As Peachey says, 'not for turning' means she would hold onto her principles no matter what. In British politics, we talk a lot about 'U-turns' which means when a politician changes their mind and goes backwards (like turning around in a car). Thatcher wanted to say that she would not change her mind even though there was a lot of pressure for her to do so.

Something I wanna know after watching American film.

I have a question which bugs me all the time. It is unbelievable for me, a Chinese college freshman, to believe that U.S. high school students are eager to lose their virginity before their high school graduation, just like in American Pie (film). Is it real America? Seriously, I do want to know more about American culture, so I am crazy about English. COULD you introduce me to the real America?PS: This is the first time I write a composition here.

 

I am not from the US, but in England I think a lot of young kids want to lose their virginity as soon as they can. Party because of their hormones, and partly because they think everyone else has done it and they need to catch up. But also, there are people who are more patient, and wait for the right time. I don't think that it is very common to try and lose virginity before graduation as some kind of challenge, haha! 

First notebook entry: Introducing myself

hello, I am a college student, and my major is advertising. I like English very much. But most of the time, I write badly. I always make a lot of mistakes with grammar, and I can't use phrases easily which I have learned before. Soon our school is going to hold an English speech contest, and the theme of this competitiion is "a word that has change the world." I'm so nervous to face this competition because untill now I couldn't write down one word. I'm afraid that I will make a lot of mistakes, and I'm worried about the impromptu answer part. What should I do? To be honest, I don't want to lose this opportunity.

 

Spaces after punctuation! the long key at the bottom of the keyboard, hit it!! 

Capital I.

Recently is in the past; soon is in the future.

'I am' changes to 'I'm' and 'do not' changes to 'don't'. the ' goes where you leave out a letter.

good luck on the test, just do as well as you can :) i think some words that have changed the world include Jesus, Communism, 9/11, democracy, Christmas, Jedi, To be or not to be, Holocaust, Sergeant Pepper, The grassy knoll and the book depository, Mutually Assured Destruction, the N word, freedom, Einstein...