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4 mar 2022

Reading comprehension: Elena Osipova, dignidad de mujer, 8 de marzo.

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Se acerca el 8 de marzo. 

El año pasado dediqué mi artículo en este blog de peripecias Erasmus+ a mi querida amiga Amaia, mujer trabajadora ejemplar donde las haya. Este año tenía en mente escribir un breve relato sobre otra grandísima mujer Erasmus+, pero las circunstancias de la vida han cambiado tanto en tan solo una semana, ¿verdad? Ella me perdonará.

El mundo, sencillamente, ha dejado en un fugaz instante de ser el que era. Los libros de Historia marcarán un nuevo capítulo para este infame final de febrero, por culpa de un ser despreciable llamado Vladimir Putin. 

Mis lectores saben que mi principal motivo para trabajar con tenacidad en los proyectos Erasmus+ es, principalmente, porque estoy convencido de que esta es, sin duda, el arma más potente disponible en los centros educativos para luchar ferozmente contra los nacionalismos, sean los que sean, contra los dictadores, sean quienes sean, contra la miseria moral, provenga de donde provenga. Esa y no otra es mi gran motivación. Y mira que hay motivos, ¿verdad?

Hace ya una larga semana, nos amanecimos un amanecer frío con la triste, mortífera y patente realidad de una guerra que lleva ya siete días de guadaña ensangrentada, en un país Erasmus+, Ucrania, que se desangra lentamente luchando por su libertad, por nuestras libertades, y que merece todo nuestro apoyo, todo, incluido el de los programas Erasmus. 

Elena Osipova. 

Alegre, sonriente, tranquila, sumisa, avejentada de cuerpo pero no de alma, ejemplo de la mejor virtud que pueda existir, la valentía, agarrando sus cartones con sus arrugadas y afligidas manos, mientras una cohorte de fantoches miserables hacen fotos, videos y tiktoks como si de un animal de zoo se tratara, en vez de salir en su ayuda. 

Dos lacayos de negro de muerte del nuevo Zar de los soviets la detienen -¡a esta anciana!- por dibujar unos simples bocetos y escribir unas sencillas palabras que supongo dirán que no quiere guerra. Tres esbozos de seres aterrados sobre una explosión nuclear. Pero el deleznable Putin sabe que esta ejemplar señora es el verdadero misil nuclear que sí que puede acabar con su dictadura y su régimen. Elena Osipova es el auténtico Cisne Blanco, no su cisne blanco mortíferamente renovado cargado de misiles, también llamado Tupolev 160, que acabará, antes o después, con este hijo de Stalin, de su admirado Andropov y de su odiado Lenin. Elena Osipova. ¿O debería decir mejor Cisne Negro? 

Este 8 de marzo, Elena Osipova estará en el corazón de muchos ciudadanos de todo el mundo que han contemplado con lágrimas en los ojos, si es que tienen alma, a una enjuta viejecita, humildad encarnada, con su boina gastada, su bufanda de cuadros para protegerse del frío moscovita del invierno, enfrentarse al más poderoso de los dictadores con tan solo una sorprendente sonrisa, unos pequeñitos pasos tranquilos y acompasados más el aplomo que dan los años. Tan solo por arrestar a esta bella mujer esos mercenarios, culpables de este genocidio por algunos justificados en nuestra España, deberían sumirse en las fosas del infierno. Lo harán. El infierno de los miserables.

Elena Osipova, ángel moscovita. Este 8 de marzo, cuando celebramos un día especial en honor de todas las mujeres, este que esto escribe te dedicará todas sus clases a hablar sobre ti, Elena Osipova. Lo siento, Grecia, te tocaba actuar a ti, ya calentabas en el banquillo, pero me temo que Elena es más importante, ¿verdad? Gracias por entenderlo. Y Roma, puede que tampoco salgas al campo. Hay temas más importantes. 

¿Que Grecia y Roma? Sí, la Libertad. Si el asesino Putin quiere ocultar tu mirada, es porque sabe que estos ojos profundos van a hacerle más daño que 100 misiles. 



Elena Osipova, nacida a una larga y dura vida durante el terrible asedio nazi de Leningrado, durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial, asedio al que sobrevivió -más de 1 millón de muertos durante aquella batalla, sí, han leído bien- vivió más de 50 años de su vida bajo la tiranía del comunismo soviético, sin libertades ninguna, sin palabra alguna. Por ello, Elena Osipova está curtida y doctorada en el terror, en el espanto, en la miseria material y moral, en el miedo al susurro y la mirada suspicaz del vecino que entorna la puerta ajada, mirada cabizbaja, sumida en la tristeza. ¿KGB tal vez?, ¿GRU?, ¿FSB?, o quién sabe Dios. No, no había Dios permitido aquellos años, ¿verdad, Elena?

Elena Osipova. ¿Qué fue de tu vida? ¿A qué te dedicaste? ¿Tuviste familia? ¿Pudiste hablar libremente alguna vez en tu vida? Elena Osipova, mujer que representas la dignidad de las dignidades, la valentía de las valentías, la belleza del alma de todas las almas, gracias. Hoy, Elena, usted ha cambiado muchos corazones, muchas almas, muchas vidas.

Elena Osipova, tú acabarás con el miserable Putin.

Chernígov, Kiev, Jarcov, Odessa, Tskervka, Elena Osipova. Nuevos libros de Historia. 

Feliz 8 de marzo.


Manuel Molina Porlán.

Дякую вам за те, що боролися за свободу, віддаючи свої життя.
Дякую, Олена. Хай живе вільна Україна. Європа з вами.

2 mar 2022

Reading comprehension: THE UN CONDEMNS RUSSIA'S WAR.

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Aunque un poco tarde, la ONU condena -salvo 5 países parias- la guerra de Rusia en Ucrania.


As UN issues historic rebuke, Russia confirms it lost hundreds of troops

The text of the resolution "deplores" Russia's "aggression against Ukraine."

Almost a week into the campaign to "demilitarize" Ukraine, Russia gave official figures for the first time on its casualties on Wednesday, while the UN issued a historic condemnation of Moscow's military incursions. A spokesman for the Russian Defense Ministry said 498 Russian troops have been killed in Ukraine and 1,597 wounded.

Maj. Gen. Igor Konashenkov rejected reports about "incalculable losses" of the Russians as "disinformation" on Wednesday and reported Moscow's casualties for the first time since the start of the attack last Thursday.

Konashenkov also said more than 2,870 Ukrainian troops have been killed and about 3,700 wounded, while 572 others have been captured.

Ukrainian officials have not yet commented on the figures, and they could not be immediately verified.

Meanwhile, the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday overwhelmingly voted to reprimand Russia over its invasion of Ukraine and demanded that Moscow stop fighting and withdraw its military forces, an action that aims to diplomatically isolate Russia at the world body.

The resolution, supported by 141 of the assembly's 193 members, ended a rare emergency session called by the UN Security Council and as Ukrainian forces battled on in the port of Kherson in the face of airstrikes and a devastating bombardment that forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee.

The text of the resolution "deplores" Russia's "aggression against Ukraine." The last time Security Council convened an emergency session of the General Assembly was in 1982, according to UN websBut both sides said they were ready to resume talks aimed at stopping the fighting, which had Ukraine under threat on multiple fronts. A huge, 40-mile-long column of Russian tanks and other military vehicles stood outside Kyiv, and Russian invaders pressed their assault on the strategic port cities of Kherson and Mariupol.

"Kharkiv today is the Stalingrad of the 21st century," said Oleksiy Arestovich, a top presidential adviser, invoking what is considered one of the most heroic moments in Russian history, the five-month defense of the city from the Nazis during World War II.

Russian attacks, many with missiles, blew the roof off Kharkiv's five-story regional police building and set the top floor on fire, and also hit the intelligence headquarters and a university building, according to officials and videos and photos released by Ukraine's State Emergency Service. Officials' residential buildings were also hit, but did not provide details.

Russia renewed its bombardment of Ukraine's second-biggest city Wednesday, pounding Kharkiv with attacks that shattered buildings and lit up the skyline with balls of fire. At least 21 people were reported killed. US officials also told Reuters that there has been an increase in the attack on the capital Kyiv with missiles and artillery.

https://www.israelhayom.com/2022/03/02/as-un-issues-historic-rebuke-russia-confirms-it-lost-hundreds-of-troops/


Reading comprehension: Courage and Honor in Ukraine.

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Hoy vamos a trabajar de nuevo un texto que nos va a dar otra oportunidad para reflexionar sobre dos valores prácticamente borrados de la faz de Europa: el coraje y el honor.

Zelenski.


CÓDIGOS DE COLORES:

AZUL: Traducciones.

ROJO: Aspectos gramaticales.

VERDE: Aspectos culturales.

NARANJA: Estructuras concatenadas

MORADO: Traducción y sinónimos, antónimos, etc.

Amarillo: Palabras con trampa.

Os dejo una plantilla para que, sobre la marcha, podáis ir completando con sinónimos, antónimos, etc y los significados. Espero que os sea de utilidad. Pinchad aquí para descargarla.  



President Zelenskyy's full speech to the European Parliament

Courage and Honor in Ukraine

The human virtues that are being displayed in this terrible human drama have changed public opinion.

Reading comprehension: Armia Krajowa.

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Nos vamos ahora a 1939, año que se va pareciendo cada más a 2022. El ejército aleman, con ayuda del ejército ruso -que nunca se menciona- ocupa Polonia con una ferocidad que hace que las trincheras de la Gran Guerra parecieran juegos de niños.

Surge el Home Army o Army Krajowa, como ahora está forjándose de nuevo el Ejército de Liberación Ucraniano, que fue, ¡cómo no! traicionado por la Rusia soviética de Stalin. 

Tal vez, aprender un poco de la Historia reciente, nos venga bien ahora que hay tanto payaso que no condena el genocidio de Rusia en Ucrania.


https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?l=spanish&id=2485140724&searchtext=

Armia Krajowa

The Home Army (PolishArmia Krajowa, abbreviated AKPolish pronunciation: [ˈar.mʲja kraˈjɔ.va]) was the dominant resistance movement in German-occupied Poland during World War II. The Home Army was formed in February 1942 from the earlier Związek Walki Zbrojnej (Armed Resistance) established in the aftermath of the German and Soviet invasions in September 1939. 


Over the next two years, the Home Army absorbed most of the other Polish partisans and underground forces. Its allegiance was to the Polish government-in-exile in London, and it constituted the armed wing of what came to be known as the Polish Underground State. Estimates of the Home Army's 1944 strength range between 200,000 and 600,000. The latter number made the Home Army not only Poland's largest underground resistance movement but, along with Soviet partisans, one of Europe's two largest World War II underground movements.[a]


The Home Army sabotaged German transports bound for the Eastern Front in the Soviet Union, destroying German supplies and tying down substantial German forces. It also fought pitched battles against the Germans, particularly in 1943 and in Operation Tempest from January 1944. The Home Army's most widely known operation was the Warsaw Uprising of August–October 1944. The Home Army also defended Polish civilians against atrocities by Germany's Ukrainian and Lithuanian collaborators. Its attitude toward Jews remains a controversial topic.


As Polish–Soviet relations deteriorated, conflict grew between the Home Army and Soviet forces. The Home Army's allegiance to the Polish government-in-exile caused the Soviet government to consider the Home Army to be an impediment to the introduction of a Communist-friendly government in Poland, which hindered cooperation and in some cases led to outright conflict. On 19 January 1945, after the Red Army had cleared most Polish territory of German forces, the Home Army was disbanded. 


After the war, particularly in the 1950s and 1960s, Communist government propaganda portrayed the Home Army as an oppressive and reactionary force. Thousands of ex-Home Army personnel were deported to gulags and Soviet prisons, while other ex-members, including a number of senior commanders, were executed. 


After the Fall of Communism in Central and Eastern Europe, the portrayal of the Home Army was no longer subject to government censorship and propaganda.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Home_Army

Saludos.

Reading comprehension: work and family.

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

Cambiamos un poco de tercio y dejemos al asesino de Putin y sus seguidores por un rato.

Vamos a hacer hoy un ejercicio de comprensión lectora, traducción y práctica de algunas preguntas de ‘multiple choice’ de vuestro examen.

Nos ocupamos de un tema peliagudo: la conciliación familiar el trabajo y la familia. 


Os dejo un enlace directo a la página del British Council que he usado para seleccionar este ejercicio. 

https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/sites/podcasts/files/LearnEnglish-Reading-B2-Work-life-balance.pdf

Reading comprehension: Kids behind bars under Putin’s order.

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos.

De nuevo, un canalla asesino, Vlad Putin, demuestra qué es el comunismo soviético. Pero todavía hay mucho desgraciado que se niega a condenarlo.



Russian primary school children detained for anti-war protest

Gabriel Gatehouse

BBC Newsnight

When I saw reports and photographs on Tuesday suggesting that primary school children had been arrested by police in Moscow for laying flowers at the Ukrainian embassy and holding signs saying “No to war” I refused to believe it was real.

But now it has been confirmed by the Nobel prize-winning newspaper Novaya Gazeta. In an update the newspaper says the children have since been released.

The images show the children with officers behind metal bars, perhaps in a police vehicle, and then in a police station, holding their flowers and placards. 

The Kremlin appears to be taking increasingly draconian measures to try to keep a grip on its war narrative.

Pues yo les digo a todos esos que sois cómplices de este genocida. 

Saludos.

Reading comprehension: Ukraine war: Refugees

Buenas tardes, estimados alumnos

Hoy vamos a trabajar leer de nuevo un texto que nos va a dar otra oportunidad para reflexionar sobre la tiranía y sus terribles consecuencias: la pérdida de vidas humanas.


https://www.bbc.com/news/world-60555472

Ukraine war: How many refugees and where might they go?


The European Union (EU) estimates that up to four million people may try to leave the country because of the Russian invasion.

The bloc has relaxed its rules on refugees and says its member states will welcome the refugees with "open arms".


Which countries are Ukraine's refugees fleeing to?

Refugees are crossing the borders to neighbouring countries to the west, such as Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Moldova.

On Monday, the UN said that more than 670,000 people had entered these countries from Ukraine.


Poland has so far taken in over 377,000 refugees, according to the UN. The Polish government says a further 50,000 are arriving every day.


Poland is also preparing a medical train to transport wounded Ukrainians, and has drawn up a list of 1,230 hospitals to send them to. 

More than one million Ukrainians have settled in Poland in recent years, especially since 2014, when Russia annexed Crimea

As for countries, the UN says that by 13:00 GMT on 1 March:

  • Hungary had taken 89,561
  • Moldova 65,391
  • Slovakia 54,304
  • Romania 38,461
  • Belarus 329

51,797 people have moved on from these countries to others in Europe.

Refugees are being told they do not need documents to get into neighbouring countries, but should preferably have their internal or foreign travel passports, birth certificates of children travelling with them and medical documentation. 

To get refugee status, they need to be Ukrainian citizens or people legally living in Ukraine, such as foreign students.

However, many people have been waiting for up to 60 hours to cross at border points into Poland, in freezing weather, in queues up to 15km (10 miles) long. Those entering Romania have been waiting for up to 20 hours. 

Many have not been able to board trains taking them out of Ukrainian cities.

What help are countries providing?

In Poland and the other countries bordering Ukraine, refugees can stay in reception centres if they do not have friends or relatives to stay with. They are given food and medical care.

Hungary and Romania are giving out cash allowances for food and clothing. Children are being given places in local schools. 

Countries used to have time limits on how long refugees could spend in reception centres, but most are saying they are likely to waive them and that Ukrainians can stay as long as they need to.

The Czech Republic has activated its Migration Wave Preparedness Plan. This will help refugees apply for a special type of visa through a simplified procedure in order to remain, if needed.

What is the UK doing for Ukrainian refugees?

Previously, the government had said Ukrainians could only come to the UK if they had relatives who are British nationals


How many Ukrainians are internally displaced?

The UN estimates there are now at least 160,000 people in Ukraine who have fled the war and are displaced within their own country. 

The EU believes that figure could climb to seven million, and that 18 million Ukrainians will be affected by the war.

"Even though these are very rough estimates," said European Commissioner for Humanitarian Aid and Crisis Management, Janez Lenarcic. "The figures are huge, and we have to prepare for this kind of emergency, which is of historical proportions." 

What rights do the refugees have?

The EU is preparing to grant Ukrainians who flee the war a blanket right to stay and work throughout the 27 nations for up to three years, according to EU and French officials. They would also receive social welfare and access to housing, medical treatment and schooling for children.

This is in line with the EU's temporary protection directive for refugees, drawn up after the 1990s war in the Balkans, but never used until now. 

The normal rules for refugees have been lifted to let Ukrainians settle where they want in the EU.


Saludos.


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