Using Idioms and Expressions: The ball is in your court!
Sharing Technology to Learn a Language
The learning process has changed dramatically in recent years. Long gone are the days of chalk and talk when the teacher used to talk and talk and write on the board and students sat, listened[…]
Elections Time in the US
And the 45th president of the United States of America is …… By the time many of you read this post the result of the 2016 United States presidential election will be known. You will[…]
Posts in English “Fancy a cuppa?”
That’s a question you’ve probably never been asked and yet it is uttered tens of thousands of times every day in British households. It means “Would you like a cup of tea?”
Tick, Tock, Tick, Tock, the clocks go back.
Twice a year we change the time on our clocks and watches. In spring we move them one hour forward and in autumn they go one hour back. When I was at school we[…]
Posts in English Hello, Hello, Hello
Hello and welcome to the CIM’s (Centro de Idiomas Modernos, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya) blog. What better way to start off the blog than with a “Hello”. “Hello” is a standard way to greet people, but[…]