Finding a Niche

Young immigrants

Many young people travel from one country to another with their parents, whether for work, had a problem in their country or because they are going to live in another country. Whenever this happens they travel to other countries temporarily and for young people it must be difficult to start again in other schools and with other people. It must be difficult because the children become fond with people who know so far that they should say goodbye  when its time to go. I've met foreigners who have left because their parents have been removed from other country or because they miss their country.

There are instances of cases where families must constantly travel to other countries as I mentioned before because the work send them or because they need to use more their passport or simply because they want to return to their native country. Changing of country affects younger since they make their friends until they have go from there. Many times to be traveling family traditions are lost either because a part of the family must be in one country and the other half on other, then families drift apart until they can ask for holiday and return together.

The people I met and who had to leave this country told me that for them it is exciting and sad to go to another country, because they like the country and they adhere much with people who get to know, then when their parents tells them that they have to go they are sad, but then they realized that they are going to know about other country.When they leave the sad thing is that rarely times they would turn to talk to people who they knew and were unlikely to see again. Well one of the people I met was my best friend in kindergarten, she left 9 years ago, she is from Argentina, she has not returned and I have not come to visit, but occasionally times we talk.

                                     

                                               Present Perfect- Simple Past Contrasted

Present Perfect: 

Use: Result of an action in the past is important in the present.

Recently completed actions.

Actions beginning in the past and still continuing.

Togheter with lately, recently, yet.

Signal Words: Just, yet, never, already, ever, so far, up to now, recently, since, for.

Form: Have/has + past participle

Examples:
Afirmative sentences
I have played football.
I've played football.

You have played football.
You've played football.
                
He has played football.
 He's played football.    

Negative sententences:
I have not played football.
I've not played football.
I haven't played football.

You have not played football.
You've not played football.
You haven't played football.

He has not played football.
He's not played football.
He hasn't played football.

Questions:
Have I played football?
Have you played football?
Has he played football? 

Simple past:

Use: Action finished in the past.
Series of completed actions in the past.
Together with the Past Progressive/ Continuous- The Simple Past interrupted an action which was in progress in the past.

Signal  words: Yesterday, last week, a month ago.

Form: Infinitive + ed.

Examples:
Affirmative sentences:
I played football.
You played football.
He played football.

Negative sentences:
I did not played football.
I didn't played football.

You did not played football.
You didn't played football.

He did not played football.
He didn't played football.

Questions:
Did I play football.
Did you play football.
Did he play football.

Spelling (both tenses):
Stopped (Double the consonant after a short vowel).
Loved (One e at the end of the word - leave out the e and add d).  
worried (Consonant before y change to ie).
  

Glossary:

Unique: Special; individual. 
Native tounge: First language.
Flourishing: Growing and developing well.
Mainstream: The common way of thinking or acting.
Tight-knit: Close; conected.
Assimilate: Adapt and adjust.
Suppresed: Not allowed to express.
Relieved: Happy that you don't have to worry about something.
Bone up on: Review; study again.
Intimidating: Frightening
Uprooted: Removed from; torn from.
Set apart: Make someone or something different.
Interpret: To explain the maening of.
Niche: A situation or activity specially suited to a person's interests, abilities or nature.
Support: To aid the cause, policy, or interests of.
Dialect: A distinct variety of language.
Have a hard time: Have difficulty.
Deal with: Do what is necessary to solve a problem.
Learned by doing: Learn in an active, pratical way.
Encouragement: Praise, support.