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Present simple, present continuous and present perfect


♦️ When we backshift, present simple changes to past simple, present continuous changes to past continuous and present perfect changes to past perfect.

✨ I travel a lot in my job.
‘Jamila said that she travelled a lot in her job.’

✨ The baby is sleeping .
‘He told me the baby was sleeping.’

✨ I have hurt my leg.
‘She said she had hurt her leg.’



♦️ Pronouns, demonstratives and adverbs of time and place if they are no longer accurate, change in indirect speech.


🔹these changes to those,

🔸now changes to then,

🔹yesterday changes to the day before,

🔸tomorrow changes to the next/following day,

🔹ago changes to before.


✨ This is my house
➖He said this was his house. [You are currently in front of the house.]
➖He said that was his house. [You are not currently in front of the house.]



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🔔 Word Of The Day 🔔


🔻Five alternative to “CORRECT“🔻


🔸Right
How many questions did you get right.

🔹True
What you have said is true, that is what happened.

🔸Accurate
Your calculations are accurate, as is your answer.

🔹Spot on
That answer is spot on!

🔸Bang on
Her guess was absolutely bang on.


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Reading passage


The Rhine is a European river which rises in the Swiss Alps and flows northward for a distance of 1320 kilometres, entering the North Sea just south of the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands. It is navigable all the way from the sea to Basle, Switzerland, and for this reason is of great commercial importance, serving the industrial region of Ruhr and such inland ports as Cologne, Manheim and Strasbourg. It is connected by canal with the Danube and the Rhone Its most famous stretch is the Rhine Gorge, the steep sides being given over to vineyards. Politically, too, the Rhine has played a big part in European history, providing a natural frontier between French speaking people to the west and Germanic peoples to the east.


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📍So as to 📍


♦️So as to is used to express the purpose of an action. It can be used at the beginning of a sentence.
We generally use “so as to” before stative verbs.


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✨Examples :


➕You must have a reason so as to learn English!!

➕So as to solve the problem, I must understand the question.

➕We must burn more wood so as not to be cold.

➕I will do my best so as to teach you French.



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📝Power Writing 📝

Complete the sentences to make up a story:

1 My favorite dishes are..
2 I prefer eating...
3 I can / can't say I am a good cook ...
4 The most famous dishes in my country are..
5 When I was a child I hated eating...
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My example:
My favorite dishes are chicken, shrimps, fruit( pineapple, grapes,fig),vegetables.
I prefer eating fresh and healthy food mostly, but sometimes I eat fast food and sweets.I can say I am a good cook,my family and friends think so,at least.I love baking,but I don't bake often, because I don't have time for it.
The most famous dishes in my country are mamalyga( corn porridge, which is like bread here,it's eaten with cheese and some traditional dressing), khachapuri( cheese pie), satsivi( chicken/ turkey in walnut dressing).
When I was a child I hated eating soup and porridge, I liked meat,sausage, chicken. It was a torture to eat at the kindergarten ,and when I came back home I used to open the fridge to look for some tasty food.