The nature vs. nurture gender debate
Welcome to my advanced English blog for C1 and C2 levels. Try to practice your English as much as you can with the different links and documents. And remember...where there´s a will there´s a way...and "Ain´t no mountain high enough"
The nature vs. nurture gender debate
Deep work summary video:
Here you have some C1 ESL podcasts you can use to practice your listening skill while revising vocabulary and topicss. And you can also take advantage of the pdf document to boost your pronunciation:
Phrasal verbs about health pdf script
Emotional Intelligence pdf script
Idioms about clothes pdf script
American vs. British English pdf script
Making a good first impression pdf script
MEDIATION VIDEO:
C1 SPEAKING PRACTICE:
ORAL MEDIATION (J-19) PTO (J-19) CPTO (J-19)
ORAL MEDIATION (S-19) PTO (S-19) CPTO (S-19)
I hope we can learn a lot and have some fun together.
26 SEPTEMBER IS THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF EUROPEAN LANGUAGES:
20 things you might now know about the world of languages
This is the ice-breaking activity to get to know one another a little bit: 30/35:
200 questions to really get to know someone
And here you have the curricular description of C2 and C1
This is an extract from the DAILY SHOW , a funny way to to be up to date with international news:
Here you have some prestigious tv series and films that tackle different aspects of American and British society and will help you keep your English alive while staying in touch with contemporary issues:
MASS MEDIA
The newsroom (News) HBO
Succession (Media moguls) HBO
Mad Men (Advertising) Amazon
HISTORY
The Knick (history of medicine) HBO
Band of Brothers ( War World II) HBO
Deadwood (Wild West) HBO
Boardwalk Empire (Prohibition) HBO
POLITICS
House of Cards Netflix
The West Wing Amazon
Vice Amazon
The Plot against America HBO
The man in the High Castle Amazon
FINANCES
The Laundromat Netflix
The Spider´s Web Youtube
SOCIAL ISSUES
The Marvellous Mrs. Maisel Amazon
Years and Years HBO
This is Us Amazon
The Wire (HBO)
Susan David on Getting through the pandemic with greater wisdom
Right now we are facing one
of the biggest challenges in our lives: a global pandemic which is forcing us
to stay within our homes or distance ourselves from our family, friends, and
neighbors. It’s a time full of uncertainty, anxiety, and sadness, and it’s easy
to get overwhelmed with these tough emotions.
On the one hand, we might obsessively brood on our feelings, struggling to sleep in the face of discouraging statistics or overthinking a minor quarrel with a spouse. On the other, we might bottle our emotions, blindly pursuing a sense of normalcy that right now doesn’t truly exist, or rationalizing our way out of them (“I shouldn’t be sad.”). Our culture often dictates the idea that natural emotions are either good or bad, positive or negative, and we can find ourselves forcing happiness rather than observing how we are actually feeling. Now, don’t get me wrong. I’m not anti-happiness. I like being happy. I’m a pretty happy person. But when we push aside normal emotions to embrace false positivity, we lose our capacity to develop skills to deal with the world as it is, not as we wish it to be. Now is not the time for white-knuckled control. Instead, it’s the time to cultivate the wisdom and courage to move forward with emotional agility.
The pyramid model I’ve developed (above) illustrates the critical steps we can follow to deal with both the reality of our present and the emotions that come with this reality, in a healthy way. The steps outlined can leave us more resilient and stronger than ever.
Our time on this earth is all
too short and all too precious. Life is asking us all right now–are you agile?
Let the answer be an unreserved “yes.” It’s a yes borne of a correspondence
with your own heart–in seeing yourself for who you truly are. Because in seeing
yourself, you are also able to see others, too: the only sustainable way
forward in a fragile, beautiful world.