Hi girls!

I would definitively like to read the books that @Vale suggested, so I don’t have any to add to.

But on the other hand I totally trust you @Kerin and your ability in choosing books for our fav bookclub.

Can’t wait to see you again and looking forward to starting to read and to discuss a new book together!

XxChiara

Thanks Kerin, I didn’t heard about Nicola Sturgeons last updates.

Indeed in this period I’m avoiding catching up with the news, too gloomy and unreliable..

Actually, I’m really critical about news and means of information in general. I think that since social media have spread and taken off all over the world the situation is increasingly worsen.

In Italy I really struggle to find newspapers or tv news that are not biased or sensationalist, I’d rather get information through weekly newspapers or…

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Thanks Kerin,

so about THINK the correct sentence would be “. I had been thinking about going to Greece”?

Last summer I was so chuffed about planning my holidays. I had been thinking to go to Greece with some of my fav pals and actually we went for a two-weeks holiday in a gorgeous island we fancied at first sight, full of fit guys, caring only about grub and killing the time taking the piss out of each others.

One day my pal Sue, that is such…

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Para 1.

I went to my friend’s house to watch the England game the other day. I walked in and said “Alright?” he gave me a beer and I said “ta.” England lost 4-1 to Germany. My pal and I were gutted. We decided to go for some grub. The closest pub was selling burgers for a fiver. When we got to the pub there were some other mates there…

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I don’t think that using slang shows you are a lazy person overall, or at least it depends: if you use it in every kind of conversations you might give the impression that you have a narrow knowledge of your language and you are able to use only this kind of register, but also that you don’t feel like letting other people, above all foreign…

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Thanks Kerin.

Well, I don’t know the current situation in China regarding learning English being a mania, but I would say that this can be the case of Italy.

Nowdays an excellent knowledge of English is something that makes your c.v. standing out and more and more the number of students that attend private American secondary schools or the number of…

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Yes, Kerin exactly! Thank you iti is exactly what I was meaning!

Thank you Kerin, actually it didn’t take me much time, it just came out quickly.

I just need a clarification:

“sucked
into weird videos <s>being</s>
that are in over my head in this organization”

I can’t really get this correction. What I wanted to express through this sentence was that I was in over my head in the organization of the party, did…

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I get roped into a friend hen party organization, but I really don’t know how to deal with it. I’m trying to tap into online tutorial to come up with some brilliant idea, but I’m feeling like I’m sucked into weird videos being in over my head in this organization and no clue to sort it out.

My friend is asking me to clue her in about the party…

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Thanks Kerin!

I like UK tv series very much. My fav ones are Fleabag and Flowers, because they are creepy, loads of corrosive irony and truly British, bitter humour. Both are about disfunctional people and families. I love also crime tv series such as Broadchurch and Shetland, the last one set in the stunning backdrop of Shetland Islands. Usually I watch…

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Vanity

She was wearing her best dress that day feeling gorgeous. She was confidently walking along the street when she noticed a young guy staring at her intensely. She thought he might like her look, so she was showing off whe the guy shouted: “Miss your zip is open, nice knickers!”

I think teaching is one of the most diffcult job, a hugely rewarding one as a personal level, though, because you can see people thriving and developing their knowledge thanks to your work.

When I was young, after graduating, one of my first job experience was as a teacher of Italian language for foreigners here in Florence. I realized back…

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Thank you Kerin.

Totally agree on covid app…I haven’t made up my mind yet whether to download it or not!

The way facial recognition technology works is utterly scary, as the journalists commented in the podcast it envisages a 1984-like society, where everyone is under Big Brother’s control. Though, I think it’s the downside of modern technology: it’s not dangerous in itself, but how, from who and for which purpose it is used might be dangerous.

On…

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This pandemic thing is baffling to me, I can’t still figure out how all this mess got started.

I can’t find my keys, I don’t want to put you out, but could I stay over at your place tonight?

I can’t stand her put-on kindness, she usually talks behind everyone’s back instead.

He’s a kind of grumpy, he always wastes his evenings grumbling…

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To be honest I’ve always found more difficult to understand the Brits than the Americans (unless they are from the southern nations of USA like Texas) though I’ve been only studying British English since I was a kid and I’ve never been to USA, whereas I stayed in UK for a while.

The countless idioms and phrasal verbs British people use while…

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Thanks for your words Kerin!

Actually I did enjoy this task a lot, as I’m really into art and as I like Hopper so much, his art always touches me deep inside me and makes me think a lot.

And you’re not picky, your corrections are very useful for me indeed.

I mostly agree with De Botton’s point of view on Hopper’s art, but not in fully.

On the one hand I would say that De Botton achieves in expressing what lie underneath Hopper’s paintings: they show still moments of aloneness, afar from the crowd, men and women depicted in their intimacy, in their bareness made of flaws and disillusion.

On the…

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That helps a lot! Thank you I will try that in the future.

Sorry for my awful handwriting

Thanks Kerin, actually the use of past tenses in English is still a complete mistery to me!

Also I’m still struggling with some use of the -ing form

To me enjoy art is something really spontaneous and direct, it deals mainly with feelings, emotions and sensations so it doesn’t matter which kind of art or which period as long as I’m just…

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I do love art, I would say that I’m basically an art addicted, but I found out only in my late forties how keen on art I have become. Beforehand I used to go to art museums only when I travelled abroad as being part of the normal and due sightseing activity in visiting a new place or city.

Now to go and visit an art museum or to attend an art…

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Thanks Kerin, I’m glad you like my accent

I agree with you my pisano accent sometimes slips back, above all when I’m knackered, as if the real Chiara is coming out again!

p.s. I felt ashamed for “taked” I must try to be more attentive now on, no way to make such a kind of mistake