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The United Kingdom, England, Great Britain? Are these three the same place? Different places? Do British people secretly laugh those who use the terms wrongly? Who knows the answers to these questions?

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Every single teacher is concerned about his/ her teaching practices and the skills involved in this process. How many times have you wondered about a better way to teach the same lesson you have delivered to an eariler class? How often have you used technology to engage your students and improve their learning ? These are some recurring questions we keep regurgitating each time our teaching skills are put to the test.

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This site contains FLASH animated libraries of the phonetic sounds of Spanish and English. Available for each consonant and vowel is an animated articulatory diagram, a step-by-step description, and video-audio of the sound spoken in context.

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I’ve just received my Word Score, an estimate of the total number of words I know. How many words do you know?

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It is college graduation season in the United States.  (High school graduation season will be coming up in June.)  As many of you already know, graduation is the ceremony associated with receiving an academic degree.
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Homonyms, words that have the same pronunciation but different spelling, can sometimes be tricky. Having taught English for 8 years and in different countries I can comfortably confirm the fact that homonyms are one of the main sources of spelling mistakes for English language  learners.

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If you can use everyday written and spoken English at an upper-intermediate level and want to use it for work or study purposes, this is the ideal exam for you.

FCE is at Level B2 of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR). This framework describes six levels of language ability from A1 to C2. At B2 level, typical users are expected to:

• understand the main ideas of complex pieces of writing
• keep up a conversation on a fairly wide range of topics, expressing opinions and presenting arguments
• produce clear, detailed writing, expressing opinions and explaining the advantages and disadvantages of different points of view.

So, your preparation for FCE will provide you with these practical language skills.

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Image taken by Nasa’s Terra satellite on 7 January showing the UK covered in snow from top to toe, deep in the clutches of the current cold snap.

Britain is unusually warm for its latitude because of the Gulf Stream. This week, however, the Gulf Stream is on vacation in Greenland. So this is what Britain is like without the Gulf Stream.

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The electronic European Language Portfolio (the e-ELP), based on the guidelines of the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages, can help you plan your learning, visualize your progress and discern which methodology suits you best, thus potentiating your autonomy as a language learner and motivating you to continue learning languages throughout your life.

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Merry Christmas

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