Politicis Vocabulary

I have found some great vocabulary at the webpage www.saberingles.com and I have marked the ten I find more useful. At the end you can find some more I have searched for in the traductor.

Act	ley
ballot	voto, papeleta/boleta electoral
ballot paper	papeleta/boleta electoral
ballot box	urna (de votación)
absentee ballot	voto ausente
straw ballot	votación extraoficial
Bill	proyecto de ley
budget	presupuesto
cabinet	gabinete
civil servant	empleado público
campaign	campaña
capitalist	capitalista
candidate	candidato
centrist	del centro
coalition	coalición
colonialist	colonialista
communist	comunista
Congress	Congreso
congressman	congresista
democracy	democracia
democratic	democrático
dictator	dictador
election	elección
electoral roll/register	padrón electoral
electorate	electorado
exit poll	encuesta a pie de urna
fascist	fascista
government	gobierno
to govern	gobernar
imperialist	imperialista
King	Rey
left-wing	de izquierda
MP=Member of Parliament	parlamentarista
Minister	ministro
Ministry	ministerio
monarchy	monarquía
nationalist	nacionalista
opposition	oposición
Parliament	Parlamento
party	partido
policy	política, plan de acción
political	político (adjetivo)
politician	político (sustantivo)
politics	política
poll	encuesta
president	presidente
Prime Minister	Primer Ministro
Prince	Príncipe
Princess	Princesa
Queen	Reina
referendum	referendum
republic	república
right-wing	de derecha
Secretary	secretario
Secretary	secretaría
socialist	socialista
too close to call	muy ajustado para dar un ganador
totalitarian	totalitario
to elect	elegir
to vote	votar
to call an election	llamar a elecciones
to vote	votar
to run for president	ser candidato a presidente
voter	votante
Democratic Party (US)	partido demócrata
Republican Party (US)	partido republicano
Conservative Party (GB)	partido conservador
Labour Party (GB)	partido laborista
democrat (US)	demócrata
republican (US)	republicano
Tory (GB)	miembro del partido conservador

Bureaucracy Burocracia
Citizen Ciudadano
Convention Asamblea
Trade Union Sindicatos

Can politicians solve our problems?

Castilla y León 2010 Option A


It is well know that several problems as the ignorance of the young people or the corruption strikes our society. Most of us expect  solutions from our politicians and feels outraged when they didn´y do it. Despite this, from my point of view not the entire responsability lies on the goverment.

First of all, as their name says they are "social" issues so they must be solved by us, the society. The politicians can and should impose laws and enforce then but is our choice to fullfil them or not.

Secondly, As we could have seen lately most of the politicians are unable to troubleshoot problems. Nevertheless, they are great finding the way to profit from them.

It is clear that is the people, which shapes society, the one that must change its behavior. To make this easier we can be helped by honest politicians, though.

Songs in real life-Speech 2013

One week ago we show you our breathtaking speech and now we have uploaded it to youtube so you can enjoy whenever you want.
If you haven´t seen it, it´s about three friends and a mysterious character that makes them sing everywhere  they go. We tried to use lot of slang and current expressions.
Hope you enjoy:

How can NGOs help people?:

                                    

NGOs are the last resourced for thousands of people in the Third world nations. However, from my point of view, it´s hard to decide the way in which they must shoot to their targets.

On one side, they can provide needy people with nourishment, shelter, vaccines, medicines, education, protection.. and they will probably save their lifes, but this is just as trying to buoy a boat throwing overboard water buckets.

On the other side, ONGs can just fill the hole because of which the ship is sinking.

This is way harder and is several cases unfeasible as changing the global economic system. Nevertheless, there are projects as vacunning an entire population in order to erradicate an illness that are affordable.

Tu sump up, in most of the actual issues the ONGs must attack he root of the problem.

My favorite Videogame

An infinite world made of blocks . Your bare hands. Survive.

Minecraft is one of the famoust and  acclaimed videogames. There is not any plot or target the only thing you must do is to keep yourself alive and enjoy. The entire world is made of cubes, you can destroyand  stack them the way you want. Nevertheless, not everything is a stroll. Try to set up a house before the sun rises, otherwise you will be surrounded by all kinds of monsters.

Once you are safe and day has comeback you can go outside and do that for which you will get paid in real life, as cutting down trees, digging for ores, setting up a farm...Bit by bit you will find new and better resources whereby you would be able to craft new weapons and armour to go at night and delve into dark dungeons where you will find magnificent treasures.
After struggeling during months in order to have the better stuff you will likely be killed.
But don´t worry you can start again as many times as you want.

This is  the greatest and most frustrating game ever.

The interface is clear and you only can see your hands and some shortcuts. This is called a first person game. The graphics are simple but  lovely and the soundtrack fits perfectly with the style.In addition there are a lot of fan-made mods that make this game a masterpiece.

Pd:Don´t forget to try the multiplayer.

"The end of the watch" Review

The exam season has just emerged so it´s time to watch all those delayed films until I pretend to study. Yesterday I watch a fantastic one that I want to share with you, "End of  watch" (Sin tregua in spanish) 

Two cops and a city of almost 4 million inhabitants are  characters of this documentary style film. Brian Taylor and Mike Zavala (or Z, as Brian likes to call him) are two LAPD police officers which record their journey for a film project. They patrol in one the most dangerous districts of the city where several  gangs fight in order to get the control of the streets. I don´t want to spoil you to much so I am just going to say that they stick their noses into other people's business until the get in one of the biggest mexican narco spotlight.

The two main characters Michael Peña and  Jake Gyllenhaal are great. They show us their dreams and aspiraciones in their dialogues. The film show their outside work life that make you  understand their motivaciones and  feel what they feel. They dont fall in the stereotype of tought guys and they look like common people with fear and doubts when they take their gun out.

The way the film is recorded is marvelous. Most of it is from Brian cameras but the are normal angles too. Moreover there are some epic camera angles as the one which is attached to Brian´s shotgun.

I strongly recomend you to watch this film that show perfectly the brutallity of L.A. slums. I assure you are going to enjoy.

PD:There are some gore moments so be prepared to close your eyes and avoid blood splatters.

Christmas Card

Dear Jesús Javier,

Merry Christmas. Here´s wishing this holidays helps you to relax from the academic´s year stress and the overweight bearded man fills your stocking with health, money and love in his twenty fou reindeerpower sleight.

I hope your door is full of angelical kids singing warm Christmas carols to whom, In addition to listen, you will have to give a tip.

On the whole,I hope you have a happy new year full of exams to check and I hopefully wish not to run into you under the mistletoe.