1st Partial Writing Exam - Correction

Corrections 

Dear Ms Meyer

In response to your email I would like to thank that you have paid attention to my comments. The day I was  in the Stardust Restaurant I went with a friend we wanted to celebrate her birthday but there was a problem with the  woman that bought us the dinner, when I made de reservation  I specified that I wanted a cake for us and the person who I talked to  told me that it would be a pleasure so when I paid the cake to the woman she told me that there weren't any cakes, obviously I got angry and I explained that our cake should be in our table right now, the woman shouted at me and said that if there wasn't  a cake it wasn't her fault, I tried to calm her down  and we went away the fastest  we could.

Well that was the problem: mainly the service of waitress so I suggest that speak with her because she was rude with us and can be with anybody and and obviously I suggest that do what you promise, the restaurant promised me that my cake would be there and it was not there.

That day should be especial and but it wasn't  for your fault.

Sincerely

Robert Krumm

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Listening 

This week I chose this topic to practice in ECentral because sometimes I get confused when I have to use the verbs   even if maybe this kind of verbs are easier that in other times. This exercise helped me to practice more and to remember how to use them correctly.  

Reading
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For this week I read an article that caught my attention because talks about something that sometimes worried me that is "How to Calm Your Nerves Before a Big Presentation" . Since I found this article I wanted to read it because when I haver a presentation or a oral work I always get so nervous and in this information I could found some tips that  can help me in this situations like what I have to do before and during the presentation. I think that this article include good information for this situation that can scare us a lot. 

Glossary:

Attempting: intentar
Discomfort: incomodidad
Reframe: replantea
Worrisome: inquietante
Tightening: endurecimiento
Mindset: mentalidad

Recordings - Project

This project I really like it because it helped me to improve my speaking and also my writing. It was fun because I spent a lot of time practicing what I had to say and I had to record many times my audios because I laughed for the intonation of my voice or for making mistakes. In my opinion this project was cool and I would like to do more like this. 

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Listening

This week I did an exercise in ECentral that is related with modals. This exercise helped me to practice this subject that could look kind of easy but the truth is that even when I think that it is simple always I have little mistakes and thats good because I understand that I don't know all the "simple" subjects so well. 

Reading
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This week I read an very interesting article named "Here's why Snap is playing it safe with investors" the information that this article shows us is important because it mentions real data about this application that in these momentos I think that a lot of the young people are using it. For example this article said "It's about being able to communicate how you feel and in the moment" and that it's true because well in my case when I share something in snapchat is because I feel happy or because I want to share something fun. Snapchat it's a great application nowadays but this success has a lot of work behind that not everyone knows. 

Glossary:

Gradient:  inclination
Encountered: encontrar
Revenue: ingresos
Embed: incrustar - unir
Measurement: medida

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Reading 
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This week I read this article that try to explain how the chemicals are in most of the food that we consume even in the naturals. We think that the natural food is better because it is supposed that they don't contain chemicals but thats a lie not all the natural food have chemicals but yes a plenty of them. Also I can think that the natural foods can be more cheaper but the true is that the artificial flavors generally cost less because is cheaper  to produce and finding them that the natural.  

Listening

  

This week I did an exercise in ECentral that helped me to practice the difference between the topic "my and myself" it was kind of easy but one word was difficult to know what was but at the end I could make.  

Glossary: 

Growing fields: campos de cultivo

Lengthy: largo

Cyanide: cianuro

Boiled: hervido - cocido

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Listening

This week I chose an exercise of a ECentral that is related with the sound of some words, this exercise consist in listen and watching a video and later complete the missing word. I had to do this two times because some words were difficult and I had to put more attention and listen again.

Reading

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I read an article named "22 thoughtful Valentine's Day gifts every woman will love" I chose this because obviously I'm an romantic woman and even with out boyfriend I like to see and know the things that some men can give to their girlfriends. This article gives very nice ideas of presents for Valentines Day.

Glossary:

Instaed: en lugar 

Bound: ligado

Shipped: enviado

Cozy: acogedor

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This practice of the TOEIC exam was so helpful for me because I could realize that I really have to practice more in both things reading and listening. I need a lot of more vocabulary and improve my listening because there are some words or kind of conversations I really don´t understand so I have to work in that.

I think that I didn't get so bad results in this practice of the TOEIC exam pero obviously I can get better results.

My score for Listening was 385 and for Reading 325, with this score I could have a B1, its a little sad but now I know in what I can work on to improve this score to get B2 or more.