Tuesday, September 25, 2012

25s in Madrid




Madrid, Spain (CNN) -- Thousands of protesters fed up with the country's austerity measures demonstrated here Tuesday outside the congressional building.

Clashes between police and demonstrators in central Madrid's Neptuno Square resulted in 28 people being hurt, two of them police officers, a police spokesman said.

The spokesman said 22 people among the estimated crowd of 6,000 had been arrested.

Demonstrators said police were shooting into the crowd with rubber bullets; the police would not comment.

"We have you surrounded," some demonstrators sang. "We have no fear."

At one point, Spanish police charged demonstrators with batons to prevent them from approaching the parliament, which was in session (...)

FED UP = HARTO
AUSTERITY MEASURES = MEDIDAS DE AUSTERIDAD
DEMOSTRATE =  MANIFESTARSE
CONGRESSIONAL BUILDING = EDIFICIO DEL CONGRESO
CLASH = ENFRENTAMIENTO
SPOKESMAN = PORTAVOZ
CROWD = MULTITUD
RUBBER BULLETS = BALAS DE GOMA
WE HAVE YOU SURROUNDED = OS TENEMOS RODEADOS
BATON = PORRA
PREVENT FROM = IMPEDIR
APPROACH = ACERCARSE

Learning may be FUNNY.



SMART:  listo (Am English) - elegante (Br E)
SMART-er : comparative of SMART (=más inteligente)
It is smarter TO TRAVEL in groups : to-infinitive AFTER adjectives




Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Welcome back to school.

I know it is hard...


... for pupils and... for teachers as well


BUT: