What to do with DO and MAKE?
Do or make? If you have problems choosing between do and make when you’re speaking English, you’re not alone. It’s one of the most common questions that I hear in my classes, and the truth is that I still don’t think that we teachers have a totally satisfactory...
Inglés y marketing
En muchas actividades de nuestra vida el inglés es importante para desarrollarnos como personas y también como profesionales. En muchos ámbitos esta lengua gana terreno e importancia y pasa a ser uno de los puntos fuertes que nos va a permitir abrirnos puertas en este...
Phrasal Verbs: A Breakdown of DOWN
Back in October last year, I wrote a couple of blogs about phrasal verbs with UP as an example of how you can attack phrasals by focussing on the preposition (or particle), not the verb. I ended by promising to write a similar analysis of DOWN in my next blog, and...
Phrasal Verbs: Catching Up
In my last blog, I tried to explain how phrasal verbs enable native English speakers to go into detail about how they go up stairs (we walk up them, run up them or stagger up them drunk). If we move something else to a higher place, we generally just pick it up and...