Key Moments and Interesting Facts: A Compilation

Key Moments and Interesting Facts

My brother Andy and I

  • Success
  • Hooked
  • Dethroned
  • Scores

The Aurora Borealis

  • Local
  • Additional roof
  • Speed
  • Were killed
  • Lending
  • For
  • Whose

Random sentences

  • I may have taken your résumé by mistake.
  • Being rich does not necessarily make people spend more.
  • The company for which Lucy works exports classic wine and Spanish ham.
  • Tomorrow she is having her belly button pierced.
  • How far is the new urban farm from here?

Pizza Margherita

  • Popularity
  • Emulate flag
  • Appreciation

The First Time

  • Former
  • Eventually
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Addressing Global Challenges and Lifestyle Choices

Addressing Key Global Issues

Environmental Concerns

  • Reducing air pollution
  • Pollution causes health problems

Social and Health Issues

  1. Famine
  2. HIV/AIDS
  3. Perseverance
  4. Cooperation

Cause-and-Effect Relationships

Examples:

  1. The unnecessary use of cars is wasting gasoline. Gasoline is being wasted through the unnecessary use of cars.
  2. Famine has displaced millions of people. Millions of people have been displaced as a result of famine.
  3. CFCs in products like refrigerators have depleted the ozone layer. The ozone layer has
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Love and Death Intertwined: A Literary Analysis

Love and Death: A Deep Dive into Character Relationships

This novel is a profound exploration of love and death, most significantly because the novel opens with a suicide and closes, near the end, with another. The title suggests that love and death, Eros and Thanatos, are united. The first sentence, “…inevitable,” dramatically increases attention, since “almonds” and “love” have a contextual synonymy, while the words that compose it form a list of antonyms: almonds (negative assessment) and love

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Euthanasia, Renewable Energy, and the Power of Music: Key Insights

The Right to Die

Reading Comprehension

  1. True: “Ramón Sampedro was paralyzed from the neck down in a diving accident as a young man.”
  2. True: “He could control a computer and write using a pen he held in his mouth.”
  3. False: “His brother, in fact, was completely opposed to euthanasia.”
  4. True: “In dying after planning his death in such an ingenious way that, even if all the details were discovered, no one could be legally charged with the crime.”

Lexicon

  • Unable to move all or part of your body:
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Common Verb Tense Mistakes and Corrections

Present Simple and Present Continuous

1. It is costing us a fortune costs a fortune. / I am loving love sitting every moment. / But we desagree disagree on / why they are disagreeing. / People are preferring prefer to use / and prefer to stay. / She is having has a shower. / Brother has owns three / He owns three cars. / People are owing owe.

Past Simple and Present Perfect

2. Passes to Coles who shoots just over. / A man comes home. His wife is waiting. She says to him: / Rice is cooking. You chop

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English Verb Tenses and Imperatives

Verb Tenses

Verb

Tense

Will, am, are, is

Future

Do, does, am, are, is

Present

Did, was, were

Past

Have, has

Present Perfect

Do = You, I, They    Does = She, He, It

Examples

  • Will: Will Ainhoa play the piano?
  • Do: Do you have a pencil?
  • Does: Does she have a problem?
  • Am: Am I lazy?
  • Are: Are you an idiot?
  • Is: Is the school white?
  • Did: Did David do the work?
  • Was: Was he ugly?
  • Were: Were your friends going to invite José to the party?
  • Have: Have they talked to the police?
  • Has: Where has he been?

Imperatives

Function: Imperatives

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