Emilio's homework task 15 March 2010
Post categories: Student blog
| 14:18 UK time, Monday, 15 March 2010
USING CONTRACTIONS
1. Today I am going to speak about how I use some internet resources.
[Emilio's response]: Today I'm going to speak about how I use some internet resources.
2. I don't mean I will speak about ...
[Emilio's response]: I don't mean I'll speak about ...
3. If you do not have to write a blog ...
[Emilio's response]: If you don't have to write a blog ...
4. And I would like to listen to your feedback...
[Emilio's response]: And I'd like to listen to your feedback...
5. I hope you will enjoy reading it.
[Emilio's response]: I hope you'll enjoy reading it.
USING CAPITAL OR LOWERCASE LETTERS
6. How I use the Internet ...
[Emilio's response]: How I use the Internet
(in this sentence I have doubts because "internet" sometimes is written with capital letteres and sometines with lowercase.
7 In order to practise english ...
[Emilio's response]: In order to practise English ...
8 ... you could write in twitter.
[Emilio's response]: ... You could write in twitter.
9. ... got get help with english and Spanish vocabulary.
[Emilio's response]: got get help with English and Spanish vocabulary.
PUNCTUATIONS
10. ".... it's what Google says it is.".
[Emilio's response]: it's what Google says it is."
11. Then write about it!.
[Emilio's response]: Then write about it.!
In response to the interesting Nuala question: "Does a crowd really always know best?." My answer is: it doesn't but It's helpful in guiding you. At this particular case with the "I miss you" in Spanish, I found the correct answere on the It has plenty of resources to manage correctly the spanish language, the "te echo de menos" spanish sentence has it's own .
FAQ comes from "Frequently Asked Questions" document. All projects on Internet have or must have a FAQ section. The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ learning english it has his own FAQ section. The FAQ document can be one of the best investments a project makes in terms of payoff. And usually they are reactive documents. OK, that's all for now. I am going to think about my next blog post.
Regards
Comment number 1.
At 16th Mar 2010, negin wrote:Hi Emilio,
I saw your blog that you use what technologies you use like face book, Google, twitter, and you tub. I really like Google, face book, you tub. I believe that Google is best source for internet search, multinational, and corporation. If we want to find a map place that we need we really do with Google and we can really access to soft wares. I like face book especially when I came to U. S.A, I miss my friends in my country. I think face book is as good tool for accessing and contacting with my friends.
Good luck Emilio.
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Comment number 2.
At 16th Mar 2010, Harry wrote:The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ learning english it has his own FAQ section
Hi Emilio,
I couldn't resist correcting this sentence
Correction: The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ learning English has its own FAQ section.
Suggestion: There's a FAQ section in the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Learning English website.
By the way, whatever you learn we learn with you so thanks to you and of course the brilliant team that is teaching all of us.
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Comment number 3.
At 17th Mar 2010, Naheed wrote:Hello Emilio,
Thanks for another interesting post. I liked the picture of a dog using the computer in your previous post. Which social network website you like the most on the internet? I like Facebook but I think it still needs to be more secured in terms of privacy of its users. Talking of your next post, how about food?
Best wishes,
Naheed (Pakistan)
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Comment number 4.
At 18th Mar 2010, Nuala wrote:Hi Emilio,
You did really well on this last homework task. Well done! I've made a few comments below, with 'Nuala says:' before them.
USING CONTRACTIONS
1. Today I am going to speak about how I use some internet resources.
[Emilio's response]: Today I'm going to speak about how I use some internet resources.
2. I don't mean I will speak about ...
[Emilio's response]: I don't mean I'll speak about ...
3. If you do not have to write a blog ...
[Emilio's response]: If you don't have to write a blog ...
4. And I would like to listen to your feedback...
[Emilio's response]: And I'd like to listen to your feedback...
5. I hope you will enjoy reading it.
[Emilio's response]: I hope you'll enjoy reading it.
Nuala says: Perfect, all of these sentences read much better now. They read and sound much more chatty, and that makes them just right for an informal blog.
USING CAPITAL OR LOWERCASE LETTERS
6. How I use the Internet ...
[Emilio's response]: How I use the Internet
(in this sentence I have doubts because "internet" sometimes is written with capital letteres and sometines with lowercase.
Nuala says: That is the tricky thing about language Emilio – it keeps changing! You're right, the word 'internet' sometimes does have a capital letter and sometimes doesn't. A general rule about English is that when a new word comes into the language (email, tv, for example) it often starts its life with a capital letter (Email, TV). But then, as it becomes more and more common (in life and in language), the capital letters fades and the lowercase ones take over. I think in general, I'd put 'internet' in the lowercase category now.
7 In order to practise english ...
[Emilio's response]: In order to practise English ...
8 ... you could write in twitter.
[Emilio's response]: ... You could write in twitter.
9. ... got get help with english and Spanish vocabulary.
[Emilio's response]: got get help with English and Spanish vocabulary.
Nuala says: 7 and 9 are fine, but number 8 'twitter' is a bit controversial. It's brand name is spelt with a small t ('twitter'), like the small e on 'ebay' but when you see it written in a piece of text (I did a bit of a search on pages from the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News website) it's written as 'Twitter', with a capital letter. So, in sentence number 8, I'd go for:
You could write in Twitter
PUNCTUATION
10. ".... it's what Google says it is.".
[Emilio's response]: it's what Google says it is."
11. Then write about it!.
[Emilio's response]: Then write about it.!
Nuala says: Number 10 is perfect but number 11 still has two final punctuation marks, (even though you changed them around) when it only needs one. I think the enthusiasm is the aspect you want to highlight in this sentence, so I'd drop the full stop and keep the exclamation mark, like this:
Then write about it!
All the best,
Nuala
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Comment number 5.
At 23rd Mar 2010, ssa wrote:I always use to Google and face book as have a good connection. I think Google is more important to find every thing we need, also its really interesting that every thing we want we can find in internet(direction, medicine, whether, movies, music, etc). about face book that its a good way to connect with family or friends who they are far from us, and we miss them as long time.
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Comment number 6.
At 26th Apr 2010, Ashish wrote:Hi Emilio,
Google is set as home page in my desktop, so you can understand how frequently I use it. Moreover, Facebook always keeps me in touch with my family, friends, relations and so on. But, twitter and others are really unknown to me till now. So, thanks a lot for opening this new horizon in front of my view.
Ashish, Bangladesh.
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