Hebrew for Beginners (Eastbourne)

I noticed a notice on the Community Wise / Old Town Community Church, Eastbourne, notice board round the corner from us today offering Hebrew lessons. Wonder if I should enroll the boy? Or even myself (waste of time, effort, money etc.). Mrs Lloyd, perhaps? It was claimed that these lessons would be useful for Biblical or modern Hebrew. Is that likely? Or maybe we should put the boy's name down at the nearest synagogue?

Elohim - "the gods is"

With a nervous feeling about my lack of Hebrew…

I don’t remember ever coming across this before:

Donald Macleod points out that the name most commonly used of God in the Old Testament, Elohim, is plural, although when used of God it is always used with singular verbs and adjectives. Macleod says it is as if we were to say, “The gods is”. Macleod argues that God had good reason for calling himself Elohim and that it “fits beautifully with the fact that in him there is a fullness of fellowship. The New Testament disclosure of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit is the best, and possibly the only, explanation of God giving himself a plural name.” (p13)

Shared Life: The Trinity and the Fellowship of God’s People (Christian Focus, 1994)

Hebrew time check?

I'm afraid my semester of Hebrew ("some islands of knowledge, but much is still sea") doesn't allow me to comment, but surely F de Saussure is wrong to say that:

Hebrew does not recognize even the fundamental distinctions between the past, present and future.

Course in General Linguistics pp116-117 quoted in Hawkes, Terence, Structuralism and Semiotics (London, Routledge, 1977), pp27-28

That seems kinda important to me. Maybe someone could explain it all to me and save me from the possibility of much sermon-silliness along the way?