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As we know, Ukraine and Poland are the two countries hosting the football championship for Euro 2012 in summer 2012. So at the moment our city is doing the best to prepare Kharkiv for this event. Everybody is involved. It does not mean that everyone goes across the city with a shovel trying to dig something up. :) Of course no, but everyone looks forward to this magnificent football holiday. And it is interesting to know that an event of such scale is being held in Ukraine for the first time...G

Dear all MyEC friends..

I'm still thinking about the computer. why does it only have windows? there is no door inside. anybody knows?

Thank you and have a great time.. ^_^

Welcome to the first Writing Challenge of 2012! This year we will be focusing on some specific problems that I noticed in your writing in 2011. Each month I will challenge you to become an expert in a certain aspect of the English language.

This month we are going to work on uncountable nouns. Do you ever catch a friend using the word  informations? What about the word advices? These are not English words. Information and advice are uncountable nouns. They don't have plural forms and we treat the

Dear friends of My English Club,

Below images are from the children pages ‘just for Kids’ of the English monthly magazine ‘The Trend’ published in Sri Lanka. I am having the response to manage the above children’s page. It has confirmed in stripe below in the middle page.

I have a kind request 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. Although if you have friends/ rel

EC chat room has changed!!

I was shocked!! I was like this when I got in to main chat room today...

Actually everyone, not only me, we were all got shocked...

Then the next thing we did, After we were able to control ourself,  was trying to find out its feature and trying to get accustomed with that. It was fun to explore this new look. There are some useful things such as "Ignore" button so you can ignore people whom you do not wish to talk to on your private room. 

It looks on your home page

Well t

A report released last week by Middle East human rights groups presents extensive evidence of war crimes carried out in Libya by the United States, NATO and their proxy “rebel” forces during last year’s war, which brought down the regime of Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.

US-NATO war crimes in Libya

Dear Folks,

been a long time I did not write the blog and also not greet fellow comrades here.

How are you All Folks??...hope doing well, ALWAYS...!!! amin :)

yes I miss you guys, Time already took all my day so I can't linger long on this site.
and finally I accepted email "Englishclub ESL progrees" as usual and this time about vote for " Our lovely site " and very surprised because it was "English Club" at the moment, this minute get  "4209" vote ... wooowww ...

I believe and sure that the EC will

23 January 2012

Hisham Hussain, Puttalam

Photographs: Hasni Ahamed (Zahira Media Unit)

The road marathon race was held on Friday the 20^th January, 2012 as the first event of the Zahira Primary School (Puttalam) annual inter house athlete competition.

40 numbers of marathoners, those who are studying in grade 5 (between 10 – 11 ages), as 10 from each house, ‘Safa’ (Blue), ‘Marwa’ (Green), ‘Hira’ (Red) and ‘Noor’ (Yellow) were participated in this 3 kilometer distance race. It was started after waving

Hi all friends.., hoping that you are doing fine..

through this blog I would like to share my experience playing with the children..

I usually do this at home with my children in my spare time. they really enjoy playing with me and sometimes they don't want me to leave them. playing with the children is nice, we can play puzzle, drawing, and many others..

when I have go to work they ask me, "dad... don't go a way.!! please play with us at home.."

Standing for what you believe in, regardless of the odds against you, 
and the pressure that tears at your resistance, means COURAGE

Keeping a smile on your face, when inside you feel like dying, 
for the sake of supporting others, means STRENGTH

Stopping at nothing, and doing what in your heart you know is right, 
to make another's life a little more bearable, without uttering a single complaint, 
means COMPASSION

Helping a friend in need, no matter the time or effort, 
to the best of your ability, mea

ONE. Give people more than they expect and do it cheerfully.

TWO. Marry a man/woman you love to talk to. As you get older, 
their conversational skills will be as important as any other.

THREE. Don't believe all you hear, spend all you have or sleep all you want.

FOUR. When you say, "I love you", mean it.

FIVE. When you say, "I'm sorry", look the person in the eye.

SIX. Be engaged at least six months before you get married.

SEVEN. Believe in love at first sight.

EIGHT. Never laugh at anyone's dreams. Pe

 Yeah,

      Now 1.37 am 23/2012 in Vietnam. It means that now I have first minutes in Lunar new year, Year of the Dragon. 

      Now You know How I am happy. So I decided to write something to celebrate new year and say good bye year of the rabbit. A year in that I have done many things, some of them I did well, but there are still something that I did not well.  I hope in this year I would get a job that I would earn a lot of money and I could buy an apartment with that money.

     In the end of

The Phrase Finder is a wonderful website for new speakers of English as well as native born speakers. It contains 4 Departments ::

Meanings and Origins
A Phrase A Week
The Phrase Thesaurus
A Phrase a Week
Famous Last Words

Please go check it out !!

http://www.phrases.org.uk/

sphinx is one of the most important wonderful Tourist attractions in Egypt and I invite all friends who did not see it to visit Egypt and enjoy the great tourism here 

Not more than  fifty years ago when it was  so common to see around populated areas in savanna region  in Africa  giraffe,      ostrich , and hyena.  But  now it is rarely to see any of these animals  even in uninhabited  areas  where wild life is not disturbed  . Actually that is due to many factors but the main factor is man  .  A good example of destruction of environment by illegal hunting  or deforestation  is the Blue Nile province - it is  a vast area -  in Sudan North   extends  between

!!~BEHOLD~!!

FuNnY FrId@Y # 04

1. Mummy

2. Sinusoidal Wave

3. Flying

4. Learn how to fly

5. Pinocchio talk:

6. Dead Sure:

A couple of New Jersey hunters are out in the woods when one of them falls to the ground. He doesn't seem to be breathing, his eyes are rolled back in his head. The other guy whips out his cell phone and calls the emergency services. He gasps to the operator: “My friend is dead! What can I do?”

The operator, in a calm soothing voice says: “Just take it easy. I can help. First, let's m

A philosophy professor stood before his class with some items on the table in front of him. When the class began, wordlessly he picked up a very large and empty mayonnaise jar and proceeded to fill it with rocks, about 2 inches in diameter.

He then asked the students if the jar was full. They agreed that it was.

So the professor then picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar lightly. The pebbles, of course, rolled into the open areas between the rocks.

He then asked

MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION 

During my second month of nursing school, our professor gave us a pop quiz. I was a conscientious student and had breezed through the questions, until I read the last one: 'What is the first name ofthe woman who cleans the school?" Surely this was some kind of joke. I had seen the cleaning woman several times. She was tall, dark-haired and in her 50s, but how would I know her name? I handed in my paper,leaving the last question blank. Before class ended, one student asked