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Writing Challenge: Live from the Penguin Cam

dialogue of Penguins

We have 7 penguins; Speedster, Complainant, Yellowish, Cheery, Rational, Crazy and Forgetful.

Please read this dialogue among them.

Complainant:

Please be quiet, Speedster! [swimming fast]

I'm sick to death of your behavior! You should get the brakes fixed on your head!! You're dicing with death every time you are swimming!

Yellowish:

Yes! Last time he frightened the life out of me!

Cheery:

But taking up swimming since he was here

Hi guys, what's up?

First of all, I have to apologize for the long time I don't come here. I have been studying and working a lot these days and there are so many things to do that I stayed too much time without stopping by. Anyway, I miss you all!

Well, yesterday was the Friend's Day here in Brazil. Is there a separated date for friends where you live?

Here in my country people celebrate this day text messaging, giving their friends some gifts, hanging out together... there are many things we can

   Did you know that organizators of Olympic Games prepared for participants 150 thousand condoms?

It is such a great number! If we regard that there will be 10 thousand sportpersons, after a small but fast calculation we can count 15 condoms for each person! The Olympic Village is going to resamble Sodoma in Bible, is going to be a sex,drugs and again sex city! 

Why am I so poor and cannot go there? Kidding, I wouldn't if so:)

I hope Poland gains some medal, and all Poland's sportperson will end t

We've done a few serious writing challenges over the last few months, and I'm very impressed by how much you have learned about punctuation, capitalization, irregular verbs and countable/uncountable nouns. This month, let's have a little fun!  

Your Task

1. Check out this Live Penguin Cam from the Vancouver Aquarium.

2. Spy on the seven African penguins for a while. What do you think they are thinking? If they aren't around, it could be night time. Visit again later. Feeding time is really fun! 

3.

Consonant Sounds /p/ and /b/

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It has been a long time that I was not here...

2 years maybe more. I don´t know. I found great friends here and am happy to know them.

Now is the life more different for me!
I am still searching for good friends and hope that this year changs things.---

Kiss

Nicole

   These post is divided onto two parts. Just read and comment:>

 Yesterday I watched a film called "Safe House". In contrary to the last film described by me (I remind You, it was " Thw VOW") it is a lively film of action. The main characters are of course CIA agents, who are involved in the big scandal, which is espionage by all spy agancy in all the world (e.g BDA, CIA,MI6).

With all my heart I wanna recommend this film to YOU:) But is it wortg going to cinema and spending money for tickets? I

A question come in Mind, Who Am I ?

I am son of Adam.

I am a Human Being. 

I am Slaves of Allah.

I am Follower of Prophet Muhammad (Peace be upon him).

I am a Muslim.

I am an Indian.

I am Mumbaikar.

I am an Accountant.

I am Tax Consultant. 

I am a member of EC.

Who you are ? or Who are you 

My dear Muslim friends,

I wish this Ramadan you are gifted with blessings of Allah and many treasure moments of Joy.

May the blessings and guidance of Allah be always with you and your loved ones.

Ramadan Mubarak !

When I was younger, I dream always to be able speak English. But as I was very busy to do others chors, I didn't cab to improve my English at same time, I asked myself, why I like to speak it and yet I can't to do that, because that's impossible for me. instead to learn through the books as I thought when I was younger, I discover the website on the internet, who are good way to learn English and practice it with other friends, witch you can to find on these sites. Now you can writ and send mess

I highly recommend English Club (EC) http://my.englishclub.com/ for anyone who wants to become proficient at English. This website will beneficially accelerate your progress in English. However, there are some shortcuts to maximize your English learning potential. These are steps to get the most out of the website.

1. Sign up for free. By signing up, you will be able to use all of EC's great features. One of my favorites is its instant chat-room where you can chat with other learners and teachers ar

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International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) 

You can listen to all the speech sounds individually with a click of your mouse!

There are 44 speech sounds (phonemes) in the IPA.

 These phonemes are divided into two BIG GROUPS.

Hello every one. I am an English teacher here in Iran. I have not practiced my English since I started teaching kids. As you know you dont need to know alot of vocabulary and advanced grammar to teach them. As a result, i forgot a lot of things. But from today that i have become a member here, i will try my best to learn more and more. I will never forget my slogen:

Practice makes perfect.

Good day to you

A friend question me

How to improve speaking Power ?

Then I asked him : How to improve writing skill

He answered :- You have to write more

then I answered him :- If you want to improve writing skill you have to write more similarly

                                If you want to improve speaking power you have to speak more.

Nowadays I got many friend who speak with me on Skype but I did not get any friend yet

who rectify my mistake except Beverly Mam. She help me a lot.

IF anybody want to

Dear friends,

I have made a change in this post as, though I had downloaded the link to the website where I found it, I could not pass here the text as it was written there, I should have written it with MY own words. So, as I believe this post is important, I have decided to record it here and I hope you will understand my "so so" english. I guess that is not forbidden by google.
You may think that, maybe, I should have "rewritten" the post but, nowadays, I can't doing it due to a lack of concen

          one of the aspects of power in a person is the will power . when such a person wills anything he can carry it out . when he takes an exercise for example, he begins and is capable of going on and complete it .

    on the other hand a weak personalty have the will but not the capability . he may begin but does not continue.

      and what about you Do you have the power of will ?

I have watched today film entitled "The Vow". The plot of the film is about the lost feeling which is love, due to the car accident. The feeling living between them has been made forgotten by the wife.

Leo(a main character, and husband) is trying to recall her, how big their love was, what was important in their lifes. 

If you are really interested in how the film ends, just watch it! The sooner you do it, the more falling-in love you will be:)

I touch on this film here, because I ma really admired

I found this poem on Facebook. It amused me, a native-English speaker. I wonder if it will amuse you too.

Good Morning all of my friends. At this time, I will promote one of beautiful beach in Indonesia, wich located in my birthplace. Its name is G-land or Plengkung Beach. It’s located in Banyuwangi, East Java, Indonesia.  G-land also known as One of The Seven Giant Waves Wonder, because of its big  long waves.  G-Land has a big and very long waves that dreamed by the professional surfers, high waves on the Plengkung beach [G-Land] reaches 6-8 meters with its length is more than 2 km. This beach is

          At weekend, where do you like to go?

      Oh, here I don’t mean to talk  about  traveling or picnic. I wanna ask you about the places you go every weekend? Shopping, watching a movie, visiting a best friend or relative...As for me, I really like to come to the babershop for washing my hair and also cutting my nails. I love colorful nails. I have been there many times then I even can paint my nails by myself. But my hubby hates that. He said : there (babershop) is “talkative” hahaha…..i