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HOLIDAYS AND TRADITIONS SECOND CUT

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VOCABULARY  Mardi Gras  According to historians, Mardi Gras dates back thousands of years and is related to the boisterous pagan celebrations of spring and fertility in Rome. When the Christian era arrived during the Middle Ages, religious leaders decided to incorporate the popular local traditions of those pagan celebrations (by which we mean parades and large quantities of food and drink) and turn them into a prelude to Lent, the 40 days of fasting and sacrifice between Ash Wednesday and Easter Sunday. The French later called the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday "Mardi Gras", or "Fat Tuesday".  Bastille Day Bastille Day is France's National Day, known as the "National Day". It is the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille prison in 1789, when a French mob seized it and freed the prisoners. The day symbolizes the beginning of the French Revolution.  Tsagaan Sar  Tsagaan Sar is the Mongolian New Year holiday and falls between late January and early Ma...

Holidays and Traditions

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 Holidays and Traditions

Qualifications for work or study

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Vocabulary  Talents Skills Experience Knowledge Qualifications I have talent in art, I was born with it. She has several skills, cooking, dance and music. She has a lot of experience in accounting, she studied for 5 years at the university.  She has extensive knowledge of the history he learned from his father.  I have three qualifications in art, painting, creative and different types of art, for example modern art.  A: Hello Martha, how are you? B: Excellent, but worried here and how are you? A: And that? B: I have to do some art work and I have no talent for drawing.  A: What are you going to do now? B. I'm going to do it even if it looks bad. I have skills only for cooking.  A. Try to do the drawing so you can practice and gain experience.  B. You're right, I will. 

Perfect Modals

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  👀 The modal perfects express intentions of the speaker such as certainty such as certainty, probability regret, among others, but referring to past actions.  Examples: I should have come to the English lesson. They had a fantastic time. They must have had an accident. They are always on time. You could have come to the party. I invited you. CONVERSATION MODEL A: I should have gone to the beach B: why do you say that? A: I saw the pictures; I could have enjoyed the beach.  B: I could have been, well, you could have been happy.  A: Sure.  1 I should have married Marie. 2 They might have left. 1 I should have married Marie. 2 They might have left.