I’m going to talk about ‘Medea’ by Christa Wolf, one of my all-time favourite books. It is a re-telling of Medea’s myth realized thropugh stream of consciuoness. The figure and the events of Medea’s story are told as a patchwork of the point of view of the different characters, in such a way even if the purpose of the book is to clear Medea…

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– Talk about the last booh you have read

Yesterday I have finished ‘The garden of Earthly Delights’ by Joyce Carol Oates. The book starts as a realistic portrait of life of American laborers in early Nintheen century, and then proceeds talking about the two following generations, that fight to reach a better social position, but at the same…

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1 – I didn’t notice how UNFASHIONABLE I was until Claudia pointed out.

2 – Drumming is not just noise to him, it is A CREATIVE OUTLET

3 – If I she wouldn’t have SPOTTED me I wouldn’t have recognized her with that sweatshirt! At work she is always so PRIM AND PROPER.

4 – During pandemic I have discovered OVERSIZED shirts, they are so cozy!

5 -…

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I’m as usual super late in answering, but here I am:

I don’t consider myself a fashionable person, nor someone who thinkS a lot about clothes and style. THE CAUSE OF IT IS PROBABLY THAT I DON’T CONSIDER FASHION INDUSTRY SOMETHING THAT HAS INFLUENCE ON MY LIFE, even if it isn’t completely true since we are constantly surrounded by fashion…

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I don’t consider myself a fashionable person, nor someone who think a lot about clothes and style. This probably depends on considering the fashion industry far from my life, even if it isn’t completely true since we are constantly surrounded by fashion products and clothes marketing.

So starting from the previous consideration, and my…

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I’m back and I see my old enemies, articles, are still here. I definitely have to pay more attention to them.

Thank you for the tip about ‘also’, I’ll write it down and try to apply it!

In ‘The Rollercoaster life of an iconic Art Deco painter known as “The Baroness with a brush” ‘ Emma Taggart describes the main milestones of life and artistic career of the Polish painter Tamara the Lempicka.

After having traveled around Europe in her youth, visiting Poland, Switzerland and Italy, Tamara moves to Paris with her husband. Her…

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Thank you for the explanation! Clear and useful as always 🙂

Here my try of correction.

Is fake news a problem? Why?

To work correctly, democracy requires that people are informed about what is happening and WHAT are the possible consequences of a certain decision. In a world where it is always more difficult to distinguish between true and false information, it is also hard to individuate…

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Is fake news a problem? Why?

To work correctly, democracy requires that people are informed about what is happening and which are the possible consequences of a certain decision. In a world where it is always more difficult to distinguish between true and false information, it is also hard to individuate reliable politicians and…

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Thank you!

Re-reading it now, it seems obvious to me that the ‘to’ particle shouldn’t be followed by an -ing form. 🙂

This is my try of correction:

My main source of news IS Social networks. I know: they are places full of terror and lies, but this is not completely correct: a lot of people use them in a very proficient way to spread information. A couple of exampleS of this are the Instagram account of spaghettipolitics and the Youtube channel Breaking…

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My main source of news are Social networks. I know: they are places full of terror and lies, but this is not completely correct: a lot of people use them in a very proficient way to spread information. A couple of example of this are the Instagram account of spaghettipolitics and the Youtube channel Breaking Italy. The first one is an…

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I made it over-complicated! Thank you for your feedback

You have no idea! But I assume it is a lesson learned 😂

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For 7. I would say ”Sorry, how much do we need to increase sales?”, is it right?

Thank you!

Anyway, I developed these strategies, then the last meeting I lost the plot a bit because I was checking to have sent the correct file and when I understood that my colleague had written a file-name different from the one I had said, I assumed I had made an error and interrupted the meeting to underline that actually the procedure…

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Thanks for your feedback!

I’ve found this really hilarious!

I had get more or less everything but two words.

A: I can see you both look WORRIED but the good news from head office is that neither of you is going to be ___ but we have to try and that , uh, with some of our own and I know that’s supposed to be a of yours.

ME: Sorry Adam, I don’t know a word you have…

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Scenario 1:

Sorry I don’t know the expression ‘back on track’, can you explain it to me?

Scenario 2:

Sorry to interrupt you, Mr. X. I’m having trouble following you. Would you mind speaking more slowly?

Scenario 3:

What did you say?

Scenario 4:

Sorry a piece of clarification, are you saying that the project is feasible or that it depends on…

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I haven’t things to add to your suggestions. When I am listening to an English conversation usually:

– Set my mind on the topic of the conversation (a job meeting is different from a TV show and a friendly chat, and the possible topics covered are different as well)

– Try to focus on the meaning of the speech and not on the single words

– If I…

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*Undeniably

I think that more than out of date is a bit too much… enthusiastic. Moreover, social and political happenings aren’t considered in it, when they have undeniable a huge impact on technological development.

I’ll give a look right now (I’m in a meeting but people who should talk are late, so it is a great moment to correct my English Homework)

Thank you! I’ll send you the Speaking part at latest on next weekend.

I’m used to be called ‘pessimistic’ too, but you know, if something goes wrong I am prepared!

When I think about future, about the way our world and society will EVOLVE in the next century, I cannot avoid thinking about the way the whole society and the whole world HAVE CHANGED OUT OF RECOGNITION in the last century. Even if some people appear STUCKED IN XIX century, in general I am convinced that society has TAKEN a definitely…

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I find the article interesting, but I cannot avoid thinking of it as a mixed bag: a lot of different things put together and without a deeper analysis of any of them.

One of the main things that leaves me dubious is the comment about AI (Artificial Intelligence). It is widely used for image (and facial) recognition and are basic in…

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Let’s try to correct it:

It costs a lot to admit it, but I am a creature of habit. I like to know what is happening in my life and have control on it. I find IT thrilling to have some changes in my routine, WITH the condition that it remains, indeed, a routine. At the same time, I am able to understand when I NEED to escape or to transform…

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Yes, you caught the concept I wanted to express. In my mind lonely = solitary and alone and lonely aren’t synonyms. From your sentence I suppose that alone and lonely are synonyms indeed and solitary is the ‘positive’ side of lonely in a sense. Am I right?

It costs a lot to admit it, but I am a creature of habit. I like to know what it is happening in my life and have control on it. I find thrilling to have some changes in my routine, at the condition that it remains, indeed, a routine. At the same time, I am able to understand when I NEED to escape or to transform completely it. I perceive…

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I am 24, so ten years ago I was 14. I mean… 14. Thinking about it is a bit impressive and it makes me feel old, but on the other side I’m happy. I remember how I was at the time: I was insecure and alone (for choice, coming from a little village I hadn’t so much choice about company, but still it wasn’t pleasant), I had just started high…

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Thank you for the feedback!

The present perfect is needed because the action has an effect in the present (I’ll send you my presentation this evening!)

I am happy of that! The 50 words limit makes the task really tricky!

Last summer, exploiting the fact that less tourists was around due to CoVid, my boyfriend and I decided to visit Venice. Our reasoning was pretty straightforward: I had never seen Venice before, and he had went when he was a child, 6 years old, and didn’t remember anything, so which best period of a pandemic one, when the travels are reduced,…

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She had to be careful. She was breathing silently and trying to understand if what she heard was her heart or steps. Suddenly she felt something touch her leg and jumped. It was the cat. She was an idiot. She tried to hide, but her brother shouted: “Found! Now you seek!”.

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Actually, I had a coffee before! I wrote this Sunday morning, so I was definitely well rested 😂

Almost everyone in my family has been a teacher for a period of his life, but thinking of a teacher for sure I think about my grandad. He loved teaching practically anything and I remember when, taking me and my sister to school he explained us concepts about math and physics, using games and songs.

Being surrounded by teachers all my childhood,…

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I’ll paste and copy my text above and I’ll do the corrections directly on it.

Since I (a) HAVEN’T GOT particular issues with pronunciation and I (as everyone else) am constantly surrounded by American English, I have done the British English Listening.

The podcast extract talks about facial recognition, starting from a Russian website (Yandex…

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Understood!

Thank you for the clarification.

HI Kerin, thank you for your corrections!

Can I ask you if, apart from verbs and phrasal verbs, the corrections are related to a wrong construction of the phrases or a non natural one?

Since I have not particular issues with pronunciation and I (as everyone else) am constantly surrounded by American English, I have done the British English Listening.

The podcast extract talks about facial recognition, starting from a Russian website (Yandex I think), that works as Google, but it doesn’t search for words but for images. In…

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An error here: *WASN’T THE BRIGHTEST…