Conditional Clauses are also called If Clauses. We use them to speculate or think about what could happen, what might have happened, and what we wish would happen. I prepared this document for beginners. I hope you'll find it helpful. CONDITIONALS … [Read more...]
Because I’m a Man…
A pupil of mine, Carlos, showed it to me today and I liked it so much that I thought it was worth sharing it with you. … [Read more...]
Music – Eva Solís (1st Bac)
I took this photo in one of my first concerts. Sometimes, when we think of concerts, we always criticize them and think of bad habits, so I wanted to change this view and comment on something more positive, such as music and the great influence it has on our society. Whether we realise it or not, we are surrounded by chords and melodies that are … [Read more...]
Gerunds and Infinitives
I've written this document thinking of my pupils, because some of them didn't remember these slight differences between using -ing or -to. I hope it is helpful, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. I'll try to focus on those peculiar verbs I have included and I'll explain them in detail in future posts. GERUND AND INFINITIVES … [Read more...]
Across the Universe
"I was lying next to my first wife in bed, you know, and I was irritated. and I was thinking. She must have been going on and on about something and she'd gone to sleep and I kept hearing these words over and over, flowing like an endless stream. I went downstairs and it turned into a sort of cosmic song rather than an irritated song, rather than a … [Read more...]
You cannot “EXPLAIN ME” anything
The other day, someone said to me:"I'll explain you later". I instantly thought she was not using the verb EXPLAIN correctly. We can "explain something", that is, we can make something clear or understandable maybe by describing or giving information about it ,or we can give the cause or reason for something. However, we can also say "explain … [Read more...]
Beyond our Imagination – María Irache (1st Bac)
We can think of things we have never experienced thanks to our imagination because we have seen them or we have heard speaking about them. Our imagination is based on our experiences and their connections. We could never imagine something that doesn’t exist for us. And if our imagination started from scratch, if we didn’t know what we know now, … [Read more...]
Who killed Bambi? – Leyre Cordero (1st Bac)
Usually, Bambi, Disney’s deer, is regarded as the symbol of innocence. I took this picture two years ago. What struck me was the name of the shop and its location, very close to the Wall, in Berlin (a town forced to forget about its innocence on so many occasions throughout its history). Now I see it and think: it’s incredible the way actions, … [Read more...]
DREAM – Irati Llaguno (1st Bac)
I’m sure you have, more than once, enjoyed this incredible view of our city from the highway or maybe from Deusto, which is the town I took the picture from. Even if you have, you may not have paid attention to this industrial building on whose façade we can read the word DREAM (SOÑAR, in Spanish), a word which in this case (and many others) gains … [Read more...]
Multiple Intelligences
I would like to invite you to watch this video of Howard Gardner,an American developmental psychologist and Professor of Cognition and Education at Harvard University, speaking about his theory of Multiple Intelligences. Some years ago, intelligence was considered to be a single general ability we were born with, and which apparently didn't … [Read more...]