Portfolio 2: Grammar mistakes
1. I am afraid of the dogs.
Correct answer: I am afraid of dogs.
2. Ben walks every morning to work.
Correct answer: Ben walks to work every morning.
3. I must work every day from 8.30 to 5.30.
Correct answer: I have to work every day from 8.30 to 5.30.
4. Why do you always look so boring?
Correct answer: Why do you always look so bored?
5. There was a long queue of people in the bus stop.
Correct answer: There was a long queue of people at the bus stop.
6. Everybody blamed me on the accident.
Correct answer: Everybody blamed me for the accident
7. Everybody blamed the accident for me.
Correct answer: Everybody blamed the accident on me.
8. The fridge is not working. That’s because you have not plugged.
Correct answer: The fridge is not working. That’s because you have not plugged it in.
9. Things are not going so well for her. She has few problems.
Correct answer: Things are not going so well for her. She has a few problems.
10. Julia got married as she was 22.
Correct answer: Julia got married when she was 22.
11. They are nice persons.
Correct answer: They are nice people.
12. Three years are a long time to be without a job.
Correct answer: Three years is a long time to be without a job.
13. The building was total destroyed in the fire.
Correct answer：The building was totally destroyed in the fire.

The paragragh：
He sees English as likely to become the “first among equals” rather than have the global field to it…The share of the world’s population that speaks English as the native language is falling, Graddol report in a paper in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.
Correct one:
He sees English as likely to become the “first among equals” rather than having the global field to itself…The share of the world’s population that speaks English as a native language is falling, Graddol reports in a paper in Friday’s issue of the journal Science.

Generally, older people tend to resist new technology, for two main reasons:age-realated cognitive change and “technology generation”(Rama, de Ridder&Bouma,2001,p.27). Firstly, as people grow old, the short term memory impairment and lower “fluid intelligence” levels make new technology hard to learn (http://www..dcs.gla.ac.uk/~joy/research/2003_hci_international/paper). For example, the IT(Information Technology) field is usually difficult to older people. Since in this field, new things come out every day, older people cannot keep pace with it. Besides, in the field of IT, there are many things to be remembered. Thus, older people may feel neverous and have no confidence in it. As a result, older people tend to resist it. On the other hand, older people may be affected by their experience of earlier. Usually, new technology breaks the rule of old technology. For most of older people, they cannot adapt to it. Older people should see new technology from a different angle respect to the old one. Hence, to some extent, older people tend to resist new technology. Finally, the adaption of new ideas and technology does not occur naturally but results from hard work, trial and error(http://www4.uwm.edu/cuts/bench/change). Also, most of older people have lost that enthusiasm to overcome difficulties. In conclusion, age-related cognitive change and “ technology generation” are the two main reasons why older people tend to resist new technology.


Referrence:
1. Rama,de Ridder&Bouma,2001,p27.
2. http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~joy/research/2003_hci_international/paper
3. http://www4.uwm.edu/cuts/bench/change