POLITICAL AD

As those of you who were my students at the CSIM last year know, I retired at the end of January of this year. But I feel bad about just letting my blog die or not posting any material for the 437 people who I'm pleased to see have still been visiting my blog in the past month - despite only sporadic new material and summer vacation!


I'd like to start reorganizing the blog so that all posts are labeled and repetitions deleted. But for now I at least want to post short easy video clips with some written words or subtitles.
The following is a political ad by a progressive Democratic politician who's running for senator. It's a bit populist but because of that, the vocabulary is very predictable! What things he says are similar to Spanish politicians? What's different?
A little vocabulary help:
funds= fondos
lawsuit = pleito judicial
bill= decreto ley
For the 7-minute clip click here: Naturally, ignore the request for $$!   https://secure.actblue.com/contribute/page/graysonforussenate?refcode=em150825&amount=3&recurring=yes

short simple video clip

short interesting video clip with a valid point about staying healthy and in easy to understand English.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whPuRLil4c0

For nature lovers: about a very special tree

I have been on vacation ,
This is easy to understand, interesting and good review of names of fruits and farming vocab like harvest and graft (injerto.)
Aetical and short video clip:
CLICK HERE