Click on the image to download the pdf What is it that makes us laugh and why? Before you read the complete article, look at this vocabulary and find it in the text: whether: if…
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08/02/18 Crane Spirit: A Connection Between Vitoria-Gasteiz and Uganda
Click on the image to download the pdf ECP coach Rob Hextall chats to Asier Mansilla about how this NGO is trying to make a difference in East Africa Before you read the complete…
01/02/18 Punctuality is the thief of time
Click on the image to download the pdf More than being a virtue, it’s an unnecessary obsession says ECP coach Darren Lynch Before you read the complete article, look at this vocabulary and find it…
25/01/18 Homophobia: What it is and how to fight it
Click on the image to download the pdf Challenging negative views of LGBT people Vocabulary. Read and check you understand this before you read and listen to the article: to fit: to be suitable for…
15/01/18 French baguettes should be Unesco-listed treasures
Click on the image to download the pdf Before you read the complete article, look at this vocabulary and find it in the text: baguette: a long, narrow French loaf of bread to safeguard:…
19/12/17 Do you know who ‘Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer’ is?
Click on the image to download the pdf Before you read the complete article, look at this vocabulary and find it in the text reindeer: a deer from subarctic regions (plural: reindeer – no ’s’)…
14/12/17 Beitia pens new solo album
Click on the image to download the pdf Before you read the complete article, look at this vocabulary and find it in the text gigging: moving from one concert to another performing music to drop:…
23/11/17 Spain’s new football jersey to be delayed
Click on the image to download the pdf Critics say the official shirt for the World Cup resembles the flag of the Spanish Second Republic Vocabulary Read and check you understand this before you read…
02/11/17 The Brazilian women using football to escape the favelas
Click on the image to download the pdf For decades, women’s football was banned in Brazil. Now ex-drug traffickers are tackling prejudice in the game by training future soccer stars from the favelas Vocabulary Read…
16/11/17 Extra holidays for non-smokers
Click on the image to download the pdf A Japanese company has decided to grant its non-smoking staff an additional six days of holiday a year to make up for the time off smokers take for cigarette breaks. Vocabulary Read…