English no.3

• Formation: have been/has been + present participle (ing)
• Simple present: am/is/are + past participle, simple past: was/were + past participle, present perfect : have been/has been + past participle
• Edinburgh is the capital
• Formation: has/have + past participle...
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• There is a lot of festivals in Edinburgh
• for seit (+ Zeitraum) describes a period of time, since, seit seitdem describes a specific date/year
• Mens are wearing kilts
• By-agent = am Ende des satzes
• present perfect describes an action that started in the past, is happening now, but will not continue in the future
• Strong adjectives

  • amazing
  • awesome
  • gorgeous
  • wonderful
  • fascinating
• There is a beautiful countryside in Scotland
• Present perfect progressive describes an action that started in the past, is happening now, and will continue in the future
• scotland has traditional foods like haggis
• Many things were invented by famous Scots
• Haggis is banned in the USA since 1971, because many people say it's very unhealthy
• The scottish coastline is amazing
• The ship industry in Glasgow has been getting smaller
• Narrow closes


  • Lead off from the main streets
• Whisky production in Scotland

  • 150 million litres of whisky is produced in Scotland each year
  • It has been produced for more than 500 years
• Loch Ness Monster


  Nessie
• Many people in scotland have been playing shinty since celtic times (its similar to hockey)
• The Edinburgh Fringe festival is the largest arts festival in the world
• Edinburgh castle is said to have ghosts
• Haggis


  Traditional food in Scotland, made out of sheep heart
• The shipbuilding industry isn't that important any more, but some ships are still built here
• Haggis is made with mashed potatoes or vegetables
• present perfect: never ,before, only ever, yet stehen direkt nach dem hilfsverb
• present perfect progressive: for,since,how long, recently, all the time,all day,all week, all year
• present perfect: how many ,action has just finished, time is not important, zustandverben, still happening, has something to do with the present, focus on the result
• present perfect progressive: focus on the time, verlauf, tätigkeitsverben, still happening ,mostly not finished
• highest mountain : ben nevis
• they only eat haggis once a month
• tartan,kilts only at weddings or special events
• bagpipes are hard to learn
• the scottish national party campaigns for scotlands independence