The nature vs. nurture gender debate
DO we treat treat girls and boys differently?
3 RULES FOR BETTER WORK-LIFE BALANCE
PRINCIPLES OF DEEP WORK
Friday, 20 December 2024
Shakespeare, reviews, time management, and positive psychology
SHAKESPEARE (C1)
Which "to be or not to be" scene do you prefer? Kenneth Branagh´s or Mel Gibson´s?
MORGAN LEVIEN ON AGEING AND DIET
Deep work summary video:
Summary of Atomic Habits by the author
Summary of Emotional Agility by a C2 student
Monday, 4 November 2024
C1 PRACTICAL PODCASTS and C1 SPEAKING CARDS
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)
Friday, 27 September 2024
News articles with tapescript, podcasts and more
On the Saturday Night Live show you can find funny satirical stuff. These two recent videos have gone viral and become instant classics:
I´ve found a few excellent resources to practice your reading and listening skills.
The content is very interesenting too and one of them can be be used as an app on the phone
Noa app
The Conversation
On The audio long reads from the Guardian you can read and listen to the article if you open it in a new window. That way you can also practice your pronunciation.
And to find out about podcasts you might enjoy you can check out the links below:
Best podcasts to learn English C1.2
To get started and ease your way into the world of English podcasts you can also try BBC 6 minute English B2/C1.1
Best British radio and podcasts (the phone app is great) and Great ad-free US radio and podcasts C2
I recommend to listen to some podcasts intensively, focusing on the grammar and vocabulary as well as modelling your accent on the speakers´, but you should also listen to others in a more leisurely way as if you where listening to the radio. Playing a radio station in the background when doing something else can prove to be very useful too.
Free audiobooks Free audiobooks-2
Best TV shows to practice British English C1/C2
Thursday, 26 September 2024
Welcome to the 24-25 school year! My name is Juan and my email is jjgs26@educastillalamancha.es.
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:
And a video by he the former host of the Daily Show on the Southafrican accent:
If you want to keep up to date with what´s going on in our country you´d better do it in Engllish:
https://english.elpais.com/
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