Online learning resources: Natalia López Zamarvide
Certification exams available online: EOI Santa María de Guía; EOIs Aragón
CONTENTS SUMMARY (latest update 21 May 2025)
Conversation phrases + Enhancing our English + Vocabulary takeaways (latest update 21 May 2025)
18 September Exam review
16'00h. Room to be announced.
12 September Exam results
At 22.00h. in 'Zona de Usuarios'.
8, 9 & 10 September Oral exam (September resits)
Specific time/date for each student on list published by English Deparment on 5 September at 20'00h. Time to apply for a change in time/date of oral exam finishes on 6 September at 9'00h. Official document to back up a change in the oral exam is mandatory.
5 September Written exam (September resits)
16'00h. Reading.
17'05h. Listening.
18'00h. Written mediation.
18'40h. Writing.
Access to school through c/Domingo Miral gates. Students will be allotted a room as they enter the school.
Please, come 15 minutes in advance for each of the exam parts.
Download/print/take a photo of QR code from 'Zona de usuarios'.
Bring ID (identity card or similar).
20 June 2025 Exam review
At 9'00h. Most likely in the same room as in oral exam.
19 June 2025 Exam review
At 16'00h. Most likely in the same room as in oral exam.
9 June 2025 Results
At 22.00h. in 'Zona de Usuarios'.
27, 28, 29 May & 2 June 2025 Oral exam
Specific time/date for each student on list published by English Deparment on 26 May at 20'00h.
Time to apply for a change in time/date of oral exam finishes on 26 May at 23'00h.
If anybody reckons they may have a potential problem with specific times/dates for their oral exam, please, write in advance (before 26 May) at ingles@eoi1zaragoza.org and let them know. Have some document at the ready to back up your claim.
26 May 2025 Written exam
At 16'00h. Access to school through c/Domingo Miral gates.
Students will be allotted a room as they enter the school.
Please, come 30 minutes in advance.
Download/print/take a photo of QR code from 'Zona de usuarios'.
Bring ID (identity card or similar).
22 May 2025 Social issues (Activism & discrimination)
Writing: Feedback session (slide in photocopy 143).
Video, vocabulary & speaking: Civil Rights Leaders You Need to Know [photocopy 151].
Reading & vocabulary: Equality, diversity and inclusion [photocopy 152].
Listening & speaking: Shekhar Paleja [photocopy 153].
Speaking: Discrimination (interaction) [photocopy 153].
Feedback session.
20 May 2025 Social issues (Migration)
Reading: Pedro Sánchez unveils plans to help migrants settle in Spain [photocopy 147].
Speaking: Immigration in pictures [photocopy 148].
Vocabulary: Immigration [photocopy 148].
Video & speaking: Ireland is full [photocopy 149].
Listening: US Immigration news [photocopy 150].
15 May 2025 Social issues (Gender)
Reading & vocabulary: We’re all in it together [photocopy 144].
Video, speaking, vocabulary: Douglass is Cancelled (Madeline) [photocopy 145].
Speaking: Gender [photocopy 145].
Listening: Harvey Weinstein [photocopy 145].
Oral mediation: Escucha su voz + Maternity allowance [photocopy 146].
Homework: Pedro Sánchez unveils plans [photocopy 147].
13 May 2025 Innovation
Reading & speaking: Pioneers [photocopy 141].
Speaking: Space travel, pros and cons [photocopy 141].
Written mediation: Feedback on Month to Month Residential Rental Agreement (slide in photocopy 132).
Video, vocabulary & speaking: Ethical dilemmas in science [photocopy 142].
Writing: Sense of community (slide in photocopy 143).
Homework:
1) We’re all in it together [photocopy 144].
2) Writing: Letter to Editor: Sense of community (slide in photocopy 143).
8 May 2025 Innovation
Grammar: Inversion, ex. 3, 6 & 7 [photocopy 137].
Oral mediation: Oportunidades de IA + Riesgos de IA [photocopy 138].
Vocabulary, video & speaking: Revolut: The digital revolution [photocopy 139].
Video & speaking: Scammers [photocopy 140].
Homework: Pioneers [photocopy 141].
6 May 2025 Innovation
Reading: Magical thinking about machine learning UoE [photocopy 133].
Listening: Artificial Intelligence chatbots [photocopy 134].
Speaking: Artificial intelligence [photocopy 134].
Vocabulary & speaking: How do you feel about these prospects? [photocopy 135].
Speaking: The impact of technology [photocopy 135].
Video, vocabulary & speaking: 48 Hours Wearing Apple Vision Pro Headset [photocopy 136].
Homework:
1) Inversion, ex. 3, 6 & 7 [photocopy 137].
2) Bring smart devices (a tablet, smart phone, laptop) and earbuds/headphones for Thursday's class.
29 April 2025
No class due to blackout. Teachers will be at school to 'attend to students' but neither class nor new contents will be given. Here's the link to the school's announcement.
24 April 2025 Cities
Grammar: Conditional clauses [photocopy 129].
Listening & speaking: Squatters in Spain [photocopy 130].
Speaking: Problems in today's cities [photocopy 131].
Speaking & vocabulary: Issues in cities (expressing cause & effect) [photocopy 131].
Writing: Feedback on Warhol exhibition [slide in photocopy 120].
Homework:
1) Written mediation: Month to Month Residential Rental Agreement [photocopy 132].
2) Magical thinking about machine learning UoE [photocopy 133].
22 April 2025 Cities
Reading & speaking: Cities of culture [photocopy 125].
Listening & speaking: Hosting international events [photocopy 126].
Oral mediation: Smart cities + Consejos para llevar una vida sostenible en tu casa [photocopy 127].
Video, speaking, grammar & vocabulary: 3D Printed Houses [photocopy 128].
Homework: Conditional clauses, ex. 1, 2 & 7 [photocopy 129].
10 April 2025 Cities
Vocabulary & speaking: City dwelling + Phrasal verbs for problems & solutions [photocopy 123].
Video & speaking: Is Copenhagen the World's Most Sustainable City? [photocopy 124].
Video & speaking: The 15-minute city [photocopy 124].
Homework: Cities of culture [photocopy 125].
8 April 2025 Art & architecture
Reading: The leaning tower of Pisa + Interior design [photocopy 119].
Writing: Article on 'The darkest side of Andy Warhol' exhibition [slide in photocopy 120].
Speaking: Cityscape (Architecture) [photocopy 121].
Vocabulary, video & speaking: Architecture less is more or ‘less is bore’ [photocopy 122].
Homework:
1) Writing: Article on 'The darkest side of Andy Warhol' exhibition [slide in photocopy 120].
2) City dwelling + Phrasal verbs for problems & solutions [photocopy 123].
3 April 2025 Art & architecture
Grammar: Passive and causative structures, ex. 5 & 6 [photocopy 114].
Written mediation feedback: Creative initiatives [slide in photocopy 104].
Listening & speaking: Art restoration and art reproduction [photocopy 116].
Vocabulary & speaking: Quiz on Art + Art jargon [photocopy 117].
Oral mediation: Art urbano en Madrid + Feng Shui [photocopy 118].
Homework: The leaning tower of Pisa + Interior design [photocopy 119].
1 April 2025 Art & architecture
Reading: Why everything you thought you think about contemporary art is wrong [photocopy 111].
Listening & speaking: Dora Maar [photocopy 112].
Speaking & vocabulary: Art + Hate it or love it [photocopy 113].
Grammar: Passive and causative structures [photocopy 114].
Vocabulary: Describing art and architecture [photocopy 115].
Homework: Passive and causative structures, ex. 5 [photocopy 114].
27 March 2025 Being human
Reading: The teens trapped between a gang and the law [photocopy 107].
Vocabulary & speaking: Addictions [photocopy 108].
Listening: Problem gambling [photocopy 108].
Vocabulary & speaking: Violence & fighting [photocopy 109].
Listening: Writing about total war [photocopy 109].
Oral mediation: España, destino favorito & Consejos para dejar las adicciones [photocopy 110].
Homework: Why everything you thought you think about contemporary art is wrong [photocopy 111].
25 March 2025 Being human
Vocabulary & speaking: Feelings and emotions [photocopy 103].
Oral & functional language: Feelings & emotions [photocopy 105].
Listening: Hugh Jackman [photocopy 105].
Video, speaking & vocabulary: Heroes [photocopy 106].
Homework: The teens trapped between a gang and the law [photocopy 107].
20 March 2025 Being human
Grammar: Comparative structures [photocopy 100].
Writing: Feedback on Letter to a friend on mental health [slide in photocopy 088].
Oral mediation: Simplificarse la vida & Aspectos positivos del envejecimiento [photocopy 101].
Listening & speaking: Volunteering in retirement [photocopy 102].
Speaking: Old age [photocopy 102].
Homework:
1) Feelings and emotions [photocopy 103].
2) Written mediation: Creative initiatives [photocopy 104].
18 March 2025 Being human
Reading: Is modern life ruining our powers of concentration [photocopy 097].
Video, speaking & vocabulary: Beauty in the broken [photocopy 098].
Listening: Hygge [photocopy 099].
Speaking: Priorities in life + Social behaviour [photocopy 099].
Grammar: Comparative structures [photocopy 100].
Homework: Comparative structures [photocopy 100].
13 March 2025
Jornadas culturales EOI (no class): Programme.
11 March 2025 Being human
Reading & speaking: Being human [photocopy 093].
Video & speaking: What human characteristics are the most important? [photocopy 094].
Video & speaking: The fight over banning books [photocopy 095].
Speaking: Human rights [photocopy 095].
Pronunciation:. Poem: Rhyming words [photocopy 096].
Homework: Is modern life ruining our powers of concentration [photocopy 097].
6 March 2025 Health & sport
Video & speaking: Healthcare innovation [photocopy 090].
Video, speaking & vocabulary: A look into CRISPR gene-editing technology [photocopy 091].
Song: Fast car [photocopy 092].
Homework: Being human [photocopy 093].
4 March 2025 Health & sport
Reading & vocabulary: Treadmills or Ozempic [photocopy 086].
Written mediation feedback: Going solar [slide in photocopy 076].
Video, speaking & vocabulary: Child obesity [photocopy 087].
Writing & speaking: Letter to a friend on mental health [slide in photocopy 088].
Vocabulary, listening & speaking: Mental health [photocopy 089].
Homework: Letter to a friend on mental health [slide in photocopy 088].
27 February 2025 Health & sport
Reading & vocabulary: I miss eating [photocopy 083].
Video & speaking: Fly high [photocopy 084].
Listening, vocabulary & speaking: Mindfulness [photocopy 084].
Speaking: Health and well-being [photocopy 084].
Oral mediation: Beneficios del ajedrez & El Fascinante Mundo del Efecto Placebo [photocopy 085].
Homework: Treadmills or Ozempic [photocopy 086].
25 February 2025 Health & sport
Vocabulary: Health and fitness [photocopy 078].
Grammar: Expressing contrast [photocopy 080].
Speaking: Sport issues (milling) [photocopy 081].
Listening, vocabulary & speaking: The Spanish kiss [photocopy 082].
Speaking: Controversies in sport [photocopy 082].
Reading & speaking: The secret to long-term fitness [photocopy 081].
Homework: I miss eating [photocopy 083].
20 February 2025 Health & sport
Vocabulary & speaking: Health and fitness [photocopy 078].
Video: Harvest time -Operation fruit rescue [photocopy 079].
Speaking: Food-related issues [photocopy 079].
Grammar: Expressing contrast [photocopy 080].
Homework:
1) Health and fitness [photocopy 078].
2) Expressing contrast [photocopy 080].
18 February 2025 Environment
Exam review and marks.
Feedback on writing paper and written mediation in exam [slides photocopy 077].
Vocabulary: Environment collocations [photocopy 071].
Reading & vocabulary: Electric cars [photocopy 073].
Oral mediation: Mitos del coche eléctrico [photocopy 074].
Listening & speaking: The weather (Daniel) + Sustainable consumption [photocopy 075].
Homework: Written mediation: Going solar [photocopy 076].
13 February 2025 Oral exam
11 February 2025 Oral exam
6 February 2025 Written exam (reading, listening & written mediation)
4 February 2025 Written exam (writing)
30 January 2025 Environment
Grammar: Participles, ex. 4 [photocopy 068].
Writing: Feedback on the Rumours essay (slide in photocopy 060).
Oral mediation: Plástico en los océanos + Environmental policies [photocopy 070].
Vocabulary: Environment collocations [photocopy 071].
Video, vocabulary & speaking: Activism or vandalism [photocopy 072].
Homework:
1) Environment collocations [photocopy 071].
2) Electric cars [photocopy 073].
28 January 2025 Environment
Reading: Spain’s Apocalyptic Floods [photocopy 067].
Speaking: Envorinmental concerns [photocopy 067].
Vocabulary: Cause & result verbs [photocopy 067].
Grammar: Participles [photocopy 068].
Listening: Jeremy Irons, Trashed [photocopy 069].
Speaking: Pollution [photocopy 069].
Homework: Participles, ex. 4 [photocopy 068].
23 January 2025 Environment
Reading: Pet ownership and human health [photocopy 065].
Video & speaking: Christian, the lion cub from Harrods [photocopy 066].
Homework: Spain’s Apocalyptic Floods [photocopy 067].
21 January 2025 Information
Vocabulary: Neutral and sensationalist language [photocopy 062].
Oral mediation: Novelas que serían canceladas… + Todos los temas de los que no debes hablar… [photocopy 063].
Speaking: Iconic war paintings and photographs (slides in photocopy 064).
Video: Interview with Kate Winslet on Lee [photocopy 064].
Speaking: War & War crimes [photocopy 064].
Homework: Pet ownership and human health [photocopy 065].
16 January 2025 Information
Grammar: Passive reporting verbs [photocopy 058].
Reading & speaking: The biggest fake news of all [photocopy 059].
Writing & speaking: Gossip (slide in photocopy 060).
Video, vocabulary & speaking: Cancel culture [photocopy 061].
Homework:
1) Writing: Gossip (slide in photocopy 060).
2) Neutral and sensationalist language [photocopy 062].
14 January 2025 Information
Vocabulary & speaking: Threats to the media [photocopy 056].
Vocabulary, listening, speaking: Think this way [photocopy 057].
Grammar: Passive reporting verbs [photocopy 058].
Homework:
1) Passive reporting verbs [photocopy 058].
2) The biggest fake news of all [photocopy 059].
9 January 2025 Information
Video & speaking: Media-related issues in TV series [photocopy 055 but not physical photocopy in class].
Speaking & vocabulary: Headlines (slides in photocopy 055).
Speaking & vocabulary: The media game (milling) [photocopy 055].
Listening: Journalese [photocopy 055].
Speaking: Information [photocopy 055].
Homework: Threats to the media [photocopy 056].
19 December 2024 Students' presentations + Christmas
Students' presentations.
Video, song, vocabulary & speaking: Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree [photocopy 054].
17 December 2024 Politics + Students' presentations
Writing: Feedback on Corporate Social Responsibility [slides in photocopy 041].
Oral mediation: Elections in US + Los retos de Salvador Illa [photocopy 052].
Video & speaking: Guns [photocopy 053].
Video & speaking: Piers Morgan, NRA and American Gun Culture [photocopy 053].
Students' presentations.
12 December 2024 Politics
Grammar: Cleft sentences [photocopy 049].
Video, listening, vocabulary & speaking: Political corruption [photocopy 051].
Listening: Populism (no photocopy).
10 December 2024 Politics
Labour won but… [photocopy 047].
Video & speaking: Speeches [photocopy 048].
Grammar: Creating emphasis and cleft sentences [photocopy 049].
Video & pronunciation: Funeral blues [photocopy 050].
Homework: Cleft sentences [photocopy 049].
5 December 2024 Politics
Vocabulary: Newspaper idioms on politics [photocopy 045].
Speaking: Politics (milling) [photocopy 045].
Listening: How Lincoln succeeded [photocopy 046].
Speaking & vocabulary: World leaders [photocopy 046].
Video: Political ads [photocopy 046].
Homework: Labour won but… [photocopy 047].
3 December 2024 Work, business & economy + Politics
Writing & speaking: Corporate Social Responsibility [photocopy 041].
Writing: Linking words and phrases [photocopy 042].
Oral mediation: Circular economy & Neuromarketing [photocopy 043].
Vocabulary, video and speaking: Spanish Constitution and politics [photocopy 044].
Homework: Essay: Corporate Social Responsibility [photocopy 041].
28 November 2024 Work, business & economy
Vocabulary & speaking: Rise and fall [photocopy 039].
Vocabulary: Describing trends and interpreting graphs [photocopy 039].
Video & speaking: Globalisation (flipped lesson) [photocopy 040].
Listening: How global brands try to woo local markets [photocopy 040].
Speaking: Globalization [photocopy 040].
26 November 2024 Work, business & economy
Written mediation: Feedback on The benefit of Mistakes (slides in Photocopy 026).
Vocabulary and speaking: Approximating language [photocopy 037].
Listening, vocabulary & speaking: Living paycheck to paycheck [photocopy 038].
Vocabulary & speaking: The sharing economy [photocopy 038].
Homework:
1) Rise and fall, ex. 2, 3, 4 & 5 [photocopy 039].
2) Globalization videos (flipped lesson) [photocopy 040].
21 November 2024 Work, business & economy
Speaking: Economic growth [photocopy 035].
Video & speaking: Consumerism vs happiness [photocopy 035].
Speaking: Consumerism in pictures [photocopy 036].
Listening and speaking: Mark Boyle, the moneyless man [photocopy 036].
Speaking: Consumerism [photocopy 036].
19 November 2024 Work, business & economy
Vocabulary, listening & speaking: Let's talk money [photocopy 032].
Vocabulary & speaking: Money, spending, saving, and wasting [photocopy 033].
Listening: Lifestyle and financial planning [photocopy 034].
14 November 2024 Work, business & economy
Video & speaking: Dragons den [photocopy 029].
Grammar & speaking: Bizarre inventions (revision of modality) (slides in photocopy 029).
Speaking: Entrepreneurship [photocopy 029].
Oral mediation: Nuevos empleos con futuro & Pros y contras de la jornada laboral de cuatro días [photocopy 030].
Vocabulary & speaking: The world of work [photocopy 031].
12 November 2024 Work, business & economy
Grammar: Alternatives to if [photocopy 026].
Written mediation: Guidelines (slides in photocopy 026).
Speaking, functional language & vocabulary: Find a solution [photocopy 027].
Reading, listening & speaking: Generative AI tools – worth the hype? [photocopy 028].
Homework: Written mediation: The benefit of mistakes [photocopy 026].
7 November 2024 Work, business & economy
Reading, vocabulary & speaking: Is the corporate DEI panic finally over? [photocopy 024].
Listening: Inclusion and diversity in education [photocopy 024].
Grammar & speaking: Modality [photocopy 022].
Video & speaking: Dirty negotiation tricks [photocopy 025].
Homework: The benefit of mistakes: Alternatives to if [photocopy 026].
5 November 2024 Work, business & economy
Writing: Feedback on complaint letter [slides in photocopy 013].
Speaking: You're hired [photocopy 023].
Reading, vocabulary, listening & speaking: Get that job [photocopy 022].
Speaking: Guideliness for the interaction (slide) [photocopy 022].
Homework: Is the corporate DEI panic finally over? [photocopy 024].
31 October Education & work
Reading: Teacher man [photocopy 019].
Speaking: Intelligence [photocopy 018].
Oral mediation: Sitting public examinations in Spain AND Consejos para defender el TFC [photocopy 020].
Video: Job hunting [photocopy 021].
Speaking: Weird job interviews (milling) [photocopy 021].
Homework: Get that job, Vocabulary (job searching) [photocopy 022].
29 October Education
Grammar: The subjunctive [photocopy 016].
Speaking: Guideliness for the monologue (slide) [photocopy 015].
Speaking: Education [photocopy 015].
Listening: The dark story of IQ tests.
Video & speaking: What learning style are you? [photocopy 018].
Homework: Teacher man [photocopy 019].
24 October Education
Grammar: The subjunctive [photocopy 016].
Video & listening: Homeschooling [photocopy 017].
Speaking: Issues in education [photocopy 017].
Homework: The subjunctive [photocopy 016].
22 October Education
Reading: College admissions scandal UoE [photocopy 012].
Writing: Writing assessment criteria [photocopy 013].
Writing & speaking: Letter of complaint [photocopy 013].
Speaking: The 4 C's in education & Find out about [photocopy 014].
Listening: Interview with Daisy Christodoulou [photocopy 015].
Homework: Letter of complaint [photocopy 013].
17 October Entertainment (Humour)
Reading: British humour & Laughter's geography [photocopy 010].
Listening & speaking: Humour [photocopy 009].
Oral mediation: Guidelines (slides) [photocopy 011].
Oral mediation: Safety in Barcelona + Ventajas y desventajas de tener un profesor nativo [photocopy 011].
Homework: College admissions scandal [photocopy 012].
15 October 2024 Entertainment (Humour)
Vocabulary: Vocabulary in Travel [photocopy 006].
Speaking: Overtourism [photocopy 007].
Videos: The two Ronnies + Buster Keaton.
Vocabulary and speaking: Humour vocabulary (slide) [photocopy 009].
Video: Nikki Glaser’s Someday You’ll Die [photocopy 009].
Listening: Comic Nikki Glaser [photocopy 009].
Homework: British humour & Laughter's geography [photocopy 010].
8 October 2024 Entertainment (Travel)
Vocabulary: Was Shakespeare a woman? [photocopy 004].
Speaking: Reading [photocopy 003].
Speaking: Travel [photocopy 006].
Video & speaking: Overtourism [photocopy 007].
Pronunciation: Stress or not (slide) [photocopy 008].
Homework: Vocabulary in Travel [photocopy 006].
3 October 2024 Entertainment (Reading)
Vocabulary & speaking: Describing books and films [photocopy 003].
Listening & speaking: Great Lives: Shakespeare [photocopy 004].
Speaking: Getting to know each other [photocopy 005].
Homework: Was Shakespeare a woman? [photocopy 004].
1 October 2024
Course presentation.
Speaking & vocabulary: Rumour has it [photocopy 001].
Vocabulary, listening & speaking: Accents [photocopy 002].