1. A greeting message..


2. Salam Alaikom all.


3. 3- your current university or school life.


4. 4- anything else you want to talk about.


5. 7- the exam is out of 20 marks.

A greeting message..

Salam Alaikom all.

At first, we all would love to thank the administration of this forum on what they do in order to help out the members by providing various services throughout this website. We won't "will not" also forget to send our regards and thankfulness to our dear member "ملبورن" as he is the one who brought out this idea. Thanks Rayan, thank you very much and I hope that we will all meet your expectations.
To my students, I am so glad to have you in my group. I am sure that you're all anxious at learning the l-anguage. Generally speaking, As English learners, we have to take into consideration the aims of learning the l-anguage in order to be so clear with what will we reach at the end--our goals of learning the l-anguage? First of all, we MUST have the desire to learn it and be so thirsty for learning anything related to it. Secondly, try to learn it because you love it, not because it's required from the place where we will apply to in the future. Finally, if we try to ignore the mentioned aims, we will absolutely punish ourselves by taking more time in learning the l-anguage than the required. I have some few steps that will help us learning the l-anguage Inshallah. Attempt to read them carefully and apply them;
1- If you are a student of English, try to be attentive in the class while your teacher explaining the lesson and once he finishes up the lesson and you still did not understand, ask him about every single bit of information that you do not know.
2- Never be shame in the class, do not say; "my colleagues will laugh at me when I ask", it is not shameful to learn, but it is when you insist on not learning because of silly reasons.
3- Do your homework and solve exercises that are required from you by yourself. Do not ask for help in solving them unless you realize that you are unable to solve them.
4- Try to participate in the class even if you think your information is wrong, because you will never learn if you do not make mistakes.
5- Open up your dictionary and listen to foreign radio stations, television channels and educational video tapes. if you face any difficulties in some words try to look them up.
6- Be careful of movies. Specially American movies, because they do not use grammar in their dialogs. Generally, Americans rarely use grammar in their daily contact. So, do not count on their speech unless you want to learn the pronounciation. However, you can still learn somethings from them such as the intonations, body l-anguage etc...
7- In order to improve your Speaking, try to read short English stories, paragraphs, essays, daily news-papers and magazines LOUDLY. Of course English ones. ;)
8- English is so tasty l-anguage if you keep it fresh in your mind, i.e. keep all information that you learn fresh and practice them in your daily contacts.
These tips are general, all students whether in this level or not can take it. Some of you might probably know these things already, but it's just a r e f r e sh-ment. It may seem to you that this teacher is so formal. but it's actually the opposite. and within days you'll see that.
For this online-course, since there's no specific curriculm for this course, I would like to know your suggestions regarding the lessons, things that are difficult to you, for example what is the most thing that you suffer from in using the l-anguage? Maybe your English is fine, but you only have one thing that stands against your proficiency in practising the l-anguage. the more clearer you talk about yourself, the much easier I can understand your weakness points. Thus, I will be able to help you improving yourself faster. :)
In order to be much more aware of your exact level, I will ask all my students to write a paragraph about themselves in no less than 6 lines and no more than 8 lines. I would also ask you to indicate some certain things in your paragraph.
1- Yourself, for example: your nickname, your age, and etc.. "my name is Kareem Sablah, I am 64 years old.." (you don't have to write everything real)
2- Your best friend "my best friend is ali, he is 56 years old, I knew him in secondary school.. etc" (you don't have to write everything real)

3- your current university or school life.

4- anything else you want to talk about.

5- Please take into consideration that it's an assessment test, through which I will know your exact level in English. So, you don't need to cheat, because if you do so, you'll actually cheat yourself not me. Our prophet (peace be upon him) said: "Who cheats us, doesn't belong to us." :)
6- I'll be expecting your answers tomorrow Monday, 19/2/2007 before 9pm. You have more than 1 day. :)

7- the exam is out of 20 marks.

NOTE: As you're in the INTERMEDIATE level, spelling and common grammar mistakes will be penalized.
At the end, remember that you're in the intermediate level, which means you're supposed to speak/write in English, and understand almost %85 of what's been written above. Of course I am not going to translate anything. If you didn't understand any word, please look it up in your dictionary. If you didn't understand any phrase or sentence, please ask me and I will try to make it easy and clear to you.
Things to be careful of:
1- Everything in this topic must be in English. If you write in Arabic, you'll be warned. for example, if you will not attend the classes of the next week, you have to write your excuse in English.
2- The meaning of "حاضر" in English is "Present". Other words correlate to the same meaning are accepted. For example, I am here, sign me present, I got it and etc..
3- Remember that all terms and conditions that were mentioned at the main topic http://artravelers.com" target="_blank">"مدارس اللغات العالمية مالنا وما علينا" are applied here.
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Please note that the paragraph you're going to write is considered the first lesson in this course, Do your best and show me your ability :101:
Finally if you have any inquiries (questions) please ask ahead..
Waiting for your replies..:101:

AL SALM ALIKM
I'm very happy because the school is opened today, and I will try to be an active student , SO that I'm a first student want to say
I AM HERE
:106:

Our teachers
Our colleague
Asslam alikom
My nickname is afageeh . I am 30 years old . I have Baccalaureate of computer science form KSU
I hope and I try to speak English l-anguage fluently but I have some problems because when I was student
I didn't care about improved my English l-anguage . I tried before to improved my l-anguage
by take English courses and stay just one month in British but
I didn't reach to my dream. Listen and talk are weak points for me
I apologized for mistake in grammars or written , I hope to know my mistake and what is the right
Thanks for all

NOTE: As you're in the INTERMEDIATE level, spelling and common grammar mistakes will be penalized.
we are in INTERMEDIATE level or PRE-INTEMEDIATE level

Our teachers
just i want to asking you if it is admissible when we enter our replies today

I AM HERE
thank you........

Good afternoon……..
My nickname is gamar moto gahar .I am 100 years old . My best friend is Nono. She is 101 years old .She is bigger than me .I know her when we were in secondary school..
I graduated from the university before 70 years so , I have bachelor degree . By the way, I want to tell you I am very glad to study with you .Because its help me to improve my English ******** .I am sure I have a lot of mistake when I speak or write but I will do my best to be agood student….
Thank you so much……….

1. afageeh


2. afageeh


3. Your score is 14 out of 20


4. Good luck :113:

afageeh

You've done a very good paragraph. There are some mistakes, two spelling mistakes in "form KSU", it's "from KSU". and In "British", British is the name of the people who live in the UK. Thus, you had to say "In the U.K. or In Britain". There's another thing you have to know, about using the indefinite article "A, The". You should have said, "When I was a student", Mentioning the indefinite article "A".
As well, and regardless of the proper use of commas, dots and so on which appears to be completely wrong, there are many grammatical mistakes. I'll try to correct some of the serious ones, and mention their rules of the right usage.
A) WRONG: You said: "I didn't care about IMPROVED my English".
Correct: Usually when we use the preposition ABOUT there're 2 ways:
1- (about + verb + ing) -- for example; I care about playing football.
2- (about + noun ) -- for example; People care about politics/cars nowadays.
As shown above in the first case, ABOUT was followed by (verb + ing). A (verb + ing) in English is called (Gerund).
In the second case, it was followed by noun, so it's easy and clear.
The same case applies on the preposition ( BY ). It's the same as ABOUT. Therefore, you had to say: "By taking English courses".
B) WRONG: You said: "I apologized for mistake in grammars or written".
Correct: You now apologize, you should've used the present simple "I apologize" instead of the past simple. Also, the preposition FOR must be followed with Gerund verb (ING). So it becomes "For making mistakes", or the proper noun like "For the mistakes that I made". As well, you should have used "Writing" instead of "Written", because you have to use a noun in that place, and "Written" is an adjective not a noun.
C) I see that you use the same verb tense in all times. Please note that the verb changes whenever the tense needs so.
1- Improve -=> Present simple.
2- Improving -=> Present continues.
3- Improved -=> Past simple.
4- Improvement -=> The noun.
NOTE: This clarification is to let you know the ways of using such verbs. I hope you understand what I mean. :101:
D) WRONG: You said: "Listen and talk are weak points for me"
Correct: "My Listening and Speaking skills are so weak." Wrong arrangement of this sentence. :)

afageeh

The words written in RED are wrong. With the correction I gave you, please try to correct them youself and you don't need to post them again here. just for your own good, if you want please send me a private message and I will correct it to you.

Your score is 14 out of 20

Good luck :113:

Finally, I don't want to re-write your paragraph, because I want you to learn from your mistakes and guess what is the right thing to do in the future in order to overcome your mistakes. However, your performance in general was very good, you did well. In addition, You need to focus on the Grammar much more. I am sure that you have a good background about vocabulary, but you need to know how to use them correctly. Well done my friend and keep up the good work. :)

RMQ http://artravelers.com/c/103394" target="_blank">
It's a Pre-intermediate level, sorry for the mistake..
Have you started writing your paragraph?? :114:
Hurry up.. :115: