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I had a good sleep last night and got up late this morning, because the sun had a leave. The face of sky was grey, then turned into black, soon he began to cry, harder and harder, just like I did yesterday.
I felt bored in the rainy day without Kaixin around me, he went to school after breakfast. At the beginning when he left, I picked up a novel to read. But the rain was too noisy. Then I paced to the doorway, sat down and watched the rain. Suddenly a fun idea occurred to me. I stood up and ca

“Dates No Cooking?” Dealing With Broken English

I’m working at a construction site. Babu, is a site supervisor. He came from southern Asia. At the beginning, and as a new comer, I never noticed that we need to adapt our English, until I started to communicate with him, and other construction workers. This is the story about it.

 One day I asked him about the dates which grew in front of our office.

Me: Those dates, can we pick them from the tree and eat?

Babu: Can sir, but now how eating? After cook

The Fact

      There was a joke about the sun. It was said that two persons were arguing about the sun. The first said, "This is the sun." The second said, "No, this is not the sun." Suddenly a  man appeared and they asked him whether that yellow ball above was the sun or not. His answer was, " I am not from this country." If the truth, the fact are in front of you, surrender.

Dear Mickey,

Hello! How are you recently? I hope everything is nice with you.

I know now you must be curious who am I, but I won’t tell you at the moment, I will tell you at the end of this letter. Why? It is all because of you! I am a special person to you, so if I tell you who am I, hmmm, according to what I have known about you, you will keep asking me questions about me and never focus on what I want to tell you. So please be patient and read my letter first, ok? Now let’s get down to business

It seems that I cannot stop writing at the moment. I guess I was bitten by the writing bug. I just want to keep on writing and so afraid that one of these days the so called "writer's block" will hit my head hard, and I cannot even write a simple sentence.

However, I am not good in what people call "creative writing". There are a few ideas running through my mind, but I cannot seem be able to put a few coherent sentences. So, I decided for the moment, I will write my experiences such as my workin

the same

......1.  We always use the before same.

................A.  Give me the same again, please.
....................    (NOT Give me same again, please.)

................B.   I want the same shirt as my friend’s.
....................    (NOT I want a same shirt like my friend.)

......2.  We use the same … as before a noun or pronoun.

................Her hair’s the same colour as her mother’s.
................(NOT Her hair’s the same colour like her mother’s.)

......3.  We use the same … that be

Dear friends,

Thanks so much for reading and commenting on my humble blogs, I am so encouraged. I appreciate any of your attention on my blogs.

I like to read the blogs here, and they bring me a lot of inspirations, as well as knowledge and happiness. And I often envy you guys who write very nice blogs with elegant English. To be honest, my writing sucks. Every time in an English exam, when it comes to the number of words, it is my nightmare. Just like squeezing toothpaste out of a tube, I have a

The next day I woke up even earlier than the first day, you know, as an old granny [99 or 111 years old one],I didnt need to sleep much. I dressed myself up, headed to the laker step by step, hard but fun as i was counting my steps accurately, I felt lucky and grateful because at such an age, I was still healthy and brainy, what's more, an obedient and lovely kid was with me. Life treated the old granny tenderly.

Couple of minutes later, I arrived at the laker and sat on a swing. It was so quiet,

Dear English Club Teachers,

I am planning an extra activity for my teenage students in which I need other teachers' participation.

The idea is to help...

Our students exchange letters through us.I mean in an indirect way,so that we could moderate their mails and try to help them.

My students loved the idea and they have already prepared their letters and are waiting impatiently to communicate with their friends abroad!I would email the the letters to anyone who is ready to participate immediately.I

Just finished watching a movie called Margaret, or rather my husband watched it till the end. I could not have the patiance watching this movie. It can be a great film, but Anna Paquin has a way to curb my enthusiasm by yelling persistently in the entire movie.

Something that I will never approve or get used to when watching western movies is when the children are yelling at their mothers. Being an Asian and grew up in a conservative family, we were taught to respect the elders and not to raise o

In the dream, I was an old granny. How old? Hmmm, I guess I was 99 years old or 111 years old [I like the two numbers], Because I walked very slowly. How slowly? Hmmm, once a time I felt hungry, and the kid was out. It took me a long time to go out of my studyroom to get the food which was ready in the kitchen. Poor granny!

Ok, let's get down to business. Let me tell you what I did on the first day. [lol, it seems I am more like a storyteller, other than a blogger =)]

On the first day I woke up ea

My dear sister noaslpls has encouraged me to try to write a blog. As I dont know what to write and where to start, she advised me to start writing from things I like, say my pet Barfi. However, on second thoughts, I find myself not good at depicting. My brain doesnt serve me in that way well. lol... But I am into dreaming, so now I start my blog from a dream.
Every time when the summer/winter holidays come, the first thing I do is to visit my grandparents. And in the beginning of this winter hol

Hi, Let's tour my town.Ubonratchathani Thailand

Here are some common acronyms that you'll often see when chatting to English speakers in an informal environment.

LOL - (I am) laughing out loud.
ROFL - (I am) rolling on the floor laughing.
ASL? - (What is your) age/sex/location?
BRB - (I will) be right back.
GTG - (I have) got to go.
BB - Blackberry
WTF - What the funk!
TTYL - Talk to you later.
OMG - Oh my goodness/god!
GG - Good game.
TY - Thank you.
ETA - Estimated time of arrival
WB - Welcome back.
ASAP - As soon as possible.

Last night, I watched a comedy movie called Schizopolis. At the beginning of the movie, the main actor who was also the director of this movie came out on a mock stage and gave a little speech about this movie. As I recall he said something like “If you don’t understand this movie, it’s not our fault but yours. And you have to watch it again and again…” I did not give much attention to it since it was a comedy movie.

But, after watching it for a while, I started to get confused. How could you not

Some of you are now aware that we are no longer allowed to post useful links in the main page.  This is becasue a few have been posting malicious links.  This has allowed the perpetrators to win and the majority have lost out on having this useful feature.  As you are aware I can often post a link to any questions regarding english or post a link to start a topic for discussion.

 Surely we can be treated as adults and a warning could have been posted on the home page.  Also there is plenty of dow

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Hello! I'm Andrei from Ukraine. My country is in East Europe. Usually there is snowing in the winter and hot during the summer. I live in city, but I like nature.
The wonderful American film "Groundhog Day" shows as the person gets stuck in a rut. A man must change to climb from there. I'm ready for a change. I really need it. In the meantime, I tell you about my rut. So I look at myself. In last story I tell about starting of my working day. Now I want to say about my working relationship.

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Hi, I am an English Teacher from Thailand. I teach in a rural area far from the city some where in Ubonratchathani which almost one thousand kilometers far from Bangkok. Would you like to visit Thailand not only Bangkok, Pattaya or Chieng Mai. My country has seventy seven tourist spot provinces to go.

There are too many friends however good friends are hard to find. Diamonds are scarce however good friends are scarcer. Diamonds can be purchased by money but good friends can’t be. Those are lucky who have good friends, and those are rather luckier who know the value of good friends earlier before it become too late. In times of prosperity friends are plenty; in times of adversity not one in twenty. The real friend is the one who comes in when the world goes out. Your just one word can save a l

 Hello everyone! Hello all EC member! I think that our education system is very different. I live in Cambodia has the different from your country. But today my member of my class is making some argument in my class with the physic teacher and he is very angry that i have ever seen it before. I can not tell about that but it is the very difficult to tell you he said that he will cancel all of our programm for studying the whole year and it nearly time for us to take the first semester exam. I am