Verb Patterns

Exercise 1: Complete with the verb in the correct form

1- I'm sorry I forgot to respond to your email.
2- I tried to get to the computer shop before it closed.
3- I wrote this over the summer but forgot to post it on my blog.
4- I remember hearing something about how popular the movie Titanic was in China.
5- I stopped putting my video clips on Youtube because my friends teased me.
6- She remembered to bring her video camera to the edding, so we've got a great film of it.

Exercise 2: Select the correct form

1- I'm sorry I forgot to call/calling you, but Iwas really busy.
2- I stopped in Paris for a few days to meet/meeting Henri.
3- We've stopped to meet/meeting so often. It was a waste of time
4- Learning a language means to be/being intersted in the culture as well
5- I meant to make / making some more photocopies, but i didn't have time.
6- I tried to open/ opening the window, but its too high to reach.
7- I tried to open / opening the window, but it was still too hot in the room.
8- I'll never forget to give/ giving my first presentation to the board.
9- Don't forget to look/ looking at the audience when you speak.
10- We regret to announce/ announcing the death of our founder, Mr Obuchi.
11- I regret to quit/ quiting my MBA course

Infinitive and ing + verbs

I am writing to complain about the poor service that I received when I was in your store last week. recently you decided to remove (remove) listening facilities in your stores, and your staff encouraged customers to take (take) home their CDs without hearing (hear) them first. you invited us to return (return) any CDs that we did not like, as long as we kept the receipt as proof of purchase. In my opinion this was an exellent policy as it allowed customers to risk (risk) buying (buy) things that were a little different. A consequence of your policy is that customers will buy more CDs, and this means returning (return) more that they dont like. In fact last week I brought back eight CDs, from the fourteen I had bought on the previous visit. Your salesman refused to accept (accept) such a large number, and accused me of taking (take) the CDs home just to copy (copy) them. I strongly object to be (be) treated like this.

Relative pronoun and clauses

1- The beach is a place that I go to if I am feeling a little depressed and it always makes me feel better.
2- Kamelia, who is one of my closet friends, always know how to console me.
3- Poligamy is a notion that I will never be able to accept.
4- An old ring, which is probably my most treasured possession, was given to me by my grand mother.
5- Few people have heard of Hicham Elgerouj who is a runner, but he is very famous in my country.
6- London which I've always dreamed of visiting, now seems to me like any other city.

Modal Verb Exercise

This exercise of Modal Verbs was found on the Jim's blog which is really great, I scored 72% in first attempt and could be quite useful for us in order to prepare our selves for the test on wednesday. Exercise can be found by clicking HERE

Presentation Planner

Ahhaaa!!!

Here we go... I found a very good link on Steve's blog about the presentation, how can we plan about our presentation which is going to be on tuesday. Presentation Planner is a very good site to go through in order to prepare the presentation. The other thing I would like to refer to is Jim's Guidelines for presentation which focuses on Simplicity is the key, so its worth having a look before we prepare our presentations.

Word Family

Another very useful website about word families found on Jim's blog with the number of words over 100 Million and usage of these words in different types of sentences and structures. The website is called British National Corpus. We can find any english word's family here just by typing the word and their usage in different types of sentences and structures.

Thanks to Jim for his really hard work to penetrate some really good knowledge into us this month.

Verb Tenses

I found this online exercise on Jim's blog about verb tense review, my reslut was 67% in first attempt. I still have some problem with my verb tenses. Never mind 67% is not bad enough I think. The exercise on verb tenses can be found by clicking this link, Verb Tense Exercise

Reporting Verbs

I found these reporting verbs on the internet which can be used to report anything either taken from other sources to support our argument in academic writing. These words are divided into to parts stronger reporting verbs or weaker reporting verbs.

These reporting verbs with the idea of how the can be used to express different ideas can be found HERE

First draft of Essay as it was supposed to be

‘Summarise the main effects of globalisation and discuss to what extent they are beneficial to software development industry.’

1 Introduction (198 words)

It is widely believed that international trading and communication have become the most conversed topic nearly by everyone in developed and the countries who are in their development course recently, during the last couple of decade. It is commonly assumed that globalisation has affected almost more than half of the world in various ways according to their internal and external ethics or precedence.

Before 1960s when someone hardly even knew about it, is now happened to be under the tongue of everyone in the recent years. Nor political neither educational vocalization is deemed to be as much comprehensive without merely at least a smallest indication towards globalisation. People have been seen with a variety of completely different estimations about the growth to world level, (Reith Lectures, 1999). A significant number of people claim that globalisation is not more than “just talk”. They argue that we might contract a slight amount in profits through import and export. However, a vast majority of people maintain that it can be seen albeit all over the places. In this essay, first we will look at the main effects of globalisation; secondly we’ll consider pros and cons of this on software development industry.

2 Economy

Foreign investments are opening new matter of controversy of the effects of globalisation on world economy.....

3 Environment

Another substantial apprehension may be observed as the change in environmental behaviour.....

4 Positive effects on software development

Nowadays, the world we are living in is proposed to be a global village, in which the software development industry has co-operated significantly

5 Negative effects on software development

It is becoming very common in developed countries to outsource their software to the other countries as a consequence less jobs for their own inhabitants....

6 Conclusion

Contrary to expectation, it can be clearly seen that globalisation is taking over our world in almost every aspect of life.....

References:

Reith Lectures (1999: Lecture1), BBC Radio4, ‘RUNAWAY WORLD’, viewed 19/08/08, http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/reith1999/lecture1.shtml