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English Sentence Transformation Practice

Below are the corrected and transformed sentences based on the provided grammatical structures.

1. Passive Voice Example

   They say this tree is over 400 years old. (Passive)

   → This tree is said to be over 400 years old.

2. Reported Speech

   The man said to us: “Keep off the grass!” (Reported Speech)

   → The man ordered us to keep off the grass.

3. Passive Voice

   They didn’t tell me the secret. (Passive)

   → I wasn’t told the secret.

4. Modals (Deduction)

   I’m sure they are at home. The lights are on. (Modals)

   → They must be at home because the lights are on.

5. Conditionals (Third Conditional)

   I didn’t invite Beth. I had forgotten her telephone number. (Conditionals)

   → If I hadn’t forgotten Beth’s telephone number,

Recycling and Waste Management Around the World

Interesting Facts

• In Japan, plastic from landfill sites gets into the sea and kills 10,000 fish each year.
• The Zabaleen take away rubbish from people who live in Cairo.
• In Senegal, people use old paper to wrap bread and fruit.
• People in India think cows are special animals.
• New Zealand has some interesting ideas about...
• The best recycling state in the USA is California.
• If you are driving around Germany, you will see recycling bins at all shopping places.
• In Switzerland, recycling is free, but throwing away your rubbish is expensive.
• Finland pays people to recycle their bottles and cans.
• You cannot bring plastic bags into Zanzibar.
• Gardeners like to make compost from bits of old fruit and vegetables.
• Shakespeare'

Anne Frank -  The author of the diary. Anne was born on June 12, 1929, in Frankfurt, Germany, and was four years old when her father moved to Holland to find a better place for the family to live. She is very intelligent and perceptive, and she wants to become a writer. Anne grows from an innocent, tempestuous, precocious, and somewhat petty teenage girl to an empathetic and sensitive thinker at age fifteen. Anne dies of typhus in the concentration camp at Bergen-Belsen in late February or early March of 1945.

Common Health and Medical Terms

1. The flu is a very contagious disease.
2. Some people have a flu vaccine in winter.
3. If you fall and break an arm, you need to have an X-ray.
4. If you cut yourself badly, you must have stitches.
5. I felt dizzy and nearly fainted.
6. The doctor told him to take off the bandage because the wound needed fresh air.
7. His temperature went up to 38º.
8. Nurses look after patients when they are in hospital.

Shopping, Money, and Consumer Vocabulary

9. Money in notes and coins is cash.
10. A reduction in price is also called a discount.
11. Something attached to a product with information about it: label.
12. A document from a shop showing how much you paid: receipt.
13. A person who is addicted to shopping: shopaholic.
14. Someone who looks for products with a discount:

English Irregular Verbs

Simple Past and Past Participle Tenses

High School Reflections

High school has given me very good and not so good moments, but it was undoubtedly the best time of my life. I had many friends, and the days in class were fun and enjoyable. I remember that the first day of high school I entered with a lot of fear of not making friends since I didn't know anyone, but after the first playground I had already made 3 friends, one of whom today is my best friend. A not so good stage in high school was repeating the course, since I had a bad time both socially with my new classmates and on a personal level.

The Digital Connection

Today, both new and old generations have something in common: the need to connect to the internet, either to work or to hang out. I think that punishing a person without... Continue reading "Personal Reflections on Life's Journey" »

Samuel Beckett: Life and Works

Samuel Beckett was born in Ireland in 1906. He attended Trinity College, where he studied English, Italian, and French. He taught at Campbell College and the École Normale Supérieure. He met James Joyce in 1926, who became a great influence on his own works. Beckett traveled around Europe before he settled in Paris. He married a French woman in 1961. He was a playwright, novelist, and poet. He wrote most of his works in French and later translated them into English. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1969 and died in 1989.

Major Works:

• Eleutheria
• Molloy
• The Unnamable
• Happy Days
• Waiting for Godot

The Theatre of the Absurd

The Theatre of the Absurd points out the meaninglessness of life. Modern life is depicted... Continue reading "Samuel Beckett's Life and the Absurdity of Waiting for Godot" »

Verb Conjugation in English and Spanish

Job Interview Success: Dos and Don'ts

Securing a job involves successfully navigating the job interview process. There are essential rules regarding what is appropriate to say and what is not. Following these guidelines will help you conduct an excellent job interview.

What You Should Do (The Dos)

• Provide specific examples: Give detailed examples of achievements and responsibilities from your career.
• Highlight your strengths: Clearly articulate your key professional strengths.
• Develop detailed answers: Elaborate on your responses with sufficient details and explanations.
• Show genuine interest: Demonstrate enthusiasm for the company and the specific job position.
• Ask thoughtful questions: Prepare and ask relevant questions about the role or the company

FESTIVALS AND FESTIVITIES

In our country we have lots of festivals and festivities, but I’ ll focus on Burriana’s festivities and festivals.

First of all, every year in August, the festival “Arenal sound" takes place in Burriana.

Burriana is completely changed during this festival. Many music bands come to Burriana for a week and people goes to these concerts by the sea and many people stay during all the festival sleeping in tends on the beach. The city is completelly  full of tourists during the festival, but I don’t really like going out when  the “Arenal sound” is taking place because I just like to be at home, however my children love this festival.

Secondly, we have a festivity called  “las fallas” . Fallas is a traditional