Monday, 16 February 2026

Celebrating Women in Traditionally Male-Dominated Professions

Women’s Week Special Panel

As part of Women’s Week, we are organizing a small panel discussion to highlight and give visibility to women working in professions that have traditionally been male-dominated.

We kindly ask you to think of your students and encourage those who fit this profile to participate. 

The panel will take place on Thursday, March 11 at 6:00 PM.

Each participant will prepare a presentation featuring 20 photos, which they will present in 6 minutes. After the presentations, we will open a brief Q&A session with the audience.

The goal of this event is to create a space where participants can share their experiences, reflect on their professional journeys, and speak about the challenges they have faced along the way.

By showcasing their stories, we hope to inspire others and continue building a more inclusive and diverse professional landscape.

If interested, tell me and I will provide you with the contact.  

Thank you very much!

Phonological Properties of Sounds

280 Synonyms

Sunday, 15 February 2026

It's Carnival


Try these Oxford activities and enjoy them.

Speaking & Listening

Dictionary

Saturday, 14 February 2026

What is Love?

Select 2 Sentences and 2 Pictures and be ready to explain why you chose them next Tue. or Thurs. with Tim. 

Fall In Love With 14 Captivating Valentine’s Day Words

EL PAÍS (News in English)

Faltering trust in the US


Dear readers,

In an interview at the Élysée Palace, French President Emmanuel Macron said that “it is time for Europe to wake up, to emerge from its status as a geopolitical minority. If we do not decide for ourselves, we will be swept away.” As part of that wake-up call, there is some renewed support for the idea of a European army to reduce dependence on an increasingly unreliable United States.

In the Western Hemisphere, Trump's impact on regional politics is being acutely felt in Cuba, where leaders appear increasingly open to talks as the island's economy nears the breaking point. And Mexico wants answers following new evidence that a large amount of military-grade weapons are being trafficked into the country from Arizona.

This week we also analyzed media-grabbing claims about a cure for pancreatic cancer, and revisited the mystery of the famous Gelman art collection.

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

You can also read:

Friday, 13 February 2026

Friday the 13th




Friday the 13th.

Bono Social Eléctrico (Oral Mediation)

Bono Social Eléctrico


Key next week

Emergency Rucksack (Written Mediation Activity) KEY

KEY to last week's written mediation activity (translation included)

C1 The Causative

 
If you don't want to revise have + sth + done and just learn new grammar, you can watch from 5'36'' to 13'36''. But I do advise to watch the whole video, which explains causative clearly and effectively.

Thursday, 12 February 2026

Stress Change: Nouns (1st syllable) or Verbs (last syllable)

Words with a stress change between the noun and verb forms:

conduct
refuse ...

Another 
list & 
Practice 

Love Idioms

Wednesday, 11 February 2026

Tuesday, 10 February 2026

Monday, 9 February 2026

LAW: Crime & Punishment

You can find extra activities dealing with the topic here.

C2 (& C1) Job / Work Vocabulary

Work 

Vocabulary (6 pages)

Saturday, 7 February 2026

EL PAÍS (News in English)

A dispute as old as the nation


Dear readers,

The deaths of Alex Pretti and Renee Good, shot by federal agents in Minneapolis, have accelerated a legislative offensive in Democratic-led states to demand accountability for violations of constitutional rights. But the recent tensions are the latest manifestation of a dispute as old as the nation itself: the resistance of local power against a federal center that periodically tries to govern by imposition.

This week we also look at how the much-anticipated meeting between Donald Trump and Gustavo Petro played out, and what it means for the Colombian leader ahead of presidential elections later this year.

We also spoke with AI expert and Turing Award winner Yoshua Bengio, who discussed the future risks posed by fast-learning systems that have been known to deliberately ignore human instructions.

And speaking of superhuman feats, meet "Super López," an 81-year-old man who started running in his sixties and whose record-setting races have doctors studying him to learn more about the limits of the human body.

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

You can also read:

About names and restaurants...

Friday, 6 February 2026

Emergency Rucksack (Written Mediation Activity)

Emergency Rucksack TASK 

(Key next week)

Crime & Law

Do the suggested activities after reading the infographic below. 

Wind

Wednesday, 4 February 2026

Your English: Idioms: money | Onestopenglish


Beyond Fluency: Helping C2 Learners Level Up Their English Skills (by Alex Warren)

In his blog series on teaching C2-level learners, National Geographic Learning’s Alex Warren examines how we can challenge and “level up” learners by using activities that push them out of their comfort zone and develop their communication skills as well as their language skills.