1. question) Have you ever dreamed of becoming a teacher when you were young? Why or why not? my answer) I never wanted to be a teacher before, but my mom wanted me to be one. She ran her hair salon for 45 years and was always proud of her job and thought working as a teacher would make me feel the same way. She thought working in this profession would give me a lot of benefits as a woman. It would offer job security and long vacations. Summer or winter breaks would give me time to recharge. The vacations would not only be a break from classroom instruction but would also allow me to care for my own children, spend more time with my family, take long trips, and simply feel rejuvenated for the next school year. She also thought that when I have a baby, I would be able to take maternity leave without having to walk on eggshells around my boss and I could even get paid during this period. She said that I would also enjoy retirement benefits. I could work in this field as long as I want unless I made any serious mistakes while on the job and after retirement I could receive a pension. My mom convinced me to be a teacher while telling me about all the benefits that I could get from working as one, but I wasn’t sure that I could succeed in this field and was less confident to stand up in front of a classroom and put up with any students staring at me. But now, I have a different attitude towards teaching, and I think given the opportunity I would be a great teacher and my students would learn a lot from me.

The day has finally come. I have successfully become this country's expert in the area of computers. My name is attached to the system. All thanks to the course I am attending now. I'm so glad that I'm even unable to correctly express myself in writing.

Both sentences a grammatically correct. The first sentence is written in the past simple and the second is written in the present simple. So it’s got less to do with the grammar than it does to do with the meaning. Which sentence is more appropriate depends on the message you are trying to send. If you say: You need to go through a great deal of suffering like all the great people did. It means that the great people suffered a lot in their past but they are no longer suffering today. If you say: You need to go through a great deal of suffering like all the great people do. It means the great people suffered in their past and continue to suffer. So suffering is apart of the life of the successful. It always was and always will be.

You would say: More than twice *that* carried by railway. You wouldn’t use ‘those’ in this instance because we cannot count ‘70 million tons of goods’ - it’s uncountable. You wouldn’t ‘use number’ unless you you wrote the sentence as: ...more than twice *the number of goods* carried by railway. This is because we have to have some kind of noun or noun phrase for ‘the number of’ to describe. It is used as an adjective. If we don’t put the noun or noun phrase we must replace it with a pronoun - in this case ‘that’.

We would say the cold was frightful to mean it was very unpleasant - we really didn’t feel good about the cold. And we would say the cold was frightening to mean that we were scared of what the cold could do to us.

Let’s put the two adjectives into context to better understand them. I hiked up a mountain this weekend, lost my balance and almost fell down the mountain. It was a very frightening experience. In this context ‘frightening’ means that the idea of almost falling down the mountain made the person feel very afraid or scared - so we use this word when something makes us feel scared. I had dinner with my friend’s family and they were all shouting at each other in a very frightful manner the whole time. I felt uncomfortable and just wanted to leave. In this context ‘frightful’ means that experiencing people shouting at each other is an extremely unpleasant or uncomfortable feeling. You don’t get scared but you really don’t feel good about it and really want it to stop.

The sentence could be rewritten more simply as follows: I didn’t do anything wrong but people (society) didn’t accept me OR like me for who I was. So they didn’t have a problem with my actions. They had a problem with me as a person - so much worse.

A Russian teacher was fired after posts and photos on his Facebook. Tatiana Kuvshinnikova, a thirty-eight-year-old teacher and (a) member of the Altai Federation of for winter swimming " Polar Bears» had published photos in the swimsuit with the medal and after that was criticized by her colleagues and the director of the school. The director of the school had declared that Tatiana is was a bad example for children and (she) was afraid that teenagers would be able to might fall in love with this teacher. As soon as the news about it was published on the internet, people very really resented by this stupid action of the school administration. People said "there is nothing indecent in these photos! On the contrary - she promotes a healthy lifestyle!" Currently the teacher doesn't want to come back to this school.

Nationalities should alsways be written with a capital or uppercase letter at the beginning .

A/the should be used more to introduce new ideas, talk about old ideas and talk about specific things.

For example: There is a mountain that looks like a table in Cape Town. The mountain is called Table Mountain.

We use a in the first sentence to introduce new information. We use the in the second sentence to talk about the same information (old information).

Really VS Very

Both can be used as adverbs to describe adjectives.

For example: very good or really good.

BUT

We only use really to describe verbs

For example: really like. Really work.

Infinitives and Gerunds

When you have a verb followed by another verb you usually write the second verb in the infinitive form: to come or gerund form: coming.

Example: I want to come. I like to go. I need to eat.