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C1/C2 Multiple choice cloze Can you Be Sustainable if you’re into Fast Fashion Online?

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Are you a fashion victim? Do you spend huge amounts of money on your wardrobe or are you mostly into second-hand stores? What carbon footprint do you think your clothing issues have on the environment? Here’s a multiple choice cloze for English Advanced levels that may get you into thinking twice before your next click…… Continue reading C1/C2 Multiple choice cloze Can you Be Sustainable if you’re into Fast Fashion Online?

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Listening Advanced level C1: The Panda who didn’t know she had twins

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Featured image by Getty Here’s a short video activity to help practise the listening skill for Upper Intermediate and Advanced levels. The news broadcast  BBC Earth.

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Multiple choice cloze The panda who didn’t know she had twins.

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Here’s a multiple choice cloze for advanced levels based on news from BBC Earth.

B2 · Natural world & environment · Vocabulary

Vocabulary: The Eco-friendly Vocabulary Quiz

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Here you have an enoooormous vocabulary quiz that covers almost all the expressions related to the environment -and looking after it- that you should be familiar with for a B2 level and use quite well in a C1. It’s a very long quiz with nearly questions, so it’s better to do it when you’re relaxed…… Continue reading Vocabulary: The Eco-friendly Vocabulary Quiz

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B1/B2 Listening: Deadly California Wildfire Forces Thousands to Evacuate

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Listening to the news in English is a must for language learning, even if this means news such as the one I have prepared for this listening activity. The news is full of events related to natural and not so natural disasters and nearly all of them are thanks to the effect of humans on…… Continue reading B1/B2 Listening: Deadly California Wildfire Forces Thousands to Evacuate

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B1 Listening : Strange wildfires in California

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Horrified by the news of another wildfire in California, I set myself to prepare a listening activity for my students so they could get into the habit of watching news in English.  It was then, when I happened to ‘bump into’ some terrible facts that seem to make some of these fires different from the…… Continue reading B1 Listening : Strange wildfires in California

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Listening Upper Intermediate B2: New Zealand volunteers in race to rescue hundreds of whales BBC

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Listening B2/C1: Sustainability

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How sustainable are you? Do you do anything to look after the environment in some way? Maybe you walk or cycle to work or commute using public transport. You might even be one of those people (like me), that makes the most of the dog’s walk carrying bags around to the recycling bin, which can…… Continue reading Listening B2/C1: Sustainability