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My poem - THE PRETENDERS

                THE PRETENDERS

 

Beyond the fake words we hide our feelings,

we feel stronger but our behaviour has no meaning.

Pretending we are superiour and unbeatable,

shaking inside with the frear, feeling miserable.

We wear the phlegmatic cold mask on our face,

to protect ourselves from the big disgrace.

It isn´t trendy to show the emotions and the fear,

so bye bye sincere people - you all should disappear.

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As any student soon discovers, English has a very rich vocabulary. But obviously, it didn't get all of its words at once. Most of the English words were gradually developed, some adopted, some simply invented.
By understanding these processes, you can get greater understanding of the background of English.
 
More importantly, by looking into the origin of single words, students can gain deeper understanding of t
 
Let's look at a practical example.
 
The student is studying a new word for them - "guard
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Love is A Beautiful Pain

"When love beckons to you follow him,
Though his ways are hard and steep.
And when his wings enfold you yield to him,
Though the sword hidden among his pinions may wound you.
And when he speaks to you believe in him,
Though his voice may shatter your dreams as the north wind lays waste the garden.
For even as love crowns you so shall he crucify you. Even as he is for your growth so is he for your pruning.
(...)
But if in your fear you would seek only love's peace and love's pleasure,
Then it is better fo

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Teacher Appreciation Week!!

Hi ALL!

First, THANK YOU....to fellow teachers out there on Englishclub, also those who are not "official" teachers, but offer so much to the Englishclub community. Sharing your passion is so wonderful!

The US recognizes this week as National Teacher Appreciation week, with today (May 6) being it's official day. I would love to share my link with you to read about this wonderful day, and have the opportunity to share the love with a special teacher you know. You can share the link (the buttons are

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happy

If you have the power to make someone happy, do it. The world needs more of that.

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James Joyce

I will not serve that in which I no longer believe, whether it call itself my home, my fatherland, or my church: and I will try to express myself in some mode of life or art as freely as I can and as wholly as I can, using for my defence the only arms I allow myself to use-- silence, exile, and cunning.

I do not fear to be alone or to be spurned for another or to leave whatever I have to leave. And I am not afraid to make a mistake, even a great mistake, a lifelong mistake, and perhaps as long as

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Top Thesis Writing Resources Online

The benefits of using online thesis writing resources are irrefutable. To emerge triumphant in this research challenge, students need to arm themselves with such resources and optimise their own research talents.

Collated below is four of the most useful thesis writing resources for you!

Online manuals/handbook

The most intricate details of your thesis will always be answered by your institution’s Thesis writing handbook or manual. Apart from the printed ones that

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Dynamic = moving or changing.

Stative = having a state,

Dynamic verbs are verbs that describe an action, not a state.
For example, "They are crossing the street."
 
Stative verbs are verbs that describe a state, not an action.
For example, "I love the winter."
 
Here are some more examples of dynamic verbs:
Take, break, eat, jump, work, find, buy, dance, fish
 
Here are some more examples of stative verbs:
Be, want, hate, know, own, sound, prefer, seem
 
Now, compare the following two passages.
 
The first pass
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My First Journey

I just came back from applying a driving licence. It seems that today It is not my day. I walked into the department and pressed a queue ticket. The officer ran to me and said If you came for applying a driving licence, Please came back tomorrow because our system was fallen.

I am a bit disappointed but It means, i will have time to review a written test 1 more day. 

Please advise my egnlish writing. thank you so much for correcting me.

^_^

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a challenge

i did it....i tried myself and i did it...i was working on different recording sites and at last i  did it..and then an idea crossed my silly mind...what if i invite ppl to record their  most favourite poems in english and do the recording...? like this...

Never Love Black Eyes
Avetik Isahakian

Never trust black eyes.
Be wary. Be warned.
Their darkness is a deep,
endless night.

Never love black eyes
where demons can hide.
Just look in I my heart
and see why.

It is a sea of pains
that proves
what tur

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Dear Captain,

Summer is coming, and I plan to learn swimming. Mom has already promised to teach me how to swim as I begged her for a while. I can't wait to start it! To be honest, recently I am excited. You know, I like to learn new things.

I am happy for my promising coming days, but at the same time I am worried for Dongdong, the little boy, my new neighbor's son, who I mentioned in my last letter. Last Sunday when I came back home, I just found Dongdong lying beside the door of his house, sound

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If you don't know who that guy from Malta is, or you know you have pronunciation difficulty with these long and short vowel sounds, then make sure you check out my Sunday Suggestion post:

Don’t be that guy from Malta, Pronunciation of /ɪ/ and /i:/

The post includes a funny video showing pronunciation disasters, and the problems these disasters can cause.... examples and tips for pronouncing the words correctly, a video, and exercises to practice in my "gym" !

Happy Sunday, enjoy the tips....and of

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Hi

Helloo My name is Annika. I am a new user here. I would like to improve my english writing.

Could you please help and correct my english writing in the future ? 

thank you so much

^_^

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Brazil's world cup

  

  This year going to happen in Brazil the world cup, and the government is investing a lot of money to build soccer stadiums, but it's generated manifestations in the whole Brazil, because the brazilians have no investments in hospitals, schools and safety, and other thing that happens in the Brazil are several thefts of public money that are happening together with stadiums construction. But on the other hand will be a good occasion for other people to know this beautiful country called Brazi

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Inner feeling

I can hear somewhere very far away from me alarm clock but I am so tired to turn it off. Suddenly, I realized it all and I am totally lost. The mornigns are always the worst for me. To accept the reality. Just… why me? Why I got so deep? I feel like soon I will reach the bottom, bottom of my empty soul, which is trying to fight, using the last energy. But how much is left? Few seconds, minutes, days? Hard to guess because the feeling, unbearable feeling I feel on my chest is like a huge stone wh

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Japanese events in April and May

One Japanese event in April is  the Hanami. Japanese people eat and drink under the cherry blossoms. We call this Hanami.
One Japanese event in May is the Flying Carp. Flying carps  are decorated in the bigining of May and they symbolize the hope for social success and health of young boys because a folk story said that  carps  could only go up a certain fall and so that they could become dragons.

 

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Psychologist says:

#If a person laughs too much even in stupid things, he is lonely deep in side. # If a person sleeps a lot he is sad.# If a person speaks less but speaks fast, he keeps secret.#If someone can't cry, he is weak .# If someone eats in an abnormal manner, he is tense # If someone cries on a little things, he is innocent and softhearted. #If someone becomes angry over silly or petty(small) things, it means he needs love.... try to understand people more....

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A Cake

A foreign language is like a little dragon living in your mind.
Even if you feed him every day, it will always be hungry.
I guess it's better to kill him.
But my heart's too weak to do that, so it is still with me.
Now we put the second candle in its cake.

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((My English book ;)

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The Paragraph and the cow

 I was reading through a joke in a magazine. It was in Bengali. I don’t know if any of you have heard it before but I tried rewrite it in English to share it with you all. I hope you would like it!

Once a teacher asked his student to write down a paragraph on cow. After some minutes the boy came back to the teacher and submitted the paragraph. The teacher asked him to read it aloud. Then the boy started to read it : “  The cow is a domestic animal. It has two eyes, four legs, two horns and a tail

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