1) You didn’t see him, is it?
2) When you would like to go?
3) That man he is tall.
4) Her jewelleries were stolen.
5) I am understanding it now.
6) They two very good friends?
7) Sushila is extremely a lazy girl
8) When you leaving?
a) In this part of the task, I am to change the quotes above, and try to turn it into a more standard English.
- You didn’t see him, did you?
- When would you like to go?
- That man, he is tall / That man is tall/ He is tall.
- Her pieces of jewelry were stolen/ her jewelry was stolen.
- I understand it now.
- Those two, are they very good friends?/ Are they good friends, those two?
- Sushula is an extremely lazy girl.
- When are you leaving?
b) Here, I am to choose four of these sentences, and explain what is wrong in each one of them.
1) In the first sentence, the following question should consist of the same verb and subject that in the first part of the sentence. Or else, the reader gets a feeling that the follow-up question does not belong to the first part of the sentence.
2) The mistake in this sentence is the order of the words. You cannot say “when you would”, but it is much more successful to say “when would you”.
3) Here, we have two subjects after one another, making it less logical. This sentence can have two different alternatives for a right way to say it. Either “That man, he is tall”, “that man is tall” or ”He is tall”,. The first alternative emphasize on the point of the sentence, “that man, HE is tall”. The other two sentences are more general.
4) The fourth sentence has a word which does not exist in the standard, English vocabulary. Instead of saying “jewelleries”, which state that the writer is not an advanced user of English, one can say “pieces of jewelry”, which is more successful in this case. Another alternative is to simply say “her jewelry was stolen”, because jewelry is both simple and plural.
the poorest in the world, where 49% of the population is below poverty line (1999). HIV and Aids are common diseases, leading to a low life expectancy. There are 700 primary schools in Lesotho. Out of these, 18% are urban schools, 8% are semi-urban schools, while 78% are rural schools, situated high in the mountains. In the raining period, these schools are closed due to obstacles on the route to school. Only 4% of the 700 schools have a computer laboratory. Nonetheless, there is an initiative to integrate ICT in the education.
d the world, as well as expanding in the users of the English language and vocabulary. Today, another méthode is used for this very task. The internet and global Medias are frequently used internationally. For instance, this blog has been read of people from many countries. The colonies were abandoned by the British colonial lords at the last part of the 17th century. But the British language stayed behind. Today, many of these countries have developed their own variety of the English language. How do these differ from the original language? To try and answer this question, I have chosen three different varieties: Hinglish, Pakistani-English and South African English. 
neral, where a young priest is having a memorial speech for a woman. After few minutes, we understand that this woman was the wife of the main character, Mr. Walt Kowalski. He is an old vet from the Korean War who lives alone in his house together with his dog, Daisy. In this first event, the funeral, we are introduced to Walt's family, his two sons, the wife and children of one of these. But more importantly, we are introduced to Walt's neighbors. The family living next door consists of a grand-mother, a mother and her two children, Sue and Thao. Their ethnicity is Hmong, from the western Asia.
Gran Torino is a movie about great friendship, reliability, and justice. In addition to that, it raises many problems that people with another ethnicity or another background can face when they come to a new country. How to learn the language and culture? It is also about the hard job it is for people to find their place in the society of the new country in which they have moved to. I thought the scenes and the composition of this movie makes it worth every penny. This is one to watch!
opulation from 1800 to 2030. It contains five different pie diagrams that each showes how many procent of the words population live in urban areas. The first diagram shows that in 1800, only 2 % of the worlds population lived in the urban areas. From 1800 to 1950, which is the second diagram, there was a huge growth in urban population. Now there where 30 % who where living in urban areas. In 2000 the number increased again, and this time to 47 %. The last two diagrams are estimated numbers. It is estimated that in 2015, 52 % will live in urban areas, and in 2030, about 60 % of the worlds poulation will live in the urban areas. This statistic is taken from the UB-habitat, BBC.
e by, thinking this was their own property. We know about this from many films and documentaries of this event, for instance the Disney classical movie Pocahontas. But the explorers were not the ones responsible for the Apartheid System. In 1948, a political party called Herenigde National Party was elected. They went into coalition with the party called the African Party. This government was the ones to introduce the system. A film that has been made to document this is called Invictus. The system consists of four different groups that all the people in South- Africa were put into. These groups were the white, the black, the Asian and the colored. The white group was the dominant party, while the others were discriminated by means of habitats, education, politics, health and employment.
terroristic attack. This caused the death of 2 755 people, in the worst terroristic action in the history of the United States. In this entry, I am going to describe this terrible event, and try to reflect upon the consequences of these actions.
w York City, plane engines are not a common sound. That is because most of the planes fly higher or further away from the city for the sound to be that dominant. One of the people to turn their heads up was Gideon Naudet. He was with a squad of firemen from New York City firefighters, making a documentary on how it was to be a rookie in this job. The firemen had gone out to investigate an incident of smoke in the central city, not far from the twin towers. As Gideon turned his head, and his camera, upwards, he had no idea that the scene he was about to film would shake the very foundations of the American nation. The plane that caused the inhabitants to raise their heads towards the sky was flying in a straight line towards the northern tower of the World Trade Center, a complex of seven buildings in the Lower Manhattan. These towers were 415 and 417 meters high, housing 110 stores of offices, with the maximum number of 50 000 employees.
bor that America had suffered losses and the strike of war on their own soil. Most of the First World War happened in Europe, in trenches. The Second World War raged mostly in Asia and Europe. The Americans did contribute solders to these wars, but the wars never affected their homeland. Naturally, the American people started looking for the ones responsible for the attack. Al Qaida, Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein were pointed to as possible wire pullers. But the first measures put to life, were a higher level of security at the airports and the campaign to stop terrorism. The whole western civilization was in shock and filled with fear after this incident with the twin towers. At every airport around the world, strict restrictions to liquids and sharp objects were introduced. These rules we know today too. It is much more strict rules for the flights nowadays. But that is a price I think we should be glad to pay, considering the reason they are there. The attack on the Trade Centers shook the foundations of the western civilization, and we should not forget the people dying in this attack, and the importance of understanding and equality between humans.
we know that she is a single person representing these views. This means that the text is likely to be influenced by her personal conviction as well as tie coalition she is representing. I can also assume that her statistics will be chosen to support her visions. I do not find these statistics completely trustworthy, because she does not refer to the source of them in her text.
und, Susan, and Peter, and their first visit to Narnia. At this point, the White Witch is the leader of Narnia, and the four children have to kill her in order to make peace in Narnia again. They are considered the four rightful kings and queens of Narnia, and have many people who help them. There are many legendary creatures in Narnia, such as fauns, unicorns and mermaids, andall the animals can talk as well. 
