November 2009 Blog Posts (122)

Writing challenge # 13 from Tara, An interview with Mehdi

Hi Mehdi,

Thank you so much for spending time to answer my questions.

Kieu : What is the most influential person to change your life to be better or sucessful?

Mehdi: It is not easy to say who is the most influential person on my life. I think one of my sisters is the most influential one. She has been so kind to me and I like her too much.

When I listen to her advices I will be pleasant and when I… Continue

Added by Kieu on November 30, 2009 at 23:30 — 2 Comments

Healthy Life With Less Weight

Weight control not only makes you look and feel better, it influences your future health. A healthy weight decreases your chances of developing serious health risks like coronary disease or diabetes.

No matter how calm your nature, when it comes to the battle of the bulge, you've got to put up a good fight. In our eat-and-run, massive-portion-sized world, maintaining a healthy weight can be difficult enough, and healthy weight reduction could be a real struggle. Adding to the… Continue

Added by Richard Bolt on November 30, 2009 at 20:40 — No Comments

Language for Exchange blog

En.languageforexchange.com is the English blog page of LANGUAGE FOR EXCHANGE – your one-stop-shop for language study abroad and for learning languages online.

The idea of the blog is to provide you with a tool to help you plan your language exchange trip abroad.

Our aim is to gather any questions or doubts you may have and to provide you with a simple, fast and effective way to find the answers to your queries in just one place – no more hours spent trawling the… Continue

Added by Eduardo Peña on November 30, 2009 at 18:41 — No Comments

an interview with God

I dreamed I had an interview with

god

God asked

So you would like to interview me

I said ,If you have the time

God smiled

My time is eternity

What questions do you have in mind

for me

What surprises you most about human

kind

God answered

That they get bored with child hood

They rush to grow up and… Continue

Added by green on November 30, 2009 at 18:00 — 4 Comments

The mystery of belgian Ufo.

) Between 1989-90, Belgium became very well known around the world for its flap of triangle shaped UFOs and other sightings, starting in the dutch part of the county and later, touching the entire little country

During the specific evening of 29 November 1989, in a small area of Eastern Belgium, 16 km away from my hometown, about 140 UFO sightings were reported. Hundreds of people, among them, policemen, and army soldiers, saw a majestic… Continue

Added by Forget-me-Not on November 30, 2009 at 17:16 — No Comments

Writing Changlenge # 13: An Interview with Shivaa about his study in his unversity

Hi everybody! I am Yen from Viet Nam. Here is my interview

Yen: Hi. Shivaa I know that you are now You are studen t in AAG(animation university). so can you tell other EC members and I about your studying?

Shivaa: I am very excited to tell about my studying, my mate.

Yen: Are you ready?

Shivaa: Yaa. Let's go.

Yen:When will you end your course?

Shivaa: Actually, Now I am junior student and I will graduate from my university in 2010.

Yen: Good. So what is the… Continue

Added by hai yen doan on November 30, 2009 at 15:30 — 6 Comments

TIME MANAGEMENT

TIME MANAGEMENT

We are aware of the proverbs and sayings- Time is Money,Time and Tide waits for no one.Time is precious. Time management is important in life and profession.Time management is learnt in school.We learnt to write the examination within an hour or two. Our training in school help us finish the task given to us on the prescribed time.Education imparts the most required knowledge of time management.We may be forced to attend too many tasks at the same time. At that time,We must… Continue

Added by Jambulingam on November 30, 2009 at 11:00 — 2 Comments

Footprints

Some people come into our lives and quickly go.

Some people stay a while and leave footprints in our hearts and we are never the same.

“Many people will walk in and out of your life,
but only true friends will leave footprints in your heart.”

Added by HUBERT HSU'S BLOG on November 30, 2009 at 6:35 — 48 Comments

Mod What did you feel when you first time joined MyEC?

there were feelings of fear and lack of confidence when I first joined this community.please know that my English isn't good, poor grammar and vocabulary.With experience, I got the key ... first ... practice, write what you want to write, create blogs as much… Continue

Added by Nadiyah on November 30, 2009 at 6:30 — 136 Comments

As I open my eyes, I find myself alone in a dark desert. There is no one just me. I lie under a tree. I can't see anything but shinning stars and the moon. Moon...! Seems to be the owner of this land…

As I open my eyes, I find myself alone in a dark desert. There is no one just me. I lie under a tree. I can't see anything but shinning stars and the moon.

Moon...!

Seems to be the owner of this land...

Suddenly the sky becomes bright. A ray of light whips the sky. It makes the ground bright, I see there is another tree, an Apple tree.

The apples are glamorous. I stand up just looking at them. I walk toward that unconsciously . I go closer and closer. I stretched my hand to… Continue

Added by Rihanna Pasha on November 29, 2009 at 12:33 — No Comments

fortune window

A window in your heart you feel,
The space between them you fill,
With all wishes you dream.

Through it you see the world
Interpret it in such a word,
In which you feel happy or bored.

You sing it with a nice tune,
What a goodness!
Whose window is opened to the fortune...!!!

P@sh@

Added by Rihanna Pasha on November 29, 2009 at 12:30 — No Comments

Welcome dear! With eyes full of tears, All hear your cry of fear. You're right dear! Where you'd been was a world of cheer, Full of angels there and here, God's hand always touched your hair. Oh, i…

Welcome dear!
With eyes full of tears,
All hear your cry of fear.

You're right dear!
Where you'd been was a world of cheer,
Full of angels there and here,
God's hand always touched your hair.

Oh, is it frightening?!
You have the allowance of living,
To you the Pandora's Box is giving,
It's up to you which one to choosing.

P@sh@ Continue

Added by Rihanna Pasha on November 29, 2009 at 12:29 — 1 Comment

How do you think about orphans?

When I have seen them, I am so sad and want to care them. So now I want to get your idea about this. I hope we can work together.
Thanks

Added by PISETH on November 29, 2009 at 3:30 — 2 Comments

[Life wisdom]Sand and stone

The story goes that two friends were walking through the desert.

During some point of the journey they had an argument, and one friend slapped the other one in the face.

The one who got slapped was hurt, but without saying anything, he wrote in the sand:

"Today my best friend slapped me in… Continue

Added by HUBERT HSU'S BLOG on November 28, 2009 at 14:30 — 36 Comments

Simple reading: Story #1 (The Taylors Series)

Technical data: The stories' vocabulary and grammar is based on the Croatian elementary school English language program for the 5th grade (book: "Building Bridges 5" by B. Lubina et al., Profil, Zagreb, 2008.).

License/copyright: The stories from the series "The Taylors" (by Ana T.) are free to use as a teaching/learning resource (copy/paste allowed, printing/copying allowed, etc.). However, using these stories in a commercial book (e.g. an English textbook) is… Continue

Added by Ana T. on November 28, 2009 at 14:30 — No Comments

My Page Winners

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Added by HUBERT HSU'S BLOG on November 28, 2009 at 14:25 — No Comments

Simple English texts are hard to find :(

As a private tutor, I've been looking for texts written in Present Simple and/or Present Continuous, since that's my students' level of knowledge. They're in the 5th and the 6th grade (the same school), and the program is really slow - after five and six years of learning English they use and learn only Present Simple and Present Continuous.

The problem for me lies in finding texts (stories) written in present tense, which I could use for my classes. Even those labeled as "basic… Continue

Added by Ana T. on November 28, 2009 at 13:30 — No Comments

Should homework be abolished?

Should homework be abolished? Many people controvery about that.

Teacher always give student homework everyday. They have to learn a lot of things from school. When going home, student must do homework which can help them not only review the knowledge but also finish work they cannot finish at school. When we do homework, many problems happen that make us think and solve it. Therefore we can understand them better and easier. Moreover, sometimes, doing homework can fill our free time that… Continue

Added by Thao Nguyen on November 28, 2009 at 8:07 — 1 Comment

Taiwan

Taiwan is mostly mountainous in the east and gently sloping plains in the west. The Penghu Islands are west of Taiwan (Satellite photo by NASA).…

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Added by HUBERT HSU'S BLOG on November 28, 2009 at 7:27 — 6 Comments

Men are from March, women are from Venus ! Doesn’t it make sense ? What do you think ?

Have you ever heard about one of John Gray’s famous book :”Men are from March, women are from Venus" ?

This well known couple counselor and seminar american leader provides a unique and practical way for men and women to communicate and relate better by admitting the differences between them.

He is foccusing on the differences between men and women as if both were from a different planet and he shows how men and women react… Continue

Added by Forget-me-Not on November 27, 2009 at 17:16 — 4 Comments