Not really, one is just a shorter way of saying the same thing

I'm looking for a language reading partner :-)

I've had a crazy but very serious idea. I've heard nothing about <font style="background-color: yellow;">this</font> before but I would like to find someone who likes reading, as I do, to improve our respective pronunciation.
We could <font style="background-color: yellow;">read to</font> each other <strike>read</strike> some parts of books in our target language and thus get an evaluation and a correction if necessary.
Then, why not, we could read the same book (still in our target language) and talk about it step by step and check our own understanding of the story.

Of course, here I <font style="background-color: yellow;">am</font> looking for corrections but if a native english speaker who learns french is interested, please send me a message :-).

Sentences

Jan had a rough night.
He had to get up several times.
His joints and head ached.
Jan was ill.
Linda started to become worried.
She <font style="background-color: yellow;">could not</font> sleep because of Jan.
He was groaning,moaning and holding his belly.
He checked his temperature.
It was <font style="background-color: yellow;">a</font> little higher than normal.
He asked then Lence few questions.


Please check :-)

Notice that in the following paragraph when we add the word "when" it changes the form of the word pulling to pulled and giving becomes gave. An exmple is shown below

 

In her comments after the date, Nina said she admitted she believed in traditional values, and the little things like when Richard pulled out her chair and when he gave her flowers was really nice and made her feel special.

 

However if we remove the word "when" then the paragraph goes back to its original state as follows

 

In her comments after the date, Nina said she admitted she believed in traditional values, and the little things like Richard pulling out her chair and giving her flowers were really nice and made her feel special.

A Video About The Blind Date Of Nina And Richard

 

I am going to resume give a funny commentary about the video. First, Richard had to wait a long  time because Nina was late. She said it was because of the heavy traffic, she couldn't find a cab amongst other things Richard could not imagine. Anyway Richard said "No problem, I just got here".

In her comments after the date, Nina said she admited she belived in traditional values, and the little things like Richard pulling out her chair and giving her flowers were really nice and made her feel special. 

Ok, let's go back to the date scene: Nina sat down and asked "What would you like to order?" (A more common phrase to use in this context  would be "What do you recommend? or What do you think I should try?"). So Richard said that he had already ordered something for her. Well, it was obvious by the look of Nina's face that she was really surprised and not comfortable with the situation.

In his comments after the date, Richard said that women are impossible. He was "confused" because she liked the flowers but insisted the he shouldn't have ordered for her.