A nice afternoon

Last Friday after work I went with two of my friends to the center of Madrid and we were having a baguette of squids in Plaza Mayor. That is one of the most typical things you can do it in Madrid. It is not the same environment in the afternoon as if you go in the evening or at night. Madrid is an alive city, but is more alive when night is closer. You can walk in Madrid after midnight and thinking that you are were in other another European city during the day.
But we had to go to an exposition after lunch. It was about Francisco Salzillo's sculptures. Salzillo is one of the most important barroco's religious sculptors and his exposition will be finished on the second of February.
After that , we were to have a coffee with one of the wonderful cakes that you can find in one pastry shop called "Mallorquina" in Puerta del Sol.
A nice afternoon.

nothing specil

I went to pet shop with my mother and dog to buy tropical fish.

I don't know the name of the fish.
But the face looks like Axolotl.

It's so cute , so I want to get one. However, the shop doesn't have it.

When I look around the shop, I saw some snakes and felt very bad.
you need to write a sentence in a single tense no two at the same time
I don't like snakes ,but my mother is OK with them

because she grew up in coutry side.

She looked at it and said "oh it's small.it's ok. "

Then, we bought clothes for my dog.

My dog is 'sheltie'.

'sheltie 'is not bigger than Collie,but our dog isn't.
this sentence is wrong

Her weight is about 19kg.

We walk the dog 3 times in a day but she is really fat.

And she likes to sleep in KOTATSU.

She looks like cats.

Is there anybody that keeps a sheltie?
Is she or he smaller?

session recap

the coldest time of the year
the temperature is 5 degrees
wrap up warm
The first day back to work will be a nightmare
heavy/light workload (not easy workload)
humorous/ I have a good sense of humour.
I have a passion for computer networks
networking - meeting people, doing business no this is is social network network in computer terms is a bunch of computers connected to each other
relationship / your relationship will suffer
spotlight
Brit/Briton/British people
(informal)
dishonest
empty threat / hollow threat
http://www.macmillandictionary.com/ http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ online dictionary
happy/angry about / I'm not happy about this / I'm really angry about this
hypocrisy
the way we do things
confront / People don't like confrontation.
We are straight with each other. / We are straight...not gay
included
scowling / She was scowling the whole time
pay attention TO / They don't pay attention to others' feelings.
How dare you! / hierarchy

Alive!!

It makes me feel fresh and warm when I log in italki and see that my friends here are still active, writing entries, asking questions.. Nice and I love it.


That's all what I wanted to write for now I guess. Fighting dear friends, you are in my heart!!

you need to remove what or use that instead

P.-S. "Fighting" I meang by it, to fight the bad feelings!

fighter is better

"Will-power" pls correct my super-short essay

"Whatever you are doing which takes effort such as playing sport, music, or language learning.

The hardest thing and the most important thing is to continue. and to continue, you need a will-power.

You can’t complain about the quality of your text book nor your teacher.

Those external factors are all secondary. The key is will-power."


I'd appreciate if you could correct the following! Thank you!

[Talks] Age crises

Hello you, today I've got something special and quite rare for you. I hope you like it. It is a talk I did (or try to) conduct in the advanced English class at the Instituto de Idiomas of Seville on 4th november.

I was discussing an interesting and well-known issue: Age crises. In the first place, I would like to apologise for my English. Anyway, I expect that this kind of exercises will help me improve my oral skills in English and the way I talk in public.

The following points, important when conducting a public talk, were given by the teacher after the first talk:

- Fluency using grammar structures and vocabulary
- Confidence in what we say
- Eye contact with all the spectators
- Correct volume
- Avoid mumbling

What I intended to do within 5 minutes

- Crisis - Age crisis definition --> Negative event
- Age crises classification
- Effects of a crisis
- Positive effects?
- Conclusion
- Question time

How can I improve

- Word 'crisis' mispronounced: crisis /ˈkraɪsɪs/ noun [C or U] (plural crises /ˈkraɪsiːz/)
- Paranoid --> Paranoia (noun)
- 'We can have problems with our life...' --> lives (noun plural)
- Words 'certainty' and 'desperate' mispronounced: /ˈsɜː.tən.ti/ and /ˈdes.pər.ət/
'- They can also have...'
- more or less --> roughly, almost
- 'People of in our environment'
- I tended to go quieter towards the end of the sentence.
- Volume should be maintained from beginning to the end.
- Eye contact could be improved.
- Some hesitancy was noticed while searching for the correct words.

Thank you!

http://writinggorilla.blogspot.com.es/2013/11/talks-talk-age-crises.html