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Saturday, November 30, 2013

Learning Idioms/Proverbs: What does " Love me, love my dog" mean?

Some people assume that "Love me, love my dog"  means that if you don't like their dog, you aren't going to be their friend. That person does not/cannot like people who don't like that pet, too. It doesn't mean you should "love" the dog, , but you should at least "like" the dog, or pretend to. So, this is a good clue, and if you dislike the dog, the dog is going to be chosen over you. (Katy C)
Or, It means that i come as a package. If you want me, you must also acccept my dog. (Plym)
Imagine:http://verygl7.com
But," Love me, love my dog" is a proverb which simply means that if you do love someone, you must accept everything about them, even their weak points, their faults,..



Friday, November 29, 2013

Learning Vocabulary by HIT songs: The Monster-Eminem ft. Rihanna

Imagine: www.thebengalbuzz.com
After the very big Hit "Love the Way You Lie",  Eminem and Rihanna have come back together again with a new Hit called "The Monster ". Unexpectedly, "The monster" then immediately appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and knocked out "Roar" by Katy. Currently, it occupies the position No. 2 and is threatening No.1 - Royals by "the new queen" Lorde.

Now enjoy it and take a look at some vocabulary below:


VOCABULARY:

  • to get along with = get on, get on with: have smooth relations
  • to be nuts (slang): Crazy; insane       Eg: I'm nuts about pizza!
Imagine: i.chzbgr.com
  • to conk: To hit, especially on the head
  • to lose one's mind: to become insane, or imbecile.




Thursday, November 28, 2013

Learning Vocabulary by HIT songs: Royals- Lorder

Royals - Lorde
Imagine:mightygirl.com
It knocked out many other hits surprisingly and took over many other music charts. With " Royal", Lorde was recognized as the new queen of Alternative and compared to big singer Adele. She possesses such an unique voice and impressive style.

Let's hear the song again and learn some interesting phrases from its lyric!



Vocabulary:


  • "in the flesh" means that something/someone is physically in front of you
  • "to cut one's teeth" means  to have new teeth emerging through the gums.
  • "to catch up" means to involve, often unwillingly.
  • " Queen bee" means a woman who is in a favored or preeminent position.
Imagine:rlv.zcache.co.uk




Wednesday, November 27, 2013

Common American Phrases from A-Z: Letter C (1)

How many common American phrases in daily contexts do you know? Let's upgrade them every day right on this blog! 

Letter C (1)

1. Call again.
Please visit this shop again sometime. (said by shopkeepers and clerks)

2. Can it!
Be quiet! Stop talking! Drop the subject!
Imagine: shoestring.com.au


3. Can you handle it?
* Are you able to deal with this problem?
* Could you handle this problem?

4. Capeesh?
Do you understand?

5. Cash or Credit?
Do you wish to pay for your purchases with cash or a credit card?
Imagine:eposguide.com

6. Catch me later and Catch me some other time.
Please try to talk to me later.

7. Certainly!
Definitely!

8. Check.
That is correct; that is accounted for,

9. Check, please and Could I have the bill?; Could I have the check?
Could I please have the bill for this food or drink?

10. Cheerio
Goodbye (Chiefly British)

11. Cheer up!
Don't worry! Try to be happy!

12. Clear the way!
Please get out of the way because someone or something is comming through and needs room.


Letter A
Letter B (1)
Letter B (2)

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

4 Tenses Most Commonly Used by Native Speakers in Daily Conversation


In term of grammar, there are 12 tenses in English, but native speakers tend to use 4 most common tenses in everyday conversation. Let's find out what they are!
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1. Present Simple Tense
This tense is used for the following purposes:

  • To  describe an action in the present time as routine, world truth,  thoughts or feelings at present.
  • To tell stories or jokes
  • To refer an action in the future but according to a timetable or schedule.


* Positive sentence:
S + V-s/es
I/you/we/they + study  Math.
He/She/It + runs well.

*Negative sentence:
(-)  S + do/does not+ V
I/You/We/They + don’t study Math.
He/She/It + doesn’t run well.

*Interrogative sentence:
(?) Do/Does + S + V?
Do you/I/we/they + study Math?    Yes, I/We/They do hoặc No.I …don’t
Does he/she/ it + run well?             Yes,He/she/it + does hoặc No. He …doesn’t

2. Past Simple Sentence
This is principally used to desbribe events occured and ended in the past. It has some other uses.

* Positive sentence:
- Regular verbs
V infinitive + "ed"
work + "-ed" = worked
live + "-d" = lived
- Irregular verbs
 I/you/he/she/it/we/they saw

Irregular verbs List
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* Negative sentence:
I
you             +       DID + NOT         +   learn
he/she/it               /DIDNT/
we                                                                  
they

* Interrogative sentence:
                 I
               you
DID    +  he/she/it   +    learn?
                we
               they

3. Future simple tense
It describes actions that will happen in the future. Some adverbs are usually  used in future simple tense sentences such as tomorrow, today, later today, in five minutes, in two hours, on Monday, on Saturday afternoon, next week / month, this year ....

* Positve sentence:
- I /  we   +   shall / will  +  go to school tomorrow
- You
he/she/it       +  will  +  go to school tomorrow
they

* Negative sentence:
I             SHALL + NOT
we              /SHAN’T/                +             go to school
I               WON’T
you              WILL + NOT
he/she/it        
we               /WON’T/                 +            go to school
they

* Interrogative sentence:
WILL    +   I / we    +   run?
                 you
WILL   +  he/she/it  +   run?
                 They

4. Perfect present tense
The present perfect in English is used chiefly for completed past actions or events, when no particular past time frame is specified or implied for them (it is understood that it is the present result of the events that is significant, rather than their actual occurrence). When a past time frame (a point of time in the past, or period of time which ended in the past) is specified for the event, explicitly or implicitly, the simple past is used rather than the present perfect. (wikipedia)

* Positive sentence:
S + HAS/HAVE + VERB (past participle form) + ...

* Negative sentence:
S + HAS/HAVE + NOT + VERB (past participle form) + ...

* Interrogative sentence:
HAS/HAVE + SUBJECT + VERB (past participle form) + ...

Monday, November 25, 2013

Good Movies for Learning American English (with English Subtitles)


  • Why we should learn English through movies?


1. Improving your listening and communication skills in the natural way. While watching movie, you can learn how the native speakes use their language in various situations. 
2. Upgrading your english vocabulary with a lot of new words, phrases, idioms, slangs...
3. Improving your pronunciation.
4. Learning culture, tradition and customs of that country.


  • Some know-how to learn English through movies:

Step 1: Prepare a notebook and Choose a movies in line with your english level.
Step 2: You watch that movie with mother language subtitles for the sake of understanding its content. (Optional)
Step 3: Watch it again with English subtitles, note down some new words, idioms,... And pay attention to the pronunciation. You can repeat it.
Step 4: Enjoy the movie without subtitles. Now, pay attention to the expressions and emotions of the characters.

  • Some good movies for Learning American English ( with English subtitles)


1. Hannah Montana Forever 2011

2. The American Dream

3. Friends 

4. Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizards vs. Vampires



5.  A life in Japan- Documentary Film




Saturday, November 16, 2013

Learning English through Video: Animal Facts you may not know!

Here are some facts of animals that no teacher teaches you at school! Watch it!



Some new words you should remember:
  1. Chimpanzee /tʃɪmpanˈziː/
  2. Poison-arrow frog
  3. Platypi
  4. Octopus /ˈɒktəpəs/
  5. anus  /ˈeɪnəs/: the opening at the end of the alimentary canal through which solid waste matter leaves the body.
  6. Nipple /ˈnɪp(ə)l/: the small projection in which the mammary ducts of female mammals terminate and from which milk can be secreted.
  7. to go off: to go to sleep
  8. to lactate /lakˈteɪt/: to secrete milk


Have fun ;)


Sunday, October 27, 2013

9 Slang Words For Every College Student

This is  a very funny video to help students upgrade their own vocabulary. You may find some words familiar and popular. If you haven't ever seen these words, this video will help you understand them easily. These 9 slang words are also 9 urban dictionary words that every college student should know. This video says American accent and contains subtitles so you can understand what you're hearing.

After listening to the video, how many words can you get???




Friday, October 25, 2013

Touching love between Jane and Roschester in "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Jane Eyre is a well-known story written by Charlotte Bronte. The story does not only impress the readers by the main character’s stormy life but aslo make them moved by Jane and Roschester’s love in particular. Their love is truly described as Rose Franken’s quote “Anyone can be passionate, but it takes real lovers to be silly”.

It is silly but true love. When Jane decides to return to Thornfield, she lost in touch with this place for long time. She has no ideal about it, especially her master Mr. Roschester and keeps asking herself so many questions like “was it a mere nervous impression-a delusion”?. Commonly, we’re very excited and happy to go home or at least some where we think we belong to, but Jane does feel much more doubtful than happy. Moreover, the unreal voice that she heard inside herself probably is the only one reason to make her come back to Thornfield and she bases on doubt to prolong hope.  It seems quite silly and how nonsense it is when basing on an ambiguous voice to make up her mind! However, the readers can realize how strong that unreal voice was that it give her bravery to reach the destination. Jane follows that voice, it means that she follows her heart. The true love conquers her mind.

That love overcomes any challenges and difficulties. When Jane arrives in Thornfield and knows Roschester’s accident, she wants to rush to him as soon as possible. Her love is even stronger though she knows that Roschester is no longer a perfect man like before. Roschester’s leg was broken and he couldn’t see her as well. She feels hurt, painful and just wants to meet him at any cost, by all means. How silly she is! With what she has now, she can live happily without Roschester, but she overrides everything. She is much in love and wants to spend her rest life with her poor master. If it were not because of true love, she would never do that. 

About Mr. Roschester, in the extract, even though  he is a curious character and somewhat capricious in his nature, readers still realize his true love for Jane. “The servants say they never saw anybody so much in love as he was: he was after her continually.” “Nobody but him thought her so very handsome”. The reason he falls in love with Jane is not Jane’s appearance, it is because of her soul, her personality. She is straightforward and doesn't simper to him. He almost treats her as an equal in intellect and this shows in his conversations with him. When Jane’s with him he's trying to find out if Jane really loves him. However, perhaps he's also afraid of what will happen then : he doesn't forget he's married and that Jane would never accept this relationship if she knew so he's trying to resist his love for Jane (because of his past), but when she proclaims her love for him, he proposes to her. He finds out that Jane’s the soulmate that he needs. Losing Jane means that losing everything he has, even he loses himself. “He walked just like a ghost about the grounds and in the orchard as if he had lost his senses”. He closed his heart “broke off acquaintance with all the gentry, and shut himself up, like a hermit, at the Hall”. Jane saves from the fire and wakes up his heart again. Now, it belongs to only Jane. 

In short, Jane and Roschester are in love with each other so much.  Their true love gives them courage and bravery to overcome many challenges and obstacles. At the end of everything, they deserve to have a happy ending.

Now let's watch the movie! Hope you enjoy it :->





Sunday, October 20, 2013

Best songs by women 2012 for this special day!!

Happy Vietnamese women's day :-* :-* :-*

Here's the list of 10 favorite songs released by women in the last 2012, ranging from feel-good car radio sing-along tunes to dance floor favorites to tracks made for headphones and downtime. 
Hope you like them ;)

1. “Diamonds” -- Rihanna


2. Anything from "Girl On Fire" -- Alicia Keys


3. "Stronger" -- Kelly Clarkson



4. "Die Young" -- Ke$ha



5. "Bel Air" -- Lana del Ray



6. Anything from "Red" -- Taylor Swift


7. "Good Girl" -- Carrie Underwood


8. "Emmylou" -- First Aid Kit



9. "Primadonna" -- Marina and the Diamonds


10. "Is Your Love Big Enough?" -- Lianne La Havas 



Friday, October 18, 2013

Top 5 HIT on Billboard for third week of Oct.




For this third week of Oct, three powerful women Lorde, Miley Cyrus and Katty Perry continues dominating Hot 100 Billboard chart. There's no much difference in comparision with the last week.




No.1 still belongs to the song "Royal" by Lorde, "Royals" crowns the subscription services-based On-Demand Songs chart with 2.8 million on-demand U.S. streams and "Royals" tops Digital Songs for a fourth week with 293,000 downloads sold, according to Nielsen BDS (up 1%).  It pushes closer to the Radio Songs chart's summit, bulleting at No. 2 with an 11% gain to 158 million audience impressions, according to BDS.



No.2 of this week is "Wrecking ball" in Miley's very new album calles " Bangerz". Cyrus' debut RCA album "Bangerz" debuts at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with 270,000 copies sold. "Ball" drops 3-4 on Digital Songs (which it led four weeks ago) with 128,000 downloads sold, a 40% decline, according to Billboard webiste.




No.3, compare to last week, "Roar" by Katty Perry drops one step and remains third position! Plus, Perry's album "PRISM" is due on Tuesday (Oct.  22) and will debut on the following week's Billboard 200. 

No.4 and No 5.  " Wake me up" by Avicii  and "Hold on, we're going home" by Drake Featuring Majid Jordan remain the same position in comparision with the last week. 



No. 6. Let's enjoy "The Fox" by Ylvis




Video: Tips for Halloween costume ^^

Hey guys, It's Halloween coming soon!!! Who are you gonna be? Do you have any ideas about Halloween costume yet? Check out some tips over here!

But, first of all you may have to take a look at some Halloween vocabulary right on this video!

Ok, so now let's see some Halloween costume tips!

1. A beloved little red hooding ( plus Make up)



2. A very cute minion ( why not?)


3. A sexy vampire (plus Make up)


Now, you got any ideas? Let's share!

Hope those videos helpful for you ^^

Thursday, October 17, 2013

Video: The Vampire Diaries Season 5 - Damon And Elena Won't Last

Are you a fan of  "The Vampire Diaries" movie? Let's update the newest information about this movie for season 5.
And don't forget to take a look at some vocabulary below!




Vocabulary:

  • To have their happily ever after = to have a happy ending forever
  • To deal with = to handle with
  • To break them apart = to seprate them
  • To be isolated = to be alone
  • To stay up to date = to keep updating


Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Funny Video: Telekinetic Coffee Shop Surprise





What would you do if you were in such an abnormal coffee shop? Let's see how unsuspecting customers reacted  at a New York City coffee shop as they witness a telekinetic event. 



Funny Video: True Facts About The Owl

Do you feel scared of owls when seeing them? Surely , many people may consider owls as a deadly symbol or other things kind of that :))... I remember when I saw an owl alighting on the window next to my bed, I couldn't say a word just because of scare. Now I'm more mature, I think I feel less scared of them :->
 When watching this video, it turns out that owls are so cute, flutty tiny like cats <3



---->Remember to turn on english subcribe button so that you can understand the video more easily :



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