A Tribute to my 2A and 2B (2005) High School Students at Saint John English School, Rancagua, Chile

…”Things you try to hold on to are first to go…and all the things you want to go away…. stay” That’s what I remember from the 15- minute short film called “Try” that came to me, thanks to a wonderful Smashing Pumpkins fans and high achiever that I’m pleased to teach…
After a few days, I got the chance of sharing it with my students… and after that class… I surely learned from them far more that they have ever learned from me…. only a pen, some paper and a last minute movie theater set up in the cafeteria was enough to reach the most precious part of them…That class really made the difference! There was no grammar, no dialogues, paraphrasing, nothing, just images, a simple story and lots of feelings, ideas rushing to our minds….hard to put them in words?… not really… not for these soft- hearted young students full of ideals and dreams still to come…. I’m so very proud of you all!!!

“… her name was Linda, she was pregnant, her boyfriend was with her…sometimes you just need to know that someone cares about you to carry on, to keep on living…when you want something you fight for it…hopes aren’t worth anything if they are just thoughts…fight for your dreams...don’t sink in your problems or run away from them, face them, even if hard to do it…life is great...worth fighting for…” (Daniela Cid)

“… after we saw this short film, we had a strange feeling; we were sad…impressed” (Francisco Durán and Antonio Hernández)

“in this world love is not enough to survive… she just dreamt and never did anything to get it… there are lots of Lindas around the world… they fall in love no matter if he is ugly or cute…low self-esteem…they can even leave their parents…isn’t that their parents never gave them a good quality life…” (Mariela Garrido)

“…I don’t really know what my feelings are like…it seems they were lost in this world...they really didn’t know they were hurting themselves…this is a good lesson…to care for our families, ourselves…to enjoy life…to just say “NO” to drugs…to live” (Daniela Morales)

“… it shows the worst side of human beings…in Chile we have this drug addiction problem…we are having elections soon… people running for presidency should propose to put an end to this problem…I was very interested in watching it all, thank you for letting us see a great documentary film..” (Pablo Clavero)

“… each one chooses what kind of life to live...you are surprised to see people so young whose life is based on drugs and alcohol…”( Mariela Delso)

“… we must be alert and stay away from drugs… where were the parents of those children? I said children because they aren’t adults after all …education must start at home … “ (Patricio Céspedes)

“…we thought film was trying to teach us a lesson…after a while we started to feel our lives perfect compared to theirs …we started feeling everything that happened to her was happening to us… we felt sad, desperate.. with no way out; as if we wanted to help her, but she didn’t let us … we couldn’t believe her life was so miserable …” (Josefina Rivera and Tania Vidal)

“…Damage was getting bigger and bigger… I don’t know what I would do if I were in their shoes…feelings and emotions got straight to my heart …” (Karla Valverde)

“..in the first minutes of the video we thought it would have a happy ending but something made us feel happy the couple true love.. no matter what happened they were together…but such is life..it can be hard, difficult, horrible but here we are…living…” (Consuelo Zúñiga and Melani Zepeda)

."... you don´t have to destroy your mind trying to understand why sauch a bad thing like this could ever happen to us! and the best answer I can think of is ...Why not? What makes us so special ...What makes us diffrent from all the others.. and the answer is nothing!...people who live on the streets, do drugs... get money from prostitution...usually die with no one but themselves...and what schoks me the most is that ...no one cares..." (Maximiano Valdés)
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Verb Patterns

1.- You hate (buy / to buy / buying) Chinese food.
2.- I’m thinking of (read / to read / reading) something good
3.- We hope (swim / to swim / swimming) in the ocean.
4.- I am looking forward (be / to being / being) a doctor.
5.- I want ( work / to work / working) in Disney World Theme Parks
6.- Would you like something (eat / to eat / eating) ?
7.- I can not (sleep / to sleep / sleeping) in my bed.
8.- I enjoy (play / to play / playing) with my family.
9.- He must (go / to go / going) to my house.
10.- She loves ( kiss / to kiss / kissing) Javier.

Adjectives ending in -ED and -ING PRACTICE

COMPLETE THE SENTENCES WITH THE CORRECT ADJECTIVE

1. He is such a monotonous speaker. I was very ________________ (BORED / BORING)
2. Everybody is very ____________________ about the news. (EXCITED / EXCITING)
3. It was a very _____________________ situation (INTERESTED / INTERESTING)
4. Dad arrives from work very __________________ (EXHAUSTED / EXHAUSTING)
5. Their hamburgers are really __________________ (DISGUSTED / DISGUSTING)

Will or Going to PRACTICE

. Complete the sentence with a form of going to or will

1. “Why do you have so much food”
“Because I ____________________________ (cook) dinner for ten people”

2. “Someone told me you got into college”
“That’s right. I _________________________ (study) math at Columbia University”

3. “My car isn’t working.”
“ask Joe to look at it. He __________________________ (help) you”

4. “I passed my driving test!”
“That’s great! I _____________________________ (buy) you dinner to celebrate.

5. “Why do you have your old clothes on”
“Because I ___________________________ (cut) the grass.”

Verb Patterns Practice

1. Put the verb in parenthesis in the infinitive or the -ing form

Gary Churchill owns a successful business and he wants ________________ (spend) some of his money while he is young. He enjoys__________________________ (take) trips and would like to _____________________ (visit) every corner of the world. He hopes _______ (find) a way to take three months of vacation _____________. He’d like __________ (meet) a woman who enjoys_______________________ (travel) as much as he does.

2. Circle the correct verb form
1. The police manage catch / to catch / catching the burglar
2. I tried stop / to stop her but she run away
3. Would you like something drink / to drink / drinking?
4. I’ve decided marry / to marry / marrying Helen
5. I’d like go / to go / going abroad
6. I’m looking forward to see / seeing you againI’m thinking of study / to study / studying a foreign language next year

3. Find the mistake. Rewrite them correctly

1. Sad movies always make me to cry: _________________________________
2. Please stop make that awful noise: _________________________________
3. I used living in Santiago: _________________________________
4. The police managed catch: _________________________________

Passive Voice Practice

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I. Change the following sentences into Passive Voice.

a) They are repairing the streets this month. The streets _________this month.

b) They make these tools of plastic. These tools________________________ of plastic.
c) They make shoes in that factory. _______________________________________
d) People must not leave bicycles in the driveway. _____________________________
e) They built that skyscraper in 1934. ______________________________________
f) The students will finish the course by July. _________________________________

II. Change the following sentences into Active Voice
e.g. This car was manufactured in Japan by Toyota. Toyota manufactured this car in Japan.

a) Last year 2,000 new units had been produced by the time we introduced the new design.
We__________ 2,000 new units by the time we introduced the new design last year.
b) Casual clothes must not be worn. You__________ casual clothes.
c) This rumour must have been started by our competitors. Our competitors___________ this rumour.
d) The test will be given at five o'clock this afternoon.
The school____________ the test at five o'clock this afternoon.

e) Before the semester was over, the new nursing program had been approved by the Curriculum Committee and the Board of Trustees. _______________________________

f) With five seconds left in the game, an illegal time-out was called by one of the players. _______________

g) An unexpected tornado smashed several homes and uprooted trees in a suburb of
Knoxville. _________________________________________________

h) Participants in the survey were asked about their changes in political affiliation. ________

i) Tall buildings and mountain roads were avoided by Raoul because he had such a fear of heights. ________________________________________

j) I was surprised by the teacher's lack of sympathy. __________________________

k) The Yellow Wallpaper" was written by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. _______________

l) The major points of the lesson were quickly learned by the class, but they were also quickly forgotten by them. _________________________________________________

m) Later in the day, the employees were informed of their loss of benefits by the boss herself.
________________________________________

n) For several years, Chauncey was raised by his elderly grandmother. ________________

III. Solve the mystery

I’m old (about 500 years old, actually) but, according to many people, I’m still beautiful. I’m called a work of art, a masterpiece, although there’s something about me that people still don’t really understand. About a hundred years ago, I was stolen from my home in France (which, incidentally, was not the country I was painted in), but fortunately I was returned within a couple of years. I certainly didn’t enjoy being moved around during that time, but I wasn’t damaged, thankfully.
My creator was a man far ahead of his time; he was a scientist, an artist, an engineer and even an architect. Believe it or not, he once designed (and named) a prototype for a form of air travel! He was a very busy man indeed – in fact, it took him a long time to create me. But it was all worth it in the end; I’m famous now and so is he. I’m known by two names, the first is my first name and the other is my surname. You know me, don’t you?

NOW Answer these questions. Then read the text below and check your answers.

1. Who, or what, am I? _____________________________
2. Who was my creator? _____________________________
3. Where (in France) is my home? _____________________________
4. What are the two names I am known by? _____________________________
5. What is it about me that people don’t understand? ____________________
6. Where was I painted? _____________________________
7. How long did it take to create me? _____________________________
8. Who stole me? _____________________________
9. After I was stolen, where was I found? _____________________________
10. Which aircraft did my creator design and name? _____________________

IV. Circle the correct verb form: Active or Passive

a) We have produced / have been produced over 20 different models in the past two years
b) When I saw him he was following / being followed by the police
c) Your attitude can accept / can’t be accepted
d) A loud noise frightened / was frightened the animal
e) The children will send / will be sent to a new school
f) Diet coke has been made / has made since 1982
g) Driving at 120 km/hr should ban / banned / be banned.
h) The recipe have been kept / has been kept a secret
i) The idea has understood / has been understood by everyone
j) Casual clothes aren’t usually wear / worn in proms.
k) It believed / is believed that we have the best English Teacher in the whole wide world.

THE PASSIVE VOICE

In English the passive voice is used when we do not know (or do not mind) who did the action, since what is important is what happened or to whom.

Structure of the sentence

Subject: Person or object that suffered/enjoyed the results of an action.
The verb "to be" in the tense the action ocurred.
The Past Participle of the verb that represents the action itself.
Whatever complements that verb needs.
In a few special cases we can also use by + the agent.

EXAMPLES
Present simple
Pigs are often used to find truffles
Present continuous
My house is being redecorated at the moment
Present perfect
I have never been given flowers on my birthday
Past simple
This picture was painted by Picasso
Past continuous
When I saw him he was being followed by the police
Past perfect
She was angry because she had already been told three times
Future simple
When you get there everything will be finished
Future with going to
They are not going to be easily convinced
Conditional simple
You would be punished if they found out
Conditional perfect
If you hadn’t told them would I have been invited?
Can
Your question can’t be answered
Must
He must be told if we want him to know
Have to
She had to be taken to hospital after the crash
Should
They shouldn’t be allowed to do things like that

Passive Voice Presentation

Magic Formula
Passive Subject + To Be + Past Participle + by…..
Am/is/are (Agent)
Was/were
Will be

Main Points
1. Subject: Person or object that suffered/enjoyed the results of an action.
The verb "to be" in the tense the action occurred.
The Past Participle of the verb that represents the action itself.
Whatever complements that verb needs.
In a few special cases we can also use by + the agent.
In English the passive voice is used when we do not know (or do not mind) who did the action, since what is important is what happened or to whom. The passive voice is used when focusing on the person or thing affected by an action.
· It is often used in business and in other areas where the object of the action is more important than those who perform the action.
e.g. We have produced over 20 different models in the past two years.
S V Direct Object Indirect Object
Changes to:
Over 20 different models have been produced in the past two years.
PASSIVE SUBJECT TO BE¨+ PARTICIPLE COMPLEMENT

· If the agent (the performer of the action) is important, use "by" e.g Charles Dickens wrote "Oliver Twist" in 1987.
S V Direct Object Indirect Object
Changes to:
"Oliver Twist" was written in 1987 by Charles Dickens.
P. SUBJECT TO BE¨+ PARTICIPLE COMPLEMENT by Agent

EXAMPLES
Present simple
Pigs are often used to find truffles
Present continuous
My house is being redecorated at the moment
Present perfect
I have never been given flowers on my birthday
Past simple
This picture was painted by Picasso
Past continuous
When I saw him he was being followed by the police
Past perfect
She was angry because she had already been told three times
Future simple
When you get there everything will be finished
Future with going to
They are not going to be easily convinced
Conditional simple
You would be punished if they found out
Conditional perfect
If you hadn’t told them I would have been invited
Modal Can
Your question can’t be answered
Modal Must
He must be told if we want him to know
Semi Modal Have to
She had to be taken to hospital after the crash
Modal Should
They shouldn’t be allowed to do things like that