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I'm not the only English language teacher who likes to challenge people! Many English language teachers are bloggers. They challenge each other to blog about different things. Today I read a challenge by a teacher named Adam Simpson. I added it (and revised it slightly for MyEC purposes) to the Challenge Group. Please check out the instructions for the challenge before you read my post. 

11 from '11: 11 Great 2011 Posts by Members of MyEC's Writing Challenge Group

1. January: My Advice Give advice to

+ I learned that the mind is like a field, and every idea that we think about it for a long time is like watering, and we will get only what we plant either good ones or bad ones.

+ I learned that in schools or universities we get lessons then we do exams, but in life we face exams then we learn the lessons.

+ I learned that a simple conversation or a short dialogue with a wise person equals a month’s study.

+ I learned that it’s not important where you are now, but where are you going in this mom

i remembered that during my high school days, my English was super bad and i meant it was really really really bad. i wrote triple 'really' so that you can imagine how awful and terrible it was.

there was once, during English examination, we were asked to write a narrative essay. we were given few boxes of simple cartoon pictures along with some short notes stated under each picture. it was a story about a thief who entered 'my' house during midnight.

i remembered how struggled i was to write e

Hi everyone!

I would like to invite you all to take part in a research I have done with English students from My English Club about the English learning process. So, please, just answer this questionnaire, if possible.

Thanks in advance,

Joyce Fettermann.

This challenge was held a long time ago by Nadira. And some friends already shared their experiences in their blog posts. Actually, I wanted to write about this topic, but I felt hesitate hesitant. Some other friends already wrote a pieces of information that I thought was helpful for us.

So, I decided to not not to write about this topic and stop repeating what others had written. However, I finally found several things that I would like to add to their blog posts. And also, I want to practice m

After I finished writing my latest blog about my experiences on main chat room, I read this term: cyber-bullying on a local newspaper. Somehow, I noticed that this term is suitable to describe some rude behaviors that I saw on my virtual life whether on MyEC, Facebook, etc.

What is cyber-bullying?

Well, cyber-bullying as explained on Wikipedia is when people use technology such as Internet to do or support hostile or rude actions like humiliating, abusing, intimidating, etc. Some people think that

Here you have it.

This is what 6 months of bombing of civilians by NATO was all about.

Winning caption by English teacher Bart Bonomie: "What's the area code for heaven?"

You can also upload your own Wordless Wednesday photo on your blog! Challenge your readers to write a caption. 

Image via @ij64 on ELTPics. 

Check out: How to use ELTPics images in your blog posts. 

I was browsing a great post called Top 100 Tools of 2011 and I came across a tool that I thought would be very useful for us on MyEC. It's called Embed Plus. This site allows you to make a few changes to online videos before you upload them to MyEC. You can upload edited videos directly to the Video Gallery or embed them in a blog post or comment. It only takes a few moments to make the videos more user friendly for English learners via EmbedPlus. Here are 7 Things you can do with this tool:

1. C

Hi guys,

Are you a teacher, employees who have many co-workers and colleagues, students, a housewife,  activists or have many friends? I challenge you to participate in the photo challenge this month. This is an exciting moment that you can create and become unforgettable memories.You can also invite your spouse (husband or wife and children to take part at this challenge).

About my photo
I'm a teacher in Junior High School. I created this competition and have taken pictures which was included

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'