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Tham khảo tài liệu 'luyện thi ielts (p66)', ngoại ngữ, toefl - ielts - toeic phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | TRANSCRIPT EPISODE 11 RECOUNTING THE PAST Hello. I m Margot Politis. Welcome to Study English IELTS preparation. Today we re going to look at ways to talk about something that s happened in the past and we ll also have a look at ways to form compound and complex sentences. First we re going to listen to a woman talk about a dramatic event in her past. Four years ago she had a stroke - a blood vessel burst in her brain. Here s what happened to her. A stroke is whereby the blood supply to the brain is cut off. The major signs of having had a stroke that most people would equate with is weakness so paralysis of an arm leg or face. In others it can be a loss of speech or inability to communicate. Others may have loss of vision or a combination of all those things. I was just so physically fit and also emotionally I was on top of the world. I had a really good job at that time and I was getting married. I just felt terribly nauseous and I woke up with pins and needles down one side of my leg and then it worked its way up towards my arm and across. I was just immobile. I couldn t move. I couldn t walk. I was paralysed on this side of my body. w Simone is telling her story. She is giving a recount of what happened to her and how she was affected. A recount is a story about past events usually in the order in which they occur. Let s take another look at a clip from today s episode. Listen for the past tense verbs in Simone s story. I was just so physically fit and also emotionally I was on top of the world. I had a really good job at this time and I was getting married. She says I was so physically fit I was on top of the world. I had a really good job Here was and had are past tense verbs. They re irregular verbs. Let s compare the three forms of these irregular verbs. 1 ỒP.Ọ. . INSEARCH ặ technology SYDNEY Page 1 of 5 From the infinitive form of the verb to be we can form the simple present forms am is and are and we can also make the simple past forms - was or were . .
