Reflections from VCU English Language Learners

Instructor: Audrey Short
English Language Program
Virginia Commonwealth University
Mon Jul 27

Speaking reflection, week 5. Cars

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spanishsara:

On Sunday morning, I was speaking with Julia, American tutor of a group from Saudi Arabia, about american cars. We were on the road and we could see the majority of cars were enormous. The most of them are four by four. She told me that Americans need cars so big, because they transport a lot of things; sometimes, things so big like boats. Then, the potency for them is very important.ipotesis: But also, They are worried about their car´s image. If you observe the road, almost alll cars are clean; so clean, that their are shining with the sun. We were thinking about the reasons of it; we found two posible hipotesis: 1) because you can find in every gas station a cleaning system cheap,  fast and very easy to use it. 2) Because the day before it was raining a lot,then, all of them were clean. We were speaking about cars, roads, speed limits.. It was very interesting. 

 I see that a lot too. But I sometimes think some people don’t need big cars.  I drive a small car because I don’t really want something too big.  But my car isn’t American it is a German car.  It is lighter so good for driving a lot while saving gas than driving a big SUV or truck. Someday I would like a bigger car but only If I have a family that needs it.