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An embarrassing argument tonight
Tonight, my parents and I had dinner in a restaurant, together with some friends of my parents and their children. My father drank too much wine and after that he started to say something annoying and unpleasant.
Among these people, there was a child who had done something crazy in school. He was almost exiled by school. But later he turned into a good person. Now he has a fairly decent job. Just as I've mentioned, my father was drunk, so he started to talk about that child and criticize what the child did in the past.(My father and his father are best friends so my father know everything about the child.) You know, my father is a righteous guy. He thought what the child did was too serious to let it go. He kept talking about it in order to remind the child of what he did in the past. He wanted the child not forget his past even if the child has changed into a better man. Maybe my father's opinion was right, but the way he talked about is really embarrassing. In order not to make my father lose face, the child had to smile all the time and admit that he was wrong in the past.
My mother is kind-hearted. She don't want the family dinner become a fight so she stood on the child's side. She spoke for the child. But that was helpless, my father was still talking …… Oh, who can save a drunk man..
When we arrived home, I told my father that he was too harsh on the child and he shouldn't take the friendship for granted.(Chinese tend to be bad-tempered to their close friends.) However, my father thought I was too naive. He told me that there were so many things I didn't know. Yes I don't know what happened in the past, but I know we should always show respect to others even that's for friends.
Thank you for reading... hope you get my point and discussions are welcome~^ ^
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A recent IELTS writing
Question:
Some people who have been in prison become good citizens later. Some people think that they are the best people to talk to school students the danger of committing a crime. Do you agree or disagree?
My composition:
As the education to students on conforming to orders and laws has been laid more emphasis, some people who used to be criminals are considered to walk into the schools and inform the danger of committing crimes to students. Opinions vary from people to people on whether these reformed “criminals” are suitable to teach school students.
From my perspective, I approve of these people sharing their experience with school students to some extent. To begin with, it is undoubtedly the most persuasive way to inform students of staying away from criminal actions. These reformed people can teach students what to do and what are not supposed to do. They even can share their motives of committing crimes to prevent the students from thinking like that. Next, for these reformed people, this opportunity of teaching students is also an encouragement and recognition from the society, which implies the society still trust and care about them. In addition, if the whole thing happens, students will get to know the positive side of the society by seeing the old criminals turning into good citizens, thus having more faith in the society.
Judging from the flip side, I still can see some drawbacks if these people go back to schools. After all, they committed crimes, so, even though these people have reformed and been out of jail, common people’s impressions towards them are difficult to change in a short time. I believe many people would feel scared if a person who went to prison shows up in front of them even if he/she has been out of it. Once the fear arises among students, they tend to resist anything from that person, which will bring about an unsuccessful sharing meeting.
In conclusion, I suggest that schools can invite reformed “criminals” to have a meeting with students but they should think twice before they choose the suitable person to ensure the quality of the sharing meeting and to prevent bad consequence it might bring about.
(Can a native speaker possibly revise it for me? I would be appreciate if you can point out my problems in logicality, lexicology and grammar. Thank you :) )
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my first diary on italki.com
today is my first day to use this website. i registered on this website because i followed italki's Weibo account for a while and found it interesting. Also, i want to see what this website is used for. so here i am, testing the revising writing function of this website. Hope it can help improve my English. ^ ^ There are only 18 days left for my IELTS test and that will be my second time to take that test. I didn't expect IELTS test can be that difficult :( I still got 0.5 away from my expected score after my careful preparation. Wish me good luck this time. Ok, I am going to review my incoming test. I will be back when I am in a good mood. ^ ^ Do not laugh if you find any mistake in this diary cause I will when I see a not-so-perfect Chinese diary written by a foreign Chinese learner. (no offense) :D
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