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Laugh and Learn English has been up now for more than two weeks and is doing well with a few new visitors every day. Readers of this blog are a bit more advanced in English than other visitors so today I put up another challenging riddle for you. Go to http://www.laughandlearnenglish.com/toughriddle02.html to see it. The answer is at the bottom of the page, so try to guess the answer first!
Okay, it’s September 1st and Laugh and Learn English is now OFFICIALLY open! That means there will be one new page for each of the six sections every week. The planned schedule is below:
Sunday: a new video
Monday: a new funny mistake
Tuesday: a new joke with vocabulary explained
Wednesday: a new riddle
Thursday: a new “phunny photo”
Friday: a new Strange News story with vocabulary explained
Thanks for your patience, I know it’s been a long time since I started working on this idea! Please do give me feedback, either her or in my Google group. Also, don’t be shy about recommending the site to your friends. Enjoy!
Mona wrote:
“Hello teacher joe!!!
my name is mona. I’m from Brasil. I don’t speak english… I’m lost… Could you help me?thank’s…”
I made some web pages all about learning English well. Just go to How to Learn English Well. Try some the ideas for improving your speaking and let me know what you think.
www.teacherjoe.us/Learn.html
Late last night, I returned to Beijing from my hometown. One month back home felt great although I ate a bit too much pizza and ice cream! I also spent a lot of my time at home preparing my new website, Laugh and Learn English which I plan to open officially in September. For now, I have two or three pages in each of the six sections. You have already seen one of the English riddles, but now you can see English jokes, Strange News Stories, funny mistakes in English, interesting “Phunny Photos“, and funny videos.
Starting in September, I will have one new page in each section every week. For now, though, I am waiting for your feedback so I can make these pages even better. Please let me know of any problems you have or if you think the pages are either too easy or too difficult. Enjoy! (^_^)
Hello Everybody!
I’m back in Rochester, New York enjoying spring-like weather while the rest of you are probably sweating every day in the heat of summer. I want to go swimming but it’s too cool! I’ve been cycling almost every day for the past ten days, so it’s been fun, but I’d like to be able to jump into the lake too (Lake Ontario). Well, maybe next week!
During all of my free time, I’ve been building web pages (more than fifty so far!) for my new web site, www.laughandlearnenglish.com. I can’t upload those pages from my sister’s computer, so you’ll have to wait til August to see them. I’m planning a full “opening” of Laugh and Learn English in September, with four or five new pages every week after that.
Other than cycling, making web pages, and seeing relatives, I’ve been doing a lot of EATING! Lots of hamburgers, pizza, spaghetti, cookies and ice cream. I’m going to be HUGE when I return to Beijing. Well, my GUT will be huge! My students will be in for a surprise…
Hello Everybody!
In a week I will be going back to New York for a much needed rest. As I told my students, I have also forgotten so much English while in China that I need to go back to study! Seriously, though, I have a lot of plans during my weeks at home (hopefully at the beach!) but my plans center around making lots and lots of pages for my new web site Laugh and Learn English. I am doing a lot of the preparation work for the site now. This morning, before going to work, I made a riddle page which you can see at Laugh and Learn English Riddle One. If you could, please give me some feedback on this riddle. In particular, try to answer these questions:
1. Is it too easy, or maybe too difficult?
2. Is the explanation clear?
3. Do you think I should put the answer on the next page, before “Riddle Number 2″? (That would mean that visitors to my site would have to wait several days, or maybe even a week, for the answer.)
Any other comments welcome!
Hi Everybody,
I’ve been very busy recently looking for a new job while also dealing with other, personal, issues. Although I haven’t had time to post here, I have put up some simple web pages that provide a variety of daily lessons. I’ve mentioned the games before, but there are other interesting lessons too, including new jokes and new quotes. Check them out here:
As always, I welcome your comments!
Okay, the Hangman game wasn’t very popular - too easy, as Rosa pointed out (and for most students, she is right!) and can become boring. Here is a better game for you to try:
http://www.teacherjoe.us/Learn_English88.html
You can try to guess the word from the definition first, then listen to the word by clicking on the “speaker”. Be sure to use the “easy” mode. Many of the “easy” words are even difficult for me! Good luck and please don’t give up. I think you can really learn a lot from this game. Be sure to let me know what you think!
Hello everybody. I’ve been very busy with work and have had little time for blogging or other online fun stuff. Over the past weekend, however, I did find time to make a few new web pages. I’d like you to try out one page that I think will be useful for many students. It’s a very popular game called Hangman that helps introduce English spelling and new words. Please give me your feedback in the Comments section after you’ve played it a few times. I’d like to know what you think! Click here to get started…
The Jing (I mean the North Jing, or Capital City, or Beijing) has entered Spring! We have warm days, cool nights, with a dust storm thrown in from time to time to keep things interesting. I spent my last day off in “Houhai”, where there are several man-made ponds that once-upon-a-time were the Emperors’ playground. It was nice to just sit in the sun, enjoy the sounds of small paddle boats drifting along the pond, and forget that I am in the middle of a huge city.
The scene is so different from spring in my hometown. On any day in April we might have a little sunshine, lots of wind and rain, or even snow. It snowed in Rochester last week, I heard. Rochester is sometimes called the Flower City and there is a big ”Lilac Festival” every spring - in May! Here in Beijing, the lilacs are already out, as well as magnolias, cherry blossoms and plum blossoms. It’s nice to have an early spring…
