How Happy are you?

Idioms Teachers Use Naturally

Formal vs Informal English

🎉 2,000,000 Visits — Thank You All! 🎉

I’m absolutely thrilled to share some wonderful news with all of you: our C1 & C2 English learning blog has reached an incredible milestone—2,000,000 visits!

This achievement isn’t just a number; it’s a reflection of a passionate community of learners who are dedicated to improving their English, expanding their horizons, and striving for excellence. Every visit, every comment, every shared post has helped build something truly special.

From the bottom of my heart, thank you to each and every one of you who has taken the time to read, learn, and grow with this blog. Your enthusiasm and commitment are what make this project so meaningful and rewarding.

Let’s not stop here! 🚀

Keep challenging yourselves, keep exploring new ideas, and most importantly—keep on learning. The journey to mastering English at an advanced level is exciting, and I’m so glad we’re on it together.

Here’s to many more milestones ahead! 🥂

2,000,000 Visits!!!

I can hardly believe it!!!

In only one year and three months the number of visits to the blog has doubled!

We've reached 2,000,000 visits

Lucy's 15-question idioms quiz

Fair warning: it starts out quite easy but it gets harder as you go. Some of the later questions are genuinely tricky. If you get all 15, I'll be seriously impressed.

Take the TEST

[I got 14/15]

Work & Childhood Regrets (3rd Conditional Practice)

Expressing Opinion

Expressing Opinion

Earth Idioms

Earth Idioms EXPLAINED and with Examples

C1 & C2 June Exams REMINDER

Written Exam days in June:

C1: Wed. 10th classroom 7 at 16.30
C2: Mon. 22nd classroom 1 at 16.30

Administración de la parte oral

Orals:

Write your name (with your classmate pair if you have it) and the day & time you choose for your final oral exam. I'll be writing your names and days & times on this post as I receive your answers in the Comment Section. (Just like we did in May)

C1

Tuesday 16th, classroom 2

16.00-16.45: Antonio P. &

16.45-17.30:

17.30-18-15: Víctor & 

18.30-19.15: Gonzalo &

C2

Thursday 18th, classroom 2

17.30-18.15: Daniel & Manuel

Tools & Equipment 2

C2 Modern English Slang

Talk about Travel

Advanced Comparatives 2

Technology & the Future of Jobs

Check your answer to the activity Technology & the Future of Jobs HERE.

Native Speakers Never Use These 16 Phrases

Find it in pdf. format HERE.

Natural Disasters

EL PAÍS (News in English)

Million-dollar fines for migrants

Dear readers,

As part of Donald Trump's immigration policy, more than 65,000 migrants have received letters imposing unaffordable penalties that together total $36 billion. Organizations and experts have called the measure unconstitutional, extraordinarily cruel, and a form of psychological torture.

Meanwhile, in Colombia, it is the super-wealthy who are emigrating as an election looms in which some members of the financial elite fear that the left will be reinforced in power: "My life plans can’t depend on an election."

This week we also spoke with renowned longevity expert Juan Carlos Izpisua, who was one of the co-founders of the secretive research center Altos Labs. The scientist told us about the latest insights into the aging process: "It is a loss of identity at the cellular level."

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

You can also read:

• Spain’s unique Mar Menor, 10 years after infamous pollution episode: From the ‘green soup’ to ‘a tiny Mediterranean’
• Plus Ultra conversations place Delcy Rodríguez at the center of the operation: ‘Have her call Ábalos, or someone with Zapatero’
• The contradiction of AI in cinema: Creators fear it, but the market and the industry embrace it

How Old Are You?

Shall & Will

Measure Words

Advanced Speaking Tips

Subject-Verb Agreement

Revise Idioms

cold shoulder: an unfriendly attitude shown to someone or something, especially by intentionally ignoring or showing no interest in them:

give someone / something the cold shoulder His wife was angry and giving him the cold shoulder.

get the cold shoulder The young entrepreneur got the cold shoulder from the business establishment.

Smart English

Talk about Money

Shhhh!

Technology & the Future of Jobs

Read this article about Technology and the Future of Jobs and do the suggested activities. 

KEY next Saturday.

OPINION

EL PAÍS (News in English)

Raúl Castro indictment /ɪnˈdaɪt.mənt/ shows how far Trump is willing to go in Cuba

Dear readers,

All eyes are on Cuba after the Donald Trump administration indicted /ɪnˈdaɪtɪd/ Raúl Castro for the deaths of four people in the shooting down of two civilian planes in 1996. The move against the 94-year-old former president is a decisive step in plans to force regime change on the island.

The other big story this week was in Spain, where former prime minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero has been accused of influence peddling in a probe linked to the Spanish government's €53 million ($57.2 million) bailout of the airline Plus Ultra. This is the first time since Spain's transition to democracy that a former prime minister has been investigated for corruption.

We also examined why Colombian bodyguards are in such high demand, spoke with the German journalist who infiltrated a neo-Nazi group, and looked at why locals are furious about the renovations carried out at one of Spain's oldest hotels.

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

You can also read:

• ‘No vaccines, no treatment and in a conflict zone’: Why this Ebola outbreak is ‘very worrying’
• Generational rejection of AI? Why are university students booing big tech at graduation ceremonies?
• False memories: Why our mind reconstructs the past