ESL Discussion

please tell me some gestures in different countires with different meaning as you know. (i am so curious)

hi~

 

Today, I just learnt some gestures in different countries have different meaning, some even have the total opposite meanings.

so, are there some people know the gestures which have different meaning in different countries? or could you tell me som

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Where would this Question be posted best?

If I want to learn & teach  Math and other science, Khan Academy is my first choice!

Is anyone know a web site like Khan Academy that teaches English like they do math?

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Stephen Hawking's recent comment

 

Stephen Hawking said ''I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken-down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”

(http://life.nationalpost.com/2

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What Are your Favorite Songs?

Music is an art. It can make our life happy, sad or both. It makes us change our moods depending on the type of song we are hearing.

 

Have you noticed, if we hear our favorite song/s, it excites us?

One of my favorite songs is "One Sweet Day" by Mariah

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Grammar is a must

Hi every one,

Writing without Grammar is like eating without salt. When my students write without paying attention to Grammar I feel that their English is broken. Not only that, but I feel that in their writing there is no meaning. Learning Grammar is

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Waiting for Godot

Waiting for Godot can be related to the nowadays reality in the Middle East. For example, people in Libia, Yemen, and  Syria, and may be Algeria are waiting for someone to save them and help them. They are fighting for freedom and democracy, but thei

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Steps to improve tourism in Indonesia

If you visit Indonesia once you will never forget it and you wish to go there every holiday. I travelled to several countries, but after visiting Indonesia the first time I felt that I was enchanted or haunted by it. So I planned to spend all my holi

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Teachers of English and low salaries

The problem is that through all over the world teachers ofengish suffer from low salaries, while the prices of food and clothes have gone high. Although teachers have gone to strikes and demonstration, but governments and educational institutions do

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Do we need to learn grammar to improve our speaking ability

I visited several websites and read several articles. Then I found the same ideas on MyEC too. Some people said that we don't need to learn English grammar if we want to improve our speaking ability.

 

I read an English teacher said that we should forg

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Can you find a sensible reason for it ?!

 

  A wise man once sat in the audience & cracked a joke.All laughed like crazy. After a moment he cracked the same joke again and a little less people laughed this time.

 
 He cracked the same joke again & again, When there was no laughter in the crowd

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Where there is life,there is hope....

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Representation in Literature

The writer of the literary text writes it and leaves it for the reader who looks here and there and read the text carefully. When the reader finishes reading the text he/she must ask the question what is it all about? If he/she an objective critic he

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Tourism

The literature of travelling is so rich about those who travelled around the world and got wide experience. I learned from them that before travelling one must ask several questions like the tickets, the visa, transportation, accommodation, and the p

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relationship before marriage

one of my friends had a date with a girl for 5 years ,he loved her so much and wanted to mary her but when he was stupidity showing up for the wedding he found out that her (lovely!) girlfriend is with someone else and when my friend asked her abou

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Surprising ideas you would prepare for your mother in celebrating Mother`s day

Mother`s day is a special day for mothers all over the world. What surprising ideas would you prepare for your mother this coming Mother`s Day? 

 

Since my mother had passed away, I would probably celebrate mother`s day by visiting her grave, bring flo

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Representation in The Old Man and the Sea

Representation means to provide sympolic reading for a literary text. For example, in this novella; The Old Man and the Sea we encounter several presentations that help us to read it on different levels of meaning. Here, the sea represents life with

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how to tak with some one

I want learn spoken english by speaking. so how can found a write person and how can I contact & chat with him?

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Pigs like mud sported by evolutionist theory. Or is it just rubbish?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_9464000/9464994.stm

 

This website tells us that pigs likes rolling in mud because they need a way to cool down but they also like rolling in mud for other reasons too! Scientist believe that they roll i

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Apple's controversy over tracking user data.

The article i read was this <http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-13208867>;

 

             It seems that there is a clear evidence of Apple was tracking the users of IPHONE 3G's locations, and storing the location information into an unencrypted data

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Travelling and Smoking

I started smoking when I was in the USA, I tried to stop but  when I stopped I started to eat alot and I became fat. I returned to smoking cigarettes again to retain my weight or at least to keep it within the framework of a good shape. The problem t

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