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4 Grammar games for you or your students:

There is / there are - elementary 
http://www.aj3000.org/Engames/There%20is/there_is_games.html

Comparatives / superlatives - preintermediate
http://www.aj3000.org/Engames/Comparatives_superlatives/sup_compar_quiz.html

Listening - In a restaurant - preintermediate
http://www.aj3000.org/Engames/STRW_u6D_dictation/strw_unit6d_dictation.html

Word Formation for FCE
http://www.aj3000.org/Engames/WordFormation_FCE1/fce_word_formation1.html

Writing Prompt ~ So and Such

Such a nice day

  It was such an incredible travel, the last week journey to Australia! There, I could see nearly the most known australian symbols:  the kangaroos. They were confined in  such a large area inside the Sydney's zoo where they had complete acess to several of the best types of green leaves and vegetables.  I confess, at first, I  faced kangaroos like such  angry creatures that I'd  dare to come near them in no way!    But, I  could prove in reality they a

He was burned and melted away meanwhile she talked happily about her friend .Then asked him “ Do you know him ?He is my strength when I am weak and I am his strength when he is weak .He is a very handsome . He is so nice one . He is the light of my way ….. “

The silence prevailed between them on mobile .
Then He said”I wish if I could be your eyes to make you see only me ,
I wish if I could be your arms to make you hug only me, I wish if I could be your mind to make you think of only me, I wish

PUN. (noun) "the humorous use of a word or phrase so as to emphasize or suggest its different meanings or applications, or the use of words that are alike or nearly alike in sound but different in meaning; a play on words".

So yes, today is about puns and some of the illustrated puns by Gemma Correll. I think this illustrator is really funny.

Do you know a funny pun? Share it here :)

To see more illustrated puns by Gemma Correll: 'It's A Punderful Life'.

Doing plenty things in everyday, is kind of tiring. I am a student in the 3rd semester of computer science, as what other majors have done with plenty of assignments everyday, yeah, that's pretty much what i am doing, but not such always. I have few hobbies, and those are pretty much cheering me up. Watching movies, playing game, surfing in the internet. I had been owned a playstation for years, before it was broken. Playstation is very important thing in my life, while i was kid, i could end up

A girl called me on my birthday and asked me, "Snail Q [my nickname given by her], how can you make it?"

"Make what?"

"The friend list has been lengthened so much after I left the site. Much to my surprise, more than 100 blogs come out all of a sudden! ”

“Ah, you are saying Englishclub. It’s you who lead me to a wonderful online world. Thank you, Princess CC [her nickname given by me]!”

“Tell me when did you start those English blogs? There is even a novel, yes?”

“At the beginning of this year. You w

Writing has been my first way to try to communicate with others. As the first time i tried to make myself get used to english, i always wanted to get fluent in it. I am the one who used to write in english informally, which is more likely putting things together as what i see in the movie's conversations and implement its words in my writing, cause i thought, it was kind of cool english i should use.

While i was in the junior high school, my friends always think about me as the one who was exactl

There is room that can produce silence within approximately blocking out 99% of the external sound. The room in Minnesota, reportedly can make anyone who is inside of the room, going to have hallucination and even dimentia for longer time in there. The one who can enter the room, can only last 45 minutes and he incapable to continue. The room called "anechoic chamber". When somebody is being in the room, he can hear his blood circulation, heart beating and so on, which make any human being feel

Having been failed, rejected, broken, and all bitter pain that already experienced before. To try to make our dreams come-true, nothing but failed once again. Maybe we tired of what we get at the time we expect things to turn out to be what we think. Disappointment is always be there, such painful feeling to have while we haven't gotten the expected result.

Look at ourselves in the mirror, and see whether it is going to be better with just giving up and hopeless or try to get up and continue runn

I used to watch television programs which not having any kind of knowledge to get. Things have totally changed soon after i went to my parents' house where located in the capital city of my country. I got plenty of things to watch in payment-TV-cable, you know, it's such great thing to know initially. Let's say, i can watch plenty of great channels which contained by many worthful programs, also including one of my best favourite channel, National Geographic Channel. Okay enough, that's just the

Think of your brain is the most powerful tool to figure out what happens in your life? Let's give a shot of an example, you have your brain to make such inventions, breakthrough, and all things considered as ideas. Well, brain is indeed having the main role in our life, realise it or not, you always use it everyday to do almost anything. But, the brain itself also having the weakness-side, as we may or may not realise it. For instance: Multi-tasking, is a word to describe 2 things which are done

Nowadays, i have been craved to obtain any kind of informations related to how to make an interactive class? I am the one whose current job, as an english tutor, specialized in public speaking, and that's my part-time job actually, also i am quite newbie in such leading a class. I believe that, many of users here, are english teachers or some sort of having the related experiences. My aim is to engage you all, to be part of my discussion here, where you can just simply, give opinions or advices

I am thankful to those who support me on MyEC, and I can say I am lucky. Each time when I post a new blog, they will drop their comments or liking or just read it. This is no doubt a big encouragement for me and it is one of the most significant reasons that I keep writing here.

It's good to see members start their first blogs and the others comment their first blogs with inspiring words. However, some of them just have their first blogs and there aren't any coming blogs afterwards. I assume you

MyEC has almost 100,000^th members and 195 Star Members.

Yesterday I was on Star Member’s page; I asked myself, what am I doing here? Complete silence, again I asked myself, again pin drop silence! Then I supposed everything happen for a reason, for finding this reason, I had checked all pages, nothing found anything strange. Suddenly, Oh My God! How is it possible?

Could you believe this!  Who is short in 195 member list?

 Let me explain you, she is brave, shy and wonderful lady; you hear her giggl

Nowadays, Technology has changed human's perception in seeing world which is different from what it used to be. People needs have radically been changed in what it seems related to almost tech-stuff. Let's make it straight, i will just say that if tomorrow is going to have no internet for a day, i will feel so empty -- like i have lost a half of something great in me.

As what i have been seen in many kinds of cases everyday, it seems clear thing to me, with what exactly i'm thinking and imagining

Things that i have been noticed along with the recent occurances in football, is just how these two biggest football teams, Real Madrid and Barcelona, have their each clash to get ahead of the table-points in a very extraordinary way. But i just want to be focus in Real Madrid particularly. As what you know, this team, has always been attempted to win the league by their buyings.

I don't even have to explain this exactly to them, who pretty much into football. The stunning strike of the recent tr

Many people have asked this question what is the most difficult language to learn. In that regard, many languages have been claimed to be the hardest language to learn, below are some candidates, for a good reason.

According to a UNESCO research, Chinese is the most difficult language in the world. Many factors make Chinese very difficult to learn. For example the characters (Hanzi) used in the writing system seem to be archaic and obscure. Every word is a different symbol and it's not phonetic s

In previous two articles (first and second) I provided some useful tips on how to increase your typing speed and accuracy, adviced a great list of online keyboarding tutors like Ratatype and TypingWeb.

So, in this post I will share top 5 video that you need to watch while learning touch typing.

1. Motivation

This video shows what results you can get after some practice.

2. Tutorial

Watch the basics

3. Repeat the basic typing tips

4. For youngest

Watch the video about the home row keys for the youngest