Improve Spoken English - Don't Translate Directly!

Source: http://www.englishHarmony.com

This is an important tip, follow it up, friends. 

Vocabularies Strategies

Today I am going to talk about Vocabulary Strategies they can help to guide you and deserve to improve your English. Ask me, what English words are similar in your Language? (most common from Latin American, Italian, Spanish and French) For instance, I'm talking about cognate words, in other words, similar words Optimistic in English and Spanish are very very similar. Think of "Shared" words between English and your mother tongue. (Most languages have hundreds of shared words.)

How do you say these English words in your Language? Which ones are shard words in English? Do they have the same meaning? 

Colour (color) data favor information tourist what other shared words do you know? Take notice and write  them out.

See you the next tip and keep focusing to improve your English. 

International Mother's Day

                                This is my mother (Analia)    

Today I pay a single homage to celebrate the International Mother's Day , even I recognise that everyday we should celebrate their presence with us.
Thank you for walking up in the crack dawn when I was sick and took care with me; every time I need your support you always were there.
for everything...I simply say...Mom I love you forever. God Bless you and my readers' mothers around the world. Happy International Mother's Day.
              

SONG FOR GAZA, FOOD FOR THOUGHT

Actually this is not about religion, as much as people are talking to when describe it the lyric song WE WILL NOT GO DOWN expresses itself the real situation that Palestinians live nowadays. Definitely I'm not Muslim, Jew, Protestant, but someone who support for FREEDOM and this is lyric should be touch in the LEADERS who promote TERRORISM and BATH BLOODING. Shame to see human beings for both sides destroying themselves. There are no reason to continue spread death in the Land of JESUS was born. INSYALLAH we will see peace in the Strip Gaza, For God willing you see it someday. Violence breeds violence. No matter what is your religion, the most important is your attitude. peace, love and compassion. there is no religion better then the other religion.

A blinding flash of white light
Lit up the sky over Gaza tonight
People running for cover
Not knowing whether they're dead or alive

They came with their tanks and their planes
With ravaging fiery flames
And nothing remains
Just a voice rising up in the smoky haze

We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight
[ Lyrics from: http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/m/michael_heart/we_will_not_go_down.html ]
Women and children alike
Murdered and massacred night after night
While the so-called leaders of countries afar
Debated on who's wrong or right

But their powerless words were in vain
And the bombs fell down like acid rain
But through the tears and the blood and the pain
You can still hear that voice through the smoky haze

We will not go down
In the night, without a fight
You can burn up our mosques and our homes and our schools
But our spirit will never die
We will not go down
In Gaza tonight

English Lesson: starting conversation, icebreakers, small talk

Source: http://www.englishmeeting.com/

From now on, I going to include Dave Sconda's website on my favorite links. He is a great teacher and also, about Ice breaking is important to develop a conversation and feeling comfortable for speaking and start a dialog. 

We need to struggle for peace and love...Thank you for visiting ENGLISH TIPS

Since February 9th until now we received officially numbers of readers 100.000 and numbers increase day by day thanks my bloggers' partners and you, dear readers; over 170.000 of pagerviewers, 505 Google's followers and 422 Networking blogs. I'm proud of being your partner and receive here on my blog is a pleasure. I have no words unless thank you for you kindness visit, for your smile and kiss, and the main important is reciprocate respect...your religion, viewpoint, rich or poor, black or white, I don't care about it, 'cause I hate racism, and any promotion of violence. World really needs peace and human being who struggle against the corruption, for human rights and for those who need help. I dedicate this song for you, Heal the world by Michael Jackson, expresses and  this song symbolises world peace & is the world anthem.Have a wonderful Saturday, my dear friends.

Japan nuclear crisis

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Today's website tips, I'm goin t  talk about a Brazilian's  website ING VIP it's useful English material, 'cause not only Brazilian but students all over the world use this website for practising English check it out the podcast and transcript text bellow

                   

 

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1.This is the VOA Special English Health Report. The crisis (1) at the damaged (2) Fukushima Dai-Ichi Nuclear Power Station in northern Japan has raised worries(3) about radiation risks. We spoke Tuesday with Jonathan Links,  an expert(4) in radiation health sciences. He is a professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health(5) in Maryland.

 

2. Professor Links says workers within(6) the nuclear plant are the only people at risk of extremely high doses of radiation.  "Of course, we don’t know what doses they've received, but the only persons at risk of acute(7) radiation effects are the workers." For other people, he says, there may be(8) a long-term(9) worry. People can get cancer from low(10) doses of ionizing radiation, the kind(11) released(12) in a nuclear accident.

3. Professor Links says scientists can use computers to quickly(13) model(14) where radioactive material has blown(15) and settled(15). Then they measure(17) how large an area is contaminated. He says if the situation is serious enough(18), officials could take steps(19) like telling people not to eat locally grown(20) food or drink the water.

4. "But that would only be the case if there was(21) a significant release and, because of wind direction, the radioactive material was blown over the area, and then settled out of the air into and onto water, plants, fruits and vegetables."

5. The reactors at Fukushima are on the Pacific coast(22). But Professor Links says people should not worry(23) about any radioactive material leaking(24) into the ocean. "Even(25) in a worst-case(26) scenario(27) accident, the sea provides(28) a very high degree(29) of dilution. So the concentration of radioactivity in the seawater(30) would still be quite(31) low."

6. Japan is the only(32) country to have had atomic bombs dropped(33) on it. That memory from  World War Two would create a stronger(34) "psychological sensitivity" to radiation exposure(35), Professors Links says. Next month is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the explosion and fire that destroyed a reactor at Chernobyl in Ukraine. The nineteen eighty-six event was the world's worst accident in the nuclear power industry.

7. A new United Nations report(36) says more than six thousand cases of thyroid cancer have been found(37). These are in people who were children in affected areas of Belarus, Russia and Ukraine. The report says that by two thousand five the cancers had resulted in fifteen deaths.

8. The cancers were largely caused by drinking contaminated milk. The milk came from cows(38) that ate grass(39) where radioactive material had fallen(40).

 

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9. The crisis at Japan’s Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear energy center has raised questions(41) about the future of the nuclear energy industry. Arjun Makhijani is president of the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research(42) in the United States. He says the disaster in Japan is historic.

10.  “We are witnessing(43) a completely unprecedented nuclear accident in that there have never been(44) three reactors in the same place(45) at the same time that have had a severe(46) accident.”

11. This week, the chairman(47) of America’s nuclear agency said there is little chance that harmful(48) radiation from Japan could reach the United States. Nuclear Regulatory Commission Chairman Gregory Jaczko also said America has a strong program in place to deal with earthquake threats(49).

12. No new nuclear power centers have been built in the United States since nineteen seventy-nine. That was when America’s worst nuclear accident happened at the Three Mile Island center in Pennsylvania. The accident began to turn public opinion against(50) nuclear energy.

13. To support more clean energy production, the Obama administration has been seeking billions of dollars in government loan(51) guarantees to build new centers. Currently(52), about twenty percent of electricity in the United States comes from nuclear energy. But critics say nuclear power is too costly and dangerous to be worth(53) further expansion.

14. German Chancellor Angela Merkel said Germany would temporarily close seven nuclear power centers while energy policy(54) is reconsidered. The European Union is planning to test all centers in its twenty-seven member nations.

15. Developing(55) nations are less willing to(56) slow nuclear expansion. China said it will continue with plans to build about twenty-five new nuclear reactors. And India, under a cooperation agreement with the United States, plans to spend billions on new centers in the coming years

16. Japan has made nuclear energy a national priority since the nineteen seventies. Unlike(57) many major economies, Japan imports eighty percent of its energy. The Nuclear Energy Institute says twenty-nine percent of Japan’s electricity came from nuclear sources(58) in two thousand nine.The government planned to increase(59) that to forty percent by twenty seventeen.

17. Nuclear reactors supply(60) fourteen percent of global electricity. Nuclear energy is a clean resource, producing no carbon gases. But radioactive waste(61) is a serious unresolved issue(62).  So is the presence of nuclear power centers in earthquake areas like the one near Bushehr, Iran.