EXAMS, EXAMS....

What can we do with an exam?
I though that we can pass or fail it. But I was wrong because:

• We can take an exam.


• We can do an exam.


• We can sit an exam.

But please, study for the exam.

JAY WALKER ON THE WORD'S ENGLISH MANIA

Amazing video and new vocabulary:
+ pandemonium: chaos, anarchy, apocalipsis.
+ to be a returning point: ser un punto sin retorno. Ojo parece lo contrario.
+ Lingua Franca: again with latin, means that a language is spoken over big piece of the world, that just everyone can talk it.
+ Don't let me down: means dejar tirado.
+ Mother tongue: The language you speak when you are a child, at home...
+ Harness: can be a noum : arnés or can be a verb with two menaning: to put an harness to a horme or to use something. The harness of electricity: the use of electricity.
+ By law: It's compulsory to do.

WHAT CAN WE DO ON THE WEB?

Be carefull:

• You can search ON the internet. That means that you know what are you looking for. By the way ON the internet, ON the web.



• You can browse on the web when you don't kwon what are you looking for. To browse means: cursiosear, echar un vistazo... In a shop, to a book or on the web. Just watching.



• You can surf the web. We don't sail the web.



• We can watch a video on the web.



• We can pay by credit card over the Internet.




• We can look at a page or at pages.

LATIN OR ENGLISH?

Both. You know that some languages take words from other languages, and English did it too. I'm ending a big book about all the English History and there appears that chester means roman camp. So the places called ....chester had long time ago a roman village. Manchester, Lancaster, Chester... I'll explain more of this historical adventures widely in the entry of the book.
But, what is the meaning of?

• e. g. : Everyone know that means for example but it is written in latin: In latin it means: Exempli Gratia.


• i. e. : Means "that is," but it is written in latin too and the meaning is : id est.

So, although I enjoyed latin just a bit in the High School I have to say that I agree completely with Obelix.

RENT OR HIRE

There are two different verbs with similar meaning in Spanish but not in English:

• To rent: (from wordreference.com): that means that if I am the owner of a flat I can let you living there if you pay me an amount of money monthly. (alquilar) So you can rent a flat, an apartment...


• To hire: (from wordreference.com): means that you are paing to have the posibility to use a machine or a person. For example: If you go to London, you can hire a car to make some trips. If I have a farm, in harvest time I can hire a person to help me just during the harvest.

The problem is that in Spanish we use alquilar for both verbs, but I think that to hire is a shortter period of time.

FAMILY MATTERS

We can have problems when we are trying to introduce ourselves just translating from Spanish.

Here there are some new vocabulary that can hepls us:

• If I have the same name that my father's, I can say: I WAS NAMED (NAME) AFTER MY FATHER.




• And when my parents give me a name...: THEY NAMED (NAME) ME. But be carefull never: They named -to- me.




• If I have not brothers or sisters: I'M AN ONLY CHILD.

NEW LANGUAGE SCHOOL YEAR

The new school year in the Language School of Barakaldo has been started. Again, many people walk trough the corridors looking for their new classrooms. The classmates have been changed. Thanks God I met many of them before but I think I'll miss my old classroom we have good moments and good memories.
But, life is life, or life is hard, say as you prefer, and LET'S START AGAIN IMPROVING OUR ENGLISH.
B2 be carefull, here we are.

And I want to end that entry writting a joke. I think it will be the first joke of the blog:

Why pirates are pirates?
Because they arrrrrrr.

So don't walk the blank (pasarela) and make your best.

Think blue symphony and pizza

TESS OF THE D'URBERVILLES

What can I say about that marbellous novel? It is awesome. It is fantastic and I'm really in love with it.
I don't really know how Thomas Hardy wrote about the Victorian country society so perfect. He describes the country facts perfectly, the harvest, the moral, the differences between being the master or just a maid.
The BBC mini serie is just a piece of heaven, a very well done master piece. And although I don't know the main character of Tess I know Eddy Redmayne from the perfect adaptation of The Earth Pillars.
I have just recently bought "The mayor of Casterbridge" book. It is Thomas's too.
I have written about Thomas Hardy Novels first. "Far from the madding crowd" wencouraged me reading more classic novels. And "Tess the D'urbervilles" was my best choice and I have discovered a big world of country side stories that Thomas Hardy described perfectly.
I have not already seem the Bertolucci's "Tess" film. I hope I will enjoy it. But I have to recognise that a big novel can't fit properly in one hour 20 minutes film. Thats the reason why BBC's mini serie lenght is of 270 minutes. And when you are watching the film is like if you were reading again the book. It suits prefectly.
Just a master piece.

PRIDE AND PREJUDICE

It is a classic novel written by Jane Austen. It is about love. It talks about the moment when a sister must find a good husband to marry with. Although sometimes appear different difficulties to get te aim as social differences, powers, prides and prejudices.
Will the love win that fight? Or will the money do it?
It is supposed that love is the only ingredient to join two lovers but is that quote true?

THE SIGN OF FOUR

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's novel where Sherlock Holmes and His unseparate partner Watson have to discover the secret of the location of an old treasure.
I think that the novel is not as famous as the Hound of the Baskervilles, but if you enjoy reading mistery novel you 'd enjoy it. Miss Morstan father is dissapeared, but year by year a pearl is sent to Miss Morstan. What is happening? Is it all in his head? Do you want to discover the truth of the Agra Treasure? Are you ready to do it?

Tess of the D'urbervilles

I'm in love with this novel and so with the BBC adaptation. If you can, watch the film or read the book. It's amazing. The writer is Thomas Hardy. He wrote "Far from the madding crowd" too.
Both of the novels are interesting becouse they describe Victorian life in the English countryside.
I like them.

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