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Have you ever gotten a message like this? 

Hello Dear,

How is everything with you,I picked interest on you after going through your short profile and deemed it necessary to write you immediately.I have something very vital to disclose to you,but I found it difficult to express myself here,since it's a public site.Could you please get back to me on ( here the spammer lists some email address or website) for the full details.
Have a nice day.

thanks
fake name= SPAMMER.

It is more likely if you are a bra

1. euronews, an English site with short and concise news, which help you to keep informed.

2. Weekly News, short audio news reports, where you can also practice reading and speaking with a proper intonation.

3. listen-to-english, a blog with interesting podcasts, which may be downloaded and listened whenever you like.

(many thanks to one of my EC friends who shared with me this site that I like a lot)

4.IELTS listening, focus on listening with practice tests.

5.Interactive health tutorials, practice

In our busy schedule it's really difficult to go to all friends' pages to greet them...I  add this blog because I always miss them and want to greet them even if I'm busy...but it's not worrying I'll be here always to entertain you all with my blogs and comments as much as I can and the main thing is that EC is just like my second home I can't go out from here for long time and it's my English class too, from where I'm learning English.

You are all family of my second home...I wish you'll try you

Winning caption for this WW goes to teacher Tara: "I can't believe she stood us both up!"

Thank You !!

What is the busiest schedule you have ever had in school? To be more clear, I am asking how many classes you have ever taken or taught on a weekly basis?

I love teaching English, but I have been teaching 43 classes a week! That is 23 classes in the mornings and 20 classes at night, each week.

I admit that I haven't been able to prepare for classes the way I would like to.  I also admit that I have been very poor at keeping in touch with my English Club friends since I arrived in Saudi Arabia last

 5 Free Online English Dictionaries for English Learners/teachers:

1. Longman - a user-friendly online dictionary with detailed meanings for each word.

2. Cambridge - providing you with concise meanings and pronunciation.

3. TheFreeDictionary - the world's most comprehensive dictionary with synonyms, antonyms, idioms, etc.

4. Urban - a dictionary with idiomatic usage for the words.

5. howjsay.com - a talking dictionary of English pronunciation.

Winning caption by Valentine: "No panic, we are not professionals, but you are in the reliable hands."

Image by @imadruid for ELTPics

You can also create your own Wordless Wednesday post by uploading an image to your own blog. Invite your readers to write a caption and then choose a winner. Make sure it is your own image or an image you have permission to use. Use the tag wordless-wednesday.

How to write an interesting caption for a Wordless Wednesday Blog: By Expector Smith

Leaders ,trains and Doctors never come on time in India.

Here, I want to talk about doctors. It is an old proverb in India that "Doctor is the second God on this Earth" , and this second God check their patient with their full patience. Doctors working in government hospitals taking full advantage of their job and position, how can they lag behind in compression with other government employees in other departments. "Not to work properly and to be late as much as they can they need in their fundam

This month's Writing Challenge is short and sweet. I want you to practise writing descriptions that are simple and concise. As you know, the human attention span is shorter than ever!

This week I came across an excellent blog post called The 101 Most Useful Websites (thanks @Miss Noor). It's a good blog post for three reasons: 

1) It contains useful information. I just bookmarked it. I also shared it with friends.

2) It's written in list form. (We humans love lists! Lists are easy on the eyes and

Did you notice the new resource on EnglishClub.com about Giving Advice? This self-study resource offers a large variety of ways to offer advice. Let's practise using these expressions.

Choose one (or more) of the problems below. Offer advice in the comments using expressions from the Giving Advice page. 

1. My dog jumps up on people.

2. I always get headaches. 

3. My cell phone battery runs out every day. 

4. There is always too much laundry to do. 

5. My feet are always cold. 

6. Our neighbours don'

Did you know that the last Friday of October is Frankenstein Friday?

Have you read Frankenstein in your own native language? Have you read it in English?

Have you watched a version of Frankenstein? The original version was released in 1910!

Listen to an excerpt from Mary Shelley's novel on EnglishClub.com. 

What is the difference between "hear" and "listen"? Check out English Club's NEW lesson on Hear or Listen. Don't forget to try the hear or listen quiz. After you read the lesson and try the quiz, come back and tell me the difference between these sentences:

1. I hear a marching band.
2. I'm listening to a marching band.



Photo by @sandymillin via ELTPics.

Are there any other words that confuse you? Leave a message in the comments.

Do you add images to your blog posts? Images attract the interest of your readers and make your posts more memorable. It is also useful to have images in your presentations.

Finding images that you have permission to use can be tricky. It is illegal to copy and paste pictures from the Internet if they are not in the public domain. I prefer to use my own images. I know I have permission to use them. Occasionally I don't have a good picture to use for a blog post. I subscribe to a clipart site tha

Watch the video and get your creative juices flowing...Will you accept this challenge?

Characters: Name them yourself. You don't have to use all of the characters provided. Make sure you have at least a protagonist and an antagonist. The images include two ghosts, a zombie, a witch, a jack-o-lantern, and a skeleton.

Objects:  You don't have to use all of the objects, but maybe they will inspire you. The objects here include a tombstone, candy corn,  a skull, a cauldron, blood, and a milkshake

Winning Caption: "I shouldn't have eaten all those insects." by Lord Maurice

Image by @LucyBlakemore via #ELTPics.


You can participate in Wordless Wednesday by adding an image to your blog post and inviting your readers to write a caption. Choose a winner before your next post.

Note: Today's Wordless Wednesday post is dedicated to #ELTPics. This flickr collection is organized by English language teachers. Yesterday #ELTpics passed 5000 photos and had its first birthday! How does #ELTPics work?

Last year on EnglishClub.com we added a lesson on How to Carve a Pumpkin. This year, I recorded an audio track for it. But, be careful...this is not my usual voice.

1. Listen to the recording without the text. (Make sure to turn up your volume to full blast.)

2. Try to catch the gist. What on earth am I saying? 

3. Listen again while reading the 10 Easy Steps. (This is a useful activity. Many English speakers do not annunciate as clearly as English teachers.)

4. If you have a mobile device from App

Hello my dear EC teachers and friends. This is me  Rajesh one of your EC friend/student/younger and this time I really need your help, like you have been doing for me.

What happened to me ?

May be you would have read my blog "Durga Puja, A big festival of India". I had this festival and I had a long holiday. I enjoyed my festival a lot, with my friends. 

Today after three weeks, I had my class. I mostly try to speak in English in my class but today while talking to my teacher and friends, I spoke