English Day by Day is designed for school students to improve their performance in the English language.
Hi guys,
today we first corrected the homework you had to do about the events concerning Jacob during the pogrom. Here is the timeline we finally drew after you spoke:
The scene is a pogrom. It takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in a Russian village
-> There was an assault
-> The soldiers killed everyone
-> Jacob tried to protect the rabbi
-> They killed the rabbi
-> he screamed because he was angry and scared
-> he tried to escape
-> he was shot by a soldier
-> he couldn't run away because he was hurt
-> he took a torch to scare the horse
-> he killed a soldier
-> he took the horse
-> he left the village
-> the whole village was on fire
Then we continued by working on how to pronounce /ed/ endings in verbs. Here is the chart and the rule in French that we elaborated:
"to be written by ..."
Finally, you made hypotheses about Jacob's possible future and we saw how "may / might" could be used in this context. Here is what you said:
- He might escape and flee from Russia.
- He might surrender.
- He may come back and get revenge.
- He may change his name not to be recognized.
- The soldiers may hunt him.
- He may tell other villages that the Russians are arriving.
- He may take refuge in another village.