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^_^

Hi there!

This is Emma.

Is anyone here right now in Thailand?
No matter what your purpose to be here, I suggest that we could hold a Tea Meeting or a sort of reunion to meet and see each other, we could talk and learn conversational English during the weekend.

If you are up to it - hit me a message or just reply to this message.

Everyone is welcome! Hope to hear from you.

Cheers! ^^

Emma

9/11 attacks -  10 years on.

9/11 attacks - 10 years on.

This 10th anniversary brings back a lot of memories. 

That 9/11/01 was supposed to be a great day as one of my friend and I had planned to go to Germany to spend a relaxing day.
So we headed to Aachen in the early morning and we spent the first hours of the day visiting the city. It was a beautiful fall day and the leaves on the trees were already turning yellow and red, the weather was warm and that special autumn smell was in the air. We

I can`t remember this date, without remember my dream, and that dream is the one that I want to share with you today, I had it two days before the attack, and I never, never imagine that I was watching part of the future.

" I dreamed that I was walking with a lot of people, dressed in white robes, they`re walking silently toward a big mountain that in the top had a giant tree.. it was a beutiful and big silver tree, I walked with them and asked to one of them about their destination, one of them

This month we are going to write about September 11th.  As you know, the tenth anniversary is coming up on Sunday.

MyEC is a great place to share our feelings about September 11th because our members are from all over the world. A member from India will have a different memory than a member from North America. We all bring a different perspective to this historic event. Some of you may have been too young to remember the event, and will have different views about it than those who watched it on

Hello guys,

Doing some researches, I saw a very long word in English on the Internet and had the curiosity of asking if you know a longer one. Here it comes... Neuropsychopharmacology. Really long, uh?

So, have you ever seen a word like this in English? If so, I would love to read it! Share it with us!

Take care,

Joyce.

MyEC Member: Jenny

Country: Syrian Arab Republic 

Motto to live by: Do not give up.

Click:"Spotlight on an EnglishClub Lover" to listen to this interview.

Rajesh: Dear Jenny thank you very much for giving me the chance to enter for the second time in Writing Challenge #34. My questions start now.

Rajesh: I see that you are very active on EC, I read many nice blogs posted by you and I was impressed by some of your blog posts. So, Would you like to tell me something about yourself ? I really

Teacher's Day

Teachers are a significant part of everyone's life. They show us the right path and groom us to become a better citizen and a better person. They teach us to face the most difficult challenges of life and get through them, easily. Teacher's Day is celebrated to pay tribute to teachers, Who have dedicated a considerable part of their life to impart moral and academic knowledge to their students. We celebrate this day in many different ways.

When teacher's day is celebrated in you c

I found this list on www.world-english.org  i thought that it could interest some members here. All the words aren't new for me, but I had never heard those like "alacrity, arcane, brazen, demure"... 

I was surprised to see that some French words as "avarice" and "brusque" are also used in english with the same meaning and that many other have french roots. Amazing !!!

aberration

(n.) something that differs from the norm (In 1974, Poland won the World Cup, but the success turned out to be an aberra

MyEC Member: Nadiyah

Country: Indonesia

Occupation: Teacher of Citizenship

Motto to live by: True friend' scolds like a dad! Cares like a mom! Teases like a sister! Irritates like a brother! And loves you more than a lover ...

Special role on MyEC: Photo Moderator

Popular Blog Post: Photo Challenge#3: Thumbs up to MyEC

I would like to welcome you as our much loved Photo moderator of MyEC.

Nadira : In reality I understand you have majored in Law. What made you become a teacher in the subject of Citizen

Hi, guys!

Allow me to introduce myself. My name’s Gabriel Sowrian. I’ve joined the “EnglishClub” in the hope it will give me an opportunity to get together with like-minded people.

I'm interested in learning and sharing thoughts on how to improve one's "Spoken English". Though my prime focus is the "Pronunciation" aspect of the language, I'd also love to hear from you about other components as well; Vocabulary, Spelling, Grammar, etc.

I'm sure you'll agree with me that learning should be a lifelon

Monday, Aug.22th, 2011.
I learned a very important point in the "Problem Solving" class. According to the professor, if you can not solve a problem, it means you don't have enough information to solve it. So, he emphasized that we had to add more information instead of saying, "I am dumb."

As I thought about it, I found two examples of two scientists that had a great impact on our society. One of them was a Persian physician, Ibn-Sina. Once he could not understand a medical book. He tried to r

First of all let's Congratulate to all star of this month.

DO THU HOANG YEN, Darius, Sarah Greek, Hala J.M, Ohnie, zozo, Rajesh

☎... You are

To MyEC Admin/Moderators or MyEC old members:
Hope you'll never mind my these questions. There may be same topics on MyEc if so kindly post the links.

First of all, after congratulating stars members, they have question, what/how is this ? I don't know?

1. How this function works on MyEC ( who is a star(featured) member) ? I was star member on May and ag