Passive Voice

DEPRIVES NEWS

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    Correspondent

    Noe Tirado Rico

  Hi George, we are here transmitting from Bogota Mayoralty and 
  trying to access to the current reunion where our Mayor gives all 
  the statements and results about his management.

  While this happen I am with his clerk, Karry Capoya talking 

  about some things that the borough has done since 2012.

  Miss Karry to all our audience broadcasts, could you tell us ten   
  things that you, in head of the local govertment, have done till 
  date?

  Poor people has been formally supported
  Accident rate has reduced in 75% over the previous year
  Homicide have been attacked specially in downtown
  People have been enjoyed their lives 
  Criminals are arrested by the police

And this next period 

  The city will be repaired in all cultural structure
  Children are going to be evaluated in the public school to find
  educational problems
  Even family must be checked as a first support of the society
  And the most important our mayor are being dismissed right now



    



   

  

Games with conditionals

ZERO CONDITIONAL (TYPE 0)

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FIRST CONDITIONAL (TYPE 1)

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SECOND CONDITIONAL (TYPE 2)

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THIRD CONDITIONAL (TYPE 3)

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The conditionals

What do I know about conditionals?

A conditional it´s a kind of sentence determinated by the word "if". This conditional provides another sense to the phrase than can be an implication, almost in the future.

There are four (4) basic forms of "if" clauses.

What would I like to know about conditionals?

1. How I have to use this kind of expressions and what moment if clause it is need or not.

2. In what cases I have to apply this If expressions.

3. Understand all the "if" types and apply them in a real context.

What is a conditional?

A conditional is a sentence (clause), a phrase that has a consequence. Therefore, a conditional is like an hypothetical situation.
  

How many types of conditionals are there?

There are four types basically:

0.    IF + Present simple  =  Present simple 
1.    IF + Present simple  =  Will 
2.    IF + Past simple  =  Would  
3.    IF + Past perfect  =  Would have 

Type of Conditional	Description When do we use it?	Structure		Examples (with different possible structures)
		If Clause	Consequence Clause
Zero	When it is logic and true that the situation will happen.	If + Present simple.	Present simple.	If you freeze water, it becomes ice. Plants die if they don’t get enough water.
First	When the expression has a big possibility to happen.	If + Present simple.	Future tense (will).	If you love me, I will love you.
Second	When the situation happen in a big hypothetical way.	If + Past simple.	Would.	If you died in an accident, I would die with you.
Third	An hypothetical situation in the past.	If + Past perfect.	Would have.	If She had studied stronger, She would have passed the exam.

A trip trapped

A TRIP TRAPPED…

My trip began with some problems while I was in Dorado airport and everything happened because of my boarding pass, it was two times sold. In fact, another man had the same ticket, in obviously, the same chair inside the plane; was absolutely uncomfortable to me being in this situation. My plane, an Airbus 380 HK1380bound to Medellin never took off with me into it. Before that I left my angry, furious and raging ego and gave way my sit in the bird, the other guy had no time to get another fly, very unselfish…!Ok! actually the airline gave me 200 dollars by this action, easy money.

My boss had told me “you have only four days to enjoy this holy week time, so please take advantage of your time”, remaining that and looking my casio, I ran to the closest big bus station and using all my technical speech, years and years of training, remembering my legacy I spoke with a girl, the seller of tickets, and bought one in a very low cost, around 20 dollars. Thus in less than a jiffy I was in a new transport, a new way to go home.

PLACES…NEW FACES

4:00 pm and the bus was living Bogota, crossing all the lowness _and here it comes_ my second trouble…a child was feeling sick and vomit all the floor, the corridor of the bus got dirty and the smell very awful. In the middle of all this mess, some girl that I didn`t know, began to talk me…all the journey was entertaining, soft and smooth, we shared stories, books, even we realized some things in common.   

INTERESTING THINGS

I don`t need to explain what wonderful Medellin was, I passed a great family time, shared with mom and grandma, visited to my best friend David, He has a recording studio so I was playing guitar almost every day…I returned here four years later and back to work, Including right now I`m remaining all my trip trapped and it doesn`t matter all the drawbacks, I was in home.    

ENDING

There is a lot of things I missed being in Bogota, even my city looks bigger than yesterday, all my vicious, my manners, my environment, my people; all is changing now I`m here and I long for them.

Notwithstanding, I`m trying to reach my goals…enjoying other spaces, times and meeting new people.

Relatives Clauses with songs

LIVING ON A PRAYER

Defining Clauses


1. Gina dreams of running away
2. Tommy was the man who used to work on the docks
3. Gina was a girl who worked the diner all day
4. Do we know which unions are on strike?

Non-Defining Clauses

1. Tommy, the man who worked on the docks, is down on his luck 
2. Gina, the girl who works the diner all day, brings home her pay for love
3. Tommy, who got his six string in hock, is holding in what he used 
4. Gina, who cries in the night, dreams of running away

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Defining Clauses

1. There was a kid who got into an accident

2. There was this girl who wouldn´t go and change

3. Do you know girl and boy who saw birthmarks over a body 

4. Parents were the people who made him come directly home   

Non-Defining Clauses

1. The kid, who got into an accident, couldn´t come to school    

2. The girl, who wouldn´t go and change with the girls, finally made her 

3. There was a boy, whose parents made him come directly home, had it worse  

4. They were to their church, shook and lurched all over the church floor, always gone there 

Relative Clauses

RELATIVE CLAUSES

Defining and Non-defining 

What is a relative clause?

Relative clause is a word that can be a noun, adjetive or pronoun. They´re used to identify what person or  thing we are talking about.

With relative clauses we can say extra information, adding new data to the phrase.


What is a Defining clause?

When I give only need information and don´t use commas in the sentences, I´m providing dates as an identifying clause that can be called restrictive clause too.


What is a Non-defining clause?

When I give extra information about a place, a thing or a person I am using Non-defining clauses. In context, I give information that people don´t need to know at this moment but I do.

Superlatives and Comparatives