この、その、あの are used when you want to say "This (something)...", "That (something)...", ect. For example: このペン　This pen　そのぺん　That pen　あのペン　That (over there) pen このボールはあかい　This ball is red. However you use これ、それ、あれ　when you want to say "This..." For example: これはなんですか？What is this? これ... This...

My old TV

When I was about 7 years old, my parents bought a black and white TV, which is very important to us because in the past it made my childhood life more memorable and now it brings back memories.
It is pretty outdated in appearance. Its 17-inch screen is convex, while its shell, made of plastic, was off-white. You can also see several rotary knobs on its right side.
In spite of this, it was very popular during the first few years after it was first bought. On scorching summer days, my father would always move it from the living room to the corridor, so that more neighbors could watch it. There were just a couple of TVs in my neighborhood, so dozens of childhood friends came around to my place to watch it. We talked about the programs that were being showned; we had a lot of fun.
Yes, that is the TV which added spice to my early years. A few years ago, we bought a new TV, and of course, we don’t use the old one as much as we used to do. I only turn on it from time to time to reminisce about the days I spent being with my little friends.


**Notes: "...being showed;..." was the incorrect verb form of the continuous tense and "...of course..."  was missing a comma after the introductory phrase but in all, pretty good and I like the story!**

Decline the Pear out of Modesty

In Donghan dynasty, country Lu, a boy name Kongrong was very smart, sensible and thoughtful. Kong had five elder brothers and one young brother, the seven brothers had a very good and harmonious relationship.

One day, Kong’s mother bought a lots of pears and put them on one plate, Kong’s elder brothers let Kong and their youngest brother to pick up the pear first.

Kong looked at the pears on the plate and found the pairs in various of sizes, he decided to pick up a the smallest one instead of the best and the biggest one, and then he ate it. When kong’s father looked at Kong, he was very pleased and though: My son is only 4 years old, but he knows to give the others the best. Then he asked kong: “So many pears on the plate, why do you choose the smallest one?”

Kong said: “I am a the younger youngest brother, I deserve the smallest pear, and my elder brothers deserve the big ones.

His father was very confused:” your younger brother is younger than you? According to your theory, He should take the smallest one.”

Kong said:” I am older than my younger brother, I am his elder brother, I should take care of him, so I save the bigger one for him”.

His father was very pleased: "good boy, good boy, you are a wonderful boy, you will be something in the future."

This is an ancient Chinese story was on the text book textbook for every primary students to learn, almost every Chinese knows the story, and we have been tough thought that we must treat the others better then than ourselves, even for the kids, we even can’t express our own needs instead of satisfying the others. I don’t think this is a good story for teaching our kids, I want every kids can to bravely say what they want, and think it carefully if he decides to give up something that they really want. Persuading what you really want makes you happy, I don’t want our kids always want to be thoughtful or well behaved to give up their ability to be happy.

Practices book

Hello,
I am Sharad and I have started on to improve improving my English writing skills. Today is my first day to write a notebook,
I want to be good in English writing writing English with correct Grammar so that, I can improve my writing skill.
This can help me in my professional life as well as in my further studies.
I am very glad to get such good site to developed my writing skill, from very for such a long time I will be was in search of such site.
I am thankful to the developers of this site because of this, peoples like me, which are not able to attends classes and professionals can able to improve their writing skill.
Thanking you.

Introduction to me

My name is Abel and it is my first time at here. I am here to learn English, but I also want help people with there their Spanish. I search person for people who wants to exchange with my letters or chat.
I am from Spain and I like a lot of things. I hope to write a little bit all days every day here and help other persons people too.
If you want to speak with me another day, we can keep in touch.

See you soon!

I was surprised that...

I've been living in Washington State for around 1 year. I came here in March, 2015, and I was surprised, when I got to the airport, that it was rather warmer here than Kyoto, Japan. As  Since, Washington is located in the north of  further up north than Japan in terms of latitude, I had thought it was colder here. After two weeks since I started my new life, I had an opportunity to go on a business trip for New York State. New York is located in the south of Washington in terms of latitude, I had thought it was warmer here. As I was lightly dressed, I felt SO cold, of course. After that, I make it a habit to check the temperature in the place where I'll visit beforehand.
I heard that an ocean current affects the temperature here, though, is it right?

Note: The comma after "March" is not supposed to be there.