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Dear friends, May peace upon you!

Below images are the pages of ‘just for Kids’ of the English monthly magazine ‘The Trend’. It is an Islamic value based magazine publishing in Sri Lanka, which is having international readers as well. I am having a response to manage the above ‘just for Kids’ pages.

I have requested from all of you to contribute articles, poems, quizzes, puzzles or any that are suitable for students who are in their secondary class / grade, between from 11 – 15 in age. I would be

One afternoon a man came home from work to find total mayhem in his house. His three children were outside, still in their pajamas, playing in the mud, with empty food boxes and wrappers strewn all around the front yard.

The door of his wife's car was open, as was the front door to the house. Proceeding into the entry, he found an even bigger mess.

A lamp had been knocked over, and the throw rug was wadded against one wall. In the front room the TV was loudly blaring a cartoon channel, and the fam

A long time ago, a girl named Li-Li got married and went to live with her husband and mother-in-law. In a very short time, Li-Li found that she couldn’t get along with her mother-in-law at all. Their personalities were very different, and Li-Li was angered by many of her mother-in-law’s habits. In addition, she criticized Li-Li constantly.

Days passed days, and weeks passed weeks. Li-Li and her mother-in-law never stopped arguing and fighting. But what made the situation even worse was that, acco

What is the difference between a comma and a period? A comma is a pause. A period is a full stop.

In English, punctuation is important. If you care about your readers, learn how to use punctuation properly. We all make mistakes sometimes. In fact, I have to look up comma rules regularly. This is one of my favourite resources for advanced comma questions. 

The most common punctuation error I see on MyEC is the comma splice. This is the use of a comma instead of a period between two independent clau

I know today is not a Thanksgiving Day, but don’t know why since morning I really want to say thank you to my friends to show them how much I am grateful for having them around me and for being there on my ups and downs.

There are names in my head while thinking about it such as Goker, Luty, Jason, Boom etc etc and also few new names, but then I am afraid the list will be too much and I will have too much to write :D

So I decided to shorten the list. Here it is.

Mr Postman

Before I say thanks to you

!!~BEHOLD~!!

FuNnY FrId@Y # 08

1. I don't know

2. Sorry

3. She is wrong

4. Study

5. Invisible

6.

Leptis Magna The magnificent city of Leptis Magna is a wonderful place to see, immensely satisfying, and is one of the most sought tourist destinations in Libya. It is also the most important Roman site in the world, as it is widely recognised as the best preserved Roman city outside Italy, and, unlike most ancient ruins, its well-preserved remains give a clear picture as to what a complete Roman city would have looked like. No visit to Libya is complete without seeing this magnificent Magna. Le

     Miss Whitney Houston is an amazing woman with an incredible clear tone/vocal. Born on August 9, 1963 in New Jersey. Her mother is Cissy Houston and has a daughter  named Bobby Kristina. Dionne Warwick is her cousin and Aretha Franklin is her grandmother who were legendary figures in American gospel and soul music like her. She sung at their local church when she was a kid. Truly, she is a Legacy.

     She was discovered in a nightclub by the renowned Clive Davis of Arista records. It is

Although I don't possess artistic excellence, still, making bento (Japanese boxed meals) is my most favorite thing to do.  Most bentos take quite a bit of work and creativity but I still feel that it's all worth the sweat and (^_*) Googling.   For I believe that food shouldn't only taste good, but should look as good as it tastes!

I find making bento box for my 4 year old son, Sam, a lot of fun.   Even his classmates and teachers are always excited to see what's inside his lunch box.  But more th

        Hey my dear friends^^,

 I wish you are all fine!!...I really don't know what to start with, but I will begin with the important! yesterday, my english teacher told us about an competition..but it's an important & big one! they choosed many students to participate in, & they choosed me too!!..but they will keep just the 4 good students ( the good ones, who can speak english very well....)..and the very important thing is those 4 students will go to USA..NY!!! for two weeks( go far from st

A successful business man was growing old and knew it was time to 
chose a successor to take over the business. Instead of choosing 
one of his directors or his children, he decided to do something 
different. 

He called all the young executives in his company together.

"It is time for me to step down and choose the next CEO," he said. 
"I
have decided to choose one of you."

The young executives were shocked, but the boss continued. "I am 
going
to give each one of you a seed today - a very special seed.

   Dear all readers and my students

Next two  month (April ) is a time for Junior  High school students in Indonesia to face  a Final examination. It is too short time and make we are nervous to do this especially for English subject. Why ??? . There are a lot of reasons such as : It's not their mother language, not interested for most of them, it use  high level  language, the teachers do not use an interesting method of teaching so they bored to study, and still use  an old ways, and seldom giv

The Story of Emily & Tomy

Some English Club members don’t use the chatroom often; some don’t use it at all. The reason why some members prefer to stay away from the chatroom is that they don’t feel comfortable there. Why? Because they are always pestered by people they don’t want to talk to. It is more common for female members to experience this than for male members. Consequently, I rarely use chatroom (maybe just to say 'hi' to some close friends) even though the chatroom is for all English Cl

I mentioned EC to my college's instructors during a meeting, I told them that EC is a useful and a wonderful site .I told them too, with an exulting pride ,that I learnt a lot and published many blogs there. They asked me about the link of the site ,so I gave it to them and left.
Later ,I came back to the instructors' office to ask about something, and I found the same staff of instructors there. One of them asked me : Oh Tawfeeq ! we found your page in EC ,but we didn't find any blogs in it !!

 "I loved today to  introduce  the Algerian dish called "DOLMA" .It is useful in terms of nutritional value and it contains stuffed vegetables."

-Ingredients:

1-Half a kilo grams of  minced meat.

2-Half a cup of rice.rice.

4-bunch parsley.

5-We get a quantity of potatoes , zucchini , artichokes ,do not forget the egg yolk.

6- Two onions , little of oil and a piece of butter.

  Ahmed: How old are you, Mona

  Mona: I am 25.

  Ahmed: really you still 25.

   Mona: I am 25 and I will stay 25.

  This what we are used to hear everywhere, but what is happening now?

  Men start to imitate women, how?

   As devastating as the question of - How old are you -  sounds for women it is also devastating for men. Nowadays most men try to play with their ages as women usually do. As we notice most old men use a picture which shows them in their twenties or thirties while they are in

    Are men and women really different? They are different anatomically, of course, but are they different in any other ways? Do their hormonal and sex differences influence their behaviors and attitudes? Do these differences affect their lives and determine their opportunities in life? If you really highly need to know the answers, then this article is, for sure, for you.

     Although females and males are different in their genetic and sexes, they are hormonally-driven behavior, but this does