Gender Equality Comic & Cartoon Competition

UN Women, together with the European Commission, Belgian Development Cooperation and UNRIC, organized a Comic and Cartoon Competition on Gender Equality earlier this year. Check out the winners and semi-finalists below. Choose your favourite cartoon and explain your choice.

Agatha Hop (Poland) Third place winner

David Ibañez (Spain) Second place winner

Samuel Akinfenwa Onwusa (Spain) Third place winner

Emilio Morales Ruiz (Spain) First Place winner

So You Want to Work in the UK

Trabajo en Reino Unido is the title of a very interesting post you can read in http://edulcoro.blogspot.com.es/, one of the best blogs devoted to academic and vocational counselling published in Spain. It offers practical advice,  lots of links, and priceless recommendations for your career.
Trabajar en Europa is another blog worth visiting.

Phone Calls

This post features phrases and expressions you might hear when you phone somebody, whether a company or a friend. Take a look at the presentation below and click on the links provided for further practice.

 

 Click on BBC Learning English activities and imagine that you are calling a company and  want to speak to somebody who works there.

Useful telephone vocabulary and phrases in English.

Last but not least a cute and longish video to learn how to make phone calls in both informal and formal styles of speaking.