A lot of people don’t seem to know this, but if you are sure that something is going to happen in the future (you’ve planned it and you’ve organised it), then you can use the present continuous. Don’t know what that is? Take a look at the BBC site here and do the little quiz here.
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I know of a few people who’ve been to the Maldives before. I wonder if they know this underwater restaurant. It’s five metres below the surface of the sea and offers 180-degree panoramic views.
So now you don’t have to go snorkelling or scuba diving to see the reefs and tropical fish. But how do you get there, I wonder?
If you like the idea of growing your vocabulary and keeping your brain active, you might like to give the Reader’s Digest’s daily crossword puzzle a try.
The BBC’s quiz asks “How Bond Are You?“. Do the test to find out how much like James Bond you are. It seems that I’m more like Mr Bean.:( And you?
One of those difficult words to translate is the German word “Prokurist”. If you look in a dictionary, you’ll probably find something like “authorised signatory of a company”. It’s a bit of a mouthful, isn’t it?
What I would do is to stick to the German word and then explain what it is. So I’d say “He’s a ‘Prokurist’, which means he has authority to sign for the company”.
Another difficult word is “Abitur”, but we’ll be looking at that one next Thursday.
