Advancing Learning: Does anyone really need to use a dictionary?

Why use a dictionary when you can Google a word? Dictionary expert Michael Rundell answers this question by looking at the strengths of lexical resources today. Onestopenglish

Aha! That's how you get genious ideas

Is this the Birthplace of Written Spanish?

BBC Travel article

Stories that Shape us

BBC News Stories

How to Swear in British

Have you ever wondered how to swear in British? Ever scratched your head over why so much is bloody shite, and why tossers hardly ever seem to do any tossing in public? Well fear no more - the very incomplete list of British insults is presented for your enlightenment. But don't be a wally. Use the list with care, or some twat might take offence.

From: Silly Bunt Funny jokes, insults, puns, pictures, memes, cartoons and gifs.

British Expressions II

50 Wierd & Confusing Facts about British Life

Murcia Today

Murcia and Spanish News Roundup Week Ending 21st June

People Fixing the World

Listen to any of these podcasts from BBC English World Service

Summer Holidays

From tomorrow (1st official day of summer), I'll keep on posting activities, pictures, infographic, videos, etc. daily for you to have a look every now and then. Do not stop using English everyday (irrespective of your marks): TV series, books, magazines, talks with friends, songs & lyrics, films, this blog, the internet... Continue enjoying the language you're studying.

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Learn about Health

Choose 10 words or phrases form this Health Vocabulary Sheet and write sentences including them. Don't write too short (or too long) sentences. If you know many of them, great! You have just revised them.

Suggested words: CPR, bedsore, C-section, cast, hives, OR, scrub up ...

Instructions for Oral Exams

INFO sobre calificaciones finales: certificación C2 o repetición de curso

Según los resultados finales en septiembre, el alumnado de C2 intensivo tiene varias opciones para el curso 2019-20:

• Si supera las 5 actividades de lengua: Certifica C2
• Si supera 3 o 4 actividades de lengua: Repite curso en C.2.2 (2ª parte de C2, 3h./semanales)
• Si supera 1 o 2 actividades de lengua: Repite el curso en C.2.1 (1ª parte de C2, 3h. semanales) o C2 intensivo (6 h. semanales)

Cambridge Writing Checklist (IELTS image)

As usual, extremely helpful advice for writing by Cambridge. Do read it.

BBC News

Donald Trump's UK Visit BBC News

Have you been getting these lyrics wrong all the time?

When you're singing along with an iconic song, fluffing the lyrics can be a disorienting experience, but it's very common. Do you know the actual words to these frequently misheard songs?

Let’s find out...

Speaking Exams

What to do and what to avoid (David Bradshaws's ESOL Blog) Even though it is referred to Cambridge exams, the essence of the post is absolutely valid for our tests too.

Pruebas de certificación

EOI Baleares C2 Sample (and KEY)

Oxford C1 Phrase List

Yes guys, you HAVE TO know ALL the words in this phrase list because it belongs to C1
Check it!!!

Sweden: how cash became more trouble than it’s worth

Do this The Guardian-OneStopEnglish Activity:

Online English Tests

Take any of these tests ... and have fun.
... nothing to do with our exams, BTW.

Test your English on Cambridge Assessment English

European Elections

BBC News

The Guardian

EAP Vocabulary

Click here for a collection of four different word lists that together provide an essential guide to the most important words to know in the field of English for Academic Purposes (EAP): OPAL (the Oxford Phrasal Academic Lexicon).

Murcia Today

Murcia Today Murcia and Spanish News Round up Week Ending 24th May

Weekly Bulletin

Binomials

Binomials

Cambridge English Proficiency Sample Papers KEYS

Reading and Use of English
Listening transcript  Listening Answer Key
Speaking (Examiner's notes)

From Bad to Worse...

Going from Bad to Worse: Talking about Things Getting Worse

30 Advanced Verbs

If you prefer to have them in a list, click here 

(and do the activity!)

Stressed Syllables

Look the words up in your dictionary and check how many right ones out of twenty.

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