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                                                                                  WHY DO THEY DO THAT? Shaking hands                 The handshake is very very important in american business world, when meeting with a customer or prospective client.                 Business people  will always hold  out their hands for a handshake, this is often true in purely social situations as well –when two strangers are introduced through  a mutual friend, for example, americans read a lot into the quality of a handshake, if it is limp and weak, americans may assume that the person is weak-willed, insecure, or indecisive, for this reason, it is important to make your handshake firm and strong, without being painful or aggressively  firm, because this will also send a wrong message!                When shaking hands ,grasp the other's hand and firmly pump it up and down once or twice, and then let go, in situations where there is a closer relationship the handshake

                                                                                   ENGLISH UNDER HOOD -TOPIC 1 : questions and negatives in the simple past tense.                You reviewed the formation and use of the simple past tense in lesson 1, where you compared it to the present perfect tense,now let's take a closer look at questions and negatives in the simple past tense,just like questions and negatives in he simple present tense, questions and negatives in the past tense require a helping verb: did you instead of do or does, let's start with questions, questions in the simple past tense use did, following the same pattern as questions in the simple present tense, did+main verb IN base form+rest of sentence, jhon writes well does jhon write well?  Jhon wrote well did jhon write well? Notice that both writes  and wrote become write, the basic form of the verb, i

                                       PHRASAL VERBS WITH WORK: work around To be flexible. To make adjustments to some one's or needs, work at To put a lot of effort into something, to pay attention. work for a)T o put effort into something, b)T o be employed by a person or company, work in a)T o fit into a schedule, especially a busy schedule, b)T o blend into or add gradually, especially using your hands, c)T o add or introduce, especially a topic in conversation, work on To focus on something, to do something attentively, work out a)T o work to resolve a problem,especially in cooperation with someone else, b)T o exercise, especially at a gym or health club, work toward To make an effort to accomplish a long-term goal work up To work to gain energy or courage to do something.

                                                 why do they do that? Americans on the move.              You've probably noticed that Americans tend to move around a great deal during their lives. This begins young, often right after high school, with the first separation from a person's family. It's a tradition for young people to move away from their hometowns to do the college, but even if they decide not to continue their education, young Americans usually get a job and move out of their parents's home after high school graduation.               This fast separation and  movement is in keeping with the independence and individually that the American culture fosters. It's also a matter of  job opportunity. Americans will often go wherever their jobs take them, this may include moving far away from extended family and friends, and could mean making several different moves from city to city or state to state. It's also common for

PHRASAL VERBS WITH TURN turn around: to go back in the opposite direction turn down: a) to lower the power of something, such as lights or volume, b) to enter a road, especially a secondary road thought of as leading to a lower place, c) to refuse, turn in: a) to leave a street or highway and enter a driveway, parking lot, etc, b) to go to bed, c) to give an assignment or paperwork to a boss or a teacher, to submit, d) to report someone to the police, turn into: to become (used with nouns) turn off: a) to stop an electronic device, b) to exit a road or freeway, c) to be unappealing, turn on: a) to start an electronic device, b) to drive into a street, highway, or freeway, c) to be appealing or exciting, (also used to mean "sexually stimulating",) turn out: to come to a party, event, etc turn up: a) to appear somewhere, to be found, b) to increase the power of something, such as a lights or volume, c) to en

ENGLISH UNDER HOOD: many students in English feel that one of the most challenging tenses in English is the present tense, perhaps this is simply because it's the first tense students learn, or that it has so many different uses, but whatever the reasons, there are three areas that often need to be reviewed: the -s ending of the third person singular how to form negatives how to form questions TOPIC 1: -s endings in the third person singular: only the third person singular, or the he/she/it form, of a verb in the simple present tense has an ending,-s, all other forms are the same as the basic form of the verb: /speak, you speak, we speak, they speak, but he speaks, she speaks, it speaks, the -s ending becomes -ies if the verb ends in a -y-, i fly, you fly, we fly, they fly, he flies, she flies, it flies, the -s ending becomes -es if the verb ends in one of these letters or letter combinations: -s (you dress, she dresses), -sh (i wish, he wishes), -ch

Are you ready for the lesson?                 Lesson 2:  Don't go away!  will take you on that paradise vacation you've been waiting for! You'll read a brochure for a world-class resort hotel and listen to recordings about some exciting vacation spots, then you'll learn some helpful vocabulary for an exclusive hotel, but there's more, lesson 2 also includes: helpful hints for the present tense questions and negatives in the simple present tense phrasal verbs with turn important idioms for using the telephone we'll finish off lesson 2 with a culture note discussing why Americans move around so much, but first, let's start with a pronunciation warm-up, ready!                                           English at work                      recorded message: the hotel Royal listen to the following recorded phone message from the hotel royal in Florida, hello, and well come to paradise at the hotel Royal, Florida, where an exciti

PHRASAL VERBS WITH PICK Pick up a) To take something up of a surface. b) To meet and collect a person from a specific location. c) To buy something. "Note that to pick up a person can also mean to meet someone,usually at a public place such as a bar or night club, and to become sexually involved with him or her after spending only a short time together." Pick out. a)To select, To choose. b)To separate from. Pick over To take the Best of something and leave what is not good. Pick on To tease Pick from To choose from a group of something. Pick at a) To take only very small amounts of food. b) To scratch or irritate something. Pick up on To understand something, especially something that isn't intended to be understood. "Note that pick up, pick out, pick from, and pick over are separable. this means the two words can be separated and a pronoun or noun can be intended between them. Pick on, pick at, and pick up o

ENGLISH UNDER THE HOOD TOPIC 1 : The present perfect Tense vs. the simple Past Tense Let's take a look at the two most common past tenses in English: the present perfect tense and the simple past tense. Present perfect                             Simple past I have spoken                                I spoke You have spoken                          You spoke he, she, it Spoken                          he, she, it spoke we have spoken                             we spoke they have spoken                           they spoke As you can see, the present perfect tense is formed with the verb to have and the past participle of the main verb, in this case, spoken. The simple past tense is just the past form of the verb, which in this case is spoke. These tenses are used a bit differently. The present perfect tense expresses an event that happened in the past when the exact time is not known, or when there's a result or a connection being made to the present, or when t

are you ready for the lesson? lesson1,how long have you been here ?,will take you somewhere you may know very well: the INS office.you'll listen in on a conversation between two people waiting in line,which is something people unfortunately do very often,and which is also a situation in which americans like to make "small talk" then, you'll learn more vocabulary that will come in handy at the INS or anywhere you have to fill out forms but that's not all,lesson 1 also induces: The present perfect tense vs. the simple past tense using/orand since with the present perfect and simple past tenses phrasal verbs withe pick  idiomic expressions for saying goodbye turn on a video to review the pronunciation of -ed, a very important ending in english https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1GSEsF1fFY Build your vocabulary perhaps you need to go to the INS to fill out some forms . here are some terms you would see if you were to fill out an application to register fo