Have you heard of Fotobabble? This is a really fun way to bring your pictures to life! Fotobabble is free and very easy to use if your computer has a built in microphone. Do you know what "babble" means? It means to talk on and on (often about nothing important).I was very excited to learn that you could embed your photo story in a MyEC blog. You can also share a link to your Fotobabbles via your status update. Try it out! Then come back and share a link to your Fotobabble in the comments below.
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'Proofread' means 'to read through something that is written or printed in order to correct any mistakes in it'. Do you often forget to proofread what you write before publishing it? Many people do. I, in fact, often regret hitting the 'send it' or 'publish it' button before proofreading what I write, especially when I'm aware of or spot some mistakes in it.
So don't forget to proofread your writing before you publish it. Proofread for mistakes such as collocation, grammar, spelling, punctuation,
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On English Page, you will find a Verb Tense Tutorial."Verb tenses are tools that English speakers use to express time in their language. You may find that many English tenses do not have direct translations in your language. That is not a problem. By studying this verb tense tutorial, you will learn to think like a native English speaker."Here is a standalone link to the Verb Tense Tutorial http://www.englishpage.com/verbpage/verbtenseintro.htmlRead more…
A few days ago, I wanted to wish all my friends have a great feast by uploading a photo on their wall. I uploaded a photo in someone’s wall. Then instead of uploading the same photo every time, I copied the code and pasted it over and over on other’s wall. I did so to not waste much time since I have lots of friends. But this fast way forced me to wait two days far from MyEC. Ning disabled my account. They thought I was spamming because I copied and pasted a single message to a lot of walls. I u
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The following small tips are what I have been doing in my daily life to lower the waste as possible as I can. There is no denying that energy crisis is getting a big issue around the world, however, for an ordinary people, the only way I can do is to get started with tiny steps to make some efforts for our environment. What about your ideas? I'll appreciate your opinion on it.
1. Recycle / Reuse: I am used to reusing papers, which are printed only one side, or papers from leaflets or calendar. I
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It was one cold day in December2009, I was scouting for study material online, as I needed more minimal pairs,tongue twisters for my speech classes.I got what I was looking for and browsing further I came across the application to this site.I was not used much to any thing online then, rather to the virtual My Kids International UK English course I conducted as a franchisee.ECwas directly online ,exciting and different, day one onwards ,there was no looking back.
Chatting has become a pleasant past time,for many reasons
To get to know people around the world.Interacting with people, for the pleasure of listening to the distinct accents and speech from all over the world and regions.
Research, Educational purposes and for Discussions.
In a language site as in My EC, where the social club chat room is moderated., how would you my dear EC friends ,react? Is itGeez dead room!No proper topic for chattersNothing much ,very casual, just Hi how are ya? where are yo
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one of my blogs What did you feel when you first time joined MyEC? got a lot of comments. I found fantastic comments of them. they all talk about this site, MyEC. I took some of them below, they are really giving an inspiration for us! ...
please give your opinion about this, you can reply one of their comments, thanks!-Nadiyah-
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Phrasal Verbs: This is a challenge to anybody who wants to attempt it.It is an example of how we English speakers love to use phrasal verbs. They are a large part of our everyday informal conversation. Phrasal verbs are combinations of verbs with prepositions (acting as particles or pieces of the phrasal verb) to change the meaning of the original verb. For example,"When do you normally get up?" "Get" normally means "receive." But this phrasal verb usage actually means,"When do you normally aris
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... how easy it is to get Definitions on the Internet?If you use the Mozilla Firefox browser, you can find a definition by typing "dict" and the word you want to define, with one space in between.Ex: dict dread gives you http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery?gwp=13&s=dreadIf you use the Google search engine, you can type define: and the word you want to define with no space in between.Ex: define:dread gives you http://tinyurl.com/2ced4x8Finally, to find Dictionaries of all types, using the Google
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I receive this question every day! What is the secret to learning English? English learners would love to have a magic recipe. They want a fast track to fluency! If only there was an English pill they could take, all of their dreams would come true.Well, we all know there is no English potion or pill. Learning a new skill takes persistance. It involves hard work AND lots of time to play. Of course, there are some tips that can make language learning easier. Have you all subscribed to Josef's 7 SRead more…
Hello dear friends!I have observed that My English Club has thousands members who love English around the world. Each day more and more people join here in order to practice the language, talk to other people, and see what's happened.So, do you think these people have learned more about English? Is this network a tool which can help people to learn? What's your opinion about it?Take care,Joyce Vieira.
PLEASE NOTE THAT DEUCE HAS TRACKED ALL OF THE WORDS AND GUESSES.Here is a fun word game we can play together. Do you all know the American game show "Jeopardy"? In the game show, the contestants see the definitions of words or phrases based on a specific category. ExampleCategory: MoviesSample Answer : "A film about droids in space."The contestants see the answer and have to guess the question. They hit their buzzers when they think they know the word or phrase that is being described. Their ans
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I am leaving my country to move overseas. I will miss all of my friends here while I am away from the internet. My wife and I have an entire house to empty so we can let others live here while we are gone. I am spending many hours every day getting ready.There is so much to do when leaving your country.Many things have to be sold and others put in storage, or given away for someone who can use them. We will recycle all the unusable items, of course.Other than that, I have very busy times ahead,
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Hiya, everyone!I found this wonderful page in Refdesk, that has dozens of links to information about the English language - Style, Grammar and Usage.http://www.refdesk.com/factgram.htmlIf you have any questions, please let me know - including how to find more sites like these.Frank
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An amazing English teacher named Jason recently invited English teachers to share examples of how they use the whiteboard in class. Teachers use whiteboards and blackboards for all kinds of reasons, and the best teachers also share their whiteboards with students! It is hard to imagine a classroom without one. Interactive whiteboards are cool too. I recently read about a school where the whole wall was a whiteboard. Okay, so we all agree that a whiteboard is an essential classroom tool, but what
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I found members of MyEC (new and old members) are still confused about how to post their photos in the MyEC photo gallery. I am giving you a simple example, how it could be done accordingly to the photo guidelines, available at MyEC.
This information should help and facilitate you, when they are posted to the Gallery.
Example :
Note : Why should give the title of your photos?We learn english in MyEC, step by step, through the title of a photo will help you to increase your vocabulary. and for that I
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I have a wonderful resource for you if you want to read books.
Before we go on, I need to make clear the ethics of downloading books, so please do try to understand the difference between copyrighted and public domain books. (There is a test question about this.)
COPYRIGHT: A copyright is the legal ownership of exclusive rights, which is given to the author or creator of an original work. It is only given if the author or artist goes through certain steps toward filing for legal copyright protecti
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You may have probably noticed that I've been trying to use more idioms in my writing (blogs, comments,etc) recently. You may make nothing of it or some idioms may mean nothing to you. But I'd like to put it plainly that I go along with you here: There is no point in using too many idioms in a paragraph. Sorry if I'm driving you up the wall or if I put my foot in my mouth.
But when it comes to learning English, what I just said may make sense. Maybe y
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