Good morning everyone!
Today you are going to let us know your thoughts about this news. Read through it and do not worry if you don’t understad everything. It’s ok if you just get the general idea.
Remember! you are to show your best English and never, ever try to speak your Spanish thoughts into English words. It doesn’t work! Inspire us with your thinking!
VAL ENGLISH SIXTH COURSE 
I think that the notice is true. Because we are destroying the animals enviroment and polluting then, and the animals don´t have more options than go to our enviroment or swim across the canal like it said in this notice, and because if your house burns (for example) you will have to change to another house.
That is why I think this notice is real.
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Hi Noa!
Thank you for sharing your opinion 🙂 So i think that maybe there is a little confusion and maybe I can help. More or less the article stated that the information about the animals appearing in this city during the corona virus was false. I think with this understanding you can write write a little more or stretch your thoughts a little more. Think about: Why did so many people like the photos? Why did this make people happy?
Also, consider these corrections:
Spelling:
“then” –> them
Grammar:
“the animals don´t have more options than go to our enviroment” –> the animals don’t have any other options than to BE in our environment
Keep at it 🙂
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If I don’t read that this is a fake news I could believe that it is true. We all know that the human presence makes animals dissapear. So it wouldn’t surprise me to see dolphins, swans or other animals in Venice or wherever at this very moment. However, I don’t like to have fake news since they can be very confusing. Is not the truth supposed to be the main principle for a journalist? Then, this kind of news makes you think you can’t trust what you read on a newspaper or watch on TV.
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Hi David!
Thank you for sharing your thoughts 🙂 I like that you have used the conditional, connectors, and even provided a thought question of your own!
Grammar:
“If I don’t read that this is a fake news I could believe that it is true.” –> If I DIDN’T read that this WAS fake news I could (or WOULD) believe that it WAS true.
nicely done 🙂
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PRS 6A
In my opinion, fake news are so dangerous in this moment because some people can be afected. Instead of telling that the swans and dolphins are swimming in the Venecia Cannals, they might say that the pollution has been decreasing, also, in front of my house a family of ducks has been making a nest.
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Hi PRS!
I like your idea that you have here! I would like to see you stretch your sentences a little more here. For example, Why do you think the photo went viral? In what ways can people be affected? How do the duck in front of your house relate? These questions can help you add more information 🙂
Grammar:
“fake news are so dangerous” –> fake news is so dangerous
Good effort, keep at it 🙂
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I think that do fake news, fotoshop and oter similar things are bad because another people can catch you like in this case the National Geographic that takes the deceiver, remember don’t do bad things for money or likes.
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Hi David!
Thank you for sharing your opinion and I can see that you gave a good effort! I would like to see you stretch your thoughts just a little more. Why do you think the photo was so popular? If the article had been true how would that make you feel? Do you see a lot of things that are “fake news”? What do you mean about the case of National Geographic? Thinking about these types of questions can help you stretch your thoughts 🙂
Spelling:
“another people” –> other people
Keep at it 🙂
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From my point of view, I think that having a job that you like it is better than earning a lot of money; because if you have a job that you like, you are capable to improve and the time will pass faster than in other job that you don’t enjoy. In the same way if you enjoy your job you will do it better, so you have the possibility to get promoted and earn more money.
However, in a job that you earn more money you can buy things that you need even, they are expensive; also, having holidays in expensive places or just having a good life. But the decision is of the person that is choosing the job.
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Hi Darío!
Ooops looks like you posted for the wrong task here…
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I believe Nature is taking back it’s rights, not just in Venice but also in many places in the world.Air quality is improving in countries under Covid-19 quarantine,It will be nice to think that keeping at home during the next weeks will help to reduce human impact on the environment. May be its too early to know how this situation will affect ecosystems but I’m sure that It will help to improve them.
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Hi JLO!
Wow I really like your thinking here! I like that you have offered a different perspective to the situation that is occurring right now! It’s true that this may have a significant affect on different ecosystems and only time will tell this affect 🙂 You have expressed yourself very well here! Remember we would say “STAYING at home” instead of “keeping in home”
Keep at it 🙂
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In my oppinion we are polluting so much and I think that now the ecosystems are more clean than before because now we stay in home.
Now,like we are in home we can’t pollute the enviroment.
In conclusion staying in home is too bored because when we all finish the homework ther is nothing to do so we pick up the mobile phones, tablets etc…
But I think that when thise virus end we can go outside without polluting the forests and marine ecosystems.
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Hi Emily!
Interesting! I like that you have offered different opinions from the perspective of staying at home! Think about these questions: Do you think that this news article encouraged people, even though it was fake. Why? Why do you think this news article went viral? Also take note of the following corrections:
Grammar:
“we are polluting so much” –> you can say: “we are doing a lot of polluting” or just “there is a lot of pollution”
“too bored” 😬–> is boring
“thise virus end” –> THIS virus endS
Spelling:
“thise” –> this
Keep at it 🙂
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I think this notice is true, because the oceans, rivers… have a lot of pollution like plastics that they are killing marine life and the animals in this case dolphings have taken advantage the quarentine caused by COVID-19 to live in clean water.
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Hello!
I like you way of thinking here 🙂 Your ideas are good and I would like to see you stretch your sentences a little more, i know you can do it!!! Remember we don’t want to use (…) especially here because we want you to STRETCH your thoughts 🙂 Think about this questions: Why do you think that the article was so popular? Do you think that this article, even though it was fake, encouraged people. Why?
Spelling:
“dolphings” –> dolphins
Grammar:
“taken advantage the” –> taken advantage OF the
Keep at it 🙂
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It is true that the waters are cleaner as a result of fewer people, especially tourists, strolling through the city of canals. It is true, but equally false, that swans are strolling through its waters now. Swans have always been. Just like little minnows swimming. Those can be appreciated now better than before, because it’s true
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Hi Diego!
Your ideas are very developed. To stretch your thoughts even more, think about this questions: Why do you think that the article went viral? Do you think that even though the article was fake, it encouraged people. why? Have you seen many articles that appear true but are actually false? which ones?
Keep at it 🙂
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MSM 6ºA
This is an incredible notice for all the aquatic animals that lives near Venice canals because the video shows a nice and clean water on it, swiming there will be an amazing experience for the dolphins, swans,etc…
This situation shows us the important of keeping the oceans clean. We might do some voluntary actions to increase reclycling activities, cleaning all the garbage that we have alredy left and heeding the reclycling campains to keep the enviroment clean.
I am going to invite my colleages to the park and pick all the litter from it. This will be my grain on the desert action. Step by step we can do it.
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Hi Manuel,
I really like that you have described different aspects of the photo and talked about why it is significant to the current situation. I like that you have developed your thoughts here and have even offered a suggestion to a potential problem! Take not of some minor corrections:
Grammar:
” animals that lives” —> animals that livE ( animals is third person so they Live, he/she/it – liveS)
“shows us the important” –> show us the importANCE
Keep at it 🙂
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A.C. 6ºB
I think this new has a true part and a false one, because on the one hand, dolphins live in deep oceans, not in the coast, so I don’t believe that they swim by the canals now. On the other hand, I think that pollution has been reduced and the water is cleaner., so maybe swans are swimming in the canals of Venice.
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Hi A.C.!
You have made some interesting points here! I like that you have provided support to why you believe there is some truth and some falseness to this article. I do think that you can stretch your sentences a little bit more, here are some questions that can help: Why do you think that this article went viral? Do you think that this article, even though it was fake, encouraged people. why? Have you encountered other articles that you thought were real but were actually fake. which ones?
Grammar:
“false one” –> false PART
“I don’t believe that they swim by the canals now.” —> I don’t believe that they ARE SWIMMING by the canals now.
Spelling:
“new” –> newS
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Keep at it 🙂
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Berta SG
I think the notice is very important because the humans dont litter to the canal. The notice is important because the emviroment coming. I think the humans must lern stay on the street and live togueder whit the emviroment . It’s a pity that the humans must be at home for nature to resurface.
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Hi Berta!
I really like that you are giving your personal opinion about different aspects of this article! I do think that you can stretch your sentences a little more here. Thinking about these questions can help: Why do you think that this article went viral? Do you think that this article, even though it was fake, encouraged people. why? Have you encountered other articles that you thought were real but were actually fake. which ones?
Grammar:
“the humans dont litter to the canal.” —> People don’t litter IN the canal (OR) PEOPLE SHOULDN’T litter IN the canal
“the emviroment coming” –> what do you mean by this statement, maybe that global warming is coming?
Spelling:
“emviroment” –> environment
“lern” –> learn
“togueder” –> together
“whit” –> with
Keep at it 🙂
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I don ‘ t know why they are there, but I have been studing animales since I was four, and I know that swans and dolphins are from diferentes bioms, however in the Amazonas … That ‘ s not the case.
In my opinion, fish, even swans, but dolphins, there ‘ s a bad reason.
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It’s great that you have an interest in animals because they are fascinating, but there are a few problems here with both sentence structure and spelling that we need to talk about. ‘I don ‘ t know why they are there, but I have been studing animales since I was four, and I know that swans and dolphins are from diferentes bioms, however in the Amazonas … That ‘ s not the case.’ THIS is one very long run-on sentence. You need to break it apart into smaller pieces. Also, in that one sentence alone there are five spelling errors. Ex: studing, diferentes(Spanish?), bioms, Amazonas (Spanish again), and animales (even more Spanish). Your last sentence, ‘In my opinion, fish, even swans, but dolphins, there ‘ s a bad reason.’ makes little sense to me. Take your time and write more clearly, and proofread everything you do when you’re finished.
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I think that the animals (in this case the dolphins and other type of fish) are in the canals, because are worried about why isn’t nobody in the streets, or in beaches walking…
I can’t stay more at home, I need to go outside, to the streets, if I put a mask and two gloves, I will be able to go outside (to my garden).
And also for example Madrid is changing, I mean that Madrid has lees pollution, because we are at home, and at home we can’t trough trash, that’s why the planet is better.
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Hi Carla! Wow I am truly very impressed by your English. I love the way you think of fish and dolphins (being mammas you have made a point there not including dolphins as fish) So, you think that fish and mammals are back in the canals because they are wondering where humans are and worrying about us?
Wow…Can you imagine fish being more empathetic and kind than humans? I absolutely love your look on this.. even though I am afraid it is not very realistic. Fish are back in the canals in Venice because without the usual traffic they are cleaner and safer than they used to be..:).. by the way.. you might not want to hear this.. but you are very lucky to have a garden to go out to… 🙂 I am starting to miss you all guys…. a lot! Keep up the good job!
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DT 6B
In my opinion people pollute so much, but we are not able to notice untill we see this kind of news. It is incredible that dolphins, fishes and swans, just in a month, have reclaimed the spaces of Venice, only because the descend of pollution. In this way, we have to do something to stop pollution after the lockdown and learn a good lesson.
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HI there! wonderful job! remember fish is an irregular plural. One fish , two fish (as it happens with sheep) Your thoughts and Engish are wonderful. Keep up the good work!
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I think that this new is interesting because it tells as that the polluction of the canals of Italy has impoved becouse people is in her houses , so they don´t pollute rivers ans sees, tat´s why animals can live well in rivers and be relax.
If I were a animal, I would swimn in that rivers and enjoy the clean water, hawever when the covid-19 finishes people will pollute again the country.
I will be able to go to Italy so I want it clean because is a very beatiful country.
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Good morning Alejandro, I can tell you have tried really harder this time. Hardly any typing mistakes or spelling ones. Congratulations !!! Wonderful use of the second conditional !!! well done!
Just a couple of improvements.. remember connectors such as because, and etc… start a new sentence and this means you NEED to write a subject… so in your last sentence you should have written… I want it clean because It is a very.. beautiful (careful spelling) county.
Also the pollution hasn’t improved… If you want to choose pollution as a subject the verb needs to be… diminished, vanished, disappeared… because what has improved is the quality of the water….
I am very impressed on how you have improved so far.. keep up the good work!
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That news saw me that we aren t the only species that inhabits this planet and we are shattering the enviroment and we need all to stop because ourselves we are shattering
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Good morning ARB.. I think you could write a little longer. Remember the more you practice the better you get!!! I don’t think you mean those news saw me…. because new don’t see people…. Maybe you meant something like: This news make me think, or show me … that …You need to work on your connectors as well. Try not to write a shopping list using and.. too much… ok? come on! YOu can do so much better! just give it five more minutes next time!
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I’m really impressed with this notice. This happend because in seas that dolphins lives are very polluted with many plastics and they go trought this canal to live better. Today people forget many plastics in the beaches. This produce the pollution in the seas. In my opinion people would have to be like 20 years ago.
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Good morning DC! Notice in English is a verb.. be careful You are impressed with this news… NO WONDER! it is amazing news, ..
Careful with spelling happened (sure you don’t pronounce the ed, but we MUST write it, ok?) ..dolphins live (if you choose plural you don’t need s.. a dolphin lives, dolphins live… ) and remember a place where… Seas where dolphins live… people who, things that and places where…
I don’t really understand you last sentence…
DC I think you need to reread you text before sending it to make sure you are writing what you mean… and also remember you are to use your BEST ENGLISH and you can do so much better than this… remember to use variety of connectors and verb tenses… Keep working and imporving!!
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Hi,
In my opinion I am not very sure about what the new means. I am meaning that I don’t know why the person who wrote this notice what he or she was thinking about to publish this notice. Yes, obviously, is important, because is a little bit weird that dolphins and swans apper in Venecia with the coronavirus, but in the video said that the river is
clean a full of fish, but there aren’t dolphins and swans, so Why the new is referring to the dolphins and swans. Who can I know that this new is true?
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Hi Yuliana, let’s focus on your English first and then I might be able to share some light on the meaning of the news. First and important remember after a preposition always comes a gerund.. Thinking about publishing…. this news (notice is a verb..and means darse cuenta- false friend here-). It is important.. make sure you don’t forget subjects…
Ok I think you have missed one of the videos attached to the news where you could actually see a dolphin. The idea behind this news is that since Venice has been lockdown it doesn’t receive cruises and tourists as it used to… waters are calm and clean so animals feel safe to be in the canals again… In a way this is some of our ecological footprint.. our daily human activities are sending other creatures away from their original habitat.
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I think that before the Covid-19 there were a lot of boats and people walking in the Street.
But now that there is no people in the Street or in the sea they come to swim there because there is not anyone in the wate
Probably before the coronavirus the boat make a lot of noise and the people in the water too.
But now dolphins can swin, however , Cand dolphins have Coronavirus?
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I don’t think dolphins can get the virus. At least I hope not. You seem to have a few mistakes here that could easily be caught in proofreading. Street only needs to be capitalized at the beginning of a sentence, or when used as part of a proper noun, but here, you capitalized it twice. Also, ‘is no people’ should be ‘are no people’, and ‘anyone in the wate’ should be “anyone in the wate(r.)’. You forgot the ‘r’ at the end of ‘water’ and forgot to place a full stop at the end of the sentence. ‘before the coronavirus the boat make’ – Before indicates a past action, so it would be the ‘boat(s) made’ noise. Proofreading will solve these types of problems, so look over your work closely when you’re finished.
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NSD 6ºB I haven’t really understand it but I imagine that the people that lives in Venice have never seen the water such as clean as it is now and they are really happy of the decison they have made carrying dolphins to their canals. Personally, I am happy because if the water is clean, the environment also. However, I am not really sure of this idea because probably dolphins can’t jump as they did in the sea. Probably, the people in Venice, don’t even give them food, well, in this case fish.If I were the people in Venice, I would tell some people from the government to clean daily the public transports and the public places also. This is a serious situation and they shouldn’t be thinking of how to see their environment clean, they should be thinking of how to stop this situation and not going to have a walk with the family. Sincerely, I don’t like to use animals as a protection, we have caused this, and we have to get out of this alone without using other’s help.
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You’re right. This is a serious situation, and I appreciate your thoughts. You have a few problems here with the writing, so lets have a look. ‘I haven’t really understand’ should be ‘I don’t really understand’, and ‘people that lives in Venice’ should be ‘live’, without the ‘s’. In ‘water such as clean’, such should be removed. It should read ‘water as clean as’. Read your sentences aloud after you’ve finished writing. It will help you find the mistakes that you don’t see when you write. When you speak, you’ll hear mistakes that your eyes don’t see.
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This news shows how we, living in a city, affect on the enviroment without even realising it. Now, while we are locked in our houses, animals can enter and live in the city, which in a past may have been their home.
Also, because of us not leaving our houses the air is less polluted and all type of bodies of water are less contaminated. However, we shouldn’t have had to reach the point where we were destroying other animals lifes without the right of doing so. Because, although it is true that we are the only known species that has discovered technology, that doesn’t mean that we have to be the only specie on the planet.
On the contrary, I think it should mean that we have to look after other species,
without annoying them or altering their lifestyles of course, but absolutely not destroy them.
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Wow, this is really good. Nice use of connectors and some complex sentences. I see a few improvements we can make, though. ‘(The) news shows how living in a city, (can have an) affect on the enviroment without even realising it.’ Don’t forget to check your spelling as well, because there are a few issues here. Ex: enviro(n)ment and specie(s). ‘On the contrary, I think it should mean that we have to look after other species’ – this sentence is really nice work. : ) Keep it up!
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This new is very interesting, the animals realised that they had their space and enjoy this time because they know we will start to pollute the planet again. We are all in our houses because of the covid-19, and now there is less pollution.
I think it is really important to realize that we are not alone in this planet. There are animals and plants which need their space, they need freedom. But we are in twenty first century, we only think about us. We need to change our habits and think that we are not alone, we share the earth.
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I like your sentiment about sharing the Earth. It’s true! Your writing is really good, but let’s look at a couple of things. Be careful with ‘new’ and ‘news’ The ‘s’ at the end changes the meaning completely. You watch the ‘news’ to learn ‘new’ things. Also, ‘we are not alone in this planet’ should be ‘on this planet’, but that is an easy mistake to make. Otherwise, that is a really good sentence. Keep up the good work.
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I think this are good new for Venecia, a city that the covid-19 is destroying.This news is good for italian people but i don t think this news good for animals may be in one month the half of the animals will die because that fish would be captured to eat them and dolphins wouldn t have food.
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The waters in Venice are really clean now, which brings me to my first point – it’s Venice, not Venecia. Be careful that you don’t mix Spanish in with your English. Also, ‘I think this are good new for Venecia’ should be ‘I think this IS good newS for Venice.’ Italian should be capitalized, as should ‘I’ when used as a pronoun. The last sentence is a confusing use of the future conditional, but I believe you’re trying to say, ‘because the fish will all be captured (caught) and the dolphins won’t have any food’? Keep practicing.
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I think that this new talks about a very important topic, which is all the time in the news. From my point of view, that is because it’s a topic that people are worried about; it is covid-19. However, nobody talks about the pollution decrease occurred thanks to the people that stay at home, only go to work or buy to the supermarket; or just take the dog out. So, this is the only new I have read about this topic yet.
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Nice use of commas and connectors. Let’s see how we can make it even better! Take a look at these corrections: ‘However, nobody talks about the pollution decrease (that has) occurred thanks to the people that stay at home,’. Also, ‘buy to the supermarket’ should be ‘buy things at the supermarket’. Lastly, I would say watch the difference between ‘new’ and ‘news’, that ‘s’ at the end changes the meaning completely. It’s obvious that you know the difference between the two, so just be careful when you use them.
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I think this isn’t good because that mean that the animals aren’t living in good waters, so they go to the best water they see. In general the canals aren’t clean so that mean that the animals live in a very very polluted water.
I think we have to change this but it could be very hard to do, so I think the government has to do something like impose fines. This isn’t good for us because if we don’t have seas probably we are gonna die.
That was my point of view.
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I think you’re right about protecting the environment, and fines are a good way to do it. Remember, when you use ‘mean’ to talk about an effect, you have to put an ‘s’ on the end. This mean(s)…. That mean(s)… Try not to use ‘very’ twice in a row, either – one ‘very’ is plenty. Keep up the good work!
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HR 6ºA
I think that the notice is true.
But I don’t understant the notice very well.
I continue in my hause.I fought with my brother to go to throw the trash.
The Covid-19 in Itali is very dangerou is the place in europe with more affected and I think that we are going to stay more days at ours homes.
But I don’t now why are dolphins and swans there.
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Hi there Hector! maybe you could try to find this news (notice is a word you have invented..) in spanish and then come back and leave another comment. I am really interested in your thoughts about what is happening. Please Hector remember the capital letters! Italy, Europe… and try not to fight with your little brother… it won’t help …why don’t you try to establish a calendar for the trash? 🙂
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As there used to be lots of ships and boats in Venice Canals, it wasn’t very comfortable and healthy for the animals to swim in them.
But now, that all human beings are at home, they are not polluting the environment, so the animals feel free to enjoy nature as they sholuld have been doing before.
All of us should think about this: we are not the planet’s owners and we should always respect other living beings. It is posible to live all together and this situation is showing us we can do it in a better way.
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I am truly impressed by your writings… not only they are deep in thoughts (as it is to be expected from you of course) but your grammar and choice of words. I wished you liked to hold a pen as much as a keyboard…. after all .. it would be really ironic that you could end up writing stories, become a journalist since there is a lot of potential in your thinking… keep the good job on both keyboards (piano and computer)
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I think there were no animals because we were invading its natural environment, and now we are at home because of COVID-19.
Now animals return,taking advantage of we are not in the streets. The water is transparent and the nature come back their origins
LGR 6A
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I think there were no animals because we were invading its natural environment, and now we are at home because of COVID-19.
Now animals return,taking advantage of we are not in the streets. The water is transparent and the nature come back their origins
LGR 6A
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I think there were no animals because we were invading its natural environment, and now we are at home because of COVID-19.
Now animals return,taking advantage of we are not in the streets. The water is transparent and the nature come back their origins
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I think you’re right about this, and I love the vocabulary you’ve used here. Ex: natural environment and transparent. There are a few things to think about, though. Look at the corrections I’ve made in this sentence. ‘Now (the) animals (are) return(ing), taking advantage of (the fact that) we are not in the streets.’ Also, you only say nature in this context, not ‘the’ nature. Lastly, don’t forget your full stop at the end of sentences. Nice work!
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EM 6ºB
I thing that is true.
We are changing the earth, polluting…
I thing that when we stay in house because the coronavirus., animals can relax with nature.
If we continioun in house, in 1 week there won`t much trash on the floor as 2 week before.
Today the oceans are clear, with less plastic.
4 weeks ago there weren`t, oceans where with plastic.
We have to stop polluting, we change the earth and the way of living of animals.
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The Earth is healing itself while we all stay inside, so that’s a good thing that’s happened because of this. Try to be more careful with your word choices when you write. You are using ‘thing’ when you mean ‘think’. They sound very similar, so I understand the confusion, but the meanings are quite different. Another instance I saw was confusing ‘where’ with ‘were’. These words are also similar, but once again have different meanings. ‘continioun’ isn’t a word at all – I think you meant to say ‘continue on’? Regardless, spend more time proofreading before you submit your work.
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i think that when something happens to the world ( like this virus ) it also affects at the animals and they become crazy and do things like swim arcoss the canal. If i were they i would also become crazy because there is no one in the streets and i wouldnt know what is happening . But in there is the posibility because the climate change is also worrying, and dangerous to the animals.
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I think this virus is definitely affecting everyone and everything on the planet, animals too. Remember that when you write ‘i’ as a pronoun it is always, ALWAYS capitalized, especially when used at the beginning of a sentence like: ‘i think that when’. Here you have two rules telling you to capitalize it! Also, ‘If i were they’ should be ‘If I were them’. Keep these corrections in mind, and don’t worry, things always get better. : )
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