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Exp Posted 13 years ago
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"I practiced hard in the club activities."
Do these sound OK?: "I practiced hard in the club activities.""I worked hard for the club practice."
I can't seem to find any similar expressions on Google.
The situation is where a student is writing about his/her high school days in retrospect. He/she belonged to a sports club at high school, and was enthusiastic about it,
I can't seem to find any similar expressions on Google.
The situation is where a student is writing about his/her high school days in retrospect. He/she belonged to a sports club at high school, and was enthusiastic about it,
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Exp He/she belonged to a sports club at high school, and was enthusiastic about it, I participated enthusiastically in my sports club (activities).
- Exp He/she belonged to a sports club at high school, and was enthusiastic about it, I participated enthusiastically in my sports club (activities).
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Exp He/she belonged to a sports club at high school, and was enthusiastic about it,I participated enthusiastically in my sports club (activities).
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Can you write it in easy English, without using words like "participate" or "enthusiastic"?
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I would like words that are easy enough for junior high school ESL (non-English-native) students to use in their English composition, like "join" or "hard." Would the sentence still sound OK if these words replace "participate" and "enthusiastically" respectively? (I "joined" "hard" in my sports club (activities).)
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Exp Would the sentence still sound OK if these words replace "participate" and "enthusiastically" respectively? (I "joined" "hard" in my sports club (activities).)No; that is why I changed them. There is nothing more difficult about 'participate' than about 'activities'. And there is no point in teaching them the wrong words for a sentence. It is evident fro
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"Club activities" is one of the basic expressions taught at junior high schools (1st to 3rd-year English students) in the country (Japan), as it's a literal translation of the local equivalent ("kurab katsudo") that the students are fairly familiar with. "Participate" and "enthusiastically" are not, especially when there are simpler if not diret synonyms. (Both are listed as "
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