Answers to homework

Check your answers to activities from pp 31 & 32 here.

International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women

Combat Violence against Women

Monográficos at the EOI

Within the courses offered this academic year, we have one dealing with conversation given by a native speaker. More info here.

Vocabulary review Unit 2

Check your vocabulary of the unit filling in these sentences with words and phrases from the unit. Good luck!

Your English: Collocations: slight | Onestopenglish

Your English: Collocations: slight | Onestopenglish

About English Idioms

Interesting Blog to Visit
English is full of funny expressions that don't always make sense. What do they mean? How do we use them? And where did they come from? Those are some of the questions we try to answer at About English Idioms.

Returns and Refunds

On English Page you can find loads of exercises. I suggest this one about returns and refunds. Try it and check your answers!

Listen and Read, Learn English

Elena (San Javier EOI Avanzado 2 teacher) suggests we should visit this website to Listen and Read English... and it's a good piece of advice. Thanks Elena!!!

Giving your opinion & Agreeing

Review the activity done in class about giving opinions & agreeing. The part of Agreeing was not seen in class and is worth being read.

Plain White T's - Hey There Delilah

Lyrics here

Stephen Fry Kinetic Typography LANGUAGE

Spanish English

Learn about Spanish English on Macmillan Blog

Global Voices

Watch this video by Macmillan on Global Voices and listen to David Crystal talking on the subject.
Even though both videos have to do with the presentation of a new course for adult learners by the publishers, they're an excellent way to introduce this year and to make us realise why study English and what English to study.
Yes, definitely: we're going to study English by practising the four skills and we'll be helped with some grammar and loads of vocabulary.
Welcome!!!

Newsy

On NEWSY select the piece of news you want to watch / hear, listen to it as many times as necessary and then listen to it once more reading the transcript. Easy!!!

elllo Listening Practice

Get listening practice on elllo advanced page: these listenings can be fast, long, and/or complicated.

Using a noun entry

A difficult activity from Oxford Collocations Dictionary. Key soon.

Phrasal Verbs

More phrasal verbs (up & down) you should know; and the KEY to the phrasal verb activity blogged on 22 March.

Bill Bryson: The story of the electric light

For centuries, we hunched over candles after dark. Then gas and electricity arrived – and the world lit up. In the latest extract from his new book, the acclaimed writer reveals the bizarre story of how artificial light came to transform our lives

Read this Bill Bryson's writing on the Guardian. It's a good read.

Are our brains built for languages?

Learning a language is no easy task. Like optical illusions, language can play tricks on the brain, explained New York University psychologist Gary Marcus at a lecture at the American Museum of Natural History in New York. Simple syntactic ambiguities, he argued, throw a wrench into prevalent theories that the human brain is well evolved—or even optimally evolved—for language.
Read this article about the brain and languages; it's interesting!
You can read more articles on CELT.

Mind & Brain(s) VOCAB

Mind and brain vocabulary for you to highlight (from collocation, mono and bilingual dictionaries)

No class on Monday 10th May

Tomorrow's lesson will be on Thursday. See you on Wednesday

QUIZ

Try this 14-question Total English Quiz to revise your art, music, photograph vocabulary. Key on p. 2.

Macmillan Buzz Words: Eco-bling

What does ECOBLING mean?

Global Warming in YAPPR

See an informative video about global warming with subtitles here.

Say goodbye to GOOD and NICE

Find other ways to express exciting and interesting events, people, experiences...

Be my friend...

Voc to talk about friends and friendships.

By Diane Nicholls, editor of MacMillan Dictionary Thesaurus.

Would you agree with Tom Harel?

This EzineArticles.com author writes about The 5 Best Countries to Live In.

If you enjoy football...

... read about the classic in Guardian's La Liga.

Globish: the worldwide dialect of the third millennium

More than a lingua franca, the rapid adoption of 'decaffeinated English', according to the man who coined the term 'Globish', makes it the world's most widely spoken language.
Read this Guardian's Robert McCrum's interesting article on "Globish"

Voc Review Unit 8 KEY

Check your answers here.