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Every year different generations of my 11^th grade students finish school in May. During the last English lesson I  usually present them, as my parting words, the poem of Rudyard Kipling "If”. It has become an annual farewell tradition. And every year different generations of students to my great pleasure admire the poem. It means they understand moral values of our life.

I decided to share this poem with you, as every line of it can be considered as a quotation. Rudyard Kipling is a famous Englis

There is a big monument which is established on an island at the entrance of new York Harbor proudly ,by 1886.Amrica had received it as a gift from France. It took ten years to be completed . it is a symbol of liberty .
Many countries followed this model of statues .as example ,We also have our own statue of liberty in Iraq , which is established in the center of Baghdad . It is created by a great engraver and painter jewad Saleem .It stands as impressive reminder of freedom .

I think there is a

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This poem ,is written by an African child was nominated for the best poem of 2005
"Colour"
When I born, I black ;

when I grow up I black

when I go in sun I black ;

When I scared , I black;

when I sick , I black ;

And when I die , I sill black ;

And u white fellows ;

When u born , u pink ;

When u grow up , u white ;

When u go in sun ; u red ;

When u cold , u blue ;

When u scared , u yellow ;

When u sick , u green ;

When u die , u grey ;

And u call me coloured 

Tambora is one of sub-district in West Jakarta. It’s the most populous districts in Southeast Asia. If you’re going to tambora, you will see crowded people’s houses. Because of its populated, tambora was often hitten by fire. Such this morning, when I went to my office by bus, I saw TV news about fire in tambora. Dozen of people’s houses burned, 158 households  lost their houses. 

Did you bring anything in this world 

when you were born,

of course not;

Did you remember anything 

when you were born,

of course not;

Could you speak anything 

when you were born,

of course not;

Could you eat or drink anything 

without help your mother,

when you were born

of course not;

But you are given all that

as your requirements. 

But now-

you have almost forgotten all of them.

Moreover, you are given all the lot

that is not really measurable.

But you are enjoying everything 

only for the time being.

You are

     I have roughly finished the book, sense and sensibility, which was created by Jane Austen. The central character in the novel are two sisters, the paper mainly describes their view of love, Elinor is better at control her feelings while Marianne expresses her emotion without restrict. Elinor gaining a beautiful ending because of her national, while Marianna is finally betrayed by her first lover , through which she becomes more national and then married to her Mr right.

　　I think Jane was

Date: July 3rd, 2012
Chat: Food taste, Fast Food
Hashtag used: #foodchat (#FC)
Moderated by: Darius
Chatters: Ario, Grace, Chuck, Jer Targayen

It had been a long time ago since the last time I joined moderated chat. I have been talking with some members who are not regular chatters. They said they wanted to join the chat room if there is any moderated chat. So, I guess someone needs to revive it and asks other members to join.

So, I shared to main room about moderated chat and how to do it. Since,

Suddenly, I have an idea to planted potatoes. Why should potatoes? Not apple? Or flower? I was choose potatoes because it’s contained from carbohydrate, so it can substituted rice, wich is our staple food. Then I looked for information about how to plant potatoes from Google. I was also read lifecycle of this plant, etc. And now, I have ready to plant potatoes :D

　  The annual college entrance examination in 2012 has been over for some time now, you know, the college entrance examination is a very important exam in China, which is deeded as a great chance to change one's fate, the last year preparation for the exam in senior high school usually involves all-day study, endless tests and huge mental pressure for both students and their parents, I had been experienced the exam, and it's really hard during that period, there is no entertainment, just studyin

Dear Tara,

It's really great that you have fulfilled a dream of visiting the Big Apple.  I was enamored of your trip and enjoyed those fascinating stories and photos, particularly the cue cards and that sumptuous cheese cake you shared on MyEC.  Unlike your trip to the big city, last August we took Express Train to visit a small village named Houtong, a paradise of cats, where is located in the north part of Taiwan. 

When we arrived there, I it was hard to believe my eyes that so many people even

Voice blog no. 5

Hello my dear EC friends,

Do you have any ideas how to avoid the fillers such as umh, hmm, so, alright.

Could you please tell me how to improve these and how we can actually say more useful words instead of saying these all the time? I have a habit of saying fillers like these and I think it's time to improve it. Saying lesser of these fillers is I think is one way of speaking properly and a way to speak much livelier and interesting. So, do you have any ideas? Please, share them

hallo ahmad first thank you for react with my topic secondly ican explain more about this .ithink there are many talents and genius persons in arab state but they have not any real oppourtinity to show their skills and talant also igree with you they need to the envirnoment diffrent from envirnoment to our country but there there glibms and lights this day in our arab state for example eygpt tunisia liyba yemen syria which nations becom more freedom and brave .

A poem :What is life ? not for publishing
It’s a chronic lasting pain ,from the beginning to the end
Since you were imprisoned nine months in mother’s womb
To relies for bigger prison of life , if you were known what would happen you wouldn’t emerge
the chains would around you ,when you grow up they grow up with you as your shadow
They are chains of laws , tradition conventions ,
Then you would be governed and led
by unjust powerful to shed
in the last breath
When you die ,you coffined by

This post reminds me of my youth , when I was a solder .i spent nine years in army . I had spent most of these years in battles , I injured two times. It was a horrible time. I saw the died’ solders’ corps throw into graves unconfined you can feel the cruel nature of war and death , as soon as you saw how solders’ corps were treated with no respect. Wars showed unimportant of their food (solders) they dealt with them as the lost objects .

Bromo is an active volcano that still active and best known as a tourist attraction in East Java. As a tourist attraction, Mount Bromo to be attractive because of its status as a still active volcano.

Bromo has a height of 2392 meters above sea level is located in four regions, namely Probolinggo, Pasuruan, Lumajang, and the District of Malang. Bod shape of Bromo mesh between the valleys and canyons with a caldera or a sea of sand covering approximately 10 square kilometers. Many tourists visited

Dear friends and teacher,

Years ago I wrote this text in my diary; of course I wrote it in French which is my mother tongue. I decided to translate it into English so I could take part to this fun writing challenge Tara gave us. It was not easy at all and my biggest challenge was to use the right tenses. Written in red my new vocabulary.

Wandering around Istanbul.

It has been one month and one week since I dropped off my suitcases in Istanbul, it was the month of May ... the best to get lost in the

    On a hot summer night, I was taking a ride for fun with my family , as we drive to the Dong Ting Lake bridge, the air grew cooler and fresher, I was looking acorss the Dong Ting Lake which was one of the big largest freshwater lake in China. Liu Yuxi, a poet of Tang dynasty, once wrote a poem, it described the "Eight hundred -mile Donting Lake", but now i can hardly feel the grandness of it, the area of the lake has dropped by nearly 50% in the past 70 years, because of the reclaimig farmlan

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Linking

-listen to_it

-master_it

-I recognized_ it

-come_out from our mouth

-we have to stand_out

-we have to single_out

-How_is_it goin'?

Pronunciation

-material (məˈtɪriːəl)

-posted (ˈpoʊstɪd)

-some (ˈsəm)

Contraction

-We should not be rigid in (with,on??? preposition) our method.

(We shouldn't be rigid in our method.)

How was the voice/speech?

-Sleepy

-Lazy-like

-a bit gloomy and no energy (LOL!)

-the most important thing...haissst, it was very longggg (giggling!). Gosh! 11 minutes somethin'!

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