Simple past and verbs

REGULAR VERBS: PAST TENSE PRONUNCIATION
                                       

IRREGULAR VERBS SONG

OK BRETONIANS..SING ALONG IRREGULAR VERBS!

Be-was-been                                   Beat-beat-beaten                       Become-became-become
Begin-began-begun                     Break-broke-broken                 Bring-brought-brought
Build-built-built                             Catch-caught-caught                Come-came-come
Cost-cost-cost                                 Cut-cut-cut                                    Do-did-done
Draw-drew-drawn                       Drink-drank-drunk                    Drive-drove-driven
Eat-ate-eaten

Irregular verbs are so easy to learn!!!!
....once in your head you`ll never forget them!

Fall-fell-fallen                                 Feel-felt-felt                              Fight-fought-fought
Find-found-found                           Fly-flew-flown                       Forget-forgot-forgotten
Get-got-got                                        Give-gave-given                     Go-went-gone
Grow-grew-grown                         Have-had-had                         Hear-heard-heard
Hit-hit-hit                                        keep-kept-kept

Irregular verbs are so easy to learn!!!!
....once in your head you`ll never forget them!

Know-knew-known                         Make-made-made                   Meet-met-met
Pay-paid-paid                                   Put-put-put                                 Read-read-read
Run-ran-run                                     Say-said-said                              See-saw-seen
Sell-sold-sold                                    Sink-sank-sunk                         Sit-sat-sat
Sleep-slept-slept                             Speak-spoke-spoken               Swim-swam-swum

Teach-taught-taught                       Tell-told-told                           Think-thought-thought
Throw-threw-thrown                    Wake-woke-woken                   Wear-wore-worn
Win-won-won


Irregular verbs are so easy to learn!!!!
....once in your head you`ll never forget them!

Buskaid

Buskaid is a thriving Academy of String Teaching and Performance, situated in the heart of the South African Township of Soweto. Its primary mission is to give opportunities to impoverished and previously disadvantaged township children to learn classical (bowed) string instruments to the highest international standards. Buskaid also runs a highly successful string teacher-training programme, and nine of its eleven teachers are drawn from within its student membership. Its flagship Ensemble, which has gained international recognition, was voted one of the world’s most inspirational orchestras by the UK’s Gramophone magazine in 2008. Through its teaching and performance activities, Buskaid is able to offer employment opportunities in an environment where currently 75% of the 26% of unemployed South Africans are young, black, and living at subsistence levels. Buskaid’s presence in Soweto is a powerful tool for transformation in the local and wider township community.

Buskaid was founded in 1992 by British viola player Rosemary Nalden, in response to a BBC radio interview highlighting the difficulties of a group of young string players in Diepkloof, Soweto. Rosemary responded by organising a fundraising event, when 120 professional musicians ‘busked’ simultaneously in 16 British Rail stations across the UK.

In January 1997 when the original project had fallen into difficulties, Rosemary established the Buskaid Soweto String Project. Initially the fledgling music school, situated in a tiny run-down church office in Diepkloof, consisted of fifteen members from the original project and a handful of new beginners. Since then, in response to the huge demand by local children to learn a stringed instrument, it has grown exponentially, and currently comprises approximately 115 students ranging in age from five to thirty-five, all of whom are drawn from the less privileged local community. The Buskaid Soweto Academy of String Teaching and Performance is now situated in its own purpose-built school in the grounds of another church in Diepkloof. In the 20 years of its existence the organisation has grown from a modest social development project into an internationally recognised institution of high quality string teaching and performance.

MY RECIPE FROM IRELAND

BACON AND CABBAGE


Bacon and cabbage is considered one of the most popular traditional Irish dishes.
Bacon and cabbage has been found to be Ireland's most popular dinner, according to Ireland's food board Bord Bia.
The wholesome, hearty, and old-fashioned meal is most certainly close to the Irish people’s heart: Bord Bia found that 64 percent of Irish adults consider bacon and cabbage the meal most synonymous with Ireland, and that 30 percent of Irish people crave the dish while traveling abroad.

Ingredients:

• 1½kg loin of bacon
• 1 carrot
• 2 celery sticks
• 2 leeks
• 1 tsp peppercorns
• 1kg cabbage, finely sliced
• 1 tbsp butter

Topping:

• 1 tbsp mustard
• 1 tbsp oven-dried breadcrumbs
• ½ tbsp brown sugar
• Knob of butter

Mustard Sauce:

• 50g butter
• 25g flour
• 1 tbsp Mustard

Method:

Place the joint in a large saucepan.

Add chopped vegetables and peppercorns.

Cover with cold water.

Bring to the boil, then simmer gently for approximately 20 minutes per ½ kg.

Set oven to gas mark 6, 200ºC (400ºF).

Remove the joint from the saucepan.

Reserve liquid.

Remove the rind and score the fat.

Place the joint on a roasting dish.

Spread with mustard and bread crumbs, sugar and a knob of butter.

Place in the oven for 15-20 minutes.

To make the sauce:

Melt the butter, add the flour and mustard.

Cook for a minute or two.

Whisk in the cooking liquid and cream.

Bring to the boil. Reduce the heat and simmer for 3-4 minutes.

Taste for seasoning.

The sauce should have the consistency of thin cream.

Keep warm.

To cook the cabbage:

Place the cabbage in a saucepan and barely cover with some of the reserved cooking liquid.

Bring to the boil.

Reduce to a simmer and cook for 2-3 minutes.

Drain well and toss in butter.

Season to taste.

Slice the bacon and serve on the bed of cabbage, a little of the mustard sauce and of course floury potatoes.