Brian McFadden - Irish Son

"Irish Son"

I was born in the heart of Dublin

To a Holy book full of rules

Made get on our knees every Sunday with the other fools

We were warped by the Christian Brothers

In the cell blocks at our schools

Get a hand print on your skin

From a glove of jewels

Go hit me now

That I'm twice your size

Brushed off the accusations

And bowed before your lies

This is the city that raised me

With the religion they gave me

Now I'm old enough to know my own mind

And it was leaving that saved me

I've seen so much that has changed me

So just break with your past

Feed your own mind

This Irish son has moved with the times

Weddings deaths or baptizing children

That's my debt paid to the church

I don't need that kind of salvation

When I get hurt

Don't fill my head with sermons

And force me to believe

This is the city that raised me

With the religion they gave me

Now I'm old enough to know my own mind

But it was leaving that saved me

I've seen so much that has changed me

So just break with your past

Feed your own mind

Cos' this Irish son has moved with the times

Our father who art in heaven

Come down here and make your presence known

We can't do it on our own

The lunatics let run the asylum

How can we find peace inside your home

When you can't trust your own

This is the city that raised me

With the religion they gave me

Now I'm old enough to know my own mind

But it was leaving that saved me

I've seen so much that has changed me

So just break with your past

Feed your own mind

Cos' this Irish son has moved with the times

i love his songs

Brian McFadden - Real To Me

Showbiz dinners and the free champagne,
Men in suits who think they know it all
No one knows me but they know my name, That's not real to me

Hotel lobby to the airplane, Another country but they start to look the same
Watch the world behind a window pane, That's not real to me

When I see my babies run, When all the madness has been and gone
I raise my family and live in peace, Now thats what's real to me
Real to me.

Dying flowers in a dressing room,
A dangerous time to let your head make up its own mind
Got me thinking that the spirits flown,
That's not real to me

When I see my babies run, When all the madness has been and gone
I raise my family and live in peace, Now that's what's real to me

Picnics in the garden and the children they can play,
The first day of the summer and I'll laze here all the day
We'll invite the family round and drink some English tea,
Then I raise up my finger and watch football on t.v

When I see my babies run, When all the madness has been and gone
I raise my family and live in peace, Now that's what's real to me
That's what's real to me
Wake up you might be dreaming, Wake up you might be dreaming now

UKK "my future"

I wanna be teacher,especially English teacher. Now Im senior high school,I used to teach my neighbor,she is in junior high school. It’s a feather in one's cap,I used to be private teacher and teaching for my junior. And now im joining at English course at Galaxy “LIA”,I had done my study in 5 levels,and I won’t postpone till I finish all level and reach the high score of Toefl after I graduated from senior high school. Afterthat,I don’t wanna burn figers,I don’t want to register at national exam university. As long as I have the Toeflcertificate,I will register to my favorite college with this Toefl certificate. I wanna school at UniversitasNegeriPadang,because I like going to my dadd’s hometown, and if I go to school in there my dadd will often visit to his hometown. And then when I finish my study from lecture,I will go back to the Java island and I wanna be permanent teacher after I graduate from college in Jakarta.

Thanks for your visit

torn money

One day I was in another country that is in the UK, precisely in Liverpool, I was walking around in the afternoon there, my eyes almost closed because of enjoying the wind that blows, and suddenly my eyes fell on a dollar bill that fell under. My eyes like going off when I saw it, especially when that money is money that falls fairly large, which is $ 50,000 and the chance I was not carrying a lot of money at the time. Immediately, I took the money without hesitation and do not care about circumstances, when I take the money all of a sudden the money was torn by itself, and I realize it new money From there it was already torn her so no one cares. I was thinking to make this money did not seem torn together like I wanted to buy glue. And recently I remembered it turns out I was in the country let alone the money other people who are in the glue torn, folded money was not legitimate at all to be a means of transaction. I'm so ashamed to find money nicked it, especially since I'm already thinking to spend all kinds.

how poor iam
but,I was lucky that nobody was aware of my behavior

THE GERUND PHRASE

The gerund phrase consists of the gerund, which always ends in -ing, and its modifiers and complements.
The gerund phrase is always used as a noun.
     Driving a car takes concentration.   (The gerund phrase is the subject of the verb takes).
     Paul finished painting the ceiling.   (The gerund phrase is the direct object of finished).
     After hiking for two hours, we sat down to rest.   (The gerund phrase is the object of the preposition after.
     Identifying Gerund Phrases:  Underline the gerund phrases in the sentences below.
Example:  Brisk walking is Don's favorite exercise.
1.  Keeping a light on in the house helps discourage robbers.
2.  Mrs. Norman enjoys playing bridge.
3.  I remember promising Steve my old bike.
4.  Standing during a two-hour train trip is not my idea of fun.
5.  Do you like sailing on the lake?
6.  Volunteering at the hospital is just one of Helen's activities.
7.  Mrs. Brent enjoys watching quiz shows on television.
8.  Allow twenty minutes a pound for roasting the turkey.
9.  Taking out the garbage is not my favorite job around the house.
10. Understanding a foreign language and speaking it well are two different things.
11. Acting in high school and college plays helped prepare Tim for Broadway.
12. Collecting stamps is a popular hobby.
13. Rushing through your chores will get you nowhere.
14. Don't you ever get tired of listening to the radio?
15. Mr. Olson never tires of talking about his  grandchildren.
16. Bird watching with binoculars is a popular pastime.
17. Arguing with me takes much of my little brother's time.
18. Constant complaining helps no one.
19. Listening to the concerto is sheer pleasure for Joan.
20. After standing behind the counter all day, Jim likes to relax at night. M:\9-TLC\TLC Web Design\Handouts Worksheets\Grammar.Punctuation.Writing\Phrase-Gerund.doc
1.  Keeping a light on in the house helps discourage robbers.
2.  Mrs. Norman enjoys playing bridge.
3.  I remember promising Steve my old bike.
4.  Standing during a two hour train trip is not my idea of fun.
5.  Do you like sailing on the lake?
6.  Volunteering at the hospital is just one of Helen's activities.
7.  Mrs. Brent enjoys watching quiz shows on television.
8.  Allow twenty minutes a pound for roasting the turkey.
9.  Taking out the garbage is not my favorite job around the house.
10. Understanding a foreign language and speaking it well are two different things.
11. Acting in high school and college plays  helped prepare Tim for Broadway.
12. Collecting stamps is a popular hobby.
13. Rushing through your chores will get you nowhere.
14. Don't you ever get tired of listening to the radio?
15. Mr. Olson never tires of talking about his grandchildren.
16. Bird watching with binoculars is a popular pastime.
17. Arguing with me takes much of my little brother's time.
18. Constant complaining helps no one.
19. Listening to the concerto is sheer pleasure for Joan.
20. After standing behind the counter all day, Jim likes to relax a night




            by: http://www.sinclair.edu/centers/tlc/pub/handouts_worksheets/grammar_punctuation_writing/phrase_gerund.pdf

tips to learn english for ordinary person

Many people think you need to live in a foreign country, have a close foreign friend, or spend long nights with your head buried in a boring grammar book, to master English…In fact, you can become a very successful learner of English if you follow some basic rules.

1. Relax and enjoy speaking

When you use English, don’t worry about making mistakes. The chances are you will always make small mistakes when speaking a foreign language. The important thing is to learn from the errors you make. Babies don’t learn to walk without falling over a lot!

2. Learn about how you learn

Recent research has shown that many of us have a preferred way of learning. If you are a visual learner, you can link language to pictures and images. Watch films with subtitles, try to visualise yourself in imaginary situations speaking English, fix words with pictures in your mind  If you have an auditory style, you have a ‘good ear’ for language and should listen to as much music as possible and watch movies in English. If you have an analytic style, then spend time studying grammar and comparing Vietnamese with English. A learner with an interactive style needs to spend as much time as possible speaking with others, discussing language and generally working in a team. A really good learner spends time on all these styles. Yet it is a sad fact that all over the world, many people are still taught in a traditional style that favours analytic and auditory learners.

3. Learn memory techniques

There are plenty of books on how to improve your memory. It is a skill that the successful learners I know take very seriously.

4. Immerse yourself

I once visited the home of a Spanish student who was actually quite a successful businessman. His house was littered with those small pieces of yellow paper called post-it notes! Every time he went to the kitchen to make a cup of coffee, to the bathroom to shave or used the remote control to change channel, he looked at those words. Again and again and again. Once the word was fixed in his mind, he put the paper into a file that he looked through at the end of the week. This way, he learnt 10 words a day, seven days a week. Read, listen and speak English at every opportunity! The best musicians and football players practise their skill over and over. The skill of communicating in a foreign language is the same.

5. Get Connected

I recently met someone who three times a week leaves her small village outside Hanoi, travels 1 hour on a motorbike and when she arrives at her destination, speaks in English for two hours to her friends in Britain, Australia and the US.  Her destination?  An Internet Café with voice chat facilities in the nearest small town. When I met her, she had never spoken to a foreigner face to face before, but after only two months of practising, she could hold a conversation with me in English.

The Internet has brought so many benefits to language learners. You can find great sites for practising grammar, vocabulary, listening, pronunciation and now, most importantly of all, speaking.

6. Learn Vocabulary systematically

Remember that learning English is not just about learning grammar. When we speak, we express most of our ideas through our choice of vocabulary, through collocations and fixed expressions. Think carefully about how you organise your notebook, don’t just write a long list of new words! Try to divide your notebook into sections. Here are some ideas…
subject pages; shopping, holidays, money verbs and nouns that go together; do your homework; make a cakeexpressions which use common words; overweight, to get over something, over the moon phrasal verbs; to grow up, to tell off, to look after fixed expressions; on the other hand, in my opinion, by the way idioms; once in a blue moon, to be over the moon, out of the blue expressions with prepositions; at night, at the weekend, in March, in 1988
Finally….
7. Get motivated: don’t put off until tomorrow, what you can do today.
In London, I had a Thai friend who was attending university there, studying fashion design. Her English was excellent. She told me that when she was fifteen she decided that it was her dream to study fashion in the UK. She found out what IELTS score she needed and started studying right away. When she was nineteen and old enough to go, she was ready. Her early start was a smart move: when she returned to Thailand after a year, some of her friends were still studying English, waiting to go abroad to study. She is now fluent, well qualified and walked into a great job!

i hope it will be useful for reader..

source :http://www.britishcouncil.org