El problema de los purines

Aquí tenéis un enlace al reportaje titulado Del cerdo no todo se come, emitido por TVE a través de su programa de investigación Repor, que aborda el grave problema de la contaminación de suelos y acuíferos por causa de los purines procedentes del ganado porcino:

Write about the stock exchange market

Write a text explaining what you have learnt in the previous lesson:

«On November 12, 2013, we bought ...

Now we are shareholders...

If our company gets benefits, we...

In the future, we ...

I think that the stock exchange market ...»

News on ECB

Read this piece of news on economic policy as you can see it on The Guardian.

• Key words:

ECB: European Central Bank
Eurozone: the 17 European Union countries that have adopted the euro as their common currency.
interest rate: what a borrower must pay to a lender for having borrowed money from him.
deflation: a decrease in the general price level of goods and services.

El País in English

The Spanish newspaper El País offers an on-line edition in English. Here we can read in English the news on global economy, including those related to Spain.

News of the world: Linking continents

We begin our section "News of the world", whose aim is to connect our Geography lessons with the current world we live in. Today we are talking about a new infrastructure that has been inaugurated in Istanbul, Turkey: the Marmaray, the world's deepest immersed tube tunnel.

Questions about the video:

• How many ways were there of getting from one side of Istanbul to the other?
• Why don't some people in Istanbul want to be on this train? What does the Government say? 

UNIT 1.1. RELIEF, WATERS AND COASTS OF THE WORLD (pages 10-11)

Here is the translation into English of pages 10 and 11. You can use it to do the exercise no.3 on page no. 18.
Relief, waters and coasts of the world

The Earth's relief