For the new task we have been asked to do, we are trying a new method to do it: we've done a webpage!
We're going to be uploading all the information there and we'll also try to find a film that fits the topic.
You can visit it by clicking here.
By: Sara Insausti and me
Thursday, 5 December 2013
Thursday, 28 November 2013
Does the EU do something for me?
The European Union does various things for us such as making the mobile
phone companies produce the same chargers, protect children from sexual
abuses... Today, we are going to focus on the new translation services.
It is always disconcerting to find yourself face to face with the law. However, it's even more disconcerting if you don't understand the language they use for them.
Therefore, the EU has reacted and has decided to do something about it: EU will help foreign people by giving them a translator for free. So, from now on each member state is required to provide with this service.
In our opinion, this new legislation is a great idea and also very useful because more and more Europeans travel, work and study abroad.
Made by: Sara and Ainhoa
It is always disconcerting to find yourself face to face with the law. However, it's even more disconcerting if you don't understand the language they use for them.
Therefore, the EU has reacted and has decided to do something about it: EU will help foreign people by giving them a translator for free. So, from now on each member state is required to provide with this service.
In our opinion, this new legislation is a great idea and also very useful because more and more Europeans travel, work and study abroad.
Made by: Sara and Ainhoa
Wednesday, 27 November 2013
English mania
Hey!
I'm posting a really interesting talk about the English mania, which I consider we suffer from.
TED talks is a website where you can watch and listen to any different "speeches" that are given by professional or ordinary people.
We have used this website many times in Lacunza and I think it's useful as you'll always find a talk that really interests you.
For more talks: Ideas worth spreading
I'm posting a really interesting talk about the English mania, which I consider we suffer from.
TED talks is a website where you can watch and listen to any different "speeches" that are given by professional or ordinary people.
We have used this website many times in Lacunza and I think it's useful as you'll always find a talk that really interests you.
For more talks: Ideas worth spreading
MUST watch this!
Well hello to you and thanks for reading this post. Let me introduce you to Miranda Hart, an actress who plays the lead role as Miranda Hart as it is a semi-autobiographical comedy tv programme.
I have recently started to watch this sitcom as I was recommended to do so; I absolutely recommend it to anyone who is looking for a funny thing to watch. I honestly couldn't stop laughing, laughing out loud, something that hasn't ever happened to me even if I watch Aquí no hay quien viva or La que se avecina.
What's the plot? what's it about? It's just the amount of funny things that happen to Miranda, as she is definetely not an ordinary woman. She has always been judged for her physical appearence and she has always had to deal with her mum's pressure. Miranda is in love with her prince charming, Gary though he seems not to feel the same about her.
She reminds me of Mr Bean and her perfomance is really good.
Apart from having fun, it is a perfect way to improve your English skills: vocabulary and listening, mainly.
I watch it online, as I don't obviously have the BBC channel; it's really easy and simple: you just have to google Miranda and you'll find it.
I must add that Daniel (the language assistant) also loves it!
I'm leaving you a video to get an idea of how Miranda and the programme are: (However, I think it's much more funny to watch an episode)
Watch it and let me know what you think!
I have recently started to watch this sitcom as I was recommended to do so; I absolutely recommend it to anyone who is looking for a funny thing to watch. I honestly couldn't stop laughing, laughing out loud, something that hasn't ever happened to me even if I watch Aquí no hay quien viva or La que se avecina.
What's the plot? what's it about? It's just the amount of funny things that happen to Miranda, as she is definetely not an ordinary woman. She has always been judged for her physical appearence and she has always had to deal with her mum's pressure. Miranda is in love with her prince charming, Gary though he seems not to feel the same about her.
She reminds me of Mr Bean and her perfomance is really good.
Apart from having fun, it is a perfect way to improve your English skills: vocabulary and listening, mainly.
I watch it online, as I don't obviously have the BBC channel; it's really easy and simple: you just have to google Miranda and you'll find it.
I must add that Daniel (the language assistant) also loves it!
I'm leaving you a video to get an idea of how Miranda and the programme are: (However, I think it's much more funny to watch an episode)
Watch it and let me know what you think!
Remember the world café?
With regard to the world cafe some of us did on the 26th September, Xabi had the task to do a presentation about it as it was Luberri's turn. He wanted to do something original and so he asked us to take photos of things which we found were related to the European Union and its features.
The world cafe is a kind of event in where there are different tables where people discuss about different issues. Anything can be discussed in the world cafe. I personally think it's worth it and nice to try, as it is a unique way of getting to know different points of view: Zenbat buru, hainbat aburu. ( A Basque idiom that means that if there's a lot of people, so will be the numer of opinions).
The photos that had to do with education and that I had chosen were these ones:
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| All the students from Luberri |
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| Us with Italians. |
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| Luberri students with the mayor of Lucca
• A letter for a student by the Erasmus programme
As the last photo isn't really good, I'm posting a nice video where we can appreciate that there are lots of different lagunages spoken in Europe, more than the ones we think of!
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• The exchange we did with Italy last year
Wednesday, 20 November 2013
The other side of the EU
Not everything related to the European Union is "hapiness", help, economical improvement... What I mean is that as everything else, it has got its down sides, challenges and problems; and that's what today's post is about.
The European Union's main challenges are:
→ Citizen's rights & racism
→ The economic crisis
→ Enlargement and Constitution
→ The European regional differences
→ Globalization vs. Diversity
→ The international role
As you can see, there are many but I will be just broadening the economic crisis as it affects us directly.
The origin of the crisis (explained briefly) comes, in economists opinion, from the US because of people buying expensive houses even though they did not have enough money. This created a housing bubble which made the houses prices rise more and also loan companies made it easier to get a loan, even if the borrower did not have a good credit history. In addition, the housing companies built too many houses. This caused the decreasement of house prices and as a result many people were paying more money than their house adequate value.
The most popular crisises are the one in Greece and the one in Spain.
The crisis in Spain has created a great amount of unemployment and misery in some cases, and a huge chaos in the whole country.
There are lots of points of view regarding to this issue and people think that the answer is in leaving the EU and in some cases, they think the most appropiate thing to do is to end up with the union.
The simple solution to this problem is, the way I see it, to stop making amendments in laws in order to fix this and focusing more on not stealing and not messing around with us, the citizens and our rights.
For more information, click here: The crisis
→ The economic crisis
→ Enlargement and Constitution
→ The European regional differences
→ Globalization vs. Diversity
→ The international role
As you can see, there are many but I will be just broadening the economic crisis as it affects us directly.
The origin of the crisis (explained briefly) comes, in economists opinion, from the US because of people buying expensive houses even though they did not have enough money. This created a housing bubble which made the houses prices rise more and also loan companies made it easier to get a loan, even if the borrower did not have a good credit history. In addition, the housing companies built too many houses. This caused the decreasement of house prices and as a result many people were paying more money than their house adequate value.
The most popular crisises are the one in Greece and the one in Spain.
The crisis in Spain has created a great amount of unemployment and misery in some cases, and a huge chaos in the whole country.
There are lots of points of view regarding to this issue and people think that the answer is in leaving the EU and in some cases, they think the most appropiate thing to do is to end up with the union.
The simple solution to this problem is, the way I see it, to stop making amendments in laws in order to fix this and focusing more on not stealing and not messing around with us, the citizens and our rights.
For more information, click here: The crisis
Saturday, 9 November 2013
Wert vs. Erasmus, is he addicted to cuts?
Lately, the minister of health, education and sport, José Ignacio Wert, has stood out again in a negative way.
This time, he and his political colleagues have decided to cut the grants for Erasmus students who are already abroad. His aim is to cut them in order to provide grants to people with more difficulties.
This way, the Comission of the European Union has drawn the Spanish Parliament attention warning them not to proceed with this cut when students are already doing Erasmus as they should have been informed way earlier. Owing to this warning, Wert has rectified and has said he would apply it next year.
This controversial new decision has received lots of complaints from students in social networkings and students who are in this programme are ashamed and are dealing with nothing but anger.
The way I see it, this is not a fair decision as it's a facility for EVERYONE and grants should also be for EVERYONE. I think this decision above is another sign of his poor work quality and also a sign of his already shown incoherence (e.g. LOMCE).
For more information click here: Bruselas pide a Wert y a España que atienda a los Erasmus que ya han iniciado curso
This time, he and his political colleagues have decided to cut the grants for Erasmus students who are already abroad. His aim is to cut them in order to provide grants to people with more difficulties.
This way, the Comission of the European Union has drawn the Spanish Parliament attention warning them not to proceed with this cut when students are already doing Erasmus as they should have been informed way earlier. Owing to this warning, Wert has rectified and has said he would apply it next year.
This controversial new decision has received lots of complaints from students in social networkings and students who are in this programme are ashamed and are dealing with nothing but anger.
The way I see it, this is not a fair decision as it's a facility for EVERYONE and grants should also be for EVERYONE. I think this decision above is another sign of his poor work quality and also a sign of his already shown incoherence (e.g. LOMCE).
For more information click here: Bruselas pide a Wert y a España que atienda a los Erasmus que ya han iniciado curso
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