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A Real Life Genius!

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Bill Gates' Bio...! This is a Technological Genius...

William Henry Gates III (born October 28, 1955 in Seattle, Washington) is an American entreprenuer and the co-founder, chairman, former chief software architect, and former chief executive officer of Microsoft, the world's leading software company. Forbes magazine's The World's Billionaires list has ranked him as the richest person on earth for the last thirteen consecutive years, with a current net worth of approximately $53 billion. When family wealth is considered, his family ranks second behind the Walton family.
Gates is one of the best-known entrepreneurs of the personal computer revolution. He is widely respected for his foresight and ambition. He is also frequently criticized as having built Microsoft through unfair or unlawful business practices. Since amassing his fortune, Gates has pursued a number of philanthropic endeavors, donating large amounts of money to various charitable organizations and scientific research programs through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, founded in 2000.

Bill Gates' Talking

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Guys, do you recognize this??!! Can you tell us in which city is this Masterpiece located? Leave us a comment, please!!!!!

Write a comment about the exposition of mexican painter Frida Kahlo.

Here you can watch the video of one of Michael Jackson's greatest hits, Black or White. Can you identify the masterpieces in the video? Post a comment.

Modals of Deduction

When we want to speculate or make deductions about a particular situation we can use the following modal auxiliaries:

• Must, Couldn't, Can't: when we are 99% sure about something.
• May (not), Might (not), Could: when we think something is possible.

These modal auxiliaries can be followed by verbs in the simple present, present continuous, present perfect or present perfect continuous.

Present: It couldn't be that bad!

I think he might be working late today.

Past: Diego may have found out about Frida's affair.

Sorry, I must have been daydreaming.

We usually use couldn't with the present perfect and we can use either couldn't or can't with the simple past.

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Take a look at these presentations about:

• Modals of Deduction
• Modal of Deduction in the past

Grammar Exercises

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• Exercise 1
• Exercise 2
• Exercise 3
• Exercise 4

Narrative Tense Structures

Simple Past
The simple past is usually used to fix events in the past. We can use it to describe the main events of a story.
E.g: Trevor Baylis dozed off and had a dream.
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Past Continuous
The past continuous is often used in contrast with the simple past. We can use it to describe an activity that was in progress when the main events of the story happened.
E.g: Art Fry was listening to the sermon one Sunday when his mind began to wander.
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Simple Past or Past Continuous Dialog...!!!


Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous
The past perfect can be used to refer to an event that clearly took place before the time of the main events of the story.
E.g: He had been demostrating his product to prospective customers.
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Past Perfect Continuous

Execises
Past Perfect and Past Perfect Continuous

Glossary

• Daydreaming: a set of pleasant thoughts about something you would prefer to be doing or something you would like to achieve in the future.

Example:

1. He never paid attention in class and seemed to be in a permanent daydream.
2. I was just enjoying a daydream about winning the Nobel Prize for literature.

• Masterpiece: a work of art such as a painting, film or book which is done or made with great skill, and is often a person's greatest work.

Example:

1. 'The Last Supper' is widely regarded as Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece.
2. It's a skilful or clever example of something: Her press conference was a masterpiece of media manipulation.

• Wander: If your mind or your thoughts wander, you stop thinking about the subject that you should be giving your attention to and start thinking about other matters.

Example:

1. Halfway through the meeting my mind started to wander.

To walk around slowly in a relaxed way or without any clear purpose or direction:

Example:

1. We spent the morning wandering around the old part of the city.
2. She was found several hours later, wandering the streets, lost.
3. He was here a moment ago but he's wandered off somewhere.