Dialog simulation on arrival at a hotel. Nineth exercise. Dialog simulation on arrival at a hotel. Check in. - Hello, good afternoon. - Hello, what can I do for you? - We have seven days reservation for four. Can we have a quadruple room? - Yes sir, sure. Whose name is the reservation? - Mine, Antonio. - Let me look for it. Here it is. Your room number is 2344 on the second floor. Please sign here this check in form. Your key, sir. - Which activities do the hotel offer this week? Is any activity in the sea? - Yes sir, you can ride horses, practice windsurf or dive in addition to a lot of activities into the resort, both in the pool and in the gym. - Can we sign up for a dive session? - Yes, but only on Tuesday or on Thursday morning at 10 a. m. Do you want to sign up for diving? - Yes, next Tuesday morning, please. - Ok, just fill out this form and sign here in the box below. - Thank you very much.

Eighth writing exercise. About holidays planning I like planning our family holidays, usually I start choosing a few affordable destinations and looking for economical transportation to these places, sometimes traveling with our car another times traveling by plane. After the choice of the destination I look for accommodation, usually rural or a house in a city in the region to visit, almost never in hotels. Planning trips from the internet is time consuming because there is too much information, many to read and usually tons of things to visit, both in cities and in natural site destinations. Make the selection of the list of places to visit takes a great effort. But what I like the most is that on holidays almost never we meet the plans made. Thanks a lot.

Seventh writing exercise. About speacking with partners Hello everybody, I want to take advantage of this note to ask users with experience in Skype video calls what is the best way to prepare sessions and take profit of them, both to learn and to teach. Is interesting to make exercises of translations? Example: In my case (Spanish native learning English), I say a phrase in English and my partner translates it into Spanish. Then vice versa, my partner (English native learning Spanish) says a phrase in Spanish and I try to translate it into English. Second example: I say a phrase in English and my partner translates it into Spanish, but converting the phrase into a question or into negative mode. Is interesting to prepare a topic previous the video call and base the conference in it? This is a way for learning a language scenario by scenario. Examples: One conference based on grocery shopping, other based on airport environment, the other more on hotel check in, check out, ... I appreciate your corrections and suggestions. Thank you a lot in advance.

Present perfect. Sixth writing exercise. Hello audience, Today I've traveled for work (The trip has finished but the day still not, is it correct to use present perfect in this sentence?) and I feel tired so I'm going to write something simple. In today's trip I've met a new colleague and I've had to teach him how things work in our company. The meeting has been quite tiring because I have had to improvise the whole explanation. I haven't had time to prepare the meeting conveniently I will appreciate your corrections. Thanks a lot and best regards.

Fifth writing exercise Hello, Today I want to practice future tense. So I'll write about next Christmas holidays. This year Christmas Day will be Sunday, so we will have less holidays than other years, I'm a little sad for this reason. The same case will occur the week following Christmas Day, New Year's Day will be Sunday as well. We will have to work the first Monday of the Year, a nuisance. Luckily I've saved a few days off at my work and I'll can travel to any interesting place for holidays and I'll rest from diary routine. Best regards and thanks a lot for the corrections.

Today's program "Drive Time" managed by Kyle Millar on Vaughan Radio. Fourth writing exercise. Hello Italki's members, Today in Drive Time program on Vaughan Radio there has been a guest together with the presenter Kyle Millar. The guest, English native, spoke of that he knew Russian and a little Spanish. The show has been entertaining. But, although I usually understand very well almost everything in the show, today I have had some difficulties to understand everything they spoke. I have realised that I still have long way to get comfortable understanding native speakers. Best regards,

Third notebook entry. Going on with writing practice. Well, here I am, in the third night, making a new write exercise. I've been thinking about what to write about and I've decided to write about my plans to improve my English. The first thing to do is define your goals. In my case: be capable of understanding movies or series in English and be capable of moving around the world for vacation, or perhaps in further time for working, using English fluently. What I think about learning a new language is that training must be based on five main areas (not necessarily in this order, in fact, all areas must be trained at the same time in parallel): 1 Listening: Which improves your capacity of understanding people (needs to know quite vocabulary, pronunciation of these vocabulary and some grammar knowledge). 2 Reading: Which improves your vocabulary and reduces your orthography faults. 3 Writing (what I am trying to do now as well as I can): Which consolidates your vocabulary, perhaps your grammar knowledge and shows you your real level. 4 Speaking: Which improves your pronunciation (of course, speaking helped by another person), also improves vocabulary and grammar. 5 Studying: Vocabulary and grammar in order to get a better level of all previous areas. So I decided to use these tools for each area: 1 For listening: I'm listening to the radio and watching the series on TV in English (the series on TV with subtitles) as well as YouTube videos on the Internet. 2 For reading: articles, magazines and newspapers. In the future I'll want to begin with books, with history or fantasy novels. 3 For writing: at this moment I am limited to write here notebook entries twice a week. 4 For speaking: I chose Italki and I hope to find someone who wants to speak with me on Skype, but for the moment I am unfortunate. 5 For study: I am using my High School Books and WorkBooks which I studied when I was younger. Best regards and your corrections will be welcomed.

Second notebook entry today Hi everybody, This is my second notebook entry I want to explain you how difficult is for me write anything improvised in English without any clear idea of what about to write. Perhaps I could write about the weather, I think this is the most famous theme when you enter in a lift with someone you don't know: "What a hot day!" or "Today is very warm, winter seems never will come"... Is the same in other countries? What is the most frequent theme when you meet someone unknown in a small space in your region? Well if someone wants to talk to me I would be very pleased. Best regards,

Italki recommended writing skills place Hi, This is my first notebook entry in order to practice my wrting skills. Any help will be wellcomed. At the moment I have no idea to write about. Let explain somethings about me: I'm from Spain and I really want to learn English and teach Spanish. Best regards.