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Message de here4u posté le 01-03-2025 à 16:56:58 (S | E | F)
Hello dear Friends!
Another easy exercice that everyone can do!
Je sais que l'Expression libre est la compétence la plus difficile à bien acquérir dans l'apprentissage d'une langue, même si elle est notre langue maternelle, d'ailleurs...
Certains m’avaient dit être gênés d’exprimer des idées personnelles (surtout qu’ils avaient l’impression – souvent fausse – de les exprimer maladroitement. ) Cependant, je ne vous demande pas de " raconter votre vie " si vous ne le désirez pas... Je souhaite juste vous voir vous exprimer sur tout sujet aussi " librement " que possible.
De plus, je pense que vous aurez maintenant compris que pour moi, toute expression, même maladroite, est intéressante et a de la valeur. Elle nous stimule tous à " trouver mieux " !
Voici les questions auxquelles vous pourrez répondre :
1) « Is it easy for you to say: «No, sorry, I can’t!»?
2) Could you live for one day without a watch? without your cellphone?
3) In your opinion, why do some people steal?
4) What is your idea of ideal parents?
Vous pouvez choisir 1 ou 2 questions au choix – en notant bien les références - et développer celle(s) que vous voulez, jusqu’à atteindre en tout un maximum d’environ 150 mots.
Envoyez-moi vos réponses en mp et je publierai une première série que vous 'corrigerez' (en bleu d’abord pendant deux jours) puis en vert… Une fois la première réponse corrigée au mieux, je publierai ensuite la deuxième série... (sans changements donc !) Vous gagnez de la liberté (celle de ne pas parler de plusieurs sujets, ceux qui ne vous " inspirent pas "... Vous écrivez la longueur que vous voulez, vous pouvez choisir d'inventer, de plaisanter, ou de répondre avec sérieux... Nous vous suivrons !
Cet exercice sera pour vous un
ou en fonction de la qualité de vos écrits et des difficultés (surmontées) dans la prestation...
Cet exercice sera corrigé (j'espère !)le mercredi 12 mars 2025 ! Go for it! with THE FORCE.
Message de here4u posté le 01-03-2025 à 16:56:58 (S | E | F)
Hello dear Friends!
Another easy exercice that everyone can do!
Je sais que l'Expression libre est la compétence la plus difficile à bien acquérir dans l'apprentissage d'une langue, même si elle est notre langue maternelle, d'ailleurs...
Certains m’avaient dit être gênés d’exprimer des idées personnelles (surtout qu’ils avaient l’impression – souvent fausse – de les exprimer maladroitement.
) Cependant, je ne vous demande pas de " raconter votre vie " si vous ne le désirez pas... Je souhaite juste vous voir vous exprimer sur tout sujet aussi " librement " que possible. De plus, je pense que vous aurez maintenant compris que pour moi, toute expression, même maladroite, est intéressante et a de la valeur. Elle nous stimule tous à " trouver mieux " !
Voici les questions auxquelles vous pourrez répondre :
1) « Is it easy for you to say: «No, sorry, I can’t!»?
2) Could you live for one day without a watch? without your cellphone?
3) In your opinion, why do some people steal?
4) What is your idea of ideal parents?
Vous pouvez choisir 1 ou 2 questions au choix – en notant bien les références - et développer celle(s) que vous voulez, jusqu’à atteindre en tout un maximum d’environ 150 mots.
Envoyez-moi vos réponses en mp et je publierai une première série que vous 'corrigerez' (en bleu d’abord pendant deux jours) puis en vert… Une fois la première réponse corrigée au mieux, je publierai ensuite la deuxième série... (sans changements donc !
) Vous gagnez de la liberté (celle de ne pas parler de plusieurs sujets, ceux qui ne vous " inspirent pas "... Vous écrivez la longueur que vous voulez, vous pouvez choisir d'inventer, de plaisanter, ou de répondre avec sérieux... Nous vous suivrons !Cet exercice sera pour vous un
ou en fonction de la qualité de vos écrits et des difficultés (surmontées) dans la prestation...Cet exercice sera corrigé (j'espère !)le mercredi 12 mars 2025 ! Go for it! with THE FORCE.
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de here4u, postée le 02-03-2025 à 21:46:11 (S | E)
Hello, dear Friends,
ANSWER A: topic2 please, indicate possible mistakes and underline what looks clumsy.
I live without mobile phones since they have become so sophisticated that I am unable to use them. You can explain to me 15 times how it works, I don't even know how to answer when it rings. I click, I press, I rub, I touch it and it gives me squares of all colours and nothing that I need. I'm fine without it.
As for watches, I don't have them for the good reason, that they don't work on me. A watch on my wrist of any kind works perfectly for 8 days then it starts to lag for minutes, and stops completely after a month. I've been living without a watch forever. I look at the time on the kitchen oven door. When I am outside, there is always a clock on a church tower or the façade of a public building. I never arrive late for appointments.
Thanks for your help!
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de happynutmeg13, postée le 03-03-2025 à 08:58:17 (S | E)
Hello!
I can't see anything wrong in this text... What's more, it’s funny!
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de gerold, postée le 03-03-2025 à 09:18:09 (S | E)
Hello!
ANSWER A: topic2 please, indicate possible mistakes and underline what looks clumsy.
I live without mobile phones since they have become so sophisticated that I am unable to use them. You can explain to me 15 times how it works, I don't even know how to answer when it rings. I click, I press, I rub, I touch it and it gives me squares of all colours and nothing that I need. I'm fine without it.
As for watches, I don't have them for the good reason, that they don't work on me. A watch on my wrist of any kind works perfectly for 8 days then it starts to lag for minutes, and stops completely after a month. I've been living without a watch forever. I look at the time on the kitchen oven door (not sure). When I am outside, there is always a clock on a church tower or the façade of a public building. I never arrive late for appointments.
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de magie8, postée le 03-03-2025 à 09:58:23 (S | E)
hello mes suggestions selon les indications de Gerold merci a tous
Réponse : Let's Suggest81 t0pic 2
ANSWER A: topic2
I have been living without mobile phones since they ( became so sophisticated that I am unable to use them. You can explain to me 15 times how it works, I don't even know how to answer when it rings. I click, I press, I rub, I touch it and it gives me squares of all colours and nothing that I need. I'm fine without it.
As for watches, I don't have them for the good reason, that they don't work on me.
On my wrist, a watch of any kind works perfectly for 8 days then it starts to lag for minutes, and stops completely after a month. I've been living without a watch forever. I look at the time on the kitchen oven door (not sure). When I am outside, there is always a clock on a church tower or the façade of a public building. I never arrive late for appointments.
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de gerold, postée le 04-03-2025 à 16:13:24 (S | E)
Hello!
Magie!Réponse : Let's Suggest81 t0pic 2
ANSWER A: topic2
I have been living without mobile phones since they ( became so sophisticated that I am unable to use them. You can explain to me 15 times how
As for watches, I don't have them for the good reason
On my wrist, a watch of any kind works perfectly for 8 days then it starts to lag for minutes, and stops completely after a month. I've been living without a watch forever. I look at the time on the kitchen oven door**. When I am outside, there is always a clock on a church tower or the façade of a public building. I never arrive late for appointments.
* I find "it" inappropriate because of the plural (phones) in the previous sentence.
**I have doubts about the syntax, but perhaps I am mistaken. I'd say "the oven door in the kitchen".
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de here4u, postée le 05-03-2025 à 09:36:49 (S | E)
Hello dears,
Thanks a lot for your suggestions!
Here is ANSWER B: (a different approach on the same topic)Please, indicate possible mistakes and underline what looks clumsy...
Topic 2: 'Could you live for one day without a watch? Without your cellphone'
When I started writing my answer, I first overlooked 'for one day'... Which of course makes things very different! For 'one day' is not such a big deal, is it ?
First, let's forget about the watch: one day without knowing the right time could even be an interesting experiment!
My cellphone... That's the real issue! One day will be a maximum! I confess I have become what you may call a stupid addict to it, always urgently checking something extraordinarily important on the Internet: this includes dayly weather reports (preferably on different sites), reviews on books or movies I'll maybe never read or watch, silly but nevertheless funny videos about pets !... Twenty years or so ago, somebody said that in a very close future everyone would have a phone in their handbags; this had infuriated me: I was so sure I would never be trapped !... Shame on me!
for your help!Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de gerold, postée le 06-03-2025 à 16:33:33 (S | E)
Hello!
Here is ANSWER B: (a different approach on the same topic)Please, indicate possible mistakes and underline what looks clumsy...
Topic 2: 'Could you live for one day without a watch? Without your cellphone'
Not much to say
When I started writing my answer, I first overlooked 'for one day'... Which of course makes things very different! For 'one day' is not such a big deal, is it ?
First, let's forget about the watch: one day without knowing the right time could even be an interesting experiment ( or experience
, I'm not sure)My cellphone... That's the real issue! One day will be a maximum! I confess I have become what you may call a stupid addict to it, always urgently checking something extraordinarily important on the Internet: this includes dayly weather reports (preferably on different sites), reviews on books or movies I'll maybe never read or watch, silly but nevertheless funny videos about pets !... Twenty years or so ago, somebody said that in a very close future everyone would have a phone in their handbags; this had infuriated me: I was so sure I would never be trapped !... Shame on me!
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Modifié par gerold le 06-03-2025 21:21
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de here4u, postée le 08-03-2025 à 10:39:48 (S | E)
Hello dears,
Green required!
Thanks for your help! Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de happynutmeg13, postée le 08-03-2025 à 13:27:28 (S | E)
Thank you gerold and Here4U!
When I started writing my answer, I first overlooked 'for one day'... Which of course makes things very different! For 'one day' is not such a big deal, is it ?
First, let's forget
My cellphone... That's the real issue! One day will be a maximum! I confess I have become what you may call a stupid addict to* it, always urgently checking something extraordinarily important on the Internet: this includes dayly daily weather reports (preferably on different sites), reviews on books or movies I'll maybe never read or watch, silly but nevertheless funny videos about pets !... Twenty years or so ago, somebody said that in a very close future everyone would have a phone in their handbags; this had infuriated me: I was so sure I would never be trapped !... Shame on me!
I can't see any solution... Maybe: 'I have become stupidly addicted to it'
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de here4u, postée le 08-03-2025 à 14:03:44 (S | E)
Hello dears,
Here are my indications...When I started writing my answer, I first overlooked 'for one day'... Which of course makes things very different! For 'one day' is not such a big deal, is it ?
First, let's forget
My cellphone... That's the real issue! One day will be a maximum! I confess I have become what you may call a stupid addict to* it, always urgently checking something extraordinarily important on the Internet: this includes dayly daily weather reports (preferably on different sites), reviews on books or movies I'll maybe never read or watch, silly but nevertheless funny videos about pets !... Twenty years or so ago, somebody said that in a very close future everyone would have a phone in their handbags; this had infuriated me: I was so sure I would never be trapped !... Shame on me!
A good expression.
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de here4u, postée le 09-03-2025 à 15:33:18 (S | E)
hello dears,
I'll be delighted if you could improve these lines:
'reviews on books or movies I'll maybe never read or watch, silly but nevertheless funny videos about pets !... Twenty years or so ago, somebody said that in a very...'
Could you suggest anything, please?
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de happynutmeg13, postée le 09-03-2025 à 15:50:30 (S | E)
Hello!
reviews on books or movies I'll maybe never read or watch, silly but nevertheless funny videos about pets !... Twenty years or so ago, somebody said that in a very...'
I suggest: reviews on books or movies I'm not sure I'll ever read or watch
and 'somebody had said...
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de here4u, postée le 09-03-2025 à 19:31:52 (S | E)
Hello!
Much better... I hated your 'I'll maybe never watch or read'...
I don't like your 'silly but nevertheless(lourd!) funny', too much... Any other idea?
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de happynutmeg13, postée le 09-03-2025 à 20:07:28 (S | E)
Hello!
Could it be:
'silly, though funny, videos...'
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de here4u, postée le 09-03-2025 à 20:11:03 (S | E)
Not bad!
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de happynutmeg13, postée le 09-03-2025 à 20:27:22 (S | E)
Or maybe better:
silly,yet funny, videos
silly, however funny, videos
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de here4u, postée le 10-03-2025 à 14:32:29 (S | E)
Hello dear Happynutmeg!
Sorry, but I'd like your changes written clearly in a new text, please...
(just 'paste' the text and swap the new elements in it... )
a lot! Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de happynutmeg13, postée le 11-03-2025 à 19:34:05 (S | E)
Hello!
Here is my new text:
When I started writing my answer, I first overlooked 'for one day'... Which of course makes things very different! For 'one day' is not such a big deal, is it ?
First, let's forget
My cellphone... That's the real issue! One day will be a maximum! I confess I have become what you may call a stupid addict to* it, always urgently checking something extraordinarily important on the Internet: this includes dayly daily weather reports (preferably on different sites), reviews on books or movies I'll maybe never read or watch I'm not sure I'll ever read or watch, silly but nevertheless funny videos silly,yet funny videos about pets !... Twenty years or so ago, somebody said had said that in a very close future everyone would have a phone in their handbags; this had infuriated me: I was so sure I would never be trapped !... Shame on me!
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de gerold, postée le 11-03-2025 à 21:53:21 (S | E)
Hello!
When I started writing my answer, I first overlooked 'for one day'... Which of course makes things very different! For 'one day' is not such a big deal, is it ?
First, let's forget about the watch: one day without knowing the right time could even be an interesting experiment (I'd maintain 'experience'
My cellphone... That's the real issue! One day will be a maximum! I confess I have become what you may call a stupid phone addict
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de happynutmeg13, postée le 12-03-2025 à 08:55:08 (S | E)
Hello!
'Phone addict'... of course!
'Phoneaholic' too?
Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de gerold, postée le 12-03-2025 à 13:12:56 (S | E)
Hello happynutmeg!
"Phoneaholic" is in the Collins dictionary:
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Réponse : Let's Suggest/ 81 - Taking it easy/ 27 de here4u, postée le 12-03-2025 à 22:05:27 (S | E)
Hello dear workers!
Here are the recaps of your corrections...
for your great work! Let's Suggest 81: ANSWER A: topic2: initial text and my immediate indications...
I live without mobile phones since they have become so sophisticated that I am unable to use them. You can explain to me 15 times how it works, I don't even know how to answer XX when it rings. I click, I press, I rub, I touch it
and it gives me squares of all colours and nothing that I need. I'm fine without it.As for watches, I don't have them for the good reason, that they don't work on me. A watch on my wrist of any kind works perfectly for 8 days then it starts to lag for minutes, and stops completely after a month. I've been living without a watch forever. I look at the time on the kitchen oven door. When I am outside, there is always a clock on a church tower or the façade of a public building. I never arrive late for appointments.
Happynutmeg wrote :
I can't see anything wrong in this text... What?!
Grrrrr! 
Pas choquée par ‘I live… since’...? What's more, it’s funny! Yes, it is...I agree!
ANSWER A: topic2 : gerold’s indications.
I live without mobile phones since they have become so sophisticated that I am unable to use them. You can explain to me 15 times how it works, I don't even know how to answer when it rings. I click, I press, I rub, I touch it and it gives me squares of all colours and nothing that I need. I'm fine without it.
As for watches, I don't have them for the good reason, that they don't work on me. A watch on my wrist of any kind works perfectly for 8 days then it starts to lag for minutes, and stops completely after a month. I've been living without a watch forever. I look at the time on the kitchen oven door (not sure). When I am outside, there is always a clock on a church tower or the façade of a public building. I never arrive late for appointments.
ANSWER A: topic2: magie’s suggestions
I have been living without mobile phones since they (became so sophisticated that I am unable to use them. You can explain to me 15 times how it works, I don't even know how to answer when it rings. I click, I press, I rub, I touch it and it gives me squares of all colours and nothing that I need. I'm fine without it.
As for watches, I don't have them for the good reason, that they don't work on me.
On my wrist, a watch of any kind works perfectly for 8 days then it starts to lag for minutes, and stops completely after a month. I've been living without a watch forever. I look at the time on the kitchen oven door (not sure). When I am outside, there is always a clock on a church tower or the façade of a public building. I never arrive late for appointments.
ANSWER A: topic2: gerold’s suggestions following magie’s.
I have been living without mobile phones since they ( became so sophisticated that I am unable to use them. You can explain to me 15 times how it my phone* worksB : bonne remarque et bonne correction ! ), I don't even know how to answer when it rings. I click, I press, I rub, I touch it and it gives me squares of all colours and nothing that I need. I'm fine without it.
As for watches, I don't have them for the good reason, no comma that they don't work on me.
On my wrist, a watch of any kind works perfectly for 8 days then it starts to lag for minutes, and stops completely after a month. I've been living without a watch forever. I look at the time on the kitchen oven door**. When I am outside, there is always a clock on a church tower or the façade of a public building. I never arrive late for appointments.
* I find "it" inappropriate because of the plural (phones) in the previous sentence.[Good remark! and good corrections...]
**I have doubts about the syntax, but perhaps I am mistaken. I'd say "the oven door in the kitchen". (If 'the kitchen oven door' looks logical, it doesn't sound normal... The kitchen door is perfect, the oven door is perfect too, but I couldn't find the combination of the two expressions... I agree with gerold and would say 'the oven door in the kitchen' too...
)What should we deduce? that Magie is allergic to watches? or that watches are allergic to her!?? I do think the question is interesting!
Pour ce qui est de la grammaire, je conseillerais tout de même une petite révision de 'for' et 'since' ou plutôt, quelques exercices afin que les temps deviennent automatiques...
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Malgré cette " horreur "
l'expression reste satisfaisante ! (sinon, elle était excellente !) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Here is ANSWER B: (a different approach on the same topic)
ANSWER B: Topic 2: 'Could you live for one day without a watch? Without your cellphone' initial text and my immediate indications.
When I started writing my answer, I first overlooked 'for one day'... Which of course makes things very different! For 'one day' is not such a big deal, is it ?
First, let's forget about the watch: one day without knowing the right time could even be an interesting experiment!
My cellphone... That's the real issue! One day will be a maximum! I confess I have become what you may call a stupid addict (to it), always urgently checking something extraordinarily important on the Internet: this includes dayly weather reports (preferably on different sites), reviews on books or movies I'll maybe never read or watch, silly but nevertheless funny videos about pets !... Twenty years or so ago, somebody said that in a very close future everyone would have a phone in their handbags; this had infuriated me: I was so sure I would never be trapped !... Shame on me!
ANSWER B: (a different approach on the same topic)
Topic 2: 'Could you live for one day without a watch? Without your cellphone? 'Gerold's indications and remarks.
Gerold wroye: Not much to say
When I started writing my answer, I first overlooked 'for one day'... Which of course makes things very different! For 'one day' is not such a big deal, is it ?
First, let's forget about the watch: one day without knowing the right time could even be an interesting experiment ( or experience
, I'm not sure)My cellphone... That's the real issue! One day will be a maximum! I confess I have become what you may call a stupid addict to it, always urgently checking something extraordinarily important on the Internet: this includes dayly weather reports (preferably on different sites), reviews on books or movies I'll maybe never read or watch, silly but nevertheless funny videos about pets !... Twenty years or so ago, somebody said that in a very close future everyone would have a phone in their handbags; this had infuriated me: I was so sure I would never be trapped !... Shame on me!
Happynutmeg's suggestions:
When I started writing my answer, I first overlooked 'for one day'... Which of course makes things very different! For 'one day' is not such a big deal, is it ?
First, let's forget
My cellphone... That's the real issue! One day will be a maximum! I confess I have become what you may call a stupid addict to* it, always urgently checking something extraordinarily important on the Internet: this includes dayly daily weather reports (preferably on different sites), reviews on books or movies I'll maybe never read or watch, silly but nevertheless funny videos about pets !... Twenty years or so ago, somebody said that in a very close future everyone would have a phone in their handbags; this had infuriated me: I was so sure I would never be trapped !... Shame on me!
I can't see any solution... Maybe: 'I have become stupidly addicted to it'
ANSWER B: Here are my indications...
When I started writing my answer, I first overlooked 'for one day'... Which of course makes things very different! For 'one day' is not such a big deal, is it ?
First, let's forget
My cellphone... That's the real issue! One day will be a maximum! I confess I have become what you may call a stupid addict to* it, always urgently checking something extraordinarily important on the Internet: this includes dayly daily weather reports (preferably on different sites), reviews on books or movies I'll maybe never read or watch, (très maladroit!) silly but nevertheless funny videos about pets !... Twenty years or so ago, somebody said that in a very close future everyone would have a phone in their handbags; this had infuriated me: I was so sure I would never be trapped !... Shame on me!
A good expression.
I asked for your help to improve a few lines.
(I'll be delighted if you could improve these lines):
'reviews on books or movies I'll maybe never read or watch, silly but nevertheless funny videos about pets !... Twenty years or so ago, somebody said that in a very...'
Could you suggest anything, please?
...and I was satisfied!
Happynutmeg suggested: I suggest: reviews on books or movies I'm not sure I'll ever read or watch (Oui! ceci passe beaucoup mieux... 'books or movies I'll maybe never read or watch' était très maladroit.,
and 'somebody had said...: '20 years ago' n'est pas hier ... le past perfect passe beaucoup mieux ici.
- silly, though funny, videos...
silly, yet funny, videos...
silly, however funny, videos... Yes! I would have said 'silly yet funny videos...'
Of course, Gerold had the right suggestion with 'phone addict'!
Though'phoneaholic' exists, I do prefer 'phone addict'...Final text after your corrections:
When I started writing my answer, I first overlooked 'for one day', which of course makes things very different! For 'one day' is not such a big deal, is it?
First, let's forget about the watch: one day without knowing the right time could even be an interesting experience. (I'd maintain 'experience'
My cellphone... That's the real issue! One day will be a maximum! I confess I have become what you may call a stupid phone addict, always urgently checking something extraordinarily important on the Internet: this includes daily weather reports (preferably on different sites), reviews on books or movies I'm not sure I'll ever read or watch, silly yet funny videos about pets!... Twenty years or so ago, somebody had said that in a very close future everyone would have a phone in their handbags; this had infuriated me: I was so sure I would never be trapped !... Shame on me!
Very good texts and excellent corrections!
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