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a boy....?

a girl.....?

which one ?  ...

i like to be a girl.....no,no.....i like to be a boy......

is it easy to choice...?

what would you do if you were a girl?

what woul you do if you were a boy?

.....

i saw a blog here which is writed by one of our friends,dear Reema.

it says" i'm a girl..this is my problem..i wish i were a boy.." so that makes me to

ask this quastion:

if you could choose your sextuality,what would you choose? girl or boy?

and it's a kind of poll to know how many boys and girls are sati

We only have one planet ...

We only have one chance ...

Do something ...

Anything ...

((( Is this the earth that it was 100 year ago ? )))

Be sure that we are destroying our planet , So please take your turn and help us to make a list 

for making our wonderful planet a better place to live ...  

NOTE: This blog for who wants to join our challenge in A New Word Daily's group. If you are interested and wants to know more about this challenge, please read this blog first!

Hint:

The word of the day begins with the letter “S” and has 7 letters long.

• I s_ _ _ _ _ _ they were right.
• Do women really share such stupid jokes? We s_ _ _ _ _ _ not.
• We had no reason to s_ _ _ _ _ _ that he might try to kill himself.
• "Do you think she'll have told them?" "I s_ _ _ _ _ _ so."

Can you guess the word of the

THE FINAL SEVEN WORDS OF JESUS CHRIST

Father forgive them, for they know not what they do

Luke 23:34

Then Jesus said, "Father forgive them, for they know not what they do".

This first saying of Jesus upon the cross was Jesus' prayer for forgiveness for those who were crucifying him: the Roman soldiers, and apparently for all others who were involved in his crucifixion.

Today you will be with me in paradise

Luke 23:43

And he said to him, "Truly, I say to you, today you will be with me in paradise".

Jesus

The media unit of Rambuka eVillage school presented a television studio as a stall of an exhibition at R/Kalawana national school on 2011.04.4^th and 5^th. In that two days, we presented some live programs with live editing.

The members of our media unit have got a professional training on television media at SLTTI (Sri Lanka Television Training Institute). We used our own cameras and instruments what we have prepared.

Although we live in a rural area, we try to give the best knowledge for our stude

HOW IT CAN BE POSSIBLE !!!

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We know them as animals and we see them among animals , But now one of them is trying to show us that we really have to change our ideas about them , I saw a dolphin jumping , carrying the ball and so on , But for this act ... 

How it can be possible !!!

I am confused ...

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NOTE: This blog for who wants to join our challenge in A New Word Daily's group. If you are interested and wants to know more about this challenge, please read this blog first!

Hint:

The word of the day begins with the letter “B” and has 7 letters long.

• At this price the car is a b_ _ _ _ _ _.
• Fresh salmon is a b_ _ _ _ _ _at the supermarket this week.
• This coat was half-price – a real b_ _ _ _ _ _.

Can you guess the word of the day?

The word of the day is a noun means “something on sale at a lower

Here are some words that came to my mind while reflecting about the teaching conference I attended in the UK. Can you guess why I included some of these words? I will tell a little story about each word that you guess.

How to guess: 

1) Choose a word. 

2) Leave a comment below. Use one of the following methods of guessing:

a) ask a question (direct)

b) use "I think" + past tense 

c) use "I bet" + past tense 

d) use "I wonder if" + past tense

*Note: You can use a direct ("you") or indirect ("Tara")  fo

After I graduated from university, I started to get a job. Fortunately, my sister had been working in Microfinance Project implemented by Pact at that time. During my holidays, I used to help my sister to complete her works in time. So, I’m familiar with the project’s activities. I thought that Microfinace isn’t a good one for poor people although I was in my dream to help people. I confused with the works of the Project. Although they are telling that we are helping poor households, they charge

What makes you keep coming back to EC though bad people with bad attitude and narrow minded person are also here to 'welcome you' especially people on main chat?

I read a blog which consist about a list why people love EC and I have to say sorry for those list are not one of my reason to keep coming back to this site. Not at all. It is truly not because I wanted to learn English nor because this site is entertaining, self-motivating, no. Just no.

I left EC once, but later on I decided to came ba

EXAMINATIONS

Khaliqur Rahman

Today I wish to tease you with the detestable necessity in education that we call EXAMINATIONS. Do you know Testing and Evaluation in education is a discipline by itself? Even if you do, how many teachers do, who set examination question papers?

How many examinations are there and how many examining bodies? The students take the Higher Secondary Examination to finish school. Now why can’t they go straight for higher education in professional colleges?  Why do they nee

NOTE: This blog for who wants to join our challenge in A New Word Daily's group. If you are interested and wants to know more about this challenge, please read this blog first!

Hint:

The word of the day begins with the letter “I” and has 8 letters long.

• Their attitude i_ _ _ _ _ _ _s me.
• Perhaps they were i_ _ _ _ _ _ _d by the sound of crying.
• After a while her behavior really began to i_ _ _ _ _ _ _ me.

Can you guess the word of the day?

The word of the day is a verb means “to make angry or annoye

  Well,cause one blog called "  Do you have heart to change these?" wrote by ika aryani.She is tree's lover,haha!yeah! she love the tree,even the beautiful scenery so much.when I told her I lived in a small village which is arounded by green mountain.She is so excited about it! And  I promised her to upload some pictures for her.of course! sharing with your guys!    Look! The first picture,do you find out something special? yeah! Part of mountain is bald.there is going to be built a expressway.A

In the world everything is possible , things are depends on our passion (interest) how we are interest in subject(whatever we are going to learn), but sometimes we have terriffic interest inspite that we are not going very well. how we have to be successor at our job.

which one is the best way to memorize new words (vocublary) how we memorize these word , i tried , but i didn't . this is my first time to wire blod at MEC page.

if here is any mistake (grammatically error) hope my member of EC and f

ARTICLES ARE NOUN-FOCUSSING WORDS

Khaliqur Rahman

INTRODUCTION

We’ve taught English at SECC (short for Spoken English Club & Clinic) for well over two decades. During this period we’ve learnt a lot, as well. We have been able to develop a Pedagogic Grammar and we’ve found it to be very effective in bringing home a grammar point in the minds of the Learners.

They are made to understand that Grammar is the sum total of Core Grammar and Peripheral Grammar. Core Grammar is nothing but what goes with wha

TIME  TENSE  AND MEANING

Khaliqur Rahman

Look at these sentences –

(a)    I am writing this now.

(b)   I am reading Dalrymple these days.

(c)    I am going to finish Nine Lives next week.

(d)   I read in the morning (everyday).

(e)    India plays the West Indies on March 20, 2011. Today, it is March 18, 2011.

(f)    Zaheer comes in and bowls. Watson drives. Tendulkar fields at mid on.

(g)   He used to bowl much faster in his younger days.

(h)   Tendulkar scored another hundred against South Africa (on Mar

TEACHING OF ENGLISH IN INDIA

Khaliqur Rahman

Teaching of English! Yes!!

Have you ever thought about the difference that is there in India between an MA in English and an MA in any of the languages like French or German or Russian or Spanish or Arabic? I’ll tell you, English in India carries the burden of Second Language while all the other languages referred to above enjoy the status of a Foreign Language. A foreign language student is personally interested in the language and is highly motivated,