Yes, it looks correct to me.

TV Shows

I always watch TV shows to learn English with subtitles. I think it is an easy way to practice listening.
My favorite TV shows are The Walking Dead, Grey´s Anatomy and The Black List.
The Walking Dead is a drama and horror TV show that takes place during a zombie apocalypse. The story is about the group of survivors.
Grey´s Anatomy is a medical drama TV show that takes place in a hospital. It shows the day-to-day lives of the hospital employees and their patients.
The Black List is a police drama TV show that takes place involving FBI officials and a criminal. The FBI's most wanted criminal delivers* himself and delivers multiple criminals.

*I'm not sure what you're trying to say about what the Most Wanted criminal does. Does he turn himself on? Is it not about the FBI officials who track down the most wanted criminals?

Why people drop rubbish anywhere?

It's nothing new that the world has been changing for centuries ever since the human race established their dominance on the globe.

Oceans and continents were shaped by seismic forces called orogenies and the structure of the Earth has changed throughout the years, from the existence of the one and only Pangaea, to six different continents. This happened long before humans appeared.

The way we interacted with the environment was also damaging at first, but not by a large magnitude, thus giving the environment time to regenerate itself. However, after the Industrial Revolution, our impact has increased frighteningly. Over-exploitation is known by everyone and it won't take much time for us to run out of resources. The environment is desperately calling for regeneration, but we are on the verge of cutting its roots.

This is a major issue, to the extent that a huge island made of plastic has coalesced in the Pacific Ocean. Therefore, I always wonder why people keep dropping rubbish on the floor when it's not that difficult to throw it into the right place. It drives me nuts.

Furthermore, recycling is something that helps a lot to slow natural deterioration, and it's not too much of an effort.
In a moral way, i hope people learn to respect others for who they are and that nations help citizens achieve decent life conditions. However, we can't grow up as a society if we don't take care of our planet.

In conclusion, before getting involved in a compromise, if you don't drop litter and you are respectful with your surroundings, you are already contributing.

Communicating in English

English is the first language of the whole world!
Worlds are becoming globalized day by day. Everything is changing around us, and the most important thing is to know the English language in order to manifest our thought.

*I might point out that English is only the third-most spoken language in the world, behind Mandarin and Spanish. However, I might call English the 'second language' of the world, as it is often spoken as a 'lingua franca', or a language in common between two people who would not understand each other. This means that English is the second language that these people have learned, not that English is the #2 language in the world, because as I pointed out above, it is currently #3.

The Main Or Not The Main

It's a very interesting fact that "Hamlet" is often called "the main play of humanity", i.e the most significant play. Have you ever thought about it?
Look, there needs to be a lot of absolutely universal things and events to consider it in this way. I mean universal for everyone. But what do we see?
First, we encounter a real ghost who complains to his son about his brother's crime and forces him to take revenge. Do we really come across such an extraordinary request often?
Then, we understand that a queen, mother of that poor prince, got married to the brother of her recently deceased husband soon after he died. Sure enough, it's a fact from daily life.
Moreover, Hamlet does not choose a straight way to fulfil his father's request; at least, one that would be similar to a detective story. Not at all. He pretends to be insane and starts killing people around him, keeping the villain alive. His fiancee truly became insane seeing what he did.
Finally, he kills his uncle and his brother-in-law; his mother dies; his fiancee drowns by suicide... Hamlet perishes as well. True story.

Of course, by following the outline of the events we will never figure out why this play is considered as the most significant play of our civilization. Perhaps this text is trying to measure something that lies beyond the plot. What's this? What is your opinion about it?

A report about exchange programme (CAE writing task)

Dear All,

Could you please share your opinion about a piece of writing below? It is a report and as far as I am not very good with reports, I would really appreciate any suggestions and criticism. Thank you very much!

Introduction

The aim of this report is to tell about an exchange programme in which I recently participated. The programme contained two main parts. Two months ago, a person from another country had stayed in my flat for a week. Ten days after that, I travelled to his country and had been his guest for one week too. In order to provide an objective picture, this report also comprises my partner's impression. (NB: if "comprises" does not work here, please tell me which word I could use here except for "include" :) )

My travel

My partner (whose name is John) was living in a picturesque village near mountains. For the whole week, I was enjoying breathtaking sights, fresh air, and fishing. Taking into consideration that I had been living in a huge metropolis, I was elated at the change to spend several days in such a calm and quiet place. John was utterly friendly and had put a lot of efforts to make my stay comfortable.

My partner's experience

Contrary to me, John longed to visit a big city as "he had [become] tired of living in the middle of nowhere" (it is a quotation). The activities he was involved in were totally opposite to mine. He attended several theatrical performances, visited a concert of his favourite band, which happened to come to my city during his visit. But, according to his words, the most memorable and fulfilling experience was a football game between two rival teams. He was happy to soak up the atmosphere of the derby.

General impression

In conclusion, I would like to say that not only did our impressions meet our expectations, but they were even exceeded. I was delighted with the result and would definitely recommend my friends to participate in the programme.

2017-11-10

Learning Chinese is popular now

I am a Chinese teacher on italki. I have seen that more and more foreign people are interested in learning Chinese. Today I saw the news that a little girl, who is Donald Trump‘s granddaughter, spoke Chinese very (fluently?). It is unbelievable.

Chinese is a hidden treasure. It is original from 5000 years ago , so it contains fascinating culture. The more you learn it, the more fun you will find in it.

Fascinating points

There are some interesting differences in every language, and there are some nice ones in Persian that are interesting for non-Persian speakers. For example, we have three letters in our alphabet that have the same sound, but different applications. Those are :
ص and س and ث. These are pronounced as "s" in English but if you write سابون it will be funny in dictation صابون means soap (sabun) .

Here is a further example:
صواب, 'savab'  means: good action, and ثواب is 'savab' too', and means "reward". You see, if you were to write "سابون", you would make a dictation error.

I have explained how some words have different meanings, even though they sound the same.

If you have such differences in your language, give some examples here.