Dear Teachers,

- I walk through the streets of the Lion island, Singapore, tidy streets, although on the roadside there are several peddled wares wheelbarrows for pedestrians dropping in and choose an ice-cream and receive a hospitable smile from the sellers. They solicit/invite by smiles that still are allowed by the government to prettify/embellish a simple feature in the middle of the modern city. There are no modern cities mature from the streets without the peddled wares wheelbarrows like that. I still wish there were still some peddled wares wheelbarrows in the corners of the street in HCM City, to keep the inherent simple feature in HCM City. Looking the twin wastebaskets standing beside each other at the public places in the streets of Singapore (one for inorganic rubbish and one for organic rubbish) I happen to remember about an environmental program classifying waste matter propagandized on TV. I don’t know when that comes true when the twin wastebaskets are rarely seen in the corners of Sai Gon. I have seen a short educational cartoon film section on Singapore TV about classifying rubbish: a boy who put rubbish into the wrong wastebasket, he didn’t hesitate to put his hand into the wastebasket and put into the right wastebasket. “ Dirty oneself, not dirty the whole community” is the message that Singaporeans want to send to everybody.

- The road Orchard makes many tourists look at it not only by imposing/monumental Christmas lights, but also by earthly pictures from above which taken by a French photographer. There was a group of pupils deliver many surveying questionnaire about pedestrians’ feeling of the pictures. That’s an educational image that I wish I could see in my country, lessons which Vietnamese students should practice in real life.

Are these sentences ok and natural?

Thanks a lot to Teachers,

 Stevenukd.

Hi Stevenukd,

 You are an English learner from Viet Nam, right?  The writing has colorful detail, but the grammar needs some work.  I don't quite understand everything you are trying to say, but let me see if I can offer some revisions to make it more natural.  I did a little bit of guesswork.  Let me know how it sounds to you.

- I walk through the streets of Lion Island, Singapore.  These streets are tidy, even though they are lined with peddlers and their wheelbarrows full of wares.  These sellers are still allowed by the government because they are emblems of simplicity in the middle of the modern city.  Pedestrians walk by, receive hospitable smiles from the sellers, and choose an ice-cream.  Most modern cities no longer allow these street peddlars.  I  wish they still existed on the corners of the streets of HCM City, to preserve some simple features for the city.  Looking at the twin wastebaskets standing beside each other in the streets and public places of Singapore (one for inorganic rubbish and one for organic rubbish) I happened to remember an environmental program on TV about classifying waste matter.  These twin wastebaskets are rarely seen on the streetcorners of Sai Gon. I have also seen a short educational cartoon film on Singapore TV that shows a boy who puts rubbish into the wrong wastebasket, then without any hesitation, reaches back in with his hand, pulls out the rubbish and puts it into the right wastebasket.  “Dirty oneself, not dirty the whole community” is the message that Singaporeans want to send to everybody.

- The Orchard road attracts many tourists, not only because of its imposing Christmas lights, but also because of well-known aerial pictures of the road taken by a French photographer. Many questionnaires have been handed out to the pedestrians  by groups of students who are making a survey about what pedestrians think of these pictures. That’s something I wish I could see in my country-- Vietnamese students taking an interest in how the citizens feel about their own city.