- - - - - - HAVING A MEMORY LIKE A SIEVE

DUBIOUS DEEDS

This is a hard book to read although it seems that the author wants to teach us some facts about the life in the Highlands with some funny language, but I think that for a non English reader reading the book can be a hard work.

HANDKERCHIEF: PAÑUELO DE TELA

NECKERCHIEF: PAÑUELO DE CUELLO COMO LOS DE LOS VAQUEROS.

STOAT: ARMIÑO (COMO EL TEJÓN, LA COMADREJA, NUTRIA)

ZING: SILBANDO

SCARF: BUFANDA

TARTAN CLOTHES: TEJIDO ESCOCES

POOR LITTLE CHAP!:¡POBRECILLO!

NOT ONCE, BUT TWICE.

LATECOMERS: LOS QUE LLEGAN TARDE

WHISLT: ALSO, WHILE

BETTER SAFE THAN SORRY.

THE TRUTH BE TOLD: LA VERDAD SEA DICHA

CALLING LANCE AFTER HIS FATHER.

BIGWIGS: PEZ GORDO

BIGSHOT: PEZ GORDO

BIGCHEESE: PEZ GORDO

TOP DOGS: PEZ GORDO

A-LIST PEOPLE: PEZ GORDO

GLEE: REGOCIJO, JÚBILO

FERRET: HURÓN

TO ADDRESS ME: DIRIGIRSE A MI.

VANITY FAIR

This clasic English book is a wee hard but I like blak cat books because they include some extra pieces of information about the world surronding the story. For example: Waterloo and Napoleon appears in the story.

Hatred: odio, hate:odiar

TIM: DEFENDER OF THE EARTH

Nanobots, crazy inventors, disaster and the total destruction of London, a dinosaur...
A wonderfull, amazing book that you'll enjoy reading it.
It's March book.

DEEPEST SYMPATHY: SENTIDO PÉSAME

FOUNDATIONS: CIMIENTOS

WE GOT A STANDOFF: EMPATE, SIN SALIDA

WALKING INTO THE AMBUSH: EMBOSCADA

HIS EARS RANG.

I ABHOR FORCE IN ALL ITS FORMS: ABORRECER

RAMPAGE: ARRASANDO, DESTROZANDO

HE GAVE HIM A LOOK THAT COULD HAVE WITHERED AN AMAZON RAIN FOREST.

HE SMILED MIRTHLESSLY: TRISTEMENTE, AMARGAMENTE

ALBEIT: AUNQUE, NO OBSTANTE

WITH A NOISE THAT SEEMED TO SHAKE THE WHOLE CITY TO ITS FOUNDATIONS.

PITEOUSLY: LASTIMOSAMENTE

HE JABBED AT THE MONITORS WITH ONE FINGER: GOLPEÓ

OFF YOU GO.

HOLD ON A SEC.

INESCAPABLE: INEXORABLE, INEVITABLE

CHEEKY MONKEY: DESCARADO

OBLIVIOUS: INCONSCIENTE DE ALGO

AGHAST: ATERRORIZAR

DIMLY: DEBILMENTE

TO BE AKIN TO: SEMEJANTE A

MASONRY: MANPOSTERÍA

GNATS: MOSQUITOS

EERIE HUSH: EERIE: FANTASMAGÓRICO, HUSH: SILENCIO, CALMA.

HALF NELSON: ES UNA LLAVE DE PELEA.

GREAT EXPECTATIONS

Wonderful clasic novel. It's Charles Dickens, as you know this year we are celebrating the birth of one of the most wonderful English writers.

One of these days, you'll drive me to the graveyard: Expresion used by mothers all over the world!

Ask no questions and you 'll be told no lies.

Hulk: They were a some kind of ships which transported prisioners to Australia from England.

If you please: Si te complace.

Entrap:

I hear the church bell striking five.

WHEN SANTA FELL TO EARTH

WHAT A FUNNY AND ENJOYABLE COZY BOOK!

TOMCAT: GATO MACHO

DEAN WAS A REAL JOKER AT OTHER PEOPLE'S EXPENSE.

EVEN THE TEACHERS RESPECTED HIS SHAP TONGUE.

WRAPPING PRESENTS.

AS STICKY AS HONEYED TOAST.

A CLOCK ON THE WALL CHIMED 8 TIMES.

SCRATCHING THE DOG BEHIND ITS EARS.

WHAT HE SAW WOULD HAVE LEFT ANYBODY SPEECHLESS.

EVEN TALKING ABOUT THEM BRINGS NOTHING BUT BAD LUCK.

AND NOW YOU ARE TRYING TO GET INTO MY GOOD BOOKS AGAIN.

A FAINT SMELL OF:

WERE SITTING AMICABLY WITH THE ELVES: AMIGABLEMENTE

I'VE TO REVISE FOR A TEST.

REINFROCEMENTS

IT COULD BE JUST A SPRAIN: ESGUINCE

HUMMED A LITTLE TUNE.

THE WHOLE WORLD WILL BE BLANKETED WITH SNOW.

SEE YOU AGAIN WHEN THE DAYS ARE AS SHORT AS SOCKS AND THE NIGHTS AS LONG AS SLEEVES. (SLEEVES: MANGAS)

GRK AND THE HOT DOG TRAIL

A sculture made of pure gold has been stolen. Tim and his dog GRK will found it.

No dawdling!:¡No te entretengas!

Day shift: 8-4

Evening shift: 4-12

Night shift: 12-8

Busker: músico callejero.

Truncheon: porra.

Tarmac: asfalto.

Panic button.

Tuck your shirt in: Meter la camisa por dentro.

Clip your nails: Cortarse las uñas.

Scrubble you teeth: Cepillarse los dientes.

Spokes: Radio de una rueda.

Silhouette of the building.

Decipher: Descifrar

CCTV cameras: Closed Circuit Television

They're walking the dogs.

Unfastened the lead from dog's collar.

Scent: Aroma, perfumwe, fragancia, esencia.

Mothers with prams: Madres con cochecitos.

I am cross: Tener el dia cruzado, enojado, enfadado.

Tickled dogs ears.

Put him on the leash: ponerle el collar.

Dachhund: Perro salchicha.

He felt a jolt of fear

Solid and impregnable door: INEXPUGNABLE, IMPENETRABLE

Get the stench off your skin: Quitar el hedor de tu piel.

I'm half a year behind with my rent.

Adam's apple: nuez

Empty magazine: Cargador vacio. Bullet case.

To be eavesdropping: Escuchando a escondidas.

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL: STORIES FROM EAST HIGH 9

Did you know that the students of the East High went to a winter holidays resort? They skied, they sang the karaoke, Shapey was lost in the dark cold night...

AN AWFULLY BEASTLY BUSINESS

Ulf, a wonderful teenager werewolf that wants to save a new monsters that arrived to RSPCB Headquarters. RSPCB means: ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF THE CRUELTY TO BEASTS.
"I do solemnly swear to preserve and protect the wild, from this day forth i pledge my allegiance to beasts."

ONE BEASTLY BEAST...

What if some pirate rats steal your dvds?
What if you are not a person and you are a penguin?
What if you have got no parents and an alien family want you as their child?
A very funny easy book.

COWS IN ACTION: THE MOO-MY'S CURSE

Now, those clever cows must go to the ancient Egypt to help pharaon Ramses from the termoonator. Enjoyable book. As you can guess C.I.A. means: Cows In Action.

COWS IN ACTION: THE TERMOONATORS

Professor Angus Mc Moo, the time machine inventor, has to go to the future to save the past.

He is not alone, two cows are with him, but they have to be carefull, the Tudor age in England is not a safe place for three clever speaking cows. And Ter-moo-nators are lokking for them and trying to trick the king.

Curious book. I enjoyed it.

HELL'S HEROES

The last book of the saga. The Earth is going to be destroyed, all the universe indeed. And it happens. Wow, what a book!

I don't kid myself.

The smell gives me away.

I've to be at my sharpest.

I think the wires in your head have got crossed.

Look in the mirror.

I get to within a couple of metres of her, then the hairs on my arms cath fire and I've to retreat and roll in the dust to quench the flames.

Last one down's a rotten egg.

I'm merely a curious observer.

"...WHO LIT THE SPARK OF LITERATURE IN MY HEART."

Really a good and lovely sentence for one you really appreciate.

SENTENCE TRANSFORMATIONS:

I would prefer it if nobody answered my phone for me . (want). I don't want anyone to answer my phone for me.

She forgot everything I told her. (anything). She didn't remember anything I told her.

I didn't know anyone at the conference. (nobody) . There was nobody known at the conference.- There was nobody I knew at the conference.

Mark asked me the price of a fax machine. (much) Mark asked me how much was to buy a fax machine.

The operator asked him if he wanted any more information. (else). The operator asked him if there was anything else he wanted to ask.

I'm sure Steve didn't mean to upset you. (intention) I'm sure Steve's intention wasn't to upset you.- I'm sure Steve had no intention of upsetting you.