France victorious as world cup final ends

France victorious as golden world cup ends  The Day

pdf article


Sports idioms 1

Sports idioms 2

The rescue boat at the heart of Europe's crisis

1. Look at the word cloud for about 30 seconds. Stop and write down as many words from the word cloud as you can... then look again for 10 more seconds and add the words you've noticed. Use all these words to write a paragraph that links the topic to the present situation in the world.


2. The rescue boat at the heart of Europe’s crisis (The Day)

Whose responsibility are refugees? As World Refugee Day approaches, ships carrying 630 migrants have finally docked in Spain. The EU spent a week arguing about where they should end up. 
2a. Read and work with the language in the article.
The Day: the pdf article
2b. Be ready to talk about the image that illustrates the article

3. Learn about refugees, asylum seekers, a stateless person or an internally displaced person @ the UNHCR website

4. Refugee day, a reading activity

5. Find an image illustrating this topic that you would like to talk about

Geography: The volcano burning through homes in Hawaii

1 The volcano burning through homes in Hawaii

The Day pdf document with very interesting word combinations about the topic 

2  Dozens killed in Guatemala volcano disaster

The Day pdf document

Collocations

Let's work with collocations

Use the collocation dictionary online here

Explore and be aware of the types of collocations ( unit 4) that are used.

Focus on the register ( unit 5) they have to know when it's appropriate to use them

UNITS 6 & 7 Intensifying adverbs & everyday verbs 1

UNITS 8 & 9 Everyday verbs 2 & 3

Units 10, 11 & 12  Confusables 1 & 2 and metaphor

Units 12 & 13 Weather and Travel

Units 14 & 15 Countryside and Town & Cities

A new era dawns as Megan marries Harry

Article online   The Day

A new era  pdf

War metaphors?

About metaphors:

An article From the guardian

To learn how to use the following words find their collocations

Oxford Dictionary of Collocations:

• search "war", 
• search: conflict,
• search: struggle, 
• search: fight, 
• search: battle
• search: violence

The TV series Outlander was based on a series of novels.Who wrote them?

Diana Gabaldon