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Hi!
Can I join to your company if my English is not very well?
I want to have more practice but have no somebody for English speaking

Селянка, yes of course!

Аленький Цветочек

It is OK with me. What would be our next grammar topic?

Селянка
Welcome!

The next grammatical Topic is Simple Past Tense. If you want you can write 20 sentenses with Sinple Past and present us right here.

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/simplepast.html

My Past Simple sentences.

I woke up at 7:50 am today.
My son and I went to a book store yesterday.
We bought a book and two CDs for him.
He drove.
When we came back I asked him to take the trash out.
He did.
I asked him to feed the cat.
He said: What? I don't understand what you are talking about.
He was in a playful mood.
Later in the evening I read the book 'Mort' by Terry Pratchett aloud to my husband, because he was sick yesterday and layed in bed.
My son came into the room to check his Facebook news on my computer, because his computer got broken – the screen stayed black and the computer made funny sounds.
We had a family discussion about how to pronounce the word 'inevitability'.
We came to a conclusion that it had two stresses: ine'vitabi'lity.
We discussed the use of idioms in English.
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It is very interesting though it is not Past Simple Tense.
Being dead in English can be described as
- six feet under – meaning that the body is six feet under the ground level, six feet is a standard depth of a grave;
- looking at the other side of the grass – we are looking at the grass from the upper side, and dead people would look at it from the other side.
- pushing up daisies – more active dead people would even try and help flowers grow.
These idioms have something to do with physical body. Here is another one: meeting the Creater. It refers to the soul.
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OK, now back to Past Simple Tense.
I didn't cook anything yesterday.
We ate the left-overs from a day before yesterday.
Yesterday all my troubles seemed so far away.
My sister wrote me a message via odnoklassniki today.
I answered her but we didn't really talk yet.
This morning I hoped it would be a wonderful day today!

Аленький Цветочек
Now it is your turn!
Селянка
Join us!

With a great pleasure

Today's morning was a very trouble time for me.
My little son got ill yesterday.
And I took care about him for the hole night and day.
That's why I can't did many affairs wich I wanted to do.
But some of them I could do despite problems.
For example, I did my weekly return and send him for my boss.
Like Татя I did not cook everything today because had no freetime.

Селянка

Today's morning was a very troubled time for me. (or, you can say 'tough time')
My little son got ill yesterday. (Sorry to read it , though the sentence is grammatically correct )
And I took care about of him for the whole night and day. (to take care of somebody)
That's why I can't did couldn't (or, didn't manage to do) many affairs (it's better to say many things, or much work) wich that I wanted to do.
But some of them I could do despite of the problems. (I'm glad you could! )
For example, I did my weekly return and send sent him it for to my boss. (I'm not sure what 'return' is)
Like Татя I did not cook everything (it's better to say 'anything') today because I had no free time.

Татя, yes, now is my turn.

1.I saw my husband off (??)at seven o'clock in the morning. Имею в виду, проводила мужа в семь утра.
2. I took care of my child.
3. We visited together citizen office.
4. I bought the bread and eggs.
5. I fed my daughter.
6. I eat the lunch, watched TV, and wrote the messages on forum.
7. I cooked dinner/
8. Than I slept.
9. I finished work, walked to the park, and found a nice place to sit.
10. I called to my husband and finished the yesterday’s paperwork.
11. I found news in Internet.
12. I enjoyed the sunset.
13. I read the Forum.
14. My baby tried to sit.
15. She plaid with new music toy and made me crazy.
16. The neighbor cut the lawn and made a lot of noise.
17. The spider, my only pet caught fly.
18 The friend told me the local news.
19. My mother-in-law told me she changed her haircut.
20. In the neighborhood continued building.

1.I saw my husband off (??)at seven o'clock in the morning. Имею в виду, проводила мужа в семь утра. (Yes, it is possible to say so. )
2. I took care of my child.
3. We visited together citizen office together.
4. I bought the bread and eggs.
5. I fed my daughter.
6. I eat ate the lunch, watched TV, and wrote the messages on forum.
7. I cooked dinner/
8. Than Then I slept.
9. I finished work, walked to the park, and found a nice place to sit.
10. I called to my husband and finished the yesterday’s paperwork. (To call somebody - no preposition is necessary.)
11. I found news in on the Internet.
12. I enjoyed the sunset.
13. I read the Forum.
14. My baby tried to sit.
15. She plaid played with a new music toy and made me crazy.
16. The neighbor cut the lawn and made a lot of noise.
17. The spider, my only pet caught a fly.
18 The friend told me the local news.
19. My mother-in-law told me she changed her haircut. (Or you can say 'changed her hairstyle' or 'made a new haircut')
20. In the neighborhood continued building. (It's better to say 'They continued building in the neighborhood'.)

The conversation with the same topic is delayed till next Thursday, 10 p.m.

Getting prepared for the next teamspeak.....

I will probably talk about rudeness taking the scenes from 'The Big Lebowski' movie as an example.

I chose 2 scenes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrLLdNuOESk - this one shows a little chit-chat of 3 friends: Dude, Walter (the guy with the glasses), Donny (the guy wearing an orange shirt). They are discussing a sad and unfortunate episode in the Dude's life: some strangers broke into his apartments and ruined his rug.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IONyLZn0pLI - this scene shows the guy named Jesus (most likely he is a Mexican) and his friend. He arrogantly speaks to the Dude, Walter and Donny. Their reaction is rather unexpected.

Thanks everyone for the discussion. I reacted emotionally, even if it didn't show. Now I'm sitting and regretting it.

Татя, everything is ok.
I really glad that you participate in the conversation.

The topics for next discussion on Tuesday 14.09.10, 10 pm Moscow time :

Success. What does it mean for you?

Job interview/First date. How to make the first impression?

Which topic would you like to discuss?

http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/pastcontinuous.html We continue grammatical topics with Past Continuous Tense. As usual, you can also write 20 sentences to this topic.

Oops I'm all mixed up again!
I thought that the discussion will be next week.
And somehow I forgot that Аленький Цветочек wrote date when the discussion will be.
First I wanted to upset but then I thought that it will be more good if I'll write more sentences of Past Simple.
Then I sat at my computer and took up work.
I remembered English word which forgot because I had't practice and wrote their.
It's too hard to remember something that you don't use for a long time (It's not Past Simple. It's cry from the heart! )