EXERCISES
Choose the correct conditional form to complete the sentences below. Once you have decided on your answer, click on the arrow to check your answer.
EXERCISES
Choose the correct conditional form to complete the sentences below. Once you have decided on your answer, click on the arrow to check your answer.
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Exercise # 1
Click the answer button to see the correct answer.
Exercise # 2
Make sentences using "for" or "since".
Example: How long have you been studying English?
I have been studying English since 1999.
How long have you lived in Poland? (three years)
How long has Joanna been a nurse? (June)
How long has Simon known Hania? (1999)
How long have they studied Norwegian? (a few months)
How long has Piotr played golf? (a long time)
How long has he worn glasses? (1985)
How long has Marcin played the clarinet? (high school)
How long will you be on holiday? (three weeks)
How long have you driven a car? (Christmas)
How long has Simon had his new computer? (last month)
How long has he owned the book shop? (ten years)
How long has Radek played badminton? (several years)
How long have your parents been in town? (Friday)
How long has Mr. Jones lived on South Street? (many years)
How long has the bank been closed. (four o’clock)
Labels: English Grammer
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Preposition Exercises 1
Test your knowledge of the prepositions in / at / to / nothing - showing place and movement. Choose either in, at, to, or nothing and click on the arrow to see you have answered correctly.
Preposition Exercises 2
Test you knowledge of the prepositions for / while / during. Choose either for, while or during and click on the arrow to see you have answered correctly.
Preposition Exercises 3
Test you knowledge of the prepositions in / at / on - showing time and date. Choose either in, at or on and click on the arrow to see you have answered correctly.
Preposition Exercises 4
1 - She wasn't short, she wasn't tall; she was average height.
2 - What are you going to buy Hania her birthday?
3 - The police are looking a tall, black man who was seen standing outside the bank just before the robbery took place.
4 - The teacher asked the class to do the exercise the bottom of page 12.
5 - As a child I was always ashamed my parents because they were uneducated.
6 - I was always very good Geography when I was at school.
7 - My uncle specializes in .
8 - We arrived Gorzów at 3.30 in the morning.
9 - I didn't see you the party on Saturday.
10 - There was a lot of coughing the performance of Moniusko's 'Fairy Tale' symphony.
11 - He saw her as the most attractive woman the world.
12 - Simon is completely useless sports.
Bottom of Form
Labels: English Grammer
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EXERCISE 1
(Pre-Intermediate)
Fill in the gaps. Click on the arrow to see the answer. Don't look back at the original text!
(Elementary / Pre-Intermediate)
a, an, the, zero
EXERCISE 3
(Elementary / Pre-Intermediate)
EXERCISE 4
(Elementary / Pre-Intermediate)
EXERCISE 5
(Elementary)
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Warren Buffett was born in Nebraska, Omaha USA on the 30th of August in 1930. He is one of the worlds richest men, with a fortune that is only surpassed by Bill Gates of Microsoft fame. He is considered one of the most successful investors of all time and has picked up the nickname of the "Oracle of Omaha".
Buffett was born to Leila and Howard Buffett and was the second of three children, he being the only boy. Buffett's father, Howard was a stockbroker and also became a member of congress. Warren Buffett showed early signs of being entrepreneurial through being involved in various business dealings as a child, including purchasing bottles of cola cheaply and selling them for a profit. He also made his first investment in the stock market when he was just 11 years old.
Buffett began studying at the Wharton School of Finance at the University of Pennsylvania, but transferred to the University of Nebraska where he graduated. He then went on to the Columbia University to do a Masters in economics. This was where he met the influential value investor Benjamin Graham.
The young investor was very influenced by Benjamin Graham and went to work for him in his company "Graham-Newman". It was here that Warren Buffett developed many of his stock market investing skills that have now become legendary. Graham developed a method where investors could work out the intrinsic value of a company and make intelligent investing decisions by comparing the stock price to the intrinsic value.
Warren Buffett's Berkshire Berkshire Hathaway
After Graham's retirement, Buffett returned to Omaha and began a limited investing fund partnership with a group of friends, family and associates. The "Buffett Partnerships Ltd" fund racked up amazing returns for its investors over a ten year period, with returns 10 times higher than the Dow Jones Industrial average for the same time. Buffett liquidated the fund and took control of the textile company Berkshire Hathaway.
It was a difficult time for the textile industry and Buffett eventually wound up Berkshire Hathaway's textile activities, but kept the name for Buffett's portfolio of companies and investments. The insurance industry was the first major area of success that Berkshire Hathaway had, with the funds used to acquire carefully selected investments each year. Major undervalued companies that Buffett took advantage of included "American Express", "Coca-Cola" "The Washington Post" and "Gillette". Berkshire Hathaway owns large holdings of each of the above major brand companies (more than 5% each).
Selected Berkshire subsidiary companies include:
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Love is something that you don't find alot. |
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Staying in the prison
Looking at the wall
Crying in my heart
There is nothing in my life
I wait to pass away
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The birds are flying away
Looking at them
They have wings to fly away
But there is none on my body
Sad and tired,
I am alone in my world
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So what do you want me to buy
The man asks the woman
Tearing a piece of paper from his notebook
Spring onions, garlic, red chili, and some
Interesting vegetables
The woman says
Interesting vegetables?
The man asks, what is that?
Well, don’t buy cabbages
That’s boring
Buy some carrots, the woman says
And some
Leeks
What? Bleaks? The man looks at her, puzzled
No, leeks, she repeats
Oh stop writing notes, just buy some beef
Or some lamps
The woman shouts
Xiaolu October 2005 London
Labels: Poems
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By Xiaolu Guo
It was ten thirty
We decided not to argue anymore
So we left the bedroom
A place difficult for Zen
We rode bikes to see Gregory Crewdson
An American Photographer
In the White Cube
I see a mother with an obscure face
Blood on her daughter’s bed
You see a naked woman
In a well lit middle class living room
Her crotch bleeding
We see mirrors everywhere
Dislocation, disorder, disturbing, disguise
Beneath the roses
I picture Freud, Jung and Alfred Hitchcock
Lurking
We left to see another exhibition
Trees In Snow
By Abbas Kiarostami
It was just a few streets away
In Rivington Road
Twelve o’clock on Saturday
I was hungry
We never ate proper breakfast
When our love had problems
And Abbas was a very simple man
Trees in snow was in black and white
Pure and clean
Like a vegetarian meal
We rode back to Brick Lane
Shalimar - you can try the rest but we are the best
That was your favourite place
Steamed spinach for two pounds seventy five
You said western culture is dead
I said eastern culture is old
And that’s why I left Asia
Western artists are ill I said
Because there is too much psychology here
You frowned
OK, that's too much art in the morning
Let's have another Fish Masala
14th May, 2005, London
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Xiaolu Guo - London - June 13 2005
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She left the house for about three weeks
And one afternoon
She comes back
To fetch her shoes
He is in his garden
Hands muddy
He just bought two young beans
He looks much older, or
Maybe it is just a gloomy day
“Where did you buy the beans?” she asks
Just like she used to ask him things
like that
He hears, but gets the question wrong
“Why did I buy the beans?
... to keep the hope.” he answers
“no, where did you buy them?” she repeats
“oh, in the Sunday market.” He answers
She walks around with her old shoes
The garden is still dead from the winter
“you planted some beans several weeks ago, I remember” she says
“yes, but the slugs ate them.”
He pours some new soil in a pot
His blue jeans get dirty
“you know I grow my beans from the seeds, but
slugs take them.” he says
The wind is chilly in
An April garden
She notices, some white hair
Hidden behind his ears
she remembers
he used to talk about beans all night
broad beans, string beans, asparagus beans, kidney beans
he used to love her so much
XIAOLU GUO 7 June 2005 London
Labels: Poems
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“Do you want to come to the party, darling?”
you give me your hand
I find my heart shaped necklace
I wear my red flowed skirt
I walk towards the bonfire
Standing beside you
I drink a half glass of wine
You are so charming
You are so chatty
Everybody loves you
You are everyone’s sweetheart
Let me be one of your listeners
Let me be member of your audience
I am shivering
I have another half glass of wine
How are you nice to see you where are you from it’s a nice party isn’t
I like your dress thank you I like your earrings too thank you are welcome
I feel bored
I start to dance
Dance on my own
I hear strange music
I never understand the lyrics
A man comes and dances with me
Then another man, then a third man
Then a fourth
In the end they are 8 handsome men
If I still remember how to count
Sugar melts by the fire
Cheese melts in the bread
Your lips melt on some cheeks
I am dancing with beautiful strangers
Without looking at their lonely eyes
XIAOLU GUO August 12, 2003
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By Xiaolu Guo
The woman washes her pants
in the kitchen sink
two pairs, both delicate
they are made of silk
she keeps a careful eye
on the vegetable soup
boiling on the fire
No one knows whether or not
the middle class likes sex
The man he asks the woman
whether she likes sex
Sometimes she says
He asks why only sometimes
When I get bored or lonely
She answers
that's the time
I find myself wanting
to have sex
Oh, I like sex all the time
He says I could have it
every day
The pants are clean and the soup is ready
They sit and eat
The woman puts the spoon down and looks at the man
So if you don’t have sex from me you will find
another woman?
Well, not find another woman but maybe find sex
The man answers
They walk to the bedroom straight after dinner
Night is long
It has to be planned
And then to be consumed
They start to make love
Nobody really knows whether the middle class
likes sex or not
14 May, 2005 London
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When I came to see you
Blue blossoms were
Climbing on our neighbour’s house
“It’s called Morning Glories”
You said to me
“It opens in the morning then closes at night”
Now
You walk with me to the train station
We pass our neighbour’s house again
We look at those flowers
“They do survive” you say
“If you plant a branch, it will grow just like this bush”
I listen
I don't know what to say
I get on the train
I look at wild weeds by the track
Sometimes I think
If you and me kept talking about plants
Our love could be saved
XIAOLU GUO May 2005
Labels: Poems
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