Vienna's Housing Model

 

 Read The Guardian: How Vienna Became the World's Most Livable City

Me Talk Pretty One Day, by David Sedaris

 

Me Talk Pretty One Day: A Short Story By David Sedaris

Listen to Me Talk Pretty One Day read by the author

Pisa Report 2025: What the Heck Is Going On?

 

Pisa Report Key Takeaways

video watching worksheet

The End of Reading is Here, by Rose Horowitch. The Atlantic

Getting rid of those fossilized errors...

Fossilized errors worksheet

School Calendar 2026-2027

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Getting Started in C2.1 Class

Here follows some General Information about this course:

Teacher: María Cristóbal

Time: Mo&Wed: 18:30-20:20; Tue&Thu: 16:30-18:20 // 18:30-20:20

Classroom: 5.14

Office hours: Monday and Wednesday 20:20-21:20 /Tuesday and Thursday 15:30-16:30. You need to make an appointment via email.

Teacher's  contact email address: mcristobal@educa.madrid.org. Please write your name and group in the subject.

Textbook : READY FOR C2 PROFICIENCY. Student’s Book. Macmillan Education

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Shadowing Practice

Shadowing is a learning technique where you listen to a text in your target language, and then repeat it aloud right after the speaker, so that you become his/her shadow.

You play the video, and after one sentence or two you pause it to repeat the words that you just heard with a minimum delay. You can do this as you sit down, stand or walk around the house... the point is that you repeat the exacts words in the exact same manner (tempo, intonation, nuances, etc.) as the speaker.

So, here's my proposal to get started in this new technique: Become the shadow of Patch Adams. Patch Adams is an American physician, social activist, clown, and author whose ideas were featured in a famous Hollywood film (Robbin Williams starred in it). Do no more than 2 minutes of his speech at a time.

"I want a world where no one alive can remember what the word war means..."