Κυριακή 30 Ιουνίου 2013
Crown Jewels of the United Kingdom at English Blog
The crown jewels of the United Kingdom are precious ceremonial objects used by the British monarchy. Also referred to as the Regalia, these jewels represent a collection of historical pieces of fine objects and vestments in relation to crowning of kings and queens. It is believed that the use of Regalia in England dates back to as early as 200-150 B.C. Its use continues up to the present.
Hilarious Homophones
Hilarious Homophones #2 - Kaplan International Colleges Blog
Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings are called ‘homophones’ in English. While they can be difficult to understand sometimes in spoken English, they can also be really fun to play with.
Words that sound the same but have different meanings and spellings are called ‘homophones’ in English. While they can be difficult to understand sometimes in spoken English, they can also be really fun to play with.
English Talking Book - The Truthful Thief
A story of how giving up even a single bad habit can help you, it depicts the story of a thief who by giving up the habit of lying, changed his whole life!
Reflexive pronouns
English Grammar | LearnEnglish | British Council | Reflexive pronouns
When the same person or thing is the subject and object of the verb we usually use a reflexive pronoun. Find out more and test yourself with this activity!
When the same person or thing is the subject and object of the verb we usually use a reflexive pronoun. Find out more and test yourself with this activity!
Summer Reading Guide
Summer Reading Guide - latimes.com
When summer begins, it stretches out with such a luxury of time that it seems like we could read almost anything, writes book critic David L. Ulin in his essay on summer reading. Our summer books preview includes a total of 156 book picks: below you’ll find thrillers and young adult books, history and novels, memoirs and science fiction, pop culture books, kids books and more.
When summer begins, it stretches out with such a luxury of time that it seems like we could read almost anything, writes book critic David L. Ulin in his essay on summer reading. Our summer books preview includes a total of 156 book picks: below you’ll find thrillers and young adult books, history and novels, memoirs and science fiction, pop culture books, kids books and more.
Cheer Up Quotes
"Just think how happy you would be if you lost everything you have right now, and then got it back again."
- Frances Rodman
"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
- Denis Waitley
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
- Marcus Aurelius
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
- Tom Bodett
"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."
- Bertrand Russell
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they are really not. There are companions. The hero and the sidekick."
- Laurence Shames
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
- Albert Einstein
"Try and fail, but don't fail to try."
- Stephen Kaggwa
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
- Aristotle
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
- Hugh Downs
"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
- Dr. Robert Anthony
"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure."
- Sven-Göran Eriksson
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you will be successful."
- Albert Schweitzer
"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."
- Napoleon Hill
"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."
- Benjamin Franklin
"People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure."
- Lao Tzu
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
- Colin Powell
"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy."
- Oscar Wilde
"All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men."
- Isaac Asimov
"There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them."
- Tom Krause
"Success builds character, failure reveals it."
- Dave Checkett
"The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account."
- Richard R. Grant
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan
"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
- Woody Allen
"Our greatest glory is not in ever failing, but in rising every time we fail."
- Confucius
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, in as much as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
- John Keats
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."
- William Saroyan
"The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- Albert Einstein
Inspirational Quotes to Cheer You Up
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
- Aristotle
"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes."
- St. Clement of Alexandra
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
"If at first you don't succeed, think how many people you've made happy."
- H. Duane Black
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
- Dr. Seuss
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
- John Lennon
"I've got nothing to do today but smile."
- Simon and Garfunkel
"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
- Mark Twain
"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."
- Pearl S. Buck
So, next time you see a person feeling low, make use of these quotes to cheer him/her up! These quotes will definitely motivate the person and help him look at life with a positive approach. Use them well!
By Girija Shinde
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/cheer-up-quotes.html
- Frances Rodman
"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead-end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."
- Denis Waitley
"Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking."
- Marcus Aurelius
"They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for."
- Tom Bodett
"The good life, as I conceive it, is a happy life. I do not mean that if you are good you will be happy; I mean that if you are happy you will be good."
- Bertrand Russell
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony."
- Mahatma Gandhi
"Success and failure. We think of them as opposites, but they are really not. There are companions. The hero and the sidekick."
- Laurence Shames
"If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things."
- Albert Einstein
"Try and fail, but don't fail to try."
- Stephen Kaggwa
"Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence."
- Aristotle
"A happy person is not a person in a certain set of circumstances, but rather a person with a certain set of attitudes."
- Hugh Downs
"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
- Benjamin Franklin
"Most people would rather be certain they're miserable, than risk being happy."
- Dr. Robert Anthony
"The greatest barrier to success is the fear of failure."
- Sven-Göran Eriksson
"Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you do, you will be successful."
- Albert Schweitzer
"When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal."
- Napoleon Hill
"Wine is constant proof that God loves us and loves to see us happy."
- Benjamin Franklin
"People in their handling of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure."
- Lao Tzu
"There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure."
- Colin Powell
"When we are happy we are always good, but when we are good we are not always happy."
- Oscar Wilde
"All sorts of computer errors are now turning up. You'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men."
- Isaac Asimov
"There are no failures - just experiences and your reactions to them."
- Tom Krause
"Success builds character, failure reveals it."
- Dave Checkett
"The wisest person is not the one who has the fewest failures but the one who turns failures to best account."
- Richard R. Grant
"Success is the ability to go from failure to failure without losing your enthusiasm."
- Winston Churchill
"If you have made mistakes, even serious ones, there is always another chance for you. What we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down."
- Mary Pickford
"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. Twenty-six times I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
- Michael Jordan
"I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens."
- Woody Allen
"Our greatest glory is not in ever failing, but in rising every time we fail."
- Confucius
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
- Bill Cosby
"Don't be discouraged by a failure. It can be a positive experience. Failure is, in a sense, the highway to success, in as much as every discovery of what is false leads us to seek earnestly after what is true, and every fresh experience points out some form of error which we shall afterwards carefully avoid."
- John Keats
"Good people are good because they've come to wisdom through failure."
- William Saroyan
"The secret of creativity is knowing how to hide your sources."
- Albert Einstein
Inspirational Quotes to Cheer You Up
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."
- Aristotle
"If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes."
- St. Clement of Alexandra
"The only way of finding the limits of the possible is by going beyond them into the impossible."
- Arthur C. Clarke
"If at first you don't succeed, think how many people you've made happy."
- H. Duane Black
"Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened."
- Dr. Seuss
"For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness."
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Count your age by friends, not years. Count your life by smiles, not tears."
- John Lennon
"I've got nothing to do today but smile."
- Simon and Garfunkel
"Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination."
- Mark Twain
"Growth itself contains the germ of happiness."
- Pearl S. Buck
So, next time you see a person feeling low, make use of these quotes to cheer him/her up! These quotes will definitely motivate the person and help him look at life with a positive approach. Use them well!
By Girija Shinde
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/cheer-up-quotes.html
Are You a Nerd or a Geek?
Are You a Nerd or a Geek?
Are you a nerd or a geek? Take this fun quiz to find out for yourself!
A Geek is defined as someone who is an expert on a particular subject or niche. This can be anything from gadgets to chemistry to cars.
A Nerd is defined as a person who is obsessed about acquiring knowledge and attaining top grades in academics.
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/are-you-a-nerd-or-a-geek.html
A Geek is defined as someone who is an expert on a particular subject or niche. This can be anything from gadgets to chemistry to cars.
A Nerd is defined as a person who is obsessed about acquiring knowledge and attaining top grades in academics.
Read more at Buzzle: http://www.buzzle.com/articles/are-you-a-nerd-or-a-geek.html
Nursery Rhymes
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| Pease porridge hot, pease porridge cold, Pease porridge in the pot, nine days old; Some like it hot, some like it cold, Some like it in the pot, nine days old |
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| Little Boy Blue poem A Little Boy Blue come blow your horn, The sheep's in the meadow the cow's in the corn. But where's the boy who looks after the sheep? He's under a haystack fast asleep. Will you wake him? No, not I - for if I do, he's sure to cry    Hey! diddle, diddle,The cat and the fiddle, The cow jumped over the moon; The little dog laughed To see such sport, And the dish ran away with the spoon. |
Σάββατο 29 Ιουνίου 2013
Πέμπτη 27 Ιουνίου 2013
Τετάρτη 26 Ιουνίου 2013
6 idioms about TALKING
6 idioms about TALKING · engVid:
Learn English idioms like shoot the breeze, talk a mile a minute, spill the beans, and more. I’ll explain the meaning of these commonly used idioms and also teach you when NOT to use them! Knowing idioms always takes your communication skills to a higher level. Remember, idioms are useful for IELTS, TOEFL, and TOEIC test-takers, too.
Learn English idioms like shoot the breeze, talk a mile a minute, spill the beans, and more. I’ll explain the meaning of these commonly used idioms and also teach you when NOT to use them! Knowing idioms always takes your communication skills to a higher level. Remember, idioms are useful for IELTS, TOEFL, and TOEIC test-takers, too.
Τρίτη 25 Ιουνίου 2013
talking about the future
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT THE FUTURE TENSES HERE :http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/english-grammar/verbs/talking-about-future