An ESL blog

The University I’m doing my Undergrad comes second as a vegetarian friendly University in Canada next to University of Toronto. The results are announced by peta2.com for the year 2007. McMaster University chosen as the second best vegetarian friendly Universtity. Check out the complete list.

Royal Ontario Museum also known as ROM is a major museum in city of Toronto,Ontario,Canada. This is the fifth largest museum in North America. It contains more than six millions items to display. The collections include dinasours, Near Eastern, African art and East asian art.

It’s located in the down town core easily accessible through subway. Find it here in the google map.

Some pictures I took during a recent visit.

Larry Ferlazzo on TechLearning wrote about using free games which available online to develop English skills for ESL students. Even though it is not an effective way to learn a language, its fun for a beginner to get introduced to a new language. Some of the sites mentioned are

Sploader

Phantasy Quest

If you think you are in beginner level in English try those sites out.

The phrase ‘habitual jeans’ has been recently been searched a lot on the web.
What is ‘Habitual Jeans?

Habitual jeans can be recognized by the Maltese cross on the back pockets.Nicole Colovos and husband Michael Colovos created Habitual jeans in 2001 from their studio in New York.

How the phrase formed.
Habitual – after the “habit forming” nature of jeans.”

The following tips are from the blog post 10 tips to improve the way you speak English

Except the first tips rest of them sounds like a good advice.
i. Observe the mouth movements of those who speak English well and try to imitate them.
ii. Until you learn the correct intonation and rhythm of English, slow your speech down.
iii. Listen to the ‘music’ of English.
iv. Use the dictionary.
v. Make a list of frequently used words that you find difficult to pronounce and ask someone who speaks the language well to pronounce them for you.
vi. Buy books on tape.
vii. Pronounce the ending of each word.
viii. Read aloud in English for 15-20 minutes every day.
ix. Record your own voice and listen for pronunciation mistakes.
x. Be patient.