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Bob
If you elect me student body president, I will provide you with the best parties you have ever seen. The school has already focused on education. We've already been focused on sports, but I will provide with parties that no one has seen before. Parties in important for student life because if we don't have good parties, how can we enjoy our education and our studies. Elect me student president, and I promise to fulfill your needs students.

MJ
Dear fellow students, this is MJ. If you guys vote me as the respresentative of this university, I will definitely promise you more vacation. We have too much classes on one week, and we have a shorter vacation during the summer. For example, right now we have sixty days of vacation in the summer, but I will promise you to increase to eighty. Please vote me for the representative of this school. Thank you.

Ben
Dear students, if you elect me as student body president, I will make sure that we have a cheaper way to come to school, because right now, coming to school, transportation by bus is way to expensive and dealing with the economic problem's right now, I think we can definitetly do with a cheaper mode of transportation, so ... and also for services, it's not good at all, and I think that we should push for better services and a cheaper deal.

Susan
Well, I hear from a lot of people that there are not enough good teachers at this school, and workers at the office are not helpful at all, so if you choose me for student body president, I will meet with the president to relay the problems so that you can start to hire better staff, because I think education is the most important thing in this world. That's why you guys are at school, right? So vote me now?

Julio
Hello, ladies and gentlement, today I wanted to talk to you about the condidtions in your cafeteria. It is outrageous, that we have to pay twice as much for a place to salad, than for a place of fried chicken. Universities should promote health, and our university is not doing so. There is a lot of people who are visiting our campus and in the world today more people die of obesity than from cigarette or alcohol related diseases. If I get elected into president, I would vow to change the conditions in our cafeteria and make health food available for everyone at reasonable prices.

Mary
My fellow students, we have a problem. There are no books in our library. The library is a very interesting place, which I'm sure you'll all use very regularly when you want to go to sleep, when it's very cold and and you wanted a heated place, but this university is an academic institution, and every now and again, I like to be able find a book in there. I walk into the library, and I look left and there are empty shelves. I walk into the library and I look right and there are more empty shelves. I'd like to be president of this campus next year, and I will get some books for this library.

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Todd: So, Meg, are you busy? Do you have a busy week?

Meg: Yes. I usually have a busy week.

Todd: Yeah, me too. So what day is your busiest day?

Meg: My busiest day is Thursday.

Todd: Why?

Meg: On Thursday, I have to work from early in the morning until around 6:00 p.m. I have to teach classes. And then after that, I need to do my shopping at the supermarket.

Todd: Okay. I do my shopping on Saturday.

Meg: Oh, really?

Todd: Yeah, always on Saturday.

Meg: What else do you do on Saturday?

Todd: On Saturday, I do all my boring activities.

Meg: Like what?

Todd: I do my shopping. I do my laundry. I run errands. I clean my apartment. I do boring stuff because on Sunday, I like to have fun.

Meg: What do you like to do on Sunday?

Todd: On Sunday, I often go hiking or I go to the park or I go to the beach. I go to the beach almost every Sunday.

Meg: Wow, that sounds really fun.

Todd: Yeah, the beach is beautiful. Nobody is there. It's really nice.

Meg: Yeah, it sounds great.

Todd: How about you? What do you do on Sunday?

Meg: On Sunday, I always go to church in the morning, and sometimes I'll have lunch with friends after church.

Todd: Oh, cool.

Meg: And then, I usually clean as well, Sunday evening before the new week starts.

Todd: Now, do you work Monday through Friday?

Meg: Yes, I work every weekday. What about you?

Todd: I work Monday, Tuesday, Thursday, Friday. I don't work Wednesday.

Meg: Oh, what's your schedule like on Wednesdays?

Todd: On Wednesdays, I usually stay at home and I relax. Sometimes, I go shopping. Sometimes, I go to the park. Sometimes, I prepare lessons because I'm a teacher.

Meg: So, sometimes you do a little work on Wednesdays?

Todd: Yes, but I do work at my house.

Meg: Oh, right.

Todd: I never go to school on Wednesday.

Meg: Why not?

Todd: Because it's a day off. So, how about Monday? Are you busy on Monday?

Meg: I'm usually busy on Monday because my schedule is similar to Thursday, so I have to teach class until around 6:00 p.m.

Todd: Yeah, Mondays are busy for me too. Mondays are busy. Thursdays also are busy. Tuesday and Friday are not so busy.

Meg: Your schedule sounds a little similar to mine.

Todd: Yeah. Well, we're both teachers.

Meg: That's true.

Todd: What about activities? Do you do any activities during the week?

Meg: During the week, if I have free time, sometimes I will watch a TV show or a movie and I also go to Japanese language class.

Todd: Oh, nice.

Meg: Yeah, so sometimes I have homework so I have to do my Japanese language homeworks some nights. What about you?

Todd: I play futsal on Tuesday nights. Every Tuesday, I play futsal with my friends for two hours and that's fun. And then, sometimes on Friday, I meet my friends for dinner.

Meg: That sounds good.

Todd: And I also like sports so I usually watch sports on TV on Monday.

Meg: What sports do you usually watch on Monday?

Todd: I watch everything. I watch baseball. I watch basketball. I watch American football and I watch soccer. So I come home and I watch a video of a game from Saturday or Sunday. I don't watch sports on Saturday or Sunday. I watch the video later on Monday night.

Meg: Is it better that way?

Todd: Yeah. Usually, I don't check the internet, so I don't know the score.

Meg: Well, it sounds like you have a busy schedule.

Todd: You too.

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Rory: So I was thinking about my current job.

Abidemi: Uh-hmm.

Rory: And I think like my work schedule is so good. I work Monday and Tuesday, then I have a day off. Then, I work Thursday and Friday, and then I have the weekend off. And I get five months holiday, yeah.

Rory: So I mean, what's a good work schedule for you?

Abidemi: I think what you've just described sounds really good, as well. When I was younger actually, I don't know where this idea came from, but my ideal work hours were 9:00 until 2:00.

Rory: Okay.

Abidemi: Not 9:00 until 5:00 like you usually hear in a lot of Western countries, but 9 o'clock to 2 o'clock.

Rory: Right.

Abidemi: I don't know. So, maybe for me, if I could do it, if I could find something like that, it would be really good because you can sleep in until maybe 7:00 or 8:00, go to work, finish at 2:00, still come back and have a good chunk of that day to do other things. So...

Rory: Yeah. So my previous job was quite - I started at 9:30 and I finish at 12:30. I worked five days a week, but it was great because work was finished by lunch time. I had the whole day free. And that was a good job.

Abidemi: And you still got a full-time salary?

Rory: And that was a full-time salary, yeah.

Abidemi: Wow. Sounds even better than this one, maybe.

Rory: Yeah. In the past - I mean, I've worked in restaurants where you work only in the evenings. So I'd start at 5:30 and work until around midnight. I didn't like that as much because all day, I was thinking, "I've got to go to work later." So I think I prefer working in the morning and get it behind me as soon as possible.

Abidemi: I think maybe I'm the same way as well. I prefer to get it done and then have the rest of the day to enjoy. Also, I had a job where I was working during the weekend. And I would have Mondays and Tuesdays off. And I didn't really like that. I missed seeing friends on the weekend and then going out. So I don't think I would like anything like that.

How about not working? Do you think - how long do you think you could go without not having to work?

Rory: Well, it's funny because this job now I have really long vacations but I'm not happy when I'm not working. Like my wife gets very frustrated with me because if I have nothing to do, I tend to be a bit annoying around the house, just getting depressed, and just arguing all the time.

But I don't need much work. Like if I could just do like an hour a day, I think that would be enough to make me happy.

Abidemi: Okay. How long could you go, would you say? A week or two without having to touch work?

Rory: I could probably go a couple of months.

Abidemi: Okay. Without having to work at all.

Rory: Yeah, if I have other things to do, you know. So, if I had other projects like if I was doing a lot of training for running or if I was studying, if I had a good book then I could probably go quite a long time.

Abidemi: Yeah. I get pretty restless myself, too. I think after three, four days of not having anything to do, I just want - I really need something. Maybe, like you said study or learn or go out and do something, have a project, have a goal. I think, yeah, my personality type needs to constantly do something, produce. Yeah.

Rory: Yeah. When I worked in Europe, I used to do - I used to teach for one or two weeks intensively, and then have three or four weeks off. And it was quite nice because I had lots of free time, but after two or three weeks of free time, I was quite looking forward to the next block, the next block of teaching. But teaching these intensive blocks can be quite - it can be quite tough as well. Like I have to - I did a six-week block in Russia once, and after three weeks, I just wanted to go home. Six weeks was too long.

Abidemi: Wow.

Abidemi: How intensive was it?

Rory: Well, the job in Russia was really intensive because I was living with the students in a residential university. And so we had breakfast together, and then I taught them from half past eight in the morning until half past six in the evening.

Abidemi: Wow.

Rory: We had lunch together, and then we had dinner together in the evening. And there was one bar in the university, and we all went to the same bar in the evening, as well.

Abidemi: And you had the same group of students?

Rory: The same group of students.

Abidemi: For six weeks?

Rory: For six weeks and it was six days a week of teaching.

Abidemi: Wow. I can - if you the teacher felt like that, I can only imagine how the students must have felt. They must have wanted a break badly.

Rory: Yeah. We all wanted a break.

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(also called the simple past tense)

Click here to download this explanation as a pdf.
Click here to learn about how to USE the past simple.

It's similar to the present simple because it has different rules for the verb 'be', which becomes 'was' or 'were':
The Past Simple with 'be'
Here's how to make the positive:

To make the negative with 'be', just add 'not':

Here's an exercise to practise the positive and negative forms with 'be'

To make a question, just like the present simple, we change the position of 'was / were' and the subject.

Here are the past simple 'yes / no' questions with 'be':

And the 'wh' questions with 'be' (the question word just goes at the beginning, everything else is the same):

And here's an exercise for 'wh' and 'yes / no' questions

Here's another exercise with 'be' (this time it's all forms - positive, negative and questions)

The Past Simple (Simple Past) with Other Verbs

We make the past simple just like the present simple except we use 'did' instead of 'do / does'. It's really easy because 'did' doesn't change, even with 'he / she / it'.

The positive:

We usually make the positive by adding '-ed' to the infinitive. For example, 'play' becomes 'played'. However, there are some irregular verbs, for example 'go' becomes 'went' and 'run' becomes 'ran'.

(Here's some help if you are not sure how to pronounce '-ed' at the end of a verb).

Click here for a list of 50 common irregular verbs (PDF file)

Click here for an exercise about irregular verbs in this verb tense

Click here for another irregular verb exercise

In the negative there aren't any irregular verbs. All verbs use 'did not (didn't) + infinitive':

Here's an exercise about the negative form

Questions are also very easy. Just put 'did' before the subject, and the infinitive after it.

Here are the 'yes / no' questions:

And here's an exercise about 'yes / no' questions

To make a 'wh' question, of course, put the question word at the beginning of the sentence:

And here's an exercise about 'wh' questions

Here are some exercises about making all the forms:
Mixed Exercise 1
Mixed Exercise 2
Mixed Exercise 3
Mixed Exercise 4
Click here to learn about when we use this tense

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Positive and Negative Forms

Try making the past simple with 'be' - this English grammar exercise includes the positive and negative forms.

Click here to review how to make the past simple.
Click here to download this exercise in PDF (with answers)

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It's difficult to know how to pronounce 'ed' in English, because it's pronounced in three different ways. It depends on the letter before:

The three ways are:

The most important thing to remember is this:

If the verb has a 'd' or a 't' sound before 'ed' you need to pronounce 'id'. If it doesn't, don't pronounce an extra syllable.

Be careful! It's the sound, not the letter: 'decided' is pronounced 'decide-id' even though 'decide' ends in 'e', because we don't say the 'e', so the last sound is 'd'.

So for example:
For the other two sounds it doesn't matter so much. Just make sure you don't say '-id'! For example, 'stopped' is pronounced 'stopt' and never 'stop-id'.
If the word before 'ed' ends in the sounds 'p', 'f', 's', 'ch', 'sh', 'k', then 'ed' is pronounced 't': So:

For all other words, 'ed' is pronounced 'd':

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Negative Form

Try making the negative past simple - be careful, the most common mistake is to use the simple past form after 'didn't' when you should use the infinitive (for example: 'I didn't went' instead of 'I didn't go'). Even quite experienced students do this, so it's a good idea to practise this form until it's automatic.

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'Yes / No' Questions

This exercise is about making past simple questions. It's something you'll use a lot, so I'd suggest you make sure you know it perfectly. This exercise doesn't include 'be' but instead has a variety of other verbs (most of them are quite easy verbs - at the moment it's good to concentrate on grammar, and then think about vocabulary at another time).

Click here to review how to make the English past simple.
Click here to download this exercise in PDF (with answers)

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(also called the simple past tense)

Click here to download this explanation as a pdf.
Click here to learn about how to USE the past simple.

It's similar to the present simple because it has different rules for the verb 'be', which becomes 'was' or 'were':
The Past Simple with 'be'
Here's how to make the positive:

To make the negative with 'be', just add 'not':

Here's an exercise to practise the positive and negative forms with 'be'

To make a question, just like the present simple, we change the position of 'was / were' and the subject.

Here are the past simple 'yes / no' questions with 'be':

And the 'wh' questions with 'be' (the question word just goes at the beginning, everything else is the same):

And here's an exercise for 'wh' and 'yes / no' questions

Here's another exercise with 'be' (this time it's all forms - positive, negative and questions)

The Past Simple (Simple Past) with Other Verbs

We make the past simple just like the present simple except we use 'did' instead of 'do / does'. It's really easy because 'did' doesn't change, even with 'he / she / it'.

The positive:

We usually make the positive by adding '-ed' to the infinitive. For example, 'play' becomes 'played'. However, there are some irregular verbs, for example 'go' becomes 'went' and 'run' becomes 'ran'.

(Here's some help if you are not sure how to pronounce '-ed' at the end of a verb).

Click here for a list of 50 common irregular verbs (PDF file)

Click here for an exercise about irregular verbs in this verb tense

Click here for another irregular verb exercise

In the negative there aren't any irregular verbs. All verbs use 'did not (didn't) + infinitive':

Here's an exercise about the negative form

Questions are also very easy. Just put 'did' before the subject, and the infinitive after it.

Here are the 'yes / no' questions:

And here's an exercise about 'yes / no' questions

To make a 'wh' question, of course, put the question word at the beginning of the sentence:

And here's an exercise about 'wh' questions

Here are some exercises about making all the forms:
Mixed Exercise 1
Mixed Exercise 2
Mixed Exercise 3
Mixed Exercise 4
Click here to learn about when we use this tense

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O Simple Past , também chamado de Past Simple (passado simples), é um dos tempos verbais do inglês. Ele é equivalente ao passado simples na língua portuguesa.

Quando usar?

O Simple Past é usado para indicar ações passadas já concluídas, ou seja, para falar de fatos que já aconteceram; que começaram e terminaram no passado.

Expressões temporais usadas com o Simple Past

Para reforçar o uso do Simple Past, muitas expressões temporais são utilizadas nas frases.

Os exemplos mais usuais são: yesterday (ontem), the day before yesterday (anteontem), last night (ontem à noite), last year (ano passado), last month (mês passado), last week (semana passada), ago (atrás), etc.

Veja algumas frases no Simple Past com as expressões acima:

1 grafia americana; ² grafia britânica

Formação do Simple Past

A formação básica do Simple Past é feita com o uso do auxiliar did nas formas negativa e interrogativa, e com o acréscimo de - ed, - ied ou - d ao final do verbo principal no infinitivo, sem o to, na forma afirmativa.

Observe as tabelas abaixo e confira exemplos de conjugação do Simple Past.

Exemplo: verbo to dance (dançar - regular)

Exemplo: verbo to fly (voar - irregular)

Confira as explicações abaixo e aprenda como escrever frases com verbos no passado em inglês na forma afirmativa, na forma negativa e na forma interrogativa.

Affirmative form (forma afirmativa)

Regular verbs (verbos regulares)

Para usar os verbos regulares em frases afirmativas no Simple Past, basta mudar a terminação do verbo de acordo com as seguintes regras:

1. Aos verbos regulares terminados em - e, acrescenta-se somente o - d no final do verbo:

2. Aos verbos regulares terminados em consoante+ vogal+ consoante (CVC), duplica-se a última consoante e acrescenta-se o - ed:

3. Aos verbos terminados em - y precedido de consoante, retira-se o y e acrescenta-se o - ied:

4. Aos verbos terminados em - y precedido de vogal, acrescenta-se somente o - ed:

Irregular verbs (verbos irregulares)

Os verbos irregulares não possuem um padrão de formação. Eles não seguem as regras indicadas acima pois possuem uma forma própria.

Confira abaixo alguns verbos irregulares no passado simples:

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A formação de frases na afirmativa no Simple Past segue a estrutura abaixo:
Sujeito + verbo + complemento
Exemplo: She liked the English teacher. (Ela gostou da professora de inglês).

Negative Form (Forma Negativa)

Para a construção de frases negativas no Simple Past, o verbo did é empregado como verbo auxiliar.

O verbo principal não é conjugado no passado, uma vez que o auxiliar já indica o tempo verbal.

Sua estrutura frasal é feita da seguinte forma:
Sujeito + did + not + verbo principal + complemento
Exemplo: She did not like the English teacher. (Ela não gostou da professora de inglês)

Obs.: a forma contraída de did not é didn't.

Interrogative Form (Forma Interrogativa)

Da mesma maneira que acontece na forma negativa, o did é o verbo auxiliar utilizado para as frases interrogativas no Simple Past .

Veja a estrutura abaixo:
Did + sujeito + verbo principal + complemento
Exemplo: Did she like the English teacher? (Ela gostou da professora de inglês?)

Obs.: somente o verbo auxiliar ( did) é conjugado no Simple Past. Não é necessário conjugar o verbo principal.

Simple Past x Past Continuous

Muitos confundem os usos do passado em inglês, sobretudo do Simple Past (passado simples) e do Past Continuous (passado contínuo). Vejamos abaixo as diferenças entre eles:

Simple Past

Expressa ações passadas, ou seja, refere-se a fatos que começaram no passado e terminaram no passado. Nesse caso, as ações já foram concluídas. O verbo auxiliar did é usado somente nas formas negativa e interrogativa do Simple Past.

Exemplos:

You ran in the marathon. (Você correu na maratona.)

You did not run in the marathon. (Você não correu na maratona.)

Did you run in the marathon? (Você correu na maratona?)

Past Continuous

Expressa uma ação contínua que ocorreu no passado.

Diferentemente do Simple Past, ele é formado pelo verbo auxilar to be conjugado no Simple Past ( was/ were) + o gerúndio (- ing) do verbo principal.

Exemplos:

You were running in the marathon. (Você estava correndo na maratona.)

You were not running in the marathon. (Você não estava correndo na maratona.)

Were you running in the marathon? (Você estava correndo na maratona?)

Vídeo sobre Simple Past

No vídeo abaixo você encontra um resumo sobre o uso do Simple Past e dicas valiosas que vão ajudá-lo a usar esse tempo verbal corretamente.

Exercises (Exercícios)

1. (PUC-GO) Complete the following text using the correct past tense conjugation of the verbs in parenthesis in English:

Last night Susan (go) ____________ to her friend's birthday party. She (dance) ____________ with her boyfriend, and (eat) ____________ cake. After they (leave) ____________ the party, Susan and her boyfriend (decide) ____________ to go and watch a movie at the theater. They (see) ____________ the new Transformer's movie, and then they went home. When she (get) ____________ home, Susan (take) ____________ a shower and (fall) ____________ asleep quickly.

Choose the correct option from the ones listed below:

a) go/ dance / eat / leave / decide / see / get / take / fall.
b) went / danced / ate / left / decided / saw / got / took / fell.
c) will go / will dance / will eat / will leave / will decide / will see / will get / will take / will fall.
d) had gone / had danced / had eaten / had left / had decided / had seen / had gotten / had taken / had fallen.

Ver Resposta

Alternativa correta: b) went / danced / ate / left / decided / saw / got / took / fell.

a) ERRADA. Todos os verbos desta alternativa estão no infinitivo.

b) CORRETA: Todos os verbos desta alternativa estão conjugados no Simple Past, que é usado para indicar ações que começaram e terminaram no passado.

Em todas as frases, as lacunas correspondem a ações que tiveram início e foram concluídas no passado ( last night = noite passada).

c) ERRADA. Todos os verbos desta alternativa estão conjugados no Simple Future (Futuro Simples).

Exemplo: When we arrived, the movie had finished. (Quando chegamos, o filme tinha acabado.)

Veja que had finished (tinha terminado) é a flexão de Past Perfect e foi a primeira a começar e ser concluída. Já a ação que aconteceu depois ( we arrived = nós chegamos), está conjugada no Simple Past.

Nas frases do exercício, as lacunas correspondem a ações que começaram e terminaram no passado; sem que haja qualquer subordinação a outras ações.

a) He doesn't sells his car last week.
b) He doesn't sold his car last week.
c) He didn't sold his car last week.
d) He didn't sell his car last week.
e) He doesn't sell his car last week

Ver Resposta

Alternativa correta: d) He didn't sell his car last week.

O verbo da frase ( sold) está flexionado no Simple Past, logo, a forma negativa também deve estar no mesmo tempo verbal.

a) ERRADA. A flexão doesn't sells não existe. Além disso, tanto doesn't quanto sells são flexões do Simple Present.

b) ERRADA. A flexão doesn't sold não existe. Doesn't é um auxiliar do Simple Present enquanto sold é uma flexão do Simple Past.

c) ERRADA. Quando o auxiliar did é usado, o verbo principal não deve ser flexionado, mas sim estar na forma de infinitivo, sem o to.

d) CORRETA. Sold é a flexão de Simple Past do verbo to sell (vender), usada em frases afirmativas. Nas frases negativas no Simple Past, devemos usar did not ou didn't + verbo principal no infinitivo sem o to.

3. Complete as lacunas com os verbos entre parênteses conjugados no Simple Past:

a) She _______(go) to the shopping mall.
b) Marisa _______ (want/not) a ride.
c) Your parents _______ (make) a cake.
d) ______ (you talk) to his friends?
e) Sofia and Jane _______ (be) at the party.

Ver Resposta

Respostas corretas:
a) She went to the shopping mall. b) Marisa didn't want a ride. ou Marisa did not want a ride.
A forma negativa do Simple Past é formada de acordo com a seguinte estrutura:

Também é possível substituir o did + not pela sua forma contraída: didn't

A interrogativa do Simple Past é formada de acordo com a seguinte estrutura:

Did + sujeito + verbo principal no infinitivo sem o to

4. Assinale a alternativa correta para o Simple Past dos verbos irregulares: drive, forget e got.

a) drive; forgot; got
b) driven; forgotten; get
c) driven; forgotten; gotten
d) drove; forget; get
e) drove; forgot; got

Ver Resposta

Alternativa correta: e) drove; forgot; got

a) ERRADA. Esta alternativa está errada, pois drive pode ser uma flexão de Simple Present ou o infinitivo sem o to, mas não uma flexão de Simple Past. As flexões forgot e got estão corretas.

b) ERRADA. Driven e forgotten são flexões de Past Participle, e get pode ser uma flexão de Simple Present ou o infinitivo sem o to. Nenhuma das opções é flexão de Simple Past.

c) ERRADA. Todas as opções são flexões de Past Participle e não de Simple Past.

d) ERRADA. Drove é uma flexão de Simple Past, mas forget e get podem ser flexões de Simple Present ou formas de infinitivo sem o to.

e) CORRETA. Todas as flexões estão conjugadas no Simple Past.

5. Escreva a frase abaixo no Simple Past, nas formas afirmativa, negativa e interrogativa:

She will go to the United States of America.

Ver Resposta

Respostas corretas:
Forma afirmativa:
She went to the United States of America.
Forma negativa:
She did not go to the United States of America. ou She didn't go to the United States of America.

A estrutura de uma frase negativa no Simple Past é a seguinte:

Sujeito + did + not + verbo principal no infinitivo sem o to

Forma interrogativa:
Did she go to the United States of America?

A estrutura de uma frase interrogativa no Simple Past é a seguinte:

Did + sujeito + verbo principal no infinitivo sem o to

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Meg: Hey Todd, so continuing talking about then and now, I was thinking we could switch to talking about just life in general.

Todd: Sounds good.

Meg: So my first question for you is are movies today more interesting than before?

Todd: Well. I'm gonna sound like an old guy, but I would say no, movies are not more interesting today. Movies were much better, twenty, thirty years ago. The stories were better. They were more interesting. These days movies just have too much special effects, and there's too many movies about superheroes. I hate movies about superheroes. So yeah, I think movies used to be more interesting. What do you think?

Meg: I have the opposite opinion of you. I think movies today are more interesting than before. Maybe I'm too used to a lot of special effects, so when I watch some older movies, the story might be interesting, but I get a little bored watching it and actually I love superhero movies.

Todd: Oh really?

Meg: So I would say that yes, any superhero movies - Spiderman or Batman especially is my favorite so those movies for me are more interesting than in the past.

Todd: OK, well we're talking about comparatives, so who's cooler Batman or Spiderman?

Meg: Oh, Batman. Hands down.

Todd: I'm sorry. I think Spiderman's really lame. I've never liked Spiderman.

Meg: He kind of whines a lot.

Todd: He looks like a kid in his pajamas.

Meg: He is a kid in his pajamas.

Todd: Maybe that's it.

Meg: Whereas Batman has a lot of skills that he's developed himself, so.

Todd: True, true. OK, well how about Batman, so like who is better?

Meg: Who is the best Batman?

Todd: Yeah, so who is better? Who was the last one? It was ...

Meg: Well, the most recent Batman was Ben Affleck, but I didn't watch that one

Todd: OK.

Meg: So before that, there was Christian Bale

Todd: Oh, that's right.

Meg: So without having seen Ben Affleck, I would still say that Christian Bale was a better Batman.

Todd: Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure. OK, so let's talk about other things. How about the news? With news are you more knowledgable these days than before, say five ten years ago?

Meg: Actually, I think I am less knowledgable than before. There's a lot of news out there, and it's easy to access the news but there's so much news coming from so many sources, I'm now sure which news service is more trustworthy, so I think it's more difficult now to find the correct news. The true news. What do you think?

Todd: I agree. Sadly I think I am less knowledgable because before I would read the newspaper, or I would read magazine articles or I would listen to better news stories on the news. These days I just look at a Facebook headline and I don't even read the article, so I don't even know what's going on sometimes. Which is terrible for a man my age.

Meg: Terrible for anyone I think.

Todd: Yeah, I think it's because I think the news was more honest than before, than now, sorry. I think the news is less honest these days. It used to be more honest. I just don't trust the news anymore.

Meg: Yeah, I don't really trust it either.

Todd: Yeah, less trustworthy.

Meg: So along those lines, would you say social media makes like better or worse for people?

Todd: I think it's both, like I think it's you know, three points better, two points worse, so it's a negative. It's better because you can keep track of so many family members, especially if you're far away, so I like how it connects people, yeah, it just makes people sad sometimes, or makes them frustrated about their life maybe, so yeah, I don't think it makes life better. But I'm an old guy, so...

Meg: Yeah, I think it's true. I think there are scientific studies to show that because of social media, people compare themselves too much so it's quite appropriate that we are talking about comparison because people will see other people's lives on social media that look quite good and they will compare themselves and feel bad about themselves, o for some people I think it has made it worse, but like you, I agree that some points are better like seeing pictures from my family.

Todd: Yeah, so true.

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Meg: Hey Todd, so continuing talking about then and now, I was thinking we could switch to talking about just life in general.

Todd: Sounds good.

Meg: So my first question for you is are movies today more interesting than before?

Todd: Well. I'm gonna sound like an old guy, but I would say no, movies are not more interesting today. Movies were much better, twenty, thirty years ago. The stories were better. They were more interesting. These days movies just have too much special effects, and there's too many movies about superheroes. I hate movies about superheroes. So yeah, I think movies used to be more interesting. What do you think?

Meg: I have the opposite opinion of you. I think movies today are more interesting than before. Maybe I'm too used to a lot of special effects, so when I watch some older movies, the story might be interesting, but I get a little bored watching it and actually I love superhero movies.

Todd: Oh really?

Meg: So I would say that yes, any superhero movies - Spiderman or Batman especially is my favorite so those movies for me are more interesting than in the past.

Todd: OK, well we're talking about comparatives, so who's cooler Batman or Spiderman?

Meg: Oh, Batman. Hands down.

Todd: I'm sorry. I think Spiderman's really lame. I've never liked Spiderman.

Meg: He kind of whines a lot.

Todd: He looks like a kid in his pajamas.

Meg: He is a kid in his pajamas.

Todd: Maybe that's it.

Meg: Whereas Batman has a lot of skills that he's developed himself, so.

Todd: True, true. OK, well how about Batman, so like who is better?

Meg: Who is the best Batman?

Todd: Yeah, so who is better? Who was the last one? It was ...

Meg: Well, the most recent Batman was Ben Affleck, but I didn't watch that one

Todd: OK.

Meg: So before that, there was Christian Bale

Todd: Oh, that's right.

Meg: So without having seen Ben Affleck, I would still say that Christian Bale was a better Batman.

Todd: Yeah, I'm sure. I'm sure. OK, so let's talk about other things. How about the news? With news are you more knowledgable these days than before, say five ten years ago?

Meg: Actually, I think I am less knowledgable than before. There's a lot of news out there, and it's easy to access the news but there's so much news coming from so many sources, I'm now sure which news service is more trustworthy, so I think it's more difficult now to find the correct news. The true news. What do you think?

Todd: I agree. Sadly I think I am less knowledgable because before I would read the newspaper, or I would read magazine articles or I would listen to better news stories on the news. These days I just look at a Facebook headline and I don't even read the article, so I don't even know what's going on sometimes. Which is terrible for a man my age.

Meg: Terrible for anyone I think.

Todd: Yeah, I think it's because I think the news was more honest than before, than now, sorry. I think the news is less honest these days. It used to be more honest. I just don't trust the news anymore.

Meg: Yeah, I don't really trust it either.

Todd: Yeah, less trustworthy.

Meg: So along those lines, would you say social media makes like better or worse for people?

Todd: I think it's both, like I think it's you know, three points better, two points worse, so it's a negative. It's better because you can keep track of so many family members, especially if you're far away, so I like how it connects people, yeah, it just makes people sad sometimes, or makes them frustrated about their life maybe, so yeah, I don't think it makes life better. But I'm an old guy, so...

Meg: Yeah, I think it's true. I think there are scientific studies to show that because of social media, people compare themselves too much so it's quite appropriate that we are talking about comparison because people will see other people's lives on social media that look quite good and they will compare themselves and feel bad about themselves, o for some people I think it has made it worse, but like you, I agree that some points are better like seeing pictures from my family.

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First Conditional

Point 1: The first conditional If-clause expresses the likelihood of something happening because of another action.

1. If it rains, I will go out tonight.

2. If you win the next race, you will have chance of winning gold.

3. If we hurry, we can make it.

4. If we get busy, I cannot meet you.

Point 2: If-clauses can start a sentence, They are followed by a comma in written English.

1. If I see Mary, I will tell her the bad news.

2. If we can pass these exams, we will be happy.

3. If you come over, I will make you dinner.

4. If it happens, it happens.

Point 3: If-clauses can follow a dependent clause. They do not need a comma in written English.

1. I will tell Mary the bad news if I see her.

2. We will be happy if we pass these exams.

3. I will call you if we are late.

4. We will lose if we do not try harder.

Point 4: We can use other modals instead of will, such as should, would, could, can, may, and might.

1. I may tell Mary the bad news if I see her.

2. If you do your homework, you can watch TV.

3. You should get there on time if the traffic is not bad.

4. If he does that again, I would tell the boss.

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Through, though, tough, thought, thorough e throughout...

Essas palavras são bem parecidas e confundem muita gente, mas saiba que cada uma possui significado e hoje é o dia de aprender como empregá-las corretamente.

Entenda de vez a diferença entre os termos!

Through

A pronúncia de through é /thrú/. O seu significado é de algo que vai de um lado até o outro, em mais de um sentido, tanto físico quanto figurado. Utiliza-se quando um elemento atravessa outro.

Through no sentido físico

Joana is watching the clouds through the window. / Joana está vendo as nuvens através da janela.

Through no sentido figurado

Love is shown through feelings. / Demonstra-se amor através dos sentimentos.

Through, thru e threw

Existe uma maneira informal de escrever a palavra through: trata-se de thru, que foi criada a partir da pronúncia do termo correto.

Em contextos formais, a expressão thru não deve ser utilizada. Mas é comum vê-la por aí, principalmente por causa daqueles estabelecimentos nos quais você paga e retira a comida sem sair do carro: o drive-thru.

Já a palavra threw é o passado simples do verbo throw, que significa lançar, atirar ou jogar. Sabe o que ela e as outras duas têm em comum? O mesmo som!

Though

A pronúncia de though é /thôu/. Trata-se de uma preposição que, em português, equivale a mas, embora e apesar de. A tradução depende do emprego na frase.

Though equivalente a mas

É empregado sempre ao final da frase, com o objetivo de contrapor a ideia. Por isso, costuma ser utilizado em um diálogo, não em frases.

This coffee is really good. / Esse café é muito bom.

It's too expensive, though. / Mas é muito caro.

Though equivalente a embora

Santa Catarina has beautiful beaches, although it is cold at this time of year. /Santa Catarina tem belas praias, embora faça frio nesta época do ano.

Though equivalente a apesar de

Também é sinônimo de despite e in spite of.

I attended the meeting though being late. / Eu participei da reunião, apesar de ter chegado atrasado.

Tough

A pronúncia de tough é /tâf/. Este é um adjetivo, sinônimo de hard.

Breaking up is tough for couples. / Términos são difíceis para os casais.

Thought

A pronúncia de thought é /thót/. É o passado simples do verbo think. Sua utilização pode ser como o verbo ou como substantivo.

Your political opinion converges with my thoughts. / A sua opinião política converge com os meus pensamentos.

Thorough

A pronúncia de thorough é / thorôu/. Assim como tough, thorough é um adjetivo. Utilize-o para descrever algo feito de forma impecável, sem erros ou omissões.

The analysis was carried out in thorough. / A análise foi feita de forma detalhada.

Throughout

A pronúncia de thoughout é /thrú-aut/. Sua atuação é como advérbio e indica algo que acontece desde o começo até o final de uma ação.

Helena hasn't showed up throughout the week. / Helena não apareceu durante a semana toda.

Quer mais dicas? Não perde então!

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W HAT IS TECHNOLOGY doing to language? Many assume the answer is simple: ruining it. Kids can no longer write except in text-speak. Grammar is going to the dogs. The ability to compose thoughts longer than a tweet is waning.

Language experts tend to resist that gloom, noting that there is little proof that speech is really degenerating: kids may say " LOL" out loud sometimes, but this is a marginal phenomenon. Nor is formal writing falling apart. Sentences like " OMG WTF William teh Conqueror pwned Harold at Hastings in 1066!" tend to be written by middle-aged columnists trying to imitate children's supposed habits. A study by Cambridge Assessment, a British exam-setter, found almost no evidence for text-speak in students' writing.
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Fortunately, the story of language and the internet has attracted more serious analysts, too. Now Gretchen McCulloch, a prolific language blogger and journalist-and herself of the generation that grew up with the internet-joins them with a new book, "Because Internet". Rather than obsessing about what the internet is doing to language, it largely focuses on what can be learned about language from the internet. Biologists grow bacteria in a Petri dish partly because of those organisms' short lifespans: they are born and reproduce so quickly that studies over many generations can be done in a reasonably short period. Studying language online is a bit like that: trends appear and disappear, platforms rise and fall, and these let linguists observe dynamics that would otherwise take too much time.

For example, why do languages change? A thousand years ago, early versions of English and Icelandic were closely related, possibly even mutually intelligible. English has since evolved hugely, and Icelandic, far less. Linguists have studied the relative effects of strong ties (friends, family) and weaker acquaintanceships in such patterns, hypothesising that small communities would host more stable languages. A computer simulation proved that a mix of strong and weak ties-close-knit groups existing in a larger sea-allowed language-change "leaders" to disseminate updates to the wider population. Twitter combines strong and weak ties-and sure enough, drives more language change than Facebook, which is more dominated by strong ties. That, in turn, helps explain the conservatism of Icelandic (more like Facebook) and the mutability of English (more like Twitter).

Emoji, odd as they may look, also reflect something universal. They are not a language (try telling a complex story in emoji to someone who doesn't know it already). They are, Ms McCulloch argues, the digital equivalent of gestures. Those come in two types. "Emblems", like a thumbs-up or a wink, have a fixed meaning and form. But "co-speech" gestures-wincing, gesticulating, pointing-are spontaneous and more variable. And emoji come in these same flavours. People randomly combine many co-speech-style emoji, but are more restrained in mixing emblems. Just as it would make no sense to give someone the finger while shaking your head to negate it, emblematic emoji often stand alone rather than in expressive chains.

Other online "innovations" are not really new, either. Philosophers have previously tried to invent a marker for irony-a backwards question-mark or an upside-down exclamation point, for example-before online types succeeded with the sarcastic ~tilde~. The first use of OMG long preceded computers. Those who worry about teens speaking "hashtag" aloud ("Good for you-hashtag sarcasm!") might consider the last time they punctuated an utterance by saying "full stop" or "period".

In the end, Ms McCulloch's book is about the birth of a new medium rather than a new language. For millennia, speech was all there was. For most of "recorded" history, nearly everyone was illiterate. Then, in the age of the printing press and mass literacy, writing acquired a kind of primacy, seen as prestigious, a standard to be learned and imitated (often even in speech).

Future historians may regard that epoch of reverence as unusual. Mass reading has now been joined by mass writing: frequent, error-filled and evanescent-like speech. Little surprise that internet users have created tools to give their writing the gesture, playfulness and even meaninglessness of chitchat. Mistaking it for the downfall of "real" writing is a category error. Anything that helps people enjoy each other's company can only be a good thing.

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W HAT IS TECHNOLOGY doing to language? Many assume the answer is simple: ruining it. Kids can no longer write except in text-speak. Grammar is going to the dogs. The ability to compose thoughts longer than a tweet is waning.

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Online, English has become a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing.

When America emerged from the ashes of a bruising war with Britain in 1814, the nation was far from united. Noah Webster thought that a common language would bring people together and help create a new identity that would make the country truly independent of the British.

Webster's dictionary, now in its 11th edition, adopted the Americanised spellings familiar today - er instead of re in theatre, dropping the u from colour, and losing the double l from words such as traveller. It also documented new words that were uniquely American such as skunk, opossum, hickory, squash and chowder.

An American Dictionary of the English Language took 18 years to complete and Webster learned 26 other languages in order to research the etymology of its 70,000 entries.

The internet is creating a similar language evolution, but at a much faster pace.

There are now thought to be some 4.5 billion web pages worldwide. And with half the population of China now on line, many of them are written in Chinese.

Still, some linguists predict that within 10 years English will dominate the internet - but in forms very different to what we accept and recognise as English today.

That's because people who speak English as a second language already outnumber native speakers. And increasingly they use it to communicate with other non-native speakers, particularly on the internet where less attention is paid to grammar and spelling and users don't have to worry about their accent.

"The internet enfranchises people who are not native speakers to use English in significant and meaningful ways," says Naomi Baron, professor of linguistics at American University in Washington DC.

Users of Facebook already socialise in a number of different "Englishes" including Indian English, or Hinglish, Spanglish (Spanish English) and Konglish (Korean English). While these variations have long existed within individual cultures, they're now expanding and comingling online.

"On the internet, all that matters is that people can communicate - nobody has a right to tell them what the language should be," says Baron. "If you can talk Facebook into putting up pages, you have a language that has political and social standing even if it doesn't have much in the way of linguistic uniqueness."

Some words are adaptations of traditional English: In Singlish, or Singaporean English, "blur" means "confused" or "slow": "She came into the conversation late and was blur as a result."

Others combine English words to make something new. In Konglish, "skinship" means intimate physical contact: handholding, touching, caressing.

Technology companies are tapping into the new English variations with products aimed at enabling users to add words that are not already in the English dictionary.

And most large companies have English websites, while smaller businesses are learning that they need a common language - English - to reach global customers.

"While most people don't speak English as their first language, there is a special commercial and social role for English driven by modern forms of entertainment," says Robert Munro, a computational linguist and head of Idibon, a language technology company in California.

"The prevalence of English movies in regions where there is not much technology other than cell phones and DVDs makes English an aspirational language. People think it's the language of the digital age."

In previous centuries, the convergence of cultures and trade led to the emergence of pidgin - a streamlined system of communication that has simple grammatical structure, says Michael Ullman, director of research at Georgetown University's Brain and Language Lab.

When the next generation of pidgin speakers begins to add vocabulary and grammar, it becomes a distinct Creole language. "You get different endings, it's more complex and systematised. Something like that could be happening to English on the web," he says.

Hinglish is a blend of Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and English and is so widespread that it's even being taught to British diplomats.

Mobile phone companies are also updating their apps to reflect its growing use.

In Hinglish, a co-brother is a brother-in-law; eve-teasing means sexual harassment; an emergency crew responding to a crisis might be described as 'airdashing', and somewhat confusing to football fans, a 'stadium' refers to a bald man with a fringe of hair. There's even a new concept of time - "pre-pone", the opposite of postpone, meaning "to bring something forward".

The increasing prevalence of the internet in everyday life means that language online is not a zero sum game. Instead, it allows multiple languages to flourish.

"Most people actually speak multiple languages - it's less common to only speak one," says Mr Munro. "English has taken its place as the world's lingua franca, but it's not pushing out other languages."

Instead, other languages are pushing their way into English, and in the process creating something new.

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Knowing how to order food at a restaurant is an important task for any beginner-level English learner. Here are two short dialogues to help you learn common questions and answers used at restaurants.

Dining at a Restaurant Alone

This dialogue includes most of the basic questions you'll need to know when going to a restaurant alone. Practice it with a friend.

Waitperson: Hi. How are you doing this afternoon?

Customer (you): Fine, thank you. Can I see a menu, please?

Waitperson: Certainly, here you are.

Customer: Thank you. What's today's special?

Waitperson: Grilled tuna and cheese on rye.

Customer: That sounds good. I'll have that.

Waitperson: Would you like something to drink?

Customer: Yes, I'd like a coke.

Waitperson: Thank you. (returning with the food) Here you are. Enjoy your meal!

Customer: Thank you.

Waitperson: Can I get you anything else?

Customer: No thanks. I'd like the check, please.

Waitperson: That'll be $14.95.

Customer: Here you are. Keep the change!

Waitperson: Thank you! Have a good day!

Customer: Goodbye.

At a Restaurant With Friends

Next, use this dialogue to practice speaking at a restaurant when eating with friends. The dialogue includes questions to help you choose what to eat. For this role-play, you'll need three people instead of two.

Kevin: The spaghetti looks really good.

Alice: It is! I had it the last time I was here.

Peter: How is the pizza, Alice?

Alice: It's good, but I think the pasta is better. What would you recommend?

Waitperson: I'd recommend the lasagna. It's excellent!

Alice: That sounds great. I'll have that.

Waitperson: Fine. Would you like an appetizer?

Alice: No, lasagna is more than enough for me!

Kevin: I think I'll have the lasagna as well.

Waitperson: Right. That's two lasagnas. Would you care for an appetizer?

Kevin: Yes, I'll take the calamari.

Peter: Oh, that sounds good! I can't decide between the chicken marsala and grilled fish.

Waitperson: The fish is fresh, so I'd recommend that.

Peter: Great. I'll have the fish. I'd also like a salad.

Waitperson: What would you like to drink?

Kevin: I'll have water.

Alice: I'd like a beer.

Peter: I'll take a glass of red wine.

Waitperson: Thank you. I'll get the drinks and the appetizers.

Kevin: Thank you.

Key Vocabulary and Phrases

Here are some key phrases used to discuss food in a restaurant when ordering and deciding on what to eat:

Could I have a menu, please?

Here you are.

Enjoy your meal!

Would you like ...

Can I get you anything else?

I'd like the check, please.

That'll be ...

Have a good day!

The spaghetti/steak/chicken looks good.

How is the pizza/fish/beer?

What would you recommend?

I'd like my steak rare/medium/well done.

Are there any nuts/peanuts? My child has allergies.

Do you have any vegetarian dishes?

Could I have a glass of water, please?

Could you tell me where the restroom is?

I'd recommend the lasagna/steak/pizza.

Would you care for an appetizer/a beer/a cocktail?

I'd like to have a beer/steak/glass of wine.

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Todd: Rachael, we're talking about how life used to be different for us, when we were kids.

Rachael: Yes.

Todd: And, I was thinking the other day, it's interesting because we all have loving grandparents, or parents, but our parents used to do things that they can't do anymore. For example, we used to ride in the back of my grandfather's pickup truck ...

Rachael: Yes.

Todd: on the highway, which now is totally illegal, like it's a big no-no. We would get in the back of his truck and he would drive us all over the place in this old pickup truck. And like today, that's against the law, right?

Rachael: We used to have a station wagon. There are six kids in our family. We just all piled into the back of the station wagon. No seat belts, no car seats.

Todd: Right.

Rachael: Babies were in a little Moses basket on the back seat.

Todd: Yeah. And people used to do things like, also like you said, let kids run around the back of the station wagon or move around. You would strap things to your car and drive down the street. Sometimes you can't do that anymore, or you have to do it ... It's a little, bit more regulated than before I think, right?

Rachael: Yeah.

Todd: Yeah. We also used to burn our trash, which is now a big no-no in California.

Rachael: Really.

Todd: Yeah.

Rachael: We never used to do that.

Todd: Really?

Rachael: I can't comment on that one.

Todd: Yeah. We had these big barrels. We would burn the trash. If you watch movies, you'll see in America, people burning stuff in barrels to stay warm or whatever.

Rachael: Yes. I've seen that in movies.

Todd: Yeah. I remember one year, my grandfather was like, "We can't do it anymore. They sent a letter. They said no more."

Rachael: We used to go to the dump every week. My father would load up the trailer, well maybe every month or so.

Todd: Yeah.

Rachael: That's how we used to do it. We didn't used to burn it.

Todd: Right.

Rachael: I think they already had laws about it.

Todd: Really? You were probably ahead of the times. Yeah. Yeah, very green place. Also, for having children, women used to drink a little, bit, or they used to smoke when they were pregnant, right?

Rachael: Yes. That was a big thing, especially yeah, smoking to stay slim, while you were pregnant, so you wouldn't get too fat.

Todd: Really?

Rachael: That was why a lot of women smoked.

Todd: Really.

Rachael: It was a diet thing.

Todd: Oh my gosh.

Rachael: Yeah.

Todd: I did not know that. Wow, different times huh.

Rachael: Yeah and the baby was born smaller, but that wasn't considered necessarily a problem.

Todd: Wow. Not only that, they used to have commercials about cigarettes. They would have commercials about drinking. I guess they still have commercials about alcohol. Yeah, they used to have commercials about smoking. I think that's illegal in the states now.

Rachael: It's illegal in New Zealand too. Yeah. Haven't seen.

Todd: Yeah, it's been a while, right?

Rachael: The magazines, newspapers used to be full of them.

Todd: Yeah. And they used to not have to say what all the ingredients were in foods and stuff, right? So these days you have to say exactly what's in the food, I think.

Rachael: Well, my mother and grandmother used to cook most things from scratch anyway. They weren't many packets or cans of anything ...

Todd: Right.

Rachael: at all.

Todd: Yeah.

Rachael: No instant food or instant cake. They used to cook everything from fresh ingredients. We knew what was in stuff.

Todd: We did too. On our farm, my grandparents farm, they grew their own vegetables. We used to can them.

Rachael: Yes, we used to do that too.

Todd: Yeah. Although it was funny, because ...

Rachael: Vegetables and fruit, and potatoes every year.

Todd: Right. It's funny, cause you call it canning, but it's actually, you put it in a jar.

Rachael: Jars, yes.

Todd: Right?

Rachael: You're doing it at home. You used jars.

Todd: You don't call it jarring, but actually I never remember putting it in a can.

Rachael: We called it preserving.

Todd: Preserving. Yeah. I hated that. We would do that all day for ... Usually all weekend and I dreaded that weekend.

Rachael: Yeah.

Todd: That was the worst, cause you know ...

Rachael: I didn't mind it so much.

Todd: Oh really?

Rachael: Yeah. We kids, we didn't have to do too much. We used to like to pick the peels.

Todd: Yeah.

Rachael: Yeah, or the stones or we'd get lots of nice bits of fruit.

Todd: Oh, that's good. No. My grandparents put us to work. It was two days that I could not have fun, any fun from sun up to sun down. I dreaded it every year, like, "Oh no. It's canning weekend. Oh no."

Rachael: I didn't like the potato harvest though.

Todd: Oh really?

Rachael: I didn't like having to go and take care of the potatoes.

Todd: So did your family have a potato ranch?

Rachael: We didn't have a farm, but we used to plant a potato patch at my uncle's farm.

Todd: Oh right.

Rachael: We would go there and we would weed it. We would plant it and we would harvest it every year.

Todd: Oh, that's cool. Yeah, we just grew green beans and carrots, tomatoes, that type of stuff.

Rachael: We used to have a vegetable garden at our house, the back yard of our home. We had apples and lemons and peaches and gooseberries and grapes.

Todd: Gooseberries? What's that?

Rachael: Gooseberries are little green, very sour, berry. They make great pies.

Todd: Really.

Rachael: Yeah.

Todd: Gooseberries. How do you spell it?

Rachael: Goose, like goose.

Todd: Oh, gooseberries.

Rachael: Yes.

Todd: Sorry. That's my ...

Rachael: Pronunciation.

Todd: My poor pronunciation, listening there. Oh gooseberries. Oh cool. What do they taste like, gooseberries?

Rachael: Very sour, like a raw lemon maybe.

Todd: Okay. Oh cool.

Rachael: Or, rhubarb if you've ever tried that and say that.

Todd: Rhubarb. I was not a fan of Rhubarb. Rhubarb was one of the things I dreaded as a kid, was the rhubarb pie.

Rachael: I loved it.

Todd: Really?

Rachael: I used to eat it raw out of the garden.

Todd: Oh.

Rachael: We would play in the back and we had a trampoline. The vegetable garden was there. We used to pick the raw gooseberries or the raw rhubarb, beans or carrots. Afternoon snack was very healthy in those days.

Todd: Rhubarb is healthy?

Rachael: It's a vegetable.

Todd: Yeah.

Rachael: Not quite so healthy once you add cups and cups of sugar to it.

Todd: Yeah.

Rachael: The leaves are toxic. You have to be careful with it.

Todd: I didn't know. I didn't like the Rhubarb. I didn't like beets. Those were the two that I hated.

Rachael: Beetroot, beetroot. We used to ... Yeah.

Todd: Yeah. They always make you eat it at ... Yeah. You'd have the canned cranberry whatever and also the beetroots. Those two things were not my favorites.

Rachael: I love beetroot on a hamburger.

Todd: Oh yeah?

Rachael: Yep.

Todd: Oh, well there you go. That's very healthy. It's purple. One of the few purple foods, right? Purple or reddish. Is it purple or red?

Rachael: It's reddish really. It's really reddish. Yeah.

Todd: Kind of, a deep dark blood red, right? Yeah. Okay. Yeah, the good old days growing up on the farm. The things we used to do we can't do anymore.

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Dr. Franzblau: Hey, how's my favorite parenting team doing?
Ross: Dr. Franzblau, hi.
Dr. Franzblau: So, I understand you're thinking of having a baby? Well, I see you're nine months pregnant. That's a good start. How you doing with your contractions?
Carol: Oh, I love them. Each one's like a little party in my uterus.

Monica: I want a baby.
Chandler: Mmmm. Not tonight, honey. I got an early day tomorrow.
Monica: Get up. Come on. Let's get some coffee.
Chandler: Oh, ok, 'cause we never do that.

Joey: Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Shoot, or just fall down. That's good too.
Lydia: Knick fan?
Joey: Oh, yeah.
Lydia: Oh, boy, do they suck.
Joey: Hey, listen, lady...whoa.
Lydia: Look, look at your man, Ewing. Nice shot. You know what, he couldn't hit water if he was standing on a boat.
Joey: Oh yeah? And who do you like?
Lydia: The Celtics.
Joey: The Celtics? Ha. They couldn't hit a boat if...wait. They suck, alright?
Lydia: Oh, shut up. You know, it's a rebuilding year. You... waah!
Joey: Wha? Wha..aa? Let me get the father. Hey, we need a father over here! We need a father!
Lydia: There is no father.
Joey: Oh, oh, oh, sorry.
Lydia: Ok, that's ok. I'm fine. I'm... oh!
Joey: Oh, uh, ok. Right this way. All the other pregnant women seem to be goin' in here.
Lydia: Ok.

Phoebe: Oh, look, twins. Hi, guys. Oh, cute, cute.
Monica: No fair. I don't even have one. How come they get two?
Chandler: You'll get one.
Monica: Oh yeah? When?
Chandler: All right. I'll tell you what. When we're 40, if neither of us are married, what do you say you and I get together and have one?
Monica: Why won't I be married when I'm 40?
Chandler: Oh, no, no. No, I just meant hypothetically.
Monica: Ok, hypothetically, why won't I be married when I'm 40?
Chandler: No, no, no.
Monica: No, What is it? Is there something fundamentally unmarriable about me?
Chandler: Uh, uh.
Monica: Well?
Chandler: Dear God! This parachute is a knapsack!

Lydia: Mom, we've been through this. No, I'm not calling him. I don't care if it is his kid, the guy's a jerk. No, I'm not alone. Joey's here. What do you mean, Joey who? Joey who?
Joey: Tribbiani.
Lydia: Joey Tribbiani. Yes, ok. Hold on. She wants to talk to you. Take the phone.
Joey: Hi, yeah, it's me. Oh, no no no, we're just friends. Yeah, I'm single. 25. An actor. Hello?
Lydia: She's not much of a phone person.
Joey: Yeah, so, uh, so, uh, what's the deal with this father guy? I mean, if someone was havin' my baby somewhere, I'd wanna know about it, you know?
Lydia: Hey, Knick fan, am I interested in your views on fatherhood? Uh, no.
Joey: Ok, look, maybe I should just go.
Lydia: Maybe you should.
Joey: Good luck, and uh, take care, huh?
Joey: You know what the Celtics problem is? They let the players run the team.
Lydia: Oh, that is so not true.
Joey: Oh, it is.
Lydia: It isn't.
Joey: It is.
Lydia: Isn't!

Ross: Breathe.
Susan: Breathe.
Ross: Breathe.
Susan: Breathe.
Ross: Breathe.
Susan: Breathe.
Carol: All right, that's it. I want both of you out.
Ross: Why?
Susan: He started it!
Ross: No, you started it.
Susan: You did!
Carol: I don't care. I am trying to get a person out of my body here, and you're not making it any easier.
Ross: But...
Carol: Now go!
Ross: Thanks a lot.
Susan: See what you did?
Ross: Yeah, listen...
Carol: Out!

Nurse: Breathe, breathe, breathe...
Lydia: Oh, no.
Joey: Ew! What is that? Something exploded!
Nurse: It's just her water breaking. Calm down, will you?
Joey: Water breaking, what do you mean? What's that, water breaking?
Nurse: Breathe, breathe, breathe.

Ross: Oh, Please. This is so your fault.
Susan: How, how is this my fault?
Ross: Look, Carol never threw me out of a room before you came along.
Susan: You know what your problem is? You're threatened by me.
Ross: Oh, I'm threatened by you?
Susan: Yes.
Phoebe: Hey, hey, ok, all right, that's it! Get in here. Come on. My god, you guys, I don't believe you. There are children coming into the world in this very building and your negative fighting noises are not the first thing they should be hearing. So just stop all the yelling, just stop it!
Ross: Yeah, Susan.
Phoebe: Don't make me do this again, I don't like my voice like this.
Phoebe: Ok, who wants to hear something ironic?

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Dr. Franzblau: Hey, how's my favorite parenting team doing?
Ross: Dr. Franzblau, hi.
Dr. Franzblau: So, I understand you're thinking of having a baby? Well, I see you're nine months pregnant. That's a good start. How you doing with your contractions?
Carol: Oh, I love them. Each one's like a little party in my uterus.

Monica: I want a baby.
Chandler: Mmmm. Not tonight, honey. I got an early day tomorrow.
Monica: Get up. Come on. Let's get some coffee.
Chandler: Oh, ok, 'cause we never do that.

Joey: Shoot! Shoot! Shoot! Shoot, or just fall down. That's good too.
Lydia: Knick fan?
Joey: Oh, yeah.
Lydia: Oh, boy, do they suck.
Joey: Hey, listen, lady...whoa.
Lydia: Look, look at your man, Ewing. Nice shot. You know what, he couldn't hit water if he was standing on a boat.
Joey: Oh yeah? And who do you like?
Lydia: The Celtics.
Joey: The Celtics? Ha. They couldn't hit a boat if...wait. They suck, alright?
Lydia: Oh, shut up. You know, it's a rebuilding year. You... waah!
Joey: Wha? Wha..aa? Let me get the father. Hey, we need a father over here! We need a father!
Lydia: There is no father.
Joey: Oh, oh, oh, sorry.
Lydia: Ok, that's ok. I'm fine. I'm... oh!
Joey: Oh, uh, ok. Right this way. All the other pregnant women seem to be goin' in here.
Lydia: Ok.

Phoebe: Oh, look, twins. Hi, guys. Oh, cute, cute.
Monica: No fair. I don't even have one. How come they get two?
Chandler: You'll get one.
Monica: Oh yeah? When?
Chandler: All right. I'll tell you what. When we're 40, if neither of us are married, what do you say you and I get together and have one?
Monica: Why won't I be married when I'm 40?
Chandler: Oh, no, no. No, I just meant hypothetically.
Monica: Ok, hypothetically, why won't I be married when I'm 40?
Chandler: No, no, no.
Monica: No, What is it? Is there something fundamentally unmarriable about me?
Chandler: Uh, uh.
Monica: Well?
Chandler: Dear God! This parachute is a knapsack!

Lydia: Mom, we've been through this. No, I'm not calling him. I don't care if it is his kid, the guy's a jerk. No, I'm not alone. Joey's here. What do you mean, Joey who? Joey who?
Joey: Tribbiani.
Lydia: Joey Tribbiani. Yes, ok. Hold on. She wants to talk to you. Take the phone.
Joey: Hi, yeah, it's me. Oh, no no no, we're just friends. Yeah, I'm single. 25. An actor. Hello?
Lydia: She's not much of a phone person.
Joey: Yeah, so, uh, so, uh, what's the deal with this father guy? I mean, if someone was havin' my baby somewhere, I'd wanna know about it, you know?
Lydia: Hey, Knick fan, am I interested in your views on fatherhood? Uh, no.
Joey: Ok, look, maybe I should just go.
Lydia: Maybe you should.
Joey: Good luck, and uh, take care, huh?
Joey: You know what the Celtics problem is? They let the players run the team.
Lydia: Oh, that is so not true.
Joey: Oh, it is.
Lydia: It isn't.
Joey: It is.
Lydia: Isn't!

Ross: Breathe.
Susan: Breathe.
Ross: Breathe.
Susan: Breathe.
Ross: Breathe.
Susan: Breathe.
Carol: All right, that's it. I want both of you out.
Ross: Why?
Susan: He started it!
Ross: No, you started it.
Susan: You did!
Carol: I don't care. I am trying to get a person out of my body here, and you're not making it any easier.
Ross: But...
Carol: Now go!
Ross: Thanks a lot.
Susan: See what you did?
Ross: Yeah, listen...
Carol: Out!

Nurse: Breathe, breathe, breathe...
Lydia: Oh, no.
Joey: Ew! What is that? Something exploded!
Nurse: It's just her water breaking. Calm down, will you?
Joey: Water breaking, what do you mean? What's that, water breaking?
Nurse: Breathe, breathe, breathe.

Ross: Oh, Please. This is so your fault.
Susan: How, how is this my fault?
Ross: Look, Carol never threw me out of a room before you came along.
Susan: You know what your problem is? You're threatened by me.
Ross: Oh, I'm threatened by you?
Susan: Yes.
Phoebe: Hey, hey, ok, all right, that's it! Get in here. Come on. My god, you guys, I don't believe you. There are children coming into the world in this very building and your negative fighting noises are not the first thing they should be hearing. So just stop all the yelling, just stop it!
Ross: Yeah, Susan.
Phoebe: Don't make me do this again, I don't like my voice like this.
Phoebe: Ok, who wants to hear something ironic?

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Dr. Franzblau: Hey, how's my favorite parenting team doing? Ross: Dr. Franzblau, hi. Dr. Franzblau: So, I understand you're thinking of having a baby? Well, I see you're nine months pregnant. That's a good start. How you doing with your contractions? Carol: Oh, I love them.

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All: Help!

Ross: I'm having a baby in here! Ok, everyone stand back. Ow.

Carol: Are they here yet?

Rachel: No, honey, they're not, but don't worry, because we are going to find them, and until we do, we are all here for you, ok?

Carol: Ok.

Rachel: Ok?

Carol: Ok.

Rachel: Ok, so anyway, you were telling me about Paris, it sounds fascinating.

Dr. Franzblau: It really was. There was this great little pastry shop right by my hotel. There you go, dear.

Joey: Come on, Lydia, you can do it. Push! Push 'em out, push 'em out, harder, harder. Push 'em out, push 'em out, way out! Let's get that ball and really move, hey, hey, ho, ho. Let'sâ€" I was justâ€"yeah, right. Push! Push!

Monica: Now, Mom, everything's going fine, really. Yeah, Ross is great. He's uh, he's in a whole other place. No, he's gone. No no, you don't have to fly back, really. What do you mean this might be your only chance? Would you stop? I'm only 26, I'm not even thinking about babies yet.

Chandler: Where have you been?

Joey: Oh, just had a baby.

Chandler: Mazel tov!

Lydia: So how did you know I was even here?

Guy: Your mom called me. So is this her?

Lydia: No, this is a loaner.

Guy: I'm sorry you had to do this by yourself.

Lydia: I wasn't by myself. I had a doctor, a nurse, and a helper guy. So, did you see who won the game?

Guy: Yeah, the Knicks by 10. They suck.

Lydia: Yeah, they're not so bad.

Ross: Come on, come on. Damnit, damnit, damnit, damnit. (to Susan) This is all your fault. This is supposed to be, like, the greatest day of my life, y'know? My son is being born, and I should be in there, you know, instead of stuck in a closet with you.

Susan: The woman I love is having a baby today. I've been waiting for this just as much as you have.

Ross: No no no, believe me. No one has been waiting for this as much as I have, ok? And you know what the funny thing is? When this day is over, you get to go home with the baby, ok? Where does that leave me?

Susan: You get to be the baby's father. Everyone knows who you are. Who am I? There's Mother's Day, there's Father's Day, there's no... Lesbian Lover Day.

Ross: Every day is Lesbian Lover Day.

Phoebe: This is so great.

Ross: You wanna explain that?

Phoebe: I mean, well, 'cause when I was growing up, you know my dad left, and my mother died, and my stepfather went to jail, so I barely had enough pieces of parents to make one whole one. And here's this little baby who has like three whole parents who care about it so much that they're fighting over who gets to love it the most. And it's not even born yet. It's just, it's just the luckiest baby in the whole world.
I'm sorry, you were fighting.

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All: Help!

Ross: I'm having a baby in here! Ok, everyone stand back. Ow.

Carol: Are they here yet?

Rachel: No, honey, they're not, but don't worry, because we are going to find them, and until we do, we are all here for you, ok?

Carol: Ok.

Rachel: Ok?

Carol: Ok.

Rachel: Ok, so anyway, you were telling me about Paris, it sounds fascinating.

Dr. Franzblau: It really was. There was this great little pastry shop right by my hotel. There you go, dear.

Joey: Come on, Lydia, you can do it. Push! Push 'em out, push 'em out, harder, harder. Push 'em out, push 'em out, way out! Let's get that ball and really move, hey, hey, ho, ho. Let'sâ€" I was justâ€"yeah, right. Push! Push!

Monica: Now, Mom, everything's going fine, really. Yeah, Ross is great. He's uh, he's in a whole other place. No, he's gone. No no, you don't have to fly back, really. What do you mean this might be your only chance? Would you stop? I'm only 26, I'm not even thinking about babies yet.

Chandler: Where have you been?

Joey: Oh, just had a baby.

Chandler: Mazel tov!

Lydia: So how did you know I was even here?

Guy: Your mom called me. So is this her?

Lydia: No, this is a loaner.

Guy: I'm sorry you had to do this by yourself.

Lydia: I wasn't by myself. I had a doctor, a nurse, and a helper guy. So, did you see who won the game?

Guy: Yeah, the Knicks by 10. They suck.

Lydia: Yeah, they're not so bad.

Ross: Come on, come on. Damnit, damnit, damnit, damnit. (to Susan) This is all your fault. This is supposed to be, like, the greatest day of my life, y'know? My son is being born, and I should be in there, you know, instead of stuck in a closet with you.

Susan: The woman I love is having a baby today. I've been waiting for this just as much as you have.

Ross: No no no, believe me. No one has been waiting for this as much as I have, ok? And you know what the funny thing is? When this day is over, you get to go home with the baby, ok? Where does that leave me?

Susan: You get to be the baby's father. Everyone knows who you are. Who am I? There's Mother's Day, there's Father's Day, there's no... Lesbian Lover Day.

Ross: Every day is Lesbian Lover Day.

Phoebe: This is so great.

Ross: You wanna explain that?

Phoebe: I mean, well, 'cause when I was growing up, you know my dad left, and my mother died, and my stepfather went to jail, so I barely had enough pieces of parents to make one whole one. And here's this little baby who has like three whole parents who care about it so much that they're fighting over who gets to love it the most. And it's not even born yet. It's just, it's just the luckiest baby in the whole world.
I'm sorry, you were fighting.

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All: Help! Ross: I'm having a baby in here! Ok, everyone stand back. Ow. Carol: Are they here yet? Rachel: No, honey, they're not, but don't worry, because we are going to find them, and until we do, we are all here for you, ok? Carol: Ok. Rachel: Ok? Carol: Ok.

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Plenty of great Disney movies are hidden in the game grid. Try to find them all a quickly as possible.