How Powerful Is Spain?

B2 – Upper Intermediate

Spain is not only a country of diverse geography and cultures but one with a relatively strong economy, powerful military, and long history.

But just how powerful is this country?

Watch the video to know more about Spain’s advantage over other countries and some of the issues that the country needs to address head-on in order to regain its former glory as a superpower nation.

 

Discussion Questions:

1. What are the strong points of Spain?
2. What are some of the problems it is currently facing?
3. How can Spain’s global power be restored?
4. Which do you think is the best moment (economically speaking) in your country? Describe that time.
5. In your opinion, how powerful is your country? Do you want your country to be more powerful than it is now?
6. Which points in this video do you agree and/or disagree with?

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2 replies on “How Powerful Is Spain?”

Question 1: the strong points of Spain are: Spain is a large country taking into account European Countries, besides is 5º country in population.
Spain has 2nd most popular language and recive a lot of incomes thanks to tourism.
Spain, also, is one of the most important solar energy country.
Question 2: According to the video the most important problems in Spain are unemployment, high inflation and weak education system.
Question 3: In my opinion to can recover Spain powerful will be necessary an agreement between diferents parties in Goverment, and social conciousness.
Question 4: I’m not very trained in history so I can’t tell you when Spain has lived its best moment but today I think the tourism incomes.
Question 5. I think Spain is very powerful because we have a good recognition for other countries, we are atractive for foreing people, we have sun, and fun.
Question 6: In general I agree with all points showed in this video.

Spain is undoubtedly one of the most beautiful countries in the world indeed. Thank you for sharing all the things you know regarding this topic.

Here are better word choices for the following expressions:
Spain has 2nd most popular language and recive a lot of incomes thanks to tourism.
> Spanish uses the 2nd most widely-spoken language and the country earns a lot of revenues thanks to tourism.

You are definitely doing your best to practice your writing skills here. Keep at it!

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