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How to Improve your English via the Internet

Here are some tips to improving English both in how your learn and via the internet.

1. Remember that learning a language is a gradual process - it does not happen overnight.

2. Define your learning objectives early: What do you want to learn and why? - Take this quiz to find out what kind of English learner you are.

3. Make learning a habit. Try to learn something every day. It is much better to study (or read, or listen to English news, etc.) 10 minutes each day than to study for 2 hours once a week. - Take the English tip of the day newlsetter to help you.

4. Choose your materials well. You will need reading, grammar, writing, speaking and listening materials - Beginners can use this starting English guide, intermediate to advanced learners can use this continue learning English guide.

5. Vary your learning routine. It is best to do different things each day to help keep the various relationships between each area active. In other words, don’t just study grammar.

6. Find friends to study and speak with. Learning English together can be very encouraging. - Soziety can help you find friends to speak English over the inernet.

7. Choose listening and reading materials that relate to what you are interested in. Being interested in the subject will make learning more enjoyable - thus more effective.

8. Relate grammar to practical usage. Grammar by itself does not help you USE the language. You should practice what you are learning by employing it actively.

9. Move your mouth! Understanding something doesn’t mean the muscles of your mouth can produce the sounds. Practice speaking what you are learning aloud. It may seem strange, but it is very effective.

10. Be patient with yourself. Remember learning is a process - speaking a language well takes time. It is not a computer that is either on or off!
Communicate! There is nothing like communicating in English and being successful. Grammar exercises are good - having your friend on the other side 

Practice, practice, practice

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7 Tips for speaking English Fluently

RULE 1: Always Study and Review Phrases, Not Individual Words

Never study a single, individual word. Never. When you find a new word, always write down The Phrase it is in. Always. 

When you review, always review all of the phrase,.. not the word. 

Collect phrases. 

Your speaking and grammar will improve 4-5 times faster. Always write the 

complete phrase. 

Never again study a single word. Never write a single word in your notebook, 

Learn Phrases Only.Phrases are GROUPS of words that naturally go together. 

**RULE 2: Don’t Study Grammar

Stop studying grammar. 

Stop studying grammar. 

Right now. Stop. Put away your grammar books and textbooks. Grammar rules 

teach you to think about English, you want to speak automatically— without 

thinking! 

So Rule 2 is: Don’t Study Grammar!

**RULE 3: The Most Important Rule— Listen First

What is the rule that Humberto found? Simple. The rule is listening. 

Listening, listening, listening. 

You must listen to UNDERSTANDABLE English. You must listen to English EVERYDAY. Don’t read textbooks. Listen to English. 

Its simple. That is the key to your English success. Stop reading textbooks. 

Start listening everyday. 

**Learn With Your Ears, Not Your Eyes

In most schools, you learn English with your eyes. You read textbooks. You 

study grammar rules. 

Spend most of your study time listening- that is the key to great speaking.

**RULE 4: Slow, Deep Learning Is Best

The secret to speaking easily is to learn every word & phrase DEEPLY. Its not enough to know a definition. Its not enough to remember for a test. 

You must put the word deep into your brain. 

To speak English easily, you must repeat each lesson many times. 

You must learn English deeply. 

Learn deeply, speak easily.

Learn deeply, speak easily.

How do you learn deeply? Easy— just repeat all lessons or listening many times. For example, if you have an audio book, listen to the first chapter 30 times before you go to the second chapter. You could listen to the first chapter 3 times each day, for 10 days. 

**RULE 5: Use Point Of View Mini-Stories

I call these stories “Point Of View Mini-Stories”. They are the most powerful 

way to learn and use English grammar automatically. 

Use Point of View Stories for Automatic Grammar

Use Point of View Stories for Automatic Grammar

You must learn grammar by listening to real English. The best way is to listen to the same story… told in different times (points of view): Past, Perfect, Present, Future. 

How do you do this? Easy! Find a story or article in the present tense. 

Then ask your native speaker tutor to write it again in the Past, with Perfect 

tenses, and in the Future. Finally, ask him to read and record these stories 

for you. 

Then you can listen to stories with many different kinds of grammar. You 

don’t need to know the grammar rules. Just listen to the Point of View stories and you will improve grammar automatically! 

**RULE 6: Only Use Real English Lessons & Materials

You learn real English if you want to understand native speakers and speak easily. Use real magazines, audio articles, TV shows, movies, radio talk shows, and audio books. 

Learn Real English, Not Textbook English

Learn Real English, Not Textbook English

To learn real English, you must listen to English that native speakers listen to. You must watch what they watch. You must read what they read. 

Listen only to real English

Listen only to real English

Listen only to real English

How do you learn Real English? It’s easy. Stop using textbooks. Instead, listen only to real English movies, TV shows, audio books, audio articles, stories, and talk radio shows. Use real English materials. 

**RULE 7: Listen and Answer, not Listen and Repeat

Use Listen & Answer Mini-Story Lessons

Use Listen & Answer Mini-Story Lessons

In each Mini-Story Lesson, a speaker tells a short simple story. He also asks 

a lot of easy questions. Every time you hear a question, you pause and 

answer it. 

You learn to answer questions quickly— without thinking. Your English 

becomes automatic. 

How can you use Listen & Answer Stories? Easy! Find a native speaker tutor. 

Ask him to use this method: Ask him to tell a story… and to constantly ask 

you easy questions about it. This will teach you to think quickly in English!

You can also find Listen & Answer lessons. They will teach you to think quickly in English.

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5 Essential Things to Include in your Cover Letter

1. Specific information


Many people send standard, generic cover letters to their potential employers. However, such a letter does not help you stand out from crowd. There are many applicants so you should be very specific and really show why you are the best candidate for this specific position. 

2. Information from the job advert
You should include information from the job advertisement. Indicate how your experience matches that description. You could also add here how you will fit into the company. 

3. Highlight your strengths 
Always highlight your strong points. State exactly what your strengths are and why and how this will be useful in this position. You don’t want to draw attention to your weakness. However, if there Is something unusual about your experience or career move, you should use this opportunity to succinctly explain these in a positive light. 

4. Don’t appear too desperate
You should focus on your suitability for the position and how the company will benefit from employing you. Any information about how badly you need this job is irrelevant and won’t create a good impression. 

5. Contact details
Although your contact details are on your CV or resume, you should include this information briefly at the end of the letter. You want to make it as easy as possible for the potential employer to find this information and contact you.

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Introducing and Greeting People

Word List

Greeting People
  • Hello. / Hi.
  • Good morning. (before 12 o’clock)
  • Good afternoon.(after 12 o’clock)
  • Good evening
Introducing People
  • What’s your name?
  • Who are you?
  • My name is …
  • I am …
  • My friends call me …
  • You can call me …
  • Haven’t we met (before)?
  • Yes, I think we have.
  • No, I don’t think we have.
  • I think we’ve already met.
  • I don’t think we’ve met (before).
  • This is …
  • Meet …
  • Have you met …?
  • Yes, I have.
  • No, I haven’t.
  • Yes, I think I have.
  • No, I don’t think I have.
  • Hello, … (name)
  • Nice to meet you. (informal)
  • Pleased to meet you.
  • How do you do? (formal)
  • Nice to see you.
  • Nice to see you again.
Say Goodbye
  • Good bye.
  • Bye. / See you.
  • See you later.
  • See you soon.
  • See you tomorrow.
  • See you next week.
  • Good night.
Health
  • How are you?
  • How are you today?
  • Fine, thank you/thanks.
  • Not too bad.
  • Very well.
  • I’m okay / all right.
  • Not too well, actually.
  • What’s wrong with you?
  • What’s the matter with you?
  • Are you all right?
  • I’m tired
  • I’ve got a cold.

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General Information on Writing English Texts

The ideal English text is easy to read and understand. Even scientific texts are usually written in plain English words. So try to keep your sentences plain, clear and well structured.

When writing in English, keep the following rules in mind:

  • use simple language
  • keep subordinate clauses short
  • prefer verbs to nouns (not: The meaning of this is that …, but: This means that …)
  • avoid slang and techy language

Sentence

Make your texts interesting by using various types of clauses, e.g.:

  • participle clauses
  • relative clauses
  • conditional sentences
  • infinitive constructions, introductory clauses with infinitive or gerund
  • prepositional clauses
  • passive voice

Note, however:

  • Always use main clauses for important statements – use subordinate clauses only for additional information
  • Use passive voice sparingly – prefer active voice.
  • Avoid long introductory clauses – always try to put the subject close to the beginning of a sentence.
  • Avoid long subordinate clauses – a subordinate clause in the middle of a sentence should have no more than 12 syllables

Paragraph

As to paragraphs, keep the following rules in mind:

  • Concentrate on one main point per paragraph. Summarize this point in the first sentence.
  • All sentences that follow support the main point or limit its scope.
  • The last sentence is used as a transition to the next paragraph. Use a criteria that applies for both paragraphs.

Text

The typical structure of a text is as follows:

  • (title)
  • introduction
  • main part
  • conclusion

Make your texts interesting. You can achieve this for example by varying the lengths of your sentences. An important statement is best emphasised in a short sentence, especially if that sentence is between two longer sentences. Do also vary the lenghts of your paragraphs and avoid one-sentence paragraphs.

There are various possibilities on how to structure your texts, e.g.:

  • General to Specific
    general statement followed by details and examples
  • Specific to General
    details and examples followed by a generalization
  • Known to Unknown
    provide new information based on what readers already know
  • Least Important to Most Important
    catch and keep readers’ attention
  • Chronology (ordering by time)
    e.g. in biographies

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How To Write a Business Letter in English

There are many different reasons for writing a business letter. However, most business letters follow some general guidelines as described below

  1. Use block style - do not indent paragraphs.
  2. Include address of the person you are writing to at the top of the letter, below your company address.
  3. After the address, double space and include date
  4. Double space (or as much as you need to put the body of the letter in the center) and include the salutation. Include Mr. for men or Ms for women, unless the recipient has a title such as Dr.
  5. State a reference reason for your letter (i.e. ‘With reference to our telephone conversation…’
  6. Give the reason for writing (i.e. ‘I am writing to you to confirm our order…’)
  7. Make any request you may have (i.e. ‘I would be grateful if you could include a brochure…’
  8. If there is to be further contact, refer to this contact (i.e. ‘I look forward to meeting you at…’)
  9. Close the letter with a thank you (i.e. ‘Thank you for your prompt help…’)
  10. Finish the letter with a salutation (i.e. ‘Yours sincerely,’)
  11. Include 4 spaces and type your full name and title
  12. sign the letter between the salutation and the typed name and title

Tips:

  1. Keep the letter brief and to the point
  2. Do not use shortened verb forms - write them out (i.e. ‘don’t instead of do not’)
  3. Always keep a copy of correspondence for future reference

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Some photos from EForever 2011 Universal Studio Singapore trip , 14 - 16 july

The importance of reading

The following article is taken from an ESL website. It is to underline the importance of reading for future academic success. Please read it and learn from it.

The importance of reading

On many of the other pages of advice on this site I have emphasized how important reading is as far as learning English is concerned. However, there is a further, very important reason why ESL students should try to develop their reading skills: Educational researchers have found that there is a strong correlation between reading and academic success.* In other words, a student who is a good reader is more likely to do well in school and pass exams than a student who is a weak reader.

Good readers can understand the individual sentences and the organizational structure of a piece of writing. They can comprehend ideas, follow arguments, and detect implications. They know most of the words in the text already, but they can also determine the meaning of many of the unfamiliar words from the context - failing this, they can use their dictionary effectively to do so. In summary, good readers can extract from the writing what is important for the particular task they are employed in. And they can do it quickly!

Educational researchers have also found a strong correlation between reading and vocabulary knowledge. In other words, students who have a large vocabulary are usually good readers. This is not very surprising, since the best way to acquire a large vocabulary is to read extensively, and if you read extensively you are likely to be or become a good reader!

So if you want your child to be successful at school encourage him or her to read. Reading non-fiction in English is probably the most important, but English fiction and any reading in the mother tongue - if done extensively - will help your child develop the reading competence that is essential for academic achievement.

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10 First People To Join The Facebook

Facebook The world’s largest social network with over 500 Million users worldwide started in a dorm of Harvard university by a student Mark Zuckerberg who is now a Billionaire, In this article i am not going to tell what Facebook has achieved but i have another very interesting information to share with you guys and i am sure that many of you have no idea about the first 10 people to join the Facebook and their connection with Mark Zuckerberg, it’s pretty obvious that the first person to join Facebook was the Founder of Facebook himself “Mark Zuckerberg”. Couple of years ago when Facebook didn’t have the username facility for the profile links the user profile links have looked like this “http://www.facebook.com /profile.php?id=7568945” , after the ?id= is a serial number starting from 0. If you guys are familiar with the history of Facebook then you might know that why most of the people to join Facebook in start were from Harvard University, and the most interesting thing is that there was no female user to join Facebook in the first 10, I guess it was the 31st user who was the first female to join the Facebook Social Network, Let’s get to the top 10 countdown of the Top 10 First People To Join The Facebook

10. Mark Kaganovich

Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com /profile.php?id=28

Mark Kaganovich was student at Harvard and friend of Hammer who have friends who have joined Facebook in start and Mark was one of the friends referred by Hammer and the interesting thing is Hammer joined the Facebook later

09. Collin Kelly

Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com /profile.php?id=27

Colly a Harvard student and friend of David Hammer and Collin Jackson and he was referred too

08. Andrew MacCollum

Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com /profile.php?id=26

MacCullum and Mark Zuckerberg were in same class for CS: 161 Subject and that’s how he joined Facebook so early

07. Chris Putnam

Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com /profile.php?id=13

Putnam is the second guy to join the Facebook who was not the Harvard student, He was friend with early facebookers Kang-Xing Jin and Marcel George Laverde and he used to be one of the very first programmers at Facebook

06. Soleio Cuervo

Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com /profile.php?id=11

Cuervo was friends with early Facebook members Kang-Xing Jin and Marcel Laverdet

05. Marcel Laverdet

Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com /profile.php?id=10
Marcel is one of the early IDs at Facebook and he was probably the first non Harvard user to join Facebook Marcel was also friends with early Facebookers Chris Putnam, Soleio Cuervo, Kang-Xing Jin, Chris Hughes, Mark Zuckerberg

04. Arie Hasit

Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com /profile.php?id=7

Arie the first non founder to jojn the Facebook was the friend of David Hammer and Co Founder Chris Hughes

03. Dustin Moskovitz

Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com /profile.php?id=6

Dustin and Mark Zuckerberg were Roommates at Harvard, Dustin is one of the Co Founders of Facebook

02. Chris Hughes

Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com /profile.php?id=5

Chris Hughes was Roommate with Mark Zuckerberg and he co founded the Facebook

01. Mark Zuckerberg

Original Profile ID: http://www.facebook.com /profile.php?id=4

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