8/10/2019 Modele de Eseuri Engleza
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Essay 1:
Games, cartoons and cat lovers
or how I learned English throughout my life
"Thank you Mario! But our princess is in another castle!"
This is the text the 5 year-old girl sees on the TV screen and
her little hands squeeze thecontroller. Her younger sister screas
ecause she ants to play too. The second grade #te$ania
is glad the screen didn%t sho her the "&ae o'er".
This is one o$ y $irst eories in'ol'ing the (nglish language and
a 'ery treasured one. )can also reeer *exter aking up ith "+hat a
$ine day $or science!", "+hat does this
utton do" and ourage%s "The things ) do $or lo'e". ) used to
tell e'eryone "My nae is
Moooo/o 0o/o" e$ore ) e'en thought o$ introducing ysel$ in
1oanian ith y on nae. )
ould run to y o and ask her to explain hat they ere all saying,
ut a$ter a hile )learned it all.
)n $i$th grade, hen ) started taking (nglish lessons at school,
) kne a lot o$ things in this
language - none o$ hich ould ha'e helped e pass a test in class.
2$ter learning aout
princesses and le'els ith Mario, aout aking the est out o$ your
childhood ith the 3ids4ext *oor and ho to uild houses and keep
people ali'e in #is, ) cae to realise that ) didn%t
kno ho the clouds, sky and pipes ere naed, nor could ) count to
ore than $i'e hich stillrepresented a ad-ass girl6 or nae the
$ridge y #i as using.
But ) started learning all o$ these things and ore - hich as a
relie$ seeing as artoon
4etork started translating their cartoons into 1oanian. Ha'ing a
teacher explain e'erything tous as indeed easier e'en though it as
the $irst tie ) realised ) as learning the language6, ut
not as entertaining and ) ust adit, ) ha'e alost no signi$icant
eories aout this process
through iddle and high-school.
+hat ) do reeer on the other hand ere the e'enings spent in
$ront o$ the coputerplaying MM718&s Massi'ely Multiplayer
7nline 1ole-playing &aes6. ) ould talk to y
online $riends aout all sorts o$ things in (nglish. The $irst
tie ) realised ) ha'e actually learnedthe language as a$ter ore
than an hour spent chatting aout the #econd +orld +ar ith soeguy in
the 9nited #tates.
:or the past three or $our years )%'e een playing a gae called
8er$ect +orld and ) ust say )
ha'e a lot o$ people to talk to. ) realise no that it is a
learning process and ) try to get the osto$ it. +hile ) a not yet
ale to use the, ) can no recognise and understand a lot o$
2erican
and British expressions, thanks to ha'ing nati'e speakers
explain the to e. 7ne o$ the greatest
things e'er is ha'ing y other coplain aout the ay ) a asting y
tie online, listening
to her say this ith a laptop in $ront o$ e, healing y squad%s
tank and discussing the lack o$$reedo 2erican children ha'e to put
up ith noadays.
)n the iddle o$ all the discussion aout coputer gaes haring
children, aking the
ore aggressi'e, keeping the $ro learning, ) still play #uper
Mario Bros., #kype ith the$riends ) got online. But at the end o$
the day, ) a still a college student reading a ook e$ore
$alling asleep, li'ing a noral li$e and learning ne things e'ery
day.
4ot the est thing to rite in an essay that y grade depends on,
ut ) a proud to say )learned so any things aout the (nglish
language through the internet. Because the -;.5 points )
ould get in a paper $or riting "your stupid" does not e'en
copare ith the lynch o that%s
onto you i$ you ake that kind o$ istake in the kingdo o$ cat
lo'ers.
