This world is going bananas!!!

Breaking news:

Jo Cox: grief and shock over death of 'Labour MP with huge compassion' (The Guardian)

 

This world is really going crazy!!!! Just a shame!!

 

Have a look at these articles and tell me your opinion:

• Remembering Orlando victims (News report, BBC Learning English)

• Orlando’s Latino community hit hard by massacre at nightclub (The Washington Post)

• Orlando shooting: 49 killed, shooter pledged ISIS allegiance (CNN)

• Euro 2016: Who is to blame for the Marseille violence? (BBC)

• The Guardian: Euro 2016: England and Russia fans clash before and after match 

 

What does a 'hooligan' mean? Is it a synonym for a 'supporter'?

LINGOHACK  >>>

Episode 160615 / 15 June 2016   >>>  Expressions presented: on high alert, paddling & range.

Expressing probability:

It's on the cards (The English we speak, BBC Learning English)

 

Listening exercise to do: Young and in business (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)

Brexit: NO MAN IS AN ISLAND!!

The latest  >>>  Brexit: PM meets Euro leaders (News Report, BBC Learning English)

Breaking news:

Jo Cox: grief and shock over death of 'Labour MP with huge compassion' (The Guardian)

 

On 23rd June a referendum will be held in the United Kingdom in order to decide if they stay in the European Union or if they leave. For a start, let's just read this poem about John Donne. Analyse it bearing in mind the globalised world we live in.

 

'No Man is an Island' (by John Donne)

                No man is an island entire of itself; every man

                is a piece of the continent, a part of the main;

                if a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe

                well as any manner of thy friends or of thine

                is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as

                own were; any man's death diminishes me,

                the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.

                because I am involved in mankind.

                And therefore never send to know for whom

Do these words remind you of any other prominent writer?

Yes, you're right, the American writer Ernest Hemingway, who wrote the famous novel For whom the bell tolls, which deals about our Spanish Civil War.

The issue in the press:

• As 'Brexit' referendum nears, voter registration surges (CNN)

• Brexit – what would happen if Britain left the EU? (The Guardian)

• It's time to talk about Brexit (The Daily Telegraph)

• Brexit or Bremain? Readers share the one argument that made up their mind (The Guardian) 

• What if...? The consequences, challenges and opportunities facing Britain outside the EU (Open Europe) 

• What would Brexit mean for everyday life in the UK? (The Guardian)

  What is your opinion about the whole issue? Do you think that it is good for Spain to stain in the EU? Write about the advantages and disadvantages of belonging to the EU.

Palmyra: Historic temple destroyed, archaeologist murdered and AMERICAN HEROES IN FRANCE!!!

Articles to read and news to watch:

• ISIS reported to have blown up ancient temple in Palmyra (CNN) 

• Daily Mail: ISIS blow up pagan temple in Palmyra that has stood for 2,000 years as jihadi group continues its destruction of Syria's heritage   

• The New York Times: ISIS Blows Up Ancient Temple at Syria’s Palmyra Ruins  

• BBC news: Syrian archaeologist 'killed in Palmyra' by IS militants 

• CNN: Train shooting heroes: The men who helped avert a massacre in Europe 

• Heroes on a train to Paris: A Shot, a Glimpse of an AK-47, and U.S. Servicemen Pounced on Gunman on Train to France   

BBC Learning English: Historic temple destroyed (Listening exercise)

Another listening exercise:

Turkish PM: No plans to send troops to Syria