Síntesis del Episodio "Describing trends and graphs - Breaking news: current events, news and sensationalism"

This seminar will look at how English is used as a Lingua Franca around the world through countless news sources. We will study language of current events, news and discuss the issue of sensationalism. Similarly, we will also work on describing trends, changes and general graph language.

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