Work or Study?

Hey, guys! I just wanna know something about job-hunting in different countries. When you are a senior in university, do you still need to attend classes or you have a planty of time to find your job? Does your university offer some chances or it will hold some meetings to help you find jobs?

Lotus Talking about an important plant in China, the first came into my mind is lotus. When I was a kid, my parents always took me to the park to see them, because there is a big lake and many lotus were plant in it. The common colors of lotus are pink, white and yellow, but there is still some other colors in the rare species, like blue, purple and so on. Lotus usually grows up in the water with big, deep green leaves. What’s more, they often deeply rooted in silt under the water. And one of my favorite of it is that has a light sweet smell, which can make me feel enjoyable and relaxed. There are different parts of lotus used in different situation. The flowers are for viewing, because they can beautify our environment and decorate our house and garden. The most significant thing is that can clear our air, which is vital in China nowadays, because of the heavy fog. The leaves play crucial roles in ancient China. People always used it as umbrella, due to the fact that surface is like water-proof material. However, in nowadays, we don’t use it to prevent rain. Instead of it, we use it to wrap food, for example, meat, rice and so on, which makes food more tasty and palatable. The roots and seeds can also be eaten too. They can also be used in medicine to clear the heat and toxin in our body. In my opinion, lotus is essential in China not just because what I mentioned above, but because it has great meaning in Chinese culture. In our culture, it usually be deem as symbolic for person’s characters, like being upright, tough and living in the silt but not be imbrued. Due to this, many Chinese poets express their praise and appreciation of it by writing some poems or essays and lotus are often used for simile in our language.

Could you help me with these sentences? 1.The waitress will be back. Why use "will be"? What's the differences between "will be back "and "wii back"? 2.…, as well as the mounting pressure as the deadline for that first assignment creeps up on you. What' s the meaning of "as" in the middle of this sentence? Does it mean "like" or "accompany"? How to distinguis these two meanings? 3.Finally,we won all but just one of the twelve appeals that we launched on behalf of students. I have no idea of what's this sentence meaning? Could you help me with this? Thank you in advance.

Some sentences 1. I'm also having - been having - trouble getting hold of the books. I've been to the library several times, and all the books are out. In this sentece, does she mean that she doesn't have this problem? How to understand "been having" and "I've been to the library"? 2.You should have started borrowing books a bit earlier. What's the difference of start to do something and start doing something? 3.I really admired my friends in that time, cause they all owned one, and their parents always to take them to the playground to fly it. Is this sentence correct? I want to express the meaning of that all of my friends had their own kites and their parents take them to play kite. I'm not sure about can I say "they all owned one", cause each of them had one. And I'm also not sure to say their parents take them to fly it, can I use it in here? Or I should use fly them? Thank you in advance.

Teamwork issues

Recently, our teacher askes us to do a teamwork to finish a report. I'm the leader of this team. And here some troubles that really bother me and  I want to ask you guys how to deal with them.

 

1.Someone don't care about their GPA, and they don't want to do anything about this work. If you assign the work to them, they'll just give you something download from Internet and say that is their best effort. How to deal with them?

 

2.Some people put their efforts on the work, but they can't do it well according to their abilities. Sometimes you may feel you should do it by yourself rather than call them to do. But they feel angrey, cause they think they try their best and you always ask them to modify their work. How should I do with this situation?

Why we cannot speak like native speakers? The question is on the above. When talking with foreigners, we usually feel that we don't know how to express what we trully want to say. And then, we may use dictionary or try really hard to think a word to say it. What's more, as a native speaker, they may say some slangs that we know every words, but we just can't figure out when they put together. Some sentences seemed like that too. Although I have learned English for many years, I still can't watch a movie without subtitle, I mean Chinese subtitle. Because I can't catch up with their speed and ……I have to say I don't know the reason too. By using italki, I also found a phenomenon that native speakers don't even care about what they say, because their customs let them to say the most natural tone. And it's seemed difficult to let them tell why they speak like that. How to deal with this situation? Do you have some good advice?

Rainy Day I planned to see movie today. However, it's rainy now. I don't mean I don't like rain, on the contrary, I really like it, which bring fresh air and good smell of grass in the rainy day. But, it does bring a lot of troubles when you want to go outsides, especially taking the public transportations. So I decided to read my novel today and I will do some exercises in this afternoon. What kind of novels and movies do you prefer? Hope you all have a good day:)

Airport Question Hey, I want to ask a question. If you wait for your flight in the airport or wait your bus or other public tranportation by yourself, do you mind foreigners to come and chat with you? Or you think it's interupt your privacy? And if you are not alone in the situation, like you are talking with your friends, do you mind it? Thank you in advance.

Can you help me with this sentence? I saw a quite long sentence from a vedio as following. I believe I speak for millions of people across England, Wales and Northern Ireland – and many in Scotland, too, who would be utterly heart-broken by the break-up of the United Kingdom.Utterly heart-broken to wake up on Friday morning to the end of the country we love to know that Scots would no longer join with the English, Welsh and Northern Irish in our Army, Navy and Air Forcein our UK-wide celebrations and commemorations.in UK sporting teams from the Olympics to the British Lions. I just want to ask why in the line2 uses "utterly heart-broken by…",but in the end of line2 uses "Utterly heart-broken to…" What's the difference? Thank you in advance.