Resumen de Lecturas en Inglés, Tiempos Verbales y Estructuras Gramaticales

Feduille Album: Story Summary

Exposition

The main character is called Ian French. He was too shy and he had nothing at all to say. He was a painter and lived at the top of a tall building near the river. He could see a small and ugly little house from his flat. He was in love with the girl that lives in that house, and he had imaginations about what her life was like.

Complication

This is when he is shy because he didn't want to connect with other people. This is the complication because people said that they wanted to scream and throw something at him because he was so quiet and silent.

Rising Action

The two most important things are when he fell in love with the girl from the little house and when he decided to follow her to the market. They are so important because he finally was brave and wanted to socialize and meet someone he was interested in.

Climax

This is when he followed her to the market on Thursday. This is the climax because he was decided to talk to her to start a conversation with her.

Resolution

This is when he couldn't talk to her at the supermarket, so he followed her to her house. This is the resolution because previously he saw her buying an egg, so he bought another one. When he got to his house, he said to her, ''Excuse me, mademoiselle, you dropped this'', and gave her the egg. That was when they started the conversation.

The Songs of Distant Earth

The story takes place on a planet called Thalassa. On this planet lived Lora and Clyde, along with the mayor of Palm Bay, who was Lara's father. Clyde and Lara were in love; they were engaged. One day they heard a sound: it was a starship from outer space. Lora and Clyde looked at each other in wonder. Earth had reached out once more to touch Thalassa.

The first colonists came to Thalassa and they had worked hard to make a new life, making farms and growing food, building towers and factories.

There were seven men in total, all tall and thin with white faces. But then another man, the seventh one, came out of the ship. He was different from the others; although he wasn't handsome, he was serious and worried. Lora fell in love with him. His name was Leon.

One night, Leon couldn't sleep, so he went for a walk. He saw Lora and they started to talk. Clyde was very jealous because he was in love with Lora and noticed Lora's love affair with Leon. After the dance, Clyde got drunk because he suffered. When the spaceship was fixed, Lora told Leon to take her with him, but he refused because she would be out of place. So they couldn't be together because they lived in different worlds.

Leon took Lora to see how his planet was, and Lora saw a woman who was his wife. Lora went back to her planet with Clyde, and the earthman went to their planet. "Worlds of welcome were spoken, hands were shaken, but Lora saw and heard none of it, because in that woman, she saw Leon for the first time." "Better a short, sharp pain than a long unhappiness."

English Verb Forms: Past Participle

Use in Present and Past Perfect:

• be = been
• become = become
• begin = begun
• bite = bitten
• break = broken
• bring = brought
• build = built
• buy = bought
• choose = chosen
• come = come
• do = done
• draw = drawn
• eat = eaten
• fall = fallen
• feel = felt
• find = found
• forget = forgotten
• go = gone
• give = given

Across the Australian Desert

Robyn arrived in Alice Springs with $6 in her pocket and her dog, Diggity. She wanted to walk across the Australian desert from Alice Springs to the west coast with the help of camels. The town had 3 pubs, a few hotels, and 2 or 3 bad restaurants. She tried to find a job in a pub where she could sleep in the back room with all meals included. Later, she took another job too while keeping her job in the pub. Kurt Posel offered Robyn a job for 8 months. He kept camels for tourists who came to ride on the animals' backs.

The thing that really made Robyn angry was that Kurt was very cruel to the camels and often beat them. As the months passed, Robyn learnt something every day. In a strange way, Kurt's unkindness helped her because it made her strong and fearless. However, Kurt became lazier and lazier, and she had to work harder. Robyn felt so tired that she shouted at him telling him he was lazy and that she was doing Kurt's job. Kurt shouted back that she must leave. Now she never got her camels and went back to Adelaide. There, Sally Muhammad offered her a job for 2 months, after which she would get 2 camels. The day finally arrived when Sally gave her 2 camels, Alcoota Kate and Zeleika, and she would have to train them. She also bought 2 new camels called Bob and Dookie (camel time).

Supplies and Journey

Water, clothes, a radio cassette recorder with tapes of the Aboriginal language Pitjantjatjara, maps, a compass, a rifle, a knife—these things were just a few of the supplies that the camels had to carry. And, of course, there was the food: bags full of oranges, potatoes, rice, tea, sugar...

On her first night, Robyn had two big worries: first, losing the camels; and second, scorpions, which are dangerous and could bite her. One morning when she woke up, she saw wild camels, and her camels started running away quickly and frightened; one camel died and the others escaped.

Mr. Eddie

She arrived in a small town called Docker River, but she wanted to live in Pipalyatjara. She couldn't go alone, so she asked for company, but nobody wanted to go. Two nights later, a car stopped, 4 Aborigines appeared, and she talked with one of them. One of the men said that one of them could go with her—a man called Mr. Eddie—because he knew the road. Mr. Eddie fell in love with Robyn's rifle. Two days later, they arrived in the town and Robyn met Glendale, an official there. She asked Eddie to continue with her to another town, Warburton, and promised to give him her rifle; Eddie accepted. Glendale took Eddie back to Pipalyatjara and Robyn continued alone.

Robyn arrived in Wiluna, where local farmers put poison on the ground to kill dingoes. Robyn was scared for Diggity, so she put a muzzle on her. Diggity hated the muzzle, so she took it off. One night, the dog ran backwards and forwards; it was clearly in pain, so Robyn, very sad, had to put her dog down. She ran away from there and arrived at a farm where people gave food to her and the camels. Later, she took the camels to the Indian Ocean, marking the end of the journey. She planned to leave the camels with some friends who lived on a farm. Her dream came true and she could do whatever she wanted.

Grammar Notes

Tag Questions

If the sentence is positive (+), the question is negative (-):

• She plays tennis, doesn't she?

Reported Speech

• Direct: Are you coming with us?
• Indirect: He asked if I was going with them.
• Direct: "Don't open the door," she said to me.
• Indirect: She told me not to open the door.