What is the English Past Tense?

What is the English Past Tense?In English, when someone is talking about a subject, there are different ways of using the past tense. For example, in the past tense of a sentence, it will be said, 'I was talking to someone.' In the past tense of a sentence, the person who is talking is called the 'I' of the sentence and the 'one' is called the 'him'her'.In other words, the 'one' is not the person who is being talked to, but rather, the one who is talking. However, for the past tense of a sentence, the person who is talking is called the 'me'. Although this is very simple, it is important to know the difference.If the subject is in the 'me' of the sentence, the person being talked to is called the 'me'. The one who is talking is 'he'she'. In case the subject is in the 'one' of the sentence, the one who is talking is called the 'me'.When a person is in the 'me' of the sentence, the one who is talking is called the 'I'. The 'me' refers to the person who is talking, as if they were talki ng directly to you. The 'one' refers to the person who is talking. The 'me' refers to the person who is talking.It would mean that if you are talking to your sister, and she talks to you, you should say, 'She is talking to me,' instead of saying, 'She is talking to the I.' This is because you are talking to a 'me', who is referring to the person who is talking.This is also used when you are talking to a mother, father, and child, and you talk to them directly. In this case, 'I' is the first person and 'you' is the second person. So, if the 'one' says something, and 'me' is listening, you could say, 'The child is talking to me.'To learn more about the use of the past tense, you can search the internet for articles or books on English grammar. You can also look at your teacher for more information. However, always remember that when the subject of the sentence is called the 'I', then you are talking to the person, whom is being referred to.

USA Womens Team Wins World Cup - Listening Exercise

USA Womens Team Wins World Cup - Listening Exercise The U.S.  womens soccer team won the world cup last weekend, so this week we are presenting you with a listening exercise about the team, and would like to hear your opinions about women in soccer/football.When I lived in Argentina, womens soccer did not seem to be popular there,  but in many countries there arent any womens sports at all. As an athlete myself Im proud that the U.S. has embraced female athleticism and sports. What is it like for female athletes in your country? What do you think about the U.S. winning the world cup? Is our mens team next?Watch the videos below, then see if you can answer the questions in comments.Carli Lloyd: 1.  Describe where Carli Lloyd grew up. 2. Why does she want to stay in New Jersey? 3. How did she practice soccer? Who did she play with at her local field? 4. What moments does Carli like the best during a match?Hope Solo: 1. How old was Hope Solo when she wrote she wanted to be a soccer player? 2. Did she always want to be the goalie? 3. Did she love being goalie? 4. Which position does her mom consider the worst on the field?Now it is your turn to write something. Do women play soccer/football in your country? Why or why not? Do you think the US mens team is next? Also, here is a quiz highlighting some of the phrasal verbs that Hope and Carli use during their interviews.

How to Win a Race After Falling on Your Face Video - Listening Exercise

How to Win a Race After Falling on Your Face Video - Listening Exercise Ive been running a lot lately; Paul and I are training to do our first marathon in the fall. So I was inspired to watch this running video someone shared on Facebook. It is incredible! Watch and seethe listening might be challenging because there is background noise but that shouldnt stop you from trying. Watch the whole video! Trust me, its worth it. After you do the listening exercise write a short paragraph about a situation when you didnt give up in spite of the challenges you faced.1. The 600 meter _______ way. 2. How many laps is the 600 meter? (no cheating and googling the answer!) 3. How is Fond looking? 4. How many points did Dorniden score last year? 5. Dorniden _____ down! Dorniden _______ _____. 6. She gets up quickly but that is ______ to _____ her. 7. That is _______! 8. Doing __________ she ____ to win this heat.Amazing video, right! Now for the writing assignment. Do you have any stories where you had to pick yourself up again?

Things parents should never tell students on results day - Tutor Hunt Blog

Things parents should never tell students on results day Things parents should never tell students on results day Things parents should never tell students on results daySchoolsIt`s almost too long ago for me to remember the day I got my exam results, but I`m sure that for all students the long wait for their papers to be marked, and their A-level grades to be announced must be excruciating. After two whole years of study, culminating in many hours of exams, they must wait for weeks and weeks - through the majority of the summer holidays only to have all their potential for the future distilled into a single letter: A, B, C Though most parents will have been taskmasters throughout the revision season, attempting to ensure their children get the best grade they possibly can, once the exams are over it`s time for the students to take a well earned break. I can remember the overwhelming relief when the whole business of revising and sitting to be tested was finally over. The matter was out of my hands - no about of extra study was going to alter the grade I was to receive: all I could do was wait. On the actual day of the results students can log onto the UCAS website to see how they performed - they won`t actually be told their grades though, only if they have achieved the required number of points to be accepted by their chosen university. Results day will of course be an extremely anxious time for any student - it will be a defining day of their lives. To help them deal with the stress and anxiety of this day, here is a list of things parents should probably avoid saying: 1. Back in my day exams were far more difficult. It will not be helpful to tell an anxious student about to receive their grades that their exam was actually far easier than those in the past. They will have sat the exam, and they may have struggled over much of it - to be informed that exams were so much easier in the past won`t be helpful to them, and will only exacerbate their nervousness. I can remember, after completing a difficult exam, hearing my colleagues afterwards expressing how easy it was. I was horrified - `if my peers found it so easy, what`s wrong with me? I found it extremely arduous - I must have done awful!` I seem to recall that I duplicitously agreed with my friends, boasting how easy I also found it. Perhaps we were all just being braggarts, showing off as a way to compensate for the feeling that we had really performed badly. Telling a student that exams were easier in the past serves no purpose - if they get a disappointing grade they will feel even worse, and if they perform well, they might feel that they don`t actually deserve the high accolade. 2. How well do you think your friends did? Adolescents are of course keenly aware of their status amongst their friends, be that socially or academically. We learn about ourselves by measuring our abilities against those in our peer group - and though they will have fairly certain ideas on how well their friends performed in their exams, it is probably best to avoid them making comparisons at this important moment. All their concerns should be on how well they did, if they obtained the grades to get into their university; reminding them of friends who might be more academically gifted will be an unhelpful distraction. 3. I heard last year lots of the exams were incorrectly marked. This is something that never be said to a student about to obtain their exam results. Though there are rare errors in the grading of exams, and querying an unexpected grade can lead to a remarking, these events are extremely uncommon. With this thought in mind, a student receiving a good grade might begin to doubt its authenticity, while a student getting a bad grade might nurture the unlikely hope that their test paper has been incorrectly marked. 4. If you fail you can do retakes next year. While retakes are often possible, it`s best not to set up a negative atmosphere, a scene of expected failure, just before the student receives their grades. Though they shouldn`t be made to feel that there are absolutely no options if they don`t achieve their required grades, it would be more helpful to let them know this some time before results day. A more congenial option than retakes, which would likely set them back a whole academic year, is the clearing system, which facilitates students who don`t achieve their required grades finding an alternative university course. 5. You should have revised more. Even if the student didn`t spend enough time preparing for their exams, pointing this out at the moment they are going to receive their grades cannot in any way be helpful. By all means stress the importance of revision in the period leading up to their exams, and do as much as you can to encourage them to prepare and study so they can achieve their full potential - but don`t chide them for not revising enough at the very moment when they are about to get their results. 6 months ago0Add a Comment

italki Language Challenge Week 7 Goal

italki Language Challenge Week 7 Goal Lindsaydoeslanguages is blogging about her World Cup Language Challenge and we’re reposting here to share with the entire italki Community. This blog post  originally was posted  on  Lindsaydoeslanguages.com  website. What a challenge! You know what? I feel really proud of my commentary last weekend. A lot of people even asked me to commentate the final the next day! If you missed it, take a peek here and let me know what you think of my Portuguese! Beforehand, however, I was genuinely a bit nervous. I’d never done a live event on YouTube before, I would never have thought to do this in my own language â€" never mind one I’ve been learning for a few weeks, and I’d never commentated a football match. And to make matters worse, it was Brazil vs Netherlands â€" both countries speaking two languages I’d been learning recently â€" Portuguese and Dutch! Who was I supposed to support?! For this week’s goal, I initially said I’d opt for a video discussing how the commentary went in Portuguese, but I decided to try my hand at writing instead, something I haven’t really done much of. Please feel free to correct me in the comments! Here we go… (Psst! Click the Google Translate button in the top right hand corner and it should translate the text for you if you don’t speak Portuguese!) Semana 7 Então, e terminado! Estou muita contenta com o meu comentário e o meu português agora. Me sinto como si posso comentar um partido de futebol, posso fazer tudo o que necessito em português. Fazer um desafio como isso e o melhor coisa que poderia tido feito porque foi um desafio verdade! Porque escrever? Escrever não é uma coisa que fazemos muito na vida quotidiana hoje. E quando fazemo-lo, estamos rapidamente corrigidos dos computadores e tecnologia â€" então, já esta importante que aprendamos a escrever? Acho que a idioma e uma das coisas mas importantes que aprendemos na vida. Ter uma maneia em que podemos comunicar e empresarmos e imprescindível. Mas â€" escrever também? Quando falamos, falamos rapidamente, normalmente sim uma oportunidade a pensar muito do que estamos a dizer. Mas, quando escrevermos, podemos parar, e pensar, e ter cuidado do que queremos expressar. Isso é o que é importante. Fazes o italki World Cup Language Challenge? Quase, quase! Podemos ver a linha de terminar! Espero que tenhas desfrutado o desafio e que vais a continuar com as suas idiomas depois. Eu sei que tenho aprendido muito de português e que o tenho desfrutado muito! A prossima! Mas, antes, há uma semana e media mais em que podemos fazer mas aulas si necessitamos, revisar o que necessitamos a revisar, e desfrutar a idioma antes da tentação de uma outra quando tememos o premio de ITC… E agora que? E difícil seguir isso! Mais, acho que vou a continuar com português depois do desafio com um pouco quando posso. Isso dito, depois de Julho, tenho que concentrar só em francês porque e “importante” que obtenha uma boa nota mais ódio estudar academicamente e não posso esperar ate que possa aprender as idiomas sim as restrições outra vez! Just a little something to keep my Portuguese brain ticking over! How are you getting on with the italki World Cup Language Challenge? Not long left now! Let’s do this! italki Language Challenge Week 7 Goal Lindsaydoeslanguages is blogging about her World Cup Language Challenge and we’re reposting here to share with the entire italki Community. This blog post  originally was posted  on  Lindsaydoeslanguages.com  website. What a challenge! You know what? I feel really proud of my commentary last weekend. A lot of people even asked me to commentate the final the next day! If you missed it, take a peek here and let me know what you think of my Portuguese! Beforehand, however, I was genuinely a bit nervous. I’d never done a live event on YouTube before, I would never have thought to do this in my own language â€" never mind one I’ve been learning for a few weeks, and I’d never commentated a football match. And to make matters worse, it was Brazil vs Netherlands â€" both countries speaking two languages I’d been learning recently â€" Portuguese and Dutch! Who was I supposed to support?! For this week’s goal, I initially said I’d opt for a video discussing how the commentary went in Portuguese, but I decided to try my hand at writing instead, something I haven’t really done much of. Please feel free to correct me in the comments! Here we go… (Psst! Click the Google Translate button in the top right hand corner and it should translate the text for you if you don’t speak Portuguese!) Semana 7 Então, e terminado! Estou muita contenta com o meu comentário e o meu português agora. Me sinto como si posso comentar um partido de futebol, posso fazer tudo o que necessito em português. Fazer um desafio como isso e o melhor coisa que poderia tido feito porque foi um desafio verdade! Porque escrever? Escrever não é uma coisa que fazemos muito na vida quotidiana hoje. E quando fazemo-lo, estamos rapidamente corrigidos dos computadores e tecnologia â€" então, já esta importante que aprendamos a escrever? Acho que a idioma e uma das coisas mas importantes que aprendemos na vida. Ter uma maneia em que podemos comunicar e empresarmos e imprescindível. Mas â€" escrever também? Quando falamos, falamos rapidamente, normalmente sim uma oportunidade a pensar muito do que estamos a dizer. Mas, quando escrevermos, podemos parar, e pensar, e ter cuidado do que queremos expressar. Isso é o que é importante. Fazes o italki World Cup Language Challenge? Quase, quase! Podemos ver a linha de terminar! Espero que tenhas desfrutado o desafio e que vais a continuar com as suas idiomas depois. Eu sei que tenho aprendido muito de português e que o tenho desfrutado muito! A prossima! Mas, antes, há uma semana e media mais em que podemos fazer mas aulas si necessitamos, revisar o que necessitamos a revisar, e desfrutar a idioma antes da tentação de uma outra quando tememos o premio de ITC… E agora que? E difícil seguir isso! Mais, acho que vou a continuar com português depois do desafio com um pouco quando posso. Isso dito, depois de Julho, tenho que concentrar só em francês porque e “importante” que obtenha uma boa nota mais ódio estudar academicamente e não posso esperar ate que possa aprender as idiomas sim as restrições outra vez! Just a little something to keep my Portuguese brain ticking over! How are you getting on with the italki World Cup Language Challenge? Not long left now! Let’s do this!

Kia Motors America and Advertising Age Announce Competition for Creative Minds

Kia Motors America and Advertising Age Announce Competition for Creative Minds via Pexels.com Entries will be accepted at  www.kiasdrivingcreativity.com  through September 30, 2018, after which six finalists will be chosen. These finalists will have their work featured on AdAge.com, where the grand prize winner will then be chosen by Ad Ages online audience. Voting will take place between October 15th and December 3rd. The grand prize winner will be announced on December 10th. At Kia, we are fueled by youth and design influences every aspect of the vehicles we produce. Styled and engineered by legends in the automotive industry, the Stinger brims with power, passion and performance and proves that Kia is different by design,” said Saad Chehab, vice president, marketing communications, Kia Motors America. “We are thrilled to share our passion for design and cultivate the innovators and stars of tomorrow.” Partnering with Advertising Age was a smart move by Kia. With their growing audience, Advertising Age is the perfect outlet for Kias competition to reach creative minds. Ad Age is a global media brand, where award-winning journalists publish stories focusing on creativity, innovation, people, and culture. As a trusted news source, Ad Ages online audience continues to grow, giving Kia Motors America the perfect platform for their creativity competition. “Our business celebrates youthful challengers, and we are proud to partner with Kia to help showcase the talents of the next generation of creative disruptors who can change the way we find meaning in marketing,” said Josh Golden, president and publisher, Ad Age. Kia Motors America has been recognized as one of the 100 Best Global Brans by Interbrand, and is also the official partner of the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the Ladies Professional Golf Association (LPGA). With over 800 dealers in the United States, Kia Motors is proud to produce their cars in West Point, Georgia.

Left Handed Children - Tutor Hunt Blog

Left Handed Children Are left handed children being let down at school? Are left handed children being let down at school?SchoolsThe Latin word for being `left handed` is Sinestro - a term which hardly carries complementary connotations. The early ancient Greek word for left means awkward, an ill-omen - while in many modern languages (English for example) right synonymously means correct: indeed - righteous. As recently as the 1980`s many teachers would try to `correct` students who had the temerity, or perhaps only the carelessness, to write with their left hand. A friend of mine who went to school around this time said her teacher would strike her left hand with a ruler, whenever her pen happened to be there. It is now understood that forcing a child to change their dominant hand can have an number of negative side effects, and (hopefully) the practice of so called `correction` has been expunged from the education system. Perhaps equality of handedness in the classroom has not yet been attain though - campaigners have recently claimed education ministers have not fully addressed the struggles left handed children face. They have said that children are `still penalised` for being left-handed, and have requested that they are given specific teaching to assist them. The most well known scholastic problem a left handed child faces is with handwriting - going from left to right over the page means that they both smudge what their have just written, while also obscuring their freshly penned words. This was likely more of a problem in the past though, when children were writing with fountain pens - the slow drying ink would take some time to dry, and pupils would be compelled to contort their hands as they wrote, dodging the words they had just written. In these days of biros and rollerballs the ink can be dry almost as soon as it touches the page. Penmanship itself may soon be a thing of the past of course, as we far more likely to use a keyboard (which is indifferent to handedness) than pen and paper. Calligraphy is fast becoming a lost art. Sir Peter Luff, former Conservative Minister has said `It`s bizarre kids in our schools are penalised because they happen to be left-handed. It`s bewildering successive governments have failed to act on this. It`s so easy to do. It`s about where you sit kids in class, how they hold their pen, it`s really easy and nothing happens.` The minister is himself left handed, and has suggested that the teacher training syllabus should include techniques on helping left handed pupils. `It`s about where you sit kids in class, how they hold their pen, it`s really easy and nothing happens. It`s bizarre kids in our schools are penalised because they happen to be left-handed. It`s bewildering successive governments have failed to act on this.` Mark Stewart has helped thousands of children via his Left `n` Write company, which sells a smorgasbord of left handed stationary to individuals as well as schools across the United Kingdom, while also offering training to teachers. He has expressed his frustration with the indifference of the education sector over this issue. `The Department for Education cannot speak with authority it has no numbers on how many children are left-handed, no way of knowing if it has any impact on likely educational attainment.` It is estimated that around 10% of the population are left handed. The Department of Education does not currently record comprehensive statistics, since it is not considered a disability. Interestingly it has been claimed that the percentage of prison inmates who are left handed may be as much as 20%. Of course this is not to suggest that the Latin term `Sinestro` is apposite after all - rather that, in Mark Stewart`s words:; `Early years education where children are struggling, making a mess of handwriting, they think this is a pain, no one knows how to sort it, they get low marks, low self-esteem, does it get in to a downward spiral?` Perhaps we are in the last generation of these problems. Many pupils already use computer keyboards in the classroom - not to mention typing up homework and coursework. When I was a teacher I was always relieved when presented with a clear and perfectly legible Times New Roman font to read and grade, rather than spidery cursive that sometimes reached into the illegible realms of hieroglyphs! Of course being left handed must not be any impediment to a child`s learning - and if a study can demonstrably show that this 10% are being let down, then action must be taken. 2 years ago0Add a Comment