I’m sharing with you, my classmates, my attempt to typewrite the script. Please, replay if you can make out the “?” or if you find any mistake. Thank you. SCRIPT Spain royal family no longer live here, The Royal Palace, in Madrid, but the magnificence of this building so us the importance of the monarchy here throughout the ages. And in modern times/terms, the summoning of Princess Cristina, the king’s youngest daughter to court is a low point. The Royal household in Madrid has always tried to draw a line between the Princess and the business dealing of her husband, Iñaqui Udangarín. He stands accused of using a supposedly non-for-profit company to organize events for regional governments and, allegedly, those regional governments were massively overcharged. So the line between the Princess and the scandal is increasingly blood?. “Her reputation is going to be in a bad situation. People aren’t going to trust royal family anymore.” “If she’s committed an offense, the law has to decide if she is guilty or not” “Do you think the corruption scandal will have any real implications to the future of the royal family in Spain?” “I’m not sure really because they are not normal, they are not like me or like my parents, you know, they are the royal family.” “Do you think the justice system will treat them differently?” “Yeap”. The original investigation into the finances of the husband of Princess Cristina began, tells “El mundo” newspaper, back into 2006. And the summoning of the Princess in court comes within the context of the declining popularity of the monarchy here in Spain. “El mundo” newspaper ran a pool on Sunday and, for the first time, less than fifty percent of people’s pool did not back the monarchy in Spain. “It’s an amazing amount of damage and the pools have been going down monumentally. The last one that we did on Sunday shows that ninety per cent of the Spaniards, which is basically the whole country, all sort of people, I mean young people, old people, PP voters, socialist... They were all convinced that she should go to court and also, very negatively, the majority thought that it was time for the king to abdicate. Royal? officials? and commentators insist that the mere? idea of the king abdicating is not been even considered because if it happens during a scandal in the media that will weaken the institution of the monarchy here in Spain. But with the summoning to the Princess to court, the falling popularity of the king and the rising popularity, according to the pools, of his sun, the direct heir to the throne, Prince Felipe, they now? way? of thinking might? have to change.
My comment Her husband can allegedly have embezzled public funds and laundered money and she may have engaged in these fraudulent and illegal activities, or she might simply have known since the beginning. If the judge or the anti-corruption prosecutor gathers enough evidence linking her to her husband’s alleged wrongdoing, she might be found guilty and, as every culprit else, she might be sentence to prison for as long as prescribed by the law. That may prove that we are equal in a court but not in the eyes of the law because according with our constitution the members of the royal family are endowed with privileges since they are born. Of course, they have obligation to fulfill but, even though, it’s not fair. The king was instrumental in the transition and has played an important role in the strengthening of our young democracy. I’m even very fond of the royal family, especially of the direct heir to the throne, Prince Felipe, and his family. They are so cute on the photos! But when you close the gossip magazine and reality sinks back in, the fairy tale vanishes and you realize that the Head of State should be an elected position, so we can decide every four years who we want to be our representative of the nation. By the way, this article is a summary of a previous one and the video doesn’t report on Infanta Cristinas’s appearance in court. I mean: What did she say? Did she plead guilty or not guilty? Did she present / provide evidence of her innocence? What did she say about her husband’s business affairs? Notes: Cristina is not princess, she is “infanta”. In Spain, only the direct heir to the throne is Prince or Princess, their siblings are “infantes” e “infantas”. As far as I now, only Leonor is or will be a princess. engage in = become involved in = involucrarse en; participar en; engancharse a Making predictions and deductions about the past: Must/can't/might/could/may + have + past participle.
I’m sharing with you, my classmates, my attempt to typewrite the script. Please, replay if you can make out the “?” or if you find any mistake. Thank you.
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Spain royal family no longer live here, The Royal Palace, in Madrid, but the magnificence of this building so us the importance of the monarchy here throughout the ages. And in modern times/terms, the summoning of Princess Cristina, the king’s youngest daughter to court is a low point. The Royal household in Madrid has always tried to draw a line between the Princess and the business dealing of her husband, Iñaqui Udangarín. He stands accused of using a supposedly
non-for-profit company to organize events for regional governments and, allegedly, those regional governments were massively overcharged. So the line between the Princess and the scandal is increasingly blood?. “Her reputation is going to be in a bad situation. People aren’t going to trust royal family anymore.” “If she’s committed an offense, the law has to decide if she is guilty or not”
“Do you think the corruption scandal will have any real implications to the future of the royal family in Spain?” “I’m not sure really because they are not normal, they are not like me or like my parents, you know, they are the royal family.” “Do you think the justice system will treat them differently?” “Yeap”.
The original investigation into the finances of the husband of Princess Cristina began, tells “El mundo” newspaper, back into 2006. And the summoning of the Princess in court comes within the context of the declining popularity of the monarchy here in Spain. “El mundo” newspaper ran a pool on Sunday and, for the first time, less than fifty percent of people’s pool did not back the monarchy in Spain. “It’s an amazing amount of damage and the pools have been going down monumentally. The last one that we did on Sunday shows that ninety per cent of the Spaniards, which is basically the whole country, all sort of people, I mean young people, old people, PP voters, socialist... They were all convinced that she should go to court and also, very negatively, the majority thought that it was time for the king to abdicate. Royal? officials? and commentators insist that the mere? idea of the king abdicating is not been even considered because if it happens during a scandal in the media that will weaken the institution of the monarchy here in Spain. But with the summoning to the Princess to court, the falling popularity of the king and the rising popularity, according to the pools, of his sun, the direct heir to the throne, Prince Felipe, they now? way? of thinking might? have to change.
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ReplyDeleteHer husband can allegedly have embezzled public funds and laundered money and she may have engaged in these fraudulent and illegal activities, or she might simply have known since the beginning. If the judge or the anti-corruption prosecutor gathers enough evidence linking her to her husband’s alleged wrongdoing, she might be found guilty and, as every culprit else, she might be sentence to prison for as long as prescribed by the law. That may prove that we are equal in a court but not in the eyes of the law because according with our constitution the members of the royal family are endowed with privileges since they are born. Of course, they have obligation to fulfill but, even though, it’s not fair. The king was instrumental in the transition and has played an important role in the strengthening of our young democracy. I’m even very fond of the royal family, especially of the direct heir to the throne, Prince Felipe, and his family. They are so cute on the photos! But when you close the gossip magazine and reality sinks back in, the fairy tale vanishes and you realize that the Head of State should be an elected position, so we can decide every four years who we want to be our representative of the nation.
By the way, this article is a summary of a previous one and the video doesn’t report on Infanta Cristinas’s appearance in court. I mean: What did she say? Did she plead guilty or not guilty? Did she present / provide evidence of her innocence? What did she say about her husband’s business affairs?
Notes: Cristina is not princess, she is “infanta”. In Spain, only the direct heir to the throne is Prince or Princess, their siblings are “infantes” e “infantas”. As far as I now, only Leonor is or will be a princess.
engage in = become involved in = involucrarse en; participar en; engancharse a
Making predictions and deductions about the past: Must/can't/might/could/may + have + past participle.