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At Uptown English, all our teenagers and adult students are getting ready for their mid-course exams. In this blog post we want to give some ideas to all students who are preparing for important exams and would like some advice, tips or techniques to help them maximise their study time. When it comes to preparing […]

A les darreres classes abans de les vacances de Nadal, els nostres alumnes d’Uptown han realitzat les Christmas Olympics! Han concursat per veure quin grup era capaç de fer el millor jersei nadalenc. Aquest ha estat el resultat:                        Ens ho hem passat d’allò més bé!! Ara, […]

The T2 students at Uptown English having Halloween fun, enjoying the Horror Quiz and learning Halloween vocabulary at the same time! Test your vocabulary, what are the following phobias of…?       Arachnaphobia… Claustrophobia… Acrophobia… Astraphobia… Aerophobia… Nyctophobia… Globophobia… Somniphobia… Anatidaephobia… Numerophobia… Coulrophobia…     Ready for the answers, no cheating!     Fear of SPIDERS […]

An idiom is a phrase or a fixed expression that has a figurative, or sometimes literal, meaning. Categorized as formulaic language, an idiom’s figurative meaning is different from the literal meaning. There are thousands of idioms, occurring frequently in all languages. It is estimated that there are at least twenty-five thousand idiomatic expressions in the English language. Idioms related to the body partsare plentiful and […]

Be careful with the BOMB game at Uptown English! Jake’s students practising their vocabulary and having a BLAST (get it?!) doing so! Hacer juegos y actividades variadas en las clases es muy importante para mantener el entusiasmo y atención de los alumnos – niños, adolescentes y adultos! Por eso aseguramos que todas nuestras clases son creativas […]

A la hora de hablar y escribir en inglés, podemos tener algunas dificultades ya que cuando no dominamos un idioma tendemos a traducir literalmente de nuestra lengua materna. A continuación, os mostramos algunos de los típicos errores que los hispanohablantes solemos cometer y las soluciones.   PALABRAS CON UN SIGNIFICADO PARECIDO: Fun and funny Estas […]

The necessity to learn a foreign language is increasing year by year. Now, all over the world, English is being used as an international business language and those who cannot converse in English risk being left behind despite their other qualifications. And it’s not just at work, in Catalan universities the First Certificate (upper-intermediate level) […]

The first day of school is a crucial experience for teachers and students. The initial interactions which take place between a student and their teacher can form the foundation of the students’ opinions and feelings towards their teacher which inevitably moulds future behaviour and attitude the student displays for the rest of the year. Now […]

    El inglés es actualmente el idioma internacional por excelencia y es utilizado por ejemplo en competiciones deportivas como los Juegos Olímpicos, o también en la mayoría de aerolíneas para vuelos internacionales. Saber inglés abre muchas puertas para viajar y conocer gente de otros países, pero es cierto que hay muchas variedades de inglés, […]

Thousands of teenagers across the UK will have school lessons in mindfulness in an experiment designed to see if it can protect against mental illness.