My English blog

You should never lie women; the following story will tell you why

What follows is a really good lovely story

 The fate map was the name I gave to my first story I wrote when I was 16. It ranked first in "KHARAZMI"  festival by that year. To study the story in details, go to the continue part

 Don't say : My English book is with my brother

Say : My brother has my English book

Don't say : Amy took a good mark in the test

Say : Amy got a good mark in the test

Don't say : Lucy is reading Algebra in her room

Say : Lucy is studying Algebra in her room

Don't say : Chris took out his hat

Say : Chris took off his hat

Don't say : Please remember me to give it back

Say : Please remind me to give it back

Don't say : I was hearing his CDs

Say : I was listening to his CDs

Don't say : He was seeing out of the window

Say : He was looking out of the window

Don't say : The ship drowned in the ocean

Say : The ship sank in the ocean

 By playing with dictionary, you can learn very useful vocabularies!i

This was the suggestion that dear Mr. Nagheli once adviced me.I should say that it is the best way you can enhance your vocabulary territory beside studying. By this I've learnt a lot.i

Last night, again I was doing the same thing, and an interesting thing that I found was that:i

dost:         صورت کهنه  فعل do

It is mostly used in literature and poems

Freeze,freeze, thou bitter sky,    That dost not bite so night,  as benefits forgot

وتوای آسمان سرد- هرقدر یخ ببندی و ببندی

چندان نمی سوزانی که- محبت بی مزد می سوزاند

Practising Your ABCs

When you’re learning English as a foreign language, print out and keep this alphabet handy. We include a pronunciation guide to help you say the English letters correctly.

The day lingers on. I look up. The evening lurid sky is flamboyant but dolefully reddened as if mourning for the dead day! It is just going to embrace the darkness of the night!i

No, I don't fear its darkness!!!i

It brings me solace and calm!  It's my sole company always ready to hear my grief that I can't convey to anybody but only night and its silence!!!i

It is the only witness of my untold true tales locked in my heart, and my eyes in tears weeping gently for my false dreams!!!i

It is very cheerful! As it keeps on, I get lost in its beauty. The night sky takes me far away to my distraught thoughts!i

The full moon appears from behind dark clouds and the glimmering stars scatter through the sky like thousands of scintillating silver sands looking down at the earth! And the glittering fireflies trick you as being earthly stars all around!!!i

And it's the time when I'm very close to tears. All those marvelous pure beauty drown in my eye's tides! I feel its drops on my face coming down while I'm trying to hide it from everybody except me and the silent night!!!i

Carving my diaries in its each moment, my tired eyes close to repose hopefull for a new day with a new hope to be loved by...i

Lord, as I come to you in prayer

Please hear my humble plea

I've got so many problems now

I need your help, I see

My days not turning out the way

I had hoped that it would be

It seems whenever I turned around

Its all closing in on me

I have so many things to do

before this day is through

I can get it together, Lord

That's why I'm asking you

Give the patience that I need

To finish my many tasks

Help me, oh Lord, to succeed

Guide me Lord, is what I ask

I know you'll always hear

And listen to my prayers

Lift me up and hold me near

Above my all earthly cares

Thank you Lord for being here

To guide me through the day

Bless me and keep me near

Direct my path along the way

Lord, my day is finally through

And everything turned out okay

It was a joy Lord, because of you

Thanks for being with me today

People are often unreasonable, illogical and self-centered; forgive them anyway

If you are kind, people may accuse you of selfish, ulterior motives; be kind anyway

If you are successful, you will win some false friends and some true enemies; succeed anyway

people may cheat you; be honest and frank anyway

what you spend years building, someone could destroy overnight; build antway

If you find serenity and happiness, they may be jealous; be happy anyway

The good you do today, people will often forget tomorrow; do good anyway

Give the world the best you have, and it may never be enough; give the world the best you've got anyway

you see, in the final analysis, it is between you and God; it is never between you and them anyway

We, iranians have got a ceremony in "Charshanbe soori" Which we call it " Ghashosh zani" in which children use to go to neighbor's houses asking for candies and such things. To everybody's surprise I'm gona say that we have the roots of this custom in America Actually, they do this in the Halloween, in which thier young children do as ours or we'd better say our young childern do as theirs.

And it also has got a good name : i

Trick-or-treat

Don't say : I've read an inerested story

Say : I've read an interesting story

Don't say : Are you interesting in your work

Say : Are you interested in your work

Don't say : Jack was wounded in an accident

Say : Jack was injured in an accident

Don't say : Adam found one ring in the street

Say : Adam found a ring in the street

Don't say : Turn the page for farther information

Say : Turn the page for further information

Don't say : Louis has got any milk

Say : Louis has got some milk

Don't say : They have less books than I have

Say : They have fewer books than I have

Don't say : Look at this dog across the street

Say : Look at that dog across the street

Don't say : My oldest brother is called John

Say : My eldest brother is called John

Don't say : She gave an apple for every of the children

Say : She gave an apple for each of the children

Due to the very good question of Pardis, I'm gona put the difference between toward and towards

Indeed, there's no difference in meaning, it only goes with American and British English, in which the word toward is American and towards is British

Seeing is believing

شنیدن کی بود مانند دیدن

Misfortunes never come singly

چون بد آید صد آید

Business is business

حساب حساب کاکا برادر

Practce make perfect

کار نیکو کردن از پر کردن است

East or west, home is the best

هیج جا خونه خود آدم نمیشه

More treasure, more problems

هرکه بامش بیش برفش بیشتر

To kill two birds with one stone

با یک تیر دو نشان زدن

Have a finger in every pie

نخود هر آشی بودن

It is never too late to mend

ماهی را هر وقت از آب بگیری تازه است

A bird in hand is worth two in the bush

سیلی نقد به از حلوای نسیه

You can't eat your cake and have it

یا خدا یا خرما

Nothing hurts like the truth

حقیقت تلخ است

To hope against hope

در ناامیدی بسی امید است

Recently:    has the widest use in positive, negative , and questions with the past tense and the present perfect tense

eg:    Did she have a party recently?i

       or      They've recently bought a new car

Not long ago: is only used in positive statements with the verb in the past tense

eg :       They arrived in Britain not long ago/recently

or        It's not long ago that they arrived in Britain

Lately: is used in questions and negative statements. In positive statements it is used generally with only, much and alot. The verb must be in present perfect tense

eg:     Have you seen him lately/recently?i

    i           They haven't written lately/recently

But         She's only lately/recently begun working here

i             I've seen alot of her lately/recently

Who casts up his eyes to the sun when it rises?i

But who takes off his eyes from a comet when it breaks out?i

Who bends not his ear to any bell, which upon any occasion rings?i

But who can remove it from that bell which passing out a piece out of this world?i

No, man is an island, entire of itself

Every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main if a clod be washed a way by the sea

Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were

As well as if a manner of thy friend's or of thy your own were

Any man's death diminishes me

Because I am involved in mankind

and therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls

It may toll for you this time!!!i

Very deeply, I declare my great condolence for the big day of  Arbaein  

Hopefully, shall we all be his (Imam Hossein) followers

  love is like spring: it laughs through the cold and snow

Happiness is like sunshine: it is made up of very little beams

Forgiveness is a gift of great value yet its cost is nothing

Goodness, like the sun, enlightens