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Express Publishing Summit 2023 | Webinars

This year, we took education slow. We brought together everything that has made an impression on us in English Language Teaching today and we looked at it from start to finish. Our 14 webinars, spread over two days, guided participants through advanced, applied methodologies and fresh material that bring together everything we need in a class: motivation, exploration and joy!

I recommend watching the first one by Jenny Dooley, author of our C2 textbook, co-author of C1's and president of Express Publishing. Really worth watching! Choose some among the other presentations. I am positive more than one will arouse your interest, as they deal with interesting topics. Do not miss it if you are (or will be) a teacher.

Enjoy the webinars!!!

C1 Environment Collocations

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Do these environment activities from English Collocations in Use Advanced by Felicity O'Dell & Michael McCarthy CAMBRIDGE.

Key to exercises here.

C2 Cha-Ching! Here Are The Key Crypto Terms To Explain Digital Currencies

Over the past couple years, there has been a lot of buzz around cryptocurrency. The nations of El Salvador and the Central African Republic have even gone so far as to adopt a cryptocurrency as one of their official currencies. However, for those of us who are old school and still use classic dollars and cents, cryptocurrency and its related lingo can be kind of confusing. We are going to break down the language around the hype... (from dictionary.com)

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/ɒf əv/

He works five miles off of the shore. /ɒfəv/

Some gyms' staff put people off of  /ɒfəv/ them.

The jokes allowed me to put my mind off of /ɒfəv/ the exam.

Can't you get your mind off of her? /ɒfəv/

OFF	OF
Separation or disconnection	Relationship between things
Opposite of “on”	Belonging, made of, contains, or point of reckoning
Used as an adverb or preposition	Used as a preposition
Part of a phrasal verb	Can appear in numbers, percents, ages, or dates

EL PAÍS in English

 

Dear readers,

The "catastrophic implosion" of the Titan submersible dominated the news this week, but EL PAÍS also reconstructed the 11-hour-long search for survivors of the fishing trawler that sank in Greek waters on June 14 and is considered among the biggest migrant tragedies in the Mediterranean.

We also interviewed an Estonian Foreign Ministry official on the subject of the Ukraine war, and asked psychologist Robert J. Sternberg about ways to stimulate intelligence and creativity.

This week we also bring you a look at how Cairo's ancient City of the Dead is in danger from urban development, and a feature on the fascinating life of Bess Houdini, the escape artist's wife.

We hope you enjoy this selection of articles from EL PAÍS USA Edition. Thanks for reading.

You can also read:

• The power of stillness to reduce stress and slow ageing
• Alcaraz wins Queen’s Club final for 1st title on grass and reclaims top ranking ahead of Wimbledon
• Key (and not so obvious) tips on how to sleep more and better
• Don’t yell at the child: Neuroscience shows us how to educate in the 21st century

Dad Jokes

Learn about Dad Jokes! You might find them funny!

Social Media and Youth Mental Health 23

Social Media and Youth Mental Health (The U.S. Surgeon General’s Advisory)

A good read!

C1 & C2 September Written Exam Dates + Times

Talking about approximate numbers and amounts

We often need to talk about amounts and numbers that are not exact, either because an exact figure isn’t needed or because we don’t know it. This post looks at some words and phrases for doing this. Cambridge Dictionary Blog (By Liz Walter)

Do this activity (Just pp. 1 & 2)

Today ...

Sheffield accent named best in Britain

Nah then, a study has revealed that Sheffield is the world’s favourite accent in Britain, but who’s surprised – we already know it’s reyt good. (By Kirsty Hamilton, from The Star)

EL PAÍS in English

You can read:

• Drought turns one of Spain’s largest lagoons into a salt desert
• Isaac Asimov’s disturbing message for 21st-century humankind
• ChatGPT achieves in six months what Facebook needed a decade to do: The meteoric rise of the AI chatbot
• Sara López, gynecologist: ‘Women who do not want to have children must be made visible’
• Why do we wake up earlier and earlier as we get older?

La Escuela de Idiomas ofertará 3.000 plazas y cursos de inglés para hostelería y comercios en Cartagena

El próximo año también sacará programas para aprender valenciano, chino y japonés, así como intensivos para lograr en un año los niveles B1 y B2

Lee aquí el artículo publicado hoy en La Verdad

Race for Life

Tomorrow Race for Life. 

Glossary of LGBTQ Terms

June is Pride Month in the United States and around the world. Pride, formerly known as Gay Pride, is a recognition of LGBTQ identity, affirmation of equal rights, and celebration of visibility, dignity, and diversity in the LGBTQ community.

Statement on AI Risk

AI experts and public figures express their concern about AI risk. (https://www.safe.ai/statement-on-ai-risk)

The succinct statement below aims to ... open up discussion. It is also meant to create common knowledge of the growing number of experts and public figures who also take some of advanced AI’s most severe risks seriously.

An introduction to ChatGPT: uses and what makes it a unique AI chatbot

Future Learn explains ChatGPT on their Blog. Read it here. Discover its power as we look into the current status of ChatGPT, its uses, ethical implications, and what makes it unique.

EL PAÍS in English

Dear readers,

Trump's indictment on federal charges dominated the news this week. We analyzed how a grand jury is more likely to produce such an outcome than other legal avenues, and traveled to Miami where TV crews are camped outside the courthouse where he will be arraigned.

We also interviewed Ecuador's ex-president Rafael Correa, talked to a Harvard psychologist about how we're turning our children into robots, looked at Japan's growing problem with its aging population, and went on a very special trip to Brazil's Amazon rainforest.

We hope you enjoy this selection of articles from EL PAÍS USA Edition. Thanks for reading.

You can also read:

• How four children survived 40 days in the Amazon on their own: Lesly’s mission and the secrets of the jungle
• ‘The Culture of Narcissism’: I don’t kiss myself because I can’t reach
• Is ChatGPT the end of programmers? ‘It’ll make them more efficient, not replace them’
• From the hills of Barcelona to the beaches of Ibiza: why do sunsets fascinate us?

C1 June Final Marks

Check your results here.

A Murcian or a Martian? ET Anyway...

‘This boy was born to be No 1’: the making of Carl(it)os Alcaraz (The Guardian)

C2 June Final Marks

Check your results here.

EL PAÍS in English

Dear readers,

This week we bring you two in-depth investigations. The first is a collaborative effort with other news outlets into the February shipwreck of a migrant boat off Italian shores that left over 90 people dead. The other is a series of first-person accounts by journalists fighting to keep holding government to account in Nicaragua, El Salvador and Guatemala.

We also talked with NASA chief Bill Nelson about water on the Moon, with Italy's Deputy PM Matteo Salvini about the possibility of a right-wing coalition in Europe, and with 'Succession' creator Jesse Armstrong about how Brexit and Donald Trump helped shape the HBO series.

Finally, we explored the immense but not so well-known musical talent of Federico García Lorca and the captivating neo-Mudéjar buildings of Barcelona.

We hope you enjoy this selection of articles from EL PAÍS USA Edition. Thanks for reading.

You can also read:

• On second thought, it is funny: Comedians and philosophers find common ground
• The rise, fall and reinvention of memes
• A woman immune to pain and anxiety opens new avenues for treatment of injuries and stress

A quick guide to speaking C2 English (By Natalialzam)

I tend to make the claim in class that no native speaker usually speaks English like you’re required to speak in a C2 exam. Probably, this is the realm of academic language, the news, literature, and royalty, perhaps. Fair enough. But what can you do to sound more ‘C2-ish’? (By Natalialzam)

El Consejero de Educación de la CARM habla sobre las enseñanzas en EEOOII de la Región

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C1 & C2 Oral Test Samples & Tips for Mediation

Oral production

Oral interaction

Oral mediation

Consejos para mediar fotografías, textos y gráficos