Friday, 25 September 2026

Dictionary Skills KEY

Check your ansewrs HERE.

A 100 Other Words for "ISSUES"

You can see them all HERE too.

Wednesday, 23 September 2026

Football Frenzy

Play football-themed puzzles from the New York Times Gameplay archives for free. 
Available through September 30.

Negative (Mean, Jealous and Narrow-Minded) Personality Traits

 


100 Confusing Word Pairs

Read them more clearly HERE.

Highlight the ones you find quite difficult. 

You should check pronunciation in many of them!

Tuesday, 22 September 2026

Used to vs Would

 

Types of Laughter

Transitive Verbs

Dictionary Skills

Let's get down to work with the monolingual dictionary you're used to working with. 

Try and do this activity.

Key next Friday

Especially vs Specially

Monday, 21 September 2026

Celebrate European Day of Languages with us!

C1 & C2 BBC Ideas

Ideas

Short Films for Curious Minds
Watch ONE video you find interesting and be ready to talk to your classmates about it for 2 mins. next week.

Get my British Accent (British RP) By Lucy

What you'll work through:
Warm-up techniques to train your jaw, lips and tongue
Every Modern RP vowel sound, including the tricky ones that trip everyone up
The notorious th sounds and how to stop substituting them
How sounds blend together in fast, natural speech
Word stress, sentence stress and the rhythm that makes you sound genuinely British
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This isn't a quick lesson you watch once and forget. It's the kind of resource you come back to and work through section by section.Shadow the example sentences. Repeat the tongue twisters. Test yourself with the quizzes. Real progress comes from doing the work, and I've laid all of it out for you.

Saturday, 19 September 2026

EL PAÍS News in English

Zohran Mamdani: ‘I will leave it to others to label me’


Dear readers, ‌

This week we published an exclusive, wide-ranging interview with New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani, who despite leading a progressive wave in the Democratic Party in the U.S. prefers to downplay his anti-Trump reputation: "I’ve been very clear that I have a wide range of disagreements with the president. On immigration, for example. I’ve told him directly that ICE is an agency that operates with cruelty and inhumanity. It should be abolished," he told EL PÁIS.

September 11 marked the 25th anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on New York, a city famous for its constant reinvention. Photographer David Monderer was in a chance position on that fateful morning to capture what turned out to be one of the final shots of the Twin Towers, and the aftermath of the airplane impacts on the World Trade Center.

We also traveled to the pro-Russian region of Transnistria in Moldova, a country on the path to EU membership, looked at the widening inequality gap in Cuba and pondered the question on everybody's minds in the age of AI: should we genuinely fear the technology rising up?

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

You can also read:

Advanced Adjectives for Physical Appearance

Friday, 18 September 2026

Sonrisas Harmony GIG

Don't miss the celebration of the European Day of Languages (26th)!

Attend the concert with Sonrisas Harmony, A Cappella Choir, on Sep. 29th at 7 pm at the Assembly Hall!

Save the date!

Used To vs. Be Used To vs. Get Used To

Read more explana-tions, examples, typical mistakes and a quiz HERE.

KEY to Activities. Dictionaries: Monolingual or Bilingual?

Check your answers HERE.

Character Traits

You can find all of them in groups according to meaning, 

some translated and some extras HERE.

Thursday, 17 September 2026

Rainy Season

Personality Words

Think about one person you know who fits each adjective. 

Adjectives to Describe Personality

Wednesday, 16 September 2026

Class Presentations

Next week we're starting students' presentations about any topic you choose. Remember: 5 mins. maximum and you may use handouts or powerpoint presentations [tell me beforehand]

Have you already decided which presentation to give?

Think of hobbies, interests, trips, ...
We're looking forward to hearing you!!!

Personality Adjectives

How would you describe yourself:

· for a date?

· in your CV?

· at a job interview?

Find answers and learn 150+ useful adjectives to describe yourself or someone’s personality.

The Role of Memory in Learning and Language Acquisition

MEMORY & LEARNING Bulletin of the JALT Mind, Brain, and Education SIG Volume 12, Issue 2 | ISSN 2434-1002 | Feb 1, 2026 

Tuesday, 15 September 2026

Recommend, Demand, Insist, Suggest, Request, Propose

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