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I  used  to  believe that a family

was a mom, and a dad, and 2.3 kids,

and  a great  big   station wagon or a mini van

And a house and a dog and a cat.

But now I've seen  lots of  families,

I  know it's not always like that

Because a family is what you make it.

It's you and your loved ones, whoever they are.

You've got to give and take it.

With understanding and love, your  family's gonna go far

With undrestanding and love , your  famly's gonna  go far

I  

The Importance of learning  the English Language

Learning languages is especially essential today. Foreign languages are needed as the most efficient means of information exchange.

English is undoubtedly the main international language of communication in science, technology, modern literature, and music, business and mass entertainment, fashion, sport, politics, , maths ,logistics (moving goods from one country to another), aviation.

It is also the language of UN (United Nations) and many other po

Dear Captain,
Guess where am I! I am by the sea which is 10 minutes' walk from grandma's house. Which sea are you at?
The summer holiday is almost over, I have enjoyed a carefree holiday though. I just had my dinner. Right now I am sitting on the beach, barefooted. It rained during the daytime. Now it's windy and cool. When I was going out, grandma stuffed a cluster of grapes into my bag. Hehe, would you like some?
As for grapes, I think of a tale that grandma has told me before——The Weaver Gir

This is a really tough one....

If you ask me, if you are a teacher for more than 10 years, you simply cannot avoid burnout...

The thing is how to get over it. We all come up to a point when we feel tired, sick of what we do and complain all the time about everything. And that happens of course just because we are tired....

How can we return to our old selves again? There are a lot of things we can do.

I know that this may sound radical, but, if you are really sick and tired of your situation just ch

Armenian is an Indo-European language, and so m

Friends,I am back in EC.Now a days I just hate myself.Because I think,I am a lazy man.You know friends My mind is said to me,You have to stay in EC.So I need a change,I want to stay in English club and I have to take a new step.Now,I understood I really miss Ec.Now, I am back and I will be here.Hence,I need your help for enhancing my English language and you can trust me as a good friend.Please motivating me. :)

Friends,Have a nice sunday.

Mr and Mrs Taylor had one child.He was a boy,he was 7 years old,and his name was Pat.Now Mrs Taylor was expecting another child .

Pat had seen babies in other people'smes. houses and had not liked them very much,so he was not delighted about the news that there was soon going to be one in his house too.

One evening Mr and Mrs Taylor were making plans for the baby's arrival.'This house won't be big enough for us all when the baby comes.I suppose we'll have to find a larger house and move to that;sa

Today I have headache and flu
Tell me please what should I do?

Weather here is so pretty and cool
People, not enjoying it, is really fool

The drops of rain made me so crazy
Flu and headache made me so lazy

Everybody is going out to enjoy
Mom says me to go bed and lay

She says I m here, my son, with you
All happened maybe good for you

God does not want to pain you
It maybe His strategy to save you

The doctor, I went,  had also flu
Oh my God! now what should I do

The story, I told you, is r

Cereals provide nutrition for mor two billion people and their production is in excess of one billion tons annually.Without the cereals, civilization as we know it would not exist.

          I am not able to remember exactly when I fell in love with Rain but I can say how much I love this natural scene. People say “If you want to see the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain”. That’s why I get crazy about rain naturally, even intensely, for the comfortable feeling after the rain when I walk out cheerfully and enjoy the great cool atmosphere or just to feel calm deeply from my soul about a better stage afterwards. You may say I’m odd and stupid or a kind of too romantic

This Slideshow on the BBC News sites  "More than a Handshake" discusses some of the cultural differences among nationalities in a business setting.  If your country isn't listed, how are your customs the same or different from those listed?

The U.S. is listed but you will see variances in different parts of the U.S.   The South tends to be less formal in my experience than many other areas.  

I invite him to go on Skype so that we can practise our speaking skills. At first he don't really like my idea and said that he is not really comfortable with his pronunciation. Then I replied and said "that's why we are here at Englishclub to practise our self and to learn more about in English, don't be afraid I my self too I have a pronunciation problem with my words. Don't say that you can't, If you will never try. You will never know." And then I convince him with what I've said.

Conversatio

Summer is ending so both teachers and students should start getting ready for the following school year.
So what I always do is make a list with the things I have to do or I want to do, so I can make my life easier when I start work!

• Check on the stationary, pens, pencils, erasers, markers and everything else I am going to need during the year
• Clean my bookshelves. Every single school year there are books that I don't need, because an exam has changed or a newer version has come out. There is no

When I was still at college, we had to read a list of books, one of these books was "The Metamorphosis" by Franz Kafka.
When you start to read it, it gives you a sense of depression, but in my opinion, all these negative feelings can be turned into hope for the future....
The book is about Gregor Samsa, a traveling salesman, who  n his bed to find himself transformed into a large insect.

This transformation was not a punishment of some kind. It happened because sometimes things .... happen. The s

The paradox of our time in history is that we have taller buildings but
shorter tempers, wider freeways, but narrower viewpoints.

We spend more, but have less, we buy more, but enjoy less. We have bigger houses and smaller families, more conveniences, but less time.

We have more degrees but less sense, more knowledge, but less judgment, more experts, yet more problems, more medicine, but less wellness.

We drink too much, smoke too much, spend too recklessly, laugh too little,
drive too fast, get too

The below list of pronunciation spellings is merely a continuation of the one on my blog "Fun with Phonetic Symbols - #1". Since the maximum characters for the aforementioned blog is used up, I'm forced to open this additional page. To those who are participating enthusiastically in the fun, please refer to the following list as well, in addition to the one on the principal blog! Thank you! Happy learning, guys!   

Pronunciation Spelling from No. 166 onward:

encyclopedia

/ɪnˌsaɪkləˈpi:diə/

     NINA

I am a fourty-five-year-old housewife.  Up until this week , I had never learned how to debate. In school, even at university, often at work, definitely in parent meetings, to say "no" and "disagree" was clearly a big no-no. I think this sad custom derived from the ignorance of debate. It looks to me that debate allows people to exchange their opinions without being emotional. I think this is really great.

I have learned how to debate in English for the first time at university. I took a short de