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Olivia, fantastic job. Spot on!!!!!!
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Ahahahaha!!! Love this story! Well-written too – nice vocab and almost perfect grammar 🙌
I have just a few notes for you:
I’ll never forget that day! So my husband and I were ❗️preparing❗️ to attend our friend’s wedding one month following ours. – it sounds more natural to say “getting ready” ✅
…the funniest thing was that i had just finished tying my hair when he ❗️entered❗️ the room to get his shoes. – This is non incorrect, however, a native speaker would say “came into” 😉
I used ❌ his shoe laces of the shoes he wanted to wear to tie my hair up . When we made eye contact , we burst out laughing. – I need to use a tense to show that this action happened first. Which tense do you think?
❗️Finally❗️, he helped me find something else for my hair. > Better to say, “In the end….” 😍
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Excellent work Antonio.
✅ 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
Only 2 tiny corrections to make:
> replace synonym with synonymous
> To sum up, THE «Made in Italy» label …
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🔝😉
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Lovely work Olivia 🌸
Some vocabulary tips:
Unfortunately, my husband IS TREATING ME TO a trip to Italy, one of THE countries ON MY BUCKET LIST I WISH to visit.
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I enjoyed reading this very much Antonio.
> When we use this expression, we need to use this formula:
Not only HAVE I read her novels, but I have also read her short stories.
(Not only have I done something, but I have also done something else)
> Last summer, I SPENT one wonderful week in London.
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Hi Olivia,
This is very good. I have some tips for you:
1. TONE:
I hope this finds you in great shape! > This is nice, but perhaps too informal. A more formal version could be: I hope this finds you well.
2. GRAMMAR:
> I understood you would HAVE submitED it to me yesterday.
> Perhaps I HADN’T not made myself clear in what was needed in the report.
(You will look at these tenses in detail in the ‘Tell Interesting Stories’ course. However, let me know if you need any clarification)
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Nice work!
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I couldn’t agree with you more Antonio! (Well-written as well 💪)
Note: … but he is also AN extremely persuasive speaker.
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Thank you for sharing Sara. I appreciate your view on what art means and I see we share similar tastes! My mum always makes fun of me saying that I live in the wrong city. Florence, of course, is surrounded by art. However, Renaissance art, although I do appreciate it, doesn’t spark any real emotion in me. There are only so many paintings of the Madonna I can take! Whereas, I find the modern art museums in Venice and Milan much more stimulating.
I think perhaps you once told me about your volunteer post at the museum. I’d love to hear more about that. I’ve had some amazing experiences in New York and Amsterdam down to the talks we were given by volunteers. It can be quite an intimate experience.
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- He uploadS❗ the selfie he took her on yandex.com
- Yandex is the simplelized❗(spelling: simplified) version of google. It has a search platform. You can use it to deliver a message and upload photos on yandex and it will perform a search on it, it will tell te person on the image❗(it will tell who the person is on the image). It does that by recognizing the person on the image and looking for the specifications from that recognition
- Should we be scared ❗ of facial recognition?
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Good examples Olivia.
FYI > In your first phrase: I spent all the night is correct, but you can also say I spent all night (deleting the ‘the’) because to spend all night is a set phrase.
> Although she is a great cook, she made the rookie mistake of leaving❌ letting✅ the caramel burn
> I would rather go ON to another topic instead of lingering on this dispute
go on to = continue
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Good job Maria. Two errors to note:
1- Considering the level of inflation, I think we should address the issue of 👉a salary raise
2- There were many applicants for this position, but somehow he pulled 👉it off and got the job!
(to pull something off)
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Alright Olivia? Bloody good effort from you! 😂
Well done, this is superb. Just two things to note, both in para 3:
I spent £10 on drinks for her but then she got knackered and fancy to go home, I didn’t get her phone number and I was very gutted.
> the verb fancy needs the gerund, so it should read: fancied going home
> Adjectives like knackered and gutted are what we call ‘Absolute Adjectives’. This means that is generally not capable of being intensified or compared. Therefore we don’t use ‘very’ with these kinds of adjective.
You might find this interesting: https://www.bbc.co.uk/learningenglish/course/eiam/unit-1/session-47
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Don’t apologise! Mistakes are how we learn 🙌
