Review the Simple Past Tense

Date: Jun 11 2012

Themes: Hobbies

Grammar: Simple Past Tense

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Photographs are important keepsakes. They remind us of happy or significant moments in our lives. It’s fun to look back at old photos and remember good times. But if you don’t put your photos in an album, will you look back at them at all?

Now that almost everyone either uses a digital camera or takes pictures on their cell phone, it’s a lot less common to get photos developed. Instead, we store them on our computers, or leave them in our phones. Amy thinks that just isn’t the same as arranging them in an album. Hear her and Ella chat about photo albums.

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Amy

Ella

Amy: I’m pretty sad that photo albums seem to be a thing of the past.

Ella: That seems true. But last month, I just made a photo album for my parents, to give them for their anniversary. So I’m trying to bring it back, but it’s kind of inconvenient to print pictures and put it together. I don’t know, it’s kind of a hassle. But it’s nice to have something tangible.

Amy: I think so too, and I just find that I look at an actual physical photo album so much more than I look at pictures on the computer. And so, for me, it’s like, if you just take pictures with your digital camera and then store them online, you never really see them. It’s like you don’t get to reminisce and, you know, it’s much less of a souvenir.

Ella: Yeah, I definitely feel that with online photo albums, I just click through, and I don’t really pay attention to the details very much, just ‘cause there’s 200 pictures.

Amy: Exactly. And it’s nice to be able to turn the pages. You can just pick your best photos, instead of the 450 photos you took from your vacation, you can just pick 50 of them and arrange them artfully, and keep them on the coffee table or whatever, so other people can look at them too.

Ella: Yes. Photo albums, we should start bringing them back.

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Discussion

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Amy says that she is sad that photo albums are becoming less common. But Ella just made a photo album for her parents’ anniversary. At least some people are trying to stop photo albums from becoming a thing of the past.

Ella thinks that photo albums are inconvenient to make. But she would rather look at pictures in an album than on a computer. Amy agrees that with digital cameras, people take too many pictures, and it isn’t as special to look at them on a computer as it is to look at them in an album.

Also, an album is easy to share with other people. You can leave it out on your coffee table for your friends to look at whenever they want. Amy and Ella agree that it’s time to start bringing photo albums back.

Do you use a digital camera? How do you store your photos? Do you ever make a photo album?

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kotlesya

Belarus

The photographing is my hobby.

I have got several cameras: one that uses film, one digital camera with 8 Megapixels, one digital camera with 16.8 Megapixels and 30x zoom lens and one camera with 5 megapixels which is in my cell phone. I usually use camera with 16.8 Megapixels and the camera of my cell phone because the last one is always with me.

I store all photos I take on a computer of course. I print my favourite photos out and keep them in albums or keep them in the frames on the table or walls.

It is a matter of taste of course and I will not argue with Amy but I always enjoy to open computer or even better to switch the lagre TV screen on and view all wonderful photos of nature, insects, animals, cities or people I took.

Albums and photos are tangible, but the size of photos is often not too large as I would prefer.

Computer, TV and other devices allow you to see the photos in different sizes from small to the enormous.

I’m for the digital preview and store