Sunday 25 October 2009

Week starting October 26 - Task 1

This week we'll be doing unit 4 from your coursebook
Task 1: Making suggestions. I will post some problems I/other people might have and you are supposed to make suggestions. Please rivisit this task as I have a lot of problems and I need your suggestions!!! Give just one or two sentences. Read the previous comments so as not to repeat what has already been said.
Problem 1: My French is rather poor. What should I do?
example: You should take some private classes!

100 comments:

  1. I think you must buy a begginer course of French and start learning it.

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  2. Also, I think you should go in France for at least a week and I'm sure you will improve your French.

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  3. My other problem is that I would like to buy a car and I don't have all the money.

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  4. I suggest you to buy a cheaper car which your budget affords. If you will take a credit you will have serious financial problems because you have a lot of costs with the car maintenance.

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  5. My oppinion is that, you should be a litle pacient, to raise the money what you need for buying the car what you want.Dont borrow money from the bank because you will give them double then the price of the car.

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  6. I'd like to buy the best car, but I don't know which that might be. What do you recommend me and why?

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  7. I suggest you to buy the national car: Dacia. The new cars of Dacia are the best choice considering the road of Roumania and the using conditions. I'm sure you dislike high speed so you don't need a foreign car or others marks.

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  8. The car that i would recommend for you to buy is fast, spacious, an off-road car, with an efficient fuel consumption and that car is Audi allroad quattro.

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  9. I suggest you to buy a used german car for less money because a used german car is cheaper and better then a new romanian or french car.

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  10. Here's another problem I have: it's for the second time this term that we have the teachers' meeting exactly when I should have classes with 1st year students in Economy of Tourism. It's embarrassing because I have to sign a presence list with the meeting but at the same time I have to ask my students to wait for me half an hour or more. Today they waited for me one hour and we had to do a two hours' material in one. What do you suggest I should do?

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  11. You should ask a change of schedule in order to get to the meeting and also the students to get their two hours class.

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  12. I think you must present to the meeting organizer the situation and to convince him he must change the hour or the day. In my opinion, the meeting must be organized just after the schedule is analyzed and it must be found a period when all the teachers have no courses.

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  13. I think you should deal with your students and remouve the course in another day.

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  14. I think you should change the hour or the day, my opinion is that if you speak whit your students about the problem, they will understand,together you will resolved the problem.If you talk whit other teachers, you will find a solution.

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  15. I'd like to congratulate all the students who have expressed their opinion so far and also to advise those whose comments have not been posted to work a little harder on their writing.
    You know I am always available through the e-mail to help you, so please write back whenever you are not sure or your comment has not appeared. I cannot correct your comment and publish it. You have to do that, but I can help, just write me an email.

    Now, another problem whe all have is that or our town. It can be a better place. What do you think we should do to have a nicer and better town?

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  16. We should keep our town cleaner, and we should respect more the old buildings because they have high value

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  17. I think that the first thing would be that all the population should change a bit so that they don't liter any more and I would sugest that they construct some things that could raise the towns tourism, like building skate parks,a race circuit for international events to take place because this town in my opinion realy would need some international events, with that there would be more job ofers for people in town to work at

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  18. I believe that this thing happens only now at the beginning of the term because at this moment not everything is arranged.
    The solution that I found for this problem is to communicate with the students about the inconvenience, to explain them the situation and they will certainly understand and will wait until the teacher comes in the case this thing happens again.
    To my mind one solution would be to plan ahead the teacher’s meeting and to respect the hours at which they are planned. Maybe the teacher’s meeting should be planned at the beginning or at the end of the day, when the courses are not begun or when the courses are finished.

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  19. The first thing in the order of buisness is to change the mayor and his board because they use the town’s funds to go to expensive trips in Antalya and other exotic places. Instead of building useless malls they should build some modern factorys by european standards so that the people of this town will have jobs and the town would have some economic growth.

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  20. For your first problem(that your French is poor)here are a couple of things that you can do to improve it.You can use a search engine to find sites that are designed to help you work on and study French vocabulary.You can take an online course.You can also try to listen french music,go on French forums,use chat rooms,make French friends both in real life and on internet.

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  21. For your second problem(that you don't have all the money to buy a car)i suggest that you should start and think about how much money you spend monthly on things that you really don't need.After that things are going to be easy.You can put some money away.I f you can't do that you should by a cheaper one(second hand).Or you can buy a bicycle,is more cheaper and more healthy.You can do two things in a row:sports and speed.I know it's a little cold now for a bicycle,but you can use it in summer time

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  22. This is for the problem with the meeting:you can talk with your students and with them you can choose another day when you can recover the lost courses(hours).I think that they will understand you.

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  23. The first thing to do it would be to close the "Combinat". This factory pollutes our town. It is harmfull to our health and environment. I kwon that many people would remain unemployed, but there is no other better way to stop the pollution of the city and our lifes.

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  24. If you want to learn french you should watch some french movies with english or romanian subtitle and pay attention to it. It always helped me improve.
    Regarding your wish to buy a car, hard work and savings is always the best idea.

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  25. The response to the first problem: I think you nedd to practice more the language and if you have a little ambicion you will learn the Franch language.

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  26. If you do not have enough money to buy a new car, then buy a cheaper car for your bugdget.

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  27. I offer you to buy a car that is cheap to maintain.

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  28. I think that the teachers' meeting date must be changed, because the teachers cuold easy to adapt to a new date wich would be good for everybody.

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  29. I think that our city is now sufficiently maintained,but there still a lot to improve in the city.For example: construction of parking places, development of green zones....,but the most important thing is that we inhabitants of city, perserve purity.

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  30. Ilynagy,
    Could you be more specific about that 'cheap to maintain car'?

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  31. To buy a car you should check prices and get the one you afford if not you should wait and save some money and then get the car you want.

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  32. I recomend you a Mercedes, because is the best cas.

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  33. You should talk with your students and find the best day for you and for them to attend the English course.

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  34. Our city is very beautiful and in my opinion the mayor should continue his projects and focus more on clearning.

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  35. I mean, that "cheap to maintain" is the car that use less fuel and the car parts are cheap, such a car is the Volkswagen Polo, or Dacia.

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  36. If you would like to buy a car and you don't have enough money, my opinion is: first, you can buy a cheap car , as much as money have, as long as you replace for a new car when you collect much money.If you would like to buy the best car,I suggest you to buy a german car, because there are cheap and good car's at a fair price, which are appropriate for you.

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  37. I think you should remove the course in another day and tell about this problem your students and together will resolve the problem, I think they will understand.

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  38. In order to improve the appearance of our town we must seek the problems that it has. So, about the parking places I do not agree ruining all the green places for just five or six places for parking, I always ask myself why can't they build underground parking places. Also the roads are a big problem that could be solved, but it isn't, at least, not yet.The problem with the gypsies should be solved, and I have noticed that there has been a great change in making the parks a better place for the children to play, and I believe that soon our town will become better and nicer than it was.

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  39. My French is rather poor. What should I do?
    You should buy a french dictionary.
    You should go to a french teacher.

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  40. A tip for the French problem is you buy a CD guide is French and listen all day to learn to speak.

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  41. My opinion to your first problem is to buy some little car,like Opel Corsa or Skoda Octavia,because they don't consume too much,and they aren't so expensives.And at the second problem,I think the teacher's meeting are more important than classes with the 1st year students,beacuse the classes can be recovered,but the meeting no.You should go to the meeting,this is my opinion.

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  42. For your "not knowing French" problem, I suggest buying an easy-learn French conversation guide, because that way in time your logic will help you to search more easly for words.
    For your "not having all your money to buy a car" problem I have a question: How do you know you don't have the money if you don't know what car you want to buy? :) I suggest not to buy a low suspension car, because as we all know, our roads are not roads at all.

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  43. I think you have to go to some meditations,or even buy some CDs where you learn French without help.It's a good way to learn alone without help.If you want to buy a car,I think the best way is to buy a car that consumes less,and isn't too expensive.A car like Dacia Logan,the car of Romania.

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  44. Suggestion for problem nr.1
    I think you should find yourself a French friend, on hi5, you could write and talk to him (her)
    The suggestion for the car problem is to think about ways of getting money to buy the car or postpone it for next year.

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  45. Hi, a good start can be attending a beginner french course, if you don’t have time to attend a course you should get yourself a Romanian-French but a French-Romanian dictionary too, buy a beginner course book and start to do exercises, but very important make sure to memorize at least three or four words after your French lesson. After that why don't you watch French films and pay attention to the language while you watching. Very helpful way to learn can be to go over in France for a while so you will get more confident with your French, because when you will hear just french language around you, french won't be poor anymore for sure you will pick up a lot of words and a little bit of accent why not.But grammar exercises are the best to start, no doubt.

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  46. Even I will repeat the suggestions my others colleagues have already said I must say no way borrowing money from friends or , make a loan with the bank, I suggest you to be patient and why don’t you save money every month.

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  47. To be honest I don’t have much experience about cars but I did asked one of my friends and he said I should recommend you a Ford because after all the cars he has seen and tried, this one has good breaks , powerful engine and it doesn’t consume a lot of fuel.

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  48. About your problem with school meeting and having class at the same time, I dont think it is something that you should do, rather the school should know not to have a meeting when some teachers should be in class. Just put it on earlier or later time, in this way, class time is not affected.

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  49. Of course, our town can be a better place. It can be more cleaner, more ordered. But, the problem is with the population. The blame is ours. Because we are throwing the mess around, in the streets, outside in the parks, and everywhere. It is a big mistake, that we are doing this. We should accost the other people to not to do that. And the guvernment should aggravate the law about this. After that, our town will be a better place.

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  50. I must say that I like very much Targu Mures, but in the historical city centre, car traffic should be always stopped not only on Sundays. However with loads of pollution city has around. Conbinat should immediately be abolished, because dear szmo_27 it is true that loads of people are going to be unemployed, I agree that place offers jobs but on the other hand people dies, so who did you cry? Another thing it should be changed, advertising panels on my opinion aren’t placed in an elegant way when you enter the city, there are to many sometimes placed behind the traffic lights. All in one we can give a hand for a better place too, everyone should put their garbage always in the waste bin, respect people, help when a tourist needs.

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  51. I think you should see your students an together take the decision for the best time when you all are happy to attend the course.

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  52. I was in many european towns and i think we should be more responsable. If everybody take care about his place to be clean, not to destroy the common things (bench, green spaces) and more important take attitude when we see somebody doing something wrong

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  53. My Franch is rather poor. What should I do?
    You should speak with a friend who speak French maybe she can help you and you should buy a franch dictionary or go to a franch teacher.

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  54. I think you must take some private classes or you must buy a begginer course of French and learning what is most important.

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  55. I think you should learn more about it if you want to now more and to have someone close who knows the language you learn.
    And in your second problem,I suggest you borrow money to take the car if you think you can return the money to the person or company from whom you borrwed.

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  56. What can I say? You shold speak with your students, maybe one of them know French and he can help you to learn some words. And, of course, you should buy a dictionary and find a teacher of Franch.

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  57. About your French I agree whit your example: You should take some private classes or online cours!!!!!
    About the car, I think that you should find a car more cheaper.

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  58. If you would like to buy a car but you don't have all the money for it I suggest you to borrow some money from closer friends or from your family,my opinion is that it’s a better idea to borrow from your friends or family than from a bank because they are more understanding.Although it would be better if you would wait a little bit and gather all the money you need to buy the car you like.

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  59. Our town could be a better place if we would pay more attention on keeping it clean and ordered.We should organize many festivals and we should do something to solve the problem of jobless people,in order to solv this I think we should open some new places,for example a new factory or a new restaurant and this way we would have some job offers.This things could make our town a better place.

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  60. About French I agree with your example: You should take some private classes or online course !!!!
    About your car: If you do not have enough money for the car they want my advice is to wait until you raise money.

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  61. For your first problem I think you must take some private classes.For yor second problem I recomend you a Audi because is the best car.

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  62. Teacher,I suggest you to read more french books and maybe you should watch french films.
    If this don`t work you should go to a french class.

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  63. If French language cause you serious problems I would advice you something that I noticed a few weeks ago. I find a website where French people, (or even any kind of people: english, german, greek, spanish. etc) want to learn foreign languages. You must enter what kind of language you want to learn, and what is your native language. Here you will find french people, who wants to learn your native language, and they offer you the chance to learn their language with their help. So this whole thing is based on reciprocal help. You help them, they help you.

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  64. If you want to buy a car, but you don't have all the money for it, I would suggest leasing one; in that way you don’t have to make a large investment and you could also save some money. Many people say that it’s easier to pay something in monthly rates rather than to pay the full amount at once.

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  65. If you want to buy the best car, I would suggest buying a German car because it is well known that German cars are the best. For example, my favorite one is BMW, but it costs a lot of money, so I would recommend you my second favorite car: OPEL. It is a cheaper car, but I am sure you would like it. It is a good and comfortable car and it is also ideal for our roads. I hope you will find the perfect car for yourself.

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  66. I think that if we want to have a nicer and a better town, we should all do something about it. For example, we could organize a “town cleaning day” when we could help clean the town, or we could just simply pay attention and don’t make more mess. I think we should organize more festivals and open some new places so we can have more job offers; the lack of jobs is quite a big problem in our town now. I am sure that every one has a good idea and if we put them together, we could make this town a better and a greater place.

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  67. I think you should talk with the 1st year students from the economy class and ask them to come another time; in this way you could go to the teacher’s meeting and they could get their two hour’s class, too. Another idea would be for you to ask for a change in the schedule.

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  68. At the problem with money I can suggest you to do a creit at a bank,or you can ask for help a good friend.

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  69. Ithink we should plant more trees, we should put the garbage in baskets and not on the streets.

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  70. at the problem with the car, my advice to take a Japanese car, such as Toyota Corolla. Is a small car ideal for a town like Tg mures. maintenance of these car is not so difficult.

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  71. you should buy some courses :tapes and books with "learning french" and take patience..you will learn a lot from tapes...i learnt italian and i speak good.

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  72. Problem 1:You should go on a course to learn the French language
    Problem 2:If you do not have all the money then have to wait or you can borrow.

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  73. If we want that our city to be more beautiful we should start not to trow the garbage on the street.I would like that all the old buildings to be restore because they are full of history.Also I would like to be organized more evants for the people.

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  74. I think you should follow a beginers course and watch movies in french for the correct pronunciations of the words.

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  75. For the money problem I suggest you to do a credit at a bank

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  76. Problem 1: You should see how usefull is to know French, what benefits are beeing able to speak this language. then try going to a private lesson.
    Problem 2: I recomand a Renault car. I have a renault and it's a great car.

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  77. Mrs. Teacher .I found for you a good car.
    Volkswagen compact sedan offers enough
    individuality for an independant woman,
    and enough room for a growing family .
    The price is $16,949 .It is a good price.
    This car also has an efficient
    fuel consumption.It has 4 doors, 2.5L Gas
    Engine, Manual Transmission .
    It is a beautiful and elegant car .

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  78. For your second problem you can talk with your students and together you will resolve the problem . Certainly you will find a solution

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  79. I think you should watch as many french mouvies as you can without subtitles.

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  80. I suggest to read some primary books with french words and gramatic also. You can contact some french persons and try to conversate with them on the internet and if they know English, you cal ask them to traduce the words from English to french.
    About the car, I suggest to buy a cheaper and small car, but not to old because you will have problem with it.
    I suggest to expose thos problem to the decan and try to establish another day or our for the meeting.

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  81. today it is easy to learn a foreign lenguage,Franch for example,I advise you to buy a dictionary and a book for beginners,and if you want a car just a bank load can help us because a car is expensive and money are few.this is my opinion.

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  82. About not speaking French:
    You should buy a CD player with French classes. And you should visit France as my school-mate said.

    About car:
    I advise you to avoid loaning money bank for a car, especially now when we live such hard times. It's not worth it!

    About buying a new car:
    I recommend that you should buy a Matiz because it is small, nice, suit for a woman and you can park anywhere and anytime in the city.

    About the classes we have missed:
    I suggest that you should retrieve what you have lost bit by bit in the following curses.

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  83. You should get a French roman and you can read that with a dictionary in your hand.

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  84. If you want to learn a foreign language,for example french I suggest you to watch your favourite movies in french,listen to french music and try understanding and translating the words and phrases with the help of a dictionary.

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  85. I hang around whit my friends most of the weekends and i don't like it when they are smoking , because i recently stoped smoking and it's bodering me already especially the smell.
    I don't like people who are liyng , and who are rude.

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  86. to learn French ask someone to refer you to one teacher in particular, will buy books and dictionaries. and the money to buy a car, to be more funny ..... I say to play the bingo:)

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  87. In my opinion, if you want to buy the best car, you should watch the Top Gear TV Show. There are some crazy guys that test all types of cars. There you will see witch car is more safer or the more economical or the more comfortable... The guys are making drive tests to all sorts of cars and they tell what are the advantages and disadvantages to that car. It's a very funny TV Show because the guys are making a lots of jokes but you learn interesting things about cars.

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  88. If you want to improve your French I recommend to watch more movies in french because I, just watching the spanish serial, I learnd to talk the language and now I can watch the movies without subtitles :D

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  89. Problem 1: If you want to bye a car, but don’t have enough money, you should try to save some or borrow some.
    Problem 2: To make our town better we should create more parks where the young and old people to can spent there time.

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  90. Problem 1: To learn French I ask a friend who speaks French well to help me learn properly.
    Problem 2: To make our town batter everybody should travel with bicycle, so the air wont be polluted.

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  91. Well, you should buy a Dacia, because it is cheap and you can easely find cheap and good parts if something happens with it.

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  92. for the best car to buy I would say buy a German car with a diesel engine that won't have a big full consumption i would go with a littler car like a polo or a corsa because there great

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  93. I think you should watch as many french mouvies as you can without subtitles.

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  94. I suggest you to buy Opel car because is a beautiful and elegant car. It’s cheaper car and the road of Roumania and the using conditions .

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  95. I think you have to wait while you have the necessary money for the car.Or you can borrow money.I don't suggest to buy a cheap one because you may have problems with the car and than you will pay even more.

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  96. If your Franch is rather poor, but you like it, you have a chance to improve: just pay attention in class and buy some CD guidees that you can listen all day long. It will help.

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  97. If you don't have all the money to buy a car you want, you can make a loan, but don't exagerate: take just the amount you need, becausae you will have to give it back double.

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  98. Dear Taecher,you are a darling understanding teacher.Whenever You have any problem with the program you just tell us and I'm sure we can resolve it together.

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  99. The best car you can buy nowadays is a small Volkswagen, perfect for the city, with low cost and with the possibility of parking almost everywhere.

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  100. If you would like to buy a good car,according to me,ask an expert's opinion,of course in who you trust.He can recommend some good cars though you maz select it the one that you like.

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