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Hi all, This is my first official post.

When i mentioned Sydney, What would be the first thing came to your mind? I thought so, your answer is Opera House. No? anymore?Kangaroo?Olympics?Harbor Bridge? Well, my turn now, Australian accent is the first thing came to my mind. You ask Why? Here is my answer: I grew up in East Asia and Europe throughout my childhood and teenage years.As a result, i came a cross people with diverse background. From Africa to America, Asia to Europe. You name it and i w

Hello my friends.

We had a new grammar yesterday. It was about use of "nothing, nobody, anybody, anywhere, ..." . We made lots of sentences. I should write about a festival with this grammar. Do you have any offer for an exciting festival? :D

        Hello,everyone,Long time no see,I have not been coming on here for such a long time since obliging to do the dull routine of everyday work.My English has came down at that period of time,I think it is because of the shortage of practicing with you,dears in English.and things here seem had changed when i signed in this evening,(my dearest niece Mickey,she has changed her picture so that i nearly mix her out,and wondered if there anyone were like her such a lovely kid with industriousness

Hello dear MyEC members,

It's time for another new photo challenge! Viewing others' photos can also be a fun way to learn English. Today, we would like to invite you to create a photo challenge with idioms or phrases as the photo title. All photos posted must use idioms or phrases in the title.

How to participate:

• Upload a photo to MyEC Photo Gallery. The photo must be your own photo. We CAN NOT approve copied photos from the Internet. Check our photo guidelines.
  
• Name the title of your photo an i

First of all, I would like to extend my gratitude for all great persons who manage and administrate this great site .. really I have learned a lot of English stuff here and my English gets better and better only thorough EC than any other English site .. and i am very happy with this blog posted by TARA because it is good opportunity to show you the methods and ways that EC site introduce it to us which helped me to improve English better and better as following:-

1- Learning new vocabularies and

I wrote this blog based on Tara's Practising English Online Challenge. I've added some information and made some amendments from my original blog.

Years ago, I stumbled upon EC when I was looking for an English Chat Room to alleviate my boredom. I met many good friends, but at that time, not many English Teachers or native English Speakers joined the Chat Room. When I re-entered EC somewhere in October last year, EC had changed. I found out many English Teachers and also native English Speakers w

This blog is motivated by Tara Benwell's writing challenge. To be honest, I like writing challenges because you can see different sparkling ideas from different bloggers, and that's really a cool thing!

Hello, everyone! I am Mickey! I joined MyEC during my last summer holiday. It was in July if my memory serves me well. I am writing this blog to share with you my adventures of practising English on MyEC.
You may want to ask why I joined MyEC. That's a question, and I have thought about it every o

I just returned from an excellent TESOL convention in Dallas, Texas. The annual convention provides professional development for English language teachers from all over the world. I always enjoy listening to the ideas of teachers, administrators, publishers, and writers. Like every year, I always come home feeling inspired. 

This year, I attended an excellent session on materials writing. In the English language teaching (ELT) industry, a materials writer is someone who writes materials (tests, l

My wife and I decided that we would attend the TESOL Arabia meetings last month.  It was over 6,000 km of driving and two weeks of our hard earned vacation, but we also got to see Dubai and Oman for the first time.

Arriving in Dubai we had an impressive view (in the dark) of this very modern and very clean city. I took this photo two days later.

We missed the first day of TESOL because the people responsible for getting our exit visas took five days getting our papers so we could leave Saudi Arabi

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While I was in the main chat room yesterday, a fellow EC member asked me to bring up a topic. I told him in jest: “Okay, how about my criminal mind?” He replied with another question: “Why do people kill…commit murder?” In answer, I typed the words “greed”, “power”, “lust”. His next question shocked me. “Will you have the heart to do it?” Whoa! I almost fell off the chair. I was about to answer again when all of a sudden other members entered the chat room and then all I could see were “hi”, “he

My favorite punctuation is a question mark. It's love at first sight, the first time I learnt the punctuations, I fell in love with it. As for the reasons, I can blurt out at least 3.

First, it is the cutest punctuation! Dont you think it looks like a part of our body? Yes, it is like our ear! Looking at your eye, nose and your mouth in the mirror, they also form a ? shape.

Second, it is one of the most common used punctuations. It's like a hook, intriguing your curiosity and make you think.

Third,

That day we met each other for the first time. You were talkative, and I was silent. You asked me if I was ok, and I was curious why you were so brave. In the evening we had our first dinner on our campus together, and we first took a walk.  I remembered you made me blush by asking if I had a boyfriend. And I don't know where my courage came from that I joked back by telling you I had many, actually none.

The second day when I borrowed a poem book from the library, you teased me I was a bookish g

Did you know that our exposure to light can have an effect on our mood?  Sometimes this can be strong enough to make people depressed and tired all of the time. When a person is more strongly affected and feels depressed (especially in the Winter) they might have SAD (Seasonal Affective Disorder).

Now that the days are beginning to get longer in the Northern Hemisphere, many people with SAD may notice an improvement in their moods.  This is even more likely the further North you live.

Lighting in

To Chat or not to chat, that is the question

The chat room here is as good or as bad as you allow it to be.  Not every person who comes here to My EC comes with a good intention.  Not every person is a "good" person.  There are some who come to prey on others.  They enjoy abusing others or they are looking to take advantage or prey on others.  It is up to each person here whether this is allowed or not.  If you permit it, you become part of the problem because you are encouraging it.  Every time

If you want to improve your spelling, visit the following link:

100 Most Often Misspelled Words in English

Good luck! 

Writing - Basics

Each Paragraph should begin with a topic sentence.  It is a general statement that tells the reader what this paragraph is about and what the controlling idea is.  Everything in the paragraph should relate to that idea.  “If a sentence or idea in a paragraph does not relate to the main idea, the paragraph lacks unity.”  You want the idea to be general yet specific enough that you can talk about one subject or aspect.  If it is too general, your paragraph will be too long and cumb

What is the better way to uncover the other seventy-one percent of the Earth’s surface might look like? “Self-contained underwater breathing apparatus,” also knowned as SCUBA, makes it possible to explore God’s mysterious and majestic creation. It is an astonishing and fascinating underwater sport where you are able to witness many plants, corals and beautiful aquatic creatures. Visit shipwrecks or just to experience the zero gravity underwater.

Regardless, when asked whether I would like to take

How do you want to be remembered? Write one sentence in the past tense about how you want people to remember you.

For example: "She was a generous neighbour who was always there to lend a hand."

This challenge may change the way you live your life!

Share your sentence with us in one of the following ways:

3 Options For Joining the MyEC One Sentence Challenge

• Take a video of yourself holding up a sign with your sentence. Read the sentence out loud. (just a few seconds please)
• Take a picture of yourself