Diego's Quintos

 NEW BOOK BY THE BLOGGER PREFACE We tend to believe that the crucial moments of our lives are those we share with family, friends, and even the applause of success. However, when the real turning points come, we are alone. Tales of a Man All Alone is a collection of stories, somewhere between the real and the unreal, that explore experiences both men and women have to face all alone. Thus, in Fernandez’s Last Experience , The Memory , The Water , a man finds, in the very reality surrounding him, a loophole through which he can reach the meta-reality of his own existence. Both The House of Light , a symbolic story, and Teresinha , an everyday life story, are mystical experiences to which the characters have different responses. The other stories, All Alone , Rodriguez , North Steppe , are realistic. When the time comes in their lives, their protagonists discover that they are alone and in this aloneness they must make a decision: to love, to survive or to die.  REVIEWS ... When...

    EXAM TECHNIQUE AND PRACTICE  LEVEL C  Over thirty years' experience at Malaga's Official School of Languages giving old Revalida , then Ciclo Superior and finally Level C, equivalent to Advanced and Proficiency. Classes online.           (groups 4-6 students)  Interested mail diegoeoimalaga@hotmail.es 

Different words and phrases to do it a) Examples b) Exercises c) Key   a) Examples From less formal to more formal. 1, 2, 3 & 4 are the ones more usually used in speaking, while the rest are more commonly used in written language, unless you’re in a formal situation and therefore need to address your listeners in a formal register, e.g. when you give a lecture, or explain something at courts, etc.   1.         for example : There is a similar word in many languages, for example in French and Italian.   2.         like : Anti-utopian novels like ‘Animal Farm’ and ‘1984’.   3.         such as : Wild flowers such as primroses are becoming rare.   4.         for instance : Let your children make their own decisions sometimes. For instance , let them choose which clothes to wear.   5.   ...