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What i have been doing today Today it has been a busy day for me. I woke up at 6:00, quite early. But here in Spain, we have a very hot weather. In fact, we have a heat wave. Temperatures are expected to reach the 44 celsius degrees. in the shawow. What could be considered 50 or more in the sun. That why if you want to do outdoor sports you must wake up early if you dont want to faint when doing it. I have ben running. Then,, I have driven to the airport and going shopping to a new shopping center in the city closer to mine. You would ask if I don't work. Yes I do, but I am a teacher , therefore i have two month holydays. Nice, isn't it?. After lunch I have had my typial Spanish siesta for half an hour. too much hot, and the last thing i have done is taking a i talki class with a good teacher.

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What i have been doing today

Today it has been a busy day for me. I woke up at 6:00, quite early. But Here in Spain, we have a very hot weather. In fact, we have a heat wave. Temperatures are expected to reach the 44 celsius degrees Celsius. in the shawow.  shade, and What could be considered reach 50 or more in the sun. That's why if you want to *do outdoor sports, **you must wake up early if you don't want to faint when doing it.

I have been went running. Then, I have driven drove to the airport and going went shopping at to a new shopping center in the city closer closest to mine. 

You would might ask if I don't work; yes I do, but I am a teacher, therefore i have two months of holidays. Nice, isn't it? 
After lunch I have had my typical Spanish siesta for half an hour; it was too much hot. and The last thing i have done did is was taking take an i talki class with a good teacher.


Notes: Hi Rosa, nice job! Keep working on the use of past simple (i.e. I drove to the airport) vs past perfect (i.e. I had driven to the airport). I believe past perfect is generally used to talk about something that happened before another action in the past. For example, you could say, "I had driven to the airport, and afterwards decided to go shopping." In this example,  the drive to the airport happened before the action of going shopping. This is contrasted with the present perfect - which you used correctly - an action/situation that started in the past and continues into the present (i.e. "Today has been a busy day for me".) Thanks for sharing!

*I would choose a different word here, such as: if you want to "participate in" outdoor sports

** I would rephrase this to something like: "you should wake up early to avoid fainting from the heat"

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What i have been doing today

Today it ("today" is the subject of the sentence, you don't need a pronoun as well) has been a busy day for me. I woke up at 6:00, quite early. But here in Spain, we have a very hot weather (weather is not a countable noun). In fact, we have a heat wave. Temperatures are expected to reach the 44 celsius degrees celsius in the shade. What could be considered 50 or more in the sun. Thats why if you want to do outdoor sports you must wake up early, if you don't want to faint when doing it. I have been running. Then,, I have driven to the airport and went shopping in a new shopping center in the city closest to mine. 

You might ask if I don't work. Yes I do, but I am a teacher, therefore i have two month holidays. Nice, isn't it?.
After lunch I have had my typial Spanish siesta for half an hour. too much hot, and the last thing i have done is taking a i talki class with a good teacher.


You are able to form sentences using these various tenses very well, but I'm not sure that you are using them correctly in terms of meaning. I highlighted one sentence in particular, this sentence looks to me as if it should be written in past simple. "I went running, then I drove to the airport and went shopping...".

I can see you are trying to use your English, and I praise you for doing that, but I suggest you revise the uses of the perfect aspect. 

It's not a problem to say "I have been running today" because of course today is an unfinished period of time, but when you follow this sentence with "then", you should change to past simple.

Why? Well, I think you should ask your teacher to explain in more detail because they have more time than I do ;) But in general, I would recommend using perfect aspect to talk about the relationship in time between the events you're speaking about.


I hope this helps! I will of course explain anything I've said that you don't quite understand! 

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