Migration and refugee crises have been changing slowly what being Spanish looks like. Yaroslava, Khadiya, Mikelly and Alpha are some of those settling down in Spain. They would like to stay.… CONTINUE READING
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Supporting diversity and equality
Supporting diversity and equality can be achieved in different ways. Books are a great way to foreground inclusion and to facilitate getting in contact with the kinds of experiences and lives of people that we may have never met yet in person.… CONTINUE READING
In the Sierra Tarahumara
See the Spanish version of this text further down.
In the Sierra Tarahumara, in the estate of Chihuahua in Mexico, live the Taraumara or Rarámuri people. The Rarámuri, or “light feet”, as it is reported they call themselves, is a group of indigenous people known for their prowess in running long distances.… CONTINUE READING
Writing up some personal information
If you have done the listening and/or the reading comprehension A DAY WITH CLAUDIA, this is your chance to check. You have below some stars indicating the correct selection of the options you should have chosen.… CONTINUE READING
Image bytes
Image bytes, whether you want to practice or develop your vocabulary or writing sentences, one point of grammar or another, or a combination of all of those. Images are wonderful triggers and starters for you to enter the path of your language practice.… CONTINUE READING
Routine: revision & practice
It helps to do some revision and practice when it comes to writing and talking about your routine. The more used you are to the most common words involved the better.… CONTINUE READING
Many pictures, many sentences
You may have already read the post “One picture, many sentences”, which would be good because then you can take that suggestion further with the following pictures:
1. Pedro 2.… CONTINUE READING
One picture, many sentences
A good way to test yourselves for different tenses and types of verbs that you have been learning recently is this:
1. chose a picture like the one in this article.… CONTINUE READING
Your writing
Your writing is a skill that you can only develop by… -guess!- writing. Writing is a rich and complex exercise in that it makes it possible, and necessary, to combine the knowledge about many different aspects of the language in one single activity.… CONTINUE READING
Improving your writing
Improving your writing requires that you start writing in the first place. It seems obvious, but for many of you this is the kind of activity that would rather be postponed.… CONTINUE READING
