Travel Adventures, Celebrations, and English Grammar Review

Posted on Feb 2, 2025 in Administration and Management

Travel and Adventure Ideas

  • Adventure Activities: Look for adventure, take a personal challenge, go on a trek.
  • Volunteer Work: Do volunteer work, meet the locals.
  • Relaxation and Exploration: Get away from it all, take it easy, see historical places, fulfill a dream.
  • Travel Styles: Choose from isolated or crowded locations, peaceful or dangerous settings, boring or relaxing experiences, fun or impressive places, noisy or historical sites, lively or underdeveloped areas, unspoiled or guided tours, cruises, camping trips, resort holidays, safaris.
  • Travel Elements: Consider events, sites, thrills, reminders, making reservations, foreign countries, boarding cards, scenery, location, journey, going abroad, baggage, landmarks, ancient or rural settings, thrilling or narrow paths, exhausting or fascinating experiences, busy or secluded spots, breathtaking or impressive views, pale or wooden structures, huge or small places.

Celebrations and Events

  • Types of Celebrations: Family get-togethers, parades, religious ceremonies, local/national celebrations, weddings, festivals.
  • Emotions and Actions: Experience emotional or joyful moments, tense or serious situations, offer congratulations, join in the celebrations, feel emotional, give gifts, dress up in traditional dresses, wave flags and cheer, say prayers.
  • Event Elements: Be a spectator, commemorate, consider the venue, disguises, leaflets, or postponed events.

English Grammar Review

Verb Tenses

  • Present Perfect Continuous: have/has been + verb-ing
  • Past Perfect Simple: had + verb (past participle)
  • Past Perfect Continuous: had been + verb-ing
  • Future Perfect Simple: will have + verb (past participle)

Indirect Speech

  • Works – worked
  • Worked – had worked
  • Will work – was working
  • Is working – was working
  • Was working – had been working
  • Has been working – had been working
  • Had worked – had worked
  • Had been working – had been working

Passive Voice

  • Sell – are sold
  • Are selling – are being sold
  • Sold – were sold
  • Will sell – will be sold
  • Have sold – have been sold
  • Can sell – can be sold
  • Were selling – had sold
  • Must have sold – must have been sold
  • Have to sell – have to be sold
  • Are going to sell – are going to be sold

Conditional Sentences

  • First Conditional: If/Unless + Present Simple = Future/Modal + base form
  • Second Conditional: If/Unless + Past Simple = would/could/might + base form
  • Third Conditional: If + Past Perfect = would/could/might have + past participle

Desiderative Sentences

  • Wish/If only + Past Simple = present situations to improve
  • Wish/If only + Past Perfect = past events that are regretted
  • Wish/If only + could/would + base form = desire for future situations

Relative Clauses

  • Who/That = people
  • Which/That = things or objects
  • Where = specific place
  • Whose = possession

Modal Verbs

can, be able to, can’t, could, may/might, would, must, have to, need to, needn’t, don’t have to, mustn’t, should/ought to

Perfect Modals

Must have, may/might have, could have, couldn’t have, would have, should/ought have, shouldn’t have, needn’t have



Additional Grammar Notes

Relative Clauses: WHO/THAT=people; WHICH/THAT=things or objects; WHERE=specific place; WHOSE: possession

Modal Verbs: can, be able to, can’t, could, may/might, would, must, have to, need to, needn’t, don’t have to, mustn’t, should/ought to

Perfect Modals: Must have, may/might have, could have, couldn’t have, would have, should/ought have, shouldn’t have, needn’t have