The Family

One of my favourite quotes says: "Friends are God's way of apologizing to us for our families". Don't know what you might think of it but it's certainly a very clever quote.

The next few days in class we're going to talk about the family. If you need to check the vocabulary of the members of the family you can do it here. Move the cursor over the figures and you'll see the spelling and hear the pronunciation.

You are invited to read a little more about family structure and family life in Britain today.

A promise is a promise

So many times in class we have used expressions from Beatles' "Please, Mr Postman". ...deliver the letter, the sooner the better, ...please, Mr Postman, look and see, ...wait a minute, ...I've been waiting a long time,...

I kept telling you I was going to bring you the song one day, but I always forgot. Well, a promise is a promise and today I remembered and I also had the time to look for it. So, here you are! Close your eyes and let The Beatles take you back to the sixties.

Grammar: The Future

There are many ways to express the notion of future in English depending basically on the intention of the speaker, their degree of compromise with the action to be done, and the possibilities of the event to actually take place. That makes the correct use of the future a rather complex task for Spanish learners of English.

Somebody told me once that you could recognize Spanish students of English by how little they use the Present Continuous to refer to future arrangements and compromise -something which natives of English do all the time.

Here you have some complete notes on the use of the future. There's lot of information: don't panic, just use what you need and remember that the teacher will be around if you have any further questions.

By the way, talking about the future always brings to my memory that beautiful song "Qué será" by Doris Day, part of the soundtrack of Hitchcock's unforgettable thriller "The Man Who Knew Too Much". Lyrics of the song.