Some of the following texts have been formatted into a printer-friendly format by your teacher, for classroom use. Sources are cited.
Articles I find and just post can be found here by clicking on the Category: Articles
Catalonia
- Catalonia – fill in the gaps
- articles_c1_howtosavespain_outline – article + audio
- Languageinthenews_Catalonia_independence
Learning
- Opinion Articles (though we can also consider it an Informative Article): Learning to Learn c1_articles_learningtolearn (4 pages) – the post when I posted this
The environment
- C1_2017News_CostaSol
- Energy Poverty c1_reading_energypoverty (2 pages)
- topics_energysources (word)
- topics_C1_ClimateChange (word)
- topics_TheParisclimatesummit (word)
- factsheet 2015 (pdf)
Writers, Artists
- OrwellKit_readingorwell_cloze
- Reviews: Sade RC_reviews_C1_Sade2012 (2 pages) – with ideas for exploitation
Sports
- Bias Against Intersex Olympics Athelets Is What’s Unfair – Not These Athletes’ Bodies
- Understanding the Controversy Over Caster Semenya
- Why Hyper-masculine Women Are Scary but not Fish-like Men
Travel
- websites: Andalucía on Lonely Planet, RoughGuides, Fodor’s Guide
- articles on Andalucían at The Guardian’s website
Employment
- The Gender Gap and Equal Pay (The Economist)
- TipsJobSeekers (about 1,500 words, 2 Word pages)
- Working in the field: Doctors Without Borders
Money
- articles_cashfree1
- articles_cashfree2
- Crowdfunding Fundraising – Crowdfunding (2 pages)
- crowdfunding_wedding (word)
Building Democracies: People
- YanisVaroufakis (2 Word pages, about 1,800 words)
- Women in Black – (brochure) under construction
Big Questions
- Surveillance & Democracy
- News Articles: Fleeing Wars and Poverty, Migrations NewsWarsMigrations (3 pages)
- Women’s Rights: childbearing childbearing women_s rights (4 pages)
People Groups
Netiquette
Education & Language
Arts
Food
- Five keys to growing safer foods (1 pdf page)
- Nigeria – Food Crisis: are GMF the answer?
- GMF: New law a disaster
- foodgoesoff (word)
- useby_FoodsyoucaneatAFTER (word)
UNDER CONSTRUCTION – Gathering Info on Topics
You can check here how we exploit these materials in class (adult public language schools, Spain, advanced): 2016-17 C1 Course
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