group "english practice"

[orion144]

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[sandy038]

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[orion144]

Here is my contribution for this text:

The text studied was written for the Waco Tribune-Herald on october 2005. The purpose of this text is teaching the value of money. Indeed, the author explains that parents want to teach to their children, honesty, kindness and respect but they often forget teaching the value of money. This skill is very important because children could learn that it is impossible to spend more than they have and they will be aware of the pitfalls of credit cars. For this teaching, parents can give allowance whose amount is based on age and ability. With a good teaching, if financial setbacks occur, children, became adults, could solve the problem.

About my opinion : I quite agree with this article, I think effectively that children can have allowance since the early age. This text doesn't talk about the start hage to have money but to my mind, the good age is when children know how to count. Indeed, before learning the value and respect of money, having allowance teach to count and to use coins. For young children it can be an approach of decimal number, in mathematics. Later, as the text explains, children will learn that they can't spend more than they have though it is always possible to have a loan. Because a loan could be usefull for something more important than their personnal convenience, such as a house or a car.

Vocabulary : a loan = un prêt

[julie22]

It is my contribution

It is a newspaper article, extracted form the waco tribune herald. It was written by Hap le Crone. It was published in friday october 07, 2005.

This texte is about the children and their financial responsability. From the headline, we may assume that it is going ti report on children and money.

I presume the scenes take place in United States. The journalist explain that parents give to children the values of respect, honesty, money, and fiscal responsability, but the young people don't respect this values. They spend too much, and they don't respect their budget.

In fact, parents use allowance system and children spend for pleasure. The journalist want to convey the idea that parents don't arrive to give to their children the good values for money.

I think this texte is interresting because it shows the difficulties of parents to eduque children. I think parents give too much money to their chidren. They don't understand the sens of this values. For them, it is easy to have money, and they want to buy lot of things, whereas they don't need of all theses things.

To my mind, parents should give money to children. If they have goodmarks at school, or they realise little works at home. In this way, they understand they must work hardly to earn money. And they will respect their budget.

In conclusion, parents must revise the children education, for the money values.

[Lafouyne]

I am surprised that none of you has criticised or agued against the article...

[Lafouyne]

Hello!

I would like to help you.

Just tell me whether I should only correct expression or content too.

[orion144]

Hello!

I would like to help you.

Just tell me whether I should only correct expression or content too.

what do you mean by content ? Is it to correct some expressions which sound too french ?

Otherwise, you can correct whatever you want, it's OK for me

[Lafouyne]

Hello!

I would like to help you.

Just tell me whether I should only correct expression or content too.

what do you mean by content ? Is it to correct some expressions which sound too french ?

Otherwise, you can correct whatever you want, it's OK for me

Yes. This is what I meant.

I don't think I will make up new sentences. I may highlight them if I have a feeling that it is not exactly the purpose of the text or if the sentence is a bit awkward and I don't really understand it.

But this will only be my personal point of view. Feel free to disagree and give your opinion.

[Lafouyne]

Here is my contribution for this text:

Who wrote it?

What about an outline:"First I will... and then I will..."?

The following text studied was written for the Waco Tribune-Herald and posted on Friday the seventh of October two thousand and five. The purpose of this text is to teaching the value of money. Indeed, the author explains that parents want to teach to their children, honesty, kindness and respect but they often forget to teaching them the value of money. This skill feature is very important because children could learn that it is impossible not good to spend more than they have and they will be aware of the pitfalls=setbacks of credit cards. For this teaching, parents can give allowance whose which amount is based on age and ability. With a good teaching, if they have financial setbacks occur problems, children, became then in adulthood, could will be able to solve their problem.

About my opinion : I quite agree with this article. Indeed, I think effectively that children can have allowance since the an early age. This text doesn't talk about the start age to have money mention at what age should children receive an allowance but to my mind, the good age is when children know how to count. Indeed, before learning the value and respect of money, having allowance teaches how to count and to use coins. For young children it can be an approach of to decimal numbers in mathematics. Later, as the text explains, children will learn that they can't spend more than they have though it is always possible to have a loan. Because ("But"?) a loan could be usefull for something more important than their personnal convenience, such as a house or a car.

I underlined what I did not understand (why did you write "because"?).

Vocabulary : a loan = un prêt

[Lafouyne]

It is my contribution

It is a newspaper article, extracted form the waco tribune herald. It was written by Hap le Crone. It was published in on Friday the seventh of October two thousand and five.

This texte is about the children's and their financial responsibility. From When reading the headline, we may assume that it is going to report on children and money.

I presume the scenes take place (this is not a theatre play) in the United States as this is an American newspaper. The journalist explains that parents give to their children the values of respect, honesty, money, and fiscal responsibility, but the young people don't respect this values . They spend too much money, and they don't respect their budget. (I don't think this is what the text says)

In fact, parents use allowance system and children spend their money for pleasure. The journalist wants to convey the idea that parents don't arrive manage to give to their children the good values for of money.

I think this texte is interresting because it shows the difficulties of parents(=parents' difficulties) to eduque educate their children. I think parents give too much money to their chidren. They don't understand the sens meaning of this values. For them, it is easy to have money, and they want to buy a lot of things, whereas although they don't need of all theses things.

To my mind, parents should give their children money to children if they have good marks at school, or they make (or carry out) little works at home. In this way, they understand they must work hardly to earn money. And they will respect their budget.

As a conclusion, I think that parents must revise the children education, for regarding the money values of money.

a text (with no "e" at the end)

to give someone something=I give you this/parents give their children money

this-that:singular ----- theese-those:plural (no "s" at the end)

[Lafouyne]

Just in case, about while/wheras/although:

http://grcpublishing.grc.nasa.gov/WizardAr...rd4/qrktext.htm

"Kids" is a good synonymous for "children".

[orion144]

Here is my contribution for this text:

Who wrote it?

What about an outline:"First I will... and then I will..."?

Later, as the text explains, children will learn that they can't spend more than they have though it is always possible to have a loan. Because ("But"?) a loan could be usefull for something more important than their personnal convenience, such as a house or a car.

I underlined what I did not understand (why did you write "because"?).

Vocabulary : a loan = un prêt

I think you're right to write "but" instead of "because". I wrote "because", because i wanted to say that if they have a loan now, it will be more difficult to have a loan later.

Concerning the presentation of the text, i wonder if it is penalizing not to present the author and not to give the entire date. I reduce voluntarily this part to have more time to sum up the text because i find this more intersting. But perhaps the jury want to hear the date and the author's name...I don't know.

To finish thank you for your correction I may imagine that it spends time