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In India the phrases black money and white money are widely used to mean 'illegally earned money' and 'legally earned money' respectively. If you look up these phrases in dictionaries, you will not see them in any of them because such phrases do not exist in real English. The word black and white collocate with tea and coffee (we can say black tea or white tea) but they do not collocate with money. 

Likewisewise, Indians drink strong tea and light tea. Strong tea is used in real English as strong

Here's a fun Halloween activity that we can do online. Grab a partner and some colouring utensils. Let's draw!

1) Draw a monster. Use as much detail as you can! 

2) Pick an online partner from MyEC.

3) Record (or write) instructions about how to draw your monster/alien, and send it to your partner. Don't show your picture to your partner (yet!). You can also give instructions via the chat room or Skype/Facetime. Describe your picture to your partner. Be specific!

4) Take a photograph of your pict

I am new here. just four days ago open my account to learn English or thrive with EC member.

Today I faced a problem in EC chat room and want to share with you EC members by focusing myth story.How do I start? Why is it always difficult to start something? I wonder why?Nevertheless, I am going to start it this way. It was an interesting story for me. It was a story of a girl and her family and the society where exist the bad person who belongs to a decent family but their works make them down an

TEAM WORK - WORKS

What is Team work

The process of working collaboratively with a group of people in order to achieve a goad.  Team work is often a crucial part of a business, as it is often necessary for colleagues to work well together, trying their best in any circumstance.  Team work means that people will try to co-operate, using their individual skills and providing constructive feedback, despite any personal conflict between individuals.

The word biblical means 'relating to the Bible' or 'in the Bible'. But if you know a girl or a woman in the biblical sense, it means that you have had sex with her. Remember that the idiom know someone in the biblical sense means 'to have had sex with someone'. You can also use way in place of sense.

  Hi  Richard, It's Sunday and I just arrived at the Moscow Domodedovo Airport .  I will seek for a hotel to check me in after  I write this postcard for you. Right now the sky  is completely cloudy here. The temperature  revolves around 0° Celsius. Tomorrow is going to be a cold and snowy day and It's going to be like this until Friday according to the weather forecast. By the way, when going out the streets I am going to need to wear scarfs, coats  and leather boots. I'm so glad for that, afte

Wait me on the other side

He suddenly fell down after farming. She was so worried than even at midnight she went down the mountain to ask her sons for help alone. That was her first time to walk on the stairs which were hand-carved by him. On the way downhill she slipped and fell for several times. At such an old age, she still kept walking on the stairs in the rainy midnight because she was scared. She was afraid…

He never got up after this tumble. After his death, his kids went through his thing

There are several types of marriage, one of them being a shotgun marriage. Have you heard of such a word?

A wedding into which one or both partners are coerced, usually because the woman is pregnant is called a shotgun marriage or shotgun wedding.

This is an informal word. 

The father of the girl who became pregnant out of wedlock might threaten the man who was responsible for her pregnancy into marrying her by saying that he (father) would shoot him (the man responsible) to death unless he married

I wanted to send Good Morning and Nice Day wishes to my Friends and Sisters here in EC....

So I asked the help of our Mr.Google....He showed me lots of fun filled Cards and GIFs......While enjoying them, I came across this Beautiful Rose...Instead of attracting my eyes with its beauty, it made my eyes filled with tears.....................

MISS YOU MY DEAR PURPLE BEAUTY................

MISSING YOUR FRAGRANCE MY DEAR LIL SIS.......

I just realised that there are a lot of idioms relating to dogs after I had written a blog about dogs. It does not seem fair, right? LOL. So I make my mission to write things about cats, and of course, only the great and wonderful things. LOL

Did You Know?

1. Fun Facts about Cats

Did you know that there are many fun facts about cats that most of us did not know. I would like to share some of them, and the rest you can search them yourselves. LOL. Well, maybe you can click this link to read some of

 Hi guys, this time in my post related to the aviation world  I wanna talk about some of the most known airlines in the present days. Practically all the countries of the world count on at least one airline and that same companies do care for passing on not just comfort, but also compassion and benign for its thousands of passengers that use air services daily. To start with, I'd put in the first position: Emirates Airlines.

 Emirates Airlines is considered one of the world's top airlines because

1. The Infamous Durian -King of Fruits;  

2. Writing Bug;

3. Rin Tin Tin - My English Hero;

4. My Childhood Games;

5. Only In Malaysia;  

6. Festivals in Malaysia;

7. My Traumatic Cat Experience;  

8. Old Wives' Tale;  

9. How to know your Diabetes Level;

10. A Malay Wedding - Part I : The Engagement;

11. A Malay Wedding - Part II : The Wedding

12. Fun With English - Some Mistakes That Really Made a Big Blunder;

13. Moser Light - Is this a solution to a better world?;  

14.The HALO Trust - Endless and Work o

Hand-carve the stone ladder

Over those years, he did an enormous project except for taking care of the family.——hand-carving a stone ladder for her. He wanted to make the downhill way easier and better for her so that she would never trip by the rough stone road which was leading to the foot of the mountain.

Over 50 years, he had used more than 20 iron hammers. He hand carved more than 6,000 steps over the years for her convenience, although she doesn't go down the mountain that much. Moreover, on

Years back when I was walking along a road in Kannur Town (Kannur is a district in Kerala State, India), I heard a roadside seller of books say "All of you know that the act of self-killing is called suicide, but do you know what a self-killer is caller? I am sure you dunno. Never mind. Here's a book that teaches you such words."

Yes, every one of you know that killing oneself is called suicide, but what is the word for a killer who kills himself or herself?

It is also suicide. Yes, this word has

There was a girl who was playing in the park
when she saw a picture in a bush.
She kept the photo but forgot about it until she was married.
Her husband asked, who is that little boy in her wallet.
she answered; "my first love"
then the husband smiled and said .

"I lost this picture when I was nine years old"

Writing Challenge - From the News Archive

Cruise Ship Disaster in Italy: 17 January 2012

Discussion Question: Should a crew wait for all of passengers to be safely off board a damaged vehicle before abandoning it? What about "survival instincts"?

 In order to answer the question I'll try to be reasonable , because this question faces complex human issues: right to life, right to security, right to protection to name a few.

 I notice when it comes to the wreckage of the cruise ship "Costa Concordia"

In one of cities were opened a  shop " sale of wives ," where a man can go to choose wife that he likes and  the instructions says that  :  the man has an opportunity to enter just once to that shop! and he Can choose from just one of the floors he can not go down.

One of men entered the shop of wives to choose his wife. At the entrance to the first floor ,Announcement :

"Women here do not have work and they believe in God "

At the entrance to the second floor Announcement:
"Women here have a work a

Why don`t you gear your goal setting into the timeline

toward Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, Japan?

Commemorating Tokyo`s successful bid to host the 2020

Olympics and Paralympics, the writer will start out

here and now a new corner on Banzai 2020 titled

“ Olympic Shared Targets” soliciting everybody to share

your dreams with the goal setting into the timeline

toward Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, Japan.

The writer sincerely hopes this corner will help the joy

of participation surging up within us and all in or

A girl who is so ugly that she hides from the daylight so as not to scare it away. At night she pleads with the morning star to make her beautiful.

She's so ugly that it gets dark
when she looks into the sky
Then the light is frightened
It shines into her face from below
So she must hide during the day
She just doesn't want to scare the light
She lives in the shadows until the glow fades
She sees a star shining in the twilight and pleads
Paint beauty onto my cheeks

Morningstar, oh shine
onto the visage