lunes, 23 de junio de 2025

The importance of a hundredth

Unfortunately just by a hundredth our 2º Bachillerato student Fran Toledo, who got a 13,675 in the Selectivity exams, wasn't able to be among the 30 best students in the province of Granada. What a pity!!! He deserved it.

Congratulations, anyway!!!

This experience should show our students the right way to face the coming school years.

Real Easy English: Talking about WORRIES (BBC Learning English)

Talking about worries, here are some articles about the conflict in the Middle East:

How effective was the US attack on Iran’s nuclear sites? A visual guide (The Guardian)

US asks China to stop Iran from closing Strait of Hormuz (BBC News)

How Trump quietly made the historic decision to launch strikes in Iran (CNN)

US attacks Iran with strikes on 3 nuclear sites (DW)

Road towards success in the new PAU (Selectivity exam)

Solution to the exercises in the previous post:

Rewrite...

a) If only I had started working on the project last month. (if only)
b) Playing football makes me feel very happy. (makes)
c) Nick refused to go to that boring party.
d) After writing his mother an email, David apologised for his behaviour. After David had written...

Complete the following sentences to report what was said.

e) Sue asked me what he was going to do to relax.

Rephrase the sentence beginning with the words given.

f) A new high-technology hospital is being built in my town.

Here's my musical hint for today: She loved me that way by Michael DuBois. And now here's a version with the lyrics for you to sing along.

Here are some more activities for my students:

The English We Speak: Step into the shoes (BBC Learning English)
English in a MINUTE: Verbs to use with NETWORK (BBC Learning English)
Listening exercise for you to do: How do babies communicate? (6 Minute English, BBC Learning English)
Learning English from the News: Israel-Iran strikes (BBC Learning English)