Friday, September 12, 2008

GREEN DAY



Green Day is an American band of rock, original of Berkeley, California and trained in 1989 by Billie Joe Armstrong and one year later added Mike Dirnt, to found Sweet Children, which would be renamed later to Green Day.
They were some of the impellers of the second big wave of the punk, after the years 80s when they recorded in the year of 1994 the album
Dookie, his third disc.

Nowadays the group this one trained by Billie Joe Armstrong (voice and guitar), Mike Dirnt (down under and choirs) and Tré Cool (battery), and also the members of support Jason White (guitar), Jason Freese (keyboard and saxophone), and Ronnie Blake (trumpet).
Dookie sold more than eight million of copies, and his following album, Insomniac, three millions. Green Day has sold sixty million of discs in the whole world, And it has earned diverse musical prizes as three prizes Grammy that they obtained to the Best Alternative Album for Dookie, Better Album of Rock for
American Idiot and the Recording of the Year for " Boulevard of Broken Dreams ".
Some of his discs
-Dookie
-Insomniac
-Nimrod
-American Idiot
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Thursday, September 11, 2008

My favourite writer!


Isabel Allende Llona was born in Lima the 2 of august of 1942.
She is considered to be the most popular Latin-American novelist. She has sold more than 51 million copies and her work has been translated into more than 27 languages.
Also she was a substitute director of the magazine Mampato. Daugther of Tomás Allende,funcionari diplomatic, and of Francisca Llona, and niece of Salvador Allende, Chilean ex-president.
In 1963 there was born her daughter Paula. The following years she passed long seasons in Europe, residing specially in Brussels and Switzerland. Of return to Chile in 1966, there was born her son Nicolás.
After the death of her daughter Paula, Allende published the book of memories Paula (1994). This one is written in the shape of letter directed at her daughter, when this one was in coma in a hospital of Madrid.
They are a memory of her years of childhood and of exile. Paula died of porfiria in 1992.


Some of her books


-The house of seven mirrors.(1975).
-The city of the beasts.(2002).
-The kingdom of the golden dragoon.(2003).
-The forest of the pigmies.(2004).
-The sum of the days.(2007).

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Tuesday, September 09, 2008

Will and Going to

Definition will



The future simple forms with will + infinitive for all the persons.


Will can contract like: 'll, I'll (I will), you'll (you will), he'll (he will), she'll (she will)...


Exists also the form Shall for the first person of the singular and of the plural.



Use



-To do the predictions for the futire.
exemple: In one month I will go to Ibiza.


-To do promises.
exemple: Tomorrow I will take you to acuarama.


-To offer to help someone to do something.
exemple: A: I can't take the ball.
B: Calm T you will take it.



Definition Goning to

This verbal structure forms with the present continuous of the verb to go +
the infinitive of the principal verb.

Use

-To express intentions.
exemple: I'm going to prepare more for the exam.

-To speak about future plans.
exemple: In one year they will construct a statue in the square.

-To do predictions referred to the future that are based on evident facts of the present.
exemple: Look at those clouds. It's going to rain in a minute.

CREDITS:

http://www.wikipedia.org/

http://boards4.melodysoft.com/app?ID=omforum&msg=1006&DOC=21


Monday, September 08, 2008

Present perfect simple and Present perfect continuos

Definicion
The present perfect simple forms with the present simple of the verb to have +
the participle passed from the principal verb.

Use
-Actions that happened in the past without specifying the moment in which they happened.
exemple: I met Juan in teh office.

- With the adverb Just expres actions that have just happened.
exemple: T have jaust bought bread in the bakery.

- With the prepositions for and since.
exemple:She lives in the caribe since 2001.

Definition
The present continuos forms with the present perfect of the verb to be + the form
-ing of the principal verb.

Use
- To speak about an activity that it began in the past and that continues in the present.
exemple: we've been studying since 9 o'clock.

- To speak about an action that it began in the past and that can have finished recently.
exemple: You've been sleeping all morning.

- Speak of actons passed that have just concuded, and wich result is evident.
exemple: Hve you been swatting flies?

CREDITS:

-http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/presentperfect.html
-http://www.wikipedia.org/

Present simple and present continuos

Definition
The present simple has the same form that the infinitive for all the persons, except for third person of the singular one who adds a "s".

Use
-To speak about routines and about habitual actions.
exemple: Pepe every day has breakfast in the cafeteria.

-To speak about facts or truths generals.
exemple: The clouds provoke the rain.

-To speak about permanent or stable situations.
exemple: Argentina is in america of the sud.

Definition
The present continuos forms with the present simple of the verb to be + the principal verb with "ing".

Use
-Actions that happen in the moment in which you say them.
exemple: He is speaking for telephone now.

-Actions that happen temporarily, but not always in the moment in wich you say them.
exemple: He is going out all the weekends.

-The present continuo is not used by these verbs: belong, hate, knoe, like, love, mean, need, prefer, remember, understand, want.

CREDITS:

-http://www.aulafacil.com/Ingejerc/Lecciones/Lecc17.htm
-http://www.wikipedia.org/