English Lesson - Simple Present " to be " - Lesson 1

This is my first lesson video. You can see simple present " to be " rulls... İt is very simple.

Writin Examples

To a Brave American Soldier: Thank you so much for serving in our armed forces. You and your fellow soldiers make huge sacrifices so our country can be a better place to live. I’m a writer, words are my passion and I wouldn’t be able to speak and write so freely if it wasn’t for your bravery. Whenever I think of where you are, my heart goes out to you. I just cannot imagine what it must be like to constantly live with danger going on all around you. I am overwhelmed with gratitude for your service to your country. Some of you are so young, leaving your homes to venture into enemy territory. You do it, not because you have to, but because you want our country to be free. Then I think of our married soldiers, leaving their wives and children to fight in these wars. This enemy is an aggressive group, who doesn’t care who they hurt. I am humbled by your sacrifice; I cannot thank you enough and I hope and pray it will be over soon. Just remember you are not alone, God is watching over you. Let me tell you a little about myself. I live in rural Minnesota on a hobby farm where we raise sheep, one llama, ducks, geese and chickens. Our grandson, Nicholas, eleven years old and our granddaughter, Leah, eight years old, stay over for the summer. They love taking care of the animals of which they’ve already made into pets. We have two German Shepherds named Louie and Bow. Louie is a sweetheart and Bow is really Big Bad Bow. He picks and chooses who he likes. We also grow vegetables that we sell at the farmer’s market. Our grand children like to come with us to sell our products, and our customers get a kick out of it. Nicholas and Leah love going down the long aisles of tomatoes, the green foliage dotted with lots of red tomatoes makes for some pretty pictures that we show at the market. They love to help pick them off the vine to get ready for the farmer market. The sheep graze nearby and can be seen from our house. With all this rain we've been having, our pastures have greened up. It makes for quite a picturesque setting with the white sheep grazing on the green pastures. Our llama is black and white and does silly things like lie on his back with his feet up in the air. Sometimes we call Bosco, that's his name, to make sure he's alright. He doesn't say much, but he is very curious whenever something is going on. He makes a sound like urrr, urrr to let us know he is watching. We love him for his silly antics and he's great for watching over our sheep, keeping them safe from coyotes. He'll charge at anything that's unfamiliar to him, such as any wild animal. He's our watchdog in the pastures. At the farmer’s market, we have a flag flying overhead. I see our freedoms in that flag that we all hold so dear; this is what you are fighting so bravely over. I look at it and wonder how much longer we’ll be fighting these foreign wars. I think I’m not alone when I say that we would like to have you and your fellow soldiers back home with your families again. So, just to let you know once again, wherever you are stationed, you have my heartfelt gratitude for your sacrifice. Our flag is flying freely throughout these United States because of you and your fellow soldiers fighting so bravely for all of us. Take care now and come home safely. Sincerely Yours, Karikatür

The Olympic Marathon

Sports is full of wonderful moments, but perhaps nothing is as exciting as the finish of the marathon. It is the longest and the hardest race of all. The name "marathon" comes from a village in Greece. There was a famous war in that city in the year 490 BC. When the Greeks won the war, a soldier ran all the way from Marathon to Athens(more than 4 km.) to tell the people the good news. These organizers of the first modern Olimpic Games in 1896 decided to include the marathon in the games so that this event would not be forgotten. The marathon has been a race since then.

At first, the Olimpic Games were a part of a festival. The Greeks had this festivalonce in every four years in Olimpia. Athletes from Greece, Cyprus and Sicily went there to take part in the games. These games were very important to the Greeks. They even stopped theirs wars for them.

The modern Oliympic Games were started again in 1896 in Athens. However, only 300 athletes from 13 countries went there to take part in the games. Since then, of course, the games have become much more popular. Only male athletes took part in the early Olympic Games. In the 1923 Olympic Games in Amsterdam, an important change happened. Female athletes took part in the games for the first time.

We all know that only amateur athletes can take part in th Olympic Games. An amateur is someone who does not earn any money from sport. But today, it is difficult to say who is an amateur and who is not. It is true that Olympic athletes never earn as much money as professional sportsmen but they are often students or teachers of a sport and have to spend a lot of time training, travel and pocket money, because they want them to win. Some people think that this situation changes the meaning of the Olympic Games. They feel that the games are now a political marathon.

A Great Leader

Elizabeth 1 was the Queen of England and Wales from 1558 to 1603. It was a very exciting period of discovery. Francis Drake sailed around the world, and Walter Raleigh went to America - he found tobacco and potatoes there and introduced them to Europe. It was a "Golden Age " in English history for painting, music, architecture and literature. Shakespeare wrote great plays in this period.

When Elizabeth was born, Her father Henry VIII was angry because his new child was a daughter - he wanted a son. He executed Elizabeth's mother and married again. He sent Elizabeth away from him. Elizabeth's mother and married again. He sent Elizabeth away from him. Elizabeth was unhappy but she was good at school. She spoke French, Latin, Greek and Italian. She also loved the theatre, but in the 16th century there were no actresses - men played all the parts.

Elizabeth's half - sister, Mary, became queen in 1553. She was a Catholic. She put Elizabeth in prison. When Mary died, Elizabeth became the first Protestant queen. People wanted her to marry and have children. They thought she needed a man to help her. She was secretly in love with a man called Robert Dudley, but she never became his wife.

Elizabeth was a great queen. She organized her goverment and England became rich and strong. There was a successful woman in a man's world. She died in 1603.

The Chinese New Year

The Chinese New Year is the most important haliday for the Chinese people. For the Chinese, the New Year comes on the first day of the First Moon between January 21 and February 19.

One week before the New Year, people start to clean their homes for the New Year. They buy new pictures, too. New Year's pictures often have oranges in them. In Chinese, the word for "oranges" sounds the same as the word for "gold". It is a lucky word. People buy new clothes for the New Year. It is important to start the New Year in new clothes.

On New Year's Eve the family gets together to eat a big meal. The meal starts late in the afternoon of New Year's Eve. There are many special dishes on the table. There are usually oranges and a dish of fish. Every family tries to eat fish. At the end of the meal, they leave some extra fish on the plate to bring good look.

The New Year is an importnt time for the family. It is a tradition for the younger people to bow to the older people. The Chinese call this "k'ou t'ou" or "kowtow". This means "to touch the ground with the forehead." Then the older people give children gifts of money in red envelopes. Red is a lucky colour for the Chinese.

At midnight there are fireworks. It is New Year's Day or the first day of the First Moon Yuan Tuan. In the morning the shops are closed and the streets are empty. People dress in their new clothes and try to be kind and polite to each other to start the New Year well. Later, they go to visit their friends and relatives.

Healthy Food

Dr. Gary Fraser, specialized in heart diseases, has started to put nuts on his breakfast cereal. He and his colleagues studied the eating habits of a large religious group, who did not smoke or drink. They discovered that those people who ate a small handful of nuts five times or more a week had half the risk of coronary heart diseaseof those who rarely ate nuts. "Nuts, preferably unsalted, are a good source of unsaturated fats and vitamin E" says Dr. Fraser.

Researches are finding out about the disease-fighting and life-improving powers of everyday foods. People who live in the Mediterranean countries are, in general, healthy. Some features of their cuisine-fresh fruit, vegetables and whole grains, for instance are all part of a healthy dietbut others aren't. For example there is the French paradox. The French men eat as much sturated fat as the English but the death rate from heart disease for French men is only about 30% of that for Engish men. Some researches say this protection from heart disease is largerly because of wine, mostly red every day with meals. Most doctors agree that two moderate drinks a day probably have a protective effect on the hearth but it is obviously bad to drink too much.

When man people think of the Mediterranean cuisine, they immediately picture garlic and oninos. Modern science is finding surprising medicinal powers in these. They contain many sulphur compounds, which kill bacteria and viruses. Garlic also thins the blood and this may be good for reducing the risk of heart disease.

In Japan, green tea is a popular drink. Research done on mice showed that green tea reduces the incidence of certain types of cancer. The proportion of Japanese men who smoke is double that of British men but Japanese men only have about half the lung cancer mortality. Perhaps the green tea helps to explain that.

Scientists were surprised when they started studying healthy Eskimos in Greenland. They eat vast quantities of fat, but they have very low death rates from heart disease. One reason is that the Eskimo diet includes a great deal of fish salmon, mackerel, herring and others rich in fish oils. These oils appearto thin the blood and may protect against colon cancer.

"We have lots of learn about the foods that nourish and heal our bodie", says nutrition researcher Herbert Piereson, but we have a responsibility to select foods with our brains an well as our taste bud.

Creating Your Own Luck

When I told my friends and family I was going to move to hawaii, they thought I was carzy. They were worried that I would use up all my savings before I found a good job. Hawaii is, after all, one of the ost expensive places to live in the United States. I got so tired of their negative comments that I decided to leave two weeks earlier. Two days after I arrived in Honululu, the newspaper had an advertisement for a job at the university that was exactly what I had been dreaming of! I applied, interviewed, and was hired. Later I realized that if I hadn't changed my flight, I never would have seen the job advertisement, and my life might have been different. Was it fate? Or was it just pure luck that I ''accidentally'' changed my reservation?

Recently, psychologists at some leading universities have looked at what ''luck'' really means. They found there are three types of situations that people usually associate with luck. The first is circumstance, such as being born in a wealty family or inheriting athletic genes. Obviously, this type of stuation is beyond anyone's control people can't change the circumstances of their birth. The second is random chance events, suchas rolling dice, which are also beyond our control. Your chances of getting a seven when rolling two dice or of being hit by a falling meteor are based on statistics. The third type of stuation includes events such as getting your dream job or meeting your ideal partner. It is in this third area that researches say we may be able to have more control over our lock.

A professor from England, Robert Wiseman, believes that people can influence their own luck in good or bad ways. Wiseman did a series of experiments with people who believed they were naturally lucky or unlucky. He found a clear connection between the attitude of the participants and the amount of '' luck'' thay had. He found four important attitudes and actions of '' lucky'' people. First, they are open to opportunities and make the most of situations that arise. Second, they trust their intuitions and often make decisions based on gut feelings. Third, they think positively and expect good things to happen. Having a positive attitude means they smile and laugh more, which attracts others and may create opportunities. Fourth, lucky people tend to focus on the good in each situation, whereas negative people tnd to focus on the bad side. Finally, lucky people typically don't give up easily.

Professor Wiseman also trained people to make themselves luckier. He asked them to keep a journal and write down only the good things that happened each day. After several days, people who used to feel unlucky began to see themselves as lucky, and those who originally felt lucky thought they were even luckier.

How luck are you? And how lucky would you like to be?