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35 Common Mistakes English Learners Make

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Test your Knowledge on Halloween!

KEY HERE (+ Halloween-related phrases and expressions !)

EL PAÍS (News in English)

Trump's great persecution

Dear readers,

EL PAÍS and Puente News are launching a series that delves into Trump’s crackdown on immigrants, (...). There’s no solution in sight for workplace chaos unleashed by one of the largest immigration dragnets since the Great Depression.

Meanwhile, other people are having no trouble entering the United States: Flávio Bolsonaro and his family fled to Miami shortly after he lost the presidential runoff in Brazil, and the U.S. government issued fast-track visas for them. But he is not the only Bolsonaro to have gone the same way.

In Spain, shock and grief are giving way to questions about what led to the second major train accident in less than a year, in a country that once prided itself on its high-speed rail service. We spoke with survivors of the crash who described the moments after impact.

In more hopeful news, we look at sodium as a growing and more sustainable alternative to lithium in batteries.

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

• Audios of Spain train crash| Control center to AVE driver: Resume normal speed
• Melissa Parke, ICAN executive director: ‘The risk of nuclear war has never been higher than it is today’
• Two fatal train accidents in Spain in nine months have heightened fears about rail travel: ‘I’m going to buy a plane or bus ticket. Anything but the train’
• The prescribing cascade: the error of treating side effects with more 
• The responsibility of democracies toward global health 
• Pedro Sánchez: ‘These elections can be summed up in a very simple idea: either the past moves forward, or Spain moves forward’

Halloween Idioms

Check how many HALLOWEEN IDIOMS you know...

Adverb position in the sentence

When you have three adverbs at the end of a sentence, the right order (always after the verb and direct / indirect complement) will be: manner, place and time. 

More examples in Adverb & Adverb Phrases: position (From Cambridge Dictionary)

Sentence Adverbs

A sentence adverb is a word that modifies or comments on an entire clause or statement rather than just a single word like a verb, adjective, or noun.

Key Characteristics

Global modification: Instead of describing how an action is done, it expresses the speaker's opinion, attitude, or judgment about the whole situation.
Punctuation: They usually appear at the beginning of a sentence and are separated from the rest of the clause by a comma.
Position flexibility: While front position is most common, they can also appear in the middle or at the end of a sentence.

Position of ADVERBS

Use of Commas

Thank You for 3,500,000 Visits!

Today, I am incredibly grateful and excited to share another important milestone: 3.5 million visits to this blog!

This number means much more than visits. It represents a community of curious advanced English learners who have spent their valuable time here, exploring posts, discovering new entries, and using this tool as part of their learning process day after day, year after year.

I would like to express my most sincere thanks to each and every visitor. Your support, dedication, and enthusiasm have helped make this milestone possible.

This achievement motivates me to continue creating content, searching for useful resources, and sharing valuable information to keep you engaged with this wonderful learning tool. The most rewarding part is knowing that thousands of people around the world find value in what is published here and incorporate it into their English-learning journey.

Thank you for your trust, 

your support, and your visits.

Most Commonly Used Words Ending with "I"

Did you know that there are no English English words ending in "-i"? They tend to end in "y". However, all these are borrowings from other languages.

100 Petty Comments

You can read them all HERE!

Use of Commas with Clauses

More Exam-ples
 

"Will" vs "Going to" KEY

Check your answers here.

Extra Practice HERE.

C2 Vocabulary

Business Idioms 2

Glossary of toxic dating tactics from banksying to zombieing

Social networks and match apps have triggered new, and modified versions of old, behavior patterns, and there are dozens of new terms to identify toxic dating tactics. (From El PAÍS English Edition)

EL PAÍS (News in English)

The music star who could flip a seat in Texas

Dear readers,

In South Texas, everyone knows Bobby Pulido. He spent 31 years as a tejano and regional Mexican singer, performing solo and with his father, the legendary Roberto Pulido. Now he is the Democratic candidate for the 15th district in the midterms, but he says he is not running to turn a traditionally red state blue: “I’m not talking about colors, but about things that matter to people.”

In Brazil, which is holding its own vote this Sunday to choose the next president in a tightly contested race, the incumbent Lula da Silva is loosening the purse strings with a series of payments to poor families, transportation workers, and entrepreneurs. (...)

This week we also interviewed the French economist Thomas Piketty, who discusses the dystopian future billionaires are envisioning for the rest of us; Geoffrey Hinton, the godfather of AI; and Nikole Hannah-Jones, the journalist behind the ’1619 Project’ on slavery.

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

You can also read:

• Chinese women seek to break out of traditional roles
• Living with 230 data centers on the doorstep: ‘Nobody warned us what was going to happen’
• Scientists alarmed by dozens of whale deaths along Argentina’s coast
• Testosterone fever: the only hormone that has an ideology
• Child labor affects 3.5 million children in Mexico, with 1 million in dangerous jobs

Student Rep Election

The campaign to be class rep has just started. The election will be held next week during the last 5 minutes before the break.

C2: Wednesday 28th 

C1: Thursday 29th  

Representative Duties: 

• Serve as a mediator between the group and the teacher to solve class problems. 
• Summon the students of the group to inform them about topics referring to their rights and interests. 
• Attend Representative meetings held during the year. 

Library Timetable

Concurso de Ideas de ‘IGUALDAD’

Noche de las Ánimas

Learn about regional traditions & legends on All Saints' Eve! 

Alfonso Allepuz will tell you!

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List Of 100+ Common Adverbs By Type And With Examples (Dictionary.com)

Adverbs are incredibly common in English. You probably use hundreds of them every day, even if you’re not quite sure what an adverb is. An adverb is a word that modifies a verb, adjective, other adverbs, or adverbial phrases. There are different kinds of adverbs, which you can learn more about in our article Six Types Of Adverbs Used In The English Language. In this article, we are going to cover examples from each of six categories and how to properly use them in a sentence.

Will vs Going to

Read the theory first. 

KEY next Tuesday

Possibility, Probability, Certainty: English vs Spanish

Check different ways to express possibility. Do some grammar practice on this here.

Social Media Speaking Cards

3 Ways to Sound More British

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Borrowings from other Languages

Halloween History & Traditions