English City Writing Contest

One of our students Energizer Aboma came to me a few days ago with a great idea – a writing contest. This is a great way to improve your writing and get critical feedback that can help you improve.

Many of you have been writing great articles for The English City News with help from Lane Jarman and other students have really enjoyed your work !

Ok so here are the rules:

• Below there is a list of 50 words, you must look up their meanings.
• Students must write a fictional story, news style report or discursive essay using at least thirty words in the list.
• Points will be given for originality, style, grammar and structure.
• The winner’s profile will be featured on the new Languagelab website and also displayed all over English City.
• Everyone who enters will be given detailed feedback and those who choose to share their feedback with the group will be posted on the blog for all students to benefit from.

The words:

1. advice
2. benefit
3. liaise
4. compete
5. effect
6. relate
7. budget
8. discreet
9. regard
10. respond
11. comply
12. procure
13. paradigm
14. defy
15. assess
16. criterion
17. appreciate
18. jingoism
19. analyse
20. retain
21. affect
22. enhance
23. podcasting
24. acquire
25. oblige
26. information
27. use
28. intend
29. ecopolitics
30. endeavour
31. continue
32. provide
33. allege
34. emphasize
35. aesthetic
36. empathy
37. request
38. pragmatic
39. despite
40. ubiquitous
41. sceptic
42. propose
43. assume
44. ambiguous
45. competence
46. irony
47. subtle
48. implement
49. concur
50. general
    

The deadline is 9th March and all submissions should be made on the English City News Blog or to jessie@languagelab.com

Good Luck !

Internet makes people hard to forget their loves in history.

It seems females are not so easy to omit their loves in the past that they usually update their boyfriends through Google or public connection on Yahoo360, Facebook…

The company, Yasni in England surveyed 1700 people and found that 57% of them was curious and 21% evied.

62% of the females stated that they were still having liaison with their old boyfriends while only 46% of the males were taking care of their old partners’ life at present.

“Curiosity is a natural personality. It makes people desire to know all information about the person whom they don’t like or their private relationship they used to have in the past.” Professor Steffen Ruehl , Yasni company explained.

The result of this survey has got in sympathy with people who use internet. They also affirm this rate must be higher.” I often type my old girlfriend’s name or her nickname on the internet and sometimes wish her life now is worster than mine. Moreover, I am able to get information about the girl whom I am going to hang out with through Google.”, the member Rane of InventorSpot web said.

Who should take responsibility for climate change?

Liuyin:

In my opinion, climate change causes a lot of problems in our life, we have the responsibility to make changes. We can make some suggestions to the govements, or we can raise public awareness of having good habits to reduce pollution throught the TV or INTERNET.

Amanda:

I believe that climate change is a major problem.Both the government and people should cooparate to solve this problem. People should be aware of what is happening to thier environment because of thier improper use of their resources and the huge amount of waste products originating from this. The government should participate as well by giving directions and aids to the peaple and make sure that everyone is doing thier job.

TR:

In order to solve the problem of current climate change we have to reduce the consumption of energy at individual levels. I know it would be extremely difficult without governmental intervention. Therefore regulations by governments are essential. We all have to work together to reduce consumption of energy to contribute to solving the problem.

Jane:

Governments cannot solve the problem of climate change. We must make changes ourselves. What are your views?

Why can not governments solve the problem of climate change? How unreasonable it is! Basically, The climate change affects humans a lot such as: our enviroment; our health ...In my opinion, we must work together to solve this big world problem. Not only the governments but also people all over the world should work together to find the best solution. Please gather in a group and do discuss about it quickly!

Energiser:

Governments cannot solve the problem of climate change. We must make changes ourselves. What are your views?

I firmly believe that changes regarding the climate crisis should originate from us. increasing the green areas around our homes will help us provide our children with fresh clean air. planting more trees will filter the air and make it possible to control the climatic changes. For instance, there should be campaigns by children and adults to work together in order to achieve that.

Jacob:

In my opinion, the methods we could use to solve the problem of climate chage is that, first of all, it is essenital for the government to punblish regulations and laws to limit and change citizens daily activities which will have negaive impacts on climate. In the second place, for the indivitual, it is worth for us to pay more attention to the weather change, and take more of our behaviors. Moreover, we could use mass media to make more people know the real condition of our climate now, and promote methods we can use to solve the climate changing problem. Lastly, for most of the social groups, they could hold more events to let more people gain the methods of solving the issue of climate change.

Aioria

In my opinion, there is some truth in the statement "Governments cannot solve the problem of climate change. We must make the changes". This is, that as individuals we have to play a more active role in terms of climate issues by changing our daily behaviour of our daily life. However, I also think governments are equally responsible for acting on climate issues.

The event of Jensen,Today

today we were talking about the methods we could use to solve the problems of world pollution.
And this was one topic of the content:
Governments cannot solve the problem of climate change. We must make changes ourselves. What are your views?

In my opinion, the methods we could use to solve the problem of climate chage are that, first of all, it is essenital for the government to punblish regulations and laws to limit and change citizens daily activities which will have negaive impacts on climate. In the second place, for the indivitual, it is worth for us to pay more attention to the weather change, and take more of our behaviors. Moreover, we could use mass media to make more people know the real condition of our climate now, and promote methods we can use to solve the climate changing problem. Lastly, for most of the social groups, they could hold more events to let more people gain the methods of solving the issue of climate change.

Have you seen this woman? Her cousin, Jensen, is very worried about her. If you see her, please send an email to jensen@llcitypeople.com.

Fran, I know we have had our ups and downs but please contact me, just to tell me you are OK.

Love,
Jensen

Politics talk

Last week we had an interesting discussion with Finn Kranfel.we were discussing different goverment systems and how they affect people.
The goverment system defines the culture of any population and shapes the attitude of people towardes thier future and thier past .Goverment can be a good tool to develop a socity or can be a strong weapon to destroy it.
we discussed different types of goverment systems .we talked about democratic goverment ,we learned that the word "democracy" came from the anchient Greece where the democratic system was originated.the democratic system is simply based on the freedom of the people to express themselves and thier needs,and that usually done through elected parliamant to represent the people.
we talked about Dictatorshipe as well and how it has become almost extent ,Finn demonstrated two examples of that kind of goverment which are Cuba and North Koria .
In dectatorshipe goerment ,no oppsing form of goverment is allowed to exist and it is usually military packed goverment and it involves monoarchy.
Although me and Energizer are not into politics ,we got absorbed by this discussion and we started to look up some idiology of goverment systems ,and that what Finn kranfel was aiming for.She wanted us to be aware of what is happening around the world and she wanted ,and i qout,to"broaden our horizon".

http://www.dunfordwood.co.uk/