Infinitive or Gerund?

C1 Talk about Jobs

C1 Speak English at Work (by Lucy)

 

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C2 Precise Words EDUCATION

 Do this Learning English activity to revise C1 - C2 Vocabulary from Cambridge English

FICC53

FICC53 Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena. See all the activities here. 

C2 Education Idioms

Hit the books (Am. E.):

• I can't go out tonight. I need to hit the books.
•  I have to hit the books this weekend — I have two exams next week.

Crack the books (Am. E.):

• He hardly ever cracked a book.
• He believes that if you want to learn something, go crack a book and do it.

Burn the midnight oil (Br. E.):

• A short while back he was ever poring over (=read in detail) the written page and burning the midnight oil.
• Do you write best in the morning or do you burn the midnight oil?

News in English EL PAÍS

Jumping on the Trump Train

Dear readers,

After more than a century of ironclad Democratic control, Starr County in Texas has voted for a Republican president for the first time due to economic discontent and the immigration crisis. We visited the county and talked to local leaders to find out why they feel that Donald Trump best represents their interests.

As Spain continues to grapple with the fallout of the flash floods that killed over 200 people two weeks ago, we focused on one street in Catarroja, Valencia, whose story encapsulates all the problems faced by thousands of people as they struggle with grief, cleanup, and rebuilding efforts.

Our correspondents also traveled to Akkar, a poor and forgotten region of Lebanon that is the breeding ground for the only popular institution of the nearly absent government: the Lebanese Armed Forces. And they were in Naples, where the death of a 19-year-old at the hands of another youth highlights the worsening problem of armed teenage gangs.

We also took a private tour of Pompeii to uncover some of its darkest secrets, and explored what science reveals about our natural tendency to corruption.

We hope you enjoy this selection of articles from EL PAÍS USA Edition

You can also read:

• Flooding in Spain: The homes that became death traps in a small Valencia town
• Readers prefer ChatGPT poems over Shakespeare and Sylvia Plath
• ‘Gladiator II’: Sequels are almost never better. Confirmed
• ‘X doesn’t offer me anything anymore’: Trump’s win triggers mass exodus to other platforms
• Alice Schwarzer, journalist: ‘We are facing profound changes in the relationship between the sexes. It’s dangerous’
• All the drama of Spain’s flash floods, contained in one street: ‘Deaths could have been avoided’

Training workshops with Adrian Underhill in 2025

Hello everyone

Here are the face-to-face teacher workshops I (Adrian Underhill) will be running in July and August 2025.

See the full descriptions and booking at each of the links. These courses are getting better each year, as we develop further insights and strategies for confident performance, bringing life to the whole of language learning, and the joy of expressing oneself!

Please forward to colleagues who might be interested.
Wishing you and your students creativity, joy and success! Keep in touch…

Hope to see you – again maybe! 

Adrian

School Course details dates and bookings at my site adrianunderhill.com

Cambridge: The Bell Teacher Academy
Pronunciation, Performance, Poetry and Storytelling: Mon 14 – Fri 25 July 2025
https://bellenglish.com/courses/pronunciation-poems-and-storytelling-from-phonemes-to-fluency/

International House London
Pronunciation, Performance and Poetry: Mon 28 July – Fri 1 August 2025
https://www.ihlondon.com/course/expert-series-learn-with-adrian-underhill/

Oxford University: English Language Teachers’ Summer Seminar
Pronunciation, Performance and Poetry and Wellbeing in the Classroom: Sun 3 August – Sat 16 August 2025.
Other workshops at this Seminar are offered by Jon Hird, Hania Kryszewska, Elaine Boyd, Shaun Wilden, Robert McLarty, Anna Hasper
https://www.conted.ox.ac.uk/courses/english-language-teachers-summer-seminar

I strongly recommend any course given by this distinguished, renowned scholar and lovely, talented person.

Intonation

Vote for your CONSEJO ESCOLAR Representative

Check Schedule

Mini Thesaurus

Adjectives for Workers

Could you add five extra adjectives?

How many of these Job Strengths have you got?

Tick the ones you have and cross the ones you don't have

C1 Advanced Phrases

REVISION: Present Perfect Simple vs Continuous (with Numbers)

Revise the sentences in this document and find out why some use present perfect simple and some present perfect continuous tenses.

Then do the following QUIZ.

Expressions with AS

Basic Job Vocabulary

Lucy's NEW, FREE Vocabulary Level Test

Take the free vocabulary level test!

News in English EL PAÍS

Donald Trump’s historic comeback

Dear readers,

Donald Trump is back. The Republican candidate won a resounding victory at Tuesday's election, becoming the first convicted felon to be elected president of the U.S.

EL PAÍS looked at where Trump made decisive gains, examined how the Democratic Party will move forward after the crushing defeat, and discussed how the results will affect Trump's pending legal cases.

In other news, we continued to report on the aftermath of the deadly flash floods in Spain, which have killed more than 200 people, and interviewed

Mark Thomson, who has just been selected to lead CERN, the world's largest particle physics laboratory.

We also looked at Kit Connor's rise to fame, spoke to Fontaines DC about their latest album, and probed into why marmosets and humans are the only known primates that have names.

We hope you enjoy this selection of stories from EL PAÍS USA Edition.

You can also read:

• Can electricity cure our ills?
• Mutant superbugs pose a threat to human life in space
• Why what happens at the North Pole can cause destructive storms in Spain
• Racism, sexism and LGBTQphobia tarnish the rise of women’s basketball in the US
• Searching for a missing father in the ravines and orange groves of Valencia
• Who voted for Trump? The Republican’s supporters by age, sex and race

Practice to Promote Better Pronunciation

Have a look at: Practice to Promote Better Pronunciation to improve your pronunciation [Based on: The Listening-Pronunciation Connection: Four Linked Practices for Improving “Pronunciation Flow” Written by Michael Rost THINK TANK]

Webinar HOW TO BE A BETTER LISTENER

Online Workshop for EOI Students: 

How to Be a Better Listener 

Wednesday 13 Nov. 2024, 6:00 p.m.

Even though we spend most of our everyday lives listening in one form or another, listening in a foreign language can still be a tricky business. In this workshop, we’ll explore what makes listening in English so tough before looking at a number of strategies and techniques you can use to help improve your listening skills and become a better listener.

If you want to attend the Workshop, find the link on Aula Virtual. 

Don't miss it!!!

Solidarity

50 Ways to Improve your Vocabulary

COLLECTIVE NOUNS: A group of ...

If you want to know more of them, click here! 

Do the activities at the end (answers provided).

Inversion in Conditional Sentences

THEATRE: Be part of the cast!

 Come to the Library this afternoon at 5!

We will devote this month to theatrical activities to break the ice, and to get to know the students. Rehearsals for the play will begin in a few weeks.

Election day in the USA

You can do this activity (thanks Helena) and/or watch this interview with K. Harris on NBC and/or read/watch BBC News: US Election (thanks Marisa) and/or do the 2024 Presidential Quiz (thanks Isabel).

Studying phrasal verbs: Skimming through and writing up

Today’s post looks at phrasal verbs and prepositional verbs relating to studying, learning, and taking exams. By Kate Woodford, from About Words (Cambridge Dictionary)

EOI CT Solidarity

As explained in the television placed in the hall, our EOI adheres to the solidarity campaigns organized by the Cartagena City Council.

The collection (cleaning and personal hygiene products exclusively) has been centralized at the following points:

1.- Ayuntamiento de Cartagena (San Miguel, 8)
2.- Palacio de Deportes (Avda. del Cantón)
3.- Parque de Seguridad (Ctra Cartagena-La Unión)
4.- Centro Cultural Ramón Alonso Luzzy (C/ Jacinto Benavente)
5.- OMITAS de barrios y diputaciones, según el enlace siguiente:

https://www.cartagena.es/plantillas/16.asp?pt_idpag=383

Donations can also be made to CRUZ ROJA and CÁRITAS:

CRUZ ROJA:

• Transfer to ES44 0049 0001 5321 1002 2225
• By calling 900 104 971
• Through http://cruzroja.es/colabora
• With an SMS with the word HELP to 28092
• With a Bizum at 33512

CÁRITAS:

• Transfer to the following accounts (Concept: DANA + DNI or CIF):

- Sabadell ES64 0081 1016 1500 0617 5629
- Caixabank ES18 2100 2166 4202 0034 8543
- BIZUM 33528

News in English EL PAÍS

US election campaign enters home stretch

Dear readers,

As the U.S. presidential election approaches on November 5, with the outcome too close to call according to polls, Kamala Harris issued a call to Americans to put “country above party” and to reject the ambitions “of wannabe dictators.” “For too long, we have been consumed with too much division, chaos and mutual distrust. It can be easy then, to forget a simple truth: it doesn’t have to be this way,” the Democratic candidate said.

Ahead of the vote to decide the next occupant of the White House, we interviewed Rosario Marin, a former U.S. treasurer under George W. Bush who intends now to vote for Harris. "There is no Republican Party anymore. Trump is the party," says Marin, who also casts doubts on the Electoral College: "The system was meant to be fair at the time, but today it is unfair for the democracy that we are. I predict Harris will win by 10 million votes. And yet she may still lose."

Also this week, we interviewed Sean Baker, whose latest film Anora has been creating Oscars buzz after picking up the Palme d'Or in Cannes, took a look at the real life successions unfolding at some of the wealthiest companies in the world, and spoke to Jane Rosenburg, who has spent four decades sketching some of the most famous faces to pass through the U.S. judicial system, from Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán to Donald Trump and Harvey Weinstein.

We hope you enjoy this selection of articles from EL PAÍS USA Edition

You can also read:

• The business magnates’ long goodbye: How the world’s richest people are planning their succession.
• The dodo was not fat and clumsy: Study debunks the image we have of the most famous extinct bird.
• Drunk butterflies and inebriated elephants: Animals also consume alcohol.
• Largest cancer atlas to date brings new treatments for incurable tumors closer.
• Why seven out of 10 entrepreneurial ideas fail.
• The singer who blackmailed Spain.
• ‘Tragedy of absolutely incredible dimensions’: Death toll continues to rise after flash flooding in Spain.