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Cycling: A Healthy and Practical Transportation Choice

In recent years, many people have rediscovered the bicycle as a useful and healthy mode of transport for navigating the city. It offers numerous advantages with few drawbacks.

Advantages of Cycling

• Cycling is an activity most people learn from a young age, regardless of where they live.
• Bicycles don't require gasoline. As gasoline prices rise, more people are choosing to cycle.
• Cycling is a cost-effective way to travel, using your own energy for movement.
• It provides exercise while commuting.
• Cycling is an environmentally friendly, non-polluting mode of transport.

Disadvantages of Cycling

• Cycling may require more travel time compared to other options.
• A good network of bike lanes is essential for

Comparativos:

Older than, bigger than, easier than, more modern than, more difficult than.

Good: better, Bad: worse, Fur: farther. + than

More bored, more stressed, more tired. + than

Faster than, more slowly than, more powerful than, more carefully than.

Well: better, Badly: worse.

Superlativos:

The tallest, the most experience, the least expensive, the best, the most, the worst, the most famous. (more, as, the, than, ever, him, most, in).

Artículos:

(a, an, the, nada)

• A nice house, a lawyer, an old man, a dog, an awful day, a week, a nurse, a horrible day, once a month, a chef, a week, an amazing, a housewife, a teacher, a problem.
• The dog, the bell, the children, the moon, the Earth, the cinema, the best, the hospital, the car, the theatre, the windows,

The Importance of Books for Children's Learning

Benefits of Books

Books are essential for children's learning. They allow children to develop their attitudes and pick up knowledge quickly. Some people say that young people are responsible enough to take care of books. However, I believe there are both advantages and disadvantages.

Advantages of Free Books

On the one hand, the main advantage of free books is that families don't have to buy them if they can't afford them. Furthermore, children can attend classes without paying fees.

Disadvantages of Free Books

On the other hand, the disadvantages are that even though some teenagers are mature enough to have this opportunity, the majority are not. Another issue is the question of who should pay for... Continue reading "The Importance of Books for Children's Learning and Development" »

Mastering English Verb Conjugation

Here's a comprehensive list of English verbs with their past tense forms:

KILL BILL is the story of a woman called beatrix that
after 4 years in coma after being brutally beaten during
their wedding, he manages to wake up in a hospital, wanting
revenge. Vernita Green, Elle Driver, Oren Ishii and her former
husband Bill will be the fatal victims of women. A story of
betrayal, love, hate and revenge.

For me, this movie was totally awesome, it had very nice
effects and also have a message to all the humans: Start to
protects your planet.I liked because that theory, the one
that proove that the world can end in the 2012, can be a fact
nowaday because, literally, we are destructing our home (the Earth).

My favourite place to go is the cinema. I actually like going
every Saturday and spend a few hours there to watch a... Continue reading "Woman called Donna Truhana" »

It is a trivial comedy for serious people. Wilde was at his peak of his success when he wrote this play. This comedy manners also parodies social classes in a witty and intellectual way. It was written in Worthing, England in 1894. It moves between the urban city vibe of London and a more natural country atmosphere of Hertfordshire during the mid-1890s. Wilde uses both locations to mock late Victorian high society and its social customs.

If someone invents a flying car, I will buy it.

If John had seen the robot, he wold have loved it.

Present simple am/is/are+PP)

Present continous (am/is/are+being+PP)

Past simple (was/were+PP)

Soap Operas

1. a) FALSE. “Each show will have several different storylines happening at once that continue over several shows.” b) FALSE. “And we should not forget Emmerdale, which is set on a farm in Yorkshire, in the north of England.”

2. a) The word “soap” comes from the early days of these programs. They were mainly for women, who watched them, probably while they were doing the washing. Because of this, the companies that made cleaning products advertised them when soap operas were being aired. That’s where the word comes from.

b) They magnify daily life, with lots of divorces, love affairs, and violent characters that kill other people; in a few words, a histrionic vision of real life.

3. Depict, At once, Continue, Happen.

4.