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...
Claves para superar un listening con éxito
Cuando nos tenemos que examinar de algún nivel de una lengua extranjera, siempre nos entran los nervios y llegamos a bloquearnos. Habíamos hablado sobre cómo superar un writing o un examen oral y esta vez es el turno del tercer examen a superar; el listening....
Still not sure?
STILL, YET and ALREADY Last time, I shared my misgivings about the slippery present perfect tense in English. As if it wasn’t bad enough alone, this tense also provides a favourable habitat for three of our most exotic and user-hostile adverbs: still, yet and already....