Exercise: Letter to My Visiting Friend

TASK DESCRIPTION:

An English-speaking friend wants to spend a two-week holiday in your region and has written asking for information and advice.

Write a letter to your friend. In your letter:
• offer to find somewhere to stay
• give advice about what to do
• give information about what clothes to bring

MY LETTER:

Dear John,

I’m glad that you’ll soon visit Shanghai. It’s my pleasure to provide you with some information for your trip here.

The first thing you’ll need to consider is accommodation. My suggestion is to stay in some houses of rural Shanghainese farmers. The price is very low and you’ll enjoy the genuine famers’ lifestyle. My grandfather just happens to know a family, and I can give you the detailed information if you would like it. Otherwise, you can stay in some motels. They usually provide professional services with reasonable prices, which is a good balance between cost and quality.

As for your destinations, I’d suggest Yu Garden and the Bund. If I were you, I’d also travel to nearby cities, such as Jiaxing and Suzhou, that have a variety of other cultural attractions and natural beauty.

Although in Australia, I guess it’s extremely cold now; in Shanghai, on the contrary, the weather is baking hot. It reached 41 Degree Celsius yesterday. So you ought to bring with you underwear and short pants.

I have to stop now because I have to study English. I’m anxiously waiting for your visit and to meet you in person.

Your friend,
Mel

That sounds great.  Good job!  "Natural beauties" is not bad English, but usually those two words together mean "women who are naturally beautiful." "Natural beauty" does not have that connotation.  It is uncountable, so it can refer to lots of places even though it's singular. Keep up the good work.

About school life in Singapore(Part 1)

 I had enrolled a course, Diploma in Business Application (IT), that I had never studied before in school.


That sounds really interesting. What programming language are you coding in? Is the test soon or at the end of the course? Best of luck with your studies!

Nice job!  Why do you think people have stopped talking about climate change so much, Aureli? Is it the media?  Did we just get bored?

Some years ago, all the people talked about climate change. It was a global matter (maybe better: issue). Today, the situation is similar, but only a few people talk about this topic. It's important for the planet's health to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide. All the countries must be responsible and they should try to make plans to increase the importance of renewal energies. It is not an easy question because traditional and more contaminating energies like carbon employ a lot of people, and they can could lose their jobs. In the actual situation of economic crisis it is very hard when a company dismisses a person, because he or she will have difficulties to get getting a new job. Politicians have an important matter (better:)This is an important issue for politicians and they have to protect the planet and protect all the people who might/will lose their employment (more common:) job. Further, every one of us doesn't shouldn't waste energy because Earth's future can depend of on this question (which question?). It's important we do a responsible use of the use natural resources responsibly.

对我来说，墨西哥的食物最好吃。 quesadillas，enchiladas, tacos， 都很鲜美。

Today's Test

Today I took part in a test which is an IT system architecture designer certification test conducted by the examination institute. I've been preparing for the test for more than six weeks. I got up quite early and went to the examination venue by taxi. I felt so lucky that I hadn't driven my car there because there is was no place for parking cars. Otherwise I would have worried about whether my car would be ticketed.

Many friends asked me about how I felt the feeling after the test. I feel not so good. In comparison with the those previous test papers, the style was different is changed this time. I think this was is a test on Literature, Mathematics, English <em>and</em> Computer Science knowledge. It's the first time for me to feel I have felt so frustrated on a CS related test.

Well, that's OK. It's just a test. I should prepare more for next year's test. I will be succeeded.

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Your English is great.  Those verb tenses are tricky, and those were the only persistent problem in your story.