C2 Orals Final exam

Oral Expression & Oral Mediation. 

Days & Times:

   Fri. 24th May

  9.30 - 10.15:

10.15 - 11.00:

11.15 - 12.00: 

12.00 - 12.45:

    Mon. 3rd June

  9.30 - 10.15:

10.15 - 11.00:

11.15 - 12.00: 

12.00 - 12.45:

Notice: Post a comment below telling me when and who with and I'll be writing your names (in pairs or individually) at your suggested times.

C1 Orals Final Exam

Oral Expression & Oral Mediation. 

Days & Times:

    Mon. 20th May

16.30 - 17.15: Pablo & Elena

17.15 - 18.00: Ayrton &

18.15 - 19.00: María R &

19.00 - 19.45: 

   Thur. 23th May

16.30 - 17.15:

17.15 - 18.00:

18.15 - 19.00: 

19.00 - 19.45:

    Mon. 27th May

16.30 - 17.15: Sofía &

17.15 - 18.00: María J & Eva

18.15 - 19.00: Mario & Laura

19.00 - 19.45: María M & Ginesa

Notice: Post a comment below telling me when and who with and I'll be writing your names (in pairs or individually) at your suggested times.

C1 / C2 Revise Passive Reporting Structures

Do some of the exercises on this blog. You needn't do all of them, just a couple of each to revise the different structures.

Prepositions TEST

 Advanced Prepositions TEST

Revise (if necessary)

How to ace your C1 / C2 writing tasks in the final exam

1. Read the rubrics very carefully and follow them strictly (topic, type of writing, formal or informal register, number of words, number of paragraphs).
2. Devote at least 10 min. to plan your writing: ideas to develop (1 idea 1 paragraph), topic sentences, (advanced) connectors, style.
3. Choose specific vocabulary & phrases and grammar to use (type III conditional, cleft sentence, inversion, tense correlation, etc.).
4. Do the writing.
5. Proofread your writing: reread rubric, spelling, intelligibility, repeated words or ideas.
6. Hand in.

Questions for Teenagers (you might answer as well even if you're not one of them).

Oral Exam INFO

Let's Communicate

C1 / C2 IF SENTENCES

Check it in pdf. format here.

Silent Letters

How I rewired my brain in 6 weeks

EL PAÍS English News

Pro-Palestine demonstrations sweep US universities 

Dear readers, ‌ 

Pro-Palestinian protests sweeping university campuses across the United States have taken on a new dimension and entered the political sphere — 200 demonstrators were arrested during a sit-in outside the home of Democratic Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer late Tuesday — just months before the November presidential elections. (...). House Speaker Mike Johnson visited Columbia Wednesday, where he called for the arrests of those “perpetrating this violence” and the resignation of Columbia president Nemat Shafik “if she cannot immediately bring order to this chaos.” Johnson also warned that there is “an appropriate time for the National Guard” with student protestors showing few signs of giving ground. ‌ 

EL PAÍS this week visited participants in the Freedom Flotilla in Istanbul, from where an international initiative aims to land humanitarian aid in Gaza in defiance of the Israeli blockade. Around 500 people of 40 nationalities are taking part in the trip (...). ‌

We also spoke to experts about the fate of the little-known Iberian desman, which faces extinction within 10-30 years due to loss of habitat and the effects of climate change. The small river-dwelling mammals are listed as endangered and survive only in pockets across the Iberian Peninsula (...). It is an evolutionary jewel and is a great responsibility for the countries where it lives.” ‌ 

We hope you enjoy this selection of articles from El País USA Edition

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• Fewer screens and more domino: Why playing cards and board games are staging a comeback in bars.
• How to deal with parental burnout.

Inversion Examples

34 things you didn't know about English Culture

Want to understand English people and their culture better? In this listening and culture lesson, I’ll talk you through some of the things you might not already know about life in England. For example, I’ll explain to you why some English people wear paper red flowers in the month of November. I’ll explain some of the things you may have observed, but don’t quite understand if you are new to English culture – such as some of the weird adverts you may have seen on television with talking meerkats in them. There are lots of topics to cover in this lesson: holidays, life events, the big brother state, culture, and more. Join me and learn more about life in England, while improving your listening comprehension at the same time. See how well you understood the lesson by taking the quiz here. 

Suggested sentences from prompts

• If he hadn't travelled to Madagascar, he wouldn't have met this wonderful lemur.
• Not only did the man use a plane to go there, but he also travelled by a four-by-four.
• He should've brought his family to Madagascar.
• This lemur will have met many humans before.
• What he didn't expect was having a lemur on his shoulder!
• Never have I seen a similar snap!

C1 (Revision Module 4) Welcome to the Smart City of the Future

Watch this BBC Ideas Video and do the activities provided in the activity sheet (Cambridge English). [Transcript and answers provided on BBC website and activity sheet (p. 3)]

Practice from Prompts

Use these prompts to write sentences about the picture with the man and the lemur:

• If ...
• Not only ...
• ... should've ...
• ... will have...
• What ...
• Never has ...

Tomorrow you'll be able to read some suggestions.

C2 Vocabulary

 

Underline / highlight the 5 words / phrases you would like to learn in each chart, look them up and write a sentence with them. Choose the ones you've some time come across, but whose meaning you cannot remember.

[Remember the hyphenated phrases are not hyphenated in their writing; they're like that to appear in the same colour!]

World Book Day Activity

Today is Book Day in Spain (on the first Thursday of March in the UK) Let's celebrate!

Thanks Concha!

Watch the presentation and be ready to do the following in class with Dane (next Monday C2 group) and Gio (next Thursday C1 group): 

· Provide a commentary about the whole presentation. 

· Choose 2 or 3 pictures, describe them and explain to your classmates why you selected them. 

Speaking time: 1-2 mins.

Shakespeare's Expressions in Today's World

Thanks Laura!

If you want to learn more about Shakespeare, click here.

World Book and Copyright Day

"So many books, so little time" (Frank Zappa)

The connection between 23 April and books was first made in 1923 by booksellers in Spain as a way to honour the author Miguel de Cervantes who died on that day. In 1995, UNESCO decided that the World Book Day would be celebrated on this date the date is also the anniversary of the birth and death of William Shakespeare, the death of Miguel de Cervantes, Inca Garcilaso de la Vega and others.

Although 23 April is often stated as the anniversary of the deaths of both William Shakespeare and Miguel de Cervantes, this is not strictly correct. Cervantes died on 22 April and was buried on 23 April according the Gregorian calendar; however, at this time England still used the Julian calendar. Whilst Shakespeare died on 23 April by the Julian calendar in use in his own country at the time, he actually died eleven days after Cervantes because of the discrepancy between the two date systems. (Adapted from WIKIPEDIA)

Remember it is St. George's Day as well, important day for the English!

Think of the book (fiction or non-fiction) you would recommend your classmates. The book you have enjoyed most in your life. Try to convince them to read it giving your reasons (in just 1-2 mins.) We'll be doing this activity in class today!

Your intonation will be key to convince everyone!!!

Participle Clauses in English (explanations in Spanish and translated sentences)

We’ll Help You Pronounce These 14 Words You Learned In Books

Chances are, when you started reading you encountered plenty of new words. That’s great for you—you were learning, after all—but here’s the catch. Your skill at pronouncing these words didn’t necessarily keep up with your reading skills, leading to some funny mishaps. Did colonel’s pronunciation confuse you? What about choir? Or hors’d’oeuvres? (Did you try “horse divorce” or “hers dervs”?) This might seem silly now, but many of us have funny stories about the words that tripped us up when we tried to say them out loud for the first time!

Let’s take a look at some other words that you’re liable to mispronounce if you learn them from a book. [From Dictionary.com]

EL PAÍS News in English

How Israel repelled Iran’s attack

Dear readers,

This week we are featuring an analysis with detailed graphs showing how the Israel Defense Forces managed to intercept the barrage of drones and missiles fired by Iran, some of which were launched from Iraq, Syria, and Yemen, where Tehran has allied militias.

‌In Ukraine, our correspondent interviewed members of three Russian armed groups fighting alongside Kyiv. All of them oppose Vladimir Putin and believe a political solution is no longer viable.

Other popular stories this week include a look at the construction problems plaguing Elon Musk's The Loop, the modular network of underground connections aimed at ending traffic jams in cities like Las Vegas and L.A.

We also unveil the real reason the famous city-state of Teotihuacán disappeared, why some people have a tendency to see faces in everyday objects, and why taking Ozempic can make you look 10 years older.

We hope you enjoy this selection of articles from El País USA Edition.

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• The dictionary to orient yourself in a new world order
• What do I do when I feel like yelling at my kid? Four experts weigh in
• Record numbers in the US are homeless. Can cities fine them for sleeping in parks and on sidewalks?
• How to date like a feminist: Experts explain

Theatre at the EOI

C1 Test your vocabulary with EVOLVE

Test your Vocabulary on:

Unit 1 - Technological development 

Unit 2 - Three-word phrasal verbs 

Unit 3 - Thoughts & Emotions 

Unit 4 - Close-up 

Unit 5 - Impact and Remote places

Unit 6 - Under- & Over 

Unit 7 - History & Traditions 

Unit 8 - Get 

Unit 9 - Health & Sleep 

Unit 10 - Global progress 

Unit 11 - Advanced colors 

Unit 12 - Adapt

Key to Tuesday's Written Mediation Activity

Check your answer here.

Compare and contrast your written mediation suggestion with this one. Pay special attention to the missing info rather than in any other aspect. If you used bullet points instead of commas, no problem.

C1 Our promise to the planet | Cambridge

Words describing voices

Written Mediation Activity

CONTEXT: John, an English friend of yours, is doing a paper about Guidance for the general public in European countries in case of a terrorist attack and found this info sheet on the Ministerio del Interior website. It is too long and he does not understand everything. He asks you to summarize the most important info in English.

TASK: Write an email to him summarizing the content of the info sheet in about 125-150 words. [Suggested Answer in two days]