Author: annie
Leaning Tower of Pisa
Winter Train in Canada
Two Girls Playing Soccer
Selfie with Kangaroo
White Walls and Colored Glass
Programmer Humor
Choose the Correct Tense
General English Quiz 1
Two Geeks Sitting on the Stairs
Meet the 80s laptop
Most Used Letters in English
Guess Why this Computer Isn’t Working Well
Getting a Computer Delivered in the 50s
Simple Past
In English we use the Simple Past to express the following:
An action started and ended in the past.
I took a long walk yesterday.
Negative: I did not take a long walk yesterday.
Interrogative: Did you take a long walk yesterday?
Yesterday I spoke to my mother, decided to visit her, but realized that my car wouldn’t start.
Negative: Yesterday I didn’t speak to my mother, I didn’t visit her, and I didn’t realize that my car wouldn’t start.
Interrogative: Did you speak to your mother yesterday? Did you visit her yesterday? Did your car start yesterday?
A duration that started and ended in the past.
I lived in America for 18 years. (What are the negative and interrogative forms?)
They watched TV all day yesterday.
A habit that started and ended in the past.
When I was a child I was afraid of the dark.
He always cleaned his car on the week-end.
General statements about the past.
Phone calls used to cost a lot of money.
She hated mushrooms before she moved to China.
The active / passive voice.
Active: The snake bit the man.
Passive: The man was bitten by the snake.
Waterfalls near Nanoose Bay, British Columbia, Canada
Horseshoe Bend, Utah, USA
Hokitika River New Zealand
Fire Spinner and Breather
Arnold Schwarzenegger meeting Yao Ming
Jet Engine Test
Pink Outfit
Muppet Cupcakes
Mount Rushmore
Between October 4, 1927, and October 31, 1941, Gutzon Borglum and 400 workers sculpted the colossal 60 foot (18 m) high carvings of U.S. presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln to represent the first 130 years of American history. These presidents were selected by Borglum because of their role in preserving the Republic and expanding its territory. Mount Rushmore is in South Dakota, in the USA.
Social Media and Business
What Do You Think About Social Media?
Interesting Climbing Wall
Picasso Self-Portrait at Age 16 and 72
Under Floor Heating
David by Michelangelo
The Thinker
Graffiti
Basic Tools
Drone
The End of Jumbo Jets?
Boeing is producing fewer and fewer 747s and Airbus hasn’t had a new order for A380s in over two years. Is it the end of the large jumbo jets? Why do you think this is happening?
These days Boeing and Airbus are having a hard time finding new buyers for their large 4-engine aircraft. The cost of purchasing such a large aircraft, combined with the fact that they’re relatively energy inefficient, makes them impractical. Jet-engine technology has improved, it is now safer to fly long distances with just two engines.
Machining Tool with Computer Interface
Eurocopter Air Rescue
Chinese Food
Computer Numerical Control
Is this Your Kind of Skiing?
Skiing–what’s wrong with this picture?
Horizontal Manual Milling Machine
Vertical Manual Milling Machine
Computer Aided Technologies in Manufacturing
Burger and Fries
Women’s Basketball
Apple, Love It or Hate It?
Underwater Painting
Clever Way to Show Old Ruins
Bridge in Russia
Space Cat
Sorry, Boss.
Stowaway Cat
Oasis in Peru
Golf Ball
Old Shoes New Shoes
Kissing in Canada
Tennis Ball
Rugby Players
Helping Baby Turtles
Propellers
Explosion Rips Fuselage
UPDATE: This was NOT caused by an oxygen tank but by a bomb smuggled inside of a laptop. Are the authorities going to forbid laptops in the cabin now?
Accident: Daallo A321 near Mogadishu on Feb 2nd 2016, explosion rips fuselage open.
A Daallo Airlines Airbus A321-100, performing flight from Mogadishu (Somalia) to Djibouti with 74 passengers and 7 crew, was climbing out of Mogadishu about 5 minutes into the flight when an explosion was heard. The crew stopped the climb and returned the aircraft to Mogadishu for a safe landing about 20 minutes after departure. A large hole was seen at the right hand side of the fuselage above the wing.
The airline confirmed an explosion on board, the cause is under investigation, an oxygen bottle is being suspected. Passengers report at least one person was blown out of the aircraft. One passenger was missing after landing, the body was recovered near Balad about 21nm northnortheast of Mogadishu.
One passenger reported he saw the explosion occur inside the aircraft a couple of seat rows ahead of him followed by an air rush and sudden drop of cabin pressure, the seat belt held him in his seat. He saw two injured people around him, one an elderly man from Finland and another one being a young Italian. The elderly man was severly burned.
My Job Is Done Here
Airplane Under Water
Business is Good!
House in Iceland
Train in Colorado
Danger Smart Phone Walkers
DC-10 Engine Assembly
Strange Looking Cat
This is a Sphinx Kitten, have you ever seen one in real life?
Bicycle Powered Tree-house Elevator
Yes / No Questions
Most Yes / No questions start with an auxiliary
- Do you like your new teacher? (Yes, I do / No, I don’t)
- Can you help me? (Yes, I can / No, I can’t)
- Have you been to England? (Yes, I have / No, I haven’t)
- England: Have you got the time? (Yes, I have / No, I haven’t)
- America: Do you have the time? (Yes, I do / No, I haven’t)
- Old construction: Have you the time? (Yes, I have / No, I haven’t)
- Did you visit your cousin in New York? (Yes, I did / No, I didn’t)
- Are your from France? (Yes, I am / No, I am not)
- Is this common? (Yes, it is / No, it is not)
Practice
Let’s play 20 questions. I am thinking of something, try to guess what it is by asking me 20 questions. For example: Is it an animal? Is it mineral? etc.
Ask Me Some Questions
Ask Me Some Questions Based on the Following Statements
- I go to bed at 10 PM.
- My favorite food is cheese.
- My dog doesn’t like cats.
- I like to go to Spain on holidays.
- You are reading a science fiction novel.
- I take the metro to go to work.
- My parents have lunch at 12 noon sharp!
- They speak Spanish really well.
- Susan goes to work every day.
- He thinks smoking will not hurt him.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Teenagers
Confucius Say
Chaulk
Master of Disguise
Rain Runoff
Hotel in Singapore
Guide Dog for the Blind
Food Waste
Old and New China
Game Island
Cell Phones in Business
Taking Selfies
Favorite Vacation
What 200 Calories Look Like
Concorde
100% Solar Stadium in Taiwan
Orchids that Look Like Monkeys
Fish Out of Water
Saint Elmo’s Fire
“St. Elmo’s fire (also St. Elmo’s light is a weather phenomenon in which luminous plasma is created by a corona discharge from a sharp or pointed object in a strong electric field in the atmosphere (such as those generated by thunderstorms or created by a volcanic eruption).”
“Physically, St. Elmo’s fire is a bright blue or violet glow, appearing like fire in some circumstances, from tall, sharply pointed structures such as lightning rods, masts, spires and chimneys, and on aircraft wings or nose cones. St. Elmo’s fire can also appear on leaves and grass, and even at the tips of cattle horns. Often accompanying the glow is a distinct hissing or buzzing sound.” -From the wiki page.
Realistic Mannequin
Turtle in Egg
Monk and Tiger
Mistakes French Speakers Commonly Make in English
Incorrect | Correct | Why? |
I have played tennis yesterday. | I played tennis yesterday. | You did it. It ended. You need the simple past. |
I can’t play now. I do my homework. | I can’t play now. I am doing my homework. | You are still doing it. It’s continuous. |
I live in London since last year. | I have been living in London since last year. | You are still living in London. It’s continuous. |
I will tell you as soon as I will know. | I will tell you as soon as I know. | Time clauses introduced by “after”, “as soon as”, “until”, “when” do not take the future tense. |
Why is it “I have been living in London since last year” and not “I live in London since last year”? Because with SINCE you have to use the Present Perfect: the action started in the past. In French you use the present in that case “J’habite à Londre depuis…” but not in English!