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Queen - We are the Champions

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"We Are The Champions"

I've paid my dues
Time after time.
I've done my sentence
But committed no crime.
And bad mistakes ‒
I've made a few.
I've had my share of sand kicked in my face
But I've come through.

(And I need just go on and on, and on, and on)

We are the champions, my friends,
And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end.
We are the champions.
We are the champions.
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world.

I've taken my bows
And my curtain calls
You brought me fame and fortune and everything that goes with it
I thank you all

But it's been no bed of roses,
No pleasure cruise.
I consider it a challenge before the whole human race
And I ain't gonna lose.

(And I need just go on and on, and on, and on)

We are the champions, my friends,
And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end.
We are the champions.
We are the champions.
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions of the world.

We are the champions, my friends,
And we'll keep on fighting 'til the end.
We are the champions.
We are the champions.
No time for losers
'Cause we are the champions.

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Micheal Jackson - Heal the World

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"Heal The World"

There's A Place In
Your Heart
And I Know That It Is Love
And This Place Could
Be Much
Brighter Than Tomorrow
And If You Really Try
You'll Find There's No Need
To Cry
In This Place You'll Feel
There's No Hurt Or Sorrow

There Are Ways
To Get There
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

If You Want To Know Why
There's A Love That
Cannot Lie
Love Is Strong
It Only Cares For
Joyful Giving
If We Try
We Shall See
In This Bliss
We Cannot Feel
Fear Or Dread
We Stop Existing And
Start Living

Then It Feels That Always
Love's Enough For
Us Growing
So Make A Better World
Make A Better World...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

And The Dream We Were
Conceived In
Will Reveal A Joyful Face
And The World We
Once Believed In
Will Shine Again In Grace
Then Why Do We Keep
Strangling Life
Wound This Earth
Crucify Its Soul
Though It's Plain To See
This World Is Heavenly
Be God's Glow

We Could Fly So High
Let Our Spirits Never Die
In My Heart
I Feel You Are All
My Brothers
Create A World With
No Fear
Together We'll Cry
Happy Tears
See The Nations Turn
Their Swords
Into Plowshares

We Could Really Get There
If You Cared Enough
For The Living
Make A Little Space
To Make A Better Place...

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

Heal The World
Make It A Better Place
For You And For Me
And The Entire Human Race
There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

There Are People Dying
If You Care Enough
For The Living
Make A Better Place
For You And For Me

You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me
You And For Me

Heal the world we live in, save it for our children
Heal the world we live in, save it for our children
Heal the world we live in, save it for our children
Heal the world we live in, save it for our children 

 

 

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Jhon Lennon - Imagine

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"Imagine"

Imagine there's no heaven
It's easy if you try
No hell below us
Above us only sky
Imagine all the people
Living for today...

Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will be as one

Imagine no possessions
I wonder if you can
No need for greed or hunger
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Sharing all the world...

You may say I'm a dreamer
But I'm not the only one
I hope someday you'll join us
And the world will live as one

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Westlife - My Love

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"My Love"

An empty street, an empty house
A hole inside my heart
I'm all alone, the rooms are getting smaller.
I wonder how, I wonder why, I wonder where they are
The days we had, the songs we sang together.(oh yeah)

And all my love, I'm holding on forever
Reaching for the love that seems so far

[Chorus:]
So I say a little prayer
And hope my dreams will take me there
Where the skies are blue, to see you once again... my love.
All the seas from coast to coast
To find the place I Love The Most
Where the fields are green, to see you once again... my love.

I try to read, I go to work
I'm laughing with my friends
But I can't stop to keep myself from thinking. (oh no)
I wonder how, I wonder why, I wonder where they are
The days we had, the songs we sang together.(oh yeah)

And all my love, I'm holding on forever
Reaching for the love that seems so far

So I say a little prayer
And hope my dreams will take me there
Where the skies are blue, to see you once again... my love.
All the seas from coast to coast
To find the place I Love The Most
Where the fields are green, to see you once again...

To hold you in my arms
To promise you my love
To tell you from the heart
You're all I'm thinking of

Reaching for the love that seems so far

So I say a little prayer
And hope my dreams will take its there
Where the skies are blue, to see you once again... my love.
All the seas from coast to coast
To find the place I Love The Most
Where the fields are green, to see you once again... my love.

Say it in a prayer (my sweet love)
Dreams will take it there
Where the skies are blue (woah yeah), to see you once again my love. (oh my love)
All the seas from coast to coast
To find the place I Love The Most
Where the fields are green, to see you once again.... My Love.

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MLTR - Sleeping Child

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MLTR (MICHAEL LEARNS TO ROCK) LYRICS

"Sleeping Child"

The Milky Way upon the heavens
Is twinkling just for you
And Mr. Moon he came by
To say goodnight to you

I'll sing for you I'll sing for mother
We're praying for the world
And for the people everywhere
Gonna show them all we care

[Chorus:]
Oh my sleeping child the world's so wild
But you've build your own paradise
That's one reason why I'll cover you sleeping child

If all the people around the world
They had a mind like yours
We'd have no fighting and no wars
There would be lasting peace on Earth

If all the kings and all the leaders
Could see you here this way
They would hold the Earth in their arms
They would learn to watch you play

[Chorus:]
Oh my sleeping child the world's so wide
But you've build your own paradise
That's one reason why I'll cover you sleeping child

I'm gonna cover my sleeping child
Keep you away from the world so wide
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Making an Invitation

Making invitations

Do you know how to invite someone to your house for dinner or to go to the movies?
What do you say in English when someone invites you?
Here are some common expressions you can use when making or responding to invitations

Inviting:

• Do you want to go to the movies tonight?
• Would you like to go to the theater tomorrow?
• Would you be interested in going to the the stadium next Sunday?
• How do you fancy going to the the restaurant for dinner?
• How about going to the movies?
• Care to come over for lunch?
• I was just wondering if you would like to come over for a drink.
• We'd be delighted to have you over for my birthday party.

Accepting invitations:

• Sure. What time?
• I'd love to, thanks.
• That's very kind of you, thanks.
• That sounds lovely, thank you.
• What a great idea, thank you.
• Sure. When should I be there?

Declining invitations:

• I can't.  I have to work.
• This evening is no good.  I have an appointment.
• I'm busy tomorrow.  Can I take a rain check* on that? 
• That's very kind of you, but actually I'm doing something else this afternoon.
• Well, I'd love to, but I'm already going out to the restaurant.
• I'm really sorry, but I've got something else on.
• I really don't think I can - I'm supposed to be doing something else.

(*rain check: used to tell someone that you cannot accept invitations now, but would like to do so at a later time)

Dialogue:

Mike and Ann are in a wedding party:

Mike:	Do you want to dance?
Ann:	No thanks. I'm a bit tired right now
Mike:	How about having a drink?
Ann:	Sure, I'd love to!

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Telling Time

How to tell the time in English?

There are two common ways of telling the time in English. For 2:40 you can use one of these two ways.

• Digital: the easier way - "Two forty "
• Classical: you say the minutes first then the hour - "twenty to three"

Here are the different ways to ask for and tell the time.
 

Asking about the time:

What	time is it?
	time do you make it?
	's the time?
Have you got	the right time?

Telling the time:

Digital	It's ...	It's ...
2.00	two o'clock	two
2.06	six minutes past two	two oh six
2.09	nine minutes past two	two oh nine
2.12	twelve past two	two twelve
2.15	a quarter past two	two fifteen
2.20	twenty past two	two twenty
2.25	twenty-five past two	two twenty-five
2.30	half past two	two thirty
2.35	twenty-five to three	two thirty-five
2.40	twenty to three	two forty
2.45	a quarter to three	two forty-five
2.50	ten to three	two fifty
2.55	five to three	two fifty-five
2.57	three minutes to three	two fifty-seven
2.58	nearly three o'clock	two fifty-eight
3.00	three o'clock	three

Example:

Question:	What's the time, please?
Answer:	It's two o'clock.

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Asking and Giving Permission

Asking for and giving permission:

When you ask for permission to use something that belongs to someone else you have to do your best to be polite. It is desirable to use the word "please."

Asking for Permission:

• Can I go out, please?
• May I open the window, please?
• Please, can I have a look at your photo album?
• Please, may I taste that hot spicy couscous dish?
• Do you mind if I smoke?
• Would you mind if I asked you something?
• Is it okay if I sit here?
• Would it be all right if I borrowed your mobile Phone?

Giving Permission:

• Yes, please do.
• Sure, go ahead.
• Sure.
• No problem.
• Please feel free.

Refusing to give permission:

• No, please don’t.
• I’m sorry, but that’s not possible.
• I'm afraid, but you can't.

Dialogue:

Liza, eight years old, is asking her mother for permission to use the computer...

Liza:	Please mum, can I use the computer?
Her mother:	No, dear you can't. It's time to go to bed.
Liza:	May I read a story before I sleep?
Her mother:	Sure! But try to sleep early.
Liza:	Thanks a lot mummy.

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Introducing

Introducing yourself and others

There is a range of ways to introduce yourself and people.

Introducing yourself:

Here are expressions to introduce yourself:

• My name is ...
• I'm ....
• Nice to meet you; I'm ...
• Pleased to meet you; I'm ...
• Let me introduce myself; I'm ...
• I'd like to introduce myself; I'm ...

Introducing others:

Here are expressions to introduce others:

• Jack, please meet Nicolas.
• Jack, have you met Nicolas?
• I'd like you to meet Liza.
• I'd like to introduce you to Betty.
• Leila, this is Barbara. Barbara this is Leila.

Useful responses when introducing yourself or other people:

• Nice to meet you.
• Pleased to meet you.
• Happy to meet you.
• How do you do?

Dialogue:

Alex is talking to the new manager and his assistant. Notice how they introduce themselves:

Alex:	Hi! My name is Alex Litterman, the new manager.
William:	Hi! I'm William O'Brian. Nice to meet you, Mr Alex Litterman.
John:	William, please meet Mr Steve Lynch, my assistant
Jack:	How do you do?
Nicolas:	How do you do?

Things to remember:

• When introducing yourself or other people in a formal situation use full names. ("I'm Alex Litterman.")
• "How do you do?" isn't really a question, it just means "Hello"

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Greeting

English Greeting Expressions

There are many ways of greeting people, both formal and informal. The speaker’s task is to choose the appropriate one for the situation. It is also useful to know lots of different ones so as to not repeat yourself when you meet a number of people at the same time. As with any other aspect, you need to be careful about using informal expressions with people who you do not know well or whose rank or status is higher than yours.

• General greetings (Formal)
  
  1. Hello!
  2. How are you?
  3. How are you doing?
  4. How is everything?
  5. How’s everything going?
  6. How have you been keeping?
  7. I trust that everything is well.
  General greetings (Informal)
  
  1. Hi.
  2. What’s up?
  3. Good to see you.
  4. How are things (with you)?
  5. How’s it going?
  6. How’s life been treating you?
  Greeting a person you haven’t seen for a long time (Formal)
  
  1. It has been a long time.
  2. It’s been too long.
  3. What have you been up to all these years?
  4. It’s always a pleasure to see you.
  5. How long has it been?
  6. I’m so happy to see you again.
  Greeting a person you haven’t seen for a long time (Informal)
  
  • How come I never see you?
  • It’s been such a long time.
  • Long time no see.
  • Where have you been hiding?
  • It’s been ages since we last met.
  
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Past Continuous

The past continuous:

The past continuous, also called past progressive, is used to refer to an action that was continuous (i.e. an action that was going on) at a particular time in the past.
This page will present the form and the use of the past continuous (progressive.)
(More on the present continuous / progressive)
Before you continue the lesson, read the following passage and try to see how the verbs in bold are formed and used.

Yesterday, Liza and Jim played tennis. They began at 10:00 and finished at 11:30. So at 11:00, they were playing tennis. They were playing="they were in the middle of playing." They had not finished yet. Was/were playing is the past continuous.

The form of the past continuous:

The past continuous is formed as follows:

to be in the simple past	+ verb	+ ing

The affirmative form:

I, he, she, it	was	playing.
you, we, they	were

Examples:

• Yesterday evening I was watching a film, when someone knocked on the door.
• This morning I was revising my lessons when my father came in.
• Jim and Liza were playing tennis yesterday at 11:00.

The interrogative form:

Was	I, he, she, it	Playing?
were	you, we, they

Examples:

• What were you doing yesterday evening?
• And what was your mother doing?
• Where were you going, this morning at 7:30?
• What were Jim and Liza doing?

The negative form:

I, he, she, it	was not / wasn't	playing.
you, we, they	were not / weren't

Examples:

• I wasn't reading a book yesterday evening; I was watching a film.
• My mother wasn't preparing dinner; she was working on the computer.
• We weren't playing cards.

The use of the past continuous:

• We use the past continuous to say that somebody was in the middle of doing something at a certain time in the past.
  Example:
  "This time yesterday, I was doing my homework."
• We use the past continuous to say that something happened in the middle of something else:
  Example:
  "Bob burnt his hand when he was cooking dinner yesterday"
   "While I was working in the garden, I hurt my back."

Remember:

• "Wasn't playing" and "weren't playing" are the short forms of "was not playing" and "were not playing"

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Simple Future Tense

The simple future tense:

This page will present the simple future tense:

• its form
• and its use.

The forms of the simple future:

The simple future is formed as follows:

will / 'll + verb

will = 'll

The affirmative form of the simple future:

I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will / ''ll	go.

Examples:

• I think I'll buy a new computer.
• I will open the door. Someone is ringing the bell.

The interrogative form of the simple future:

Will	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	go?

Examples:

• Will you buy a computer?
• Will you go to the party?

The negative form of the simple future:

I, you, he, she, it, we, they	will not	go.
	won't

will not = won't
Examples:

• I will not stay at home if I finish the homework.
• I won't visit Big Ben if I go to London.

The use of the simple future:

• We use the simple future for instant decisions.
  Example: "I've left the door open; I'll close it."
  
  
• We use the simple future , when we predict a future situation:
  Example: "She'll pass the exam. She's hardworking"
  
  
• We use the simple future with: "I (don't) think...", "I expect...", "I'm sure...", "I wonder...", "probably".
  Example: "It will probably rain tonight" , "I wonder what will happen?
  
  
• We use the simple future in conditional sentences type one. (More on conditional sentences here):
  Example: "If I have enough time, I'll watch the film."

Things to remember:

1. We don't use the simple future to say what somebody has already decided or arranged to do in the future. We use instead either the present continuous or "going to + verb" (Future plan) :

• Ann is traveling to New York next week. (NOT, "Ann will travel ")
• Are you going to watch television? (NOT "will you watch").

2. You can use shall instead of will for I and we:

• I shall play football.(Or, I will play ...)
• We shall play football. (Or, we will play ...)

3. 'll is the short form of will. You can say either:

• I will go, or
• I 'll go.

4. Won't is the short form of will not. You can say either:

• I will not go, or
• I won't go.

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Present Continuous Tense

The Present Continuous / Progressive

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John is in his car. He is in his way to work.   He is driving to work This means he is driving now: “at the time of speaking” This is the present continuous.

The past continuous (progressive) tense

This page will present the present continuous:

• its form
• and its use.

You may also be interested by the past continuous

The form of the present continuous tense

The verb to be (in the simple present)	verb + ing

The affirmative forms of the present continuous:

I	am	eating.
	’m
You, we, they	are
	’re
He, she, it	is
	's

The interrogative forms of the present continuous

Am	I	eating?
Are	you, we, they
Is	he, she, it

The negative forms of the present continuous

I	am not	eating.
	’m not
You, we, they	are not
	aren't
He, she, it	is not
	isn't

The use of the present continuous tense

• The present continuous is used to talk about actions happening at the time of speaking. Example:
  
  • Where is Mary? She is having a bath. (Not she has a bath)
  • What are you doing at the moment in front of your screen? Don't you know? Well … you are reading this lesson. You are learning English.
• The present continuous can also be used when an action has started but hasn’t finished yet.

  Example:
  

  • I am reading a book; it’s a nice book. (It means = I am not necessarily reading it; I started reading it but I haven’t finished it yet

Special verbs

There are verbs which are normally not used in the present continuous.

Examples:

be, believe, belong, hate, hear, like, love, mean, prefer, remain, realize, see, seem, smell, think, understand, want, wish
It's not correct to say:

He is wanting to buy a new car.*

You must say:

He wants to buy a new car.

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Simple Past Tense

The simple past tense

This page will present the simple past tense:

• its form
• and its use.

Before you continue the lesson read the following passage and try to see how the verbs are formed and used.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was an Austrian musician and composer. He lived from 1756 to 1791. He started composing at the age of five years old and wrote more than 600 pieces of music. He was only 35 years old when he died. The verbs "was, lived,started, wrote, died" are in the simple past tense. Notice that: lived, started,died are regular past forms. was, wrote are irregular past forms.

Regular verbs:

The verbs "lived, started, died" are regular past forms. The rule is the following:

Verb + ed

Examples:

The infinitive	The simple past
live	lived
start	started
die	died
visit	visited
play	played
watch	watched
phone	phoned
marry	married

For the spelling of the -ed forms click here.

Irregular verbs:

The verbs "was, wrote" are irregular past forms. "Was" is the simple past of "to be"; "wrote" is the simple past of "write".
More on the simple past of "to be" here.
There is no rule for these verbs. You should learn them by heart.

The infinitive	The simple past
be	was/were
write	wrote
come	came
do	did
meet	met
speak	spoke

As you can see we can not predict the simple past forms of these verbs. They are irregular. You should learn them by heart. Here is a list of irregular verbs.

The forms of the simple past:

The Affirmative form of the simple past:

I, you, he, she, it, we, they	played.
	wrote
	did.

Examples:

• I played tennis with my friends yesterday.
• I finished lunch and I did my homework.

The interrogative form of the simple past:

Did	I, you, he, she, it, we, they	Play?
		write
		do?

Examples:

• Did you play basketball yesterday?
• Did you watch television?
• Did you do the homework?

The negative form of the simple past:

I, you, he, she, it, we, they	did not/didn't	play
		write
		do

• I didn't like the food in the wedding last Saturday.
• I didn't eat it.

Remember:

didn't is the short form of did not. You can say either:

• I did not play basketball, or
• I didn't play basketball.

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Simple Present tense

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The simple present tense

This page will present the simple present tense:

• its form
• and its use.

Before you continue the lesson read the following passage and try to see how the verbs are formed and used.

James is a taxi driver. He drives a taxi. But on Sundays he doesn't drive his taxi. He stays at home. The verb be, drive, stay are in the simple present. (more on the simple present of the verb to be)

The forms of the simple present

The affirmative form of the simple present:

I, you, we, they	play.
He, she, it	plays.

Remember the verbs in the third person singular (he,she and it) always take an "s". For example, "he plays, she sings,it works..."
Examples:

• Nancy and James speak good German.
• Nancy works in a restaurant downtown.
• The children play in the garden every weekend.

The interrogative form of the simple present:

Do	I, you, we, they	play?
Does	he, she, it

Examples:

• Do you speak good German?
• Does Nancy work in a restaurant downtown?

The negative form of the simple present:

I, you, we,they	do not	play.
	don't
He, she, it	does not
	doesn't

Examples:

• No, I don't speak German.
• No, she doesn't work in a restaurant downtown

The use of the simple present:

The simple present is used:

• to give your opinion - I like ice cream. I don't like spicy food.
• to talk about schedules - The library opens at eight. It doesn't open at 7.
• to talk about daily habits (routine actions)- Sara eats a cheese for breakfast every day. She doesn't eat cereal.
• to give facts - The earth circles the sun. The moon doesn't circle the sun.

The spelling of the third person singular form of the simple present:

All the verbs take an "s" in the simple present when conjugated in the third person singular (he, she, it) form:

Examples:

• I visit my parents every summer holiday. But my wife visits her parents every weekend.
• My brother meets his girlfriend everyday.

So the rule is:

He / she / it + Verb + S

There are however some special cases. Here are the spelling rules:

Silent e	Vowel + y	Consonant + y	Verbs ending in o	Verbs ending in s, z, sh, tch, ch
close = closes note = notes	play = plays say = says	study = studies marry = marries	go = goes do = does	miss = misses buzz = buzzes hatch = hatches finish = finishes teach = teaches

Examples:

• She drives to work every morning.
• He says he plays football on the weekends

Exception:

• The verb to have changes its forms as follows:
  I have two sisters and two brothers. But she has one sister and two brothers.
  I have = he / she / it has

Things to remember about the simple present:

1.In the interrogative forms, we use "do" or "does".

• "Do you like the house?"
• "Does she go to school?"

2; Verbs never take an "s" in the the negative and interrogative forms.

• "Does he speak German?"
• "Do they play soccer?"
• She doesn't like ice cream.

3. don't is the short form of "do not". You can say either:

• I do not speak Italian, or
• I don't speak Italian.

4.doesn't is the short form of "does not". you can say either:

• He does not listen to jazz music, or
• He doesn't listen to jazz music.

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Narrative Essays

Narration

In a narrative, essay we basically tell a story that is related to your own life. It can be a narration of a personal experience or the events that happened to someone you know. The narrative essay should have a purpose. It must make a point and the reader must learn a lesson or gain insight.

Tips to write a narrative essay

• Tell a story based on one of your own experiences.
• Use concrete details so that your readers can visualize what is happening. Give as many sensory details and vivid descriptions to involve the reader.
• You may use dialogue.
• Make sure that your narrative essay communicates a main idea or a lesson.
• Spend some time drafting what you can remember about the experience.
• Create an outline of the basic parts of your narrative.
• Write your first draft and don't pay attention to mistakes at this stage.
• When writing a narrative essay you may use the tools of descriptive writing.
• Edit the essay:
  1. Does the writing effectively recreates the experience for your readers?
  2. Are there any more details and descriptions are needed?
  3. Are there any information that has to be removed?
  4. Is your narration effectively written to help your readers visualize events?
  5. Is there any logical or chronological order in your narration?
  6. Are there any grammatical or spelling mistakes?
  7. Have you used appropriate cohesive devices?
• Write your final draft. 

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Writing a Personal Experience Essay

 

 Pre-writing

Choose one experience from your life that is interesting enough to be told.

Introduction

Think of an introduction that will make the reader eager to know more about the experience.

Body

Use simple past or past continuous tense. If something happened previous to the personal experience, use past perfect.
Write down some quick notes about the experience.
Don't worry about grammar. Take five minutes at the end to proofread your essay.
Remember every detail and try to visualize it.

• Your feelings
• Your thoughts
• Objects around you (their shape, color, size, ...)
• The smell
• The taste
• Actions

Include the setting: place, time. (Give specific details about the place and the time.)
Tell the events:

• in chronological order
• or using a flash back technique (depicting / recalling a set of events that occurred before the scenes immediately proceeding)

Conclusion

Conclude by telling what you learned from the experience.

Post writing

Edit your essay.

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Writing Tips

Writing tips

These are some tips to help you in your writing.

General

The ideal English text is easy to read and understand. Good writers usually use plain English words. So your sentences should be simple, clear and well structured.
When writing, remember the following recommendations in mind:

• use simple language
• use simple and clear sentences
• write well structured paragraphs (with a topic sentences supporting details and a concluding sentence)
• you may use subordinate clauses but keep them short
• prefer active voice to passive voice
• avoid slang language.

Sentence

Make your sentences simple and clear.
A sentence always encloses a subject, a verb and , optionally, a complement.
Examples:

• she tells stories
• She lies

A sentence may contain subordinate clauses (relative clauses, if clauses…)

Paragraph

As to paragraphs, keep the following rules in mind:

• Concentrate on one main point per paragraph. Summarize this point in the first sentence ( topic sentence.)
• All sentences that follow support the main point or limit its scope (supporting sentences)
• The last sentence is a summary of the main point of the paragraph and is used as a transition to the next paragraph. (concluding sentence)

Text

The typical structure of a text is as follows:

• (title)
• introduction
• main part
• conclusion

Make your texts interesting. Vary the lengths of your sentences. Use a short sentence to put emphasis on an important statements. Vary the lengths of your paragraphs and avoid one-sentence paragraphs.
There are various possibilities on how to structure your texts, e.g.:

• General to Specific:
  general statement followed by details and examples
• Specific to General:
  details and examples followed by a generalization:
• Known to Unknown:
  provide new information based on what readers already know
• Least Important to Most Important:
  catch and keep readers' attention
• Chronology (ordering by time):
  e.g. in biographies

Process writing

Writing is a process. Famous successful writers follow these steps in their writing:

• Collecting  the data
• Organizing the data
• Making an outline.
• The first draft.
• Editing.
• Possible reassessment of the ideas (crossing out some ideas, introducing new ideas, rearranging ideas…)
• Final draft.

Type of texts

• Descriptive
• Argumentative
• Letters (personal and business letters)
• Cause and effects…

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Capitalization Rules

Capitalization rules

Capitalization is the writing of a word with the first letter as uper-case letter (A,B, C, D,...) and the rest of the word as lower-case letters (a,b,c,d,...)
This is a summary of the capitalization.
Read the capitalization rules and study the examples given.

The rules

Capitalize the first word in a sentence.

• They arrived late. They had dinner and went to sleep.

The first word in a quote.

• He said, "You are fantastic."

Capitalize " I ".

• I'm very sorry for being late. I missed the bus.

Capitalize proper nouns.

• George was furious when he heard the bad news from Alice.

Capitalize names of rivers, mountains.

• The Nile River is in Egypt.
• The highest mountain in the world is Mount Everest.

The official title of a person, the initials in someone's name are capitalized

• Dr Lynch
• D. H. Lawrance is a wonderful novelist.

Days of the week, months of the year, holidays are capitalized.

• We went to Paris on Monday and came back on Saturday.
• The Independence Day is in July not January.

Capitalize countries, cities, languages, nationalities.

• New York is more exciting than seatle.
• He lives in London, but he's not English. He's Nigerian.
• He speaks English, Chinese and Japanese.

The first word in each line of a poem.

• "Who will believe my verse in time to come,
  If it were fill'd with your most high deserts?
  Though yet heaven knows it is but as a tomb
  Which hides your life, and shows not half your parts."
  Shakespear.

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Panctuation Rules

Punctuation rules

    Punctuation marks are symbols which

        organize the structure of written language,
        and indicate intonation and pauses to be observed when reading aloud.

    Punctuation marks are also used to avoid ambiguity. For example, "woman, without her man, is nothing" has a different meaning from "woman: without her, man is nothing"

    This is a summary of punctuation rules.

    Read the punctuation rules and study the examples given.
    End punctuation marks:

        1. Full stop , or period (.)

            Used a full stop at the end of a sentence:
            She stood up and went away. She was furious.
            Used for abbreviations:
            Co. (Company)
            M.P. (Member of Parliament)

        2. Question marks (?)

            Question marks are used at the end of direct questions:
            Where do you live?
            Are you crazy?
            Did you do the homework?
            Use a question mark at the end of tag questions:
            You will help me, won't you?
            He likes soccer, doesn't he?

        3. Exclamation marks (!)

            Used to indicate strong emotions:
            She's so beautiful!
            What a nice girl!
            How interesting!
            Used after interjections:
            Oh! It's awful.
            Hi! What's up?

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The Hodgsons Can!

The Hodgson family from Texas, USA are probably the most talented family in the country. Thomas is the father of the family. He's 52 years old and he can do everything. He can run for a long time. Every day, he goes running in his neighborhood for 40 minutes. He can also swim very well. He swims for his state's over-50 team! Thomas can't speak any foreign languages, but his wife, Judy, certainly can! She can speak French, Spanish and even Japanese. And she can teach them too. She works at the Pinewood Language Academy. Thomas and Judy Hodgson have three children and they can all do many things too. Robbie, 23, can't run for long distances like his father, but he can run very fast. He can run 100 meters in just 11 seconds. That's very fast. He can also fly! Not like a bird, but using a hang-glider. He goes hang-gliding every weekend in the hills near the family home. The middle child is Janine, who is 19. She's similar to her mother and she loves foreign languages. She studies Italian and French and can speak both of them very well. When she's with her mother, they can speak French and nobody in the house understands them! Clara is the baby of the family. She's only 9 years old. She can't speak French and she can't fly. What can she do? She can bake the best cakes in the world! And her parents and her brother and sister can eat them.

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The Town of Carston

Carston is a very historic town in the north of England. The Romans arrived in Carston two thousand years ago and they stayed for three hundred years. Even today, you can still see many signs of the Romans. There is still the large city wall that they built with its three gates: Main, East and South. The wall is not complete but you can still see the three gates. Many tourists comes to Carston to see the Roman ruins. Carston is famous for its history, but it's also a modern town with 74,000 people. They work in many types of jobs. The most common occupation is tourism, but there are also many people who work in the local car factory. The factory makes sports cars that are exported all over the world. There is another factory in Carston and in this factory, four hundred people work and they make microwave ovens. Carston also has a small football team which is not very successful and a rugby team that is more successful. The rugby team won the regional championship three years ago and one of their players, Danny Biggs, played three times for England. He still lives in Carston. He wants to return to play for Carston rugby team before he retires. Another famous Carston resident is the Hollywood movie star, Jason John Lee. He left Carston when he was 15 years old, but returns every summer to visit his family. Jason's school, Carston Middle School, now has a small theatre named after Jason. Jason gave his school some money to build the theatre. Maybe in the future, there will be other famous actors from Carston!

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The 1990s

In January 1990, I was at primary school and in January 2000, I was at university! I left primary school in September 1990 and went to a secondary school five kilometres from my house. I took the bus every day at 7.30am and didn't get home until 5 o'clock in the evening. What a difficult life! My family bought a satellite TV in 1990 and a new video the next year. In 1994, my brother bought a computer and I got a bicycle the same year. I left my school in 1997 but decided not to go to university like most people: instead, I went walking in France alone for three months and then drove around America for three months with my brother. For the first six months of 1998, I got a job in a health food shop and then went to university in October 1998 in Wales.

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My Office

This is where I work. The name of my company is Marshall Publishing. I started working here six years ago. I spend a lot of time on the phone, speaking to our clients, especially in Japan and Saudi Arabia. It's lucky that they all speak very good English because I don't speak Japanese or Arabic! I also do some work in the advertising department of the company, helping to make adverts for radio stations around the world. That's my favorite part of the job. It's not a big office and it's not very modern either, but we really like working here. There's only one computer and there's a lot of papers and files. It's like an office from ten years ago really. The walls are gray, although they should be white. They are dirty and we need to paint them again. In my part of the office, there's me and then there are three others, Lucy, Helen and Paul. Paul is the new one. He arrived only three months ago. He was a lawyer before, then he decided he didn't want to be a lawyer any more, so he changed his job completely. I imagine he earns a lot less money with us! Helen arrived at Marshall Publishing only a month or two after me. She's my best friend in the office because we helped each other a lot when we were both new. Lucy is the grandmother of the office. She started working here almost twelve years ago, when the company started. Everybody comes to her when there's a problem, when you have something you don't understand. She's a grandmother in real life too: she has 6 grandchildren! The manager of the office is Liam. He's 39 years old and worked for a large publishers in London before taking this job. I think at the beginning, he felt a little strange, like an outsider. Now, he's one of the family. He's the best boss you could have!

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Martin's Vacation

Martin had a terrible day yesterday. It was the day of his vacation to Spain but it was a nightmare. He left the house at 10 o'clock in the morning and caught a taxi to the airport. Martin went to the check-in with his luggage. When the man who worked for the airline asked for his passport, Martin became very upset. Where was his passport? Martin realized he didn't have his passport with him. What a disaster! He jumped back into the taxi and told the driver to take him home. The driver drove quickly and Martin arrived back at his house in twenty minutes. He ran into the house and went into his bedroom. He found his passport on the bedside table and left the house again. But the taxi wasn't there! Where was the taxi! Martin jumped up and down angrily. "I don't believe it. The taxi left!" he shouted. He ran down the street and looked for another taxi. After a few minutes, Martin found another taxi and told the driver to take him to the airport as quickly as possible. The traffic on the roads was very bad and, unfortunately, Martin's taxi arrived at the airport late. His plane left for Spain at 11.30 and Martin missed it. He was very sad and went to speak to the airline. They promised to get him a seat on an evening flight and Martin went home on another taxi to wait.

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