Lumiere English Academy; Auxiliary Verbs (9)

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A Basic Grammar

AUXILIARY VERBS (9)

An auxiliary verb is a verb which assists a main verb.

The auxiliary verbs include;

do

does

did

has

have 

had

is

am

are

was

were

be

being

been

may

must

might

should

could 

would

shall

will

can

Auxiliary verbs can be recognised in several ways.

- Auxiliary verbs can form a contraction with 'not'.

They take n't; 

isn't, didn't, can't, won't, daren't, oughtn't to, mightn't, shouldn't, don't, doesn't, didn't.

- They invert for questions.

She has graduated. She will graduate.

Has she graduated? Will she graduate?

She daren't fail. They ought to attend.

Dare she fail? Ought they to attend?

He sculpted = He did sculpt (emphatic)

Did he sculpt?

But note that He could cannot give Did he can?

Examples of Use of Auxiliary Verbs

I do not like mustard

 I will go to town

 I have eaten

 I am reading

 I cannot afford to buy a new car

 I should go to Church at least once a week

EXERCISE:

1. Although people say I am indifferent to you, I (love) .......... you (do love)

2. (Love) ............. me? (Do you love)

3. (Love not) ....................... me? (Don't you love)

4. ................... the milk (boil) ............. over? (Is the milk boiling)

5. I insist that I (be) ................ an honourable man (am)

6. (Be) ............... you a vegetarian? (Are)

7. I .......... (not appreciate) your unwarranted interference (do not appreciate)

8. He .............. (not come) to the meeting tomorrow (will not)

9. (be) ............... you glad to see me today? (Are you glad)

10.(be) ...............you .............. glad to see me tomorrow? (Will you be glad)

11. I must reiterate that things (be) .................... in a sorry state (are)

12. Would you say that things (be not) ........... in a sorry state? (aren't)

13. I am convinced you (not persecute) .................. me? (aren't persecuting)

14. Why ................ you (persecute) .................... me now? (are you persecuting)

15. Why ........................ you (not persecute) ................. me yesterday?

(didn't you persecute me)

16. When ............. you (persecute) .......................... me again?

(will you be persecuting me)

17. (count) .............................. she ........................... the money at the bank these days? (Is she counting the money)

18. I insist that I (believe) .............................. in your innocence (believe)

19. Yesterday I (believe) ............................... in your innocence, today I'm not so sure (believed)

Dr Luky Whittle

Congratulations to Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg

Norway's Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg went undercover as a taxi driver to find out what the voters were really thinking. Congratulations to the PM on his forward thinking action.

See link
http://worldnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/08/12/19983511-norways-pm-becomes-taxi-driver-for-a-day-to-canvass-opinion?lite

Lumiere lights a Candle in Remembrance of Dutch Prince Johan Friso

A Candle has been lit by Lumiere Charity in remembrance of Dutch Prince Johan Friso, and for his grieving family and friends. May he rest in peace.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/dutch-prince-dies-avalanche-tragedy-134511745.html#1byD7ZT

Mom's Kitchen; Cheese 'N Ham Delight

Quick 'N Cheap Vegetable Rice Curry has been a great hit with readers!
(See link below).

Here is another tasty and cheap recipe from Mom's kitchen.

CHEESE 'N HAM DELIGHT 
Cheese 'N Ham Delight is relatively quick to make; it's filling and tasty for a hungry family on a budget. 
It's great for vegetarians too,  as vegetarian ham can be used - no animals are thus hurt to enable this recipe.

Allergy Alert; Before starting the recipe, check first that you have no allergies to any of the ingredients.
If you are allergic to any of the ingredients, then don't use this recipe.

Here's the recipe;

CHEESE 'N HAM DELIGHT;

Ingredients;
Two tablespoons oil (you can alternatively use ghee, which I do 
Mom uses sunflower oil)
Half green pepper
Half onion
Three extra large eggs
Two cups milk
Salt to taste
One teaspoon mustard
Half cup of flour (gluten free if you are gluten intolerant) 
Cup and a half of grated cheese
250 grams ham

How to make;
1. Cut and dice half green pepper and half onion and fry in two tablespoons of oil at medium heat until they are transparent; then put them aside
2. Preheat your oven to 350 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 180 degrees Celsius (medium oven)
3. Beat the 3 eggs with a fork in a bowl 
4. Add the milk to the eggs, and mix together
5. Add salt, mustard and flour, and stir the mixture well
6. Add grated cheese and stir
7. Chop the ham into small cubes, add to the mixture and stir
8. Add green pepper and onion to the mixture and stir in
9. Grease ovenproof Pyrex dish and pour mixture into dish
10. Put dish into medium oven
11. Bake until done
12. Enjoy!


What to be careful of in the kitchen;
Don't leave the handles of the pots out over the ends of the stove - children can pull them off the stove and burn themselves; or you can knock the pot off the stove and over yourself, causing a nasty burn.
Don't let the babies or children play around your feet while you are cooking. 
Don't let animals play around your feet while you are cooking.
That is how accidents happen. 

Don't leave your cooking pots unattended. 
A child can pull it over him or herself, the cat can knock it over if it gets into the kitchen and jumps around. 
Also, you can forget the time, the food can burn, and a fire can begin. 
That can be very dangerous.
In squatter camps and slums, if you are using a primus stove, be very very careful with it. Don't leave the meal unattended. 
Also, primus stove fuel is very flammable, it can catch alight easily and can cause burns or shack fires. 
Please be very careful with the fuel.

Don't leave your fuel container for filling the stove lying around. 
Lock it up carefully.
A child can drink the contents, or can knock it over if it is not safely locked up.
Don't leave matches, cigarettes, cigarette lighter, or candles lying around. 
Inquisitive children can start fires without meaning to.

If you use tins, make sure to dispose of them safely. 
Never open tins and leave the opened sharp edges free. 
If a child or adult trips on an opened can, they can cut themselves. 
If a can is not disposed of safely, the sharp edges can cut the fingers of the waste collector/ person picking the discarded can up.

If you are cooking over a wood fire, also be very careful not to get burned.
In other words, keep safe.

Enjoy your meal!

Link to Quick 'N Cheap Vegetable Curry Recipe
http://lumierecharity.blogspot.ie/2013/01/quick-n-cheap-vegetable-curry-recipe.html

Please Sign Petition;South Korea; Stop the Torture and Consumption of Dogs and Cats

Family Dog having a siesta in the afternoon

My best friend
For a number of years I had a best friend; his name was Tubby. 
He was a beautiful dog, he might well have been one of the strays our family adopted. 
From the time I was about seven or eight until I was twelve, Tubby and I went everywhere together, except when I walked the hour to and back from school every day. 
He would sit at the gate and wait for my pat on his head when I went off. 
When I came back home, he would know the time, and be sitting there waiting for me.

Such joy
I couldn't trick Tubby. 
When it was my Tennis practice lesson on Wednesday, he would arrive at the gate shortly before the later time I was due to arrive back home. 
And when I arrived home, you would have thought the Queen Of All The World had arrived. 
He was be in such joy, barking, jumping up and dispensing affection and respect. 
I loved Tubby as much as any member of my family.

The Guardian
One time I fell really ill, and was off school a week - a most unusual occurrence for me in my early years, when I was blessed with good health at the time. 
Tubby disappeared for the week, which I found a bit odd, but each to his own, I thought, as I lay in bed reading 'What Katy did' and enjoying the care as my parents nursed me back to health.
After the week was over, Tubby arrived back, full of bonhomie to escort me to the gate and watch me off to school. 
When I got to school, I got a number of odd looks from my fellow students and teachers, but shrugged it off. As soon as I got into the classroom, I taxed my classmates for not bringing me my homework to do as they had faithfully promised to do while I was sick.
 'We couldn't,' they said. 'The first day five minutes before school started on the Monday, a little shaggy white dog arrived into the classroom, and growled if any of us tried to put him out.
 He went to lie in your desk with his chin on his paws, and would not let anyone near your desk. 
He wouldn't leave, and slept in the classroom. 
It was almost as if he was guarding your desk. 
The third day he was losing weight, so we gave him food and water. 
Once or twice he would go to the door, wait to be let out, and come back a few minutes later. 
Then when the week was over, he got up, and went out. 
We were all a little scared, really. 
He was almost like a ghost.'
I was thoughtful. 'Oh, that must have been Tubby, my dog,' I said. 'He disappeared while I was sick, and came back as soon as I was better. 
I thought he looked a little skinny.'
My schoolmates looked at me with an odd expression in their eyes.
 'Had he ever walked with you to school before?'
 'Never,' I answered.
 'Then how did he know the way?' 
They looked at me again.
'Such faithfulness,' they muttered.
Tubby never came to school again, but was thrilled when I rubbed the scruff of his neck, and told him what a clever lad he was to protect my desk.

When I was twelve, my youngest brother was just a toddler.
 We had taken in a large stray who had been maltreated and was nervy and angry as a result.
He got out of the back yard (I still don't know how) and got into the front, saw my little brother toddling along the garden path and threw himself with his teeth bared at my little brother's throat. 
I was walking in the garden chatting to Tubby, and screamed, throwing myself between the dog and my toddler brother - but I was just too far away, I would never have got there in time. 
I saw Tubby launch into the air, offering his throat to the dog, whose teeth snapped into his throat just in front of my little brother. 
My mom ran out into the garden, other people came. 
I did everything to try to prise the stray's teeth from my little friend's throat, but he hung on, savaging Tubby.

Eventually he let go, and people who had scrambled to corner the stray who had been more affected by the mistreatment he had previously undergone than we had realised. 
I cradled my little dog in my arms in the kitchen. 
His blood was running freely onto the floor as this little martyr was dying. 
I looked into those dear brown eyes as he looked at me with such love, as if to say, 'You are so great, you can do anything. Please heal me.'
I was sobbing as my little heart began breaking, praying he could be saved. 
Then Tubby's eyes showed a deep resignation, and he just closed his eyes as that dearest and most faithful of friends left me bereft.

Do dogs go to heaven?
Forty years later, I still think of Tubby every day. 
People ask me, 'Do dogs have souls? Do dogs go to heaven?'
Well, it's like this. 
My dog offered his life for my brother.
Greater love than that no spirit has.
And my happiness has never ever been fully complete since I lost my best friend. 
I look forward every day to meeting him again when my time comes to complete the blessing of this life, and step into the eternal next one.
I know just how wonderful a spirit a dog has. 
The older dog was taken into care after this terrible incident. 
The mistreatment and beatings he had received before being rescued by my dad had broken his spirit to the point he could no longer safely fit into regular society.

Reports of bad treatment
Reports of bad treatment to our loving companions and friends in the animal world have been received by Lumiere.
In one link sent to us, a suffering dog ran through a carpark while burning to death. 
This image has led people to call on South Korea to stop burning dogs and cats alive. 
The poor dog ran into a garage and triggered a fire which gutted the structure in in Yongin, a city South of Seoul earlier this year.

Animals are being martyred for their meat. Horrifying tales of their suffering are being made public. Please sign a petition to Stop The Torture and Consumption of Dogs And Cats

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION
http://www.change.org/petitions/south-korea-please-stop-the-torture-and-consumption-of-dogs-and-cats#share

See links for information
http://www.causes.com/actions/1726754-south-korea-stop-burning-dogs-alive?ctm=recommended_activities

http://www.timeslive.co.za/world/2013/01/23/burning-dog-sparks-public-outcry-in-south-korea

Dog Meat Market Undercover Video; Undercover Video from Korea Animal Welfare Association
http://animalrightskorea.org/dog-meat-issue/dog-meat-market-undercover-video.html

*Photograph taken by Catherine Nicolette

A Candle has been lit by Lumiere for Prince William, Princess Catherine and the Newborn Prince

A Candle has been lit for Prince William, Princess Catherine and their Newborn son on the occasion of the new Prince's birth.
All at Lumiere wish to extend sincere congratulations and every good wish for the future.

News Alert; Flower Festival at St Maelruain's Parish Tallaght, Dublin

Beautiful St Maelruain's in Winter

INTERESTED IN MUSIC? FUN? CALLIGRAPHY? 
Knitting, Stitching, Photography and Crafts?
Why not attend the Flower Festival at St Maelruain's Parish, Tallaght.
A Concert will be opening this great Family and Festival Occasion.

OPENING CONCERT
WHERE? The Festival will be held in the historic and beautiful St Maelruain's Church
WHEN? 7.30 pm on Thursday 26th September 2013
WHO? A Concert of Local Choirs
ADMISSION? €8. This ticket will allow the bearer to be admitted to the halls on one of the Festival Days on Friday, Saturday or Sunday

FESTIVAL ADMISSION
€8 per person. Children under 14 will be admitted free with a paying adult

FESTIVAL TIMES
Friday and Saturday; 11am to 6pm
Sunday; 11am to 4.30pm
A closing service will be held on Sunday at 5.00pm

WHEELCHAIR ACCESSIBLE
All Festival locations are fully wheelchair accessible

ST MAELRUAIN'S RAISING FUNDS
This historic Church, one of the original Monastery sites of Ancient Ireland, has been hard hit by the financial realities of the Recession.
Major renovations to this beautiful Church over the past ten years have been done.
If St Maelruain's wishes to continue to keep its doors open for the spiritual pilgrims who come to its peaceful and historic environs, funds are needed.
So please attend the Flower Festival, and help us to keep our original Celtic Monastery site open for future centuries and our children's children.

FLOWER FESTIVAL
The Church is illuminated all year round with flowers arranged by Members of the Flower Guild.
The Flower Festival is being designed by Richard Haslam with the Theme 'The Circle of Life'.

EXHIBITIONS
Photography will be exhibited at the Festival.
The Members of Peannairi will be at the Festival, where an exhibition of graceful Calligraphy will be held.
The Members will be demonstrating their beautiful work. This is a must for anyone interested in the gracious art.
Knitting and various forms of skilled stitching including tapestry will be exhibited.
St Maelruain's Church has handmade Wedding Kneelers, perfect accessories to a wedding with worship.

ST MáEL RUAIN
The Monastery of Tallaght's Foundation in 769 A.D. by Máel Ruain (or St Maelruain) was the beginning of unprecedented spiritual growth.
The Monastery was an acknowledged Center of learning and piety.
Maelruain's Monastery was so important in Early Ireland that it and the Monastery of Finglas were known as the "Two Eyes of Ireland".
St Aengus secretly enrolled at Tallaght as a Lay Brother, and lived in anonymity until Maelruain discovered his identity.
They may have written The Martyrology of Tallaght together.
Christian worship has continued on the site of the original monastery since the eighth century.
Today, the exquisite St Maelruain's Church offers a peaceful place to worship in a site which holds deep spiritual and historic significance.
An evocative view of the remains of the fosse, the original and ancient curved bank which enclosed Maelruain's Monastery may be seen in the grounds of the church.
The best view is from the car park at the rear of Smith's Toystore.
A heritage marker proudly marks the site.

OUR LADY'S HOSPICE HAROLDS CROSS
Part of the proceeds of the Flower Festival will be donated to the Tallaght Hospice Homecare Team.
The Community Palliative Care Team assist those in need from small babies to elders.

WHY NOT COME ALONG?

DIRECTIONS TO GET TO THE FLOWER FESTIVAL
See http://www.festivalofhands.com/st-maelruain-flower-festival-dates-location-times-venue-information/
This site also offers information for those who want to make the Festival part of a weekend away.
Find info on -
- Local Hotels and Deals
- Teas and Coffees in the Small Hall of the historic St Maelruain's Church 
- Where to go for shopping needs
- Where to find restaurants and cinemas, and Leisureplex
- Tallaght is on the Luas line. You can be in the heart of historic and fun-loving Dublin within a short time, taking in all the sights and the fun to be had there.

CONTACT ST MAELRUAIN'S
www.stmaelfuainsflowerfestival.com
Email; stmaelruainsflowerfestival@gmail.com

Flower Festival

Opening concert
http://www.festivalofhands.com/st-maelruain-flower-festival-opening-concert/

Flower Festival
http://www.festivalofhands.com/st-maelruains-flower-festival-richard-haslam-circle-of-life/theme-circle-of-life/

Photography
http://www.festivalofhands.com/st-maelruain-flower-festival-arts-crafts/amateur-photography/

Calligraphy
http://www.festivalofhands.com/st-maelruain-flower-festival-arts-crafts/calligraphy/

Knitting, Stitching and Tapestry
http://www.festivalofhands.com/st-maelruain-flower-festival-arts-crafts/knitting-stitching/

St Maelruain's Church
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Maelruain%27s_Church