Monday, February 4, 2008

tenses for speaking "easy english"



To speakbetter in easy english we should have a glance at TENSES
first one is SIMPLE PRESENT FORM
here we use "is, am and are"
the main verb will be in V1 form
we use this 1).for actions that take place at the time of speaking
example: i eat, they play now, you teach
2). to indicate habitual actions
example: i see films every sunday
they play chess every day
we go to church on sundays


present perfect continuous tense

I have been waiting for the job for two years.
i have been writing this blog for one month.
i have been teaching in this school since 8th, August 2007.
i have been reading this story since 4pm.
she has been waiting for bus since 5 O'clock.
he has been waiting for his wife for five years.

in persent perfect tense we have to note two things
one is "since"and 'for'
we use since at point of time and for at period of time.
second one is "have" and "has"
we use have to plurals and has to singulars.


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02-02-2008

today

one fine evening i am waiting for the bus, MANEPALLI.
sesaiah brought the bus to the flatform. i am the first passenger stepped in to that bus and i took my usual seat, which could be reservable to phically challenged ones.
PRAKASH the conductor hellping a person who stepping in to the bus with two walking sticks. Then he became the seat mate for that day. after settleing in the seat he asked me that how many film theatres are there in markapur. i said five, after remembering the JAGADESHWARI, VIJAYA, SAI BALAJI, SRINIVASA, AND VISWESVARA in mind.
later in discusson he told about all about him as he was a great cyclist, unfortunatly he had the injury at his legs and as in part of treatment at lalita super speciality hospital, he got the heart problem too and for that treatment he came to markapur, to consult an aurvedic practicionar,who works as a fireman. I too know him in the talks of JHANSI MADAM.
After all he is the villeger of krosuru, which is my friend SESHU BABU's villege.
he made an expedition to TIRUPATI from KROSURU, which is 394 km. long. To and fro he cycled nearly 800 kilometers.
what a nice expedition.


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one fine sunday 03-01-2008

To day it self a sunday started with my wife's
bed coffee. Because of sunday
from 10 to 11am i spent my time in preparation of sociology for drbraou 3ed year, the topic is MAGIC, Frazer and Malinovski's definations, Raymond Firths's eliments in magic.
Law of similarity and law of contagion were the two types classified by frazer.
then i had my bath& lunch and started to MARKAPUR in auto to kunta and in bus to college. in the bus tow ladies of dressed like northern tribes steped in at devaraj gattu.
one of that ladies went back and distributed some pamplets which are printed in telugu, urdu and english. she silently distributing the papers, at that time i was invalved in my book and had alook at her eyes. she did not gave the paper to me. first I thaught that she belongs to some aurvedic medicin (tailam & lehyam) but on seeing the seatmates paper at a glance
I saw the words "we lost in some floods" She came to front and folded her hands
and bent her head. Then she started collecting
the papers and money.
wgat a business they selected, they are getting better than any employee in private school.

Sunday, February 3, 2008

Sir Raymond (William) Firth



Born 25 Mar 1901; died 22 Feb 2002
New Zealander social anthropologist whose major research was with the Maori and other peoples of Oceania and Southeast Asia. Firth conducted his first research in the British Solomon Islands 1928-29. The economic organization of primitive societies became one of Firth's primary interests as indicated by his works on the Kauri gum industry and the fishing industry of Malaysia. Among his other chief interests were social structure and religion, especially of the Tikopia of the Solomon Islands, and the anthropological treatment of symbols. Firth was also well know for his work concerning sacrifices. In 1963, Raymond began his work on the influence of economics on the ideology of sacrifice.



Photograph: Weber, Max
Britannica Concise



Max Weber, 1918

Leif Geiges

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Weber, Max (Encyclopædia Britannica)
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