Here’s an email from a German colleague Markus. As you can see, his English is pretty good, but he still made 11 (small) (grammar/spelling/vocabulary) mistakes. Could you spot them with your ‘beady eyes’?
Hi Dave
Greetings from Scotland. We’re travelling through Scotland. It’s very funny. Today we’re spending the day in Inverness and making a sightseeing tour. It’s quite heavy to be in a town after these days in the Cairngorms. We’ve been to Edinburgh. Awesome city. We went up to the castle – from the castle are the views tremendous.
We are standing in a B&B tonight. I love B&Bs because of the personally touches and the owners are so friendly. The Pearl View Guest House (www.pearlview.co.uk) in Edinburgh was the best so far. Lorraine Wilson is great & gave us lots of informations about Edinburgh. And her full scottish breakfast with bacon, sausage, fried egg, haggis & potato pancakes – simply the best!!
Tomorrow we will check out Loch Ness – I hope I’ll spot Nessy with my ‘beady eyes’.
C u in a week.
Take care.
Markus.
beady eyes (wachsamen Augen)
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Hi Dave
Greetings from Scotland. We’re travelling through Scotland. It’s very funny. Today we’re spending the day in Inverness and making a sightseeing tour. It’s quite heavy to be in a town after these days in Cairngorms.
We’ve been to Edinburgh. Awesome city. We went up to the castle – from the castle are the views tremendous.
We are standing in a B&B tonight. I love B&Bs because of the personally touches and the owners are so friendly. The Pearl View Guest House (www.pearlview.co.uk) in Edinburgh was the best so far. Lorraine Wilson is great & gave us lots of informations about Edinburgh. And her full scottish breakfast with bacon, sausage, fried egg, haggis & potato pancakes – simply the best!!
Tomorrow we will check out Loch Ness – I hope I’ll spot Nessy with my ‘beady eyes’ – thanks to www.dict.cc.
C u in a week.
Take care.
Markus
Corrections
1. around
2. I guess he really means “It’s (great) fun” = ‘Es macht (viel) spaß’
3. doing
4. difficult / hard / or other words like strange / weird (kömisch)
5. Think ‘this’ & ‘these’ are close in time and space whereas ‘that’ & ‘those’ expresses distance. E.G. ‘These days’ = now compared with ‘Those days’ = in the past!
6. Word order is quite strict in English. Always think SVOPT = Subject Verb Object Place Time ! So ‘the views from the castle are …. ’
7. staying
8. personal (need the adjective not the adverb)
9. information
10. Scottish (capital ‘S’)
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