ESL Blogs

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

Since it is month of October - month of Breast Cancer Awareness. I would like to share with all of you the Top Ten Lessons I've learned with this Book.

1. Be active with health

First, Nordie's Noon is an inspirational book written by four women courageously struggled breast cancer (Jana Peters, Patti Balwanz, Kim Carlos and Jennifer Johnson). The word "too young for cancer"strikes my attention to keep on reading it till end. As a woman, I must be aware

of what's happening inside and outside of my b

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

Hello, my name is Sohail Noor but most people call me SONO. I was born on Feb 10, 1990. I live in Afghanistan, with my big family. I live with my mother and other relatives (grand mom, uncle, aunt ...).

I don't have any brothers or sisters so that's a bit boring sometimes but I am not sad about it because I'm not that kind of person. I'm an active, easy-going and talkative person and I love to talk with new people.

I am self-confident. That's why i think i different from other students, but so

Dear MyEC friends,

We were very sad to hear that we have lost Sweet Nikki, a wonderful member of MyEC. Sweet Nikki's best friend Jane has informed us that Sweet Nikki passed away a few days ago following a motor vehicle accident. To all Sweet Nikki's friends and family, please accept our sincere condolences.  

Please take a moment to read Jane's note on Sweet Nikki's wall. You can leave a message for Jane and other friends and family members on Sweet Nikki's wall or on any of her pictures or blo

What you will plan and prepare when you are invited by one of your friend's to a birthday party? What clothes would you wear? Of course you will look as beautiful as possible. To attend a birthday party of one of the MyEC members, you just simply have take pictures and upload them to MyEC Photo Gallery.

Yesterday was DM's birthday, but It does not mean there is no party, you can attend in your own way and I challenge you to participate. Who is Dreamer Man? He is an active member of MyEC, friendl

1. Don't judge people on the way they look

 As we were kids, my mother always told us not to trust people's appearance. And to help us to understand what she was meaning, she told us the story of an old man she knew who looked and lived as a tramp but in whose house his family found millions after his death.

2. Never wast food

My mother was quite strict and when my 5 brothers and sisters and I were sitting around the table for the meal, we had some rules to follow. one of them was to empty our plat

As you all know by now, Steve Jobs died on October 5th at the age of 56. I learned the sad news last night.  I was walking in a charity event for cancer with my family in Toronto. We were walking in memory of my mom who died at the age of 51. Thousands of people were holding red balloons that lit up the night sky. As we walked past the cancer hospital where my mom spent many days before she died, a girl with a blue Cancer Survivor T-shirt looked at her iPhone and gasped. I turned around and hear

Hello my friends!

When passing by your precious blogs and discussions, I sometimes come across some mistakes: grammatical, spelling and others concerning structure and punctuation. Every time that happens, I feel like I need to correct them; howerver, I hold myself back and say," What if my correction hurts the feelings of the person in question; what if that person feels like his/her English is not good and stops writing again." To be honest with you, I won't be able to live with this burden. As

Hi, my lovely friends..I've just got this nice picture a few days ago. These guys are my nephews.Hope you like it ;)

As usual, your commentary and caption are required :)

"Tell me you love me or else!"...the winning caption was submitted by Tara Benwell. Well, thanks so much guys for submitting your lovely captions. I owe you a lot..See you on the next Wordless Wednesday ;)

A teacher friend put out a challenge for English language teachers to provide two photos that English learners could use to compare and contrast. Another teacher friend (a member of MyEC) suggested I challenge the MyEC members to take up this challenge. Are you up for the challenge? Here is what you have to do: 

1) Open a new blog post.

2) Post two photos that have some similarities. (your own photos please)

3) Use the title Compare and Contrast.

4) Write a few questions for your visitors.

4) Review

Tuesday, 20 September 2011

I wake up early in the morning, to catch my flight 7.10am. The Taxi driver send me sms that he will come 10 minutes late. I replied him that's ok, meanwhile I take a bath. Make a taxi booking in advance is really helpful.

Of course, there's additional charge for the advance booking service, but it's more convenience than stopping taxi on the street.

"Sir, I'm already in the lobby" , a sms text from taxi driver. After take my warm apple tea , grab my back pack then lock th

Did you know that today, September 21, is International Day of Peace? Some people call it Peace Day. It's wonderful that a club like MyEC has people from so many countries. There are sometimes arguments about race, religion or politics in the chat room, but for the most part MyEC is a very peaceful place. I have learned so much about different countries from all of you! 

Another thing I love about MyEC is hearing the different English accents from all over the world. Many of you have tried using

Dear EC friends,

Better late than never !!! I wrote this post more than 3 weeks ago and i forgot to post it. So here it is. I hope you will enjoy this little Turkish tour.

Today, everything is quite here, it's the third day of Bayram holiday and most people are with their family, relatives or friends. So i was thinking about something interesting i could do on my own and, all of a sudden, an idea came to my mind. Why wouldn't i go to the the open air « mini city » museum to make pictures of som

  It was a beautiful Thursday evening in Manila, Philippines. On that day, I was traveling on a bus on my way home together with my family. My sister and I were chatting about the things we accomplished. The bus driver turned on the TV and switch to a news channel. I remember how the first tower was hit by an airplane. It was unbelievable as I thought. It was like an action movie being commercially aired. The reporter kept on narrating the news and as I observed, all people on the bus were sho

If you have your CHANCE now, take it.

If you want something, nothing can STOP you.

Don't leave your life to FATE and DESTINY.

It is always your CHOICE. Take CHARGE.

Do what you can now. Do what makes you HAPPY.

If you get beaten, then you'll know it wasn't for you.

At least there won't be regrets.There's always a RISK. But not taking that RISK is an even bigger RISK.Have a nice day my English club^_^