (13) and Abelardo (15). 
Join them and ENJOY!

There’s a fire starting in my heart
Reaching a fever pitch, 
it’s bringing me out the dark
Finally I can see you crystal clear
Go head and sell me out 
and I'll lay your shit bare

See how I leave with every piece of you

Don’t underestimate the things that I will do

There’s a fire starting in my heart

Reaching a fever pitch

And its bring me out the dark

The scars of your love remind me of us

They keep me thinking that we almost had it all

The scars of your love they leave me breathless

I can’t help feeling

We could have had it all

Rolling in the deep

You had my heart inside of your hand

And you played it

To the beat

Baby I have no story to be told

But I’ve heard one of you

And I’m gonna make your head burn

Think of me in the depths of your despair

Making a home down there

It Reminds you of the home we shared

The scars of your love remind me of us

They keep me thinking that we almost had it all

The scars of your love they leave me breathless

I can’t help feeling

We could have had it all

Rolling in the deep

You had my heart inside of your hand

And you played it

To the beat

Throw your soul through every open door

Count your blessings to find what you look for

Turned my sorrow into treasured gold

You pay me back in kind and reap just what you sow

We could have had it all

We could have had it all

It all, it all it all,

We could have had it all

Rolling in the deep

You had my heart inside of your hand

And you played it

To the beat

Have FUN with Phrasal Verbs

KEEP OFF = mantenerse alejado de, no tocar...

Keep your hands off my mama, keep your hands off my...

Elephant rescue in Zambia

Photograph courtesy Abraham Banda, Norman Carr Safaris

A mother African elephant and her baby lie mired in mud as family members look on in  Zambia's Luangwa Valley  on November 1.

The pair were rescued by wildlife officials and conservationists after a two-hour battle against heat, dehydration, and rapidly drying mud.

MIRE = ENREDARSE, ENLODARSE

MUD = LODO, BARRO

WILDLIFE OFFICIALS = AGENTES MEDIOAMBIENTALES

The Kapani lagoon, where the elephants got strapped, is nearly dry and very sticky at this time of year—making it easy for an animal to become ensnared (...)

On this particular occasion the baby became trapped first. (...)

GET STRAPPED = QUEDAR ATRAPADO

STICKY = PEGAJOSO

ENSNARE = ATRAPAR

When the mother elephant came to help the baby, she sank into the mud as well. Other members of the herd quickly retreated when the rescuers arrived (...)

Without a rescue attempt, the prospects for the elephants were grim, South Luangwa Conservation Society's McRobb noted.

SINK, sank, sunk = HUNDIRSE

HERD = MANADA, REBAÑO

RETREAT = RETIRARSE

RESCUE ATTEMPT = INTENTO DE RESCATE

PROSPECT = PERSPECTIVA, POSIBILIDAD

GRIM = NEFASTO, SOMBRÍO

"If hyenas and lions didn't come and eat them alive, they would have slowly just dehydrated" to death over a period of five or six days, McRobb said.

   

...................................................................................More photos: "Dramatic" Elephant Rescue in Zambia

                            

The point is... animal health!

LEAN = APOYARSE
FENCE = VALLA, CERCA
THAT MIGHT MAKE = ESO PODRÍA HACER...

From: www.funnysigns.net

Aaaand... Let's review the conditional!

Of course....!

UNLESS = A MENOS QUE, SI NO...

From: www.funnysigns.net