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 Sometimes I think tomorrow is better and everything is waiting for me at the end of the road. However, the road seems endless. I am in no control.........

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Hi everyone, 

Have you heard the NEW EnglishClub Learning Song that Jonathan made for us? 


It would be fun to make another version of this song with the help of MyEC members. Do you have any ideas? Here are two ideas.

  • a karaoke version with MyEC members singing along
  • (Remember our version of Heal the World that Junco organized? I listened to it today and teared up a little.)
  • a version with MyEC member pictures (perhaps members could hold up a page with their country on it or their favourite thing a
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Contentment Is Bliss~!

~The discontentment and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.~

I found this quote on Internet, it inspired me to share my views on it.

Lets just suppose:

A person, brought up in a peaceful and simple atmosphere surrounded with people who are not running after any competition like high standards of living or a luxurious life. He/She  has the basic needs of life like; food, shelter, education, clothing and a reasonable job. Such a person with a mild or simple life style would have

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talk tomy best friend

Postby tom » Sun Mar 17, 2013 3:29 am

Hello to whole EC people!! Dear friends, co-chatters and those I don’t know yet!! I am writing this blog to inform all of you and also to warn the female part of EC to be careful from the member named Salem Al Matari. Let me tell you how I got to know this person. He came into my private many months ago asking me where am I from and what do I do and so on. And when I told him I am Armenian a miracle happened!! His mother appeared to be “half-
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Dialogue Challenge: Earth Day

It is sometimes useful and fun to practice dialogues with someone. I have been looking on the internet, but haven't found many for higher level students.  I wrote this one today and offer it to you to practice with.

If you want to, you can write a dialogue of your own and share it for others to use. You can link it to this blog in the comments and we will all try help you correct your grammar and make the dialogue sound like natural English speech.  Anyway, here is the one I wrote today:

EARTH DAY

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my self introduction

Hi everybody!This is my personal introduction.If I make English mistakes,please point out and correct it.My name is Sam,I am from Hong Kong and I am studying a college but I face a big problem that my English is poor.This make me hardly keep up with the lession. I really feel stressing out.Hence, I decide to learn English harder.I give all of you a promise which I will keep writing blogs so that I can improve my English quickly.
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Worshipping

Man is the most insane species, He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature 

Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping, when I read this good thoughts then immediately create picture in my mind, really it is very true because in world, I saw many time destroys a visible Nature for God, It is not good for Nature I think we will try to save nature for good health every one Nature     

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Writing prompt: similar but not same!

I have been trying to write this part for a few days but it seemed a vain attempt! But, right now, I am determined to complete it. Okay, today I want to say some of my favorites. I like to taste mangoes. Here, mangoes are available during summer season. And, once I watched a quarrel  between a snake and a mongoose, believe me, it is true!

Do you like pig? You may like it but please don't be a prig. Anyway, I like to take a walk on the green grass and I like to watch grasshoppers and like to see p

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Saint Martin´s Day

Today´s day is in the Czech Republic celebrated as SAINT MARTIN´S DAY. In this blog I would like to share something about this festival, which is full of the traditions. However, I think first of all it would be polite to introduce you Saint Martin. Well, he lived in the 4th century, was born in Hungary but he spent most of his life in France as a soldiar, later he became very famous bishop. There are many legends about his life but the most popular one is about his cloak, so let me tell you the
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A vein of sadness runs through his words. He felt his veins and tried to cut them off. Danim had a wish to study and research on Venus and explore few places like Venice, Nepal and Naples. He wanted to visit Greek, it was important for him but he felt impotent himself in-front of his father. His father was against his tour to Greek but with the magical use of potent words he convinced his father. In the backyard he found an old torn book with some patents signed by a Greek writer. 

  • Venus: It is t
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EYES - Interesting Facts, Idioms

It is said that EYES are the window (or the gateway) to the soul. We can see in them love, hatred, happiness, disappointment and many many other feelings. Our eyes can reflect emotions hidden inside of us hence sometimes one look into someone's eyes can say more than one hundred words.We were given sight to be able to explore the beauty of this world and to enjoy our life on the maximum. We take it as something common what is the part of our everyday life. Anyway, how does it feel to be blind? H
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            people that love each other and can't be away from one another and they are there for each other in all their life from the moments of happiness to the moments of grief in the time of loneliness and the time of need they give each other help and support and even some hope , those can't take apart from one another ,and those that everyone should keep . family my friends is all what you need , I consider all my close friends as family , so you my friends are the ones that I will keep .

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~ Chpt 39 : Later @ Laters ~

Hi Its me. Its sure has been a while. (^_^)

Last week, i have read a book and found this word. Its strange because i have never come cross with that words and it makes me confused.

I search those words through internet but have different meaning and here i thought it is the same.

The words are Later & Laters

Later  (source: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/later)

  1. comparative form of late: more late
    You came in late yesterday and today you came in even later.
  2. Afterward in time (used with than when comparin
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1. Don't use me during school examinations

I can be used for cheating on school exams. I have the ability to cheat on exams by sending the right question answers via SMS among several classmates at a glance.

2. Don't change your study for me

I'm skillful to distract while you're doing important daily activities like studying. With thousands of new applications and games everyday  I tent to not let you study all you should, and so, you can't get a good grade whether you're a college or high-school s

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You may have learned English for years or ages, but you are still unable to speak it fluently or you still find it difficult to understand what other people are talking about on TV or radio. If you are just one of them, you should try to ask youself if you have failed to pay enough attention to the pronunciation, or if you have tried to pronounce every new word. 

I know a lot of learners of English can read and understand quite well what are written on paper, but they are weak on speaking and lis

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Necessary vocabularies to make a dress.

 Okay, let me try again. After my first blog about making a dress, I tried to learn some new vocabularies. Now I want to come up with them.

 First we need:

1. Cloth/ Fabric (cotton/ twilled/linen/georgette/knit or whatever you wish)

2. Pattern

3. Needle

4. Measure tape

5. Scissor

6. chalk

7. Yarn/Thread

8. ribbon

9. Twill tape

10. Zipper

11. Button

12. Elastic

How to sew?

 You may sew your dress in your own hand or in a sewing machine. there are different types of sewing machines:

1. Hand machine

2. Foot machine

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