miércoles, 18 de noviembre de 2009

THE HONESTY




WHAT IS HONESTY?


Honesty is speaking truth and creating trust in minds of others. This includes all varieties of communication, both verbal and non-verbal. Honesty implies a lack of deceit. ="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lying">Lying by commission, lying by omission, fraud, and plagiarism are all examples of this sort of behavior. Other examples can be doing one thing and telling the other, as if you are hiding something.
Honesty is typically considered virtuous behavior, and has strong positive connotations in most situations.

A STORY ABOUT THE HONESTY

TAXI AND THE DIAMONDS RINGS

Last week, I heard about another great honesty story that involved, yes - you guessed it, diamonds and a taxi driver. Except for this time, the story took place in Manhattan, New York and it involved diamonds rings.
The Bangladesh-born Osam Chowdhury picked up a woman at a hotel in Midtown Manhattan and dropped her off 15 blocks away at an apartment building according the CBS/AP story. Apparently, it wasn’t until hours later when Osam was picking up new passengers that he discovered the woman’s suitcase still in his trunk. He drove back to where he had left her off just to realize it would be too difficult to try to figure where she might be in the apartment building so he headed back to his headquarters. Osam together with the president of his taxi advocacy group opened the suitcase to find much to their surprise 31 diamond rings. They also found a luggage tag that had her contact number in Texas. Her mother actually received the call and passed the information on to her daughter. Later that night she was able to pickup her diamonds thanks to this very honest taxi driver.
In the interview, the taxi driver said, “I’m not going to take someone else’s money or property to make me rich. I don’t want it that way.”

QUESTIONS FOR STUDENTS

What is honesty for you?

Can you tell other story about honesty?

martes, 17 de noviembre de 2009

EXERCISES




Put the sentences into simple past.
We move house. →
They catch the ball. →
He crosses the street. →
They do not sell furniture. →
Does she practise her English? →
Write sentences in simple past.
Janet / the bus / miss
she / her room / tidy
not / Rupert / the number / dial
she / a friend / phone
not / Andy / the ball / pass
Ask for the bold part of the sentence.
My friends swam in the lake.
He paid the bill.
The teacher
pointed to the board.
They felt good.

REGULAR AND IRREGULAR VERBS



Form
- with regular verbs: infinitive + -ed-


with irregular verbs: 2nd column of the table of the irregular verbs


Examples
Affirmative sentences:
regular verbs
irregular verbs
I played football.
I went to the cinema.
We visited Alaska last year.Negative sentences:
You must not negate a full verb in English. Always use the auxiliary did (Simple Past of to do) for negations.
I

played
football.
I
didn't
play
football.
He
didn't
play
football.
Questions:
Use the auxiliary did (Simple Past of to do).Did you play football?

GRAMMAR

Put in the verbs in brackets into the gaps
GRAMMAR
Simple Past
Para usar otros verbos en este tiempo, se usa la forma del verbo en pasado simple, que es igual para todas las personas. La formación del pasado simple depende si el verbo es regular o irregular.
Verbos regulares

En el caso de los verbos regulares, el pasado simple se forma tomando el propio verbo y agregando "ed", o "d" si termina en vocal.

Si termina en "y", se cambia por "ied".

Examples:
We played tennis for two hours. Jugamos tenis por dos horas.
She arrived late.Llegó tarde.
You studied a lot. Estudiaste mucho.

Verbos irregulares
Los verbos irregulares tienen su propia forma del pasado simple y la única manera de aprenderlos es memorizarlos. Normalmente son los que aparecen en la segunda columna de los listados de verbos irregulares en los diccionarios de inglés.
Por ejemplo el pasado del verbo to go (ir) es "went". El pasado de to see (ver) es "saw". Siempre es igual para todas las personas.
Examples:
We went to London in 1994.Fuimos a Londres es 1994.
We saw the double-decker buses.Vimos los autobuses de dos pisos.

MOTIVATION

SIMPLE PRESENT TENSE