Describing your day
Instructions:
Using the vocabulary words from this lesson describe your day. What time is it now? What time was it 20 minutes ago? What time did you wake up this morning? What time will you go to bed?
English Writing Exercise (All Levels)
Course 202, Unit 9, Lesson 1
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Peking's city center is very busy. I have been lived 45 years in the city center. The picture my behind the building is my apartment building. I live on the 11 floors. The Starbuck cafe located in the south-east corner of apartment building. Usually I find a comfortable place near the window in the Starbuck cafe. I order a cappuccino with sandwich, but I prefer learn language in the Starbuchs cafe.
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Peking's city center is very busy. I have been lived 45 years in the city center. In the picture the bulding behind the building is my apartment building. I live on the 11th floor. The Starbuck cafe is located in the south-east corner of apartment building. Usually I find a comfortable place near the window in the Starbuck cafe. I order a cappuccino with a sandwich, and I prefer learn language in the Starbuchs cafe.
Hi Drop - Abundentman did a great job on your lesson - just want to say it is good to hear from you again.
Very good, my friend.
You write very well in English.
Congratulations!
Peking's city center is very busy. I have been lived forty-five years in the city center. On my profile photo, you can see my apartment building behind me. I live on the eleventh floor. The Starbucks café is located in the south-east corner of my apartment building. Usually, I find a comfortable place near the window, in the Starbuck cafe and then order a cappuccino with a sandwich. Sometimes, I just visit Starbucks to study languages on the internet. (Is this what you meant to say?)
Starbucks is the name of the company.
Café is a French word we adopted. It should have an accent over the "e."
Well done. CatBallou has made excellent corrections.
I agree with everyone. Of course, if your keyboard does not have letters with accents, you can not write cafe with the accent. Good job.
Excellent! Some good points made by my fellow reviewers. Regarding the acute-e (é) in the word "café". If you keyboard does not have this symbol you can enter it by holding down the ALT key and typing 130 using the number keys on the numeric keypad.
Drop, you did very good in this exercise. For American English the word cafe is preferred without the accent.
Peking's city center is very busy. I have been lived 45 years in the city center. The picture my behind the building is my apartment building. I live on the 11th floors. The Starbuck cafe is located in the south-east corner of apartment building. Usually I find a comfortable place near the window in the Starbuck cafe. I order a cappuccino with a sandwich, but I prefer to learn a language in the Starbuck's cafe.
Peking's city center is very busy. I have been lived 45 years in the city center. The building behind me in the picture is my apartment building. I live on the 11th floor. The Starbucks cafe is located in the southeast corner of my apartment building. Usually I find a comfortable place near the window in the Starbucks cafe. I order a cappuccino with a sandwich, and I prefer learning language in the Starbucks cafe.
Is it this one in Xicheng District?
STARBUCKS COFFEE
中国 北京市西城区东养马营胡同
Drop, well written and an interesting lesson. You are an excellent student of the English language.
Drop, the word café is an interesting word. English speakers adopted this word from the French. When I searched the word in Websters dictionary, they suggest the preferred spelling to be café. The reason being, if it is spelled without the acute accent, cafe would be pronounced with a long a sound and a silent e. The accent makes it clear to an English speaker that the e sound is long and the a sound is short. In every reference I found for American English, except for one, the preferred spelling is café. Yes, you will see many a sign placed in front of a restaurant or coffeehouse without the accent, but then people who have signs made, write what they like. Those who have signs made do not always abide by grammar rules or preferred spellings.
French words: discothèque and résumé also have accents over the e. (LiveMocha has made an error in spelling the word discothèque. They used the acute accent (é) instead of the grave accent (è).
The word resume without the accents tells us the word has a silent e at the end. Resume is a verb meaning to continue. With the accents, the word résumé (also, resumé) has a long sounding e at the end of the word.
Résumé means: 1. A summing up; summary. 2. A brief written account of personal, educational, and professional qualifications and experience, as that prepared by an applicant for a job.
There was a time when writing with accents on a typewriter was impossible. The typewriter keyboards did not have accents. Now, that we have computers, we can use the computer character maps or the shortcuts to type all of the accents as well as symbols. Some programs now have the actual keyboard capability for many of the different languages.