Palestine-Israel conflict

Here you are a very nice documentary about the everlasting Palestine-Israel conflict. It is a very current affair.
It explains clearly and draws some conclusionands in a very schematic way about the Arabic-Israeli problematic, the speacking is crystal clear as well.
Enjoy it!

FIGHT/CHOKE BACK (THE) TEARS

• Try not to cry

Choke back the tears

Choke back the tears
I will not show him
That I have weaknesses,
That I have fears
I'll make him think I am strong,
Oh, god,
Why is he doing this?
He must know that it is so wrong
But I will keep my tears back
And let his words scar me deep
Drawing me into darkness,
Into sleep

New excellent web page!

www.eslpod.com is an excellent web page for learning English. Each of its podcast has been carefully designed for learning fast and properly. Its main topics are about:

• Daily Life
• Shopping
• English Cafe
• Dining
• Entertainment
• Health / Medicine
• Relationships
• Shopping
• Transportations
• Travels

It's worth trying it. The mp3 files are for free!

HARD IDIOMS

En el siguiente enlace podéis practicar los idioms con HARD.

El password es: aprender-ingles-belen

Hay que registrarse pero merece la pena ;)

Busuu

Busuu es una buena página 2.0 para aprender cualquier idioma. Visítala para aprender una serie de palabras, tanto en inglés como en francés o alemán.

BBC Learning English en YouTube

Hi!

Try and check this Videos from BBC!

http://www.youtube.com/bbclearningenglish

Here you can see a sample:

Vídeo chistosillo

Para practicar nuestro inglés con una sonrisa. Fuera de bromas, no sé a cuántos españoles de quince años se les podría preguntar lo mismo con idénticas respuestas.

TEARS WELL UP IN SB'S EYES

About to cry

Testimony of Ibrahim

I was like you, my Muslim sister or brother, right in the same boat until I knew that you can be absolutely sure of going to Heaven. Tears well up in my eyes just to recall how lost I was and now that I am found. While trembling in tears, seeing the majesty of God, I rejoice to know that I have eternal life for certain.

BRING TEARS TO SB'S EYES

To make someone to start to cry.

A story that brought tears to my eyes was this:

Irena Sendler

During the World War II German occupation of Poland, Sendler lived in Warsaw (before that she lived in Tarczyn) while working for the city's Social Welfare Department. Under the pretext of conducting inspections of sanitary conditions during a typhoid outbreak, Sendler visited the ghetto and smuggled out babies and small children in ambulances and trams, sometimes disguising them as packages.^[3] She also used the old courthouse of the edge of the Warsaw Ghetto (still standing) as one of the main routes of smuggling children out. She started helping Jews a long time before the Warsaw Ghetto was established. As early as 1939, when the Germans invaded Poland, she began helping Jews by offering them food and shelter. Irena and her helpers made over 3,000 false documents to help Jewish families, before she joined Zegota and the children's division. Helping Jews was very risky — in German-occupied Poland, all household members were punished by death if a hidden Jew was found in their house. This punishment was more severe than those applied in other occupied European countries.

In December 1942, the newly created Children's Section of the Żegota (Council for Aid to Jews), nominated her (under her cover name Jolanta^[4]) to head its children's department. As an employee of the Social Welfare Department, she had a special permit to enter the Warsaw Ghetto, to check for signs of typhus, something the Nazis feared would spread beyond the ghetto.^[5] During the visits, she wore a Star of David as a sign of solidarity with the Jewish people and so as not to call attention to herself.

She cooperated with the Children's Section of the Municipal Administration, linked with the RGO (Central Welfare Council), a Polish Relief Organization tolerated under German supervision. She organized the smuggling of Jewish children from the Ghetto, carrying them out in boxes, suitcases and trolleys.^[2] The children were placed with Polish families, the Warsaw orphanage of the Sisters of the Family of Mary or Roman Catholic convents such as the Sisters Little Servants of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Mary^[6] at Turkowice andChotomów. Some were smuggled to priests in parish rectories where they could be further hidden. She hid lists of their names in jars, in order to keep track of their original and new identities. Zegota assured the children that, when the war was over, they must be returned to Jewish relatives.[1]

In 1943, Sendler was arrested by the Gestapo, severely tortured, and sentenced to death. Żegota saved her by bribing the German guards on the way to her execution. She was left in the woods, unconscious and with broken arms and legs.^[2] She was listed on public bulletin boards as among those executed. For the remainder of the war, she lived in hiding, but continued her work for the Jewish children. After the war, she dug up the jars containing the children's identities and began an attempt to find the children and return them to living parents. However, almost all the children's parents had died at the Treblinka extermination camp.