[Kerin]

Hi @j.artini

well done on this task 👍

Your vocabulary is good and you sound very natural. Where I’m seeing some problems is between present perfect and past simple tense. To review this, please do the past simple and present perfect sections in the lower intermediate unit in your grammar course

Please have a look at my feedback:

1. Gianni I haven’t heard you could you please repeat what you where saying. > here you need to use the past simple because it is a completed action

> Gianni I didn’t hear you could you please repeat what you where saying. (past simple because it is finished)

3. Sorry Luca, I accidentally mute you > Sorry Luca, I accidentally muted you (past simple)

5. Matt are you still there? Is everything all right? Your just is frozen. > You’ve just frozen (present perfect)

7. can you please put you on mute > can you please put yourself on mute

8. Can anybody hear me? I’ve just ask to everybody if it’s ok to schedule the next meeting for tomorrow at 10 but nobody answer me.

> Can anybody hear me? I’ve just asked (DELETE: to) everybody if it’s ok to schedule the next meeting for tomorrow at 10 but nobody answered me.

Let me know if you need anything clarified or if you have any questions 🤗

[Kerin]

Excellent work @Claudio.Cheli 🙌

Just two notes:

> “I” when referring to a person, should always be a capital letter : I’ll, I’ve. I’m etc

> in scenario 4, if you change the word order and add ‘can’ it will sound more natural:

✅...you’re talking about a presentation but I (can) only see a browser window.

If you have time, try to do the speaking task too 👍

Thanks!

[Kerin]

Hi @Diego.Magionami

This is near perfect 💪 well done!

A few notes for you

5) do you have problems with your connection?

So, this is not incorrect, but it sounds a bit unnatural. This is because when we use the present simple, we are stating a fact. So if we ask do you have problems with your connection? we are asking if it is always the case (and for this reason, it isn’t incorrect!) However, it would be better to use the present continuous to ask ‘in this moment’ > are you having problems with your connection?

6) there is a great confusion

This sounds suspiciously like an Italian translation to me! 😅 Try saying, there’s too much confusion or there’s a big mess

7) Please, who is not talking could mute his microphone? This is a complicated phrase. I suggest this:

Could anyone who is not talking please mute their microphone?

Let me know if you have any questions or need anything clarified. I’m just going to send you feedback on your audio now 👍

[Kerin]

Hi @Michele.Baldi

You’ve done a good job 👍

Please have a look at my feedback:

2) I’m sorry, I’m late. ❌ I haven’t heard the alarm clock this morning.

Here you have to use the past simple because you stipulate the time in the past this happened

✅ I’m sorry, I’m late. I didn’t hear the alarm clock this morning.

(You can review the past simple in the grammar course in the lower intermediate section)

5) Are you ok Nick? Your video has just frozen

This is correct, but perhaps it would be more common to say: Everything ok Nick?

8) spelling (probably just a typo!) partecipate > participate

Let me know if you have any questions or need anything clarified 👍

… and if you have time, try to do the speaking task too!

[Kerin]

Hi @Mattia.Rosi

This is well done.

Please have a look at feedback

1) you could make this even more natural by saying sound quality:

Sorry, there’s a lot of background noise and the sound quality is poor, could you please speak up?

2) Brilliant! I too often find a lot of traffic from my sofa to my desk 😂

I suggest: Could someone run through what’s been discussed so far?

7) Sorry guys, there is a dog that IS barking and I can’t hear what you are talking about. Please, the dog’s owner has to mute the mic and TURN it on when the dog IS be quiet. Thank you.

8) the verb discuss doesn’t need a preposition

Let me know if you have any questions or need anything clarified 🙌 and if you have time, try to do the speaking task too

[Kerin]

Hi Jacopo,

I think it’s useful to see it in this balanced way; like anything I suppose there are pros and cons. I would have to agree that I like the freedom online meetings give us, but of course, we lose something online. They are great for day-to-day stuff but perhaps less effective for brainstorming or sensitive decision making… I can imagine it’s painful for Italians 😂

@j.artini this is well-written and expressed quite clearly. There are a few things you need to watch: please have a look at these corrections and let me know if you need anything clarified

> ❌ my daily routine has been significantely changed with the start of the Covid pandemic (this is the passive voice, which is incorrect)

> ✅ my daily routine has significantly changed with the start of the Covid pandemic

*see advanced section: the passive in the grammar course Tense Buster to review this

> ❌ I was used to do

>✅ I was used to DOING or I used to do (see this video for info on this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_7Gxa23-I7Y))

> for my experience replace ‘for’ with ‘in’ > in my experience

> watch your plurals and articles!

…and now I’m doing like 2/3 remote meetingS on A daily bases (basis)

… I don’t really dislike doing remote meetingS instead of face-to-face since the time call for social distancing, obviously there are some proS and cons on doing meetingS remotely.

If you have time Jacopo, please try and re-write this with the corrections – it’ll help you consolidate 👍

[Kerin]

Wonderful @Lu_Corde 🙌. this is really well done.

I’m very happy to see think + about (and no think + to! Yes!!!)

Also….you are most definitely NOT alone! Unfortunately I am with you 💯 …. my friend’s call me the doom!

N.b stuck – stuck – stuck

[Kerin]

Oh I like this perspective @Lu_Corde – it is a “mixed bag” indeed and I feel that the article is perhaps already outdated 🙄 … technology moves so fast!

I’ve sent you a google doc. If you have time, try to edit it with the correction code 👍

[Kerin]

Hello @Riccardo.Gai ,

Nice to meet you. Good job here, well done!

I’ve never been to Sansepolcro, I’ll add it to my list!

I couldn’t agree with you more on point 4 and I wish you lots of luck achieving your marathon goal next year 💪

Here are some notes:

> “i” should always be spelled with a capital letter; I love, I’m working, I’m form etc

> Sansepolcro is pretty famous because is the home town of Piero della Francesca

the word it is missing in this sentence. Can you decide where to put it?! 🤗

> I’m working AS a freelance software developer

> what i love more is the countinous innovation which provoke me to keep up to date. I suggest: What I love more is the continuous innovation which INSPIRES me to keep up to date.

> I really like challenge myself and my goal for the next year is to complete a marathon!

the word to is missing in this sentence. Can you decide where to put it?! 🤗

❌On my free time > ✅. IN my free time

Good job Riccardo. See if you can fix these 2 phrases above and let me know if you need anything clarified 👍

[Kerin]

Hi @Michele.Barbagli

Oh my goodness, that is a big change indeed. What are the implications of the increase in online meetings for you? I’m curious if you feel more or less productive?!

Notes:

Have a look at the corrections below:

1. you need to use the article here; the pandemic, a physical meeting, an online meeting

Alternatively, you could make meetings plural: From my experience, physical meetings are …. / online meetings are definitely ….

(I recommend you do the section called ‘Articles’ in the advanced unit in the grammar course. I’ll be sending out the access to this course later today)

2. This is a tricky phrase. We should make “disrupting event” a noun: disruption and we can make the sentence less wordy (remember in English, less is more 😅)

so: The pandemic has been a disruption to/on our daily routine.

3. Here you need to use the present perfect: I’ve switched from … (The present perfect continuous focuses on the duration of something, so we don’t tend to use it with verbs (like switch, fix etc) that don’t have a continuous state.

(There is a present perfect section in the upper intermediate unit that you’ll find useful)

👍

[Kerin]

Ok got you @eleonora.rossi 😜

You can say this: Moreover, you can get on with your own your business / get on with other stuff if the meeting is boring 😂

👍

[Kerin]

Hi Diego,

I couldn’t agree more! (The Britishness in me loves the focus, lack of of hassle and faff!) Having said that, I also agree that face-to-face meetings can be better, especially when you need to brainstorm or make key decisions.

Well written @Diego.Magionami your grammar structures are sound and I like the vocabulary you have used.

The only things I would like to highlight are:

> worrying (it’s probably just a typo though!)

> discuss (doesn’t take a preposition)

[Kerin]

Exactly! 😂

[Kerin]

Hi @Michele.Baldi thanks for sharing your ideas.

Is it group meetings that you don’t like very much or also one-to-one meetings? Just a curiosity!

Have a look at my notes here:

> Before the pandemic I usually did one or two online meetings per week and NOW I do at least one online meeting every day. By adding the word ‘now’ this phrase has much more impact.

> I think that THEY are more effective than a message or email, (comma here!) but I prefer a face-to-face meeting because you can see if people are focusED (to be focused) on the topic of the meeting or IF they ARE thinkING ABOUT something else

⚠️ take a look at this post for the verb think

https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/prepositions-after-the-verb-think/

Prepositions after the verb: THINK

[Kerin]

@Manuela.Lelli Are there any times where you find online meetings to be more productive than face to face?