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After living nearly all my life in the UK, we moved to South-West France in the Autumn of 2019 and are now living here permanently. Much of my work is still conducted in English, but being completely confident in French is very important to me, so I want and need to keep improving my French.
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Micha Solana
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Jan 31, 2018
Very enjoyable lesson with Simon, with a good flow of French conversation! Very keen student and fast learner. I'm looking forward to our next lesson, putting in practice what we learned today.
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    Ways to improve the educational process

    It is inevitable that high quality education is one essential way for any country's prosperity. There <strike>are</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;">is </font>a growing consensus that the government (or more generally, governments) should invest more to improve the educational cycle. This cycle includes students, teachers, and other resources.

    To begin with, teachers spend a lot of time teaching students many subjects. Thus, highly trained teachers are deemed essential for delivering <strike>the </strike>designated subjects accurately. For instance, English teachers <font style="background-color: yellow;">are </font>usually required to hold a teaching certificate, they have to pass compulsory exams and attend many workshops to be able to demonstrate the ability to teach students. <font style="background-color: yellow;">Therefore it follows that </font><font style="background-color: yellow;">a considerable amount of state funding should be allocated for investment in teachers' developmental programs</font>.   (I switched that sentence around as That being said at the start of a sentence usually indicates you are going to offer a counter argument/different point - though others may disagree on that)

    Additionally, resources including technological ones, are critical<strike>ly essential </strike>for student<strike>s</strike> success. Many schools use obsolete computers which are not suitable to deliver <strike>an </strike>educational content<strike>s</strike> effectively. Also, educational trips, as a part of practical way to link what <strike>the </strike>students have <font style="background-color: yellow;">been </font>taught are, in certain schools, rare or even completely ignored. <strike>Those</strike> Such trips are <font style="background-color: yellow;">an </font>effective way of learning, <strike> in terms of </strike>broadening <strike>the</strike> a student's horizon, as well as pausing <font style="background-color: yellow;">(or breaking) </font>the <font style="background-color: yellow;">school's daily routine</font>.


    (I think your first sentence doesn't sound quite right, you could try switching things round a bit, e.g. 

    High quality education has inevitably become an essential means for ensuring a country's prosperity.)<sub></sub><sup></sup><strike></strike>

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    I travelled to Bulgaria by car 5 years ago with my brother's family. We covered 1900km during 2 days, visited 4 countries, had  an accident and lots of fun during the trip. I'll tell about it in the order things happened.

    We had been planning to visit Bansko for 2 years but each time something went wrong. We prepared the route on the map, selected gas stations to buy petrol, identified points of interest where we planned to stop and so on. We made a list of service stations with phone numbers in case the car broke down. Our plans were put on hold. Finally, in 2012 we got our visas and assigned a start date for the trip.

    We tried to finish our route as fast as we could because we had small children in the car and they couldn't sit in the same place for a long time. We changed drivers every 6 hours and drove non-stop. We stopped at gas stations, customs and at interesting cities only. We visited Romania, Ukraine and Moldova. We ended up in Bansco, Bulgaria after 45 hours on the road!

    We had a road accident when we were driving back to Russia. I was driving at 100 km/h when a tyre blew on one of the wheels. I was trying to hold car on the road but it started to spin in a second. Finally I stabilized the car and we drifted away from the road. The damage was less than I expected. We changed the wheel, and continued our trip. We were lucky because it was a straightforward road without other cars.
    There was 500km left to our home so we didn't get any extra service (do you mean fuel? Or that you didn't stop again?)  I've gained invaluable experience of how to drive a car in an extreme situation.


    Good work (and sounds like a great trip)


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    My suggestions below...

    Is money or job satisfaction more important to consider when choosing a career?

    <font style="background-color: yellow;">or you could phrase this better as...   Is money or job satisfaction the most important consideration when choosing a career?</font>

    Is money or job satisfaction more important to consider when choosing a career?
    Either we work to live or we live to work? That is the question. For me, when I choose a new place to work, I think: what will give me enough money and enough free time for life <font style="background-color: yellow;">(or you could say "and a good work-life balance") </font>? <font style="background-color: yellow;">Does it matter, to enjoy your work duties, independent from salary level? - not sure what question you are asking there.  </font>For me the answer is simple. I prefer work which is interesting <font style="background-color: yellow;">in </font>itself and gives me opportunities to spend my free time or <font style="background-color: yellow;">...? enjoy my free time;  ...  or ....spend it in ways I enjoy. </font>I <strike>will </strike>would not work in a job that I hate for <font style="background-color: yellow;">a large </font>income. There are different views and <strike>claims</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;">opinions </font>about this.
    <font style="background-color: yellow;">On </font>one side (<font style="background-color: yellow;">or you could say On the one hand)</font>, we have job seekers who search<font style="background-color: yellow;"> only for a</font> better salary<strike> only</strike>. It is not important how hard, how long, they will work and what they will do. They might think that money can buy everything. This is almost true but not <font style="background-color: yellow;">one </font>hundred percent. You can buy a lot: better medical services, various entertainments, vocational trips to beautiful places, better space for living (<font style="background-color: yellow;">a better/nicer home)</font> , good education for <font style="background-color: yellow;">your </font>children. <strike>Even </strike>Furthermore, you can help your poorer extended family’s members.
    <font style="background-color: yellow;">On </font>another side, we have candidates who want to find work <font style="background-color: yellow;">they enjoy </font><strike>to enjoy it</strike>. Usually, they are older than seekers from the first group we discussed <strike>earlier</strike>. They have <font style="background-color: yellow;">(learned or they understand</font>) understood that <strike>only  </strike><font style="background-color: yellow;">the one thing </font>we cannot buy is «Time». <strike>Although  </strike><font style="background-color: yellow;">Because </font>it is irrecoverable the value of it becomes very high. I<font style="background-color: yellow;">deal jobs for them</font> are ones in which they enjoy the process and <strike>they </strike>have enough leisure time.
    Finally, we have the third group, <font style="background-color: yellow;">a</font> sort of mix of <font style="background-color: yellow;">the </font>previous two. Members of this group are looking for <strike>rather </strike>a <font style="background-color: yellow;">higher</font> salary as well as <strike> even </strike>interesting and also <font style="background-color: yellow;">pleasurable </font><strike><font style="background-color: yellow;"> </font>giving pleasure </strike>work.(<font style="background-color: yellow;">A good word instead of pleasurable is "fulfilling") </font> I <strike>do </strike>believe this group is the biggest one because humans have wanted money as well as job satisfaction  <font style="background-color: yellow;">(or could say humans need job satisfaction as well as money) </font>. <strike>People </strike><font style="background-color: yellow;">These days, people  are searching for <strike>them </strike>both and always <strike>were searching </strike>have been.</font>
    There are plenty of <strike>people </strike><font style="background-color: yellow;">choices people can make </font>when they were choosing a career. One is searching for funds, <font style="background-color: yellow;">the </font>other for joy. And we have sort of mix of <strike>this</strike> <font style="background-color: yellow;">the </font>two. For me it is <strike>as well is </strike>a mix as well, but I would prefer more <strike>for </strike>job satisfaction <strike>than for</strike>  <font style="background-color: yellow;">to a </font>higher salary.
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