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Thursday, October 21, 2004

WAys to advertise a product

There are many ways to advertise a product . First , the best advertisment in the world means nothing if the product is not good market . The product should the people like it to sell it . Second , we hould write a new ad in differant countries and avouid the translation . Because the languages and cultuere differant . Finally , we can do a big compain , for example we can ask a famous person to do an advertisment . Thies are some of the ways we can do to advertise a product .

Sunday, October 17, 2004

Tony`s Biography

Tony Hawk was nine years old when his brother changed his life by giving him a blue fiberglass banana board.
He was also pathologically determined. When Tony was six his mom took him to an Olympic size pool.
By twelve, Tony was sponsored by Dogtown skateboards, by fourteen he was pro, and by age sixteen Tony Hawk was the best skateboarder in the world. In the ensuing 17 years, Hawk has entered an estimated 103 pro contests. He won 73 of them, and placed second in 19. By far the best record in skateboarding's history. (He even won a contest after a redeye flight and only three hours of sleep.)
But skateboarding went through its cycle and was deemed cool again. The Hawk became the Phoenix. In 1996 he married Erin Lee, and bought a new house with a new pool with a new waterfall. Birdhouse is now one of the largest skateboard companies in the world and he's signing six-figure endorsement deals with companies like Adio shoes. In 1998 he and his family started a kid's skate clothing company called, of course, Hawk Clothing, which was acquired by Quiksilver in early 2000. In 1999 Activision and Tony created Tony Hawk's Pro Skater video game for PlayStation. They expected decent sales, but the copies blew off the shelves and it quickly became a bestseller. The next year, Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 was released and jumped to the number one position for over a month. Since then, the THPS series has become one of the best-selling video-game franchises of all time. A sixth version is due out this fall. Tony's success overflows into the non-electronic world as well. His autobiography, HAWK -- Occupation: skateboarder was a New York Times bestseller and is currently available in paperback. He created Tony Hawk's Gigantic Skatepark Tour for ESPN, which is second only to the X Games in viewership.
He may not feel as old as other parents, but he's old enough to have retired at age 31. It should be made clear, though, that in skateboarding the word "retire" doesn't mean you stop skating. It simply means he's stopped competitive skating. He still skates almost every day, still learns new tricks, and still does several public demos a year. He was recently voted the best vert skater by readers of Transworld Skateboarding magazine. One of the reasons Tony decided to stop competing at the end of 1999 was that he landed the first-ever 900 (two and a half mid-air spins) at the X Games. The 900 was the last on a wish list of tricks he'd written a decade earlier. The list included ollie 540, kickflip 540, varial 720 and the 900.
In 2002, Tony launched the Boom Boom HuckJam, a 24-city arena tour featuring the world's best skateboarders, BMX bike riders and Motocross lunatics performing choreographed routines on a million-dollar ramp system, while punk and hip hop music plays. The hugely successful (and massively publicized) HuckJam tour has sold out arenas across the country every year since its inception and even been featured as a Happy Meal at McDonalds.
With the creation of the Tony Hawk Foundation, Hawk also has made an effort to give something back to the sport that has given him so much. Designed to promote and help finance public skateparks in low-income areas, the foundation distributes more than $400,000 a year to non-profit groups building skateparks throughout the U.S.: from Homer, Alaska, to Needles, California, to Greencastle, Indiana, to Glenwood, Arkansas, to Livermore Falls, Maine.

Grammar Note

1)Present Continuous Tense:
Key Words for Present Continuous Tense:
Now
Right now
Example:
I am typing now.
You are reading now.
They are eating right now.
2)Simple Present Tense:
in the present tense you have to add the letter (s) at the end of the main verb with the third person He/She/ it)
Key Words for Simple Present Tense:
Sometimes
Always
Usually
On Fridays/Sundays/ (any other day names)
All the time
Seldom
Example:
I go to school everyday. On weekends, my sister likes to practice some sports.
she usually swims on Fridays.
They watch TV sometimes. My brother enjoys playing video games; he seldom watches TV.
It usually rains in winter.
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3) Simple Past Tense:
Regular Verbs: verbs that end with d or ed in the past tense or past participle forms) (Irregular Verbs: verbs that don’t end with ed or d
Key words for Simple Past Tense:
Yesterday
Last week/ month/ year
In 1990/1982
This Morning
Examples:
Regular verbs:
I lived in London in 1974.(live+d)The students worked hard last week. (work+ed)
Irregular verbs:I ate pizza last night. (eat-ate-eaten)I had lunch with my father yesterday. (have-had-had)I was born in 1980. (am-was)
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4)Future Time: (be+going to+infinitive)& (Will)
Key words for Future Time:
Tomorrow
Next day/week/month/year
On Friday/ Saturday/Sunday/Monday/Tuesday/Wednesday/Thursday
Soon
In 10 minutes/ two hours

How to talk about an action that will happen in the future, or near future, in addition to predictions, in an informal (casual) way?
Use (be going to) to talk about informal future actions.
Use (will) to talk about formal future actions.

A) Informal future action:
Example:
I am + going to + live in New York next year.
We are + going to + play soccer next month.
B) Informal near future action:
Examples:
I am + going to + boil the vegetable soon.
You are + going to + have a hair cut next week.
He/She is + going to + get up at 5.30 am tomorrow.The plane is + going to + take off in five minutes.
C) Predictions:
when you expect something is going to happen both in the future and in the near future.

Examples:
It is cloudy. It is + going to + rain.He is + going to + be tall like his father when he becomes a man.The baby is crying. She is + going to +be sick.
Important Note:
Never say or write (I am going to go to home tomorrow).
Say and write (I am going to go home tomorrow).
However, you can say and write (I am going to go to the movies tomorrow.)

Saturday, October 09, 2004

Hi Evry Body

Hi all .
My name is Faisa al-Saeed . I am 19 years old and I am Kuwaiti guy . I am studen of Kuwait University .