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Feedback/News:

Jacky Mojica. – Hello Mansion teachers!
Thanks for your best program for/about learning English, I’m taking English lessons and at the same time I’m practicing and learning through your web site. I think this is a nice and interesting web site,
I like answering the exercises, listening the audios and read all things about English topics,
also your site have a great and cool view, so it’s a motivation to take your English course. Thanks!

Correct text:
Hello Mansion teachers!
Thanks for your best program to learning English, I’m taking English lessons and at the same time I’m practicing and learning through your web site. I think this is a nice and interesting web site,
I like doing the exercises, listening to the audios and reading all things about English topics,
also your site looks cool/has a cool look, so it’s a motivation to do your English course. Thanks!
RAFAEL de Terrassa: thank you for doing this, I’m a listener of sixty years old. (we say in Spain ” nunca es tarde si la dicha es buena”) When I was fourteen I made a course of English in my house (of my own), there were records rounds of vinil, and now I am here listening you both.
you make this easy and fun. Sois muy salados (funnys)
that’s true we the spanish we make very mistakes when we try to speak English but in this podcast I’ve heard Reza or Craig saying pedrastro when it would say pAdrastro.
and I’ve heard too, someone saying cojones in the place of cajones.
never get tired, THANK YOU, SO MUCH
Correct text:

RAFAEL de Terrassa: thank you for doing this, I’m a listener of sixty years of age/I’m a sixty-year-old listener. (We say in Spain ” nunca es tarde si la dicha es buena”) When I was fourteen I did an English course in my house (on my own/by myself), there were round vinyl records, and now I am here listening you both. You make this easy and fun. Sois muy salados (funny). That’s true we the spanish we make a lot of/many mistakes when we try to speak English but in this podcast I’ve heard Reza or Craig saying pedrastro when it would say padrastro, and I’ve heard too, someone saying cojones in the place of cajones. I never get tired, THANK YOU, SO MUCH

Gramática:

A question from Facebook from Irma Nydia Mercado Zayas: “Gracias por ayudarnos, tengo una pregunta ,cuando se usa BEEN OR BEING yo tengo problemas con esas dos.”
BEEN is a past participle of the verb TO BE (it usually translates as ‘sido’ o ‘estado’)
BEING is the present participle of the verb to be (often translated as siendo, estando)

Craig has been to many places, but he hasn’t been to Disneyland.

John is being interviewed for a job. – Él está siendo entrevistado por un trabajo.

BEEN has one syllable and is not usually stressed “I’ve /bin/ to Cuba, but I haven’t /bin/ to Brazil.
BEING has two syllables – BE-ING

Vocabulary Corner: Technology

to cut = cortar
to copy = copiar
to paste = pegar
to print = imprimir
to delete = borrar (to erase (US) / to rub out (UK) – eraser / rubber = goma
file = archivo
folder = carpeta (moqueta = carpet)
save as = guardar como
to select = seleccionar
to insert = insertar
to compress = comprimir
to search = buscar

Craig recommends The Internet Archive for listening practice.

Idioms:

“Mutton dressed up as lamb.”
mutton = tough lamb – duro
tender = tierno

on the pull = ligango

“Look at that woman over there, she’s mutton dressed up as lamb.”

“A wolf (lobo) in sheep’s clothing” (a dangerous person pretending to be harmless) – the plural of sheep is sheep.

“You can’t pull the wool (lana) over my eyes.” You can’t decieve me.

wolf (singular) – wolves (plural)   

“to cry wolf” (to cry or complain about something when nothing is really wrong./ to ask for help when you do not need it, with the result that no one believes you when help is necessary). “The boy who cried wolf.”

“Caught between a rock and a hard place.” – You’ve got problems on either side. Two equally bad situations with no way out (sin salida).

“Hobson’s choice” – a situation in which you are supposed to make a choice but do not have a real choice because there is only one thing you can have or do (“What do you want for lunch, soup and salad or salad and soup?”)

stable = establo
choice = elección (to choose)

“Look what the cat dragged home/brought in.” – Someone who looks bad or arrives late.

Reza is allergic to cats, They make him cough (toser) and sneeze (estornudar)

Reza is a dog lover, and a huge fan of Galgos112 

Facebook: www.facebook.com/galgos112

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