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Please Check My Essay for TOEFL

yellow-submarine — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:14:03 GMT

Hello.ãI'm a Japanese man, and I am planning to study abroad. This is my first time to post my essay here.

I would be most grateful if you could point out and correct errors of grammar, expression, logic, and so on, in my essay.

I wrote this essay for TOEFL, so please take it into account. (At the last exam, I scored 18 out of 30 in the writing section.)

"Some people prefer to eat at food stands or restaurants. Other peoplerefer to prepare and eat food at home. Which do you prefer?

Use pecific reasons and examples to support your answer."

When considering the place to eat food, some people like to eat out at restaurants,while others prefer to eat at home. I support the latter idea, for it is more economical. My answer is based on the following two points.

ãFirstly, we can cut cost for diet by preparing by ourselves. In general, dishes at restaurant are more expensive than those cooked at home. Various costs such as maintenance cost and labor cost are required to serve dishes at restaurants, and these inevitable factors make the price higher. On the other hand, when preparing food at home, we can compare supermarkets to pursue and purchase more inexpensive materials such as vegetables and meat. Moreover, we donât need to pay such maintenance cost and labor cost. Therefore, it is more economical to prepare and eat at home.

ãNext, we can limit our expenditure for seeing a doctor. If we continue to eat out, the risk of diabetes or other diseases become higher, for foods served at restaurants tends to be contained with a lot of salt and fat. We feel delicious when we eat oily food. Restaurants try to serve delicious food. Then, it is unhealthy to eat out. Therefore, if we eat at home and keep ourselves healthy, we can keep down medical care cost. Furthermore, we can choose materials by our own, which enable us to choose safer ones. Thus, by preparing and eating at home, we can keep ourselves healthy, and can cut cost for medical care.

ãIn conclusion, if we prepare and eat food at home, it is more economical because we can make a selection of more reasonable foods, and we can keep down cost for seeing a doctor. In Japan, the number of children has decreased, and the number of elderly people has increased. It will be difficult to support the cost for medical by a small working population. Then, Japanese people should try to decrease the cost.

Re: an important letter for my futer, thanks for u're help ;-)

Lifeengineer — Fri, 18 Aug 2006 22:23:57 GMT

Hi everybody, Thanks nona a million for your interest in my letter, I have worked on it all the day and it's now a little different.

Thanks for all, I'm waiting for your advices

Dear Sir or Madam

I am writing to apply for the Master on ****************** with the intention of showing my interest and motivation in being admitted for this master.

With this letter, I would like to introduce myself as a holder of a bachelor degree from University of *********, Faculty of Economic Sciences and Management where I studied Computer Sciences Applied for Management.

My aim is to work in an international field of work related to communication and networking. Therefore I want to gain a deeper empirical knowledge in communication networks as well as improve my personal skills.

During my studies I have enjoyed empirical tasks and I always felt at ease when I was involved in practical and concrete projects, as a result I had had many opportunities to participate in the achievement of such a projects.

Furthermore, to prepare myself and to demonstrate my interest in this master, I was taking additional English courses at ************* during all the last year (from July 2005 to July 2006) and now I am attending a preparation course for the TOEFL exam which I am going to take on August 26 th, thus an email will be sent to you at *****@*****.com 15 business days later with my results. In addition I took Italian language classes at the âIstituito Italiano di Culturaâ and participated in cultural events such as: attending Italian fashion days and information days about studying in Italy at the institute, and going to concerts, balais and movies at the "ThÃ©atre municipale ". I am always interested in discovering new cultures, especially Mediterranean ones and above all Italian and old Roman culture. I have previous work experience at an Italian textile company, in fact some members of my family have a good relationship with an Italian family, they both share a business and I used to work with them during the summer. In addition I have done two internships, which were not obligatory in the intention to gain additional practical experience .I tremendously enjoyed my experience working at the CNI (Centre National de l'Informatique) as it was as close as possible to communication and network field. It was really a terrific experience, because there I had the opportunity to take part in an interesting project (witch was my last year project) with a very qualified team. Also I have the opportunity to take part of the IT team of the CNSS ( Caisse National de SÃ©curitÃ© Sociale ) for two months.

Through my previous college and work experience, I have developed my academic and technical skills as well as skills in social volunteer activities. In fact, as a member of AIESEC*, I would be able to adapt to a constantly changing life environment, and also establish and maintain good social and working relationships with individuals of different culture backgrounds.

Also, as a member of AIESEC*, I learned how to communicate, be respectful and gain the respect of others, I used to host and help students who come to Tunisia as trainees. I think this experience would help me very much, especially when working in a global environment like nowadays. In this respect I also want to mention that I am someone who is motivated, ambitious, very organized and open mind.

I have already visited the master website at http://******** and took a deep view on the course program, really I found it the most suitable for my aptitudes and desires.

Finally, this experience would give me the opportunity to train and live in Italy, to meet friendly people and learn more about Italian culture, witch I always wish to do.

Thank you for your time and interest. I look forward to hear from you in the near future.

Yours sincerely

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could u please except the grammatical mistakes give me some advices (changing some BLOCKED EXPRESSION?

Is the letter so long?

Thank u very much one mor time.

have a good day.

Listenning test in TOEFL: Is there texts?

hasardeux — Fri, 20 Jan 2006 11:15:19 GMT

Hi,

I'm preparing the next session of TOEFL.

I have difficulties in Listening section. I have a lot of troubles in understanding conversations expressions due to my poor listening.

Could you give me some TOEFL links or ressources to audio conversations WITH their full texts.

Thank you very much

Re: 'second language learner ' and ' foreign language learner'

paco2004 — Wed, 04 May 2005 23:19:02 GMT

Hello Jacklong

I think you can use 'foreign language' as long as you stay in your country. You can use 'I'm learning a foreign language' to mean you are learning English. 'Foreign languages' itself is not so inadequate an expression as seen in the fact that 'TOEFL' stands for 'Tests of English as a Foreign Language'. I feel 'English as a Second Language' (=ESL) might be a notion getting prevailed rather recently. As you might know, in the United States, people are sensitive to any kind of discrimination. The word 'foreign' can mean 'strange'/'alien in characters' along with 'coming from another country'. My guess is this would be the reason why Americans prefer ESL to EFL. If you like to be Americanized in any aspects of your thought, you can use 'English as a second language', but I don't like to be so. I'll use rather 'English as a foreign language'. One reason for it is I am here in Japan and the other reason is I feel English is indeed truly foreign to me, a native Japanese speaker, in its grammar as well as in its vocabulary.

paco