Kerin
Forum Replies Created
-
Thank you for sharing @Paolo
You are 100% right – it’s part of ‘every day life’ language (Therefore I consider it an extremely important part of learning if you really want to understand native speakers). I understand your disappointment, but ‘piano piano!’ a little at a time. Start actively noting down new slang – if you realise you start hearing it a few times, it means it is high frequency – therefore, worth learning. 👍
Please have a look at the corrections. I have sent you the writing code in the messages. Please try to correct what you can using the code.
-
Well-expressed @onorati66 and some nice use of vocabulary – it was a pleasure to read. (I think you could be right about the school programme being Eurocentric). I completely agree with you – I think he caught the anguish of normal people in a post-war world – universal emotions.
Let’s have a look at some corrections:
> harduous – spelling > arduous ✅
> art’s history – we use this as a compound noun > art history ✅
> Neither have I happened to see his paintings in ANY museum or art exhibition
(You must use present perfect here – do you know why?)
❌ he stayed clinged to the painting as a figurative art
⚠️ Cling is an irregular verb: cling, clang, clung
✅You can either say: he stayed clinging to …. or he clang to ….
He swimmed against the tide? – great expression. But swim is also irregular:
Swim swam swum
Good piece Roberto 👍
-
Nice use of the new vocabulary @sabri
Have a look please at the corrections. Please ask if anything isn’t clear:
Some time ago I was abroad and I started to be hungry. I walked all day and I HAD with me only a fiver because I LEFT my wallet in THE hotel with all my credit cards…. I tried to go in a bakery to find someTHING to eat but I saw that all the things were more expensive THAN my money so I WAS gutted and came back to my hotel to GET the wallet but I was knackered and decided to go bed without any meal. In the hotel I found the freezer with someTHING to drink so and at the end I was hungry and pissed.
The morning after this terrible night I considered MYSELF TO BE two sandwiches short of a picnic. I had to speak in a meeting and surprisingly I was the bee’s knees.
BY CHANCE, THE buffet was fit for me and I could calm my needing of food.
-
Top marks on this @Antonella , well done:
✅ you used your own words
✅ you identified the main idea
✅ you found relevant ideas & omitted irrelevant details
✅ you kept the meaning the same
✅ you used attributive tags
✅ you kept your opinion out of it
Let’s have a look at some corrections:
> when we use this phrase: one of the most the subject needs to be in the plural form:
one of the most talented painterS/ one of the best restaurantS in Milan etc
> favorite and favor – this is not incorrect, but be aware that it is the American spelling. So if you decide to go with the American spelling, make sure you consistently use it.
Can you try and correct the following for me:
1. wrong word appreciate is a verb – can you fix it?
2. wrong word behave is also a verb – what’s the noun?
3. missing word – can you guess?
4. wrong word – clue (people!)
Have a go at correcting and of course ask me if you get stuck or need anything clarified!
-
Morning @Lu_Corde I enjoyed reading your discussion very much and I especially appreciate your ideas on the title On the Pleasures of Sadness.
From the English point of view, you’ve done a great job expressing these complex thoughts and there are hardly any mistakes. 👏 There is just one thing we can change to make it sound more like a native speaker:
> How it can maybe be guessed from my previous statements, I agree with …
> As one can probably tell/guess/imagine/from my previous statements, I agree with …
(Here I’ve used ‘one’ because the writing style is fairly formal. In general conversation or in a less formal writing piece, you can say: as you can probably tell/ guess / imagine ….)
ps. tiny mistake!: they have not the empathy for human condition ❌
-
Oh, thanks so much for saying that @Wanda -that means a lot! 😊
okay – yes, ahaha! These false friends… let me think… maybe one of these could be good:
Little-known …
Not widely distributed/used …
Uncommon …
👍 (That was a toughie!)
-
Well done @sabri 👏
-
What a lovely piece of writing @elena.travnikova
You have used some rich vocabulary indeed and your prepositions agreement is spot on 👍 Well done. I also like your structure and fluidity 👏
We have a problem with articles – I’m not sure why, but this month everyone is having trouble with them (which means I have to do a lesson on that for sure!)
In the meantime, I want to point you to these lessons – I think they are great:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/lower-intermediate/unit-8/tab/grammar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/upper-intermediate/unit-11/tab/grammar
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/english/course/upper-intermediate/unit-9/tab/grammar
Have a look at my corrections and if you have any questions, just let me know 🤗
-
@Vale – the next time I see you, I’m going to give you a gold star 🤩🤩🤩 These phrases are GREAT!
Just a few tiny things to point out, but they sound super natural. Really, well done.
6.I’d rather have on (an❌) oversized pants and a comfortable shirt/blouse.
7. For special occasions, I usually go to my friend Elena, TO look for items in her wardrobe.
(go to someone FOR something or TO DO something)
OR:
For special occasions, I usually go to my friend Elena’s, I look for items in her wardrobe. (saxon genitive because you mean ‘da Elena’)
10.I’d like to buy many different types of shoes, even though I wear especially sneakers and sandals as MUCH as possible.
-
Not so many @Antonella (you should see my Italian homework 😳 !!!)
You got it! 👍
ps. behavior (US) behaviour (UK) > just so you are aware, this isn’t a correction 🙌
-
You too @sabri
Have a lovely xmas (the best we can manage this year!) xxx
-
Yes, but also the negative form is wrong.
So this:
they have not the empathy for human condition
should be:
they don’t have the empathy for the human condition
👍😉
-
It’s a little mistake, that’s probably why you can’t see it:
> they have not ❌
and you are missing an article!
Tell me if you can’t get it! It is Friday after all 😂
-
Ah sorry! I wanted you to try and correct it! Can you have a go? 😉 @Lu_Corde
-
Good stuff @Lu_Corde
(You can say ‘I know best’. Usually we use ‘I know better’ to mean ‘I should have known better’ see: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/know-better-than-sb?q=know+better)
🤗
