[Essay] What is the task?

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Hi!
I've got this short letter for homework...
It says the following:

You would like to travel to Britain where you, want to stay at youth hostels.You decide to be a member of the YHA.(It was unknown for me, but I was going to make it clear, and I reliased, that it means YouthHostelsAssoci....)

  • Please, describe in 50 words, how you would like to spend your time there!
  • Introduce yourself, give your personal data!

And I have the problem with the last task:
  • The best writer will be awarded with a week stay at one of your youth hostels.FREE!

>>>What's that?It's not a task...Do I have youth hostels? :-D I did not know this....I think I won't say nuts, if I say that it is not a good exercise...

So, what shall I do with the last one?
 

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Hi!
I've got this short letter for homework...
It says the following:

You would like to travel to Britain where you, want to stay at youth hostels.You decide to be a member of the YHA.(It was unknown for me, but I was going to make it clear, and I reliased, that it means YouthHostelsAssoci....)

  • Please, describe in 50 words, how you would like to spend your time there!
  • Introduce yourself, give your personal data!

And I have the problem with the last task:
  • The best writer will be awarded with a week stay at one of your youth hostels.FREE!

>>>What's that?It's not a task...Do I have youth hostels? :-D I did not know this....I think I won't say nuts, if I say that it is not a good exercise...

So, what shall I do with the last one?

That makes no sense at all!! As you say, you don't own youth hostels so they can't give away a week's stay at your hostel.

It could be a typo and they mean "The best writer will be awarded a week's stay at one of OUR youth hostels" but that only makes sense if the competition is being organised by a company which owns youth hostels.

I think you need to seek clarification from your tutor and make it clear that the task has been badly written.
 
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Thanks, I thought the same, cause I didn't know about owning any hotels by me :-D Anyway thats a great new for me, cause it means, that I'm free for the rest of today. But if it would be a typo, I couldn't do anything with it...Cause it haven't gone to be a task this way.Not?
Thanks, the answer again!
 

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Thanks, I thought the same, because I didn't know [STRIKE]about[/STRIKE] I [STRIKE]owning[/STRIKE] owned any hotels. [STRIKE]by me[/STRIKE] :-D Anyway, that's [STRIKE]a great new[/STRIKE] great news for me, because it means (no comma required) that I'm free for the rest of today.

But if it would be a typo, I couldn't do anything with it...Cause it haven't gone to be a task this way.Not? - I don't understand these two sentences at all.
Thanks again for the answer [STRIKE]again[/STRIKE]!

I'm glad you have the rest of the day free. I have made some amendments in red to your post. Please use "because" in full for now.

I didn't understand two of your sentences at all. Did you mean that if it's a typo, you wouldn't be able to do anything about it? "It haven't gone to be a task" is not correct and I can't work out what you meant to say. We also don't say "Not?" as a question.
 

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I meant, that if I agree it as a typo, and use it as OUR.(Not your).It won't become to a task...So this part of the exercise, stays bad this way too.
 

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The comma in the first sentence is wrong too.
 

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What do you mean by "task".
 

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I also don't know how you can introduce yourself, include your personal information, say how you still spend your time in England, and do all this in only 50 words.
 

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I think it might be 50 words on what they'd do and the personal information wouldn't count towards the total.
 
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