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" Believe in yourself, be strong, never give up no matter what the circumstances are. You are a champion and will overcome the dreaded obstacles. Champions take failure as a learning opportunity, so take in all you can, and run with it. Be your best and don't ever give up." - Brad Gerrard

 

Searching for an inspiring quote about learning, I stumbled over this one. Well, it's not exactly about learning only but can also be applied to anything else in life.

I like this quote because it says “believe in yourself … no matter what the circumstances are”. Life can’t be easy all the time, especially when you have to study but actually want to do something else. ;) This “believe in yourself…” actually tells us that we must not need to forget to focus.

However, what I found more inspiring was line: “You are a champion and will overcome the dreaded obstacles.” These are encouraging words when you have lost your motivation somewhere along the way again. I believe that every obstacle is just another test that we have to pass.

And of course our failures and mistakes are an opportunity to learn from them. Everybody makes mistakes so there’s no need to give up when you don’t overcome an obstacle at the first try. :)

 

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Sun, 18 Mar 2012 16:34:00 -0700 Common mistakes – Innovations page 74/4 http://angelikaschmidt.posterous.com/common-mistakes-innovations-page-744 http://angelikaschmidt.posterous.com/common-mistakes-innovations-page-744

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Hey guys, I have been studying for PC1 today and when I worked on the common mistakes, I thought, why not posting this and learn together?

So here are the sentences and my suggestions for correct sentences as well as explanations taken from our Innovations book:

 

  •  The dentist said I'll probably have to take a tooth out.

I would say: The dentist said I would probably have to take out a tooth. → In reporting speech, the modal verb “will” becomes “would” when the verb in the reporting clause (The dentist said …) is a past tense word.

  • I wish I wouldn't be so fat!

I wish I wasn't so fat! → When we talk about things we feel bad or disappointed about now (in the present), we use “wish + past simple verb. (see G12)

  • It would cause a riot if they would do that here.

It would cause a riot if they did that here. → We use second conditionals to talk about ways in which we imagine the present or future could be different. The result part of the sentence can use “would” to talk about things we imagine as likely results, “might” and “could” to talk about possible results “could” to talk about results that someone was able to do and “wouldn't” to talk about things we imagine as very unlikely results. (see G13)

  • He's quite shifty. He's never giving a straight answer.

He's quite shifty. He would never give a straight answer. → We use “wouldn't” to talk about the repeated refusal of people or things to do what we want them to do. (see G3)

  • His car mustn't have been that expensive, because he doesn't exactly earn a fortune, does he?

His car can't have been that expensive, because he doesn't exactly earn a fortune, does he? → We often speculate/guess about things based on the evidence available to us. When we say “must” we are talking about things we're 95% sure are true, “can't” to talk about things we're 95% sure aren't true and “might” to talk about things we think are possibly true.

To make a guess in the present, we use must/can't/might + the base form of the verb or be + -ing.

To make a guess in the past, we use must/can't/might + have + past participle or been+-ing. (see G10)

  • I was disappointed bitterly with the result.

I was bitterly disappointed with the result. → When we add an adverb before an adjective to modify its meaning, we have to remember that these adverb + adjective constructions are collocations which are quite fixed. “Bitterly disappointed” is one of them. (see G8)

 

Feel free to add better solutions and/or explanations. :)

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Sat, 10 Mar 2012 09:23:00 -0800 What makes an English breakfast http://angelikaschmidt.posterous.com/what-makes-an-english-breakfast http://angelikaschmidt.posterous.com/what-makes-an-english-breakfast

The English are famous for their breakfast but what is so special about it? First of all, a breakfast usually consists of fruit juice, tea, cereals and toast (normally with marmalade). Additionally, it includes several fried foods like bacon and eggs. Variations of the full breakfast include the full English breakfast, the full Scottish breakfast , the full Welsh breakfast , the full Irish breakfast and the Ulster fry.

 

Common foods and dishes

The full breakfast is often served with brown sauce or ketchup only the ingredients can vary according to region and taste.

Here are some examples of what can be part of a full breakfast:

  • fried or grilled bacon
  • baked beans
  • fried bread, soda bread
  • black pudding, white pudding
  • chips
  • eggs (either fried, poached, scrambled or in a basket)
  • French toast
  • kidneys
  • fried mushrooms
  • oatcakes
  • pancakes (in the northern USA, Ireland and Canada)
  • sausages, sliced sausages
  • tomatoes
  • potato bread, potato waffles, potato cakes
  • etc.

 

Regional variants

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Full English breakfast

The ingredients of a full English breakfast include bacon, poached or fried eggs, fried or grilled tomatoes, fried mushrooms, fried bread or toast with butter and sausages as well as baked beans and hash browns. It is served with a mug of tea. In some regions black pudding and mashed potatoes also belong to the breakfast. Fried or grilled oatcakes can replace fried bread in the North Midlands

They also call it a “fry-up” because nearly everything is fried in this meal. If an English breakfast should contain all of the ingredients listed above it is referred to as a Full English or a Full Monty.

 

Full Irish breakfast

The most common ingredients of an Irish breakfast are bacon, rashers, sausages, fried eggs, black and white pudding, toast, fried tomatoes and Irish breakfast tea. Sometimes it also includes sautéed mushrooms as well as baked beans, liver and brown soda bread. Instead of brown soda bread they also serve fried potato bread or boxty.

 

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Ulster Fry

The Ulster Fry is similar to the Irish breakfast. It contains bacon, rashers, eggs, sausage, vegetable rolls, black and white pudding or lamb's kidney, fried tomatoes, the farl form of soda bread, boxty or potato bread, wheaten farl, mushrooms, pancakes or beans. It can be either fried or grilled and is usually served with strong tea.

 

Full Scottish breakfast

Scottish breakfast consists of eggs, bacon, link sausage, toast, baked beans and tea or coffee. What is special about this type of breakfast is the Scottish style black pudding, sliced sausage and tattie scones. In addition to this it contains fried or grilled tomato and/or mushrooms and sometimes haggis, white pudding, fruit pudding, oatcakes and porridge.

 

Full Welsh breakfast

The Welsh breakfast includes (in addition to the ingredients already listed above) cockles and laverbread, a seaweed purée which is mixed with oatmeal, formed into patties and fried in bacon fat.

 

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Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:27:00 -0800 Sunday Bloody Sunday http://angelikaschmidt.posterous.com/sunday-bloody-sunday http://angelikaschmidt.posterous.com/sunday-bloody-sunday

 

 

On 30 January 1972, 26 unarmed civil-rights protesters and bystanders were shot by soldiers of the British Army in the Bogside area of Derry, Northern Ireland.

 

40 years later, the conflict is still there and people don't know if there can really be peace one day.

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Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:19:00 -0800 Gift from Ireland :) http://angelikaschmidt.posterous.com/gift-from-ireland http://angelikaschmidt.posterous.com/gift-from-ireland

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I was just googling and found that picture of the former Irish Taoiseach Brian Cowen giving a present to US-president Barack Obama. Obama apparently does not know what to do with it.

 

Here is another one:

Obama-congratulates-cameron

 

And a last one:

Giraffe-panhandling

 

If you want to see some more of these funny pictures, here is the link:

http://www.superpoop.com/archives/2010/Apr/

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Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:47:00 -0800 Raw Video: Obama Sings Al Green http://angelikaschmidt.posterous.com/raw-video-obama-sings-al-green http://angelikaschmidt.posterous.com/raw-video-obama-sings-al-green

During a speech at a fundraising event in New York Thursday night, President Barack Obama sang while thanking Al Green, who performed earlier at the same event. (Jan. 20)

 

I just stumbled over this video and I think it's funny. Especially if you imagine the Austrian President, Prime Minister or another of our politicians singing during a speech... ;) That would be just too funny (;

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