COMMON MISTAKES

INTERMEDIATE G – SECOND EVALUATION

Adequacy
wrong addressee. Some letters were addressed to the distant relative

Cohesion
Paragraphs
Format - you tend to forget the address and date in the top right-hand corner.
Not much use of connectors. Confusion so/because

Accuracy
o I am writting …
o Writte soon
o I’d like to know what do you think about something which don’t let me sleep well.
o My cousin called me the last week.
o I will be there the next summer.
o She studied with us in the primary school.
o It is a long time since you had written me.
o I didn’t see her since the last summer
o I am going to explain you who is Juan
o …, where live the friend I want to visit.
o You said me that you need a bigger house.
o In the other hand, you haven’t come when our grandmom died.
o She/he ask about money
o He lent me 3000€
o She has borrowed me 1000€.
o My family had to borrow a loan to the bank for giving some money to me uncle.
o I didn’t used to be with him.
o He is self-employee.
o The amount of money is big enough to let me without holidays.
o At the moment he hasn’t any money
o If you buy a bike you should lend me on weekend.
o A distant relative of mine wants that I’ll borrowed him some money…
o If I were in this situation, I would like my friend I help me.
o He had lost a bag with money and I lent some money.
o Why you need the money?
o What it happened with the money you had won in that TV show?
o When the money back to me?
o That is the money I have saved for our summer’s travel
o When I was younger I was working like a waiter.
o The most important for me is our relationship.
o The money isn’t the most important in my life.
o I wish your new house had all than you need.
o I wish you’d help me.
o I hope your advises soon.
o When you had 15 years old
o I am worried at not to get the complete amount like it occurred a years ago.
 o … like it occurred a years ago with the friend who couldn’t to earn enough money to
pay me back.
o …some money to buying cigarettes

Good points:

Many good points also appear on the previous section

 That is the money I have been saving for a year.

 He is the son of my mother’s cousin, who lives in Madrid.
 I am writing as soon as I received your letter
 She called me to give me the stuff I had in her house and the money she had borrowed
from me.
 …money to afford the house he’d like to buy.
 Do you think I should lend him the money instead of travelling to NY?
 I have thought you might give me your opinion about the following situation.