"I want something special for my love, a unique design !!"Winning caption submitted by Atika. you're the winner, Atika! congratulations!--------------------------this's my Nadiyah's Wordless Wednesday#8. please give your caption on this picture, I hope your participation ... all the best for you, thanks friend!-Nadiyah-
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The rainy season has started here in the Philippines. After the wrath of typhoons last year, more people now are conscious on how to be ready once a typhoon hit their lands.I believe taking initiative is a must if you want have an idea to prevent the destruction of our lands. One way is to dump our garbage in the right places. People should not throw their garbage in canals and drainage. These could cause flooding and flooding causes a lot of water borne deceases such as diarrhea, typhoid fever,
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If someone tells you that you don’t have much time, just three days to live and you are going to leave this life forever. So what you’ll do in those three days?You would…? Travel? Ask your parents forgiveness? Apologize to someone you’d hurt? Marry? Go to nightclub? Do a party? Ask forgiveness from you God? Or what?Share us what you'd do in those three days, day by dayI'm eager to see your commentsSkoon...
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I teach English in a school where a majority of the students are first generation or at best second generation learners of English. English is not the mother tongue or any of them but they all are to take English as their first language.What I have experienced as a teacher that Instead of treating English as a language we have treated it as a subject. Let us not discuss why we have done it, let us concentrate on what best we can do to treat it as a language instead of a subject.The basic skills
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The Internet is a good thing. We can’t find so many information in the libraries, as we can in the Internet. It is a powerful base for education.In the Internet we get to know all news – for example, if the victims of some disaster need helping, they often get it thanks to publicity in the Internet.Freedom of speech is a great advantage! We can express one's opinion freely, communicate with each other, even when we are in polar spots of the planet. How many hap
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I'd like to tell you about Russia's education at first.
Thanks to advice of Reiziuh, I convert my comment into the blog.There are many features of Russian education, similar with those in other countries while there are some differences.1)Nowadays, there is a lack of kindergartens, for in nineties many of them were closed. Kids attend them for 3-4 years (since 3 to 6(7) years old). Parents are supposed to pay for it.2)At the age of 6-7 all the children start attending school. There is no strict dRead more…
I have some music on my page and I am transcribing the words here.If you were interested in any of the songs you can play them and read along here.>>See The Sky About To Rain--- by Neil YoungSee the sky about to rain, broken clouds and rain.Locomotive, pull the train, whistle blowing through my brain.Signals curling on an open plain, rolling down the track again.See the sky about to rain.Some are bound to happiness, some are bound to glorySome are bound to live with less, who can tell your story
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2. Open the “Accessories” file then click on “Sound Recorder”
3. When the new window opens, connect your microphone with your computer and then click on “Start Recording”
4. After recording, click on “Stop Recording” and then save the audio file wherever you want by the name you want.
Ps. These photos taken by me through my computer. It has Windows 7 system. I don't know if these steps will work with other systems. but I think they are alike. Try it and leRead more…
The Sick Child By Robert Louis Stevenson (1913)Child. O MOTHER, lay your hand on my brow!O mother, mother, where am I now?Why is the room so gaunt and great?Why am I lying awake so late?Mother. Fear not at all: the night is still.Nothing is here that means you illNothing but lamps the whole town through,And never a child awake but you.Child. Mother, mother, speak low in my ear,Some of the things are so great and near,Some are so small and far away,I have a fear that I cannot say.What have I doneRead more…
Dear Friends,The reasons to use Chat Rooms for learners because, English is a priority for everyone..Be it for studies or conversational skills...Some reasons are :* To think in English* To talk in English*To make friends internationally being able to connect with advanced learnersand native speakers* Being able to connect on Voice and improve the four skills-1. Writing2. Reading3. Listening4. Speaking
Dear friends, What do you feel and react on chatting, for the English learners, and the topics
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Here is a work in progress for us to play with in the poetry group. It is nothing elegant, but more or less rhymes. You are welcome to copy it and rework with better wording.It was too long to post in my status and I didn't want to put it in the wrong place in the poetry group.Please do chop this up and rewrite it for practice. It is just for fun and really needs some work.Here it is, a stupid little poem called:English ClubbingIf words express our thoughts of lifeand feelings through both calm
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Hello, my dear friends!You were very witty in Wordless Wednesday #6! I suggest you a new photo! I hope, you will like it!
Please, give your captions to it!Thank you very much!I choose the caption by Monika as the winner's caption:"To jump or not to jump,that is the question."My congratulations, Monika!I wish you creative ideas for My English Club always!
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"Look at my teeth. there is no decay. Because I wash them three times a day"Winning caption submitted by Skoon Al-Bahr, my congratulations for you!=======================this time my Wordless Wednesday#7 , I asked my niece as a model. glad to see she's willing. now I invite my friends here to participate giving caption on this photo,welcome ...-Nadiyah-
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Shadowsthirsting for lightwhilethey dig into the soulhave pulled outthe most beautiful dreamand the deathuncertainremained to contemplate!Stupendous :the soulenchanted for too glow...and the eyesin the limbo of memories...but right nowthere a lot of peace.
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This post consists of the thoughts that I scribbled in April 2010The present condition of Indian Cricket reminds me of a famous poem of Eliot and I would like to share my thoughts about Indian CricketThe Wasteland of Indian Cricket(With Due Apologies to Mr. T.S.Eliot)April is the cruelest monthBreeding hatred and mistrust in benign heartsMixing memory and desireStirring old reminiscences with novel accents.Winter kept them warm…Wrapping distrust in tepid smilesNourishing us with balmy postures.S
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Please add captions to this photo below for the WW competition.The winning caption will be added to the photo next Tuesday.Thank you!
Mommy, don't worry, you can go,and buy for me an ice cream.I have my bodyguard behind me.Congratulations for Karenina for her winning caption!
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The Flowers-Robert Louis StevensonALL the names I know from nurse:Gardener’s garters, Shepherd’s purse,Bachelor’s buttons, Lady’s smock,And the Lady Hollyhock.Fairy places, fairy things,Fairy woods where the wild bee wings,Tiny trees for tiny dames—These must all be fairy names!Tiny woods below whose boughsShady fairies weave a house;Tiny tree-tops, rose or thyme,Where the braver fairies climb!Fair are grown-up people’s trees,But the fairest woods are these;Where if I were not so tall,I should lRead more…
I always wish you in the health and happiness. God bless you, mom ...A memorable birthday gift to my mom!My dearest mother will be sixty years old on August 17th 2010. I have been searching the websites, for the most exquisite bouquet of flowers,to make it the most memorable ever.my friends, would you have any ideas of helping me, to pick out the best gift ever?thanks for participating, my all friendstake great care,-Nadiyah-picture hereRead more…
