viernes, 27 de marzo de 2009

past simple - past continuos

Past Simple
Examples
Where did you go yesterday?
The flight left at 8 o'clock.
They didn't come last night.
Usage
Finished past actions, definite past
Common past time expressions include:
last (week, year, night), yesterday, ago, in 1987, when I was a child.

Structure
In the positive form, for regular verbs, add an -ed to the base form of the verb. If the verb ends in -y preceded by a consonant, change the -y to -ied.For irregular verbs (most common irregular verbs).
I
You
He
She
It
We
You
They
arrived late last night. (regular verb)
came back late last night. (irregular verb)
Use the conjugated helping verb 'did' not (didn't) the base form of the verb to make negatives.
I
You
He
She
It
We
You
They
didn't go to New York last week.
Use the conjugated helping verb 'did' subject the base form of the verb in question forms.
When Did I leave
You
He
She
It
We
You
They

Past continuous
The structure of the past continuous tense is:
subject
+
auxiliary verb BE
+
main verb
conjugated in simple past tense
present participle
waswere
base + ing
For negative sentences in the past continuous tense, we insert not between the auxiliary verb and main verb. For question sentences, we exchange the subject and auxiliary verb. Look at these example sentences with the past continuous tense:

subject
auxiliary verb
main verb

+
I
was

watching
TV.
+
You
were

working
hard.
-
He, she, it
was
not
helping
Mary.
-
We
were
not
joking.

?
Were
you

being
silly?
?
Were
they

playing
football?
How do we use the past continuous tense?
The spelling rules for adding ing to make the past continuous tense are the same as for the present continuous tense.
Examples:
i was doing my homework at 5:30
jimy and susan was acting well
lina was brosing the web to get to information
jhon surfed the internet looking for e-books

jueves, 19 de marzo de 2009

The shawnshank redemption

Name: The shawnshank redemption
Directed byFrank Darabont

Summary:
The story begins with the trial of a young banker, Andy Dufrense, victimized by circumstantial evidence, resulting in a conviction for the murder of his wife and her lover. After a quick conviction, Andy finds himself serving a life sentence at Shawshank prison, with no hope of parole. He exists in this prison only in appearance, keeping his mind free from the drab walls around him. His ability to do this results in the gaining of respect from his fellow inmates, but most of all from Ellis Redding. Ellis, commonly referred to as Red, finds gainful use of his entrepreneurial spirit within the drab walls of Shawshank by dealing in contraband and commodities rare to the confines of prison. Andy's demeanor and undeniable sense of hope causes Red to take a deeper look at himself, and the world around him. Andy proves to Red and the other inmates that in the conventional walls of Shawshank prison convention will find no home in his lifestyle.
Creating the firm foundation of the movie, modern literature. Although the reflective movie the novella in many senses, Darabont illustrates a focused objective of overcoming the areas where the novella came closer short, being in one of the best book to film the transitions at some time.
Personal 0pinion:
Find a very interesting movie for the plot in what concerns to this man's history that had been condemned by murder, it begins to be made to the idea of the punishment of being a whole life in a prison it begins to be it won the respect of their couples it stops desembolverse then / then well in the prison and the power of surviving in this atmosphere. it is since a worthy movie of all the attention exelentemente it is produced the characters are very well characterized this history becomes but interesting as the time passes it is unba excelent movie

domingo, 15 de marzo de 2009

adverbs of frequency

Examples:

Ana never eats spaghetti
Paula and Monica usually play tennis
We always go to the work on mondays
I always take a shower in the morning
I seldom tidy my room
Laura never go to the school at nigth
I seldom run the morning
She never do homework
Luisa always has lunch
Carolina always go to school
I usually listen music
Mary never sweep the floor
Mauricio seldom wash the dishes.