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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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Thank you @Lu_Corde that was entertaining!
(I haven’t seen Boris – I’ll need to check it out!)
Have a look at the feedback below.
>1 it would sound more natural like this: since so many genres exist, …
>2 there is a missing word. Can you get it?
>3, 4 and 5 the verb tense is wrong. Can you try and fix it?
Let me know if you have any questions about the feedback!
Good job 👍👍👍
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This is a fascinating account @Elena – thank you for sharing this experience.
Essay feedback: introduction is perfect, well done. You sum up the argument and introduce your topic. Structure, word choice and content – all spot on 🌸
Here are some suggestions:
Think that in such a vast country as Russia – this doesn’t sound very natural (I fear there is some ‘Italian interference’ going on here 😂 .. Pensa che ….)
‘despite’ – please read this:
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/in-spite-of-and-despite
Here are some ways you could word it:
It’s incredible to believe that in such a vast country as Russia, there are no dialects, despite THE FACT THAT groups of THE population are cut off from each other by thousands of kilometers of taiga forest.
If we consider, for example, a vast country such as Russia; there are no dialects, despite groups of THE population BEING cut off from each other by thousands of kilometers of taiga forest.
> As for Italy, dialects change FROM one TO another every thirty kilometers.
> misguiding advice – misleading advice
Excellent work Elena 👏
More on despite: See here: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/grammar/intermediate-to-upper-intermediate/in-spite-of-despite-although-even-though-and-though
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Very well written @victorpereira – structures and vocabulary solid 👍
I would have preferred to send you a photo with corrcetions, but I left my apple pen in Florence by mistake, so you can see my feedback in bold.
> Watch some of your prepositions (have a look below). Make a note of them
> time, in this context is uncountable, so we don’t need the article ‘a’
> using commas more frequently will help your writing flow better
Give me a shout if you have any questions
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What would happen to you if YOU SPENT ALL YOUR Sundays only WATCHING TV? Some people would jump TO conclusions stating that it is useless, but they are forgetting that (DELETE a) free time to refresh their heads and being in a passive state is a great strategy to keep doing a good work in their useful days. Binge-watching is totally fine, if you don’t overdo it.
Undoubtedly(COMMA), (DELETE a) free time is strategically good for your productivity. According to MyImagination studies, it has been shown that having a day off through the week improves productivity drastically, the reason behind it is that your brain (COMMA), taking a break (COMMA), will absorb new information and focus more easily when you come back to work.
On the other hand, if done AT the wrong pace you can damage other parts of your life. The most heavy users of Netflix have been stuck in their lives for a long period of time. According to MyImagination research, those who spend more than 40h a week watching Netflix has been in the same job position and didn’t get a raise since they started with such an intense TV agenda.
Entertainment has been always good AT fulfilling us with different emotions, having a day just for experiencing those is a good way to shape a balance in our lives. If we manage to not fall into the trap of letting it control our lives (COMMA), we can have a really enjoyable and healthy life.
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Ahahaha! Typical bloke!
So, you could phrase it like this:
“Bob, nudged him and gave him an encouraging blink” – it sounds neater. Like? -
@onorati66 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏 Perfect!
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Love this @victorpereira (how does it end?!)
Vocab use spot on. Have a look at the corrections – give me a shout if you have any questions 👍
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Great @Lu_Corde !
You got it 👍
