Amalia Gavina
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work vocabulary
Here’s a very useful exercise to practise job descriptions.
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make vs. do
These two verbs are often confused by Spanish speakers because both are translated as “hacer”, a verb which has more than one meaning and use in Spanish. Here are the differences between these two verbs: MAKE I managed to make a good presentation for tomorrow´s […]
Game of Thrones seems to be everyone´s favourite these days. How can we, as EFL teachers, tap into it? Here are different options: – Create a family tree and the different connections that exist between the families in the film. – Describe a specific family […]
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Funeral blues
This video is an extract taken from the British romantic comedy film “Four Weddings and a Funeral”. For those who haven´t seen it, it´s about a group of very close friends who gather at different social occasions and share love fortunes and misfortunes. It´s been […]
1) Before watching “Oxford scene1”: Have you ever been to Oxford? Would you like to go? Why? What´s Oxford famous for? Look at Ashlie and Stephen. Where are they? What are they doing? What will they do? 2) Watch the scene until minute 1 and […]
However unknown they are for most people, character strengths are the building blocks of positive psychology theories. They represent our positive traits, what we as individuals excel at and enjoy engaging in. We don’t necessarily need to be born with them, we could have learned […]
Nelson Mandela The biography of Nelson Mandela reads like a morality tale. Here is a man who is subjected by a racist society to years of imprisonment, for most of the time in degrading and humiliating conditions, who emerges a quarter of […]
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Commonly confused adjectives
Some personality adjectives may be the source of misunderstandings for a big number of Spanish-speaking students of English. Some of these adjectives are: – Sympathetic: the obvious connection students make is with the word “simpático”, which means “pleasant” or “amusing”. Sympathetic actually means “characterized by, […]
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catch vs take
These are two commonly confused expressions here in Spain since both of them mean coger in some cases. Here are the differences between them: 1) Both could be used meaning coger in these examples: I need to take/catch the 10 pm train to London. There´s […]
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How to live before you die
Pre- task: What advice would you give to a recently graduated university student? What advice do you think Steve Job gave to a group of Stanford students? Task: 1) The speech is structured in three parts. Watch the complete video and identify them. Identify the main […]