Undergraduate / Tell us about your experience learning English. How often do you use English in your daily life? [4]

Hi! English is not my native language and I have to present this essay for school. Could you correct it please. Can you correct the grammar and words of this essay.

Tell us about your experience learning English. Have you studied English formally? How often do you use English in your daily life?

English - interesting and challenging adventure

Learning English language has been an interesting and challenging adventure for me in each stage of the process; I started studying English since I was five years old taking the English subject every year at school. I also remember with great affection the English classes I took as extracurricular after school to prepare myself for Cambridge ESOL English examinations as PET and FCE, which helped me to reinforce and improve my language proficiency.

After finishing high school, I decided to improve my English skills by taking online classes and going to an English academy for group classes in my hometown. Overall, I practiced conversation, reading, writing, vocabulary, grammar and listening. Moreover, learning to write essays was very important because I could analyze different situations and find appropriate responses for each one. All this activities involved a lot of brainstorming and manage lots of information in English, which helped me a lot to be more analytical for problem solving.

One of the most important English skills I enjoyed learning is conversational classes. In this classes I could made friends and spoke about many topics, the experience of talking about diverse things and a wide range of topics has been very valuable because it inspired me to enhance my communication skills, especially to have more confidence in my speaking abilities.

Since my senior year of high school, in my free time I use to teach private English lessons to children as a way of practicing the language. At first, I taught every Saturday mornings to my nieces, then the children of acquaintances or sons of my parents' friends. I use the language at different times of my life, reading was always one of my favorite activities since high school, I like to read several books in English because of reading more books I was able to enhance my vocabulary each day. I remember reading from novels of Jane Austen, articles of interest in online portals or current news. In addition to this, I used to practice my English skills by watching movies; this helped me a lot with my pronunciation and speech.

Undergraduate / We want to read about what makes you special. Tell us something about yourself [5]

Can someone correct my grammar and vocabulary of this essay

Tell us a story!

We want you to tell us more about yourself. What is your background? What are your interests, passions, and hobbies? What is it like you are from? What do you want to do in the future? Tell us anything that will help us to know you more!

We want to read about what makes you special.

When I was little, I spend afternoons teaching my toys, between stuffed animals and dolls any lesson I could think at that moment. I used a board and markers for each class. "Sir Bear, have you understood the lesson?" Everyone looked me with a smile. "Ok. That´s all for today´s class. Do not forget your homework". Therefore, each class was once a week during all my free time in elementary school, to teach my dear students became a ritual that I had to fulfill without fair. It was afternoons of showing drawings and songs. Soon my younger cousins joined the class and started the noise, but as the teacher I had to manage these situations sometimes.

Creating posters, flashcards and preparing my speech for each class served me to discover something inside me that I did not think I had , this is that I really enjoy share my ideas and things that I had learned before with others. Learning to speak in front of my toys and practicing my intonation for every class over time helped me for oral presentations at school and public talking.

I have lived all my life in Peru, in a small but cozy city called Arequipa. My interests are learning more about the world is around me, know new cultures and visit other places. I would like to improve my studies of English in the USA and learn some tools for teaching the language in my hometown. I believe that education in my country should improve and soon.

Living in Arequipa is like living in a small city surrounded by three volcanoes, also have a variety of tourist places and landscapes. The city distinguished by having beautiful views of green landscapes and nature, which offers great opportunities for day excursions. We have wide-ranging food options; in general, Peru has some tasty meals waiting for all. Walking through the city center takes you back a few centuries ago because there are impressive colonial and historical buildings.

Some years ago, I visited an elementary school where children of low income usually attend; I planned with a group of friends to make a schedule for teaching the children on weekends or after school. Fortunately, this activity was a success and we could teach the children during one year. We used to teach to read and write to kids of five years old and some literature and history lessons to older children. The experience was enriching in all aspects. I would have liked to teach English lessons but I needed to improve my English skills by this time. That´s one of the reasons that make me work hard for improving my English.

Usually in my free time, I am fond of reading of books, ranging from fiction to historical publications. The last three years I accomplished as a personal goal to read three books per month for the entire year. In addition to this, recently I find that writing is other of my biggest passions. I feel that reading improves my language and composition skills.

One of my greatest interests is art, I like to appreciate, learn and practice many forms of expression of art I could. Since taking Visual Arts in high school, in my free time I used to draw landscapes and take photographs from the historical and touristic places of my city.