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Teaching in Spain
I am a teacher. My pupils are between eleven and twelve years old. I teach Maths and I like teaching a lot.
Nowadays Recently, my students have taken took some exams and nine of them don't didn't pass it. They are good boys and girls and they usually study. However, some of them don't. it. I get on with them about it. But generally, the problem is their parents. they don't It doesn't matter to them that their children learn, they only want their children to pass their exams. This is one of the reasons why teaching in Spain is one the worst. in Europe.What you wrote is good. I corrected your piece on the more colloquial side.
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Hi! My name is Nuria Morillo and I'm a journalist. I have been working worked in a for the newspaper El Mundo, radio channel COPE and television channels Telefive and Spanish Television. In all of them I make a information about reported the news. In my youtube channel, Nuria Morillo, you could can see a little piece of my job what I do.
I studied in Seville's University, where I received a Bachelor's the Univesity degree of in Journalism, and then I moved on to Madrid to complete my studies with a Masters of Television Journalism.
Like As you can see, I have a am good with English level. But it isn't my lonly language as I also know learnes a little bit of french.
Now it is your turn. I want to work look forward to working with you soon. Thanks.("I look forward to working with you," is an extremely common English phrase at the end of a professional letter.)
Great work, Nuria! What you wrote was really good. I was a little hard on you, though, because you are a journalist and journalists are held to a different standard. (I have a certificate in Broadcast Journalism, too, from UCLA, University of California Los Angeles.)
Keep up the good work.
0 votedDecember 9, 20130- I know your question is old and you probably don't even care anymore. But I read the responses and neither of them are exactly correct. It would be very common to hear someone say it like this, "All of a sudden, I just stopped liking that kind of music." That would be the most common and conversational way to translate your sentence into English.0 votedDecember 9, 20130
Little task, please check it
The story below is kind of a home task. The point was to check the grammar and correct it. Because i'm not native speaker I guess the text is still full of mistakes. But I can screw it up. Please, don't change sentences, words and constructions, just grammar. Thank you very much in advance!
I’ve spent most a enjoyable few days in Stratford-upon- Avon with my three my friends. We decided to go there several weeks ago and I booked hotel rooms for us in the town.
The hotel was really impressive from the outside, but the bedrooms were rather small. We arrived quite late on the first evening because we'd been working the whole day and all we wanted to do then was to have a good meal and go to our beds.
The next morning we got up quite late and ate a big meal at the hotel. We spent the rest of the day driving around the countryside and stopping now and then to have a short walk.
On the second day there we managed to get tickets to the theatre
and in the evening we went to watch one of Shakespeare’s plays. Earlier in the day two of my friends told me that they would rather spend the evening at a pub, but in fact we all thoroughly enjoyed the play and went to the pub afterwards.
I saw a woman there whom I thought I had recognised – I suddenly had realised that she was one of the actresses from the play.0 votedDecember 6, 20133- That's a tough one. It's not a very natural sounding sentence. One doesn't often talk about sleep like that in the present tense. Maybe it's from a poem? In any case, without knowing the context, I might say in every day language, "I keep waking up," or "I can only get cat naps." More poetically (and with a shift in tense), perhaps, "I fell into a fitful sleep." Oh well, I gave it my best shot. Hopefully that helps. :)0 votedDecember 6, 20131
- Improv Para mi primera entrada, pensé que escribiría un poco sobre una cosa que me encanta, el improv. Improv, es una cosa muy difícil de explicar si no lo has visto antes. Es un tipo de actuación en que un grupo, en mi caso mi grupo tiene ocho integrantes, inventa un show cómico en el momento. Sin guión, sin preparación. Representar un show así es muy emocionante y espantoso. El estilo de improv que hacemos se llama "Forma larga." Es como una mezcla del show "Whose Line Is It Anyway" y "Saturday Night Live." ¡Si tenemos suerte es tan bueno! Al principio del show, pedimos una sugerencia de la audiencia para un tema sobre lo que basaremos nuestro show. Luego, improvisamos por alrededor de una media hora sobre el tema. Inventamos escenas divertidas, bocetos cómicos, y a veces simplemente fragmentos de ideas tontas. Nunca sabemos lo que va a pasar. Lo único que sabemos es que vamos a reírnos. O por lo menos, vamos a tratar de hacer reír unos a otros. A veces fallamos, y miserablemente. A eso llamamos "morir." Es bien doloroso. Pero, cuando tenemos éxito, ¡puede ser super super super chistoso! A eso llamamos "matar." Es bueno matar y malo morir. Sencillo, ¿verdad? Cuando empecé a improvisar, solía tener miedo tomar el escenario sin saber nada de lo que iba a hacer. Pero, después de hacerlo un numero incontable de veces, me acostumbré a ello. Ahora, realmente, me da más miedo presentar algo preparado que improvisar. ¡Qué loco! El improv existe en muchos lugares. Si tienes la oportunidad, échale un vistazo. Los boletos siempre son muy baratos, y si es una buena noche, podrías morirte de la risa. En este caso, morir sería bueno.December 4, 201361
- Both are things that are commonly done. A convention is the way something is normally done in regard to a procedure. eg. The convention at a restaurant is that you eat your food, and then you pay. A custom is a common way of doing something in regard to a society or culture. eg. In the United States, the custom is to tip at least 15% of the total bill at a restaurant. Does that clear things up?0 votedOctober 13, 20120
- There is an added connotation to "hock a loogie." It means more than just "to spit." To be graphic, it means to pull up the thick, gross, yellowish or greenish mucus from your nose, throat or lungs and to spit it out with force so that it shoots through the air. The fun of "hocking a loogie" doesn't come so much from it's linguistic use. The fun comes from actually doing it. :P0 votedOctober 12, 20120
