Make Your English Interesting Through Games

Make Your English Interesting Through Games They say laughter is the best medicine, and we’ve got just the prescription for you! Get the giggles with these fun word games you can play with your friends. Who says studying can’t be fun? Beginnings and endings This game focuses on beginning and ending letters of words. The first player says a word, and the next player must quickly say a word that begins with its final letter. For example: Player 1: EnglishPlayer 2: heartPlayer 3: telephonePlayer 4: elephant If a person can’t think of a word, hesitates, or gets the letter wrong, they are out of the game. The last person left is the winner. I spy … Pick an object that you can see from where you are, for...

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Excellent Websites to Make Your Writing Stronger

Make Your Writing Stronger 1. Skell (Sketch Engine for Language Learning) explores the English language in more than one billion words from news, scientific papers, Wikipedia articles, fiction books, web pages, and blogs. Skell is easy to use. Search for a word or a phrase. Click on Examples to get the most presentable sentences containing this word. Click on Word sketch to get a list of words which occur frequently together with the searched word. Click on Similar words (not only synonyms) where you’ll find words used in similar contexts visualized with a word cloud. 2.Netspeak is a really helpful site to help you write better. It helps you find the word or phrase you’re looking for by suggesting...

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Amazing Tattoos

      The word tattoo, or tattow in the 18th century, is a loanword from the Polynesian word tatau, meaning "correct, workmanlike". The Oxford English Dictionary gives the etymology of tattoo as "In 18th c. tattaow, tattow. From Polynesian (Samoan, Tahitian, Tongan, etc.) tatau. In Marquesan, tatu." Before the importation of the Polynesian word, the practice of tattooing had been described in the West as painting, scarring, or staining. Sailors on the voyage later introduced both the word and reintroduced the concept of tattooing to Europe. This is not to be confused with the origins of the word for the military drumbeat — see military tattoo. In this case, the English word tattoo is derived from the Dutch word...

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Quotes about Success

75 Inspiring Quotes  about Success "If you set your goals ridiculously high and it's a failure, you will fail above everyone else's success." James Cameron "Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it." Henry David Thoreau "Things work out best for those who make the best of how things work out."John Wooden "Entrepreneurs average 3.8 failures before final success. What sets the successful ones apart is their amazing persistence." Lisa M. Amos "If you are not willing to risk the usual, you will have to settle for the ordinary."Jim Rohn "Take up one idea. Make that one idea your life--think of it, dream of it, live on that idea. Let the brain, muscles, nerves, every part of your body, be full of that idea, and just leave every other idea...

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