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 Interesting Facts in Easy English: Race Car Is A Palindrome

Discussion Question: Which do you prefer, playing with numbers and numerical puzzles, or playing with letters and words? Give some reasons for your preference.

    Definitely, numbers and numerical games don't take part in my personal taste, although I consider them very important for all humankind. Imagine if we don't have a solid numerical system these days.  As society, we'd be in trouble, I suppose it was a complete shuffle in our ec

Writing Prompts ~ Capital I

  As every commited language learner I really love the wonderful language learning world,  especially the world of the English language. One of the hardest "problems" that I face in my personal learning is the issue of the correct usage of  definite article "THE". I know it can be a silly thing, primary thing, thing that almost all beginner learner has already  in mind  long time, but, the truth is that in fact, I also  have problems with this three-letter small word w

This Blog on "Diwali" am writing for the comments of Mickey and Sima on "Happy Diwali" Blog....

Diwali is regarded as one of the most important festival of the Hindu calendar. It is celebrated across the nation with great pomp and excitement. The festival is mainly associated with lights as it is called the festival of light. On the day of the festival diyas (small clay lamps) are lit in everybody 's home irrespective of their social status. The name Diwali signifies 'rows of lighted lamps '. Diw

I read this interesting little article which was shared in the Facebook. It was about Ten Rules for Being Human written by Cherie Carter-Scott in ‘Life is A Game, These Are The Rules’. I hope all of you will enjoy these rules.

1. You will receive a body. You may like it or hate it, but it’s yours to keep for the entire period.

2. You will learn lessons. You are enrolled in a full-time informal school called ‘life’.

3. There are no mistakes, only lessons. Growth is a process of trial, error, and exp

 

Hi, there!

Today is an exceptional day for the founder of My.EnglishClub.Com, the Administrator and all the Members of the club as MyEC crossed the 100,000 Members Milestone. I think it’s an honour and privilege for us to congratulate MyEC on this special occasion!

How lucky we are to have MyEC, a site that is dedicated to promoting lifelong learning – mastering English in particular! As we all know, it espouses the notion of equal opportunity for all in the language. The interesting th

Listen To News: Mexico Considers Soda Pop Tax ~ 29 October 2013

Discussion Question: Is taxing unhealthy food or substances a good way to improve the health of citizens? Why or why not?

  In fact, the issue of consumption of  junk foods and unhealthy beverages is a serious problem today, and in my opinion some immediate provides should be taken. Increasingly, we see all over the world, many of the disastrous consequences of the excessive consumption of "the global culture foods" like high rates of

Are you new to a country that celebrates Halloween? Here are some questions you may have. 

When is Halloween?
October 31st. 

What is going to happen on Halloween night in my neighbourhood?
When it gets dark outside, kids will dress up in costumes and knock on doors. They will ask for candy. If you don't want to hand out candy, turn your lights off on Halloween night. Don't answer the door.

How much candy do I need? 
It depends on your neighbourhood. Ask your neighbours how many kids they usually ge

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

Listen To News: Polio Outbreak Feared in Syria - 22 October 2013

Discussion Question: A director from WHO referred to the "duck test" in a response about this possible outbreak. Why would he use this expression, and what do you think he meant by it? (The duck test expression goes as follows: "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.")

  I suppose this director has intended to say  the polio case in Syria is a real situation, proven fact, only

How does writing on MyEC help you to  connect with people? 

    First, I have to say that my particular  finding of writing as a delightful way to learn and connect to other people from all around the world is a  recent find, because for anyone who wants to write nicely it's demanding it has a satisfactory reading level, what I  really didn't have sometime ago. How can we intend to write something if we have nothing in mind to base on? For me, It's just unthinkable you write with no reading backg

October 20th is a special day for writers! Writers around the world, including English teachers and students, will be sharing how they use writing to connect with others.

I would like to invite all MyEC bloggers to join this month's writing challenge. Let's show the world how we write to connect with other learners and teachers from around the world.  

Your Task

1. Create a new blog post. Use the title: Writing Challenge: Write 2 Connect

2. Write a few paragraphs to answer this question: How does wr

This story is somewhat late in it's posting because my own thoughts and emotions needed to compose it properly. Honestly, It should have written it more than a few days ago. At least it's still September.

Our good EC friend (Helen) inspired me to finally write it.

On the morning of September 11, 2001, I was awakening to a fresh cup of coffee and simply watching the news before the day's work began here in California. Suddenly, it was interuppted by breaking reports that New York City was exploding

After writing blogs about dogs and cats, it seems unfair not to write a blog dedicated to a mouse. You have to admit that Mickey Mouse is cute too. LOL

Did You Know?

1. Mickey Mouse

Did you know that the most popular mouse is the Mickey Mouse? LOL. I think our ⊱ Mickey ⊰ will become the second most popular 'mouse' after this. There are few selected fun facts about Mickey Mouse that I want to share with you guys.

a. When the late Walt Disney drew a mouse, he wanted to call it as Mortimer Mouse. Howev

Here's a fun Halloween activity that we can do online. Grab a partner and some colouring utensils. Let's draw!

1) Draw a monster. Use as much detail as you can! 

2) Pick an online partner from MyEC.

3) Record (or write) instructions about how to draw your monster/alien, and send it to your partner. Don't show your picture to your partner (yet!). You can also give instructions via the chat room or Skype/Facetime. Describe your picture to your partner. Be specific!

4) Take a photograph of your pict

I just realised that there are a lot of idioms relating to dogs after I had written a blog about dogs. It does not seem fair, right? LOL. So I make my mission to write things about cats, and of course, only the great and wonderful things. LOL

Did You Know?

1. Fun Facts about Cats

Did you know that there are many fun facts about cats that most of us did not know. I would like to share some of them, and the rest you can search them yourselves. LOL. Well, maybe you can click this link to read some of

I want to dedicate this blog to 'man's best friend' which is a dog and sometimes the natural 'enemy' of a cat and which always bullies and chases cat. Just to show no hard feeling for a dog. 

Did You Know?

1. Man's best friend

This is one of the best term describing a dog, however, that reference is basically can refer to any animal that performs valuable service to humans. The affection for dogs as pets is pretty recent trend. Previously, dogs were mostly used as hunting dogs and defense dogs rath

Writing Challenge - From the News Archive

Cruise Ship Disaster in Italy: 17 January 2012

Discussion Question: Should a crew wait for all of passengers to be safely off board a damaged vehicle before abandoning it? What about "survival instincts"?

 In order to answer the question I'll try to be reasonable , because this question faces complex human issues: right to life, right to security, right to protection to name a few.

 I notice when it comes to the wreckage of the cruise ship "Costa Concordia"

You bring light to EC with your presence

Your perfect views on imperfect world make these tired eyes see differently

No matter how much we are going to miss you

Your Mom and your sister are going to miss you more

My dear Grand daughter, Noorany

I don't have a single bone of a poet in my body

But how I wish I can write a beautiful poem for you

I know EC had brought you joy

and EC had brought you pain

But what I know for sure

EC was brighten for a while with your joy

with your blogs

with your poems

Now purple

This writing challenge is based from an article Organic Foods Have Same Nutritional Value in Listen to News : dateline September 4, 2012

Discussion Question: Do you choose organic food over non-organic food at the grocery store? Which types of food are you most careful about buying?

I believed in order to answer the discussion question, first we really need to fully understand the meaning of 'organic'. In this term, 'organic' means the way that agricultural products are farmed and processed. In or