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:

[Yankee]

[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
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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]

[Cristina]

[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?

[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: