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Writing Challenge: Nations and Nationalities

Expector Smith is EC modrator. He is from China. He is Chinese. He lives in China. His native language is Chinese. I think Chinese is a difficult language to speak! But I really like to learn it:). He speaks English, too.

hoat lives in Vietnam. He is Vietnamese. I have some Vietnamese friends in EC. Thety are really nice poeple:). His native language is Vietnamese.He speaks Vietnamese and English.

Dwika Meta is from Indonesia. She is Indonesian. I hav

As many of you know, I am from Canada. I was born and raised here in Canada. This means I am Canadian. You could also say that I am a Canadian. My mother tongue (also called "native language") is English. In school we learned French as a second language.

Did you notice that I capitalized some important words in that introduction? Nations, nationalities, and languages are all capitalized in English. There are many countries in the world, and English learners often mix up nations and nationalities.

Hello and welcome to Meaningful  Monday!

Today we’ll be learning how to share meaningful topics, through adding a photo we think that it’s expressive and has such importance in our life.

I’ll start this challenge by adding this picture:

Instructions :

•  Give a short description for the photo. (less then 3 sentences).
•  Give a meaningful title to the photo above. (don’t complex it, it could be simple and funny)

 The best title and description will be added to the photo and quoted by the name of member wh

Sophia In The White City - Algerian English Novel

"Oh my God!! 9 am! I’m late!" said I. I’m missing the boat! I decided to visit the library this morning.. backward to my memory "Oh yeah! I didn't feel when I slept, the korean darama was so romantic!.. Oh come back to your sense girl! You have an hour in your hands! It’s Friday and the library will close early, you have to harry up!" I jumped from the bed and run to wash and wear my clothes, "No time for breakfast , let’s have a banana!".

I reac

Hello everyone. 

When you are learning a language, not only English; there is a point when you feel that you are no learning anything new or that your level of English can go any farther. Sometimes, you study but you seem being learning nothing new. You think you are speaking at a natural pace and you believe you understand English not only with survival purposes but also with specific goals. Then, we question ourselves, what can I do if I am not improving?. 

Well, I think many people has been in

@MyEC_Readers:

"Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing." Benjamin Franklin

So let's get started with Hibernate.. You know, it's winter and it's cold! I think you're asleep..If you're reading this, just don't! Go to bed, cover-up very well and sleep!

At least I know that you're sleeping, so I won't bother myself to write to you! Seriously.. What's the use of writing without reading?!

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the most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create to overcome, to endure, to transform,to love and to be greater  than our suffering .

Hello everyone. 

The year is coming to an end. This time is great for new starting overs, for making new purposes and for learning something new. Plus, these days are ful of memories and remebrances, however, for me it is one of the happiest periods ot the year.

My resolutions for next year are: starting a Master program. I want to profesionalized the knowledge I have about English, Spanish and literature. I want to learn a new language. I've always dreamed of learning Frech for me it is so romant

Hi everyone!

We talk to people every day here. We greet them every day. And one of the most popular questions is "How are You?" 

How often do you ask this question? Do You really mean what you ask or it is just to be polite?

  Hello dear EC teachers and friends

          There are many kind teachers in EC who are so interested to share their experiences with others, and this is the reason of writing this blog.

I am a new teacher in university (a math teacher) and I need some experiences in this field.

I would be so grateful to you if you let me know;

-What do you usually say in the first of your class?

Memory

• What do you think is a memory? Fears, feelings it’s when we remember things FROM PAST.
• What are the first things you remember from your childhood?
• What makes memories to become long-term memories?
•  What are the things that you remember just for a short time and what are the things that you remember for years?

These were some of the questions we were thinking about during a class with teacher Mark.

We were sharing some stories from our childhood that we remember. I’ll tell you my story

I was 5 ye

Hello, there!

Do you know what ‘Question Tags’ are? If you do, how often you use them in your speech? And, are you pretty sure that you’ve been using them correctly?

The following videos will teach you everything about question tags!

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When my days end ,darkness falls
Stars lose their shines , become black balls
Then , the death would find me
When I drown in pangs of death
And everyone leaves me
I will be in a dark loneliness
My dear ,I recommend you
To light a candle next to me
To delight my world out there
Then ,purify me by your chaste hands
Coffin me by your old wedding dress
With a touching melody ,recite me holy verse
It might give me everlasting peace
And say farewell to me, with your smiles
With your pink li

Deepawali or Diwali, is the ‘festival of lights’ celebrated popularly in India. Today I'm celebrating this festival with friends, far away from the family.

Office Celebration: Well I have been forced to take part in this activity and literally, I hate it! But at the end, when our team wins the free fantastic meal of 5-Star hotel, it seems to be wonderful idea! :D The whole idea something like, we have to show our creativity by the given flowers and create the best flower pattern. None of our team

[It's time for another guest post on my blog. This time my 8-year-old daughter is the guest. She told me a funny story on the way home from school last week, and I asked her to type it out so that I could share it with all of you. I thought you might enjoy it, and even learn something important about writing. If you're a teacher, maybe you'll even try this lesson! I haven't changed a word.] 

Hamburger Paragraphs and the Grade 3 Teacher

My silly teacher bought two hamburgers at Burger King on Wedne

This extremely good story excellently explains us what does "Hope and Courage" mean ?

" We are sometimes good, sometimes bad, stop grumble and try to see good things from inside of the bad events " said Alice Herz who is 108 year old extraordinary respectable woman.

If you need courage and hope, you should look at her. Another things in her life which deeply impressed me was that mentioned her mother's strength, because her admire to beloved mother was perfectly reflecting my feelings for my dear

Dear friends,

Actually, I learned English language in the past with self-determination and self-dedication. I was really grown up in a different environment, so I practiced only my mother tongue for my routine activities. During this period, I myself collected various bits and pieces that are related to English learning, and I recently thought of sharing these things with others via internet. I know well that I am still a learner, but these stuffs would be useful to someone like me living somewhe

Hi guys :) 

Today I had a very colorful day. And those colors were different people that I met today on Skype. Thanks for this good time and good memories that we will share in future. 

My Skype group Coffee Club is growing and I'm so glad that people find it helpful. I feel I am surrounded with great people and great friends! Thanks to all of You :) 

The human eye is unique compared to that of other animals in the world! Hence, from the beginning, human obtains a special privilege to differentiate the beauty of nature in various angles. At the early stages of social development process, the self-awareness was applied as one of the most useful skills to identify some useful as well as important plants in the environment. Later, step by step, human was able to domesticate different plants species in the kingdom of plants. In this whole expedit