Category: C1

Science, techonology & space

C1 Open cloze ‘Parents Baffled by tech-savy children’

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Are you tech-savvy? Do you feel baffled by the technology you have to struggle with in your daily life or are you rather a person that always keeps up to date in terms of the most modern technological devices? Here you can do a ‘Use of English (Use of English IS a nice new word for…… Continue reading C1 Open cloze ‘Parents Baffled by tech-savy children’

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C1-C2 Word formation ‘A Place to Call Home’

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Sing for Shelter’s new Christmas single: ‘A Place to Call Home’. Shelter helps millions of people every year struggling with bad housing or homelessness by providing advice, support and legal services, making sure that one day, no one will end up without a roof above their head. PS So proud to say a member of…… Continue reading C1-C2 Word formation ‘A Place to Call Home’

C 2 · C1 · culture · Listening · Media, arts, literature & entertainment

C1-C2 Listening ‘How old-timey skiffle music liberated British rock

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Last month I was reading Mark Kermode’s novel ‘How Does it Feel?’, which is a funny and interesing recount of his goal towards becoming a famous popstar. At a certain period of his life, the author enrols in a band that played skiffle, and I thought to myself ‘skiffle! What’s that?’ I hadn’t the slightest…… Continue reading C1-C2 Listening ‘How old-timey skiffle music liberated British rock

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Green idioms, phrases and vocabulary

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Image by Artur Luczka (Unsplash) What does it mean to be green? And if you’re told to eat your greens? Like all languages, English has quite a few colour idioms and other uses of ‘ green’ and here you have a quiz to find out or learn some of the most typical expressions that use…… Continue reading Green idioms, phrases and vocabulary

Natural world & environment

Food waste and what we can do about it.

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In 2016 Huffpost launched a campaign calling for action against the astronomical amount of food that was being dumped into the bins by supermarkets in the USA. Although the article is already over three years old, I’ve adapted it as a reading activity that you can do after listening to the video that briefly explains…… Continue reading Food waste and what we can do about it.

Natural world & environment · Open cloze

Open cloze: How can we reduce food waste at home?

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Image by Gary Chan (Unsplash) According to the latest data recorded in 2018, Spain reached a peak in food waste, squandering a total of 1,339 million kg/l of food and beverages. This number represents an increase of 8.9% over the previous year and seems to be mainly due to economic recovery that was experienced during…… Continue reading Open cloze: How can we reduce food waste at home?