Animal Idioms

one of the most difficult things to know are the idioms, because they don´t have any in common with the language it´s more about the culture. in this post, i would like to show you some of these.

Frog is my throat: Temporary hoarseness caused by a phlegm in the back of the throat.
Eat like a horse: If you eat like a horse, it means that you eat a lot
Cry wolf: To ask for help when you don´t need it.
Raining cats and dogs: It´s raining so much!
Get your goat: make you annoyed or angry.
Live high on the hog: to have a lot of money and live in comfort.
Make a mountain out of a mole hill: to make a slight difficulty seem like a serious problem.
Monkey business: silly or dishonest behaviour.
Cat nap:
Eat like a bird:
Smell like a rat:
Does the cat have your tongue?
A road hog:
Bull headed:
Snake in the grass:
Hold your horses:
Barking up the wring tree:
Eager Beaver:
Talk till the cows come home:
Let the cat out the bag:

English Training

Nintendo DS is a very good educational tool, with this you can play and have a good time and at the same time you can learn a lot, like another language. here you have a review of a game to learn english, it´s called "English Trainig", I wish this can be usefull for you, thank!!

Shall we play?

In the world that we live, everything is interactive,why can´t  the learning of a language be interactive?

Of course, it can, there are some games to help to the english learner to get results easily and quiker.

One of these games is called "Play english"  a very funny game, where you are a spanish detective, and you have to work in a case for the british goberment, in London. that´s amazing!!!

Here you have a video, i hope you enjoy it!

Gossip girls

Gossip girl is a  modern serie, in which you can find some affair issues among some girls who just want to have success in their lifes. tis serie is seatled in San Francisco California, and it has a very normal english, because of it, is a geat help for english learners.

Reading penguins readers

here you have more help to develope your skills.one of the most usefull ways to improve your english is readings but not just reading by yourself, it´s better with the penguins readers, these books have the help of some recordings in Cd, in that way you can read and at the same time you are able to listen what you are reading, that is very usefull to your pronunciation. thats a great help for everyone who wants to learn english, and also you can choose the level of difficultty.

http://www.penguinreaders.com/

keep practicing

Surfing on internet, i have found a very usefull  website to practice and develope your english skills, it´s very interesting for the bachillerato students, because in this courses, it is necessary to be able to rephrasing, and you can improve in this topoic, working with this page. 

http://www.xtec.es/~ogodoy/sac/index.htm

some help: Phrasal verbs

phrasal verbs are one of the most difficult points of the english, because of that we should study that little by little. good luck with that

Some music?

Sometimes learning english can be a littlle dull, but if you think that, it´s becouse you have to change your mind. learn English through songs, movies or another kind of media in which you can participate.

Problems with the language?

This is a sketch of one of the most famous comedian of all of times. Enjoy it!!