1. Our goal is to REACH young people | ‘Touch’ young people sounds a bit risqué (osé) | |
2. I’ll have to use English with ENGLISH SPEAKERS and OTHER FOREIGN clients | Three mistakes! | |
3. I’ll also need it for WRITING, PLANNING, and TRAINING | To double (the consonant) or not to double? | |
4. This group is involved in ALL media | ‘media’ is a plural word | |
5. Their activities include book PUBLISHING | ‘edition’ has other meanings (look them up) | |
6. This group has 8 MILLION customers and a turnover of 76 BILLION euros | No need for the OF in modern English | |
7. I’VE BEEN STUDYING AT UNIVERSITY FOR THE LAST TWO YEARS | The whole sentence needed rewriting | |
8. Children are more OPEN to new ideas than adults | ‘opened’ is the past participle (someone has opened the window) not the adjective | |
9. We need English for EFFICIENT communication | No ‘an’ (communication is abstract therefore uncountable) | |
10. I’d like to organize events LIKE (or SUCH AS) shows, conferences … | LIKE = comme (semblable à), tel que = SUCH AS |
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