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Welcome to this page of English-related links and things. As an EFL teacher I am often asked about resources to help with people's English studies outside the classroom.

  • The net also offers a plethora of other sites focusing on the more complex areas of the language like phrasal verbs, false friends and so on. As internet can be constantly updated (on a virtually daily basis, unlike most dictionaries) new vocabulary and cultural trends in the English-speaking world can also be more readily assimilated online.

  • As I am based in Madrid, sometimes students are curious to discover how British or American correspondents see Spain and Spanish current affairs, and often report facts more impartially than the local media.
  • I try and update the links column weekly if I find any new and potentially "useful" sites!

  • Also, these pages will save me sending out long links by email!

Enjoy it!

Thursday 8 February 2007

Tragedy and mystery

Everybody loves a good old-fashioned mystery.

Whether it is Agatha Christie or Perry Mason, Jessica Fletcher or Sherlock Holmes, there's nothing quite like finding out "whodunnit".

If you've studied your trusty list of Spanish/English false friends you should know that crimes are not restricted to murder (check felony, misdemeanour, petty crime, traffic violation and other American sub-divisions), but murder and death are often the focus of crime writers and tv and Hollywood scriptwriters.

Shoplifting She Wrote doesn't really sound like a hit series and if CSI were investigating tax evasion instead of cold-blooded killings I imagine it could have been cancelled after the first series.

Which leads me to Spain's two latest mysteries, the mysterious death of the Mayor of the mountain village of Fago, and the equally mysterious death of Crown Prince Felipe's sister-in-law Erika Ortiz.

Here's what the papers said (I'll leave the speculation to them):

Erika Ortiz:

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