PRESENT, PAST AND FUTURE IN AFFIRMATIVE, NEGATIVE & QUESTIONS

A basic chart of how affirmative, negative & questions structures work in English for the Present, Past and Future.

COLLOCATIONS WITH "GO"

Today's post shows different collocations with the verb "GO" and its combinations with different words. Do you understand them all? Some of these collocations are synonyms, do you know which?  Some more examples with "GO", can be found HERE.

THE 44 SOUNDS OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

SAY MY NAME

Say My Name is a band from A Coruña featuring former students from our school: Andrea de Artaza, the lead singer, and Dani Vaamonde, together with Valeria Rubal, Jorge Salgado and Tomás Loroño. Last night they premiered the songs from their first record in Betanzos. Soon they'll be playing in Santiago and on July 22nd at El Pelícano in A Coruña.

Good luck to them!

Video "I'M IN LOVE", Say My Name:

RAFAEL DIESTE'S 2016 GRADUATION CEREMONY.

This evening, once again, like every last Friday in May, we said goodbye to this year's 2nd BAC students, who leave our school on the road to their new future...

Again students, families and teachers gathered at the Assembly Hall of the nearby Profesional Music Conservatory of A Coruña to celebrate their farewell from the secondary school years.
A very smart ceremony hosted by Jose Juan, with speeches by our headmaster and Clara Manrique, on behalf of the students, and musical performances by some of them...
One of the great moments was when J. compared our school with Spain. Rephrasing his speech, it was something like this:
"Our school works much better than our country. We don't have problems with our royalty, we have our own Isabel & Fernando. Every four years, we choose our headmaster without any trouble or complication... one goes out, another comes in... And we don't make such a fuss about parents bringing their own kids to work like with Carolina Bescansa. Ramón Neira has always brought his children to work since the first day he started working here without any objections."

As usual, we wish all the best in your future and remember your years with us!

Galician version of this post @ ArquivosDoTrasno.

READING TIPS

Some help to face your next reading exams. Here some help-tips to be successful.

NEGATIVE PREFIXES

Complete info on prefixes and suffixes on a previous post HERE.

PERSONAL HYGIENE CARE

A vocabulary chart post devoted to personal hygiene care products.

For a look at cosmetics, go HERE

COLLOCATIONS WITH "COME

Common collocations with "COME". Find some more exmamples with this verb HERE.

WORDS WHERE 'CH' SPELLING IS PRONOUNCED /k/ or 'sh'

A pronounciation lesson today. Words with spelling 'CH', which are pronounced either /k/ as the words above or 'sh' as the ones below.

DIFFERENT WAYS TO SAY "NO"

Here's a compilation of ways to say "NO" tactfully, that is to disagree.

DIFFERENT WAYS TO SAY "YES"

Today several ways of agreeing and saying "YES"

OTHER WAYS OF SAYING "SAY"...

Here are different ways of expression "SAY". They can all be used as introductory verbs in the reported speech.

REPORTED SPEECH EXAMPLES

These are examples of changes from direct to reported speech. For basics on the topic click HERE.

COLLOCATIONS WITH "CATCH"

You can find more collocations with "CATCH" on a previous post HERE.

Som examples in context:
- He caught the ball before it went onto the road.
- The weather was so bad during the weekend that I caught a cold/chill/flu, 
- Don't worry, I'll catch the bus to your house.
- The police caught the thief as soon as he left the bank.

TRENDY INTERNET ABBREVIATIONS

Writing on the internet has to be quick and short, so it's usual to use abbreviations to make it shorter. Here are some of the trendy abbreviations used when communiucating via writing on the web.

WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO THIS WEEKEND?

Expressing arrange plans for the near future with BE GOING TO+infinitive.

What are you going to do this weekend?

COLLOCATIONS WITH "CAN'T"

Some charts with some collocations with modal verb CAN'T  that make up useful and common expressions.

EXPRESSING THE NEGATIVE: NO, NONE, NONE OF

The word no never precedes: a, an, the, any, much, many, enough. 

No is used:

• as an exclamation.
• as an adjective before singular and plural nouns.

Not is used:

• as an adverb to make a sentence negative. 
• to make an adjective or adverb negative.
• in short replies with a number of verbs.

Examples:

• We have no money in the bank now.
• We do not have any money in the bank now.

• There are no books in the bookcase.
• There are no English books in the bookcae.
• There are not any books in the bookcase.

• Do you like coffe? No, I don't.
• Didn't you finish it? No, I didn't.

• Don't you want this?               Not at all.
• Won't you be mad at us?        Not in the least.
• Aren't you going to go?          Not right now.
• Who took my book?                Not I.