Monday 21 October 2024
C2 Limericks
Limerick (Rhythm & Intonation)
Limerick Examples: Funny Famous Poems
Uncover your artistic talents and write a limerick! We'll be reading them in class (any topic) before Christmas.
News in English EL PAÍS
US election enters final stretch
Dear readers,
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are stepping up efforts to win over voters as the November 5 election fast approaches. The Democrat appeared on Fox News for a heated interview, where she pledged her administration would be different to Biden's. Trump, meanwhile, held a town hall with Latino voters, avoiding all mention of his plans to launch a mass deportation operation.
In other news, Mexico's former public security secretary, Genaro García Luna, was sentenced to 38 years in prison for collaborating with the Sinaloa Cartel for more than two decades. He will be the first high-ranking Mexican official to serve a sentence in a U.S. prison.
We also spoke to scientists about DNA research claiming to prove Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Spain, interviewed tech guru Stephen Ibaraki about the future of AI, and examined why billionaires are building mansions on top of skyscrapers.
We hope you enjoy this selection of stories from EL PAÍS USA Edition.
Dear readers,
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump are stepping up efforts to win over voters as the November 5 election fast approaches. The Democrat appeared on Fox News for a heated interview, where she pledged her administration would be different to Biden's. Trump, meanwhile, held a town hall with Latino voters, avoiding all mention of his plans to launch a mass deportation operation.
In other news, Mexico's former public security secretary, Genaro García Luna, was sentenced to 38 years in prison for collaborating with the Sinaloa Cartel for more than two decades. He will be the first high-ranking Mexican official to serve a sentence in a U.S. prison.
We also spoke to scientists about DNA research claiming to prove Christopher Columbus was a Sephardic Jew from Spain, interviewed tech guru Stephen Ibaraki about the future of AI, and examined why billionaires are building mansions on top of skyscrapers.
We hope you enjoy this selection of stories from EL PAÍS USA Edition.
You can also read:
- Non-alcoholic beer: Tom Holland’s new business venture after almost three years of sobriety
- Compare the presidential candidates’ policy platforms
- Why is excessive optimism worse than being sad?
- ‘Sexopause’: What happens to women’s sexual desire during menopause?
- What sports science has to say about CrossFit, a challenge for transforming bodies and minds?
- From self-driving cars in 2017 to a million robotaxis in 2020: Will the Cybercab be another one of Elon Musk’s unfulfilled promises?
Saturday 19 October 2024
Friday 18 October 2024
Collocation Time
First read about collocations and advanced collocations a bit... and then take the quiz!
Time Collocations Quiz
... if you still think this was not enough, check collocations on the right column labels.
Time Collocations Quiz
... if you still think this was not enough, check collocations on the right column labels.
Thursday 17 October 2024
Wednesday 16 October 2024
Tuesday 15 October 2024
Monday 14 October 2024
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
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’
Saturday 12 October 2024
Friday 11 October 2024
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
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)
- achieve [fame, fortune, glory, orgasm]
- achieve the [highest, best, lowest]
- (can) achieve your [goals, dreams, desires, true potential]
- achieve your [personal, financial, weight, career] goals
- achieve the [minimum, maximum]
- achieve a better [result, outcome]
- achieve [greater, higher, maximum][efficiency]
- achieve [greater] [efficiency, effectiveness, performance, quality]
- achieve [perfection, success, excellence]
- striving to achieve [success, her goals]
- achieve by any means [necessary, possible]
- (can be) achieved through [hard work, dedication]
- the [mission, objective, goal] has been achieved
- [never, already] achieved before
- [hard, difficult, tough, impossible, easy] to achieve
- students [do not, are struggling to, barely] achieve in school
- what (do) you want to achieve in life
- what it is that you [really, most] want to achieve
- what you hope to achieve (by)
- there is [nothing, little] to be achieved by
FULFILL (verb)
- does not fulfill the (minimum) requirements
- in order to fulfill the requirements (necessary) for
- fulfilled his promise (to)
- fulfill the needs of
- fulfill your [obligations, duties, responsibilities]
- fulfilled its mission
- fulfill [certain, all] requirements
- a failure to fulfill [certain] requirements
- fulfilled the role of
- is fulfilled by
- finally fulfilled his dream to [be, become, go]
- [was not able to, couldn't] fulfill his ambition
- fulfill yourself [with, by, through]
- fulfilled the prophecy
- the prophecy is being fulfilled
- will process and fulfill your order within [one week]
- work [overtime, round the clock] to fulfill the order
- fulfilled the order on [Monday]
- fulfill all orders within [one week]
- not enough [stock, inventory] to fulfill orders
ATTAIN (verb)
- attain your [goals, objectives, dreams]
- attain [success, proficiency, enlightenment]
- attain the highest level of [achievement, excellence, recognition]
- attained the [age, rank] of
- [easy, difficult, hard] to attain
- attain speeds of (up to) [150 mph]
Check different meanings here.
All Collocations here.
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 ...
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Thursday 10 October 2024
Personality adjectives
Wednesday 9 October 2024
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.
Tuesday 8 October 2024
Monday 7 October 2024
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.
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
Saturday 5 October 2024
Friday 4 October 2024
C1 Personality Adjectives Revision
Revise PERSONALITY ADJECTIVES taking this QUIZ. [Answers and more on page 2]
Spot the intrusive noun in the above Wordle!
Thursday 3 October 2024
Wednesday 2 October 2024
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?
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