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English Writing Exercise (All Levels)

Course 202, Unit 10, Lesson 2

Grocery Shopping

Instructions: Using the vocabulary words from this lesson, describe the groceries that you bought during your last grocery shopping trip. Did you go to one store to buy everything? What was your most expensive item? What was your least expensive item? Did you buy an item that you haven’t tried before? What is one dish that you will be making this week using these groceries?

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My country is China. It is located in eastern Asia. There are 130 millions poeple in this country. She is ancient and young. She is ancient because of her 5 thousands culture and civilization history. She is young for her reform and opening to the world. I love my motherland and I am proud of her.
Mongolia is north of China. In the south of my country, there are Burma, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos. Korea, republic of korea and Japan are in the east of the country. Pakistan and Afghanistan are located in the west of the country.
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  • Don Moore
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    My country is China. It is located in eastern Asia. There are 130 millions poeple in this country. She is ancient and young. She is ancient because of her 5 thousand years of culture and civilization history. She is young for her reforms and opening to the world. I love my motherland and I am proud of her. Mongolia is north of China. In the south of my country, there are Burma, Vietnam, Thailand, Laos. Korea, republic of korea and Japan are in the east of the country. Pakistan and Afghanistan are located in the west of the country.
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  • Dancing Bear
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    Although “eastern Asia” is correct, it’s more common to say East Asia. The plural of “million” is either “million” or “millions” but “millions" is rarely used with a specific number. We would say,”one hundred thirty million people.” We can also say, “there are millions of people in that city.” “She is ancient and young,” is correct but I would say, “She is both ancient and young.” “Both” emphasizes the fact that you are intentionally using two words of opposite meaning. The usual way to say the next sentence would be, “because of her five thousand year old culture” or “because of her five thousand years of culture.” She is young because she has recently instituted reforms and opened up to the world. (Or: She is young because of recent reforms and her opening up to the world.) “Mongolia is north of China” is correct. It is best to use the same construction in the following sentences. That is, say just “south of my country” or “to the south of my country,” but not “in the south.” That could mean “inside” of China. For example, “Yunnan is in the south of China.” Good work!
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  • Trang Pham
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    I agree with Dancing Bear's comment. But China's population is about 1 billion and 300 million people, not only 130 million people.
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  • edward
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    Good. I was born in China which has a population of 1.3 billion people and is located in eastern Asia. China's history and culture dates back for 5 thousand years since the dawn of civilization. China is also a new country with major reform and redevelopment and is now among the world powers. China is bordered by Mongolia to the north, Burma , Thailand and Laos in the south, Korea and Japan in the east and Pakistan and Afghanistan in the west. I love my motherland and I am so proud of her. I think you are doing very well.
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  • John
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    Amy: You have done really well with this assignment. I completely agree with the comments of member DANCING BEAR. Keep up the excellent work!
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