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Here is an example of a word that is slowly disappearing. In the past SHALL was used after I and We while WILL was used with all the other subject pronouns. It was, in other words, a modal verb used to talk about the future. This is no longer the case since WILL has replaced SHALL in this context entirely. Is then SHALL gone for good? Not quite. This modal is still being used essentially with two purposes. The first is in legal documents to express determination or obligation: "The board of judges shall have the final word in this matter." The second is in formal invitations (perhaps its most popular usage, so to speak): "Shall we go now?" Shall we Dance? is a 2004 film that is really a remake of a Japanese movie  (which is better) about ballroom dancing and a group of people who leave their inhitions behind when they dance. It's also a story of ambiguous love starred in the American version by none other than Jennifer López and Richard Gere. In this one

"Ready to deceive my next victim. Will I ever be deceived myself?" W ell, here is another example of a false cognate or, as they also call them, a False Friend. Deception has no connection with DECEPCIÓN as we understand it in Spanish. For us, that means Disappointment, but in English, it means something else entirely.  The word Deception comes from the verb Deceive which means  to   confuse  by  giving  a   false   appearance   or   statement. A deception then is something else and not what you see; therefore in English, you don't "have deceptions" or "suffer deceptions", which are common expressions in Spanish. You are just DECEIVED.  It has been said that human beings are deceivers by nature. If that is correct then you and I are deceivers. Do you think this is true?

It's been a month already since the demise of the most well-known animal in Ecuador ( it died on June 24th this year). The last of his kind (hence the name), George was always a symbol of what mankind is doing to the other living beings of the world. They are either hunted down, kept as pets, or their habitats are being tresspassed, altered or simply destroyed beyond repair. George could have reproduced but science still has not evolved enough to make that possible. Thus, he died peacefully and his place is now an empty lot that no other animal can fill. Literally.   And he was not a turtle, but a tortoise. While in Spanish that distinction is not made (we only call them TORTUGAS); in English chelonians are all called "Turtles" but if they dwell in land and they have elephant-like feet, they are Tortoises. If they live mainly in the sea and they have flippers instead of legs then they are Turtles.  So George was a tortoise not a turtle.                              

- This is an old question many students ask: "which one is better?" Really what they mean is which one is more "convenient" to learn. There are good points and bad points in each one and to some extent there is no real way to say which one is a better. What students should worry about is which one out of those two they will be in contact with. If you're going to travel or study in Great Briatain then you should get acquainted with British English. If you are going to do the same in the American soil then you should learn American English.  Ecuador is within the area where America is much more influential so Ecuadorians perhaps should take that as indication of what language they shoud study or perhaps what they can hope to study: in Ecuador, more specifically Guayaquil, there are not many British and only a handful are here to teach. There are not many Americans but their number is significantly bigger and several of them are teaching. I always thought of t

El Batman que aparece en “Silencio” no es el Batman unidimensional que protagonizó Adam West el siglo pasado. Este es un individuo mucho más complejo con una obsesión que es toda su motivación, una guerra continua en contra de los criminales que asolan su ciudad, una búsqueda eterna de la justicia para la cual no duda en usar sus recursos de millonario. Por ello mismo sus historias son mucho más interesantes pues tienen un componente sicológico del cual carecen las historias de otros héroes. Además esta trama es un buen punto para revisitar este personaje y de alguna manera descubrir su verdadera esencia y saber por qué Batman ocupa entre los superhéroes el lugar preferencial que siempre ha ocupado a más de que este es el año de Batman Rises , la película que completa la trilogía comenzada con Batman Begins y continuada por The Dark Knight . Aquí has diez razones para leer Silencio (Hush) 1. Es una buena historia: Si hay algo de lo que se puede preciar Batman es de las histori

Perhaps, one of the most important learning events to consider when teaching English is Interlanguage. But, what is Interlanguage? Back in 1972 Selinker came up with this concept when he noted that utterances by L2 learners differed from those native speakers would have produced in similar situations. From then on plenty of books have been written on the topic and yet Interlanguage remains in many ways an undiscovered country. Interlanguage is essentially something that reflects students' cultural heritage, their social background and even their personalities; in sum their identity as individuals. That is why Interlanguage happens differently to every person since we are all different. This distinction is another manifestation of how English learners assimilate English. To understand this we need to envision this phenomenon as a bridge that learners build unconsciously between their mother language and the target language. This "hybrid" construction takes elements

The question I had in mind before I saw this movie was: "Can it get any crazier than the first one?" And the answer is yes, a lot, even messed up and grotesque at some points but fun in the end. It's intended for adults more than any other age group.  What is the reason behind the success of the Hangover series? (it's a series since there is another sequel coming next year) I think that the idea is basically original. A group of friends that get so drunk, thanks to what one of them has the others drink, that they end up forgetting everything the did while they were drunk. There is also the fact that they did things that do not even match their personalities, terrible things. It is like their wild side were given freedom. It is said the plot of the first movie was based on real events, but I prefer to think that this is the story of Doctor Jekyll and Mr. Hyde written by a comedian. The location, and the occasion, picked for these hangovers to happen was importan