play, learn and donate

It is a great esl site for everyone. You can learn English in a game format. You also donate 10 grains of rice for the correct answer. This site is owned by the United Nations World Food Programme.

What is the site name? it is freerice.com. Freerice.com has two main objectives

1. Provide education for free for everyone.

2. Help stop world hunger by supplying rice for free.



How you can donate your rice ? it is simple. Every time you can answer the quiz, the ad below the box will reload. That’s the income from the site that will be donated as 10 grains of rice for each correct answer.



If you want to make sponsorship you can contact the administrator. Whatever is it, Freerice.com is a great site. You will not only learn, and play but also you share with others around the world. I think you can just spend five to ten minutes to feed the world. How you can multiple your charity? Share the site to all your mates and family. so, the world of hunger can be ended.

Where to Get free books for children

This is free resource. It is a great site with books collection for children. The online library has hundreds of collection. You must sign up to access the full library resources. This site is http://www.wegivebooks.org/, do you want to find wonderful resources for teaching and taking care of your children? This is the answer. We Give Books is a program of the Pearson Foundation and Penguin Group.




This book is for online reading. You need to install flash player so that you can access the library. If you can’t read the book, it can’t be a matter of firewall. You can find great quality book books for children. There are some genre you can find. You can also search from the author, level and ages navigation.

english idiom and meaning heart

English idiom and meaning heart

1. Mr. Andrew is not a person who wears his heart on his sleeve( shows his emotion plainly).

2. He looked angry but his heart is in the right place. ( has true, kind feeling, in well intentioned).

Or he has a heart of gold.

3. When I was alone at midnight my heart went into my mouth. ( afraid).

4. Thinking about the final test tomorrow, my heart goes into my boots. ( feel despair, depression).

5. Do you know what your girlfriend thinks in her heart of hearts? ( depth in her soul).

6. Rian is a great man. His heart and soul is in the effort. ( completely, totally).

7. Don’t criticize the headmaster too much too heart. ( feel too strongly) .

8. The news of loosing the game almost broke the coach heart.

9. I am not sure how she could find it in her heart to do such a stupid thing. ( was able).

10. We had a heart-to-heart conversation with the chief. ( serious, open)

11. Even though I loose the match, I am not downhearted. ( feel sad deeply).

12. If you have finished your meal, you can play out to your heart’s content. ( as much as you want).

13. I am wholeheartedly doing this work so I enjoy it even though the work is too hard. ( working as good as I can)

14. Tim decides to set his heart on being a pilot. ( make it his greatest wish).

15. She learned the drama script by heart. ( by memory) .

16. My family lives in the heart of the city. (in the center) .

english idiom and meaning hand

Here are some idiomatic English and meaning from the word hand.

1. The furniture is hand-made.

2. The disaster caused many people lived from hand to mouth. ( in great poverty, unable to save anything)

3. The mountain is close at hand ( near).

4. The worker assured to put my job in hand at once. ( attend to it, finish it)

5. “ Put your hands up!” The criminal pointed his gun to the woman.

6. The architect and the developer worked hand-in-glove to build new housing in the city. ( in agreement).

7. The woman waits on her father’s hand and foot. ( follow her father wants).

8. I couldn’t lay hands on my math book. ( couldn’t find it).

9. Mr. Robert is always busy. He has his hands full. ( is very fully occupied).

10. I used to play badminton but now I am very busy, I should play it sometimes just to keep my hand in. ( for practice)

11. A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush ( proverb).

12. I don’t like buying a second hand watch.

13. Hands are needed in the project; you should apply for the job there. ( workers).

14. The leader has iron hand in the velvet glove. ( hardness under pleasing manner). Many hands make light work. ( Proverb)

the Story of Spanish Armada Invasion to England

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Let me tell you the Story of Spanish Armada Invasion to England. Queen Elizabeth was born in 1533. She died in 1603. She was the ruler of England. She was courage and inspiring. Philip II of Spain had long hostile with England. He prepared the Invincible Armada in 1587. He committed to attack England. There had not been any military forces that came to the land since William of Normandy assaulted England.

The English was well known as the seaman. Many men had crossed Spanish seas with Drake and Hawkins, the commanders. Even though Queen Elizabeth did not prepare to defend her kingdom, English men took responsibilities to help her. On ground, troops were ready to wait for the Invincible Armada. Elizabeth was riding on her white horse. She said” My chief strength and safety is in the loyal hearts and good will of my subjects. I have come among you at this time resolved in the midst of battle to live or die among you all. I know I have but the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart of a king, and of a king of England, too, and will die rather than let’s Spain or any prince of Europe set foot in this kingdom”.

The Invincible Armada left Spain in May 1588. Drake and some men were playing bowls on Plymouth Hoe, in Devonshire. Devonshire was a town where many great sailors came from. The captain of the Golden Hind ran to Drake. He said that the Spanish ships were marching to the Channel. Some people were panic but Drake said calmly” come, lads, we’ve time to finish our game and beat the Spaniards too”.

The Invincible Armada was a huge mission. There were 130 ships. Drake let the Spanish ships enter the Channel. In the Channel, the ships could not move quickly due to heavy guns and powder. Drake commented,” These are mighty ships, great and strong, but we pluck their feathers little by little”.

The Invincible Armada went to the port of Calais. Those ships docked safely in the port. On 22 August, eight ships sneaked quietly toward the Spaniards. Those are old ships filled with dry wood and oil. The English sailors burnt the old ships and they run away on small boats.

The fire caused panic among the seamen of the Invincible Armada. Ships crashed against others as they tried to escape from the flames. The convoy of running the Invincible Armada soon disappeared. Those Spanish ships sailed to the North Sea. Drake and his men chased them until they reached the north of Scotland where there was dreadful storm. The storm blew the Invincible Armada away. It dragged the Armada to the Orkneys and the Irish coast. There were only 53 ships could sail home to Spain. The Invincible Armada went back without victory.

the difference between Bahasa Indonesia and English

I am an elementary school teacher. I live in a growing town near Jakarta. I am teaching English. As a teacher, I am interested in writing. I have a thing that awakens my mind. This is the difference between Bahasa Indonesia and English. 

Indonesia is a big country. It has thousand islands. There are many tribes and local languages. Bahasa Indonesia is the national language. All Indonesian people speak Bahasa Indonesia. I’m very proud of using Bahasa Indonesia but one thing that makes Bahasa Indonesia different from English has awaken my mind. 

What is the thing? The use of passive sentences in Bahasa Indonesia is very often. I don’t know why. I think this pattern of sentence has affected Indonesian’s customs. What is it? The use of passive sentence in Bahasa Indonesia is very often. English often use active sentence in many expressions. Is there any relation between active sentence and active people? There are not any researchers that concern with this matter. In fact, using active sentence makes sense of active feeling and expression. 

Here some examples of the use passive sentence in Bahasa Indonesia and the meaning in English.

Bahasa Indonesia        : Aduh, jariku teriris pisau ( my finger was cut by a knife)

English                         : Ouch, I cut my finger.

This expression is funny. Bahasa Indonesia uses passive voice to express of cutting finger. The meaning is that I don’t make any fault, one who makes fault is the knife. English language has contradictive meaning. It still blames I  as the subject who has made a fault. Bahasa Indonesia accuses the knife who cuts the finger.

Bahasa Indonesia        : Aduh, tanganku terbakar api ( my hand was burnt by fire)

English                         : Ouch, I burnt my hand.

This expression in Bahasa Indonesia means that fire has to be the accused one. In fact , I did the action why I causes my hand burnt.

There are many expressions in Bahasa Indonesia that have the same meaning with those two examples.  

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How to improve speed reading skill foreign language

               How to improve your speed-reading skill foreign language becomes easy if you know the tricks and tips. Reading will be fun. You don’t have to open your dictionary very often. Your skill will improve gradually. What you need to do you just follow the steps from practicing intensive reading and extensive reading. 

               Reading is an activity to grasps ideas from a passage or text. Reading a foreign language is not different from reading native language. It is not translating into your mother language. You need to read full sentence to catch the idea of the sentence. You can use your dictionary to read a foreign language but using it very often will interrupt your thought. How to improve speed-reading skill a foreign language as quickly as reading your native language becomes the focus on this passage. 

               There are two methods of reading skill a foreign language. These two methods have correlation. The first is intensive reading. It is slow and careful reading. You need to note the difficult words and structures. You also need to reproduce your understanding on your own. You can in turn use construction in your speaking or writing to imitate the vocabulary, sentence structures and phrases you obtain in your reading. You cannot apply intensive reading technique in quick and fluent reading but this technique helps you develop the ability to improve your speed-reading skill foreign language. 

               The second is extensive reading. This is rapid and fluent reading. You have to practice the technique by reading easy materials and familiar topics.  Your goal is not to learn vocabularies, sentence structures and phrases but to understand the idea of a passage or a text. Your basic skill in intensive reading will speed up your improvement in developing your skill. You are expected to understand the idea of foreign language texts as quickly as to understand your native language.

               You may face hard problems to improve speed-reading skill foreign language. Most people have difficulties in understanding vocabularies, structures. In general, non-native language learners have basic vocabularies of some three thousand words.  (Language and life in The USA, Gladys G. Doty, Janet Ross, Happer and Row, Publishers, New York, 1968).  To help you overcome these obstacles you should practice reading materials designed for foreign students.  You will be stressful of you read time magazine articles while you are a beginner. 

               Learning vocabularies is not difficult. You should have a dictionary. When you are learning English language, you can use American College dictionary, Websters dictionary or Longman dictionary.  You do not need to look up your dictionary too often but you note the difficult words and continue reading until you finish the sentence or paragraph. You connect the idea with the difficult words. If you still find problems, you can open your dictionary.

               You may have some problems to understand sentence structures. You have to mark your difficult spots then reread the selection until you understand the meaning. You do not need to spend too much time on the problems as long as you do not lose you’re the idea of a paragraph you can skip and finish your reading until the last sentence. When you think that it is important, you can reread the difficult sentence structures. You have to practice to improve your reading skill and you will not realize that your skill is getting better after that.

               These are some steps of reading for fluency for beginners. I hope these tips will be useful for you.

1. Mark the difficult vocabularies and sentences. You do not have to spend too much time in finding the meaning of a word. You can continue reading until you finished the paragraph. You can reread if you need.
2. Go back to the difficult words and sentences. You will know the meaning of the words or sentences after you finished reading. You get the meaning from the correlation of the whole idea of the text. You will find the difficult words or sentences become clear after all.
3. Reread the difficult words and structures. You may not get the meaning of the words at fist. You can get the meaning when you reread them. If you still find difficulties in understanding the meaning, you can look up your dictionary or you grammar books. Take a note, write down the case and keep it. You need to open your note someday.

               Practicing reading foreign language will help you improve speed-reading foreign language. You should start from easy materials to ones that are more difficult. You can also practice with your friends or lectures to improve your reading skill. Your friends or lectures will help you every time you find difficult words and structures. The best of all to improve your reading skills you always practice because practice makes perfect.