I've spent a bit of time in the chat room over the last few days. I know that MyEC is a great social network for English learners and teachers, but I also know that we can do a better job of keeping our chat room focused on English learning. Many chatters have requested moderated chats. A moderated chat works best when a specific topic is chosen. For example, every Wednesday English language teachers participate in a moderated chat on Twitter called #ELTchat. We have a different topic each week.
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Do you all know about the NEW feature in the MyEC chat room? It's the "Ignore"button.
To find this button, make sure you have popped out of chat first.This will make the chat room window bigger.
After you pop out, you can see the names of the people you are chatting with in the main room and in private rooms. Click on a name to see the drop down menu. Choose Ignore.
Why would you need to "Ignore" chatters in the MyEC chat room?
- They are using abusive language.
- They are communicating in a language
We finally announced the 2011 ESL Site of the Year winner! Congratulations to PhraseMix! Please take a moment to check out this great site and congratulate Aaron. You can find PhraseMix on twitter or Facebook. Thank you to everyone who took the time to participate in the poll. We truly believe this website deserved to win!
Each month EnglishClub looks through several websites and chooses a Site of the Month to review and feature. Check out this month's winner. If you have any suggestions for sit
Dear Yasemin,
After reading Naveed's blog, it made me more and more eager to write you though I have no idea what to write, but in the end I decided to open a blank page and start typing. Who knows ideas will push each other out of the way in their eagerness to get to this page.
Well, let's see what do I have in mind... What about valentine Valentine's Day? :S Don't lose your appetite to continue reading it please, though I don't hold out much hope you will enjoy it actually *_*
I never feel the ne
Dear Navedoo,
Fancy seeing your letters again, because I haven't talked to you for yonks. First of all I should ask for your forgiveness ; As you know it's all about time, but for sure I will call round sooner.
I can't tell you when I remembered this history that was one of my selcouth Diaglyphs, I was like :"I'm done up like dog's dinner". At that day, I had prepared a shopping list with beef, cheese and some meat. I still have the image of your disenchanted face looking absolutely stunning. Wel
Dear EC,
First of all thanks and congratulations to you for taking a place in my favourite websites list ! It was a time when I searched and went through many websites for improving my English skills. Do you know that most of the members who visit you become your fans and love you. Do you know that if I write history about SN, you would be at the top. It's my luck to see myself as a star member among all your superstars & starts. The information, knowledge, news and all the things I'm getting f
Dear Ultimate,
In response to Tara's writing challenge about uncountable nouns, I am writing this letter to you depicting a fiction story about an incident, that might test your patience.
Do I need to mention the time when you were caught shop lifting at a store. I did not know what had gotten into you. Your conduct was dubious from the beginning of the day as you came out of your house dressed as an Eskimo while I was pondering how hot the weather was.
Since the heat was unbearable, we got into a
I wanted to join this month Writing Challenge, but I was confused to whom I should write a letter. Luckily, one of my dear friends, Surawan apparently also wanted to join this challenge. She asked me to write a letter for her.
Dear Ann,
I'm glad to hear news that the flood in Thailand is over now. I was shocked when you told me for the first time about the flood. I was sad to imagine how much damage your country was suffering during the flood. I can't imagine if I were you and needed to be evacu
Welcome to the first Writing Challenge of 2012! This year we will be focusing on some specific problems that I noticed in your writing in 2011. Each month I will challenge you to become an expert in a certain aspect of the English language.
This month we are going to work on uncountable nouns. Do you ever catch a friend using the word informations? What about the word advices? These are not English words. Information and advice are uncountable nouns. They don't have plural forms and we treat the
EC chat room has changed!!
I was shocked!! I was like this when I got in to main chat room today...
Actually everyone, not only me, we were all got shocked...
Then the next thing we did, After we were able to control ourself, was trying to find out its feature and trying to get accustomed with that. It was fun to explore this new look. There are some useful things such as "Ignore" button so you can ignore people whom you do not wish to talk to on your private room.
It looks on your home page
Well t
God please help us..
Raining season this year cause flood in my little town Rangkasbitung on saturday January 14th 2012. The people in some places move to the higher land. the flood happens at my school too. the water is around 80 cm high at the classroom.. we are still cleaning all stuffs here..
I bet you all know it is January 17th, but do you know that some of EC members celebrate their birthday this month? (well, of course there must be one or two lol) Anddddd really some of them are celebrating their birthday, TODAY!! Yesssssss, today, on January 17th. They are people I love, my dearest dearest dearest ones ^_^
Here they are, let me introduce you all to the birthday boy and birthday girlssss :)
Winning caption by @Amirhosein: "The world is full of red lights which want to stop you, or maybe yellow ones which pause you for a while. But the truth is, there is always the green one."
You can create a Wordless Wednesday challenge on your own blog post too. If you don't have a photo of your own to use, try ELTPics. Learn how to use ELTPics in your blog posts here.
I wanted to thnks all my EC friends for helping me improve my english ..... yesterday i did my first presentation in english infront of too many people from different countries and it was awsome , My professor was surprised !! 2 years ago i was not able to speak english at all but since i joined EC i learnt too much and i took away my shyness now i am able to speak without fear but with great love and motivation , thnks to all my EC friends for your help and great encouragement and motivation :
Please write a caption for the photo in the comments below. The best caption will be added to the picture next Wednesday.
I just returned this week from a trip to America. My wife and I went there to see our daughter graduate from university. This is a photo of her about the time she started going to the university.
I also went home to see my family and friends. I will tell about that part of the trip later.
I started my trip in Jeddah, KSA.
From there, my wife and I flew to New York City.
We got to see two of my wife's sisters while we were waiting all day for our plane to Texas. Here is my wife and her sisters
I have just changed my profile photo (avatar) - this is the first time I've ever changed it!
I bet you are already familiar with my old avatar, and some of the members here (like anele) may not really want me to change it. I don't think it's a good idea to change one's profile photo frequently, but it's quite acceptable to change it from time to time. Actually, some of the members have suggested I change it. I never changed the photo because I think it may make it hard for other members to easily
Hello my dear EC family,
Today is the last day of the year 2011, time to say good bye 2011 and happy new year 2012. And today I am so glad to say that I became one year old on EC. heheheh..It was the same day a year ago when I joined EC with having the purpose of improving my English skills. After looking on internet for English learning site once I came across EC, in the beginning two - three months I was not very familiar with EC and I was a big addicted fan of Farmville on Facebook and after
Hi! I'm Robbie, am a proud member of MyEC. Since this year is coming to an end, let me share to you some of my activities that I had accomplished from being an active member. I considered them as my adventures of learning.
- I uploaded my videos.
Making a video about learning English wasn't an easy task. It took me a lot of guts, hard work, and determination to have one. The Learning English Video Contest 2011 inspired me to share my ideas about blogging. Though I didn't get the prize, I'l
Thank you to all of the MyEC members who have taken my Writing Challenges in 2011. I enjoy reading and correcting your writing. You inspire me! You should be very proud of what you have accomplished.
We are coming to the end of a year, and it's time to reflect on the past and prepare for the future. One word that helps us do this in English is the word "if". Do you know how to use this word properly?
Your Task
1. Review the structure of Conditionals on EnglishClub.com. Take the quiz to check your
