look, look like, look alike, look as if..

El Secretario de Estado anuncia la convocatoria de hasta 5500 plazas para profesores de Secundaria y FP en 2016.

Una gran oportunidad

Parece que vuelven las vacas gordas. O al menos eso es lo que nos transmiten desde el Gobierno. ¿Será que se acercan elecciones? En cualquier caso, el hecho es que el secretario de Estado de Educación, Formación Profesional y Universidades,Marcial Marín, ha anunciado que gracias al aumento del 50 al 100% la tasa de reposición del profesorado, las comunidades autónomas podrán convocar el próximo año (2016) hasta un total de 13.000 nuevas plazas de docentes de Primaria y Secundaria.

Food For thought

1. Thinking too much bogs down your manifestation and can create limiting beliefs on the fly – living in the moment is the key
2. 1. be/get bogged down to be or become so involved with one particularthing that you cannot make any progress
3. bog down in/with: 

   Try not to get bogged down in unnecessary detail.

   The meeting got bogged down with disputes about who was going to do what.

   
   
4. 2. to be or become stuck in soft wet ground

   Synonyms and related words

   To stop someone or something from moving:

   hold back, intercept, obstruct...

Food for Thought

Learning to relax your facial muscles. Since your face is close to your brain, learning to relax your face can have a massive impact on how you feel overall.

10 GET Phrasal Verbs: get down, get off, get through, get up, get away..

8 'head' phrasal verbs - head up, head out, head off...

Literal and non-literal meanings

Literal and non-literal meanings There are hundreds of phrasal verbs in English. Some of them have a literal meaning, which means that the meaning can be guessed from the words themselves. Some phrasal verbs have a non-literal meaning, which means it is much more difficult to guess the meaning, unless the context is very clear. An example is given below.

• He looked up and saw the plane overhead. (Here the meanings of the verb and ‘up’ have not changed – the meaning of the phrasal verb is literal).
• He looked up all the words he didn’t know in his new dictionary. (Here the meaning has changed. ‘Look up’ means to seek information in a reference book. 

Activity 1: Literal or non-literal? Look at the phrasal verbs in the sentences below. Decide if they are literal (L) or non-literal (NL).
1. He ran out of the building to catch the bus.
2. We’ve run out of bread. Shall I go to the shops?
3. She looked through the window to see if he was home.
4. She put her books on the desk.
5. The police are looking into who committed the crime.
6. She put the television on to watch the weather.
7. Would you mind looking through my work to check if it’s correct?
 8. I looked into his room but couldn’t find him.
 9. Can you go over the instructions again please?
10. The ball went over the wall into neighbour’s garden.