House Fire and Paragliding Adventure: Two Unforgettable Experiences
My Most Frightening Experience
Last year, I went to my *grandparents’* house because my parents were at work. I had to sleep there. The weather was terrible, raining with thunderstorms. As my grandparents and I were eating dinner, a bolt of lightning hit a tree that was just under the kitchen window. The tree caught fire immediately. Since the kitchen curtain was flying outside because of the wind, it soon caught fire too, and in a split second, flames were dancing all around the kitchen. We could
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English Grammar Tenses
Present Simple: For permanent actions, present actions, and repeated actions. Subject + verb + complement (affirmative). Subject + do/does not + verb + complement (negative). Do/Does + subject + verb + complement (interrogative).
Past Simple: To express something that finished and was completed. For regular verbs (can add -ed or -d), add -ed or -d to the infinitive. Use ‘Did’ for questions.
Past Perfect: had + past participle (3rd column). Subject + had + past participle (e.g.
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The Nawab and Douglas
Douglas’s granddaughter recounted a conversation with the Nawab. The Nawab congratulated Douglas following an incident where a woman was coerced by her family into self-immolation with her husband’s corpse. Douglas had arrested the deceased woman’s family. The Nawab was present because he was visiting Olivia and stated he wouldn’t leave until Douglas returned home.
March 30th: Inder Lal and Douglas’s Granddaughter
Inder Lal and Douglas’s granddaughter had a discussion. Inder Lal
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Paul Auster’s *Man in the Dark*: A Journey Through Memory and Imagination
August Brill, a 72-year-old retired and widowed man, is recovering from a car accident that shattered his leg. This is the story that begins Paul Auster’s *Man in the Dark*. Brill’s hospital stay lasted a year. Upon his release, he moved to his daughter’s house in Vermont, where he is also accompanied by his granddaughter. Both women are without their male partners: their men have either left or died. Therefore, both have had
Read MorePresent Continuous Tense: Forms and Usage
- Structure: Subject + verb to be (AM/IS/ARE) + -ing form of a verb + Complement.
- Use: To describe actions that are happening at the moment (NOW).
I) The Positive Form of the Present Continuous
Remember to use the Subject (this can be a subject pronoun or a noun) plus (+) the verb to be in the present tense (am/is/are) and complement (optional).
The following is the table of the positive form of the present continuous/progressive.
Common Mistakes:
– Students forget to use the verb “to be.”
Example:
a) My
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Listening 2
1. What does Bo define as “the key point about understanding culture”?
You need to understand that people can communicate in different ways.
2. For Bo, how useful are checklists?
Not really useful.
3. Bo works in a retail organization which…
It’s better because it’s fast. There is an orientation towards opportunity and not to risk.
4. What causes “big misunderstandings”?
The different departmental cultures.
Listening 3
1. The first example involves the construction…
Sales.