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EXAMINATIONS

Khaliqur Rahman

Today I wish to tease you with the detestable necessity in education that we call EXAMINATIONS. Do you know Testing and Evaluation in education is a discipline by itself? Even if you do, how many teachers do, who set examination question papers?

How many examinations are there and how many examining bodies? The students take the Higher Secondary Examination to finish school. Now why can’t they go straight for higher education in professional colleges?  Why do they nee

NOTE: This blog for who wants to join our challenge in A New Word Daily's group. If you are interested and wants to know more about this challenge, please read this blog first!

Hint:

The word of the day begins with the letter “I” and has 8 letters long.

• Their attitude i_ _ _ _ _ _ _s me.
• Perhaps they were i_ _ _ _ _ _ _d by the sound of crying.
• After a while her behavior really began to i_ _ _ _ _ _ _ me.

Can you guess the word of the day?

The word of the day is a verb means “to make angry or annoye

  Well,cause one blog called "  Do you have heart to change these?" wrote by ika aryani.She is tree's lover,haha!yeah! she love the tree,even the beautiful scenery so much.when I told her I lived in a small village which is arounded by green mountain.She is so excited about it! And  I promised her to upload some pictures for her.of course! sharing with your guys!    Look! The first picture,do you find out something special? yeah! Part of mountain is bald.there is going to be built a expressway.A

In the world everything is possible , things are depends on our passion (interest) how we are interest in subject(whatever we are going to learn), but sometimes we have terriffic interest inspite that we are not going very well. how we have to be successor at our job.

which one is the best way to memorize new words (vocublary) how we memorize these word , i tried , but i didn't . this is my first time to wire blod at MEC page.

if here is any mistake (grammatically error) hope my member of EC and f

ARTICLES ARE NOUN-FOCUSSING WORDS

Khaliqur Rahman

INTRODUCTION

We’ve taught English at SECC (short for Spoken English Club & Clinic) for well over two decades. During this period we’ve learnt a lot, as well. We have been able to develop a Pedagogic Grammar and we’ve found it to be very effective in bringing home a grammar point in the minds of the Learners.

They are made to understand that Grammar is the sum total of Core Grammar and Peripheral Grammar. Core Grammar is nothing but what goes with wha

TIME  TENSE  AND MEANING

Khaliqur Rahman

Look at these sentences –

(a)    I am writing this now.

(b)   I am reading Dalrymple these days.

(c)    I am going to finish Nine Lives next week.

(d)   I read in the morning (everyday).

(e)    India plays the West Indies on March 20, 2011. Today, it is March 18, 2011.

(f)    Zaheer comes in and bowls. Watson drives. Tendulkar fields at mid on.

(g)   He used to bowl much faster in his younger days.

(h)   Tendulkar scored another hundred against South Africa (on Mar

TEACHING OF ENGLISH IN INDIA

Khaliqur Rahman

Teaching of English! Yes!!

Have you ever thought about the difference that is there in India between an MA in English and an MA in any of the languages like French or German or Russian or Spanish or Arabic? I’ll tell you, English in India carries the burden of Second Language while all the other languages referred to above enjoy the status of a Foreign Language. A foreign language student is personally interested in the language and is highly motivated,

    well...I am a new comer.I am not familiar with it.when you friends comment on my blogs,but I have no ideas how to reply them.so I can have a communication with you.

    Can you do me a favor?

Here are my Top 10 things why I love MyEC. We might be sharing the same reasons.

1. Being a member of this social networking site, I've met interesting people and continuously meeting different people around the world, with the same goal, to be fluent in English.

2. It's educational. All the things you need to learn are all in this site. Be it on grammar, pronunciation, and articles about the English language. You'll have the chance to learn different places too.

3. You can be artistic. I can

A book is  a treasure,

a friend, an enemy,

a lover, a companion.

All that you read in a book

could be fascinating,,

creative, charming,

suggestive, attractive,

but also pensive,

melancholic, sad,

depressing...

but anywhere, anytime

it's a coffer with

all its treasures.

Alessandra

3/12/2009

I just now noticed that Bianca is not around here in EC anymore.  Suddenly, her comment on my blog is gone. Nadira had mentioned earlier that some guys were bothering Bianca in the chat room few days ago.  I'm not exactly sure what that meant...it could be the reason why she left.  All I know is that everyone is starting to notice her absence.

To be frank, I have not been especially friendly with Bia in the beginning.  I've had grudges against her in the past for kicking a friend of mine out of

Hi Friends,

How are you? Today i am going to discuss with you very important task of our life. This is an important element of our day to day life which gives shape our attitude, alitude and behaviour. Guess what is it? It is our response towards condition. Is we conditioned by condition or made our own atmosphere? Very simple if i asked you this question to you, i think you should say no i made our own environment but before giving any answer let us imaging a condition today morning you and you

Alex has been friends with Daniel and Joel, the past three years. the three of them are always together, sharing and unforgettable. One day, both of them Joel and Daniel separately declared their love for Alex. Alex was confused, which ones should be chosen by, Joel or Daniel? 

Daniel has a pleasant personality, smart and romantic. Joel cool, kind and friendly. Out of both of them, which ones should be chosen by Alex? They both look so perfect in her eyes. Can you pick out one for her? and why? P