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Mining companies and some strategies to take people's land

'Distribute'


Definition: deliver to proper destinations.

Gain the support of national authorities

Take advantage of society´s consciousness

Make legal recourse impossible

Attempt to take over governmental services

Work with the army and the police

Manipulate public opinion

False Promise

Generate pro-company sentiment

Divide the Community

Use 'distribute' in the Present Simple Tense

Write a sentence in which the verb 'distribute' uses this tense.

Events

This kind of verbs pinpoint some sort of action that a person, animal or object can do.

Action verbs can also be mental actions or things that can be seen.

To establish which word in a sentence is an action verb, just go through each word and ask yourself 'Is this something that can be done by a person, animal or object?'.

Government

'Conduct'


Definition: to make slight changes in something in order to make it fit or function better.

Fails to the lives and dignity of the people.

The Destruction and relocation of Caracoli and Espinal

Verb 'bake'


Definition: to cook in the oven.

The companies continue to violate people's rights.

Continue to deny the existence of the indigenous communitties,

Use 'bake' in the Past Perfect Tense

Type in a short sentence in which the verb 'bake' uses past perfect.

Community of Tabaco

Transportation

Schooling

Health Services

Roche

Chancleta

Patilla

Accion de Tutela on February 12,1992

Guarantee the protection of the fundamental constitutional rights ( Resolution No. 02122, on February 22, 1991)

Use 'bake' in the Past Simple Tense

Write a short sentence in which the verb 'bake' uses this tense.

Land usurped by mining company Intercor

Resource extraction

The noise

Pollution

Use 'bake' in the Present Perfect Tense

Type in a sentence in which the verb 'bake' is in the present perfect.

Formerly home to 350 Wayuu people

Media Luna

'Adjust'


Definition: to make slight changes in something in order to make it fit or function better.

Territory usurped to build the coal loading port known as Puerto Bolivar.

Coastal area inhabited by the wayuu

Located at southern end of the Bahia de Portete

Use 'adjust' in the Present Simple Tense

Write a sentence in which the verb 'adjust' uses this tense.

History

Linking verbs

This kind of verbs are meant to:

• show a relationship between the subject and the part of the sentence that follows the verb
• link the subject to other words that further identify or describe it
• mark a relationship or existing condition

When you want to test whether a verb is an action or linking one, you have to replace it with a true linking verb and see if the sentence still makes sense.

Mining ( Cerrejon ) Projet

The Open-Pit Coal

Also known as resultative verbs, these verbs can exist either as action verbs or linking verbs. Usually, the verbs that relate to any of the five senses function in this way.

Type in a resultative verb

Example:

• grow
• prove
• look
• sound
• smell
• remain

Implications

New economic strucure

Cultural and psysical mix due to arrival of foreigners

Imposition Of new lifestyles

Environmental Contamination

Present Perfect Tense


Type in a sentence in which this verb uses present perfect tense.

Intercor

Exxon

BMP Billiton

Glencore/Xstrata

Anglo American

Organizations

Benefits to Wayuu People

Development and Progress

Background

Where are they located at ?

'Seem' is always a linking verb, this is why it is called 'true'.

Definition: to appear; to give the impression.

As of

Colombia

Venezuela

More than 3,000 years

Use 'seem' in the Past Simple Tense


Write a short sentence in which the verb 'seem' uses this tense.

The Guajira Peninsula

In the North Of the Republic Of Colombia

Use 'seem' in the Present Simple Tense


Write a sentence in which the verb 'seem' uses this tense.

Inhabit

'Become' is a 'true' linking verb.

Definition: to evolve into.

Campesinos People

Black People

Indigenous People

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