Kerin
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No way! What a small world. And a good ending!
Have a look at my corrections. Please let me know if you need clarification about any of it
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Morning @onorati66
Hope you are surviving day 2 of lockdown!
Let’s have a look:
1. a source of discrimination ✅
2. million people – millionS of people
3. in search of work ✅ or you could say: searching WORK or searching FOR A job
NB: As nouns, work is uncountable and job is countable (so when you use job you have to ‘a’ or make it plural)
4. Southern people ✅. you can also say: Southerners
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Excellent slang @victorpereira – am sure you’re learning a lot in real life too!
Watch these:
> “you bloody jammy” said John. – “you’re bloody jammy” said John.
> taking the piss about us and we almost had a fight – taking the piss OUT OF us and we almost had a fight
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Thank you @JoRu – well written essay (if somewhat bleak! Culture is indeed at risk 😟)
Please look at my feedback. In red I have made corrections and in blue I have made suggestions to bring the level up.
Can you try to fix points 1-3?
1 and 3 are grammar errors. 2 – Can you think of a synonym for ‘often’? (as you used it in the previous line)
Please let me know if you have any questions and when you have time, can you fill in the welcome survey for me? It will help me understand your language needs and goals.
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Thanks Victor –
watch out with the word ‘slang’ – it’s an uncountable noun, so we don’t say ‘slangs’
Have a look:
> No, slang is more related to social ….
> I don’t think I use IT that much. I understand SOME of IT, probably most of IT IS American.
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This is excellent @Lu_Corde – poised and hardly any errors. Am really happy with this 👏
> as THE economy began to arise, (I’ve posted a link to a grammar lesson in the other essay you wrote)
> the so-called trash TV acquired importance – I suggest replacing ‘acquired’ with ‘gained’
> steal audience from traditional TV – audienceS
> to go in talk or reality shows – to go ON talk or reality shows
> the income (not plural)
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Thank you for sharing your thought @victorpereira I like this very much: …hence English is more of a tool for uniting any person in the world to any business in the world.
Just a few things to point out:
> make an impact on something – make a big impact ON your career,
> knowing how to speak English will PERMIT YOU TO cross borders and the ability for hiring any person.
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Good essay @Lu_Corde , your structure (and grammar!!) is solid and you have used the new vocab nicely. I’ve made some changes as you can see and the blue words are suggestions to sound more natural.
Also I think this lesson can help you refresh the use of articles, as I’ve noticed some errors there
https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/course/lower-intermediate/unit-8/tab/grammar
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I love this attitude, I think you are absolutely right- The important issue is to improve English so as to communicating with others in a fluent way.
When I lived in Milan, I definitely came across some discrimination towards people from the south (and I didn’t understand it honestly. Most of my friends were from there) But now that I understand more about Italy’s history and culture, I see where it came from. It is a bit similar to be being a Scot working in London!
Please have a look at the feedback. Can you try and correct 1-4?
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@Lu_Corde your vocabulary work is excellent. Well done.
I think you have a similar problem to me with my Italian: so your fluency is strong (you can use vocabulary very well and you don’t have many problems understanding), but your grammar can cause inaccuracies and mistakes. This is my eternal struggle in Italian and it’s very common with people who have lived abroad. Anyway, no big deal, we can fix it!
1> compare these questions:
Who did John Lennon shoot? v Who shot John Lennon? – both are grammatically correct, but the first one doesn’t make sense because JL (we hope!) never shot anyone. So what’s the grammar? A subject question! We use this when:
we don’t know the person or thing who performed the action, and we want to find out. This type of question is called a subject question, and subject questions do NOT use the auxiliary verbs do, does, and did. How to form subject questions:
Who / What + verb in simple present or simple past + object ?
Can you try and re-write the first highlight?
2> Can you tell me why I don’t like this?! There are two ways you can change it – have a go!
3> take a decision – I highlighted this, but it isn’t actually wrong. Just for info: it’s just more common to say ‘make a decision‘
4> This is in fact a conditional sentence (1st) The trick is to remember not to use ‘will’ twice in the phrase. Think of it like a formula:
***IF (or When, unless, should etc) + present simple*** | ***WILL + infinitive*** (you can swap the sections as you’ve done.
Can you try rewriting?
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Again, really well done Vale. You’re following the guidelines correctly 👍
I’m posting the picture but I’d like to go over the corrections on Monday if ok for you?
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Top marks on this task @Vale
✅ you used your own words
✅ you noted the title and author in the topic sentence
✅ 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
✅ you included a summary
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Have a look at my corrections and let me know if you have any doubts.
> Try and fix 1 and 2
> Have a read here: https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/how-to-use-the-verb-suggest/
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You got it @mao!
Please have a look at the changes I’ve made. Let me know if you don’t understand anything (the last sentence is the grammar we look at in module 6)
On his 35th birthday, he went to FOR A night-cap (I don’t know if I correctly listened to the word – yes: it means a hot or alcoholic drink taken before bedtime) with his friends. All of a sudden, he and his friends WERE attacked by a group of young guys who were drunk.
He was knocked down by them and about to be dragged AWAY while his friends tried to fight against them and were punched.
After THE POLICE CAME, everything (DELETE:was) settled down.
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Correct! ✅ well done.
Just watch: fall – fell – fallen (I fell asleep)
feel – felt – felt
(Going to do that! Thanks 😂)
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Great @Lu_Corde !
You got it 👍
