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During our China visit, of course, we had some fun and tension along with our busy schedule. Here they are.

1. On the flight from Dhaka to Guangzhou we passed through a storm. I always get tension during air journey. So, you may understand how I felt. I just hold the front chair and remembering the name of the Almighty. But, some people had no tension at all. They were about to go to WC and got rebuked from the air hostess. And, on the other hand, I was dying in my deep down...lol

2. For the first

This is MARY's comment on Waht deos dyxlesia kloo lkie?

"I wanted to comment here before, but I made the mistake to try to 'solve' grammar problems in a blog here, and I just got a brain attack.... I'm recovering now, so excuse me if my comment is kind of clumsy haha

Fortunatelly, now we know that dyxlesia is not an obstacle to reach your goals. And it's far from being an intellectual limitation!

Bill Gates, Graham Bell, Edison, Einstein, Newton, Steve Jobs, Beethoven, Mozart... all of them were ge

Back in 2006, Scholz & Friends, an ad agency, (more like Yogi Bear & Friends, Ha ha!) designed an ad campaign for a German recruitment website called Jobsintown.de. They came up with a slogan roughly translated as “Life’s too short for the wrong job.” The pictures are sort of self-explanatory. It is painfully obvious that the people in these photos do not seem happy. Duh! 

Quick question: You're stuck with a job that is sucking the life out of you. There are two options available. Naturally.

A) St

Sarah Andersen (the illustrator of this comic strip) speaks my language!

Honk the horn if this happens to you too! (Beep, beep!)

Have a lovely weekend lil EC birds! :3

Thanks for reading!

blog post dedicated to Behrad, because he likes Sarah Andersen's funny stories as well! :)

Most learners want their writings to be corrected by a Teacher of English, an English Native Speaker, or at least a member who's fluent in English. But you may see this rarely happen here. Have you ever thought why? Hey, who doesn’t want to be taught English freely?? Your writing may be understandable enough. Maybe it's about the language, not always the grammar. I think it would be a hard work to correct all the writings by the non-English Native Speakers. :)

You’re very enthusiastic in learning

My dear friends! I decided to join my “star husband”, Danny  Clark,  and to teach you some English, too. As I have been teaching English grammar and training for TOEFL for many years, you will be getting mostly grammar-based tasks from me. So, let’s start!

To begin with, here are 10 sentences. There is at least one grammar mistake in each of them. So, your task is to find the mistakes, to correct them, to explain them (if you can) and to give your examples.

For example:

The given sentence:

He left b

      This morning I watched a  nice  performance. "The  secret garden"it's taken from a book byFrances Hodgson Burnett.

Do you think  Mr Craven   was a good or a bad father? 

Sizda Bedar is an Iranian festival, held annually on the thirteenth day of Nowruz, Iranian New year. People leave houses to join nature, and spend the day outdoors. It is an ancient ceremony and a public holiday.

Today, (the thirteenth in outdoors), I woke up and felt my eyes were very itchy, because I’m allergic to spring……I went to a Day-night pharmacy to buy eye drops, there were two girls working in the pharmacy, one of them was working with a laptop, she was crying quietly!

I asked another

One day my brother brought a puppy in our house.I really hate dogs and I am scared of them too.All of them agreed to keep the puppy because its cute and I was the only one so, had to agree.They kept his name Hachi.

I had no problem when my family is there because they will do everything with him.But when they are not at home it was a great torture for me because I had to clean his dirty stool where he will pass it everywhere.Then, after cleaning his stool I will beat him like anything.

I continued

I bet it was hard to read the title, wasn't it? Your reading speed was interrupted as you were trying to 'decode' those weird-looking words. Very frustrating, huh? This is how a dyslexic feels every time they want to read something. Welcome to their world! Dyslexia is a general term for disorders that involve difficulty in learning to read or interpret words, letters, and other symbols, however, that do not affect general intelligence.

Daniel Britton created a font that shows how difficult it is

Dear members, you could use the next phrases to diversify your English.

I feel like a pizza

For example:

Let’s go out for a dinner tonight. – Yeah, sure! I feel like a pizza.

I am in the mood for chocolate

It means that your soul wants chocolate (It is my daily phrase  :)   )

I am craving a donut

For example:

 I am craving a big juicy steak!

I’m dying for a cup of coffee

For example:

I’m dying for a cup of strong black coffee.

I would like some water, please

It is more polite tha "I want"

Would you like some

Text 1:

You know, before knowing someone new, it's always advisable to have a haircut and have a bath because the first impression is what sticks. Try to have a rest before coming to get-together. Nobody wants to look at you with that sleepy face when talking. It's not that interesting indeed! New friendships can make you have a good time if you really want  how to have a healthy relationship. If you want to be a dear person try to have  sympathy for your new company, otherwise you'll always have

habitat |ˈhabiˌtat| (noun) the natural home or environment of an animal, plant, or other organism

destruction |diˈstrəkSHən| (noun) the action or process of causing so much damage to something that it no longer exists or cannot be repaired

The combo is always bad news. Every day there are fewer places left that wildlife could call home. This is due to human activities—like agriculture, oil exploration, or water diversion. Such activities make it extremely difficult for animals t

 A Busy Street:

I am once again in that street where I first saw you.  It is one of the busiest places in the whole city.  I remember the smile on your beautiful lips.  Even today the slight trembling of your lower lip tickles my entire self.  I remember you were strolling in the street, which was looking narrow and so small because of heavy rush of traffic and large number of people, who were passing through it.  The street is in the center of the city, and you were the center of my attention.  

We have been in Beijing twice. First time We just stayed for one night. But second time we went to roam around. Our hotel was near the airport.On the way we found every transport had to go through checking before entering Beijing.

We arrived at noon and went to Dicos to have launch. Then our hosts told us to get ready to go to see''Great wall''. Hey, we were not in proper clothing. So, we argued with them. And, told we want to go next morning.

They became a bit disappointed but accepted our demand

Have you seen lately anyone with a semicolon drawn on their skin?

This is the story about a nonprofit movement started in April 2013, in honor to Amy Bleuel's father, who took his own life, and to give voice to her own fight with mental illness:

"The idea was to encourage anyone haunted by these demons to draw a semicolon on their body, photograph it, and share it to encourage love and to inspire."

Why a semicolon?
This 'movement' took the semicolon as symbol to the choice to continue life, beca

There comes a time in any student's life when they know it for a fact that nothing's going to save them but a miracle.  This guys is a student. Let's call him X.  

X's got a big test tomorrow, but is he going to study? Nope! Why? Simple. 'Cause those videos on Youtube are not going to rate themselves, okay? X decides to watch all seasons of (name any popular TV show you know) until his eyes start to water. He downloads Top 100 songs of all time, he plays a little air guitar, he sings, and dances

During our China visit, we stayed most of the time in Tianjin. It is a port city. Our seminar was about economical development for Bangladesh. So, we visited its free trade zone, special economic zone, scientific park etc. But, of course we  got chances to do shopping, eating outside and to roam around in some important places of this city.

In the very beginning most of the tress were barren. But after some days we enjoyed blossoms. Though not sure about their names. Some flowers were deep pink,

Hello, old EC members and new EC friends. 

Old EC member may remember that titling a blog as "Wordless Wednesday" was meaning a sweet activity long time ago here :D. 

To explain more to my new friends here, the "Wordless Wednesday" game is about a blog with a photo that has no words to describe... Visitors of this blog will be asked to put the best caption on the photo. And later, the winning caption will be used as the title of this blog... 

For more information, please visit this: Wordless Wednes