"Es detestable esa avaricia espiritual que tienen los que, sabiendo algo, no procuran la transmisión de esos conocimientos" (Miguel de Unamuno)

jueves, 31 de diciembre de 2009

Horoscopes and astrology


This day´s question:
How many different star signs are there in the Zodiac?
c) 12
The audio has seemed to me to be very interesting I am in the habit of reading the horoscope.
It has not been difficult to me to understand the audio is clear enough.
The vocabulary has helped me enough and some words that I did not know how to pronunciation are endure sceptical and trivialise.

lunes, 28 de diciembre de 2009

Barbie's 50th anniversary


This day’s question: When Barbie first went on sale in 1959, around 350,000 were sold in the first year. How many dolls sell today?

b) 3 per second

I am charmed with this topic, I continue liking the barbie and I believe that she is the model to continuing of many girls.
The vocabulary of the audio helped me very much since I did not know the meaning of any words, but even like that it did not turn out to me difficult to understand it.

sábado, 26 de diciembre de 2009

Shopaholics


This day's question: According to some sources, what percentage of the population are shopaholics? Is it:

b) 10%

It is a topic of enough current importance since we are before a society of consumption.
It looked like to me a clear enough audio and the vocabulary helped me enough. Some words that I did not know it´s pronunciation were borrowing, themselves, furniture and Self esteem.

jueves, 24 de diciembre de 2009

School for ex soldiers

This day's question:
What age was the world's oldest student when she got a college degree in the United States?
b) 95
I think that it is an interesting topic since we all have straight to the education independently of the age that we have.
It has not been difficult to me to understand the audio it was clear enough.
Some words that have found it hard to me to understand and to pronunciacion it were proud, environmental and stubborn.

miércoles, 23 de diciembre de 2009

April Fool's Day

This week's question: In the UK, we are traditionally allowed to play jokes on people until what time in the day? Is it:
b) midday
I'm interested in this topic because in Spain the Abril´s Fool´s Day is in a couple of days, on December 28, and someone always spend me a joke.
It have not cost me understand the audio side because I think is a fairly easy issue.
The Vocabulary from the programme was easy because the audio explain it well, I did not know the pronunciation of words like hoax and gullible.