Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Homework 3/9

1. There are more SUBWAYs than McDONALDs.
Whereas you see more McDonalds than Subways, there are more Subways than McDonalds.
Despite you seeing more McDonald s than Subways, there are more Subways than McDonalds.


2. The Irish beat the English in cricket on Thursday.
Besides their beating the English in cricket on Tuhrsday, the Irish are also more handsome than the English.
Whereas the Irish look smaller than the English, the Irish beat the English in cricket on Thursday.


3. There are a lot of people who can't afford healthcare in the USA
Although the USA is the strongest country in the world, there are a lot of people who can't afford healthcare there.
Despite being the strongest country in the world, there are a lot of people who can't afford healthcare in the USA.


4. Women do 66% of the work, but women earn 10% of the income.
Although women do 66% of the work, women earn 10% of the income at the most.
Despite women doing 66% of the work, women earn 10% of the income at the most.

Wednesday, March 2, 2011

What you need for the perfect picnic

If you have a plan to go on a picnic, you should prepare something below.
And you'd better prepare it before you sleep in the night before the picnic day.
First, you'll need a light bag. But if you have a car, you may prefer picnic basket to other bags. Don't forget to bring a mat! and if you often feel cold, you'd better put a cardigan in the bag. Some medicines for emergency also will be usefull.
If you feel so excited that you couldn't sleep well, prepare some food for a perfect picnic.
I recommend you special food. Gim-bab(rice rolled in dried laver) is the best food for picnic!
To make Gim-bab, you have to prepare enough boiled rice, plenty of pickled radishs, enough boiled fish pastes, some spinach, a carrot, some eggs, some mayonnaise, a can of tuna, a few sesame oil and enough dried laver.
First, spread dried laver, put and spread the boiled rice on it. And then, put a slice of pickled radish, a slice of boiled fish paste, a few spinach, a slice of carrot, a slice of fried egg, some tuna, and a little mayonnaise on the spreaded rice. Next, roll it up in the dried laver and put sesame oil on it. The last thing is to chop it.
After then, put them in a lunch box. If you don't like the food, skip it and you can cook whatever you like to cook. And the lunch box will be putted into the picnic basket.
Make sure you don't forget to bring quite a few cutlery and enough drink.
Now, you've done to prepare your picnic! But the night is over. You have to go out to go on a picnic now without sleepying... Anyway, enjoy your picnic!

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

Future Perfect Continuous

This is one of usefull links for studying Future Perfect Continuous -

Click!!! - http://www.english-the-easy-way.com/Future_Tense/Future_Perfect_Continuous_Tense.htm


The future perfect continuous tense is used when you want to emphasize an event or activy that be continuous after specific future time.

 
The future perfect continuous verb tense is used to:

Emphasize - how long an event will be in progress at a future time
Stress - the the length of time an event or action in the future
Results - used to state the results of an action or event in the future.
Represents A Continuous Action - that stated at some point, and continues into some point in the future
Rules for using the future perfect continues verb tense:

The future period of time if usually states:
next year
next week
next month etc.
the exact came can be stated
the approximate can can be stated
The future perfect continuous verb tense is usually not used with static verbs.

The future perfect continuous verb tense can't be used with "time clauses" such as when, while, "by the time", soon, before, after, if, unless, until etc.

Examples:

In the fall, I will have been studying here for 2 years.
My son will have been in teaching for 10 years next month.
The teacher will have been teaching my children for 5 years next month.
Tammy will be very tired when she comes home, because she will have been flying over 24 hours.


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Understand how to build sentences using the future perfect verb continuous tense?
The future perfect continuous verb tense uses 4 kinds of verbs, 3 auxiliary verbs and 1 main verb.
The auxiliary verb "will" does not change according to the subject.
The auxiliary verb "have" always stays in the base form.
-ing is added to the base form of the main verb.
Negative Sentences - "not" is added between the auxiliary verb "will" and the main verb.
Questions - the order of the sentence is changed. The verb "will" comes first, then the subject.


; Examples
  • In ten minutes, I will have been waiting 1 hour for the bus.
  • We will have been working here for 10 years in June.
  • Robert will have been living in France for 1 year next month.
  • We will have been saving money for many years, by the time you need to go to college.

; Questions 
  • Will I have been working here long enough to get an extra week vacation this summer?
  • Will we have been living in the states long enough to get citizenship next year?