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stevenukd
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 Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2006 6:05 am Post subject: from now on |
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Dear Teachers,
1.From now on, we�re completely two strangers, you go your way, I go my way, if we meet each other outside in the street, just pretend that we don�t know each other, ok?
2.� Can you do press-ups?
-Can you swim the butterfly?
-Can you swim the breast-stroke?
-Can you swim free-style/ the crawl?
-Can you swim the backstroke?
-Can you swim the dog-paddle?
3.� Have you ever dived in the sea with a oxygen cylinder/ a scuba?
-How long can you hold your breath in the water?
-Are 1, 2 & 3 natural to say?
-Thanks a lot to Teachers,
Stevenukd. |
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LucentShade
Joined: 30 Dec 2003
Posts: 542
Location: Nebraska, USA
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| Posted: Sun Apr 02, 2006 7:34 pm Post subject: Re: from now on |
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| stevenukd wrote: |
Dear Teachers,
1.From now on, we�re completely two strangers, you go your way, I go my way, if we meet each other outside in the street, just pretend that we don�t know each other, ok?
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Good.
| stevenukd wrote: |
2.� Can you do press-ups?
-Can you swim the butterfly?
-Can you swim the breast-stroke?
-Can you swim free-style/ the crawl?
-Can you swim the backstroke?
-Can you swim the dog-paddle?
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I'd call "press-ups" "push-ups" instead, but maybe this is a British/American difference.
If you're having a conversation about swimming, it's more natural to say "Can you do the butterfly?" and use "do" in place of "swim" before any of the strokes that are "the [something]."
A few others:
Can you swim free-style (freestyle) ?
Can you dog-paddle? --dog-paddle is understood to be a type of swimming, so no need to use the verb "swim"
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3.� Have you ever dived in the sea with a oxygen cylinder/ a scuba?
-How long can you hold your breath in the water?
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*with anoxygen cylinder / with an oxygen tank // (it might be more natural to say ocean instead of sea)
*with scuba gear
"How long can you hold your breath in the water?" --good; in place of "in the water," "underwater" can also be used. |
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