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Last year, I was learning english thanks to the lessons I received two days a week until last june. This month I started the same system to improve my english, thinking, actually and in deep, in the defense of my doctoral thesis. So, despite the fact that I am very busy with my work and my lessons at the University, I know that  if I want to obtain the best  mark in the defense of my research then I need dominate the Shakespeare´s language.

During today´s lessons, I spoke about the summer and, in general, about my doctoral thesis so, the following days I will speak about the others specific issues one to one.

Please, give me good luck!

Here we have another phrasa verb. Today is get away.

We can use this phrasal verb when we want to say something like escape, flee.

Maybe an example should be more visual: “The robbers got away in a black car”,

Reading elmundo.es in its today edition, I found a report which supposes for our, the spanish people, a shame.

I can say this statement because, in opinion of this online newspaper, Spain in one of the European Union countries with a worse knowledge of  a foreing language.

Specifically, the opinion poll by Eurostat about this issue, shows us that Spain with Portugal and Hungary are the leading countries in a shameful opinion poll.

The research establishes that, in those countries, there are not many adult people able to speak another foreing language.

If the european average is 35,7%, in Spain it is 46,6%, in Portugal it is 51,3 % and in Hungary it is 74,8 %.

This ought to oblige us to think about learning english and other languages during the obligatory courses in the schools. In fact, in Spain only 28,3%students are studying two languages while in other countries, as France, Holland or Finland, the percentage goes up to 90%.

Well, one more idiom: the earlier bird catch de the worm.

This one is really easy: when you begin a day early, you get more things done.

In spanish, we use a expression like this: those who wake up early, are helped by God (ok: “a quien madruga, Dios le ayuda”)

Here we have the tuesday phrasal verb: look forward.

We can use this phrasal verb when we expect something very impatient.

This phrasal verb has also anothers meaning: first, something like consider the future, and second, see/watch to the future, or… somewhat.

This expression is used with the verb THINK.

“Think out the box” is an english version of the spanish expression “pensar creativamente” and it supposed that if you have a problem, for instance, and you are thinking about it and its solutions to solve it, then, you need to think out the box to be creative and to find the best solution.

Vaughan Systems has published a serie of audio-books very interesting to learn english. The pack is formed by four audio-books.

I have purchased two of them: A Christmas Carol and Tales of Casanovas´s Memoirs. Both are fantastic tools to improve the english vocabulary, listening and the pronunciation in english.

My favourite one is, righ now, A Christmas Carol, because the story is so nice, wonderful, full of good intentions and full of important morals of a fable. But on the other hand, this story is too easy to read and understand if you know a bit of english language.

The another one, in my opinion, is more interesting in relation to the vocabulary because this story is more extense and complex and it can give us new concepts and new english words to complete our english vocabulary.