How to learn English? (30/30 Challenge)

[Katrin]

I?ve watched CNN, now.
The main topic ist the Middle East crises, today.

Isreal fights against the Lebanon siege. Lebanon attack the Israel with rockets. More rockets met nothern towns of Isreal. The airport stood under bombardment, too.
With attacked through Iraelis became killed 63 Lebanese and 163 became wounded.
About 1000 Arab protestes against the Israeli offensive.
The Lebanese Prime Minister called on the world leader to press Israel stop the attacks. The USA say it?s not right to destroy the infrastructur and to kill civilians. They?re the biggest victims at this war. But the president Bush will not request the Isrealis to stop the attacks against the Lebanon.

Have a nice weekend.
Best regards
Katrin

[Alan]

Hi Katrin,

Some suggestions in CAPITAL letters on what you’ve written:

Isreal fights/IS FIGHTING against the Lebanon siege/THE SIEGE BY LEBANON. Lebanon attackS (the NO ARTICLE) Israel with rockets. More rockets met/HAVE HIT nothern towns of/IN ISRAEL Isreal. The airport stood under bombardment, too.
With attacked through Iraelis became killed 63 Lebanese and 163 became wounded. AS A RESULT OF THE ISRAELI ATTACKS 63 LEBANESE HAVE BEEN KILLED AND 163 WOUNDED
About 1000 Arab protestes/HAVE PROTESTED against the Israeli offensive.
The Lebanese Prime Minister called on (the) world leaderS to press/URGE Israel TO stop the attacks. The USA sayS it?s not right to destroy the infrastructurE OF A COUNTRY and to kill civilians. They?re the biggest victims at/IN this war. But (the) President Bush will not request/ASK the Isrealis/ISRAELIS to stop the attacks against the Lebanon.

Alan

[Yankee]

@_vivien_

Hello Torsten,
today I startet to whatch CNN for 10 minutes. It was Newstime at 5 pm.

Today I started the 30/30 Challenge and watched CNN for 10 minutes at 5 p.m.

@_vivien_

The first report was about the conflict in the Middle East. Michael Holmes, the speaker, introduced some correspondents. They reportet from Beirut.

The first report was about the conflict in the Middle East. Michael Holmes, the reporter, introduced some correspondents. They reported from Beirut.

@_vivien_

There, many rockets hit houses, damaged bridges and the airport. Actually 63 persons are killed and 116 injured. The hospital is damaged, too. Windows has been splittet and injured emploees.

Many rockets hit and destroyed houses and bridges and damaged the airport. Currently 63 people have been killed and 116 injured. The hospital has also suffered damage. Windows have been shattered and hospital staff injured.

@_vivien_

In Beirut, july is season for many tourists. But there is nobody on the street. Shops and banks are closed and there is no traffic.

Beirut is usually flooded with tourists in July. But there is nobody on the street. Shops and banks are closed and there is no traffic.

@_vivien_

Beside of destruction and killing, the terror also hurts tourist industry, which is very important for the country.

Besides the destruction and casualties, the terror also hurts the tourist industry, which is very important for the country.

@_vivien_

Hope you understand my short report and that it does not content to many faults. :roll:

Hope you understand my short report and that it does not contain too many mistakes.

Hi Vivien

I’ve amended your report. (Torsten is in Munich)
You wrote your report well! One thing you need to be careful about is using “-ed” at the end of past tense verbs.

Keep listening!
Amy

[Torsten]

Dear Amy and Alan,

Thank you so much for amending Vivien’s and Katrin’s reports. As you remember I talked about this workshop on blended learning. It actually was the start of a new partnership we are going to develop with a Munich based language training company. One of their managers reviewed our forum and decided that we are offering something valuable to them…

More on that soon,
Torsten[YSaerTTEW443543]

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[Droren]

as Israel Resident i feel like i must say somthing.
Israel in the last few years had a serious crisis that cause her to react most of the time to the specific event without making any critical move or action.
after the last event the include 3 soldiers kidnapd and fire rockets to major cities like Haifa, Israel felt like now it the time to end this crisis for ever.
I’m not living in the north but my grandmother is living there… and i can not tell you how she feel.
I send me wishes to our soldiers who fight for our nation at this moment and also to our amazing air force
and hope that in the next few daysweeks the situation become more clear and people in the north will able to live and continues with their home living without any worries!

Thank you for spending the time to read my comment
Dror.

[_Vivien]

Hello,
thank you for correcting my last report.

Today, a main topic at CNN was the G8 and the conflict in the middle east. In St. Petersburg, Russia the G8 leader committed about economic cooperation. The representants discussed about nuclear energy and climate change.

I?m looking for further information in the evening news.

Regards vivien

[Lissy]

Hello,

this is my listening-report today.

At first I want (to?) get something straight. The man in Sevilla isn?t the assitant form the crypthographer Susan Fletcher, because he is her boy friend. The NSA give him the offer to find out something about the dead man in Sevilla. Susan Fletcher didn?t enjoy this decision. The boy friend from Sunsan Fletcher inspect the dead man and saw the man had a ring usually on his finger. But the ring was out. The officer in Sevillia said him, that a candian-man told him about the ring, but the story was very inrcedible that he let him go. Now the boy friend from Susan Flechter try to find the candian and find out more about the ring. He finded him in a hospital and he told him, that a german business man and a spain prostiute stolen the ring from the dead man. He told him the name from the escort-service from the spain-woman. The boy-friend from Susan Fletscher want to dial the escort-service and he hope he find the german man.

This was my story.

[Yankee]

@_vivien_

Hello,
thank you for correcting my last report.

Today, a main topic at CNN was the G8 and the conflict in the middle east. In St. Petersburg, Russia the G8 leader committed about economic cooperation. The representants discussed about nuclear energy and climate change.

I?m looking for further information in the evening news.

My suggestions:
[color=blue]Thank you for correcting my last report.

Today, a main topic [color=blue]on CNN was the G8 and the conflict in the [color=blue]Middle [color=blue]East. In St. Petersburg, Russia the G8 leader[color=blue]s committed [color=blue]to economic cooperation. The representa[color=blue]tives discussed nuclear energy and climate change.

I?m [color=blue]going to look for further information in the evening news.

Hi Vivien

Good work with the -ed endings!
One special note:
You can talk about or discuss (Don’t use about after the verb discuss.)

Amy

[Cristina]

@Amy

Hi Cris

Contrary to what you wrote at the beginning of your report, everything was understandable. I’ve now made some corrections in [color=blue]blue. The words in [brackets] should be deleted.
Sorry that your post was forgotten! I hope you haven’t given up the challenge! Are you still listening?

Amy

Thanks Amy,I have some troubles now because my husband used to allow me to use the computer for three hours but now I can only use it for half an hour,that’s the main reason I can’t continue with the challenge and also because my 6 year old son,hid me he was not working in his math class so these days I had to help him understand and complete the exercises he haven’t completed …I hope the challenge continues and I can reappear …Thanks again Amy …Cris

[Pamela]

What’s a pity, Cristina Hope you’ll reappear quite soon.

[Yankee]

Hi Heike

I’ve made some suggestions for your text.
By the way, do you know the name of Susan Fletcher’s boyfriend?

@lissy

At first I want (to?) get something straight. The man in Sevilla isn?t the assitant form the crypthographer Susan Fletcher, because he is her boy friend.

First I want to get something straight. The man in Seville is not Susan Fletcher’s assistant, but rather her boyfriend.

@lissy

The NSA give him the offer to find out something about the dead man in Sevilla. Susan Fletcher didn?t enjoy this decision.

The NSA ordered him the to find out about the dead man in Seville. Susan Fletcher wasn’t happy about that.

@lissy

The boy friend from Sunsan Fletcher inspect the dead man and saw the man had a ring usually on his finger. But the ring was out.

Susan’s boyfriend inspected the dead man and noticed the man had usually worn a ring on his finger. But the ring was gone.

@lissy

The officer in Sevillia said him, that a candian-man told him about the ring, but the story was very inrcedible that he let him go. Now the boy friend from Susan Flechter try to find the candian and find out more about the ring.

The officer in Seville said that a Canadian man had told him about the ring, but the story was so unbelievable that he let him go. Now Susan’s boyfriend is trying to find the Canadian in order to find out more about the ring.

@lissy

He finded him in a hospital and he told him, that a german business man and a spain prostiute stolen the ring from the dead man.

He found the Canadian man in a hospital and was told that a German businessman and a Spanish prostitute had stolen the ring from the dead man.

@lissy

He told him the name from the escort-service from the spain-woman. The boy-friend from Susan Fletscher want to dial the escort-service and he hope he find the german man.

The Canadian gave him the name of Spanish woman’s escort service. Susan’s boyfriend wants to call the escort service and he hopes he will find the German man.

Amy

[Hercules]

I’ve heard this real story from the life and I hope that you will read and understood the moral of it …

There was a great and prolific farm , and it was famous of many kinds of fruits and some agricultural productions…

Yasser , yes Yasser is an Arabic person , adored his farm and his land which he inherited from his grand-fathers … he worked and tried hard to plant and grow it …so after many centuries ,Yasser’s farm became one of the greatest farm of the village , and maybe not in his village ,but in all Arab countries !

Yasser is an Arabic person , he and all Arab people were known and described by generousness and magnanimities …
In 1945, Unknown person came to the village … and his name is Evil !
he went to Yasser’s farm and asked Yasser to stay at his house, and of course our guy Yasser would never refuse this request , unfortunately, he ignored all advices of his neighbors when they told him that : do you know that person ? and have you ever heard any information or anything about his life detailing?
but Yasser accepted Evil’s order … Evil was very roguish, and he requested again from Yasser to sleep in Yasser’s bedroom and on his bed !! Yasser agreed again !!
Evil asked Yasser to test some orange and some lemon and honey … Yasser accepted , but in fact ,Evil stole many and many of that goods !!! and he never said to Yasser anything about his illegal doing !!!
then , Evil told Yasser that : I have a fantastic project for you and for your farm , and you would be the greatest farmer , and your farm would produces more and more of goods !! but to did that ,we need for some people with a special equipments !!!
Evil didn’t wait to hear the answer , some people with many kinds of equipments stepped inside the filed…Yasser looked at these men with their different equipments , but the surprise was these kinds of equipments were kinds of guns !!!
suddenly, the men with their boss Evil attacked Yasser then they beat him and kicked him outside the farm…
Yasser was very shocked at first and he thought these men were kidding with him … but it was not !!!
Yasser obliged to camp outside his farm …by the way , he had returned to his land and asked them ( Evil and his men ) to come back to his farm previously ,but they beat him and hurt him again…
there was no way to have any kinds of speech with Evil and his community …
After his illegal doing ,Evil began thinking to extend his land , so he started attacking his neighbors’s farms and he started his attacking at Husain’s farm then Mubarak’s farm ( the neighbors of Yasser ) ,and unfortunately Husain and Mubarak were so coward , and they ran away from their lands … so Evil thought about himself very strong and nobody in the world could stop him …
then he decided to attack to north , his neighbor in the north is Hassan …and that was in 1982…
by the way our old friend Yasser had strong relationship with Hassan …
Evil attacked Hassen and he thought Hassen would run away like Husain or Mubarak , but Hassen was ready for this battle … Hussen hurt Evil’s eye and cut his arm then kicked Evil outside , but the Evil shouted and complained …
after this battle …Evil said : Hassan , you are a terrorist … Or the biggest terrorist in the world …
and I’ll come back again to kill you , so he tried again and again but he failed …and it was in 2000 .
Evil won’t submit , and he decides to attack Hassan again , and i think the attack will begin now …in 2006 !!
…

This’s the end of my real story …
Hassan is the biggest terrorist in the world !!!
Do you know why ?
Because he defended his home and his dignity !!!
Is that fairness ? Is that correctness ?

I hope the moral of this story is understood …

Herc

[_Vivien]

Today I watched a new topic on CNN. It was an interview about Puma and his manager. Puma is a german brand of sportfashion. In the last year Puma had a crisis on the market. So the manager decided to change the struktur from bottom to head of his company. He changed his behaviour, too, and allowed his employees to be very creative. Now, the connection of sport, functionality and fashion earns the success. The manager wants to make Puma the most successful sport and fashion company at the world.

I was really happy to whatch this report and not the short news in the morning or the advertises, which are often the same.

Vivien

[Lissy]

Hello,

thats my new listening-report.

Sorry, that i had forget to call the name from Susan Fletchers boy-friend. His name is David Becker and he is a university professor for languages.

OK back to the story. David Becker is looking for the escort-service in the directory and he find two, but anything with the name “Dewdrop”. He called one of them and he get someone on the phone. He tell the man form the escort-service that he is bussinesman from germany an he ask him, if he had a escort with red ha(but the old canadian tell him, that the prostiute is a red head). The man tell him that he had two red escort and one of them with the name Rocio. But the man is carefull, than prostiute is illegal in Spain. As David Becker said him, that he want to pay a lot of money of a red hair escort. The man seems the sory suspect and he finished the calling. David thinks over the case and he find out that Rocio is a usual name for a spanish woman and it means dewdrop in Spain, the man had translate the name in english.

This was my report. More about the story tormorrow.

Heike

[Yankee]

Hi Vivien

My suggestions for your report:

@_vivien_

Today I watched a new topic on CNN. It was an interview about Puma and his manager. Puma is a german brand of sportfashion.

Today I watched a new topic on CNN. It was an interview with the CEO of Puma, a German fashion and sportswear manufacturer.

@_vivien_

In the last year Puma had a crisis on the market. So the manager decided to change the struktur from bottom to head of his company. He changed his behaviour, too, and allowed his employees to be very creative.

Last year (?) Puma had a market share crisis. So the CEO decided restructure the company from the bottom up. He changed his behavior, too, and allowed his employees to be very creative.

@_vivien_

Now, the connection of sport, functionality and fashion earns the success. The manager wants to make Puma the most successful sport and fashion company at the world.

Now, the combination of sport, functionality and fashion is reaping success. The CEO wants to make Puma the most successful sportswear and fashion company in the world.

@_vivien_

I was really happy to whatch this report and not the short news in the morning or the advertises, which are often the same.

I was really happy to watch this report and not the short news in the morning or the advertisements, which are often the same.

You’re right! An interesting interview. Keep listening!

Amy

[Yankee]

Hi Heike

One of the main reasons I asked you about the name of Susan Fletcher’s boyfriend is that it is much easier (and less clumsy) to write about him if you know his name.
Here are some suggestions for you latest report:

@lissy

thats my new listening-report.

Sorry, that i had forget to call the name from Susan Fletchers boy-friend. His name is David Becker and he is a university professor for languages.

[color=blue]This is my new listening report.

Sorry that [color=blue]I forgot to mention the name of Susan Fletcher’s boy friend. His name is David Becker and he is a university professor for languages

@lissy

OK back to the story. David Becker is looking for the escort-service in the directory and he find two, but anything with the name “Dewdrop”. He called one of them and he get someone on the phone.

OK back to the story. David Becker [color=blue]looks for the escort service in the directory and he find[color=blue]s two, but [color=blue]nothing with the name “Dewdrop”. He calls one of them and he gets someone on the phone

@lissy

He tell the man form the escort-service that he is bussinesman from germany an he ask him, if he had a escort with red ha(but the old canadian tell him, that the prostiute is a red head). The man tell him that he had two red escort and one of them with the name Rocio.

He tells the man from the escort service that he is [color=blue]businessman from Germany. [color=blue]Because the old Canadian had mentioned that the prostiute was a redhead, he asks the man if he has an escort with red hair. The man tells him that he has two red-headed escorts and one of them is named Rocio.

@lissy

But the man is carefull, than prostiute is illegal in Spain. As David Becker said him, that he want to pay a lot of money of a red hair escort. The man seems the sory suspect and he finished the calling.

But the man is [color=blue]cautious since prostitution is illegal in Spain. [color=blue]When David Becker says that he wants to pay a lot of money for an escort with red hair, the man [color=blue]becomes suspicious and hangs up.

@lissy

David thinks over the case and he find out that Rocio is a usual name for a spanish woman and it means dewdrop in Spain, the man had translate the name in english.

David thinks about the situation and decides that Rocio is [color=blue]an unusual (?) name for a Spanish woman. Then he realizes the name means dewdrop in Spanish and that the man must have translated it into English.

@lissy

[color=blue]That was my report. More about the story tomorrow.

Heike

I’m looking forward to reading the next installment, Heike.

Amy

[_Vivien]

Hello,

Today, CNN reportet about the conflict in Middle East, too. Amarican and european citizens go to Cyprus by ship. Cyprus is an island in the eastern mediterranean sea. There, they do not stay long. They go to theyr countries by plane. Other people from lebanon flee to Syria to escape from terror.

I?m very sorry for the families and children. Many of them suffer the terror they didn?t want to be involved.

I?m looking for better news tomorrow.

Vivien

[Katrin]

Hello,

I have started to listen the hearbook „Angels & Demons“, yesterday.
In the middelpoint it?s a nuclearcenter in Switzerland.
A man becomes attacks and he is to say a password. He said the password and becomes killed.

Robert Langdon became called in “night”. It?s 5 o’clock in the morning. The caller is Mr. Kohler. Mr. Kohler want see Mr. Langdon, but he don?t say what he want from Mr. Langdon. Mr. Langdon it?s very tired and finished the call.
But he cann?t sleep any longer. So he stand up and goes in the kitchen. Here are coming a fax for him. What he must see on the fax shocked him. It?s a dead man and on his body is branding ILLUMINATI. In this moment is coming a call for him. It?s Mr. Kohler. Mr. Langdon ask Mr. Kohler from where he had its number. Mr. Kohler have the number from Mr. Langdon from the world wide web. He write in his new book about ILLUMINATI. Mr. Kohler said he want Mr. Langdon see and a privat jet it?s waiting at the airport for him. Mr. Langdon have no choice. So say Mr. Langdon it?s okay.

About million miles from Boston he meets two man in Rom. They look and the window and one man say: “Tonight begins a new world.”

Langdon drives to the airport. There are waiting a man for him. It?s the pilot. Langdon see the jet. The jet looks how a shuttle only windows. It?s for Langdon not easy, because he have agoraphobie. The pilot say that?s the fly it?s not long. In one hour they?re in Geneva. Langdon think it?s the Geneva in New York, but the pilot explain him, that?s they fly to the Geneva in Switzerland. Langdon it?s very surprise.

This are the first chapters. I?m strain what is coming in the next chapters. I will report.

Best regards
Katrin

[Lissy]

Hello

with refer to my last mail I want to get something straight:

Rocio is an usual spanish name f?r a Spanish woman and it means dewdrop (drop in dew) in Spanish and the old Candian-man translate the Spanish word in english.

David Becker called the escort service again and posed as a tourist, who had found the billfold form a german and he want to give him it back. The man from the escort feared, that Becker goes to the police-offices. So he tell him where the german business man is and that he dinnered with the escort Rocio. David Becker should go to the restaurant and the billfold hand over the waiter. David went to the restaurant, but the german and the escort are leaved it one hour ago. The waiter told david that he can leave a message. After David had written a notice he saw, that the waiter written the roomnumber of the cover. David searched the room and get entry. He speaks with Rocio and asked she at the ring. She told him that she has sold the ring a punk. David demanded more information and she told him, that the punk are english, but he had a shirt with a english-flag.

That was my report.

[Yankee]

Hi Vivien

You’ll find my suggestions for improvement after the quote. I agree with you. It would really be great if the news were good instead of so bad.

Amy

@_vivien_

Hello,

Today, CNN reportet about the conflict in Middle East, too. Amarican and european citizens go to Cyprus by ship. Cyprus is an island in the eastern mediterranean sea. There, they do not stay long. They go to theyr countries by plane. Other people from lebanon flee to Syria to escape from terror.

I?m very sorry for the families and children. Many of them suffer the terror they didn?t want to be involved.

I?m looking for better news tomorrow.

Vivien

Today, CNN reported about the conflict in Middle East, too. American and European citizens are going to Cyprus by ship. Cyprus is an island in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The evacuated people will not be staying there long. They will be flown back to their own countries. Other people are fleeing from Lebanon to Syria to escape the terror.

I feel very sorry for the families and children. Many of them are suffering the terror although they didn’t want to be involved.