Armchair tourism

http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/learningenglish/language/wordsinthenews/2014/02/140219_vwitn_armchair_tourism.shtml

The video shows the Taj Mahal. It is the landmark building in India. Many people visit this construction, +a symbol of love, each year. There are people who -[are not going to] +cannot visit Taj Mahal. These people could +go -virtual sightseeing -in Taj Mahal +in India +vitually with Street View. Google, with the approval of the government, is using a special camera to exhibit it on the internet.

I think it is a good idea, although all places are more exciting to visit firsthand.

Ta, Miriam

Job vs. Work

El verbo es fácil: "trabajar" es "to work", pero con el nombre tenemos que distinguir principalmente entre "job" y "work".

Lo mejor es analizar algunos ejemplos (de Oxford Dictionaries):

empleo: job

conseguir trabajo
to get o/or find work

consiguió un trabajo muy bien pagado
he got himself a very well-paid job

lugar: work

está en el trabajo
she's at work 

ir al trabajo
to go to work 

llámame al trabajo
give me a call at work

actividad, labor: work

su capacidad de trabajo es enorme
he has an enormous capacity for work

la máquina hace el trabajo de cinco personas
the machine does the work of five people

requiere años de trabajo
it takes years of work

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Prison Bank

PRISON BANK

This video shows an unusual story in a prison . Some might say this is the safest bank in the world.    -Is +It operates inside Peru's largest -prisón +prison and is run entirely by inmates.

+The Bank -have +has almost 120 -customer +customers and the bank manager is a convicted prisoner . +This seems to me a great idea because often the  -flights +fights are about money .The idea is to help the men save -his +their money and give it +back when they are -reliased +released.

We can send a lot of convicted -prisoner +prisoners as bank -manager +managers [.Because] -because we have many bank robbers in our country.

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Thanks, Carmelo

Water ATM

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Water ATM

Commentary

In this video we can see a boy that uses a card in a machine similar to -a +an ATM (automatic teller machine) to fill a bottle of water.

This is a project launched by the city government of Delhi in India, to provide clean drinking water to residents.

The water -come +comes from local low-cost treatment plants. Residents can pay with a pre-paid card and these machines provide them +with drinking water for a small fee.

I think this project is very important because many illnesses could be -avoid +avoided -[with only] +[just by] drinking clean water but this should be done across the country.

Initiatives like this should be made in all countries without access to clean water.

Ta, Ana

Sushi Art

BBC Video

Sushi Art

Commentary

The video´s name is Sushi art. -He +It talks about Takayo Kiyato, who -IS preparing the traditional Japanese dish: rice with seaweed,

+She likes famous paintings. She has made a lot of versions of her dish. She works carefully and she -make +makes her dishes with a lot of care.

In my opinion, it´s a -video very interesting +video -[, maybe] +[. Maybe ] in the future all +the dishes which we eat +will become famous -painting +paintings, [that´s right?] +[Don't you think so?]

Ta, Macarena

Super fan

BBC Video

Football super fan

Commentary

The video happens in Brazil.

This -year's +year the wold cup +is in Sao Paulo. In the video there is a football fan. He thinks Brazil -don't +won't win the tournament. This man loves sporting Brazil's national colours. He always wears -with -clothes green and yelow +clothes, he has -your +[his own] dress code.

He has a car with a loudspeaker for playing the national anthem. He's +a lawyer and in his office green and yelow colours are everywhere.

In my opinion, this man is too -[much fan] +fanatic of +his national colours, but he's funny and -transmit +transmits -hapinness +happiness.

Ta, Mayka