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I fell in love with LIE and LAY and in a while they both became mine!

TO LIE _LAY_LAIN (to recline)

TO LAY _LAID _LAID (to place)

My Dear EC friends, I want to introduce you with a rather pleasant and useful story, my request is  the following , please read it carefully and before making any conclusions , read it one more time!

This morning I lay in my ‘’swanlike’’ bed so long I was late for my lessons ..I laid my clothes out the night before so I thought I would be able to sleep a bit longer. I was

hello everybody 

here is my favorite dish, I really love eating shrimp and enjoy it 

what about yours ... share a photo of it.. if possible 

                                                                       sweety 

 Hello dear readers, this week I'm inspired to write something about travels, and to kick off on this subject I decided to talk about "hints" to go almost unnoticed as a tourist in the following destinations: London, New York and Paris. So, let's start right now that!!!

# 1 destination city: London

 tip 1: Don't go out with no umbrella;

 tip 2: Practise your good manners. Always say thank you and "excuse me" all the time;

 tip 3: Never eat a "kebab"on the London streets. It's highly unlikely

Hello Everyone! Welcome to the Blog Train!              Today is May 6th at 6am in China.

In case you don't know what a blog train is, I will tell you. A Blog Train is where one person starts a story and others add to it. Not comment on it, but ADD TO IT.

For instance, I would start a story. The title of the story is "Mary had a Little Lamb".

I will start: Mary had a little lamb.

Another person might add: Mary and her lamb lived on a farm outside of a small town.

The next person might add: Everyday M

Happy Easter

Happy Easter to all. God bless and forgive all with his mercy, kindness and his many fortunes . Have a joyous celebration all .

2-11-13

Hello family,
 
Well, today is the first day of China's New Year, the Year of the Snake. We have been celebrating on and off since Monday the 4th, and have been having a great time.
 
I was invited several times this week to have lunch or dinner with Headmaster and his family. On Friday I went to dinner. Some traditional foods were served. Always there is fish, pork, beef and chicken and a variety of veggie dishes and of course it would not be a meal without the dumplings. Headmaster doesn't

Dear Readers...

Can anybody explain the difference between "say" and "tell"

waiting for you reply!!!!

Friends...

Did you know that the many ingredients in our kitchen can help us stay fit and active???

These ayurvedic herbs can be taken as daily healthcare doses. We can even adopt them to relax our mind and body .

So go ahead, explore Ayurveda in our kitchen and heal ourselves naturally.

1. TULSI

Tulsi, or Basil, is a natural air freshener and insect repellent. It is commonly used for healing various minor disorders, such as sore throats, coughts and colds..

Suffering from indigestion or gas problems?

1."Hope for the best, but prepare for the worst."

This seems pretty clear.

2."Better late than never."

This one's clear, too.

3."If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself."

Don't trust other people to do important things for you. You have to do things yourself to control the quality of the results.

4."Don't count your chickens before they hatch."

Your plans might not work out, so don't start thinking about what you'll do after you succeed. Wait until you've already succeeded, and the

Hi guys :) After a long time of silence I am coming back with new blog. This is about Practicing/ Teaching Online!! 

Here are few things You can do - read blogs like this, listen to songs in English, talk with other people online! 

Reading blogs

Here we can find many useful blogs. All we need to do is to find blog according to our likes! It's better to read about things we really like. 

Listen to songs 

Find songs with lyrics and sing along :) That was how I learned pronunciation. 

Talking to others o

After stumbling across destructive advice, licensed clinical psychologist Dr. Kelly Flanagan writes a letter to his daughter about what really matters in a relationship.

Dear Cutie-Pie,

Recently, your mother and I were searching for an answer on Google. Halfway through entering the question, Google returned a list of the most popular searches in the world. Perched at the top of the list was “How to keep him interested.”

It startled me. I scanned several of the countless articles about how to be sex

The more I travel the more I realize just how small this world really is. I have lived in many countries in my lifetime. (And yes, I am old, but don't ask.) Each new place is as amazing as the last. Every country has wonderous places to visit. Each country has beautiful and interesting places to explore.

But more importantly than the places are the people. We see and hear so many bad things happening in the news. I wonder, who the people in these countries really are. Do they have the same hopes

There was a blind girl who hated herself just because she's blind.

She hated everyone, except her loving boyfriend. He's always there for her.

She said that if she could only see the world, she would marry her boyfriend.

One day, someone donated a pair of eyes to her and then she can see everything, including her boyfriend.

Her boyfriend asked her, "now that you can see the world, will you marry me?"

The girl was shocked when she saw that her boyfriend is blind too, and refused to marry hi

Dedication : This short story is dedicated to all my EC English Teachers : Dayne, Chloe, T Mal, Cheetah, Vanessa, AB (Ameni), Tim New - thank you guys for helping me. I know you tried your best, but ... LOL. 

To all my rumbustious Indonesian friends : Narizawa, Laalaa, Ken and the others. You guys are really funny.

And to all my EC friends - you know who you are. 

And special mention to Samu.

~~~~~~ Chapter 1 ~~~~~~

“Lina, wait up”.  Lina stopped dead in her tracks. With a heavy heart, she waited for

Let me share something about Water....

70% of the Earth's surface is covered with Water...

90% of the Water available in the earth is Salt Water

Salt water is filled with Salt and other Minerals which human can't drink/use directly

Less thank 1% of the water available in the earth can be used by human actually.

2% of the water on earth is Glacier Ice at the North and South Poles.  This ice is fresh water and could be melted; however, it is too far away from where the people live to be usable.

The Egyp

-verb or noun

“to cut something or tear it into very small, narrow pieces; a small amount of something.”

• Cut the cabbage into fine long s_ _ _ _.
• They may be s_ _ _ _ding documents.
• He said there was not a s_ _ _ _ of evidence to support such remarks.
• He was left without a s_ _ _ _ of self-esteem.
• Finally s_ _ _ _ the carrots, cabbage and cored apples.
• There is not a s_ _ _ _ of truth in the story.

Hint: The word to guess begins with letter "S" and is 5 letters long.

Answer = Shred

Voice recording and sharing the  different ways of  voice  presentation is  fun for the learner and the fluent  speaker! You may be wondering how it  could  be done at My English club ,especially the new members.

Take a peep at  this  group link http://my.englishclub.com/group/audiospeakinggroup

This  opens to many interesting discussion links which  one could  voice  record  and share . 
this  enables  the learner  to be more  confident in practicing   their  speech 

There are many discussions , mo

Hello, there! 

I often hear people pronouncing the word 'Skype' as /ˈskaɪpi/. Usually, I tell them politely that the letter 'e' in this brand name is 'silent'. Thus, we should say /skaɪp/.

To my amusement, some of them take note of what I say while the others dispute my claim. Here's a video that I stumbled on just now. It tells us how the word in question is actually pronounced. Shall we listen to it, guys?

Now, do you know any other commonly used words that often confuse us? If you do, please sh

This week is Teacher's Week in Iran. I was watching TV that I heard about the smallest school in the world. I've searched about it in the Net, and if you let me, I like to share it with you here, too.

Abdul Mohammad She’rani, a young Iranian teacher in a very remote village in Iran, bloging about his very small school and his 4 students in a small Iranian fishing village of Jamalabad Kalu near the southern port city of Bushehr.

Social media did something nearly miraculous: Iranian media and even

    I shifted into a new house with my parents. It was a first floor house with a nice veranda and a terrace. After all the unpacking of things,  we settled in  a few days.  Soon I realized that we were not the only occupants of that place; there was a couple too, a pair of sparrows.