Advanced Suffixes

Erasmus Days in EOI CT

You are invited to our Erasmus Days.

"-ion" Pronunciation

Click here to listen to words ending in "-sion" pronounced /-ʒən/

Speaking Tips

You can download it in pdf format here. [Thanks Antonio!]

Silent Letters (3)

News in English EL PAÍS

The growing destructive power of hurricanes

Dear readers,

As Milton made landfall in Florida less than a month after Helene, we looked at a new report that seems to confirm scientists' warning that climate change driven by human activities is making hurricanes increasingly destructive.

This week marked the first anniversary of the October 7 attacks by Hamas in Israel. It has been a year of horror, and the region is facing its most dangerous moment in decades.

In another war-torn part of the world, our Ukraine correspondent explored how people - and public services - are dealing with the anxiety, depression and post-traumatic stress disorder resulting from the Russian invasion.

This week we also analyzed how FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) has become China's response to get around the growing wall of Western trade restrictions against massive — and heavily subsidized — exports.

Keep reading to find out how our brain's default mode network may be the nerve center of human creativity, and how Meryl Streep and Martin Short became an unlikely Hollywood couple.

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

You can also read:

• Rafael Nadal announces his retirement: ‘A thousand thanks to everyone’
• The future of maritime transport: Electric ships that can carry hundreds of containers and thousands of people
• Life at a company with a four-day workweek: ‘Mondays don’t wear me out anymore’
• How do I use AI? Eight real-world examples two years on from ChatGPT
• This scientist studied her own brain to explain why the benefits of a good night’s sleep can be felt 15 days later
• Sabine Hossenfelder, physicist: ‘If you trust the mathematics, we are immortal’

C1 20 Common Phrasal Verbs

Make one true for you sentence with each new phrasal. 

At C1 you should know them all! 

C2 Writing Essays

International Day of Libraries

Activity: “The world between the lines”

Description: on the occasion of the celebration of the International Day of Libraries, the EOI of Cartagena and the IES Isaac Peral will carry out a collaboration consisting of reading texts related to books, bookstores and libraries in various languages. The objective is to pay tribute to literature and multilingual world reality, sources, and origin of the enormous cultural wealth available to the current society. This celebration will be linked to the opening of the EOI library.

Day of Celebration: October 24, 2024 (Thursday)

Time: 11:00-12:30

Place: Assembly Hall EOI Cartagena

Culture in Cartagena

The AaEoiCt sends Agenda Cultural Cartagena so that we know what's going on in our city. 

On Fridays at 8 there are usually VO films at Ramón Alonso Luzzy. Choose your activities! 

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C2 COLLOCATIONS with Accomplish, Achieve, Attain, Fulfill, Gain & Obtain

ACHIEVE (verb)

1. achieve [fame, fortune, glory, orgasm]
2. achieve the [highest, best, lowest]
3. (can) achieve your [goals, dreams, desires, true potential]
4. achieve your [personal, financial, weight, career] goals
5. achieve the [minimum, maximum]
6. achieve a better [result, outcome]
7. achieve [greater, higher, maximum][efficiency]
8. achieve [greater] [efficiency, effectiveness, performance, quality]
9. achieve [perfection, success, excellence]
10. striving to achieve [success, her goals]
11. achieve by any means [necessary, possible]
12. (can be) achieved through [hard work, dedication]
13. the [mission, objective, goal] has been achieved
14. [never, already] achieved before
15. [hard, difficult, tough, impossible, easy] to achieve
16. students [do not, are struggling to, barely] achieve in school
17. what (do) you want to achieve in life
18. what it is that you [really, most] want to achieve
19. what you hope to achieve (by)
20. there is [nothing, little] to be achieved by

FULFILL (verb)

1. does not fulfill the (minimum) requirements
2. in order to fulfill the requirements (necessary) for
3. fulfilled his promise (to)
4. fulfill the needs of
5. fulfill your [obligations, duties, responsibilities]
6. fulfilled its mission
7. fulfill [certain, all] requirements
8. a failure to fulfill [certain] requirements
9. fulfilled the role of
10. is fulfilled by
11. finally fulfilled his dream to [be, become, go]
12. [was not able to, couldn't] fulfill his ambition
13. fulfill yourself [with, by, through]
14. fulfilled the prophecy
15. the prophecy is being fulfilled
16. will process and fulfill your order within [one week]
17. work [overtime, round the clock] to fulfill the order
18. fulfilled the order on [Monday]
19. fulfill all orders within [one week]
20. not enough [stock, inventory] to fulfill orders

ATTAIN  (verb)

1. attain your [goals, objectives, dreams]
2. attain [success, proficiency, enlightenment]
3. attain the highest level of [achievement, excellence, recognition]
4. attained the [age, rank] of
5. [easy, difficult, hard] to attain
6. attain speeds of (up to) [150 mph]

Check different meanings here.

All Collocations here.

Collocations with , ACCOMPLISHMENT, ACHIEVEMENT, ATTAIN, FULFILL, GAIN, OBTAIN, 

Vocabulary dealing with Succeeding, Achieving & Fulfilling (from CALD, 3rd Edition)

Cambridge Dictionary Games Hub

Click on Daily vocab practice and have fun. Different games: pronunciation, collocations, phrasal verbs ...

Personality adjectives

How about doing a small fill-in-the-blanks activity to review personality vocabulary? Right! First here and then here.

-AU- Pronunciation

Language Exchange

Do speak English! Meet our language assistants out of the classroom. See them and join the group of EOI students who gathers at Plaza San Francisco on Friday afternoons at 7. This year we have 2 American (Isabella and Tim), an Irish (Harriet) and a British (Lauryna) Language Assistants. Former language assistants (Wesley, Max ...) may be there as well.

Harriet (C2 on Mondays) and Tim (C1 on Tuesdays) will be our language assistants this year. 

20 Idioms Explained

Guess Who KEY

C1 Describing Character, part 4

Extrovert or introvert?

Pay special attention to the 1st paragraph --go to those links!

C2 1000 Compound Words

See them all here.

News in English EL PAÍS

Fleeing Lebanon by land, sea and air

Dear readers,

As the crisis in the Middle East continues to escalate, our columnist and political analyst Lluís Bassets explores how the ties between Donald Trump, Jared Kushner and Benjamin Netanyahu have helped lead to the current situation. And our correspondent in the region talked to people who are desperately trying to flee Lebanon. With hardly any airlines flying and seats at a premium, those with money and a Schengen visa are escaping by yacht to Cyprus.

‌In the U.S., the debate between J.D. Vance and Tim Walz will probably be remembered mostly for how cordial it was by today's standards, with the two vice-presidential contenders talking about the issues and sometimes even agreeing with one another. In practice, it may not have moved the needle too much either way ahead of the presidential election on Nov. 5.

‌In Mexico, Claudia Sheinbaum was inaugurated as the country's first ever female president. There was a lot of symbolism at the historic event, where the new leader made a point of paying tribute to all the women who came before her and fought for their rights: "I am not alone, we are all here."

‌This week we also shed light on why Bhutan is a major bitcoin power, and how Daryl Hannah moved past the cliché of “a Valkyrie who behaves like a faun.”

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

You can also read:

• Don’t underestimate juicy gossip: How rumors have dodged classism to conquer culture
• Photo essay: The magma of dreams and nightmares of the US-Mexico border wall
• A psychoanalyst in search of the logic of the absurd
• The high toll of energy drinks: Insomnia, palpitations and elevated anxiety
• Ethan Mollick, analyst: ‘Students who use AI as a crutch don’t learn anything’
• A global housing crisis is suffocating the middle class
• Get up, stand up: How a job that ties us to a chair affects our body

C1 Informal vs Formal Emails

C1 Personality Adjectives Revision

Revise PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES taking this QUIZ. [Answers and more on page 2]

Spot the intrusive noun in the above Wordle!

C1 Guessing Activity

 

KEY next week

People Idioms ANSWERS

Check your People Idioms here. 

Phonics (Vowels & Diphthongs)

Any surprise? Any word you've always mispronounced?

Highlight or write down the words you've been pronouncing wrong so far (if any).

Any new word whose meaning you didn't know?

Could you add one more word in each column?

C1 LEVEL All the grammar & vocabulary you need to learn! (By Lucy)

C1 LEVEL All the grammar & vocabulary you need to learn!

A Walk Through The Stories and Legends of Cartagena

We have been informed about the presentation of A Walk Through The Stories and Legends of Cartagena on October 2 at 7:00 p.m. at the CIM (Isaac Peral room). The introduction of the talk will be done in English. The translator adds that "the book is entirely about characters from Cartagena or those whose time in the city has been very important." The authors of those stories will also be present.

C2 Improve your Listening Skills

Read Javier Blanco's blog post.

News in English EL PAÍS

You can read:

• Spain lodged formal complaint against Mexico for snub to King Felipe
• Previously unknown population of killer whales corner sea lions and hunt dolphins in northern Chile
• New AI models like ChatGPT pursue ‘superintelligence’, but can’t be trusted when it comes to basic questions
• Everything happens for a reason: Why we are fascinated by coincidences
• Less driving, more cycling: How you commute to work impacts your health
• Is our handwriting getting worse? It’s not just technology that affects our way of writing
• Thousands of displaced people in Gaza live trapped between bombs and rising tides: ‘We could drown in our sleep’
• An ‘Olympics’ that allows doping? A billionaire’s controversial dream that could change sport forever

Fricative Love: SHE

Listen to this absolutely fantastic entry on Ana López Pozo's blog. Do the proposed activities and, of course, enjoy the beauty of the song.

On Alpozo's blog you will find plenty of extraordinarily interesting posts dealing with pronunciation and music.