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I am a teacher educator from Athens, Greece. My job is to train English teachers and help them become better teachers in the classroom.

One year ago, I started blogging. My blogs are written for teachers of English and you can see them here:

• Marisa Constantinides - TEFL Matters (in English)
• Teaching & Learning Foreign Languages (in English)
• Foreign Language Education (in Greek)

So here I am writing this post to share my enthusiasm about blogging with you and to make you start blogging too!

Why do I bl

Every 8^-years-old child in every speaking society around the world knows that in some point of his life, to make some success, he will have to study English. The educational systems will never tell you that the best way of learning English, accept for moving to America, is watching movies. And that's how he finds himself sitting in a conditioner-less class (or with a broken one), repeating a list of words that ten years later, when he will actually need them, he will find in some online dictiona

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Hint:

The word of the day begins with the letter “P” and has 10 letters long.

• He was one of the most p_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ US political commentators.
• It was a very p_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ critique of Wordsworth.
• Women are known as p_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _.

Can you guess the word of the day?

The word of the day is an adjective means “someone

The Four Cats

Four men were bragging about how smart their cats were.

The first man was an Engineer,

The second man was an Accountant,

The third man was a Chemist, and

The fourth man was a Government Employee.


To show off, the Engineer called his cat, "T-square, do your stuff."


T-square pranced over to the desk, took out some paper and pen and promptly drew a circle, a square, and a triangle.


Everyone agreed that was pretty smart.


But the Accountant said his cat could do better. He called hi

This is a wall which was painted in the smokers' zone of a bar, I guess it's an excelent idea for awareness , it's a fact that's a personal decision but the truth is the air is public... so I don't like be part of this wrong decision... =(

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 “R” and has 5 letters long.

• The country’s r_ _ _ _ economic growth in the 1980’s.

• The r_ _ _ _ decline in the birth rate in Western Europe.

• He walked at r_ _ _ _ pace along the street.

• The company will provide more r_ _ _ _ car transport.

• Breathing becomes more r_ _ _ _

Hi

I'm a beginner of English and now I learn how to learn English.

But I haven't any partner that discussion with him or her.

“A New Earth; Awakening to Your Life's Purpose” is known as one of the best spiritual books of our time and was on Oprah Winfrey’s book club list. Later, I discovered online classes on Oprah’s website discussing about the book by its author, Ekhart Tolle. You can watch or listen to the videos or mp3s here if interested, http://www.oprah.com/oprahsbookclub/A-New-Earth-Syllabus. The book and the videos both are summarized as follows, hoping that you like it.

The book of “A New Earth; Awakening to Y

PLEASE WAIT UNTIL THE GROUP CHANGES POSITIONS.
IS IT TWELVE OR THIRTEEN??

This will drive you crazy!

WHERE DOES THE EXTRA MAN COME FROM?
Don't ask me; I haven't figured it out yet !!

People say the Eyes are window to our soul. It is a gift of sight. You are lucky and blessed if you have a nice pair of eyes. But do you know how to take care of your eyes?

There are a lot of tips you can find on the net about taking good care of our eyes. But it will only work if you follow those tips. If you love to read, make sure you adjust the way you hold your book or magazine facing the light. The quality of light affects our eyes so don't read if it's too dim or you don't have enough ligh

Hello to all my friends,

The weekend signifies two days of the week, where most people do not work. Generally the week end is Saturday and Sunday, although the days differs in some countries.

What kind of activities do you do on weekends? There are many ways of spending our time usefully on weekends, such as hanging out with family and friends , trying out the special recipe to be shared with your loved ones, reading a novel, writing, travelling or going out on a trip ... etc. There are so many in

Poems written by WIFE & HUSBAND

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.

· The cassettes were of i_ _ _ _ _ _ _ quality.

· This resulted in overpriced and often i_ _ _ _ _ _ _ products.

· If children were made to feel i_ _ _ _ _ _ _ to other children their confidence declined.

· He preferred the company of those who were i

this's my voice :

How about your silence, friends?

-Nadiyah-

   In ancient time, Morocco knew tribes-govern that was each tribe managed and governed itself, beside that tense was known by tribes-wrestling. From there, it was born a love story which has been influencing on people until now, and it is well-known among Berber societies, especially in Middle Atlas. And this myth narrates about two young people fell deeply in love and wanted to marry. The boy named Isli; a tall young man, and the girl named Tisli; Tisli was so beautiful, vivacious and smiling