International Workers' Day (also known as May Day) is a celebration of the international labour movement and left-wing movements. It commonly sees organized street demonstrations and marches by working people and their labour unions throughout most of the world. May 1 is a national holiday in more than 80 countries. It is also celebrated unofficially in many other countries.
This year, due to the current unemployment situation affecting our country, it is thought that the amount of demostrators will increase.
The number of people in Spain without work grew by 365,900 or 6,9 percent during the first quarter of the year, with 5,640 million Spaniards now out of work, according to figures released on Friday by the National Statistics Institute (INE).
There are now 1,72 million households in which all its members are without work.
(Source: El País)
(Source: El País)
These figures of unemployed people, Spanish recession and the hard labour reform implemented by the Government, are good reasons for worrying and showing our disagreement with public spending cuts on such a day.
But "THERE IS ALWAYS HOPE!"...
so "GET DOWN TO BUSINESS" and make some work-related exercises.
Tasks:
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so "GET DOWN TO BUSINESS" and make some work-related exercises.
Tasks:
1.
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5. Job Hunting: Listening exercise
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