English Digital Academy | Rubina | Activity https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/members/rubina/activity/ Activity feed for Rubina. Thu, 09 Apr 2026 11:10:40 +0200 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.14.4 en-GB 30 hourly 2 46ab74267a2cd70a9463191375004d57 Rubina started the discussion My connection with tv series in the forum TV series, binge watching and pilots https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/my-connection-with-tv-series/ Tue, 29 Jun 2021 15:30:58 +0200 My connection with tv series

I don’t have a favorite TV show or serie, I’m an ominvorous binge watcher indeed, but the most important requisites to resist to boredom are; social issues and brillant dialogues. The genre is not the main point, could be fantasy, political, adventurous, romantic even cartoon.

I mostly watch foreign shows, the Italians are very often…

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]]> cf86a96c64412c023320ad130473760a Rubina started the discussion successful conversations in the forum Final activation project-successful conversations https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/successful-conversations/ Fri, 25 Jun 2021 10:30:13 +0200 successful conversations

scenario 1 – Sorry I don’t understand this expression, can you say it in a different way?

scenario 2 – Could you mind speaking more slowly?

scenario 3 – Hmm? Come again?

scenario 4 – So, If I’ve understood correctly the project is feasible, is that correct?

scenario 5 – I’m sorry I don’t think I understand what you mean by …

scenario 6 -So,…

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]]> 021393abf66932e9eb597bbf98463399 Rubina replied to the discussion The most thrilling experience I ever had...until now! in the forum Discussion Room: Teaching https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/the-most-thrilling-experience-i-ever-had-until-now/#post-27355 Tue, 13 Apr 2021 09:36:52 +0200 Reply to The most thrilling experience I ever had...until now!

Thanks!

Regarding to the word TEN…

In italian we use the expression “decine di ..” or “centinaia di…” when we speak about a lot of something . Is it possible to translate in english ?

]]> d16b239be54c8694c7f528dfae44003d Rubina replied to the discussion The most thrilling experience I ever had...until now! in the forum Discussion Room: Teaching https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/the-most-thrilling-experience-i-ever-had-until-now/#post-27341 Thu, 08 Apr 2021 16:19:41 +0200 Reply to The most thrilling experience I ever had...until now!

Oh, here’s a good story about something that happened to me many years ago in Mexico when I was travelling in Baja California.

I’ll never forget the day I went to see wild whales in Saint Jorge Bay with my Mexican boyfriend.The dream of lifetime

Firstly, we left Mexico City very early in the morning to be sure to get there on time to take…

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]]> 90cfac69f5863f4328484a4a67656fa9 Rubina started the discussion Mini-saga in the forum How to tell stories https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/mini-saga-2/ Thu, 01 Apr 2021 17:35:26 +0200 Mini-saga

The Japanese Meal (from a watercolored nineteenth-century photograph by Adolfo farsari)

Three young and pensive Japanese ladies are occupied in an ancestral daily ritual repeated in the identical way century by century. White rise is boiled, glazed bowls,caps and teapot are set on tiny tables. kneeled phantoms in opalescent light are…

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]]> c9f2b4106d96444a9d0afebaa8642ca0 Rubina started the discussion The most thrilling experience I ever had...until now! in the forum Discussion Room: Teaching https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/the-most-thrilling-experience-i-ever-had-until-now/ Wed, 31 Mar 2021 17:11:36 +0200 The most thrilling experience I ever had...until now!

Oh, here’s a good story about something happened to me many years ago in Mexico when I was travelling in Baja California.

I’ll never forget the day I went to see wild whales in Saint Jorge Bay with my Mexican boyfriend.The dream of a life!

Firstly, we left Mexico City very early in the morning to be sure to get there on time to take…

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]]> c0c74af0529aa8a382db439cfacd6c75 Rubina posted a new activity comment https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/activity/p/1338/#acomment-1344 Mon, 29 Mar 2021 14:51:16 +0200 😩

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Interesting podcast! Rachel Humphreys talks to senior Guardian reporter Alexandra Topping about the killing of Sarah Everard, who disappeared on Wednesday 3 March in London. […]

]]> 62ecf67cf2f3c10bd4e027e60495588f Rubina posted a new activity comment https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/activity/p/1338/#acomment-1340 Fri, 26 Mar 2021 09:55:38 +0100 first mistake selfcorrected…..two wordSSSSS 😆

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Interesting podcast! Rachel Humphreys talks to senior Guardian reporter Alexandra Topping about the killing of Sarah Everard, who disappeared on Wednesday 3 March in London. […]

]]> 5add572b80baf5ab386fb4bd18c7813f Rubina posted a new activity comment https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/activity/p/1338/#acomment-1339 Fri, 26 Mar 2021 09:54:13 +0100 Dear Kerin 
I’ll listen to it! I found a word in the introduction that catched my eye,  manhandle- treat roughly.
 I don’t know if my speculation is correct but the word seems to be composed of two word MAN and HANDLE. For the first one there is only one meaning adult male – UOMO, for the second there are many meaning such as tool, deal with,… Read more

In reply to - Kerin to Chiara and Rubina

Interesting podcast! Rachel Humphreys talks to senior Guardian reporter Alexandra Topping about the killing of Sarah Everard, who disappeared on Wednesday 3 March in London. […]

]]> 504e7c74c87420724ab1120e274af5be Rubina posted a new activity comment https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/activity/p/1322/#acomment-1323 Thu, 18 Mar 2021 09:24:41 +0100 than -then
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In reply to - Kerin to Rubina @rubina this is well-expressed but there a 5 little mistakes. Can you try and fix them? Let me know if you need help! ]]> 28d78149745f451bcde6889d5ba41c98 Rubina started the discussion How to tell stories (course 6) in the forum Discussion Room: Teaching https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/how-to-tell-stories-course-6/ Mon, 13 Jul 2020 11:40:33 +0200 How to tell stories (course 6)

When I hear the word teaching I immediately think in a set of rules an all clues that can help me to solve a problem. About my competence in teaching I’m not sure, maybe I’m good at teaching Art history..

In my opinion to be a good teacher is necessary creativity and a lot of imagination, also strong communication skills are recomended but,…

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]]> 9494cdbc29c084b10d3267b83e5f8277 Rubina replied to the discussion A painting that inspired me! in the forum Activation Project Course 4 https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/a-painting-that-inspired-me/#post-11399 Mon, 13 Jul 2020 10:24:07 +0200 Reply to A painting that inspired me!

Despite she had been (past perferct) ….she was (past simple) ??

Perpretated

Hits (3rd person)

Where is not

women

]]> 5636d57878ba43c1cf3a1a7469fc2d4d Rubina started the discussion A painting that inspired me! in the forum Activation Project Course 4 https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/a-painting-that-inspired-me/ Wed, 08 Jul 2020 16:44:41 +0200 A painting that inspired me!

Today is the Artemisia Gentileschi’s birthday, she was born on 8 July 1563.

I’d like to celebrate and pay homenage to her tremendous talent and above all her courage. Artemisia was one of the rare woman’s painters of her times. Despite she has been the victim of prejudice and malicious chatters to have reported her rape, perpetrate by an…

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]]> 40da3fc859ea06b1b0831e064e99b051 Rubina posted a new activity comment https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/activity/p/585/#acomment-594 Mon, 11 May 2020 13:22:56 +0200 it’s true instead !! 

In reply to - Rubina posted an update Yestarday I moved in a new house in the countryside! When I was carrying all my stuff with the mover another company called to inform me that they were on their way, even if late…such a […] ]]> 26683cfb2c6db675be3503c7c3568d20 Rubina started the discussion defining art in the forum Defining art brainstorm https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/defining-art/ Thu, 07 May 2020 14:49:22 +0200 defining art

there are thousand of art words! Sweat Smile

]]> 0c5f906ca52e5bb2910e33dbe5cd131b Rubina posted an update: Yestarday I moved in a new house in the countryside! When […] https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/activity/p/585/ Thu, 07 May 2020 13:37:03 +0200 Yestarday I moved in a new house in the countryside! When I was carrying all my stuff with the mover another company called to inform me that they were on their way, even if late…such a big jam! Suddenly I realized that I’d contracted two different moving company!!

]]> 2 56d376338bf2c9398c1b5a96a90ce314 Rubina replied to the discussion Discussion room: art in the forum Discussion Room: ART https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/discussion-room-art/#post-9510 Fri, 24 Apr 2020 06:37:40 +0200 66cede3e042920d9b06140e833858e37 Rubina replied to the discussion Discussion room: art in the forum Discussion Room: ART https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/discussion-room-art/#post-9450 Wed, 22 Apr 2020 17:25:00 +0200 Reply to Discussion room: art

Do you think that art is important to society? Why?

How much Arts are important in our lives?

Today is an important anniversary for the world, is the 50th international Day of Heart. We celebrate the world as a planet made of lands, oceans, mountains, animals and, only at the end, little parasitic animals , us.

This morning I woke up with…

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]]> 4dabf5d75accc052005d0e5a2ec2d2b2 Rubina replied to the discussion How we perceive accents in the forum How we perceive accents https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/how-we-perceive-accents/#post-8719 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:04:46 +0100 Reply to How we perceive accents

Flushed

-I’ve just start > ? I’ve just started

-something that happen to me this winter > ? something that happened to me

-one of the most seductive aspect > ? one of the most seductive aspects

-he told me they are used to pronounce >? He told me they are used pronouncing

-that bother him! > bothering him ?? I’m not sure

]]> b884e39f9b84265bdca57f38a91872a9 Rubina replied to the discussion How we perceive accents in the forum How we perceive accents https://hub.englishdigitalacademy.com/forums/topic/how-we-perceive-accents/#post-8717 Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:59:42 +0100 Reply to How we perceive accents

This is an interesting and inspiring theme to explore! Pronunciation is the hapiness and torment for all learners!

For me it is a reason for hapiness because I’ve just start to recognize some accents, Scottish and Australian for example. Let me tell you something that happen to me this winter. I’m not a tv series obsessed but in order to…

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