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Issue #101 -- Week 10/04/16-16/04/16 April 19, 2016 |
Hello,Greetings and General InformationA warm welcome to our new subscribers! Quite a few of you were already members of My English Club, but not subscribers of our weekly e-zine, so I am extremely happy to see you are now starting to benefit from this source of information on our lessons. In addition, it does help a lot with navigation around the website. I wish you will find My English Club fun and instructive and I look forward to welcome you as a new valued member soon. Read, learn and communicate around the world! You and your friends can always subscribe individually through the form on My English Club . If anybody mentions to you that they are interested in receiving it, please tell them this, with thanks. Of course, you can also unsubscribe at any point, by using the link at the end of any issue of the e-zine, should you wish - no questions asked. Announcements and CommunicationsYou may be aware that I have been preparing to improve My English Club website since the end of last year, by implementing some new software that would allow me to write more interactive and more beautiful lessons for you and to spice up our content in general. The priority so far has been on building more content, preparing the website for optimization. I wanted to surprise you with the improved interactive lessons around the time of our anniversary of 100 issues of the e-zine, but unfortunately I couldn't secure the software so far. The plan to develop the site and optimize it ultimately continues - only I'm not sure how long it will take until I can purchase the software. Everything I found so far applies more to big corporations; however, I shall carry on looking for online solutions. There is one way though, for improving the contents of this website and that is simply BY TAKING INTO ACCOUNT YOUR NEEDS for studying and practising. So far, the topics for the e-zine were mostly dictated by the needs of my classroom students, like we shared the social classes we had at Web Suzhou and then the grammar, reading and writing classes I used with my students in Saudi Arabia. But now that I am not teaching those methods, I'd rather respond to some of your needs instead of just choosing subjects randomly out of a had. I hope you have the feeling that you have received some valuable information through our e-zine and the website in general, for you to send some good information back to me. All I need from you is some communication about what would be helpful to you. What are you struggling with, which topics have you not mastered yet, what are some of your curiosities? To make it easier for you, I shall add some questionnaires to the website and design it in a more interactive format by the time of our anniversary in a couple of weeks' time. Many thanks in advance, for your collaboration. Both you and I will soon see the benefits of this - that's a promise! Until I'll have the time to write my e-books from these courses, you can enjoy our past lessons for free, as follows: Archive of all the back issues Pronunciation Lessons Reading Lessons Writing Lessons Grammar Lessons Website Design Lessons Grammar ~ More Linking SignalsMy friends, I realised that we don't have all our past lessons on the matter of linking sentences in place on the website, so I added some more info today. You can find it on the page clumsily titled Linking signals (continuation) . However, I shall reorganise these lessons in a more user-friendly manner, when I add the next lesson on this subject. Writing ~ Syntax Adds DramaI added two examples on drama in writing, by using good syntax and what happens when we use bad syntax. To remind you, syntax is the coherent, logical order of words in a piece of writing - it can be a sentence, a paragraph or a complete piece. Please find this lesson on the Syntax page. I hope you find it useful - there's more to come on this matter. English for Work ~ Introducing YourselfI am following a suggestion from one of our readers, saying that the use of English for working purposes is a more useful application than English for travelling. I agree totally and I am pleased to get your feedback my friend. I shall continue to fill the pages of our travelling vocabulary section, but I decided to start add some more content in the chapter of English the work. Please find today's lesson on the Introduce yourself page. Please let me know if you welcome this addition to our e-zine. The plan is to build a great chapter that will help you to overcome language barriers in your working environment, but you do understand this will be a step-by-step effort.
This is it for now, my friends!I hope you find this information useful and not too confusing. Even though you're at the stage of building on it, have patience at this point in your learning and you'll be able to reap the fruit of your work later on, whichever aspect of our lessons you are concentrating on. Please feel free to comment and suggest your ideas by replying to this email - I look forward to hearing from you. If you wish to chat either with me or with other members worldwide, go to My English Club . All the best from me until next time, Lucia da Vinci Founder of My English Club |
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