8/23/2012
CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS (SECONDARY)
English Reader Vocabulary
Cambridge Vocabulary Placement Test
Connect Level 1-4
English in Mind (EIM) Level 1
English in Mind (EIM) Level 2 Wordsearches: Solve the clues and find the words.
Spin the Grammar Wheel: Find the right words to complete the sentence.
Picture Dictionary: Match the right word or phrase to the picture.
Word Tetris: Select the correct word to complete the sentence before time runs out.
CAMBRIDGE YOUNG LEARNERS
Student Activities
Exercises prepared around specific topics of YLE levels as:
Games
8/21/2012
London Central Mosque, perform Eid prayers 1433 Hijri six times
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Metrotvnews.com, London: Great Mosque London Central Mosque, Regent Park, perform Eid prayers 1433 Hijri six times on Sunday (19/8) morning local time. This is done in order to accommodate and provide a place for thousands of Muslims from various countries.
Id prayers were first held at 07.00 London time. Then proceed in the interval of one hour, until 12:00. Each prayer led by a different priest.
About 200 women who followed the Id prayers generally do not wear mukena. As is generally found in Indonesia. The women from various countries was only wearing a long black dress called the abaya.
Eid prayers which only lasted for half an hour at the mosque Kingdom London was always full of Muslims who usually come alternately.
8/19/2012
Most Muslims will celebrate `Eid Al-Fitr on Sunday, August 19
CAIRO – The majority of Muslims worldwide will celebrate `Eid Al-Fitr, which crowns the end of the holy fasting month of Ramadan, on Sunday, August 19.
Religious authorities in Saudi Arabia announced that the new moon of Shawwal, the 10th month of Islamic calendar, could not be sighted on Friday, August 17.
“Therefore, Saturday, August 18, will be the final day of Ramadan and Sunday, August 19, will be the first day of Shawwal.”
Egypt’s Dar Al-Ifta (House of Fatwa) also announced that Sunday, August 19, will be the start of `Eid Al-Fitr.
`Eid Al-Fitr will also start Sunday, August 19, in Qatar, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Oman and Bahrain.
Jordan, Yemen, Sudan, Libya and Palestine will also celebrate the start of the Muslim feast on Sunday, August 19.
Sunni Muslims in Lebanon will also celebrate `Eid Al-Fitr on Sunday, August 19.
`Eid Al-Fitr is one the two main Islamic religious festivals along with `Eid Al-Adha.
During `Eid days, families and friends exchange visits to express well wishes and children, wearing new clothes bought especially for `Eid, enjoy going out in parks and open fields.
Same Day Muslim minorities in the West will also celebrate `Eid Al-Fitr on Sunday, August 19.
Muslims in North America will celebrate the feast on Sunday, according to a statement by the Fiqh Council of North America (FCNA) and Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).
The European Council on Fatwa and Research has also announced that `Eid Al-Fitr will start on Sunday, August 19.
Muslims in Turkey will also celebrate the festival on Sunday.
Muslims in Kosovo, Macedonia, Romania, Bosnia, Serbia, Bulgaria, Montenegro, Albania and Slovenia will also celebrate `Eid Al-Fitr on Sunday, August 19.
Muslims in Bangladesh will celebrate the `Eid-Al-Fitr on Monday as the Shawal moon was not sighted on Saturday.
`Eid Al Fitr in Pakistan and India will also be celebrated on Monday.
Chinese Muslims in northwest China's Qinghai Province started `Eid celebrations on Saturday.
Other Muslim-populated regions, including Xinjiang and Ningxia, will celebrate the festival on Sunday.
Moon sighting have always been a controversial issue among Muslim countries, and even scholars seem at odds over the issue.
While one group of scholars sees that Muslims in other regions and countries are to follow the same moon sighting as long as these countries share one part of the night, another states that Muslims everywhere should abide by the lunar calendar of Saudi Arabia.
A third, however, disputes both views, arguing that the authority in charge of ascertaining the sighting of the moon in a given country announces the sighting of the new moon, then Muslims in the country should all abide by this. This usually causes confusion among Muslims, particularly in the West, on observing the dawn-to-dusk fasting and celebrating the `Eid Al-Fitr, which marks the end of fasting.
http://www.onislam.net
Melaka Set For 12.5 Million Tourist Arrivals This Year
Melaka Set For 12.5 Million Tourist Arrivals This Year
MELAKA, Aug 19 (Bernama) -- Melaka registered 6.8 million tourist arrivals in the first six months of this year, up by 21.1 per cent over the corresponding period last year, and is on track to achieve 12.5 million arrivals for the whole year.
The state recorded 5.6 million tourist arrivals between January and June last year, said Abd Kadir Md Idris, general manager of the Tourism Promotion Division in the Melaka Chief Minister's Department.
"Melaka is on the right track to achieving 12.5 million tourist arrivals this year in conjunction with the 750th anniversary of Melaka," he told Bernama.
Abd Kadir said domestic tourists continued to be the highest, registering five million or 74.63 per cent of the total arrivals, compared to 1.8 million foreign arrivals or 25.37 per cent.
A majority of the foreign tourists are from China, Singapore, Indonesia, Taiwan and Hong Kong, contributing to 1.1 million tourist arrivals in all.
Abd Kadir said the rise in the number of tourists was the result of close cooperation between the Melaka state government and the various players in the tourism industry, ranging from hotel operators to trishaw riders.
He also said that the opening of the RM73 million Customs, Immigration and Quarantine (CIQ) complex at the mouth of the Melaka River on Aug 1, would provide a major boost to drawing more tourists to Melaka.
The CIQ, which would be a major gateway to Dumai and Bengkalis in Indonesia, would further facilitate tourist travel, besides the Melaka international airport in Batu Berendam, he said.
-- BERNAMA
Indonesia To Celebrate Aidilfitri On Sunday
JAKARTA, Aug 18 (Bernama) -- The Indonesian government declared Hari Raya Aidilfitri for tomorrow, Aug 19.
The announcement was made at a meeting chaired by Religious Minister Suryadharma Ali, and attended by the country's various Islamic organisations here Saturday.
-- BERNAMA
Singapore Muslims To Celebrate Hari Raya Sunday
SINGAPORE, Aug 18 (Bernama) -- Muslims in Singapore will celebrate Hari Raya marking the beginning of the month of Syawal 1433H Sunday.
Singapore Mufti, Dr Mohamed Fatris Bakaram said," I am pleased to announce that the first day of the month of Syawal 1433H falls tomorrow, Sunday August 19, 2012.
"I would like to take this opportunity to wish all Muslims "Selamat Hari Raya Eidul Fitri," he said in a statement issued by the Islamic Religious Council of Singapore
(MUIS) here.
-- BERNAMA
8/16/2012
Why do people have to smile?
Smiling is a good way to make your self appear while helping your body function better. Smile can reduce stress and increase your health and your appearance that will make you look interesting.Smiling is a way to live longer, making people happy and you can do it as many times as you can.
1. We look attractive when we smile. Someone who smiles catch our attention. There is an attraction factor in a smile. We are curious to know what is so good when we see people smiling.
2. Smile Changes Our Mood Try to smile when you feel stressful and down . You will feel better.
3. Smile Is Contagious When you smile, you make your surrounding bright you change other's mood and make the day feel happier. Your smile bring happines to someone around you. Smile to make people smile.
4. Smile Relieves Stress People will always know when you are stressed. Smile keep you away from looking tired, worn down, and overwhelmed. When you are stressed, take time to put on a smile. The stress should be reduced and you'll be better to take better action.
5. Smile Increases Your Immune System Smiling boost the immune system to work better. When you smile, immune function improves possibly because you are more relaxed. It prevents the flu and colds.
6. Smile Lowers Your Blood Pressure When you smile, there is a reduction in your blood pressure. Give it a try if you have a blood pressure monitor at home. Sit for a few minutes, take a reading. Then smile for a minute and take another reading while still smiling. You will see the difference.
7. Smile Releases Endorphins, Natural Pain Killers and Serotonin Studies have shown that smiling releases endorphins, natural pain killers, and serotonin. Together these three make us feel better. Smile is a natural drug.
8. Smile Lifts the Face and Makes You Look Younger The muscles we use to smile lift the face, making you appear younger. Don't go for a face lift, just try smiling your way through the day.You'll look younger and feel better.
9. Smile Makes You Seem Successful. When smiling people appear more confident and more likely to be promoted, and more likely to be approached. Put on a smile at meetings and appointments and people will react to you differently.
10. Smile Helps You Stay Positive Try this test: Smile. Now try to think of something negative without losing the smile. It's hard. When we smile our body is sending the rest of us a message that "Life is Good!" Stay away from depression, stress and worry by smiling.
7 Adverse Effect Due to Facebook
Since created in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, the social networking site Facebook repeatedly blamed for many problems. Starting from the destruction of marriage, obesity in children. Professor Peter Kelly, head of public health in Teesside, England, revealed that Facebook plays a role in the spread of syphilis. In addition to these three things, many other effects of Facebook to be no good. following
7 Adverse Effect Due to Facebook:
1. Triggering Divorce: Lawyer blames Facebook for one in five online divorce petitions. Sites that can bring together old friends and make the user can talk to each other through chat applications, referred to as the background of the increasing destruction of marriage and the temptation for cheating.
2. Triggering Children Suicide: Head of the Catholic Church in England and Wales, Archbishop Vincent Nichols, warned that Facebook could encourage teenagers to have the view that friendship is a commodity. It can be a trigger of suicide, when there is no longer a relationship.
3. Eliminate Traditional Expression: A survey conducted by market research firm in 4,000 people under 30 years of age, revealed that many of the traditional expression is no longer used because of Facebook.
4. Triggering Bone Disorders Facebook is also often blamed as the cause of bone disorder that occurs in children. Research by the British Medical Journal found that social networking sites and computer games, a precursor to vitamin D deficiency disease as a result can lead to fragile bones.
5. Getting People to Become Solitary Research from Mintel found that more than half of adults who are active in social networking sites like Facebook, spend more time on the internet than talking to friends or other family members.
6. Increase the sense of Jealousy: The team of researchers from the University of Guelph, Canada, found that Facebook increases partner's jealousy. They found that the more one spends time online on social networks and see the status of the posts that made his partner, causing higher levels of suspicion.
7. The event made for Challenging Law: In some cases involving the law in the UK, Facebook used as a platform to challenge the law. Parties involved in the case law created a group, with a name that is very provocative and against the law.
8/14/2012
How to Learn English
I am now teaching English for children and adults. Most of them ask me how to learn English effectively. People have their own way on learning. but here are some ways should match any of us.Should it be an idea to start.
Activating Our Vocabulary
Activating our vocabulary while thinking and working on something. For example, if you are going to study English on topics that focuses on your best friends, take a moment to think about your best friends, how they look, what their characters are, etc. This exercise will help our brain warm-up to vocabulary that we are likely to use as we study English about this particular subject.
Activating Your Grammar
Activating our grammar by thinking about the general grammar area before we begin to study. For example, if we are going to study English grammar focusing on the past, stop to think about what we did last weekend, where we went, etc. to help activate what we already understand about using the past. As with activating vocabulary, we will help our brain bring up what it knows about the past simple in an easy way before we begin to focus on studying English grammar in detail.
Singing a Song
Before class begins, or before we sit down to study English sing a song in English to ourselves. Make sure to use a song that we understand and know very well. This short and fun exercise will help our brain focus on the English language in a relaxing manner. It's important to be relaxed when you study English! Singing a song also helps activate the creative side of our brain which can help us come up with more examples as our practice conversation or do some creative writing.
Typing a Short Paragraph in English
If we are going to study English at our desk, begin by typing a simple paragraph in English. We can type about our day, our hobbies, our friends, etc. Anything will do. Typing helps activating the kinetic part of our brain that helps improve learning through physical activity. I also recommend typing while we study our English grammar. This will help solidify our knowledge with movement.
A Thousand Words ...
As the saying goes in English: A picture is worth a thousand words. Help activate the creative side of our brain by trying to describe a photo or other image. We can combine use this also to activate our vocabulary by choosing a picture that has something to do with the subject we are going to study in English.
I hope these steps can help our English learning activity. The most important of all is to do and give it a try.
My first post.
I made this blog long ago in 2006 but this is my first post. That day people were so amazed about blogging. Every one of us has one blog or some even have more. Sharing about it was a great topic to discuss among us. Then I made one not knowing what I should share in this blog. I just made it only to give a yes answer when they ask me wether or not i have a blog. Here I am with my first post.
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