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- Difference between "as" and "since" Please help me Hi there, i'm studing to get the Advanced Cambridge English Certification. Therefore i'm trying to improve my grammar level and fix my common mistakes at the moment. I have just done a test and there was an exercise where you have to choose the correct option: He´s had his car... A. when he passed his driving test B. since he passed his driving test C. as he passed his driving test For me, "since" and "as" in this sentences have the same meaning. Don't they both explain the reason to do something? Anyway i chose the answer C. But the correct solution for the website is B. So i guess there is a difference between since and as. I tried to find the explanation on Internet, but i did not manage to find a good one. Please help me :), thanks in advanceSeptember 3, 201540
- "The Others" (2001) Review Hi guys, it has been a long time since last time i wrote here. Yesterday i watched a very interesting film: "The Others. Although it is a famous and quite old movie (2001), i had never watched it. Anyway, i just want to test my writing English skills again, so i'm gonna write a kind of short and easy review. "The Others" is a movie which takes place in a big house, far from everyone and everything, surrounded by a dense fog. The mother Grace (Nicole Kidman) and her child Anne and Nicolas live in this house. Grace is looking for someone who can help her out to look after the child, tidy up the old house, do the housework. Later, three persons, who already know each other, come to Grace's house and ask Grace if they can work for her. Grace accepts the application and immediately starts explaining their main duties to the three persons. The most important thing that they have to remember is that all the door must be locked, except the one where the person himself stays. Why should they respect such a weird thing? Because the little Anne and Nicolas have a strange illness: they can't see the light, their body must not being exposed to light, otherwhise they could die. It's a skin illness, very rare, which causes the premature ageing of the skin. This film is full of surprises. Nicole Kidman did a great dramatic performance, in my honest opinion. The film is classified as an horror film, but the classical elements of an horror film don't appear here: no bloody scenes, no disgusting murders etc. For me, it's a thriller/dramatic film, which contains high suspense moments as well! This movie was able to let me thing much about the several questions i made to myself: "Who did that? " "Ok maybe i was wrong, now i know why she did that" "Oh my god, i'm wrong again" And so on The plot is very original, i liked very much the photography as well If you are reading this review, if you are a thriller/horror lover you do must watch "The Others".
July 28, 201540 La maggior ansia degli studenti:avere un nuovo prof
My traslation homework! I know every word's meaning but I can't understand the whole sentence!!! How terrible!!! Uccidimi!
La campanella del primo giorno di scuola per molti è già suonata. I giovani si sono già confrontati con il ritorno in città, l’acquisto dei libri e la scelta del corredo scolastico.Many teenagers has already started the school, so they bought all the necessary things for the school (books, clothes, so on)
Sono cinque le principali fonti di ansia per il ritorno a scuola.
Many people feel anxious because of coming back to school. So, someone asked guys, who was going to start the school, which is the their mainest reason.
Al primo posto della classifica, con il 55% di risposte positive, troviamo la preoccupazione di conoscere il nuovo professore di matematica. Un’ansia che cresce se quest’ultimo si presenta pronto per annunciare il nuovo programma e per spiegare. Per non parlare degli attacchi di panico che i ragazzi potrebbero avere nel caso in cui il nuovo prof arriva in sostituzione di un docente particolarmente apprezzato e che, magari, concedeva qualche sbirciatina ai foglietti durante i compiti in classe.
The most common answer was: Maths Professor! Basically, teenagers are scared of him because, you know, Maths is a very hard subject for lots of people and it can make you troubles every year. Moreover, guys could be panic when they change the Maths professor. For example, the new professor could be worse, more inflexible than the previous one.
Altra preoccupazione, che bene o male ha colto un po’ tutti durante gli anni della scuola, è la paura di arrivare in ritardo. Il 22% dei ragazzi teme infatti di essere tra gli ultimi a varcare la soglia della classe perdendo di conseguenza il diritto a scegliere il posto in ultima fila, quello dietro il ragazzo più alto o quello accanto al secchione di turno. Insomma accontentarsi di quello che resta sembra proprio un incubo.2th answer: to be afraid of being late the first day of school. In Italy, most of the students are clever and they know that if you are able to get the last seat of the classrooms you will have more chances to copy notes nerdy student's notes. In Italy, there is this rule about the first day of the school: the first guy who comes, he/she is the first who gets the best seat in the classroom. So if you are the last guy to arrive at the school, you will get surely the first row seats, the nearest to the professor (for nerdy and hardworking students is good :P)
Al terzo posto c’è la paura, per il 12% degli studenti, di trovarsi in una classe diversa da quella dell’anno precedente. Per gli studenti cambiare aula è una fonte di stress paragonabile quasi al fare un trasloco.
3th answer: students are anxious to change classroom, different from the previous one. After a year, students usually grows fond of the class because they have spent many hours during the year.
Un 7% degli studenti è intimorito dal fatto d’incontrare i ragazzi che trascorreranno con loro un anno intero.
4th answer: students are anxious to meet new guys as well. Probably because someone is shy, i guess.
Chiude la classifica, al quinto posto, l’ansia da orario definitivo. Il 4% degli intervistati dichiara infatti di temere orari di lezione troppo pesanti, con materie impegnative nelle prime o ultime ore della giornata. Per questo tipo di paure a nulla sembrano valere i consigli degli esperti, più orientati a dare dritte su come riposare e nutrirsi nei giorni che precedono l’inizio della scuola. Nessun esperto intuisce che forse, quello di cui i ragazzi avrebbero bisogno, è un po’ d’ironia e una sana risata5th and last answer: Students are anxious to bear a too much heavy class schedule. For example, i remember, when i was at school, there was a day in which i had 4 hours in a row of Latin!! i was so sad hahaha
Mmm actually i don't know if what i wrote can help you xD. So it is better i don't write more at the moment because maybe you just don't understand some parts of this essay.
Zai Jian
0 votedMarch 10, 20151- "The Imitation Game" Review by an Italian speaker I will be grateful whether someone will correct my review and will give me some suggestions in order to write better. Thanks. Enigma, the hardest and the most important for humanity riddle in the 20th century without any doubt. The historical period is the second world War, Germany is fighting versus everyone and everything. Hitler, the cynical fuhrer wants to conquer all Europe, he needs continuosly more resources, more weapons, more food if he wanna realize his megalomaniac dream. France, Belgium, Norway, Polland, he got all these Countries, except for two, much harder to fight with: The United Kingdom from West and Russia from East. The movie talks about the will of UK to stop Hitler and stop a war which seems endless. British intelligence with the help of Russian one, managed to steal an important device for the German army: Enigma. A machine which is used by Germany to send all the military communications. All these kind of communications are coded with this machine and only Germany know the key to decrypte them. If the UK knew that key, they would know all the military strategies and win the war. So the Royal Navy has called the best brains in the UK, to solve this riddle because so far, no one has not reached to understand how Enigma works, everyone has failed. There are more than 1 000 000 000 000 000 of possibile keys and moreover the key changed every day. So the movie characters have only less than a day to find the key. Alan Turing, the lead character, is a genius, graduated in Maths and Physics, with a sad childhood, beaten every day by his classmates, without any friends, but with a unique brain will be called to try solving Enigma. With the help of his colleagues, and with a woman, Joan Clarke, he will try to save thousands of people with only the knowledge of Science, far from the war field, like a God. TO BE CONTINUED
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