Grammar Books

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Advance Grammar Student Book
Advance Grammar Work Book

On-going marks

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Advertisements

Read the following advertisements, then fill in the blanks with appropriate relative pronouns and do the task at the end.

SECRETARY

Computer Future is looking for a person ……………… has the right skills for fast-paced, growing office. The current position, …………… is being announced here for the first time, is for a front office secretary. Thus, we are looking for a person ………. can perform secretarial duties and work with the public. The ideal candidate for this position is someone …………. can type at least 80 wpm and is comfortable with basic and advanced word processing programs. Our company stresses excellent customer relations, so only those applicants…......................people skills are truly outstanding should apply; an outgoing personality is a requirement. We offer a very competitive salary, full health insurance, a generous retirement plan, and opportunities for professional growth, a package of ……………..other companies can only be envious. If you think you are the right person for this job, we urge you to apply today.

BILINGUAL TELEPHONE OPERATORS

A large multinational company seeks an energetic individual …………. has a good telephone voice. Applicants …………. English and Spanish skills are impeccable should call Mr. Wilford at 555-1417 to set up an appointment. In addition, we seek someone …………is familiar with a traditional switchboard but also knows how to operate a computer-driven switchboard. In particular, applicants ……………… are good with details are encouraged to apply. The next two years will be a time …………… our company is expanding rapidly and similar jobs may be opening up in the very near future. Therefore, we urge all interested persons to call for a job interview as soon as possible.

WEB PAGE DESIGNERS

Our downtown office is looking for a creative person ……………can meet work deadlines. The ideal person for this job is someone …………..can translate a client's ideas and needs into a dynamic Web page. We need a designer……………imagination can help turn mundane Web pages into innovative sites. In addition, we are looking for a person. In addition, we are looking for a person……………..knows HTML and JAVA, programming languages…………..our company uses extensively. If interested, you should submit a detailed resume, a small portfolio of previous Web creations, and three letters of reference from clients for ……………..you have worked during the last five years.

Task: Your language center is in need of some teachers of English. Write down the advertisement for your language center using as many relative clauses as possible. Then record your advertisement to upload onto the web.

The Person Who Influenced My Life the Most

Read the essay and fill in the blanks. Then do the task at the end of the essay.

THE TEACHER WHO INFLUENCED MY LIFE THE MOST

School was always very important to me. Therefore, it is not surprising that the person ……………..influenced my life the most was a teacher. In my twelve years of school, 1 have had many teacher …………….I have admired greatly, but Mrs. Thompson, ………………. was my French teacher in the tenth grade, is the teacher to ………………I owe the most.

Mrs. Thompson was an excellent teacher, and I really liked the way she taught the class.
It was a class ……………I felt important. In this class, I was able to excel, ………………helped me feel better about myself. Before I took this class, I was not the kind of person …………spoke up in groups. In fact, I was very quiet and did not socialize much. Because of the success ……......I had in this class, though, I became more confident and at ease, something ………..also helped me to do better in my other classes. I became a better student and a better person.

My family did not have a lot of money, and it looked like I wasn't going to be able to
attend the university. However, Mrs. Thompson wrote strong letters recommending me for
scholarship ……………I submitted along with the applications. In the end, I was able to get a scholarship to attend the university. After my acceptance arrived, Mrs. Thompson gave me advice regarding the classes I would take, as well as other academic matters. Those days at the beginning of my college career were difficult for me. They were day …………..I really needed someone's advice, and Mrs. Thompson came through for me.

My final reason for choosing Mrs. Thompson is the subject to ……………she introduced me. This was my first class in French, a language ………..I really liked to study. I enjoyed French so much that I then took Spanish the next year. I enjoyed studying both languages and had excellent grades in all my language classes, an accomplishment ……………has given me the idea of becoming a language teacher myself. I can only hope that T will one day be able to teach as well as Mrs. Thompson, class had such a positive impact on my life.

Task: Who is the most influential person in the world nowadays, to your group? Compose an essay using as many relative clauses as possible.

Read, fill in the blanks with appropriate relative pronouns, and then listen and check

LIQUID PAPER

This is the story of a very simple invention ………... you can find in almost every office in the whole world today. It is also the story of an inventor …………… creativity and persistence resulted in a very useful product. What is the famous invention? It is Liquid Paper, the white liquid ……….. covers up the mistakes you make when writing or typing. It was invented by Bette Nesmith Graham, a secretary in Dallas, Texas, in the early 1950s,…………..began using tempera paint to cover up the typing errors in her work.


At the time, she was a twenty-seven-year-old single mother of one son, struggling to make ends meet and working as a secretary to the chairman of a big Dallas bank. When she began to work with her first electric typewriter, she found that the type marks she typed onto the paper didn't erase as cleanly as those from manual typewriters. So Ms. Nesmith, ……….. was also an artist, quietly began painting out her mistakes. Soon she was supplying bottles of her homemade preparation, …………… she called Mistake Out, to other secretaries in the building.

When she lost her job with the company, she turned to working full time to develop the Mistake Out as a business, expanding from her house into a small trailer she had bought for the backyard. In hopes of marketing her product, she approached IBM, ………… turned her down. She stepped up her own marketing and within a decade was a financial success. The product, ………..came to be called Liquid Paper, was manufactured in four countries and sold in nearly three dozen. In fiscal 1979, which ended about six months before she sold the company, it had sales of $38 million, of ………….. $3.5 million was net income. By the time she finally sold her business to Gillette in 1979, she had built her simple, practical idea into a $47.5 million business.

It is heartwarming that the story has a happy ending in more ways than one. Ms. Nesmith remarried and became Mrs. Graham. Her son, Michael, a musician of whom she is understandably proud, became very successful as one of a music group called the Monkees, ……………. appeared on an NBC television show for several years in the mid-1960s. Subsequently a country-rock musician, a songwriter, and a video producer, he now heads a production company in California, …………… he also directs some charities.

With some of her profits, Mrs. Graham established a foundation ……….. purpose is to provide leading intellectuals with the time, space, and compatible colleagues …………. they need to ponder and articulate the most important social problems of our era. Bette Nesmith Graham first developed a product ……….. there was clearly a need for; then she used the substantial profits for charitable purposes, …………….. is a fine thing to do. The story of Liquid Paper and Bette Nesmith Graham is a story everyone can appreciate.

It shows how a wonderful product came to market because of the cleverness and perseverance of its inventor. Perhaps you, too, have a clever idea ………… will spread like wildfire if only you can give it the kind of spark that Mrs. Graham gave to her product.

Obama's Speech "Yes We Can" 2

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Power Out
From Chicken Soup for the Soul: Think Positive
By Shinan Barclay

I awoke to a silent chill. In my cottage, no clocks blinked, no refrigerator hummed. In this rural Oregon coast area, power pauses are frequent: a minute, an hour, sometimes three. Then, eventually there's that cascade of welcome sound -- buzz, blink, hum and whirr -- as radio, refrigerator, clock, computer, TV, heater and answering machine snap back to life.
I've made it through numerous power failures. No light, no heat, no sound -- all that I can handle. But I can't function without morning coffee. I could have built a fire on the stone patio outside my back door and heated water. But it was pouring rain. I could have hiked up the hill to my neighbor's, to see if Jenn had coffee perking on her camp stove. But wind whipped through tree branches. At least the phone was working.
I telephoned my boss. "It's going to be a long time before the lines are repaired," she said. "Hunker down. Work's cancelled. There's emergency food and shelter in town at the Methodist Church." Groping in the dim morning light, I excavated a lantern and my down sleeping bag from the back of my closet. I set the lantern on the kitchen counter, reread the instructions, struck a match and lit the mantle. Continue...