My Challenge for 2020: Day 27

A friend of mine owns a small company that manufactures wooden and metal goods like doors, portals, gates, and all sorts of furniture. Four weeks ago, I sent him my plans for doors I need to finish my kitchen and bathroom furniture. I asked him to make my doors with oak ('<em>wood' is clear enough from the context</em>). This morning my friend called me on the phone to say "your doors are ready". I've just picked them up (<em>or "I've just brought them home"</em>) and now I'm looking forward to installing them.

Note: My English language resolution for 2020: to write something every day for at least 2 months!

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Good job. Keep it up.

One question: did you order doors and bathroom <em>furniture</em>? Or did you mean that you ordered doors to finish your kitchen and bathroom?

My siblings and friends.

"I didn't see eye to eye with any of my siblings when I was growing up" - this phrase is true for me even now. There were really large age gaps among the children in my family (<em>or "my siblings and I"</em>). My older sister was ten when I was born, so she was like a nanny to me. But I remember very little about that part of my childhood. Today we have completely different mindsets and prefer different <em>('dissimilar' sounds slightly technical here)</em> things. So we are not really close.

And I love my step-sister, but she was born when I was ten and she was raised (?) in another country so we didn't have an opportunity to communicate much. Today we keep in touch using social media and Instagram and spend some time together when I/we (?) visit my/our father in St. Petersburg.

In this way, I believe that family relations are important for people, but I tend to form stronger personal connections with friends and colleagues than I have with my siblings.

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Note:

This is well written. I could suggest more changes but they would be picky things. Good job.

Usually "soulmate" is used in reference a love interest (e.g., boyfriend/girlfriend). There are other ways to say "personal connections" though.

Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? With the popularity of the technology that focuses on entertainment, people read fewer books then before.

I agree with that statement because these days people are seduced by (?) technology. Reading a book is no longer the only way to entertain oneself. (<em>Question: when was reading the only way to entertain oneself? Even ancient peoples had art, etc.</em>) Compared to films and technology, reading is just boring. I mean, think about Marvel films: their special effects and high-technology action scenes are incredible. If you seek thrills, you can watch with 3D glasses. Also, better technology makes entertainment readily available to everyone. In the past, people needed to go to the cinema to watch movies, but now they can easily watch movies online without leaving home. So I think people read fewer books nowadays.

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Overall, good job.

The last sentence doesn't really add anything. So maybe omit that sentence or conclude by saying that people read fewer books due to the availability of technology-focused entertainment.

The restless lecturer

It was obvious that he hadn’t planned his lecture. He had no files or papers that might help him organize his explanation. Additionally, his restless motion on the stage where he went to and fro [note: <em>this sentence needs a verb</em>]. He tried to relax by communicating with the audience or telling a joke but that didn’t stop his restlessness. He took off his jacket, revealing that he was sweaty despite the cold weather. He explained the simple present tense (<em>is that what you mean?</em>) and let the audience give him some examples. Then he explained the present progressive tense (?) but abruptly returned to uses of the simple present tense. The hour and a half allotted for the lecture wasn’t long enough and he got lost in details rather than focusing on proper usage (?).