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It is nice to meet you Enayat, and I think we've all learned what your passion is from your first post! Cricket is literally close to me as I live a stone's throw away from the county cricket ground in Somerset in England. Do you know anything about the Somerset County Cricket team? There is a cricket museum where I live too, which has been here for 21 years. There is a website if you are interested in finding out more:

The local cricket team will be playing a match this weekend. We can hear the cheers from the ground when we are sitting in the garden, but I am rather embarrassed to say that I have never been to a match. I am not much of a sports fan - I hear people watching cricket, I hear people watching tennis and football...but I'm afraid that it doesn't do much for me. Perhaps your enthusiasm will be catching!

Anyway, how about you? Apart from watching cricket, do you play it at all? Are you passionate about other sports? Oh...and by the way, congratulations on beating Canada! You must be feeling very proud.

Now let's have a look at the language you used in your message. There are some expressions which are a little unclear. When you say 'a rapid pops up', do you mean a pop-up suddenly caught your eye?

Note that we say 'it caught my eye' and not 'it caught my eyes'. Also you say, 'it was all about my blogging', do you mean that you couldn't blog anymore? In that case you could use a phrase like:

It was all over for my blogging

Or here are some nice phrases - these are quite informal:

I could wave bye-bye to my blogging or I could kiss goodbye to my blogging.

These expressions mean something else caught your attention, or distracted you so you couldn't do it anymore. It rather sounds like that was the case!

Also you say: 'None of us got the word at the moment'. Do you mean that nobody could speak?

Here are some other phrases:

'...who recently got preparation in the heating city...'
You could perhaps say '...who recently prepared in the hot city...'

You also say, 'Their talent made them story of tongues in the world'. I like this expression and I think I know what you mean, but we don't use this expression in English. We might perhaps say 'Their talent made them the talk of the town.' I think that roughly means what you are trying to say.

Also, 'applaud' should be 'applause' - applaud is a verb, and applause is a noun.

Finally, there is the title of your post. You have written first in your post - and I am sure you say it like that - but when you abbreviate the word, you have written 1th. You should write 1st, so you would write 1st July my 1st blogging day.

Do you know how you write the abbreviations for second and third? That's a little task for you. Now here is a bigger one for you - and it's about punctuation.

When people speak, they naturally pause, or they use intonation, and this helps people to follow what they are saying. When people write, they need to use punctuation to show when there is a pause, to separate ideas, and to show when they are repeating the words of other people. This just makes it easier to read.

Your message is full of enthusiasm, and some punctuation is missing, especially where you are quoting what other people are saying. When you do this you need to add speech marks, for example:

One of my friends nodded and said, "I am sure the team of miracles will win", but none of us....

You also do need to use capital letters after full stops - there are some places in your message where you haven't done this, and you have used capital letters in some places where they are not needed. So here is your second task. Can you correctly add punctuation to these sentences based on your post? Imagine that each one is a new sentence.

• the one next to me whispered, it is not miracles, but it is a hidden talent and the afghan team with no sports facilities reached the top of cricket
• i forgot to write my first blog on first july
• the team of miracles won by six wickets on first july my first blogging day
• do you like watching cricket

Ok, that's it for now. We look forward to finding out more about you Enayat,

Best wishes,
Kim

vocabulary
newbie - a person who has just started doing something
passion - a strong interest
literally - having the real meaning of the word. For example, somebody might say 'I live round the corner' meaning they live nearby. If they say 'I literally live round the corner', then they live round the corner.
a stone's throw away - very close or near
cheers - loud shouts of enjoyment
fan - a person who supports or follows a team
it doesn't do much for me - it isn't interesting to me
it's catching - if something is catching, it easily passes from one person to another person
passionate about - very interested in
caught your eye - got your attention
distracted - got your attention from something else
intonation - the rise and fall of the voice when somebody is speaking
quoting - repeating the words of another person
speech marks - punctuation used to show words of another person, for example, "Hello!"