English exercise: a personal statement about a burglary Now, I'm going to do an English exercise. I must to write about a hypothetic burglary, writing a personal statement for the police. My name's Juan B.C.M, I'm living in Serrano Vicente Street, 58 in Catadau (Valencia). Today, when I've arrived at home at 18:00 p.m. I've noticed that the entrance door was broken. Inside it was all disordered. The robbers took my laptop and 200 euros in cash there were in a drawer of the dinning-room. The total amount of the robbed things is about 1000 euros. I think this happened before 9:00 a.m. because my neighbour Maria has said me that she heard strong sounds about that hour. She didn't imagine that a burglary was happening in my home. Thanks for your corrections, they are useful for me to improve my English. Regards.

There are differences between the expressions nowadays, these days, and today? In an English exercise I've encountered this expressions: - Nowadays. - These days. - Today. I must use them is the blanks of the sentences below: 1.- Peter used to be poor actor. _____________ he is a celebrity. 2.- In the past, dating used to be so romantic. _____________ things are different. 3.- My parents met when they were 18 and got married a year later. ______________ people got married when they were young. I think these all expressions mean the same and I can to use them indifferently. I'm right? Thanks for your help.

A description of my childhood home Now I'm going to try to make an English exercise. I have to write about my childhood home. Thanks for your helpful corrections. In my childhood I lived in a little town called Alfafar, located in Valencia, Spain. I lived with my parents in a flat at the first plant. There were three bedrooms, a dinning room, a kitchen, and a bathroom. I slept in the smaller bedroom and I remember there was a computer there, a one-hundred and twenty-eight kilobytes Spectrum Computer, the first computer in Spain with Spanish keyboard, including de "ñ" letter. In other bedroom my mother worked, she make an artisanal job called "rejilla". I think the English traduction would be "grillage" (I've attached a photo). She take any pieces of rush and make chairs of this material. My father had a big stereo in the dinning room, and he liked hear the music so loud. In there was a big couch too, where I liked to jump on. I'm not going to write anymore because I think the text is long enough for its purpose. Thanks again.

A principal ban speak spanish in a Texas school Hello! I've found this article in internet. It's a news referring a problem with spanish language in Texas. Supossedly the principal in an school banned to any students speak in spanish. In my opinion, in Spain we've similar matters with some foreing people that speak other languages. It's difficult attempting to combine differents cultures without problems. Normaly the people speaking the same language are tending to establish relations each other creating little groups. In this situation is possible that this groups would be excluded by the "main" culture people. The article is saying that the spanish speakers are more than the fifty percent which would increase the problem. I think all the people in that country, and possibly around the world, want live without problems, including the school principal has been referred in the news. Perhaps one day in the future we'll be able to share an only language and all this problems will disappear ... although probably another problems will come to us. Thanks for your corrections. Best regards. Here you are the link: http://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?anno=2&depth=1&hl=es&rurl=translate.google.es&sl=en&tl=es&u=http://www.kens5.com/news/schools/Texas-students-say-principal-tried-to-ban-them-from-speaking-Spanish-234212751.html%3Fhpt%3Dus_bn8&usg=ALkJrhilUS9K0TF_btMUWtJWdDnrkIQf0g

An English exercise Hello!! I have to do an English exercice. Is about an advertisement of an apartment. I would like to receive your coments. Thanks. This is my short writting: It's an fully furnished apartment placed in Monroe Hills. It'll be available at February 1. It's on the upper floor in an apartment building with elevator. It has two bedrooms and a bathroom. It has a modern kitchen too. Finally the living room has a fireplace. Thanks a lot for your feedback. It is very useful for me.