One of my best friends is Mark. We get together as always when possible, we have been friends since childhood, so it is easy to talk about him. For then in the following paragraphs, I will describe some of the reasons why he is my friend.

First of all, I would say he is a very funny guy, he can laugh about everything and this makes everyone around him to start laugh imidiatly as well, it is contagious in a good way. For example, I can remember one day when his sister was wearing a red dress and a car passed in a puddle of water and spread it all over his sister's dress. She very young, started to cry but Mark didn't, he started laughing so I started too and without notice there she was stopped crying and started laughing with us, a so funny episode of our lifes.

 Secondly, Mark is my friend because he is a reliable guy. I can always count with his help whenever it is he is there. To give an example, last year when I had to move out to another city he helped me a lot with all my stuffs and so many things, that without his help I wouldn't never be able to do in the time that I had to.

In conclusion,  It is not easy to find a friend like him that is why I feel
I am a very lucky guy to have Mark as a good friend after all the years, to share so many experiences and remembrances.

I agree with the statement, in fact, in my opinion, many people today are worried about how they can appear on the internet, and how they are going to be rated by their followers and friends on Instagram or any other social media they are on it. So I would like to describe in this text some of the reasons why I believe this is happening nowadays.

The first reason that I want to point out is if they think that the number of likes on social media is going up just buy new clothes, so why will they hesitate to go to buy them? Their beliefs make them buy more and more clothes to achieve that goal. Living for likes or comments, trying to feed the algorithm in a way that it will make you a trend is a trend these days.

The second reason to point out is about the stores and the brands that know what young people like and how to do and keep it, for that the advertisement is so appealing and constant. Those companies use the fact that many people today care a lot to improve their appearance so every brand makes social media their first strategy to gather more clients and finally more sales.

The reason people wear clothes today is totally different from the past, people in that time wore clothes just for protection, against animals, insects, weather, etc. But over the years these things turned into something that makes you stand compared to your friends, it shows your personality and many people today are so worried about how other people can see them. As the clothes became more accessible, I mean, it's easy to go to a shopping mall and buy a lot of them and take them to your home on the same day instead ask someone to create new cloth or even yourself to create one.

In summary, due to social media and the highest appeal of being unique, it makes people spend too much money on clothing, it become a necessity for them nowadays, as they like to keep their way of living in the function of the image that they created on the internet and want to have it outside it.

Hello, I am Sheela, I need to practice my English, can you help me? please my english is very bad.

Life is easy for some of them, but it is not easy for me. I do not know why? I have struggled for the past so many years, but It is still the same. I am getting used to working to live a better life. At this time, I feel tired about living life. I am also tired of fighting with life to overcome. My family told me that if you are a hard worker, you can have a better life. I believed them and I did it as they told me. Though, It does not work for me. Still I have a big challenge to overcome which I can not do successfully. I am trying to write a book but I can not do it.

The good part is that I do not give up to be a successful person.  Who knows if I can find a good way to win. God helps me become what I want to be. Yes of course, I believed in God. I also have a strong part which God gave me. I told myself about what life means. The last destination is heaven for lazy and hard workers. So, the best way is to try to become a hard worker to be a successful person.

Something really embarrassing happened this morning.

You see, I was walking in the street, suddenly I felt a rapid stomachache and I thought: holy crap, I might get a diarrhea. I might get food poisoning or something. Anyway, I wanted to rush home, which normally took me 15 minutes, but I found running fast could only make it harder to hold my shit, so I just jogged home, with the left hand on my stomach. Finally, when I got on the lift of my flat, I felt couldn't hold it any longer.  One minute later, I rushed into my bathroom and luckily for me, I didn't shit my pants.

This might have been the most painful thing that have happend to me recently. 

The base text talks about Malaria which is a tropical disease that is transmitted by mosquitoes when they are sucking humans' blood. In the text, one can see that the cure for Malaria is not known until now, but there are three strategies that can help us fight against this terrible disease. On the other hand, the instructor in the lecture gives us a different point of view on the same issue. Below is a list of some of those points and also a brief description of the details of the strategies spoke before.
 

The first strategy that the text points has the focus on the disease itself, using medicines to treat infected people with the malaria parasite. But as said in the lecture some old medicines are not useful, so new medicines are needed.

The second strategy in the text focus on killing the mosquitoes that can transfer the parasite to human being. They intend to do this through the use of chemical sprays that seems to be an easy way to combat the malaria disease, but is just effective in adults mosquitoes, and even though, many mosquitoes move to other places when this strategy is not adopted, says the man in the lecture.
 

The last one focus on the interruption of the mosquitoes' reproduction. In this case, the strategy involves sterilizing millions of male mosquitoes with low-level gamma rays and releasing them into the natural inhabit of the wild mosquitos, second to the lecture this strategy is not harmful to humans.

In conclusion, the text and the lecture go in an opposite way despite the same goal which is fighting against Malaria.

In my opinion I believe that Covid-19 has sending the undeveloped countries in a difficult position, each one of theses countries are being hit hard by externally and internally by several factors and while the virus spread this situation tends to get worse. I would like to list here some of the reasons to support my opinion about this issue.

The first reason that I want to stand is that many undeveloped countries faced problems along the years that harm their developement prospect and the covid-19 had made every growth that eventually ocurred in these countries to stop. It may take a long time to those countries come back to the point at before the pandemic, maybe many countries never get recovering again.

Another reason is to stop the growth of the spread  of the virus many restrictions was state by the governement in the undeveloped countries, and those actions brings consequences to their people. Many small family businesses had no choice and closed their doors.

in fact, only when these economics problems have been overcome in each of these undeveloped will they not be able to say that the Covid-19 pandemic is defeated. In order to do this it will require much more effort from government and also from  private companies that has the power to do something for the recovery of those coutries.

I got the hang of fishing watching how my father used to do it 

They said that the situation was not clear but I got the picture almost immediately.

You got the wrong end of the stick, Andy. I've never met those people.

It's just senseless/there's no sense in saying him what's right and what's wrong. In goes in one ear and out the other. 

In the 90s there's always been a grey area between what was legally possible and what was banned in Russia in terms of doing business.

Because I saw her with you, I jumped to the conclusion that she's your girlfriend.

I couldn't put two and two together although the task wasn't really rocket science.

He's a smart guy, he can read between the lines. No need to go into detail.

Let's bring them up to speed otherwise we're not on the same page.

The reading passage talks about international trade and how ships is one of the important parts of this process and also talks about the technological advances in this field providing several examples that suport its means idea. During the lecture the man also discuss about crewed and crewless ships but in disagreement with the reading passage and give some examples to enforce his thoughts.

The first example that we can read in the text points out that cost to use crewless cargo ships is lower than crewed ones, once there is no need of provide food, sleeping rooms, salaries and many others advantages, but the man in the lecture claim that the cost with crewed cargo ships can be also low, because the human can make little repairs in the ship if necessary and a crewless can only be fixed the time that the ship arrive in its destiny and this processes may to cause more damage to the ship.

The second example in the reading points out that pirates are not interested in crewless ships, however in the lecture the man points out that today's hackers can control the system of the ship and to direct it to a different place from the original.

The last example that we can read in the text points the small risk of accidents in crewless ships compares to the crewed ones. On contrary, the lecture points out that the most of ships today are controlled by human so it's turn more unlikely an automatic system take good choices in situations that only human can anticipate e fix.

In sumary, the man in the lecture disagree with the reading passage and in order to explain why he provides for each of the three examples given in the text, he gave another to express his points of view about the subject.

What se must do ?