Grammar Challenge

Grammar Challenge Topics

• Present-perfect passives with Veronica from Spain
• Subject-verb agreement 2 with Lee from South Korea
• Subject-verb agreement with Peng from China
• So and such with Vittorio from Switzerland
• Between and among with Chuan from South Korea
• Verb, object, to + infinitive with Ehsan from Iran
• Reported questions with Noelia from Spain
• Unless with Hengchun from China
• Let and allow with Husniye from Turkey
• Disagreements with auxiliaries with Beom from South Korea
• Agreements with auxiliaries with Onur from Turkey
• Should have with Silvia from Colombia
• The second conditional with Anna from South Korea
• For, to and so that with Selman from Turkey
• Indirect questions with Masa from Japan
• Reported speech with Dong Jun from South Korea
• Will & going to with Noppawan from Thailand
• Present perfect & past simple with Yasmina from Belgium
• Future plans with Sung Hyeon from South Korea
• Still, yet and already with Alessia from Italy
• The 'zero' article with Anastasiya from France
• Future predictions with 'going to' with Mehmet from Turkey
• Present perfect continuous with Gloria from Brazil
• Indefinite articles with Hanibal from Libya
• Pronunciation: 'ed' endings with Sebastian from Colombia
• For and since with Hye Jung from South Korea
• Definite articles with Diana from Colombia
• Articles introduction with Saleh from Saudi Arabia
• Zero conditional with Jelena from Serbia & Montenegro
• Questions with like with Lorenzo from Italy
• Present Continuous with Bilal from Syria
• Must / mustn't with Hanbing from China
• Have to / don't have to with Tomomi from Japan
• Present perfect with Fatima from Iran
• Time prepositions with Hiroko from Japan
• Used to / didn't use to with Mi Jung from Korea
• Continuous passives with Guy from Martinique
• Simple passives with Jin from South Korea
• Because / because of with Taka from Japan
• Have something done with Raffaella from Italy
• Need + verb-ing with Asae from Japan
• Uncountable nouns with Edward from France
• Past perfect pronunciation with Mika from Japan
• Wish + past perfect with Daewon from South Korea
• 'Regret + -ing verb' with Mariela from Peru
• -ed and -ing adjectives with Deniz from Turkey
• Question Tags - Pronunciation with Giovanni from Italy
• Question Tags - Form with Juliana from Colombia

Sumatran elephant "closer to extinction"

Sumatran elephant "closer to extinction"

There's been a warning that the Sumatran elephant could be extinct in the wild within thirty years unless immediate steps are taken to protect its habitat.

The warning comes from the environmental group WWF, which says the elephants' numbers on the Indonesian island of Sumatra have halved since 1985 (down to about two-and-a-half thousand).

Their decline is attributed mostly to deforestation. Large areas of Sumatran forest have been cleared or converted for timber, palm-oil and paper plantations.

Gajah Sumatra, "kepunahan semakin dekat"

Muncul peringatan bahwa gajah Sumatera di hutan belantara bisa punah dalam waktu 30 tahun kecuali bila diambil langkah-langkah segera untuk melindungi habitat binatang itu.

Peringatan dikeluarkan oleh organisasi lingkungan WWF yang mengatakan jumlah populasi gajah di Pulau Sumatra berkurang separuh sejak 1985 (turun menjadi sekitar 2.500 ekor).

Penurunan ini disebabkan utamanya oleh penggundulan hutan. Banyak kawasan hutan di Sumatra telah dibabat atau dikonversi menjadi perkebunan kayu, kelapa sawit dan kertas.

 

Fifteen Philippines fishermen shot dead

 The Philippines military says gunmen have killed fifteen fishermen in Basilan province in the south of the country.

The fishermen were in three small, wooden-hulled vessels off Sibago Island when they were attacked.

An army spokesman said the authorities had ruled out the potential involvement of radical Islamist militants or Muslim guerrillas who are fighting for self-rule and are also active in Basilan.

He said the fishermen were probably attacked when they strayed into the fishing grounds of a rival.

Sebanyak 15 nelayan Filipina ditembak mati

Militer Filipina mengatakan orang-orang bersenjata membunuh 15 nelayan di Provinsi Basilan, di bagian selatan.

Para nelayan berada di tiga perahu kayu kecil di lepas pantai Pulau Sibago ketika mereka diserang.

Seorang juru bicara angkatan darat mengatakan pihak berwenang mengesampingkan kemungkinan keterlibatan militan Islam radikal atau gerilyawan Muslim yang memperjuangkan kemerdekaan dan yang aktif beroperasi di Basilan.

Dia mengatakan para nelayan mungkin diserang ketika mereka tersesat di wilayah penangkapan saingan mereka.

Ceausescu gifts under the hammer

Ceausescu gifts under the hammer

Gifts and memorabilia belonging to the former Romanian leader, Nicolae Ceausescu, are to be auctioned in Bucharest today.

The gifts include a bronze yak statue from the Chinese leader, Mao Tse-tung, gold-plated doves from Iran, and a pen he received in Japan which is expected to fetch at least two-and-a-half-thousand dollars.

Ceausescu and his wife were executed following the anti-communist revolution in Romania in 1989.

Hadiah Ceausescu dilelang

Hadiah dan kenang-kenangan milik mantan pemimpin Rumania Nicolae Ceausescu akan dilelang di Bucharest hari ini.

Hadiah-hadiah tersebut mencakup patung yak (sejenis lembu) perunggu dari pemimpin Cina Mao Tse-tung, merpati berlapis emas dari Iran, dan pena dari Jepang yang diperkirakan akan laku terjual setidaknya US$2.500.

Ceausescu dan istrinya dieksekusi setelah pecah revolusi antikomunis di Rumania pada 1989.

 

Poor offered help after Brazilian eviction

Poor offered help after Brazilian eviction

The government of Sao Paulo state in Brazil has offered financial help to hundreds of families who were forcibly evicted from an illegal settlement on Sunday.

The move follows widespread criticism of the eviction, fuelled by pictures circulating on the internet of police using tear gas and rubber bullets against poor families.

The state authorities have now offered each family a monthly rental allowance of three-hundred dollars until they are resettled permanently.

Kaum miskin ditawari bantuan setelah diusir

Pemerintah negara bagian Sao Paulo di Brasil menawarkan bantuan keuangan kepada ratusan keluarga yang secara paksa diusir dari pemukiman ilegal, hari Minggu.

Langkah ini diambil menyusul hujan kritik terhadap pengusiran tersebut, dipicu oleh foto-foto yang beredar di internet yang menunjukkan polisi menggunakan gas air mata dan peluru karet.

Pemerintah negara bagian sekarang menawarkan setiap keluarga uang sewa US$300 per bulan sampai mereka bisa mendapatkan rumah secara permanen.