17 ene 2022

Leadership Without Stereotypes | B2 Team Communication Lab

Group standing beside an Erasmus+ educational programmes display
Foto de @mmolpor · Fotografía original conservada. No representa al equipo ficticio de Mara.
Leadership · Expectations · Polite clarification

Ask how this team works

Compare expectations without turning nationality into a personality test.

B2 · Leadership · Expectations · Polite clarification · 30–40 minutes

Keep the workplace-communication focus of the original activity through a new fictional team case. A person’s nationality does not tell us exactly how they prefer to work.

The World in Numbers | B2–C1 Estimates, Projections & Perspective

Sailboat on the horizon above a sunlit sea
Foto de @mmolpor · Fotografía original de esta entrada conservada.
Data literacy · Population · Cautious language

A number needs a date and a definition

Read a projection without turning it into a promise.

B2–C1 · Data literacy · Population · Cautious language · 30–40 minutes

Revisit the question behind the original reading: how can we describe the world fairly? This new briefing uses dated UN population figures and a fictional classroom discussion instead of treating old statistics as current.

13 ene 2022

Grammar Trail 3 | B1–B2 Mixed Practice with Explained Feedback

Participants in an Erasmus+ group photograph from the author’s archive
Foto de @mmolpor · Archivo Erasmus+ del blog. Imagen de archivo, no del proyecto ficticio de la lectura.
Mixed grammar · Meaning before form

Follow the clues, not the keyword

Conditionals, relatives, tenses and adverbs in one learning project.

B1–B2 · Mixed grammar · Meaning before form · 25–35 minutes

Replace the old course reminder with a complete practice route. The downloadable original tasks and answer files remain in the archive links.

12 ene 2022

Borrow, Rent or Buy? | B2 Sharing Economy Decision Room

Coloured chairs on the grass of a park
Foto de @mmolpor · Archivo Erasmus+ del blog. No documenta el servicio ficticio de préstamos.
Sharing economy · Conditionals · Balanced choices

One drill. Several ways to use it.

Compare access, responsibility and the evidence behind a green claim.

B2 · Sharing economy · Conditionals · Balanced choices · 30–40 minutes

Explore an original fictional tool-library case. Keep the useful theme of sharing resources while asking what a particular service actually offers.

A Plastic Ocean, a Wider Question | B2 Circular Economy Lab

Sailboat on sunlit water photographed by the author
Foto de @mmolpor · Archivo del blog. No es una imagen del documental ni una prueba de contaminación.
Plastic pollution · Passive voice · Systems thinking

Beyond the recycling bin

Follow an object from design to disposal.

B2 · Plastic pollution · Passive voice · Systems thinking · 30–40 minutes

Keep the environmental theme of the original film activity and explore a new fictional school-café case. The reading below is original; the British Council film review remains linked for further practice.

10 ene 2022

Past Perfect Time Capsule | B1–B2 Before the Story Began

Path in Segovia photographed by the author
Foto de @mmolpor · Caminos de Segovia · Archivo del blog. No documenta la historia ficticia.
Past perfect · Earlier context · Simple and continuous

What had happened before?

Build the earlier event, then explain why it matters.

B1–B2 · Past perfect · Earlier context · Simple and continuous · 25–35 minutes

Use a fictional missed-meeting story to distinguish a past event, its earlier context and an activity in progress before that point.

Djokovic 2022: When a Headline Needs a Timeline | B2 English

Sailboat seen across sunlit water in a photograph by the author
Foto de @mmolpor · Archivo del blog. Imagen de apertura para observar y contextualizar; no muestra Australia, Djokovic ni el caso judicial.
Historical news · Past perfect · Passive voice

One headline. More than one decision.

Freeze the date before deciding what a news story means.

B2 · Historical news · Past perfect · Passive voice · 30–40 minutes

Turn a news item from January 2022 into an exercise in chronology and careful reading. The case is historical; this is an English lesson, not guidance about present immigration rules.

7 dic 2021

Relative Clauses News Desk | B1–B2 & Google Forms Test

Building in Budapest photographed by the author; unrelated to the Belarus–Poland border
Foto de @mmolpor · Casa en Budapest. Fotografía original conservada; no representa la frontera citada en el test histórico.
News desk · Identify · Add context · Verify

Connect the sentence. Check the meaning.

A compact editorial guide before the original relative-clause test.

B1–B2 · Defining and non-defining relatives · Omission · Source awareness · 30–40 minutes + original test

Relative clauses help us identify a person or add information about someone already identified. Use this new guide and practice desk before the original Google Forms test, which remains embedded with its historical context.