All - Spring book sale

If you're interested in buying second-hand books, you may find this information useful:

Spring book sale (variety of languages, mostly English and Spanish)

April 2nd 11:00 - 16:00

American Women's Club

Plaza de la República del Ecuador 6
Metro Colombia

Básico 1 - People's houses

If you want to practise your listening and revise the topic of houses, try these exercises.

Avanzado 2 - Review Unit 6

Here are the answers:
1 1 well 2 less 3 longer 4 good

2 1 teeth 2 nose 3 feet 4 stomach 5 eye 6 ear 7 nose 8 hand

3 1 breakthrough 2 turnout 3 downpour 4 outlook 5 outburst

4 1 is thought (by police) to be living in Argentina
2 alleged to have been bribed by Dee
3 was claimed by the newspaper to have been dating the supermodel for over a year
4 was believed to be planning to kidnap the heiress
5 had our flat raided by the police at the weekend
6 needs cutting/ to be cut
7 made to rewrite the essay (by the teacher)

5 1 pierced 2 burst 3 picks 4 burp 5 checkout 6 laughing 7 bullying 8 taken 9 breakdown 10 pushchair 11 throws 12 smacking 13 yell 14 coming 15 mark

Talk Club

Dear students,

A new activity is starting at your EOI!

If you are in an Avanzado course and want to get some more speaking practice, check the new link on the right: Talk Club.

Student grants

The Ministry of Education gives some grants to attend courses of English in Spain and abroad.

There's one which you can apply for if you're between 16 and 30 and another one if you're a teacher or studying to become one. Click here.

Read the details carefully.

Avanzado 2 - Cloze test on adoption

As we won't have time to be dealing with this topic in class, why don't you do this exercise? You can find the answer in the comments.

Fill in the gaps with the following words. You don't need all of them.

ASSIST, ATTEND, BACKGROUND, COUPLES, DOMESTIC, EXPAND, INVESTIGATION, JOURNEY, NEEDS, ORIGIN, PARTNERS, PROGRAM, RESEARCH, SHARE, STAGES, STEP, STRETCH, TRIP, VOYAGE.

Adoption is just one of several ways that you can build or __________ (1)your family. When deciding to embark on your adoption __________ you’ll need to answer a number of questions which will help you determine which direction is best for you and your family.

In the beginning ___________(2) of research, you’ll want to ask yourself some important questions. For example, is it important that the child we adopt share our racial or ethnic __________ (3)? Have we done fact-based __________ (4) regarding the different types of adoption? Are we drawn more to __________ (5)infant adoption, adopting an older child from foster care or adopting an infant or older child from abroad? Are we interested in being able to __________(6) information about or build a relationship with our potential child’s biological parents? Have we researched the different avenues of adoption, such as using an agency, attorney or adoption facilitator?

International Adoption is just one of several ways to build your family. In most cases, international adoptions are finalized in the country of __________(7), so once you come home with your child, he or she is already legally yours. There are a number of countries that work with U.S. __________ (8) hoping to adopt, so identifying which country works best for your family is usually the first _______(9) you would take when moving forward.

Things to consider when adopting internationally are: age, gender, race and medical __________(10). If you’re unsure about what would work best with your family, a qualified adoption professional should be able to __________(11) you in identifying the most important requirements, which will ultimately help you decide what country __________ (12)will work best for you.


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International Women's Day 2011

Happy women's day, everyone!

Básico 1 - Language practice

Have a look at this page if you want to listen to some basic conversations in English. You can hear them at normal speed and then at slow speed. You can read the transcript too.

Mr Tickle and the British Library

The British Library is holding an exhibition on the English Language called Evolving English: One language, many voices. They're asking people from all over the world to record their voices reading out a children's story Mr Tickle or a list of six words. If you add your voice, you can help linguists with their research.

Why don't you take part?

Avanzado 2 - Keeping fit

Click here if you want to download the audio track we heard yesterday.

And here is the transcript