B1: Submit
Date: August 02, 2000
Time: 22:07
log_1
1. I arrived by plane on 30 July 2000. First I had a shock about my room but now I find it really nice and I'm feeling very good. This is my first stay in a flat with other students and we all have to be disciplined. I find it very interessant to live with young people from an other country. In my flat there live students from korea, taiwan, austria, japan and turkey. So I have the possibility to learn about their differents cultures. We are making a lot of jokes of each other and one evening we were in a club. In my class there are also many differents people and one time we spoked about introducing yourself and someone else. That was very interesting because every student told about the handling in his country.
2. For me it was new that the Asien people give their business cards every time with two hands. This surprised me because if someone doesn't know this he would get problems.
3. I have learned that the german meaning for "okay" isn't the same in English. When you use this word, the people think you are unhappy. For example: "My flat is okay for me" - an English man think I find my flat not very nice and I don't feel very well there. My impression of English culture is better than I thaught before. The people are very friendly and the landscape is wonderful. The shops for food are more expansive than in Germany but I find here my favourite food. The impression of the other culture is also positive. I find it so interesting to speak to them and find new difference to my own culture. On this way I am able to understand the "strange" traditions.
4. It could be useful to speak English fluently. But I think you have also a profit if you are able to speak other languages like French or Spanish. For future it is also useful to be flexible and open for everthing new. After my stay in Exeter I will move to Hamburg to a big advertising agency called SPRINGER & JACOBY, I am sure that I can use my English improvement there because they have a departement in London.
| Instances | Description |
| 3 | 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 |
| 2 | UNCLEAR - the reader does not understand what you are trying to say here |
| 2 | 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. |
| 3 | 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 |
| 4 | PREPOSITION - you have used the wrong preposition, or the preposition is missing, or you don't need a preposition |
| 3 | 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. |
| 1 | SENTENCE TOO LONG - your sentence needs to be made into several shorter ones. |
| 4 | NUMBER OF NOUN - you have put a word in the singular when it should be plural, or vice versa. Or perhaps the noun is countable and you thought it was uncountable, or vice versa. Check that you have used the right article, as well. |
| 4 | 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. |
| 2 | WORD ORDER - you have written a group of words in the wrong order. Re-arrange. |
| 2 | CAPITALISATION PROBLEM - you have mixed up lower and upper case spelling. |