Some peculiarities of the English language are on occasion noted by its speakers, as is the case with the use of because here, or the prevalence of the midwestern accent, disputed pronunciations of New Nork placenames and piles of misused words and expressions.
Friday, October 16, 2015
Wednesday, October 14, 2015
Speaking activities in Madrid
Here are some speaking activities in Madrid for those interested. Some conversation exchange venues here.
Sunday, May 10, 2015
Writing assignment and others
Here's the last writing assignment you'll be doing this year. I'm also attaching some of the phrasal verb questions we've been working on lately as well as other language points and phrases that might come in handy for the speaking an writing exams, though most of them can be found in your textbook.
Monday, May 4, 2015
Friday, April 10, 2015
Monday, March 16, 2015
Travel
Here's a link to the video we watched on ethical travel as well as the podcast with different takes on the subject Traveling Time.
Thursday, March 12, 2015
Writing mistakes in February mock exam
The writing mistakes out of the February mock exam can be found here for you to go over them.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
A cover letter
You can find some examples of cover letter as published by The Guardian and some other examples of formal and informal letters here.
Tuesday, February 3, 2015
Oral interaction
What follows is a handout where you can find some expressions to use in interaction with some topics for this task.
Thursday, January 15, 2015
The Law
Here's the video on the barrister we watched in class the other day in case you want to go over it again. And here's the vocabulary we'll be working on in this lesson.
Since our current topic deals with crime, you may want to practice some of the vocabulary we've gone over by completing this cloze on the Spanish Royals, the key to which can be found here, or read this somewhat old article from The Economist which tries to figure out the role of our Roman Catholic culture as an underlying explanation for our acceptance and endorsing of corruption. Seeing as our media is highly unreliable you might want to learn about what our government is up to by accessing more impartial reports such as this one by Reuters on why Spain is no country for judges or this one by The Guardian on how in Spain francoist torturers get away with murder and their successors refuse to pursue human rights.
A very courageous grandma indeed!
Since our current topic deals with crime, you may want to practice some of the vocabulary we've gone over by completing this cloze on the Spanish Royals, the key to which can be found here, or read this somewhat old article from The Economist which tries to figure out the role of our Roman Catholic culture as an underlying explanation for our acceptance and endorsing of corruption. Seeing as our media is highly unreliable you might want to learn about what our government is up to by accessing more impartial reports such as this one by Reuters on why Spain is no country for judges or this one by The Guardian on how in Spain francoist torturers get away with murder and their successors refuse to pursue human rights.
A very courageous grandma indeed!
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