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Hello, everybody!

It’s not a secret that EC is one of the best places not only to communicate but to improve your English. To do it we should develop different skills, such as  listening, reading, speaking and writing. It’s great that we have different interesting activities here to develop our written skills.  Our dear teacher Tara has a wonderful ability to find and give us various exciting tasks. We are very grateful to her for it.

But I noticed that only few members here try to improve their s

Please write a caption for the picture in the comments bellow.  The best caption will be added next Wednesday! Thank you!

            My Teachers and friends.

        Oh, I know I need to talk about penguins or another pets like Teacher Tara’s advice. But hihihi….you know, there aren’t any penguins or shark or dolphin (except in Zoos)…..so it’s better if I describe my dogs. Now, first I want to introduce them to you. Their names are Gold and Silver.

        Let’s listen to their dialogue….

Gold       : What’s happen, Silver? You see red.

Silver     : hhh....It’s a stupid question..…Now, I’m so sad and hurt. Didn’t you

Here I'm again to tell you about my 3rd erperince, I skip talking about the 2nd one because my friends are waiting for the 3rd one more. Therefore, I will talk about the 2nd one later on.

In the 2nd of July, I started teaching in an institute. I taught kids for about month and a half. They were divived into 2 levels: Safari 3 and 2. The number of Ss in Safari 3 were just 7 while they were more than 26 in Safari 2. There were 2 different courses for each Safari.

Before starting the courses, we mad

I recently attended a conference in China. Several medical researchers or experts from English-speaking countries, such as the US, were invited to the conference, too. Most of the audience, however, were Chinese. So, you bet there were a few interpreters who helped translate what the English-speaking lecturers were giving into Chinese. Don't get me wrong - I was not one of the interpreters, but I did ask a few questions in English when it was time for the audience to ask.

I asked in English "Dr R

Writing Challenge: Live from the Penguin Cam

dialogue of Penguins

We have 7 penguins; Speedster, Complainant, Yellowish, Cheery, Rational, Crazy and Forgetful.

Please read this dialogue among them.

Complainant:

Please be quiet, Speedster! [swimming fast]

I'm sick to death of your behavior! You should get the brakes fixed on your head!! You're dicing with death every time you are swimming!

Yellowish:

Yes! Last time he frightened the life out of me!

Cheery:

But taking up swimming since he was here

We've done a few serious writing challenges over the last few months, and I'm very impressed by how much you have learned about punctuation, capitalization, irregular verbs and countable/uncountable nouns. This month, let's have a little fun!  

Your Task

1. Check out this Live Penguin Cam from the Vancouver Aquarium.

2. Spy on the seven African penguins for a while. What do you think they are thinking? If they aren't around, it could be night time. Visit again later. Feeding time is really fun! 

3.

I highly recommend English Club (EC) http://my.englishclub.com/ for anyone who wants to become proficient at English. This website will beneficially accelerate your progress in English. However, there are some shortcuts to maximize your English learning potential. These are steps to get the most out of the website.

1. Sign up for free. By signing up, you will be able to use all of EC's great features. One of my favorites is its instant chat-room where you can chat with other learners and teachers ar

          At weekend, where do you like to go?

      Oh, here I don’t mean to talk  about  traveling or picnic. I wanna ask you about the places you go every weekend? Shopping, watching a movie, visiting a best friend or relative...As for me, I really like to come to the babershop for washing my hair and also cutting my nails. I love colorful nails. I have been there many times then I even can paint my nails by myself. But my hubby hates that. He said : there (babershop) is “talkative” hahaha…..i

Dear friends,

I have made a change in this post as, though I had downloaded the link to the website where I found it, I could not pass here the text as it was written there, I should have written it with MY own words. So, as I believe this post is important, I have decided to record it here and I hope you will understand my "so so" english. I guess that is not forbidden by google.
You may think that, maybe, I should have "rewritten" the post but, nowadays, I can't doing it due to a lack of concen

Hi, there!

This is me again. I had posted this previously but I accidentally removed it...So, let's see. my question is: How would you like to be remembered after death? 

I know that thinking about our own death is a little bit "creepy" maybe, but it is important for us, at least to know how people would keep us in their minds, hearts and memories after our death. In my case, I would like to be remembered as a big dreamer, hardworking and self-centered person, of course as a great teacher and mom

Hi everyone. 

I am starting my first entry with a very particular topic that is increasing in my country, Venezuela,nowadays. 

It seems that being naturally beautiful is not enough. The society ( Magazines, models, T.V, movies and some others) is telling us that we need to go through changes so that we can be accepted in this probably fake circle, which everybody is trying to be someone else. What do you think?

On the other hand, I just noticed that having some extra pounds or kilograms of weight i

Dear friends and teacher,

Years ago I wrote this text in my diary; of course I wrote it in French which is my mother tongue. I decided to translate it into English so I could take part to this fun writing challenge Tara gave us. It was not easy at all and my biggest challenge was to use the right tenses. Written in red my new vocabulary.

Wandering around Istanbul.

It has been one month and one week since I dropped off my suitcases in Istanbul, it was the month of May ... the best to get lost in the

Date: July 3rd, 2012
Chat: Food taste, Fast Food
Hashtag used: #foodchat (#FC)
Moderated by: Darius
Chatters: Ario, Grace, Chuck, Jer Targayen

It had been a long time ago since the last time I joined moderated chat. I have been talking with some members who are not regular chatters. They said they wanted to join the chat room if there is any moderated chat. So, I guess someone needs to revive it and asks other members to join.

So, I shared to main room about moderated chat and how to do it. Since,

Dear Tara,

It's really great that you have fulfilled a dream of visiting the Big Apple.  I was enamored of your trip and enjoyed those fascinating stories and photos, particularly the cue cards and that sumptuous cheese cake you shared on MyEC.  Unlike your trip to the big city, last August we took Express Train to visit a small village named Houtong, a paradise of cats, where is located in the north part of Taiwan. 

When we arrived there, I it was hard to believe my eyes that so many people even

Dear Raj,

I have had the happiness of receiving my first letter from EC’s sweet member, you. You know I wasn’t here for a while, that’s why I asked one of my neighbor’s to keep it till I came. I almost lost my hope in getting it in my hands and reading it. But, thank God now I have it.

So, when are you coming here? When you come to Turkey, I will take you to a very beautiful place called Amasra, in the west forests of the Black Sea in the north of Turkey. There, the greatest charm of foliage is ne

You don’t know how strong you are, until being strong is the only choice you have. 

Familiar with that sentence? How strong do you think you are? 

Last week, we had guests at home. My old friends came to our house. We had a good time though their 20 months cute daughter couldn’t come. We talked, we laughed and we ate. It was lunch time so of course we ate. It was a memorable moment, but there was something that I will always remember. It was my dad. He has glaucoma since 2005. Had a surgery, but t

Dear Mark, 

We had a talk about visiting Indonesia this morning, my time. Just do whatever you can do so you can come and visit us, Ananda and I here!!! I know it sounds like I am so desperate to meet you :D But I am! I always wanted to take you to our places where we use to hang out together. Well you know, none other than... Pizza Hut! :D :D Please don’t stop reading and puke :D

Listen, I have an idea. How about we all go together to Karimun Jawa? You know we had to cancel our plan to go there

         My babies,

       First, I just remind you , don’t laugh at my mistakes. Although, I am your sweet mom but it’s not mean : I’m smart. I know, my English is still poor and I’m trying to be good in it day by day. I want you to feel proud of me. And if you find some mistakes, don’t shout them in public, I will be ashamed..ehehe….

       Next, remember, this letter is for all of you. So don’t be jealous of each other. All you are my  kids. I love you equally. No one is much more than other. N