Ecological Footprint

The Living Planet Report ranked the UAE (United Arab Emirates) as having the highest per capita Ecological Footprint in the world. In response, an initiative was launched to better understand the Ecological Footprint and monitor consumption patterns in the country.


Watch the video and make notes. Why does the speaker mention the following? Check your answers in "comments".

o Footprint

o 57%

o 4.5

o Imported products

o Natural disasters

o Adopting new habits

Click here to listen and read  Click on "environment" in contents and have a look at old posts with vocabulary and more listening activities about the same topic.

Plazo de preinscripción EEOOII

Se ha abierto el plazo de preinscripción en la EOI de Albacete para el próximo curso 2019-2020. Por favor, comunicádselo a cualquier persona interesada en matricularse como alumno nuevo. Muchas gracias.



ABIERTO PLAZO DE ADMISIÓN ESCUELA OFICIAL DE IDIOMAS DE ALBACETE 
                                                            9-23 MAYO 
• Enseñanza y certificación oficial de alemán, francés, inglés, italiano y español para extranjeros. 
• Niveles A1, A2, B1, B2, C1 y C2. 
• Si tienes entre 14 y 16, años matricúlate en cualquier idioma que no curses como primera lengua en tu instituto. A partir de 16 años, elige el idioma que más te guste. 
• Matrícula anual de 85 euros (120 horas lectivas + prueba de certificación) 
• Solicita realizar la prueba de nivel de competencia para acceder al curso que mejor se adapte a tu nivel. 
REUNIÓN INFORMATIVA MIÉRCOLES 15 MAYO 2019 
20:30 AULA 501 (5ª PLANTA)
EOI ALBACETE (Avda de España, 12) 

Technology report

Click here to do a very easy listening activity that provides some good ideas to speak about this topic.

Click here to watch a video about 5 technological advances on the brink of huge breakthroughs.

Writing a cover letter or email / application letter or email

                                                                 Click here to see an old post.

     Another post with an example here.

Future probability and possibility

Click here to review different ways to express probability.

 

Women in Technology

Click here to watch a video and do a comprehension activity.

The jobs will lose to machines- and the ones we won't

Watch the video and fill in the gaps. Use between one and three words in each one. Check your answers in "comments".

 A research at Oxford University concluded that one in every two jobs have a high risk of being ____________________________________ (1). 

 Machine learning is a powerful branch of artificial intelligence that allows machines to learn from ____________________________________(2) and mimic what humans can do. 

The speaker’s company, Kaggle, knows a lot about the jobs machines might automate or ____________________________________(3). 

Machine learning started in the early 90s with simple tasks such as assessing credit risks from ____________________________________ (4) but now it’s capable of far more difficult challenges. Last year scientists built algorithms able to match ____________________________________ (5) given by human ophthalmologists. 

Humans have no chance of ____________________________________ (6) on frequent, high-volume tasks. However, machines can’t handle novel situations without learning from ____________________________________(7) data- something humans can do. For instance, the physicist Percy Spencer did it when he invented ____________________________________(8). 

Therefore, the future of any single job will depend on to what extent that job is reducible to frequent, high-volume tasks or it involves tackling ____________________________________(9). 

Humans will be the ones creating marketing campaigns and developing ____________________________________(10).