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- Fri Jul 02, 2021 6:59 am
- Forum: Student Lobby
- Topic: Student Dulansa's corner
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3217
Re: Student Dulansa's corner
Many people do not even assume they already know a large number of English words, without even learning the language. Here is the link to the well-known English words that are presented and ingrained in almost every language in the world. https://easy-english-study.com/forum/learning-english-togethe...
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 6:58 am
- Forum: Student Lobby
- Topic: Student Dulansa's corner
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3217
Re: Student Dulansa's corner
So here is the plan for 2-3 weeks
1.Grammar tests
2.Reading
(3.Flashcards)
(4.I can give some tasks to improve your writing skills time to time)
1.Grammar tests
2.Reading
(3.Flashcards)
(4.I can give some tasks to improve your writing skills time to time)
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 6:47 am
- Forum: Student Lobby
- Topic: Student Dulansa's corner
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3217
Re: Student Dulansa's corner
Read this English Diary (at least 1-5 posts everyday) and mention reading in your posts. If you don't understand some sentences you may post them here. I'll try to explain them. English Diary If you have a free time you can take flashcards. [On the Flascards webpage you get a sound of a word. Try to...
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:26 am
- Forum: Student Lobby
- Topic: Student Dulansa's corner
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3217
Re: Student Dulansa's corner
You should try the next tests. Try to do at least 1-5 grammar exercises from every link and post your marks to own diary during two weeks. ======================================================================= BE, HAVE, DO, DID, WAS... Tenses ========================================================...
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:26 am
- Forum: Student Lobby
- Topic: Student Dulansa's corner
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3217
Re: Student Dulansa's corner
Bookmarks this webpage, it's your own corner to study English online. Press Ctrl+D to bookmark. What does it mean to bookmark a webpage and how do I do it I recommend you to switch to Firefox web browser then you get more options for addons (you may find an addon that translate English to Sinhala) h...
- Fri Jul 02, 2021 5:24 am
- Forum: Student Lobby
- Topic: Student Dulansa's corner
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3217
Re: Student Dulansa's corner
Hi. I noticed you try to make complex sentences and mix up Tenses very often. Try to make more shorter and more simpler sentences. Start from Present Indefinite Tense. This Tense is used to describe daily things (I go to school/work everyday, I do exercises everyday).
- Wed Jun 30, 2021 11:10 am
- Forum: Student Lobby
- Topic: Student Dulansa's corner
- Replies: 9
- Views: 3217
Student Dulansa's corner
Have a good day! I want you to post a short essay about yourself and your aims here. It will help us to pick up an individual plan for you. I'd like to see answers to the next questions in your essay. You can answer whatever you want (it's just an example of an essay, you may not follow it strictly)...
- Mon Jun 21, 2021 12:27 am
- Forum: English grammar
- Topic: Idioms
- Replies: 185
- Views: 33679
Re: Idioms
a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush
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The proverb 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush' means that it's better to hold onto something you have rather than take the risk of getting something better which may come to nothing.
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The proverb 'A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush' means that it's better to hold onto something you have rather than take the risk of getting something better which may come to nothing.
- Mon Jun 21, 2021 12:04 am
- Forum: English grammar
- Topic: Idioms
- Replies: 185
- Views: 33679
Re: Idioms
the lesser of two evils
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Something that is bad, but not as bad as something else.
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Something that is bad, but not as bad as something else.
- Tue May 25, 2021 6:59 pm
- Forum: Learning English together
- Topic: Games
- Replies: 0
- Views: 3798
Games
AI makes adventures
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- Tue May 11, 2021 1:37 pm
- Forum: Information technology
- Topic: Learn English by doing programming tasks
- Replies: 0
- Views: 4317
Learn English by doing programming tasks
We can teach you programming in English.
- Sun May 09, 2021 9:02 am
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Christian books
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2103
- Fri May 07, 2021 11:18 pm
- Forum: Religion
- Topic: Christian books
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2103
- Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:31 pm
- Forum: English language studying techniques
- Topic: Matrix method of Nikolay Zamyatkin
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2284
Re: Matrix method of Nikolay Zamyatkin
The pros of the method: 1.You study language naturally. 2.You don't need a teacher. 3.You can do it anywhere. The cons of the method: 1.You have to listen to the same dialog during 3 hours at least 7 days. 2.Matrix method is only for the initial stage of learning English. After the initial stage you...
- Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:14 pm
- Forum: English language studying techniques
- Topic: Matrix method of Nikolay Zamyatkin
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2284
Re: Matrix method of Nikolay Zamyatkin
Here are the main ideas of the method. At the beginning of the training you create a matrix of 9 dialogues, lasting 1–1.5 minutes. Dialogues are "live", taken from everyday speech. It's a "grid" of dialogs with dimension 3x3. A student has to listen to a dialogue, then declaim it...
- Fri Apr 30, 2021 4:02 pm
- Forum: English language studying techniques
- Topic: Matrix method of Nikolay Zamyatkin
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2284
Matrix method of Nikolay Zamyatkin
"why you cannot be taught a foreign language?"
This is the name of the book of Nikolay Zamyatkin.
Why you cannot be taught a foreign language
This is the name of the book of Nikolay Zamyatkin.
Why you cannot be taught a foreign language
- Wed Apr 28, 2021 5:47 pm
- Forum: Grammar exercises
- Topic: Student's marks and Difficult sentences
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2242
Re: Student's marks and Difficult sentences
I have no money left.
- Tue Apr 27, 2021 2:32 pm
- Forum: English grammar
- Topic: Idioms
- Replies: 185
- Views: 33679
Re: Idioms
a wolf in sheep's clothing
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A wolf in sheep's clothing means someone who hides malicious intent under the guise of kindliness.
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A wolf in sheep's clothing means someone who hides malicious intent under the guise of kindliness.
- Tue Apr 27, 2021 2:30 pm
- Forum: English grammar
- Topic: Idioms
- Replies: 185
- Views: 33679
Re: Idioms
cash cow
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Cash cow, in business jargon, is a venture that generates a steady return of profits that far exceed the outlay of cash required to acquire or start it.
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Cash cow, in business jargon, is a venture that generates a steady return of profits that far exceed the outlay of cash required to acquire or start it.
- Tue Apr 27, 2021 2:14 pm
- Forum: English grammar
- Topic: Idioms
- Replies: 185
- Views: 33679
Re: Idioms
where the rubber meets road
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Where the important facts or realities lie;
Where theory is put into practice.
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Where the important facts or realities lie;
Where theory is put into practice.
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 3:23 pm
- Forum: English grammar
- Topic: Idioms
- Replies: 185
- Views: 33679
Re: Idioms
two sides of the same coin
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Every coin has two sides–heads and tails. “Two sides of the same coin” means to see two people or things with opposing views. While they are closely related, they still seem very different.
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Every coin has two sides–heads and tails. “Two sides of the same coin” means to see two people or things with opposing views. While they are closely related, they still seem very different.
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:57 pm
- Forum: English grammar
- Topic: Idioms
- Replies: 185
- Views: 33679
Re: Idioms
hand over heart
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A sign of respect.
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A sign of respect.
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:46 pm
- Forum: English grammar
- Topic: Idioms
- Replies: 185
- Views: 33679
Re: Idioms
put in my two cents
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A phrase used to preface an opinion on an issue. The longer phrase “put my 2 cents in” is taken from the English idiom “to put in my two-penny worth.”
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A phrase used to preface an opinion on an issue. The longer phrase “put my 2 cents in” is taken from the English idiom “to put in my two-penny worth.”
- Mon Apr 19, 2021 2:43 pm
- Forum: English grammar
- Topic: Idioms
- Replies: 185
- Views: 33679
Re: Idioms
too many cooks spoil the broth
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If too many people are involved in a task or activity, it will not be done well.
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If too many people are involved in a task or activity, it will not be done well.
- Fri Apr 16, 2021 1:10 am
- Forum: English grammar
- Topic: Idioms
- Replies: 185
- Views: 33679
Re: Idioms
all roads lead to Rome
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All paths or activities lead to the center of things.
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All paths or activities lead to the center of things.
- Wed Apr 14, 2021 1:46 pm
- Forum: JavaScript programming
- Topic: Lesson 1
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4571
Lesson 1
Run your code in an online sandbox on our website.
Study JavaScript
Study JavaScript
- Mon Apr 12, 2021 6:07 pm
- Forum: JavaScript programming
- Topic: Lesson 1
- Replies: 3
- Views: 4571
Re: Lesson 1
Study JavaScript on our website by solving programming tasks.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:05 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5140
Re: Day 34
We look like a lot of colored persons.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:04 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5140
Re: Day 34
We have not received any soap since we came here.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:04 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5140
Re: Day 34
we have to wait our turn for the axe, there being only three on the Island.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:04 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5140
Re: Day 34
I forgot to mention that we are divided into squads of twenty, and one man goes outside prison lines with the guard and brings in three sticks cord wood for the twenty men, and after that is divided up,
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:04 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5140
Re: Day 34
Some of the new prisoners have plenty of money and keep up a general trading with the guards, buying butter, eggs and wheat bread.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:04 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5140
Re: Day 34
I must keep the tea and coffee for ourselves in case of sickness.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:04 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5140
Re: Day 34
Walter Webb, my comrade, was very sick this morning; made him a little tea.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:03 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5140
Re: Day 34
There were about four hundred letters for the boys.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:03 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5140
Re: Day 34
It was dated Bristol, Nov. 15111, 1863.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 8:03 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 34
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5140
Day 34
3d. Received a Ietter from my mother this morning.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 33
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2650
Re: Day 33
Lucky fellows! as they will have to sleep in the open air and on frosty ground.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 33
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2650
Re: Day 33
They have their overcoats and blankets.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 33
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2650
Re: Day 33
They were captured at the Rapidan.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 33
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2650
Re: Day 33
Two hundred more prisoners came in here this morning.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 33
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2650
Re: Day 33
Hardly any of the prisoners have anything to get their soup in, and it would make your heart bleed to see how poor fellows trying to get their soup in their caps and anything that will hold it.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:50 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 33
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2650
Day 33
2d. Rations three-fourths of a pound of corn dodger and a pint of bean soup for the next twenty-four hours.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:49 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 32
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2096
Re: Day 32
Rations very small and the good things that I got from home are almost gone.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:48 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 32
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2096
Re: Day 32
About one-half of the prisoners that were captured at the time I was, are sick.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:48 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 32
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2096
Day 32
January 1, 1864. Ten or twelve died last night, one out of my regiment.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:47 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
Later in the history of this war, the people will become acquainted with the treatment of Union soldiers in the various Southern prisons.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:47 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
They bear their misfortunes bravely and patriotically, blaming only the conduct of our merciless enemies.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:47 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
it is the inhuman and inexcusable treatment they receive as prisoners.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:46 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
We know that the misfortunes and chances of war are privations, exposures and suffering, which is the inevitable lot of those who engage in the service, but we seldom hear our willing soldiers complain of these;
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:46 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
There are some of these things which have to be taken as the natural consequences of war, but some of them are not.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:46 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
but who will say they are more dreadful than the slow burnings which eat out the vitals, leaving the tenement of clay a mere wreck before the spirit quits its frail abode, more to be feared than the lightening which prevents the play of life, more sure than the anaconda's grasp or the tiger's embrace.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:46 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
Those terrible pages telling us how the flames rose from a bundle of sticks, and curled above the martyrs as they were tied to the stake, have a power to stir our souls within us to their utmost depth,
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:45 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
The tortures of the inquisition were horrible and we shrink with horror as we peruse the history of that period.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:45 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
It were scarcely possible to conceive of more persistent wholesale misery, deliberately heaped upon men, than agents of Southern malice have poured upon their Northern kindred.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:45 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
but also deprived of every personal comfort and convenience and compelled to lie down exposed to the frowning elements of nature, and the still more pitiless abuse of mankind.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:45 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
These poor defenseless soldiers not only to be deprived of their arms which were so much their pride to bear and their glory to wield,
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:44 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
It is a sad thing to have established on the pages of history.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:44 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
It is not strange that life under these circumstances should become weary.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:44 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Re: Day 31
It is dreadfully cold on the Island this morning,
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:44 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 31
- Replies: 14
- Views: 3694
Day 31
31st. Four hundred more crossed from Barrett's prison for here this morning.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:42 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 30
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2364
Re: Day 30
Resorted to box and got a cup of tea, some cake and ham.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:41 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 30
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2364
Re: Day 30
They say Uncle Sam's rations are all gone.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:41 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 30
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2364
Re: Day 30
A number of Pemberton men died last night.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:41 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 30
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2364
Re: Day 30
Prisoners dying very fast here.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:41 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 30
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2364
Day 30
30th. Rations for the next twenty four hours about three fourths pound of corn dodger and two spoonfuls of molasses to each man.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:40 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2898
Re: Day 29
Very cold last night.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:40 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2898
Re: Day 29
Pemberton we thought was bad, but nothing compared to Bell Isle.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:39 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2898
Re: Day 29
This is a horrible place.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:39 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2898
Re: Day 29
Those poor fellows, how they enjoyed it.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:39 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2898
Re: Day 29
Webb and I went to work and made a large can of coffee for all hands.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:39 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2898
Re: Day 29
There are ten of us in this tent, if I may call it that, and I promised to pony up with them.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:39 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2898
Re: Day 29
The reason we got in this tent was on account of what we had in our haversack out of the boxes.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:39 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 29
- Replies: 7
- Views: 2898
Day 29
29th. I was lucky in getting into one of the tents, so did Webb and Culberson.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:37 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 28
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2229
Re: Day 28
and the other half are lying on the ground between the tents to keep the cold wind from them as much as possible.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:36 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 28
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2229
Re: Day 28
The part occupied by us is a low, sandy, barren waste, without the shadow of a single tree, and exposed to the chilly damp winds, with only a few tents with which about half of our number are protected from the severe cold
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:36 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 28
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2229
Re: Day 28
There are about five thousand prisoners here.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:35 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 28
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2229
Re: Day 28
The space to be occupied by the prisoners is about six acres, enclosed by an earthwork three or four feet high, and with a ditch about five feet deep and six wide, to prevent any of the prisoners coming near to the grounds.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:35 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 28
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2229
Day 28
28th. About five hundred of us marched from Pemberton prison across the bridge to the other side of the James river, opposite Richmond, and then crossed a small bridge which brought us to Bell Isle.
- Sat Mar 27, 2021 7:34 am
- Forum: Diário portuguese 2
- Topic: Day 27
- Replies: 21
- Views: 5620
Re: Day 27
Some of the boys did shed tears notwithstanding their hardened hearts.