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| Here is a letter that I received. What needs to be changed to make it standard English? :-) -----Original Message----- From: valerie otero [mailto:vache82@yahoo.com] Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2001 2:38 PM To: JK and Stephan McCrea Subject: RE: little question hello steve how are you ? well i'm answering now because i've been verry busy i have tons of work . well i wnted to tell you that i passed the exams so no more english (i mean at school) an dthat is a relive , i thank you again for everything, i promess i 'll keep practicing see you val ================================= CORRECTIONS Well, I'm answering now because I've been very busy. I have tons of work. Well, I wanted to tell you that I passed the exams to no more English (I mean at school) and that is a relief. I thank you again for everything. I promise I'll keep practicing. See you, Val |
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Steve McCrea Number 1 From: Tim Dubuque [tnsc@oms.net] Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 10:48 PM To: tnsc@oms.net Subject: "The Negotiation Skills Company" Quote Update "The Negotiation Skills Company" Quote Update "Goals are dreams with deadlines." -- Diana Scharf Hunt ------------------------------------------------------------ Can A Woman Buy A Car? http://www.negotiationskills.com/qabiz11.html They Want More Than They Paid For http://www.negotiationskills.com/qadiff5.html ------------------------------------------------------------********************************** The Negotiation Skills Company, Inc. http://www.negotiationskills.com/ E-mail: TNSC@negotiationskills.com Number 2 From: Teacher Newsletter [Teacher_Newsletter@lists.englishtown.com] Sent: Tuesday, August 29, 2000 9:45 AM Welcome to our Englishtown newsletter for teachers. Thank you for your great comments about our new site! ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Weekly lessons ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Bigfoot is a real life mystery that has been puzzling people for years. Read more about it in this week’s lesson at elementary level. Lessons for all 3 levels can be found here: http://www.englishtown.com/lessonservice (If you can't click on the link, just copy it, start your browser and paste the link in the browser address field.) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Send an ecard ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Let your students practice real life English by sending an ecard through Englishtown. Choose from 9 different designs and write your own message in English. http://www.englishtown.com/ master/community/postoffice/ecards/ Please send your comments and suggestions about the teachers newsletter to Ingrid.Wisniewska@englishtown.com http://www.englishtown.com Number 3 From: Travelocity.com [memberservices@travelocity.m0.net] Dear Steve, Spring may seem like it's months away where you live, but it's right around the corner. Which means it's time to plan your spring and even summer travel! Travelocity.com can help you save on air travel, rental cars, hotel rooms, cruises, and even vacation packages. FEATURED THIS WEEK -------------------------------------------------------------- ATA Anounces 2001 Sale! Get great savings for 2001 travel on ATA! Book your flight by February 4, 2001 to take advantage of fantastic reduced fares. This exclusive offer features coast-to-coast travel for as low as $129* each way! Fly between Chicago-Midway and popular U.S. cities from $79* each way! 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Give the gift of English! a.. Try our new pre-beginner courses b.. Take our improved business courses c.. Check out our new magazine design d.. Learning tip of the month e.. Englishtown talking f.. Take a chance See you in town! www.englishtown.com Learning tip of the month Why do we get 'on' a bus, but get 'in' a car? Epple Hung from Hong Kong gives us some advice! "'On' is used for vehicles like a bus or a train where you can walk upright onto them. 'In' is used for vehicles like a taxi or a car where you must bend down to get into them. I believe that's the trick!" g.. Writing contest: Write a love poem for Valentine's Day! h.. Word challenge: Make new words with the letters in 'VALENTINE'! i.. Weekly Quiz: Test yourself every week with our online quiz! Please tell us what you think of Englishtown: comments@englishtown.com Number 5 From: Webmaster@LaughShop.com Happy Monday all! I'm sending this out a little later than usual, so I hope you don't mind. We have a foriegn exchange student from Germany who just arrived this evening, (we picked him up at the airport tonight, so he didn't just show up at our door step...) and we've been getting to know him. Nice kid, going to high school, kind of quiet. They have all kinds of activities planned for the next two weeks, and I'm sure he'll have fun... If any of you'd like to send him a welcome letter, just address it to Iboinla@aol.com. (His name is Ibo. 'Nuff for now, on with the show! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- LaughShop.com G Jokes! <a href="http://www.laughshop.com">LaughShop.com Home</a> <a href="http://www.laughshop.com/signup.html">Subscribe for FREE! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Issue #638 THE LINEUP A young man excitedly tells his mother he's fallen in love and going to get married. He says, "Just for fun, Ma, I'm going to bring over 3 women and you try and guess which one I'm going to marry." The mother agrees. The next day, he brings three beautiful women into the house and sits them down on the couch and they chat for a while. He then says, "Okay, Ma, guess which one I'm going to marry." She immediately replies, "The one in the middle." "That's amazing, Ma. You're right. How did you know?" "I don't like her." ~~~~~~ Blonde on Horseback A blonde girl gets on a horse with no experience what-so-ever and begins to ride. She starts out riding at smooth steady galloping pace, then the horse begins to go faster, and the blonde starts to lean closer and closer to the horse. And then the horse starts to run faster and faster and the blonde starts to slip to the side of the horse, her head inches from the ground! She grabs hold of the horse's mane! Then, just when the blonde thought there was no hope....The manager of Walmart comes out and shuts off the machine... ~~~~~~ 637's question was: You're going to make a pound of butter. How much whole milk are you going to need? a) 1.12 quarts b) 2.66 quarts c) 1.41 gallons d) 2.46 gallons The answer was: d) 2.46 gallons, or 9.86 quarts! Today's question: He wrote "Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Who? a) Kipling b) Poe c) Shakespeare d) Thoreau To submit a joke, or just say hi, write to: Jokes@Laughshop.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: G-Jokes-unsubscribe@egroups.com Number 6 From: Wordsmith [wsmith@wordsmith.org] pariah (puh-RI-uh) noun An outcast. [From Tamil paraiyar, plural of paraiyan, drummer, people considered lower in rank in the former caste-system of India.] WordPix: http://wordsmith.org/words/pariah.gif "Sending spam or unsolicited email is the fastest way to become a pariah on the Internet." This week's theme: WordPix, words drawn so that they explain themselves. ............................................................................ Charity sees the need not the cause. -German proverb Q: Can I make a link from my Web site to the AWAD site? A: Certainly. You may use this HTML: <a href="http://wordsmith.org/awad/"> <img src="http://wordsmith.org/awad/images/awad-icon.gif" border=0 width=154 height=32 alt="A.Word.A.Day"></a> Number 7 About English as 2nd LanguageFrom: esl.guide@about.com - About Guide to English as 2nd Language [esl.guide@about.com] About English as 2nd Language >From esl.guide@about.com, your Guide to English as 2nd Language http://esl.about.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INDIRECT SPEECH, INFORMAL LETTERS Direct Speech Usage Learn how to use direct speech. This grammar section provides a chart with all the principal transformations, as well as how to report questions. For example: "I will go to Paris" becomes "He said he would go to Paris". http://esl.about.com/library/grammar/blreported.htm Indirect Speech Quiz - 1 Check your understanding of the use of indirect speech with this (difficult) quiz asking for transformations from direct to indirect speech. http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_reported1.htm Direct Speech Quiz - 2 Check your understanding of the use of indirect speech with this (difficult) quiz asking for transformations from direct to indirect speech. http://esl.about.com/library/quiz/blgrquiz_reported2.htm Writing Informal Letters Getting students to understand the differences between formal and informal letters is an important step towards helping them master differences in register required for writing in English. These exercises focus on helping them improve their understanding of the type of language that is used in an informal letter. http://esl.about.com/library/lessons/blwrite_informalletter.htm A Great Idea for Practice Rob offers, "I'm a native English speaker just learning Spanish. I was wondering if a native Spanish speaker would like to practice English with me. I figure if I write to you in Spanish, and you respond in English, then we're both learning at the same time." Does anyone else have some language trading they would like to do? http://forums.about.com/ab-esl/messages?msg=518.1 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ELSEWHERE ON ABOUT Modern British History Timeline A great resource brought to you by About's Guide to British History. This timeline offers you many resources to look into the country that has given you the language that causes so much frustration! ;-) http://britishhistory.about.com/aboutuk/britishhistory/bltimeline.htm American History Outline This outline gives a selected list of the finest links in the most important categories for studying the history of the country that has done its best to make sure that English remains frustrating! ;-) http://americanhistory.about.com/homework/americanhistory/library/weekly/blotline.htm -------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBSCRIPTIONS To sign up for newsletters like this one, go here: http://home.about.com/newsletters1.htm If you have any questions or comments, please don't hesitate to email me. Visit the following page for contact information: http://esl.about.com/mpremail.htm esl.guide@about.com For Past issues of the newsletter visit The Newsletter Archive About 1440 Broadway 19th Floor NY, NY 10018 The Human Internet http://About.com Number 8 From: Glen Barry [gbarry@forests.org] *********************************************** FOREST CONSERVATION NEWS TODAY Managing Brazil's Rainforests *********************************************** Forest Networking a Project of Forests.org, Inc. http://forests.org/ -- Forest Conservation Portal http://forests.org/links/ -- Forest Conservation Links 05/10/01 OVERVIEW & COMMENTARY by Forests.org No less than the standard bearer of World capitalism, the Economist magazine, is making the case for certified forest management in Brazil's rainforests. There is no excuse for tolerating continued predatory and often illegal over-exploitation of the World's rainforests. The World's citizenry, governments and other institutions must bring to bear all available resources to end indiscriminate rainforest loss and diminishment. Reasonable environmentally based management of rainforests, independently certified as meeting or exceeding current Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) standards, would maintain many biodiversity and ecosystem values found in the World's rainforests. Placing certified sustainable rainforest management within the context of large and strictly protected areas may be the last best opportunity to achieve landscape, regional and global forest sustainability. A recent study found that just 10% of Brazil's rainforest, if managed in a certifiably sustainable manner, could meet all existing demand for tropical hardwood. Much of the rest might then be declared untouchable as strictly protected global ecological preserves. Advocating for Amazonian rainforest conservation and sustainable use is not about stopping economic advancement in Brazil. Properly managed forests can yield a good income forever. Given that most timber felled in Amazonia is used in Brazil - it is crucial that this point be made again and again. How quickly Brazilian consumers switch to demanding certified timber - and there are signs that this is starting to happen - may well determine the future of Amazonian rainforests, and ultimately the World's global ecosystem. It is time to do whatever is necessary to promote and achieve certified management of rainforests within large protected areas. Write letters, buy only FSC timber, lobby governments to stop illegal logging, protest and organize. The survival of Gaia and humankind is at stake. g.b. ******************************* RELAYED TEXT STARTS HERE: Title: Managing the rainforests Source: Copyright 2001 The Economist, Economist.com Date: May 10, 2001 "Sustainable management" could help to save the Amazonian rainforest without harming economic development EMPTY fields, as far as the eye can see, line the highway for most of the 300km (186 miles) from Belem, eastern Amazonia's main city, to the timber-cutting town of Paragominas. Once it was all forest, but since the 1970s most of the trees in a broad strip beside the road have been cut-not just to extract timber, but to clear pasture for cattle-raising, encouraged by subsidies and tax incentives. Now, though, most of the fields lie empty and are becoming overgrown with scrub. Cows are seen so infrequently that they might be imagined to be an endangered species. The deforestation, mostly in the past 30 years, of 14% of the Brazilian part of Amazonia (about a third of the Amazon rainforest, the world's biggest, is over the border in other countries) has been as much an economic as an environmental disaster. The usable timber would be ripped out of a stretch of forest and the rest would then be burned, because the land would often be worth more when cleared than it had been as untouched forest. This value, however, was due partly to excessive optimism over the region's agricultural potential, and partly to a set of economically perverse incentives provided by the government. When farming was actually tried, it was frequently found to be unprofitable. And many did not even bother to try. Some chopped down the trees, grabbed the grants and then abandoned the land. Others used the "farms" they carved out of the jungle to disguise (highly taxed) profits on other businesses as farming profits (which used to be tax-free). As a result, there are now about 165,000kmý of abandoned land in Brazilian Amazonia. In recent years, the handouts and tax breaks that promoted deforestation have been reduced. As a result, good-quality forested land can be worth as much as 40% more than cleared land. A law passed in 1998 introduced stiff penalties for cutting trees without permission from Ibama, Brazil's environmental-protection agency. Though deforestation seems to have slowed since the mid-1990s (see chart), new figures due shortly will show that last year's deforestation was little different from that in 1998 and 1999, and about 1/2% of the forest was chopped. For additional forest conservation news & information please see the Forest Conservation Portal at URL= http://forests.org/ Networked by Forests.org, Inc., gbarry@forests.org |
| Read and find the errors in the composition... Where is the limit? The theme is absolutely current and nearly each newspaper and economic-magazine are publishing stories about this subject. I talk about the excessive salaries, bonus and fees to the CEO‘s and - above all, to the members of the board. Let me tell you some examples of this incomprehensible development. Erich Honegger, the steped back chairman of the board of the SAir Group, will get a bonus of 5 million Swiss Francs, when he will left the company in a few weeks. Well-understood, we talk about the man, who worked for one and a half year by swissair and who‘s responsible for the today‘s disaster of our national airline. Another example is Daniel Affolter, chairman of the board of the swiss leading tour operator named KUONI. Daniel Affolter, a tough guy in fact, but without any succesful history, get a daily salary of 10‘000 Swiss Francs and a bonus of more than 5 millions Swiss Francs per year. That will resulting in a salary of approximately 25‘000 Swiss Francs per day. And last but not least, there is Mr. Martin Ebner, who makes the money by «buy and sell» of companies. He buys stocks of different enterprises and sell these soon as possible to the next. No matter, who the demander is, but each time with a excessive profit. A current example is the deal between Novartis and Roche. M. Ebner sold 20 % of his Roche share capital to the biggest rival, to Novartis. This deal brought Martin Ebner a profit of 4,9 million Swiss Francs, paid by hundreds of employees, who will lose their jobs, because this deal will ending in a merger. In other words, Martin Ebner ignores his social responsibility. And at the same time he makes more money per month than a «normal» employee during his whole ?life time?. Such and other cases are danger. In my opinion because of three different reasons: 1. The difference between the rich and poor society will grow up in an absolutely dangerous dimension. 2. For the «normal» employees ist this excessive development completely incomprehensible. In other words, the empolyees lose their ?healthy attitude? regarding work and salary 3. The employees lose their confidence in the leadership. In other words, the employees will miss the shining example. They will miss sombody, for whom it pays to fight. Let me just to sum up. I think, it‘s high time to break out of this absolutely destructive system, for a new rules in the ?social and economic scene? and for a go back to the real values. Real values, wich guarantee the most important capital we need. I talk about the social freedom, which so necessary and important for a succesful managing of our future. By Ruedi Huber |
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