ESL Blogs

      When I was a child, I always look up in the sky and wonder How are the stars? Is it nice or ugly? Hot or cool? Dry or wet?.....and maybe all my life then I can not answer my questions. But in return, today, I become the star on EC for my effort.

      So, my friends, Please listen to the star’s story from  the beginning....

      As I said I was born in the home town and we had a big courtyard (it is for the harvest but the house is small). Every night, my parent laid sedge and all my family

The last time I went to a teaching conference I wrote a blog post called IATEFL Wordle Reflection. I created a Wordle with a bunch of words that came to mind from my trip. Then I invited MyEC members to guess why I had included each word. It was a fun post for three reasons:

1) It became a memory page for me to visit regularly. 

2) It provided useful practice for English learners. 

3) It inspired other teachers to try a new activity in class. 

I've just returned from another teaching conference, and

Story about my painting - Dawn in Bastakiya

I was always wanted to paint something about this place, something which make me most remember about this place. Then this memory popped out from my mind.

February 2012, one night in Dubai at the end of winter. I was walking alone at a place called Bastakiya. All alone at the corner of the promenade. Obviously I have nowhere to go. I have nothing else to do. Just sitting watching dhows goes by. As the night getting colder, velocity started to perished. A

It’s an incident of my childhood at my age of 10.

My mother lashes out me because my sister lied saying I dropped her ugly stupid doll in water. I was furious and decide to immediately leave the house. This wrathful idea always lies somewhere in my mind. I am provoked into a suicide attempt; to leave this world which is full of lies all around. Nobody cares and loves me in this world and I was just beaten like a donkey. I lay aside all my belongings which have lain in my pockets and leave a suici

As many of you know, we have a NEW Dictionary App on MyEC. We've experimented a bit over the past few weeks to find a good place for it. The best place seems to be where it is right now, on the bottom left.

When we first added this Dictionary it got in the way of the main chat room. Thank you for your feedback. When we removed the Dictionary, many of you were very unhappy! We're glad you liked it. We looked for a better solution.

The new placement does not get in the way of the main chat room, or

Many groups on MyEC use Audioboo to embed sound files on MyEC. Audioboo recently made some changes. To embed on MyEC, you must do the following: 

1. Record your audio. Click on Embed. 

2. Choose "More Options". 

3. From the More Options section, choose "Flash". Copy the code. 

4. Click on the Media box and paste the embed code.

Here is the Audioboo video tutorial. Please note the change to embedding Audioboos. 

Have fun! 

We all have certain words that send us to the dictionary over and over. Sometimes it's a spelling problem. For example, I have trouble spelling the word "definitely". Other times it's an irregular verb that causes the problem. No matter how many times you read the rules, you still have trouble remembering. Are there certain words that you avoid because you don't want to use them wrong? For me, it's "lay" and "lie". Let's get these words straight once and for all! 

Your Task

1) Review EnglishClub.

        I have joined here for 7 months. I really enjoy our club. Sometimes, when I read/answer some funny comments then I laugh by myself. My husband was surprised (oh, because I'm online in my free time of work day and my desk and his desk is opposite) , he asked me : “Are you crazy, Why do you laugh by yourself?”. Lol…I can not explain him, here I will show you some funny situations that I have.

1. Become a baby.

       Last time, I used my real own photo for my avatar and some my close friends tr

If you're on twitter, give this fun tool a try. I was sad to see my interestingness so low! Fortunately, @EnglishClub gets an "interestingness" rating of 100%. In other words, you should follow @EnglishClub.

I burst into tears when I saw the Academy Film Festival gave the best foreign language award to an Iranian movie called “A separation.”

I do not know why I cried so much. Maybe because I felt we are really forgotten. No one sees us even in the weather forecast of the International news. The meteorologist usually skips over Iran. Not so many people know us. To my surprise, when I took my Canadian citizenship oath, the citizenship officer asked me where Iran is. “Is it Iraq?”

Moreover, when I show

I recently came across a wonderful blog post by English language teacher Chiew Pang. Chiew is a famous blogger in the international English language teaching community. He interviews teachers and shares lots of great resources. His recent post "Know your photos; know your camera" on the ELTPics blog was full of great tips and ideas for teachers. I asked him to rewrite it for English learners so that I could share it with all of you. I was so happy that he agreed! If there's one thing I've learne

Correcting Commas: Example Sentences

1) In a list:

Home, Learn English, Teach English and MyEnglishClub are main menu of EnglishClub.com, and MyEC, My Page, Blogs, Photos, Videos, Chat, Forum, Members, Groups and Invite are submenu under the MyEnglishClub main Menu.

2) Between 3 or more adjectives or adverbs:

Most of MyEC's members are very helpful, hilarious and nice to each other.

3) With two adjectives:

Robbie always writes attractive and colorful blogs.

4) With numbers:

On MyEC there are 116 star me

       My close friend Spring wrote a blog share us your opinion please. which described some people’s character. I see it is attractive and I will do the same as her. Of course, here is the Net, everything is a virtual world. You can not recognize the inner of people. I just share my feeling about them with my humorous sense.

       My Teachers :

* Tara Benwell : to do so many works for us and is a beautiful Teacher : affable, helpful

* anele : : to welcome new members and always call me Miss Viet

Dear friends, May peace upon you!

Below images are the pages from ‘just for Kids’ of the March 2012 issue of English monthly magazine ‘The Trend’. It is an Islamic value based magazine publishing in Sri Lanka, which is having international readers as well. I am having a response to manage the above ‘just for kids’ pages. (I am not the publisher or this is not my own magazine)

I have requested from all of you to contribute articles, poems, quizzes, puzzles or any that are suitable for students who

Winning caption by Anele: "Life is not always a bed of roses .......sometimes it's a bed of stones and rails...."

Hello all MyEc members,

I'd like to give this challenge a try, but with my little adds. 

I'm going to show up my infographic about my friends' personalities in one blog. The surprise is that I'm going to start it by describing my personalty. 

I'm the pearl of Yemen.

That is it. 

Yasemine is a hard working twin. She seeks to know everything can help her to stay firmly in this life. ♥

Expector Smith is a resourceful and helpful  friend who presents more in a gentle way.

The smartest use of a life is to

Today, I'm going to talk about raw doughnuts.

Check out this short clip from You Tube. Which one would you like to eat?

Here's a picture of the cross-section of a raw doughnut.

        I am still learning English and when I write blog or chat to my friends. I always need the dictionary with me. As usual, I use it on my computer or my cell-phone. Since EC has dictionary in the right of my computer. It is helpful/convenience to me. But hihihi…as I said above. My English is still poor so sometimes when I want to find some words and if I type wrong words that I can not find what is it? I mean : look at my example : “comfor” instead of “comfort”. Then my dictionary will ask