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- Pruebas Certificación EOI
- Is Greed Ever Good?
- Money makes the world go round!: vocabulary and debates
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- The Environment 2
- The environment: vocabulary and debates
- Hot Issues – part 2: vocabulary and debates
- Home: life on Earth
- I wish/if only
- Impersonal passive structures
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Pruebas Certificación EOI
As you have some time off, you’d better keep working on your English by mimicking real time certificacion exams. Have a look at the following links with exams from past years. You can find below links to advanced samples which … Continue reading
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Is Greed Ever Good?
Years ago a great movie on the 80s excesses in the US was released, Wall Street, a story of a corporate takeover artist who took over one company at a time. Small stuff compared to the financial engineering that brought down … Continue reading
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Money makes the world go round!: vocabulary and debates
Now let’s talk MONEY!
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The environment: vocabulary and debates
Are you aware of the problems our planet needs to face? Check this list of environmental problems on Wikipedia and try to complete this webquest on Earth problems too. While this guide to important environmental issues is not comprehensive, if you’re … Continue reading
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Hot Issues – part 2: vocabulary and debates
Second and final part of our hot issues presentations. Remember to click on the blue interactive media links below (they include video, audio and provide a link to any website with the click of a button) and scroll over the … Continue reading
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Home: life on Earth
Home is a 2009 documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand. The film is almost entirely composed of aerial shots of various places on Earth, it was filmed in 50 countries. It shows the diversity of life on Earth and how humanity is … Continue reading
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I wish/if only
Wishes about the present We use wish + past Tense (simple and continuous) to express regret about present situations: – I wish I was taller = (I’m not very tall) – I wish I was going with you = (but … Continue reading
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What Would You Do If…?
What Would You Do? is an American television programme broadcast on ABC since 2009. The show is about setting up everyday scenarios and then capturing people’s reactions. Often people speculate on how they might act in a difficult situation, but … Continue reading
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Some more Exercises on Conditionals
The following expressions can be used instead of IF: Result Condition Provided/ providing that I would stop working provided that I won enough money As long as I would work on Saturday as long as you paid me extra Even … Continue reading
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Mixed conditionals
Unreal conditionals (type II + III) sometimes can be mixed, that is, the time reference of the if clause may be different from the one of the main clause. Past –> Present If I had taken an aspirin, I wouldn’t … Continue reading
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