B1: Submit
Date: August 03, 2000
Time: 17:21
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1. I arrived on Saturday night so I could rest the whole Sunday and make myself familiar to the city and my accomodation in James Owen. But acctually as this is the third time I'm in Exeter University, I'm quite confident and experienced walking around the city, so it didn't took my a lot of time. I'm very happy with my accommodation since last year I was in Lafrowda, so this time is far much better than last one. The only disadvantage is that going to the University takes me about 20' so I can't ussually be here till 7.oo pm working in the computer as I used to do last August.
The classes have been good so far, I'm happy with the teachers but I would like to spend more hours in the classroom learning new vocabulary and strageties in business, instead of going out to the centre and taking notes by ourselves. My aim is to get a comprehensive knowledge about business, so that at the end of this course I would be able to speak about it without making mistakes.
The trip to Dartington was interesting, but I found it quite far away from here, so the time in the coach was bouring and useless.
2. What is really new and interesting for me is the business topics we deal with. I specially like Sue Chambers way of teaching, she's very fast in speaking and hard working. Jeff Evans seem to know a great lot about the business world, I'd like to squeeze the time in his classes. Evening classes are very useful in terms of improving our speaking skills.
3. As I'm very fond of English culture ("the way we do things around here", they say) I am not surprised about their timetables, behaviour, activities or even what they eat. I love U.K., and I would really love to spend one year living here when I will finish my degree in Law.
4. Everything related with business is so important for me, so I consider dealing with this wide topic within the classes time is really worthy. I would also like to get a great deal of vocabulary and tipical sentences in this area.
| Instances | Description |
| 1 | ARTICLE - you have made a mistake with the use of the article ( ie a, an, the or zero) with a noun or noun phrase. First check that you know whether the noun is countable or uncountable, and singular or plural |
| 1 | UNCLEAR - the reader does not understand what you are trying to say here |
| 3 | NOT THE BEST CHOICE - your meaning is clear but this is not a good way, or not the best way, to express it. This may relate to one word, or a phrase or a whole sentence. You may need to change the syntax or the vocabulary or both. |
| 1 | PHRASE CONSTRUCTION - you have used the wrong construction after the verb/noun/adjective/adverb; for example, you might have used 'to' instead of 'that', or an '-ing' form instead of 'to' etc |
| 3 | PREPOSITION - you have used the wrong preposition, or the preposition is missing, or you don't need a preposition |
| 1 | REFERENCE - you have made a mistake in how you refer to something previously mentioned. You may have used the wrong word to do this; or it may not be clear what you are referring to, or the referent (= the thing you are referring to) may be too far away; or a pronoun is needed |
| 1 | SENTENCE ERROR: COMMA SPLICE - you have incorrectly joined two main (or independent) clauses with a comma. You need to make two separate sentences, or use a different connective or marker to join the clauses. |
| 6 | SPELLING - the word is wrongly spelled. |
| 1 | VERB FORM - you have used the wrong form of the verb. For example, singular instead of plural, infinitive instead of -ing, wrong auxiliary, passive instead of active or vice versa, etc. |
| 3 | VOCABULARY MISTAKE - you have used the wrong word. Check in the dictionary. |
| 1 | WORD FORM - you used a word in the wrong form. For example, you have used the adjective form when you should have used the noun form, or adverb instead of adjective etc. |