English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.
Hey,
today we first talked again about global warming and we tried to give a little definition. Here is what we said:
Global warming is due to pollution, more precisely greenhouse gases: for example carbon dioxyde.
Then we started to describe and comment upon a picture. Here is what we said:
Methodology -> how to locate things in a document:
in the background ≠ in the foreground
in the distance
in the middle
in the corner
on the left / on the right
Click on the picture to enlarge
The document is picture / photo.
It represents a landscape. The scene takes place in the countryside.
On the left, in the background, there is a car on fire. There has been an accident and the car is burning; there is a lot of smoke. The driver was probably going to the house in the distance.
Maybe, he is seriously injured.
On the right, there is an ambulance but the EMT are not helping.
Instead of rescuing the driver, they are urinating, smoking and calling.
instead of + V-ing = Au lieu de...
HW: learn the comments and the new vocabulary.