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This blog is created as a tool to improve our english and to show you different ways to get this objective.

One of my favourite plays which you can copy and practice with your friends consists on the following: the players ought to write three things about theirselfs and only one of them ought to be true and the others players have to guess it. The way to know the true is asking questions whose answers can be “yes” or “not”.

Try it!

In London, there is an important area, in the zona 0, where the buildings are property of the Duke of Westminster and he doesn ‘ t sale it in any case. In this situation, there is a special building: the US Embassy.

The american embassies in the world are owned (with legal right of title over them) by the american government so the american government wanted to buy it because this embassy was the only one without american goverment’ title of property.

So the american government gave a sale propousal to the Duke but he always said no.

After different attemps, the Duke said he will only sell the building if the american government return him his family property in USA which were illegal owned by american goverment.

Then, the american embassy studied it and founded that Duke’s family property was: Florida!!!!!

Interesting, don’t you think so?

For thursdays we reserve the Idioms. Those expressions with a fixed meaning.

The first of them is: “Set in Stone”. We can use it when we are talking about something hard to move, but no a chair a table or a car. It’s referred to norms, law, rules, conventions, mother’s orders and stuff like this.

A rule is set in stone when you can’t break it.

Today we start with the Phrasal Verbs. If wheather conditions and authority don’t prevent it we will bring here one every tuesday. The first is “Get Back“. How can we understand it? When can we use it? Like every phrasal verb get-back has differents meanings despite the country. One of the meanings is like come back to your house.

The second meaning I know is like move or go back.

The third, and last meaning I know, is when you to say to somebody not to be weighed (ser pesado), or you just want to be alone, you could say: Get back! (=leave me alone, don’t be weighed…)

Remember: Get back, get back, get back to where you once belonged (The Beatles):

Hi,

A few days ago, I read a post entitled “The Jerry Seinfeld’s method for forming habits” at thinkwasabi (a spanish blog about Apple, tech and productivity).

This method is simple and effective: decide a habit you want to adquire, then make a huge schedule an place it where you could see it without special effort (like a wall in your office). Each day you successfully achieve your new habit, stamp a X in the schedule.

In other way, when you aren’t able to get de habit done mark the day with a point.

If the schedule is as big as you need, you could check your results at a glance.

There are some tips you may follow:

1. Try only one habit,
2. Try with little changes.
3. Propose concrete and tangible things.
4. Decide changes you want to do.

After I finished the reading, I thought that this method is a greart tip to improve english. And more than english, of course.

I’m going to make my huge schedule (a few one for english, and others for some business skills), place it in a wall in my office and make the effort to success. One habit I want to work on (is correct this?) is to post here at least twice a week and read english books (I’ve got one by Nick Hornby -A long way down-)

We’ll see, I keep you informed.

Some What is, al least for one of us, an expression difficult to learn.

When we decided to create this blog, we thought and look for easy, distinct and friendly domains. We tried with a few, but they were all registred. In that moment we began to look .es domains, and this was free. Not now. Now is our property .

Welcome to our new project: Some What, a new blog in english, just in english. Well, don’t looks very innovative, but for two spaniards it probably will be a great effort.

We hope you enjoy your visit and the reading.

Thank’s for your visit, feel free to come back when ever you want.