Yuletide, Christmas and winter solstices

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The Person of the Year

December is the month when newspapers and the internet are full of end-of-year quizzes and lists of the top 10 most important or dramatic or surprising events that took place in the previous 11 months. Other end-of-year[…]

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With Trivialang, the CIM enters the world of game-based learning

Recently launched, Trivialang is a free mobile app for students of English, French and German, which has been developed by the UOC Centre for Modern Languages in conjunction with Oberta Publishing. Trivialang is based on[…]

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Read all about it. Read all about it.

The way we read the news has changed a lot over the last 20 years. Although many people still choose to buy a daily newspaper at the newsagent’s every morning on their way to work,[…]

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One person’s trash is another person’s treasure!

Many people used Black Friday and Cyber Monday in late November to start buying presents. After all, December was only a week away and December means Christmas. Depending on where you live, you will be[…]

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Using Idioms and Expressions: The ball is in your court!

I’m not going to beat about the bush with an introduction. In fact I am going to  let the cat out of the bag immediately and let you have it straight from the horse’s mouth. What[…]