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Miguel de Cervantes y Saavedra. Hi everyone. There is a lot to celebrate this year on Book Day, 23rd April. The 400th anniversary of Miguel de Cervantes's  and Shakespeare's death. Also, 100 years since the birth of Roald Dahl. This post is  "a call for ideas" . Perhaps you would like to do a presentation on the life of Cervantes or Shakespeare, or have a poem that you would like to read. Perhaps you would like to  read a story or play a quiz. I would love to hear from you and your ideas for this big day. You can contact me via the contact form in Contacto or you can post a comment. Just a reminder. I'm updating the Reading Corner so you can check what there is new. Any suggestion is welcome. Thanks!

Public Domain Idioms, not to be confused with idiomas in Spanish, a very common mistake. Idioms are frases hechas or expresiones idiomáticas and are part of everyday language. Native speakers use them all the time. Today I'd like to share with you something funny that happened in my Intermediate 1 class a few weeks ago. It's about idioms, of course. Can you guess the idiom by looking at the photo in this post? That's right! "Do not judge a book by its cover" This idiom was in a text about Susan Boyle . When I asked what the idiom meant in Spanish, one student put his hand up and offered an immediate reply: "No juzgues un libro por la portada" I asked the rest of the class whether they agreed. Some of them said "yes" and some other students did not know whether that was right or wrong. Other students said the translation in Spanish was "No debemos dejarnos engañar por las apariencias" . The student who...

Hola a todos y todas Esta entrada es para inaugurar mi nuevo blog. Bueno, nuevo, nuevo, no. Le he hecho algunos cambios y puesto una nueva foto. Espero que sea útil para mis alumnos  y todos aquellos que quieran aprender inglés. Gracias y aprecio cualquier comentario o sugerencia.