Month: February 2019

What do you know about V. Woolf and the women’s right to vote in the UK?

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Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell children.jpg
By Unknown – Harvard University library & Vintage Photos of a Young Virginia Woolf Playing Cricket (Ages 5 & 12), Public Domain, Link

Watch the video online presenting V.Woolf and the topic of the Suffraggettes.

Write a short presentation about how the right to vote was introduced in the UK, search online  find information about  your country. Is there any  difference?

Here is the link to my short presentation:

https://spark.adobe.com/video/JTord64bgBxso

 

Why do you think  Virginia  Woolf wrote about ” Shakespeare’s sister” ?

TALKING ABOUT THE PAST IN ENGLISH

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Simple  Past 

It is used to talk about events that finished and happened in a definite time in the past.

She worked in town then she took the bus. When she arrived at home she had a shower and then she went to bed. She was tired.

Past Continuous

It is used to talk about  events that were happening at a right time in the  past . You can find  it with as/while and it usually refers to an action in progress : you do not know when it started and when it finished.

While I was working in town I met my friend Paul.

At 3 o’clock yesterday I was  running in the park

Past  Perfect

It is used to talk about an event that happened before another event in the past: it  is important to say that it happened before and that it influenced the next  event.

When Jack left the office his friends were in town. They had just arrived.

Now do the following exercises in English

https://english.lingolia.com/en/grammar/tense-comparison/past-tenses/exercises/articles/past-tenses-mixed-exercise