This winter has been particularly cold in Sweden, it snowed in late October
does it rain very often in Majorca during summer?
With Emili and Magdalena you are learning lots of syntax, that’s good, I will not need to explain to you what subject and predicate are, neither transitive or intransitive verbs, in fact it is the same in English. However, there are differences among languages you need to be aware of.
In English, “weather verbs” rain, snow, NEED A SUBJECT.
We use “it”
Are you familiar with the song “The rain in Spain stays mainly on the plain” Have you seen the old musical “My Fair Lady”?
I will tell you about it some other time. With a little bit of effort you can achieve a perfect English pronunciation, just as Eliza does after a crash course on phonetics by professor Higgins.
In this video you will see how happy they are after she manages to pronounce the sentence correctly.
By the way, you have been correcting spelling mistakes in “Boy”, you did very well at spotting mistakes. Spelling mistakes were often made because some words were pronounced the same and spelled differently: “hair/hare”
plane/plain are one of those pairs you should not confuse.
Notice how Professor Higgins repeats the question without forgetting the “it”
“Where does it rain?” “Where does it rain?”
- Do you know the name of the play My Fair Lady was based on?
- Have you seen the film by Julie Andrews?
- Do you remember the Photographic Exhibition by Lartigue we went to see at La Caixa? Do you remember I told you some of the photos of elegant women wearing hats had inspired the costumes of My Fair Lady musical?
- Did you like the video?
- What does soggy mean?
- What do you think of the “Spanish” dance?