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Celine and Alberto Earn Certificates

Celine and Alberto each wrote 10 stories on the blog.


It was a pleasure to present certificates to them.

SOME KNOWLEDGES ABOUT VITAMINS

Good afternoon teacher and everyone:

As we know, VITAMINS are very important for our bodies. But there are 2 kinds of vitamins we should not take together.

They are:

IRON and VITAMIN E:

IRON increases the number of red cells in the blood and will stop you from becoming anemic.

VITAMIN E can help strengthen the fetus and placenta. It will make your skin healthier.

But we must remember that IRON and Vitamin E must never be taken together
because the effectiveness of VITAMIN E is destroyed by IRON.

Please have a good healthy life by taking the right vitamins. Build a strong body!

Bye. See you next time.

SOME KNOWLEDGE ABOUT VITAMINS

Good afrernoon, teacher and classmates:

As we know that VITAMINS are very importand to our body. But there are 2 kinds of Vitamin can not take togather they are:

IRON and VITAMIN E.

IRON increasses the number of red cells in the blood and will stop you becoming anaemic as yours blood, in volume and therefore tends to thin. It will also stand you in good stead if you loss blood.

VITAMIN E can help you strengthen the foretus and placenta. Improve the body healthy skin......
We must remenber that VITAMIN E never take together with iron. Because the effectiveness of VITAMIN E is destroyed bye IRON.

Please enjoy your life with a healthy by take the right vitamins, to make youself more strong.
Bye. see you next time.

THE SUN-FRIEND OR FOE?

After spring, it will be summer. Most people like going sunbathing and exercising outdoors.

If we do not know how to choose the right sunscreen products, it will be easy to burn and damage your skin. The deep base layers of the epidermis will only show the damage years later. Your skin will look blotchy, weather-beaten and wrinkled. Dehydrated skin from ultra-violet (UVA, UVB and UVC) radiation causes these problems.

These skin problems could become skin cancer in the future.

Use a sunscreen with at least a SPF 15 and broad spectrum rating. You should also wear a hat to protect against the damaging effects of sunlight.

Please have a good summer and healthy skin.

Bye. See you next time.

A Bad Memory, When I Was A Child

My family had tried to move to the USA when I was 3 or 4 years old in 1987.

A best friend of my father told us that he knew a ship could bring people to the United States very safely,
so my parents decided to sell the house and every valuable thing to pay for the tickets.
But unfortunately my whole family and the other 8 families were lied to by the shipman and my father’s friend.

We were in the bottom of the ship 7 days and 7 nights. We could not see the sun and did not have food, just had some bread that we bought before we took the ship.

I remember, after not so long, the ship stopped. It was night time and it was raining like cats and dogs.

My father’s friend and the shipman told us that we had come half way. They said, “Please get out of the ship, and wait for a new ship to pick you up and take you to the USA.

We rested in the forest one night.

After a long rainy night, the sun came out and the night was gone. In the early morning we saw the other ship as they had promised. We didn't know that a sad story was coming now. It was not a ship to pick us up and take us on our way. It was a police ship. We were arrested at that time in Malaysia and were sent back to Cambodia.

This is a real story about me.

United State is not only a good dream for me but it also a bad memory that I will not forget all my whole life.

Thanks again for spending time to read my story.

I hope everyone will have a good time in life.
Bye. See you next time.

The Letter For Tommy

Hi, teacher, tommy and classmate:

Long time we never heard about your life in Hong kong, Is everything fine? We are here is really miss you, and really want to hear some news about your life in your country.
Today we read about your story on the Blog, it make me fell sad to hear that you still can not fine a job. Please take it easy and believe your self, when the right time come, you will fine a good job as you wish, and dont forget, we are here not only want to hear about your happy news are also your sad news too, because we really want to shave everything in your life together.
I hope you will see my letter on the Blog to you. Please the god bring you and everyone in our class that can fine a job, could be fine a good job soon.
Thank for still remanber us.
Have a good night to teacher, Tommy and you of all,
Bye. Sweet dream and see you nest time.

Past Grammar Exercise

Click here to do Exercise #3, Past/Past Continuous.

Would Always

Click here to view a worksheet on the way Americans use "would always".

Hi! teacher and classmates,

How are you?

now i am ok, but i couldn't find a job

i need money because now here anything was expensive.

The Story That Gave Me More Confidence

I have lived here since 2007. There are five members in my family. Since I have moved here, my life has changed from a business woman to a simple student.

Everyday I get up early in the morning, cook breakfast for my family and do some house work before I go to school.
The first month after I came to Oakland, I really really felt bored with my life here. It made me feel like I had lost myself. I thought the United States was not suitable for me to follow my business dream. I really wished to go back to my country.
But one day, fortunately, I found myself. It happened because of a story from my mother.

She had lived in the United States for many years. She had come to America just because she wanted help me to immigrate here. She could not speak even a word of English and did not know the way to go anywhere. I thought it must have been harder and more difficult for her than for me, but she never said a word or wanted to give up her dream of helping me immigrate here.

So I promised myself must not to give up and to forget about going back to Cambodia any more. I made a strong decision that my dream follow would me not me instead of me following my dream. It wouldn’t matter where I was, I would become a business woman again both in my country and here.

I hope you try not to give up your dreams because of having a hard time. Remember the enemy of success is loss of self-confidence. Just try your best to do it!

I believe everything you wish for is not just a dream.

Thanks for reading my story. Please have a good time with your life.
Bye. See you next time.

Free Rides on June 19

June 19th has been designated a Spare the Air Day.

Free all day:
AC Transit
Muni

Free until noon:
BART
Oakland Ferry

When you can't remember ...

Check out this radio story about Alzheimer patients who volunteer in elementary schools.

If Voicemail about weather…

By

Alberto Ortega Servin

Hi, teacher my name is Alberto I am studying English in the room 101 now I speak about of the weather. I love the days sunny and cool, but sometime I love the day with enough hot because it is very good for to go a beach where I like to swimming and walking on the beach. But I want to love the weather in Oakland because in this city only rarely the weather is too hot in this time I like to go to the Alameda Beach where, there are beautiful environment also many families enjoy this place. I feel very good in this weather.
When I was live in Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico, also in this city the weather was very good but now, then weather is too bad because global warning. It feel to be strong power, because in this area of “richer families” cut of the trees every day but now these families had said every day that they have saved to Mexico from Institutional Revolutionary Party but this families is very corrupt. Theses factors that to influence about global warning now to threat of the future form children around of world. That is one part global warning also to this family people call talamotes to them in Uruapan Michoacán.
I come back to speak about weather also I love the days when it is rain that is good for to watch TV or to go to restaurant where to drink coffer or soda but sometimes I hate theses day because there, weather is too bad because to rain for one weak until two weeks but it is very well for environment of this area that it needs more water every day for the people bomb or Demographic explosion…

I like studying English

Hi, teacher and classmates:

How are you getting on with your weekend? I will be really happy after the weekend because I will be able to come back to my class and have a funny day with classmates and teacher again.

I really like studying in Room 101. It helps me improve my English writing, listening and speaking skills. The way we study in Room 101 here is different from my country. Here we speak, write, and listen in English only. It is the best way to improve our English.

I learnt English 10 years ago before I came here. English became my second language, because I had a dream of coming to the U.S, but I still wasn’t good at it in my country. We studied English but we used only Khmer to communicate in class. That is why we only know a little English, but we can not understand it well as our mother language.

Now my dream came true. I have come to the United States and also have a chance to study English. I will try my best to improve more in the future. It is very difficult if we do not understand English well here in America. We will not find a good job and it will be a problem to become a U.S. citizen.

I hope one day, when I have mastered English, I will also have a more wonderful life here. I will spend more time writing on the blog for my teacher to correct my mistakes.

And I hope, over this summer break, everyone and the teacher will have a nice and relaxing summer holiday.

Bye, Bye. See you next time.

What are you doing, guys?

What are you doing, guys?

Hello, everybody!

Do you know this Sunday is a Chinese holiday?

What are you going to do on the holiday? Some of you are not Chinese, so this is not special for you. Maybe you know something about the holiday. Will you have a good weekend?

I am ready to listen to news about your weekend. Will you share with me? I hope so.

What are you doing right now? I'm typing and watching TV. Isn’t that amazing? You don't agree with me, right. I just want to write something on the blog, so I am writing and thinking at the same time. If my post is not useful and funny, please ,forgive me . Thank you very much.

Bye!

Eat to Stay Fit

Check out Josie's 2nd presentation.

Delicious Dried Bananas

Check out Celine's 2nd presentation.

Natural beauty care

Good afternoon, teaacher and classmates:

Today I have another interresting stories,expecially for someone who like healthy beauty and natural care.
We already know that when the winter come or when we eat spicy and sour foods, it really easy to make our upper layer of the lip crack out.Did you have this problem and cannt solve it,even you buy a hight price lip stick, it also does not work, so today I have a secret menthod to solve this problem.
Please just remenber every time when you brush your teeth, do not forget to brush your lip too, after finish put some colors less lip stick to protect moisture lost, better not to use dark colors lip stick.
Blush your lip, it will help the blood around your mouth run well, new cell grow easily, and prevent wrinkle.
Try it everyday to get a red sexy smooth lip.

For those who like to color their hair and have problem of losing hair, here are some rules that you should know:
Dont shampoo too many times
Dont use hot water washing your hair and blow it dry
Dont used condititon on upper of your hair
Use beer washing your hair after shampoo onece for two or three weeks, idea for oily hair.
That all about the keys, how to care your lip and hair with a natural method.
please enjoy and make your beautiful more colorful.
See you soon with a new story .bye bye.

Hi! Teacher and classmates,

I’m Tommy and this is my first post.

I will go back to my country on Thursday.

Tomorrow is my last day in school before I leave the USA.

I don’t know if I will come back or not.

I‘m glad to have met you, teacher, and all of you in Room 101.

I will type my next post in Hong Kong and tell you what I am doing.

Bye!

Say good bye to the sour pine apple

Hi, teacher and everyone;

Did everyone have a good dream last night? I hope you did. Last time, we talked about my country, so now I have another amazing story from my everyday cooking experience. I will tell you how to make a fresh sour pineapple become a sweet one.

Let me tell you how to do it. First, you just cut the sour pineapple and then put a little salt on it and wait for a few minutes. Then, put some lime juice on it for 20 minutes or more. After that you will have a sweet and very tasty pineapple with this easy method. So now, we can say goodbye to sour pineapples.

I hope this tip will be useful for someone who likes to eat fresh pineapples like I do.

This may sound unbelievable, but it does work! You can try to do it yourself. You will know the result. I will write another useful story next time and I hope it will be helpful in your daily life.

Ok that’s all from me today. I hope the teacher and everyone has a wonderful dinner tonight. Bye, see you next time.

There is too much garbage in the World…

By
Alberto Ortega Servin

Because in the poor nations every day people throw the garbage on the hillsides where they burn. Sometimes people in the world and in the Unites States every day people had said that the United States is of mainly responsible for pollution. But we save of the world and we need to look at the actions of the poor nations. The burning of the garbage is partly responsible for pollution in the world so people need to stop it to save the world.
The problem in the poor nations is garbage because the people in the poor nations need to recycle all kinds of garbage for save of the world. The poor nations don’t burn more garbage on the hillsides and this is good for development in the world. If poor countries stopping to burn garbage and this action save of the world. The poor nations recycle the garbage so electronic, plastic bottles, plastic bags and other things.
Garbage’s came all drift of the petroleum then that the poor countries save petroleum every day and this action help to save for the global warning.
All nations and mainly the poor nations recycle all kind the garbage so it is cheaper for them and they save for oil. But people in the Unites States always had said this country is responsible for all happen in the word. Now it is time that the leaders this country so they have thought of other manner or responsible manner. Because there are many factors or other leaders from others countries that if they are responsible for this kind action.
Global warning is not game how to say other leader others countries but if we had said it is game so we will have lost of the world tomorrow.
It will help people with more jobs in these countries also they will help to stop the global warning and to save of the oil that now it very expansive. If the poor nation recycle all products come of the petroleum then they save energy, money and to save of the world of Global Warning.

About Cambodia

Hi, teacher and classmates:

How are you doing on your weekend? I didn’t go any where, just stayed home cooking and writing a story to every one and especially our teacher.

The story that I want to tell you all today is about my country - Cambodia. It is located in Asia between Vietnam and Thailand. The capital city is Phmon Phen. The weather is hot and wet and half of the people in Cambodia are from China or Vietnam.

In Cambodia, people use the Khmer language to communicate and make a living. English or Chinese are second languages that people learn.

In my country, there are no tall buildings and big shopping malls because it is a developing country.

There are a lot of old temples and old houses left from the old days. One of the most famous temples in the world is Angkor - the 7th wonder of the world.

Buddhism was introduced in 12th century the King Javaraman VII during the construction of Angkor. A lot of people come from different places to visit it every year, so it has become the main place of tourism in Cambodia, too.

The second place that I used to visit and really enjoy is Sihanouk Vill Beach. The place give you a relaxing feeling and there is a very nice view of the blue sea. You can enjoy fresh tasty sea food and sunbathing under the coconut trees, but I like the rainy time because after the rain there is always a nice rainbow over the sea. I always went to picnic there after I finished my work.

There are a lot of interesting places in Cambodia but I just wanted to share these 2 places that I love the most. I hope the next trip that you take is to Cambodia. And please, enjoy your trip and good luck to every place in the world. Especially to our teacher, good luck and good health to you for your first trip in Asia.

Love to teacher and to every one in Room 101.

Bye! See you next time.