Christmas Contests at the EOI

Christmas is coming and we are celebrating!!!
Click on these contests to see what we are preparing for you:

Treasure Hunt

Xmas Cards

Xmas Decorations

Xmas Desserts

Xmas Carols

Make a choice, participate and win fabulous prizes!!!

GSE Teacher Toolkit

The Global Scale of English (GSE) saves you time and improves the quality and relevance of your English classes. The GSE Teacher Toolkit gives you fast access to GSE learning objectives, grammar and vocabulary to help you plan lessons that are at the right level for your students.

Common Expressions

Choose the expressions you didn't know and write short dialogues using them in real contexts for you. Say them ALOUD paying special attention to intonation.

Happy Day!!!

Today give some thought to all these wonderful people who have made you become a person, with their knowledge, advice and love. I am positive you still remember many of them.

How to Learn Phrasal Verbs Easily

Highlights From The Condition of Education 2019

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

UN Women
Why we Must eliminate Violence against Women

SDG 5 (Sustainable Development Goal 5) 

Achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls

Targets

• End all forms of discrimination against all women and girls everywhere.
• Eliminate all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres, including trafficking and sexual and other types of exploitation.
• Eliminate all harmful practices, such as child, early and forced marriage and female genital mutilation.
• Recognize and value unpaid care and domestic work through the provision of public services, infrastructure and social protection policies and the promotion of shared responsibility within the household and the family as nationally appropriate.
• Ensure women’s full and effective participation and equal opportunities for leadership at all levels of decisionmaking in political, economic and public life.
• Ensure universal access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights as agreed in accordance with the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development and the Beijing Platform for Action and the outcome documents of their review conferences.
• Undertake reforms to give women equal rights to economic resources, as well as access to ownership and control over land and other forms of property, financial services, inheritance and natural resources, in accordance with national laws.
• Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women.
• Adopt and strengthen sound policies and enforceable legislation for the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of all women and girls at all levels.
  

Law graduate and Thai women’s rights activist Thararat Panya, 23, used her experience of sexual assault to drive change at the Thammasat University in Bangkok.

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Murcia Today

Murcia and Spanish News Round up Week Ending 22nd November
Murcia Today

FICC48

Festival Internacional de Cine de Cartagena 48

Creativity in Language Teaching

The C Group is an independent and informal grouping of EFL professionals. It aims collaboratively to share information, promote reflection and inquiry, and encourage action through more creative and open teaching practices.

The C Group BLOG
The C Group MANIFESTO

More about Creativity on these old posts:
Defining Creativity
Can Creativity be Taught?

Homework for Next Week

WRITING: Write a 150/180-word reply to the blog post on page 26 Ex. 6 mentioning your future academic / professional plans and aspirations. Use future tenses and other future forms (from Ex. 8, 9 and 10 on the same page).
START: Hi everyone  (...)  FINISH: Wish me luck!

Deadline: Mon. 25th

CLOZE ACTIVITY: Do it, please; we will check it on Wed. 27th in class

MEDIATION: Watch this video and be ready to explain it to Sandra on Wednesday: what it is about and what aim it pursues in 3 minutes.

25 Phrases to Sound Professional

Happy World Children's Day

World Children's Day 20th November

Ablaut Reduplication

More about Ablaut Reduplication

Mistakes in Essays and Informative texts (31st Oct Post)

Check your writing mistakes. Try to spot and correct them by jotting down your version below. Then check the given possibilities by "colouring" the blank lines below the sentences.
Finally revise the last pages.

Why the School system is outdated

Murcia Today

Murcia and Spanish News Round up Week Ending 15th November

Future Learn

I have done several courses on Future Learn and wanted to share this letter I received with you. For more info about MOOCs click HERE. 

Hello Miguel Angel,
There are now ten million learners using the FutureLearn platform 🎉!
All business milestones are exciting but this one is particularly special because it’s all about you.
You've turned hobbies into careers, achieved incredible professional goals, overcome personal challenges and found human connection through study.
Your stories have continuously inspired the FutureLearn team and brought us closer to our mission of creating enjoyable, social and credible learning experiences where anyone, anywhere can enjoy the transformative power of education.
Thank you for being a part of our journey so far.
We’ve broken down what ten million really means in terms of our courses, partners and learners in this post and we’d love for you to share your experience of learning with us in the comments.
You can also enter our ten million learners competition for the chance to win a free course upgrade and certificate.
Here’s to you and the next ten million.

Happy learning,
Lily and the FutureLearn team 

PS Want to discover more than one topic?

The University of Glasgow
End of Life Care: Challenges and Innovation
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Understanding Anxiety, Depression and CBT
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Digital Skills: Artificial Intelligence
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British Council
English for the Workplace
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Food as Medicine
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NHS Leadership Academy
The School for Change Agents
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Getting Care Right for All Children
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Perioperative Medicine in Action
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King's College London
Understanding ADHD: Current Research and Practice
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Human rights aspects of immigrant and refugee integration policies (2019)

“Integration policies should not pursue migration-control goals but facilitate the enjoyment of human rights and fundamental freedoms of migrants and refugees." Tomáš Bocek, Special Representative of the Secretary General on migration and refugees

Collocations

Learn collocations with IDENTIFY (verb) and FEE (noun).

Underline / Highlight the ones you find necessary for you to use and make up some true-for-you sentences using them.

TED Talks (6 - 12 mins)

3200+ talks to stir your curiosity

Find just the right one 

Ted Talks

Reduplicatives and their Meanings

Reduplicatives and their Meanings

From: Daily Writing Tips

Spanish General Election

BBC News World Europe

The Guardian

The Washington Post

The Telegraph

El País (in English)

Murcia Today

Murcia and Spanish News Roundup Week Ending 8th November

Murcia Today

Education on Dictionary.com

Education  /ˌɛdjʊˈkeɪʃən/ the act or process of imparting or acquiring general knowledge, developing the powers of reasoning and judgment, and generally of preparing oneself or others intellectually for mature life. Synonyms, examples, word origin...

A Glass of Wine?

"No, definitely not" at this time of the morning, but... Is Wine Good for you?

Politics Vocabulary

The Language of Protests

English-Spanish Glossary for Educational Settings

Glossary of English Educational terminology translated into Spanish. (American English)

Recycle at the EOI

We have two new containers for recycling at our School:

• There is a cardboard container to recycle  all type of batteries at the entrance (on the left). 
• We have another container for toner and ink cartridges. Remember to bring ONLY ORIGINAL cartridges.

This action is included within the SDG (Sustainable Development Goals); Goal 12 of the Agenda 2030 included in our project IMAGINE A: 2030.

Goal 12: Responsible consumption, production

Ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns

Achieving economic growth and sustainable development requires that we urgently reduce our ecological footprint by changing the way we produce and consume goods and resources. The efficient management of our shared natural resources, and the way we dispose of toxic waste and pollutants, are important targets to achieve this goal. Encouraging industries, businesses and consumers to recycle and reduce waste is equally important, as is supporting developing countries to move towards more sustainable patterns of consumption by 2030.

Murcia Today

Murcia and Spanish News Round up Week Ending 31st October

Youth research: the essentials (2019)

Research on youth is becoming increasingly recognised as an indispensable companion of effective, impactful policy and practice. To make it more accessible and better understood, this short text, written by members of the Pool of European Youth Researchers, co-ordinated by the EU-Council of Europe youth partnership, aspires to help the reader gain a better and immediate understanding of the purpose, scope and usefulness of research on youth. It also describes how various stakeholders in the youth field, and beyond, can make use of youth research. It does not intend to present the state of contemporary youth research, nor showcase youth research projects, but focuses on addressing specific questions such as: What is youth research? What are the theoretical influences of youth research? Why do we need youth research?

It is the authors’ wish, through this publication, to make research on youth closer and more accessible to all actors in the youth field in Europe and beyond.

Youth Partnerships