Healthy diet (Fatima)

Following healthy diet namely to eat healthy food apart of fats, and eating in specific times. However, many people think that healthy diet needs a big effort. Therefore, doctors are trying to encourage them to follow healthy diet without any discomfort, Particularly for people who have dangerous disease. Moreover, they found out that the most useful food for people who want to follow healthy diet is green vegetables. For instance, watercress, lettuce, spinach and cucumber. Furthermore, you should eat fruits with little sugar such as watermelon, apple and kiwi. In addition, fish, meat and egg are all good sources of protein, which is essential for growth and repair of the body. They are also good sources of a range of vitamins and minerals. Finally, don't forget your exercise that will help your body to be healthy. To sum up, live your life, eat whatever you want, but be careful in what you eat. 

My visit to London - Zainab

London is a beautiful country with green gardens, classic homes,respectful people. To begin with, London's gardens bloom with colorful flowers that draw a smile on every person's face. In fact, the smell of the ripe apples as well as, the smell of the fresh oranges would make your mouth water. Furthermore, the rows of daily picked fruit continues down the endless street.

Do you know the most significant thing about London's wonderful parks? It is the beautiful sound of chirping birds and specifically, the river with white swans drifting on it. Nevertheless, the houses are very simple but beautiful at the same time. In addition, the color of the houses doesn't draw much attention. Since London has many parks and people that respect your culture, I think you should visit it to see the wonderful doves and the swans. You should also see in particular, the classical homes.

Week 3 Post

Write 150 words on any topic, but you must use at least 7 different connectors apart from and/but/because and for example. You will be assessed on how well you have used these connectors.

My hobbies

Every person have a different type of hobbies. Most of the people have more than one hobby. People think to make their hobby a professional in future to express their talent. In my free time I  like to spend my time relaxing namely,reading novels,creating my own hand made things and swimming. My first hobby is to creat hand made things.Creating my hand made things helps me to discover my talent more and more. I created many house hold decorations and many accessories. My family and friends supported me in my work and they encouraged me to move on and to do my own business in future. Many people prefer to buy things that are created by hands, because it's very unique and talented. My second hobby is swimming. Swimming helps me to keep my body healthier. I like to go swimming twice a week. I will try my best to build my own business and career.  

Italy - Reem Salem

                                                                     Italy

Italy is one of the most famous countries in the world. It has a lot of beautiful cities, such as, Rome and Venice. If you want to have an amazing time, I recommend you visit Rome or Venice because they have a several places to visit like Roman Colosseum in Rome. In addition, Venice has over 400 footbridge because 70% of Venice is water and it's called the city of lovers. However, if you want to enjoy Italian food, you should try pasta and pizza. That will make you addicted to these two dishes. Also, Italy has 90 higher education including 58 state universities and 17 private sector universities. There are a lot of famous universities in Italy one of them called La Sapienza. It is in Rome and it includes 150,000 students, which is very huge number of student. I think, Italy is very beautiful country and it has a lot of amazing places to visit. I hope to visit Italy as soon as possible.

National day

National day

National day is the big events in the each country, specially in UAE. The government of country make celebration to insert happiness in the people's hearts.  However, all people in that country sharing the joy. For example, most of them designed and colored their cars, also most of people are going to lift the flag of the country on their houses. Schools, universities, markets, and governments are sharing the joy with people. The schools and universities make celebrations for students. Moreover, all markets sell products which are for national day, such as flags, pictures, and decorations that have the color of the flag. In national day, the families sharing the happiness with neighbors and friends. They make national party for family gathering, or friends gathering. All people were happy in that event, because they were born in that country, or lived in that country for several years, or listening some pretty things about that country.

My family

           My family are the most important people in my life. My family mean the world to me.They are the only ones I trust and need. Moreover,they are the ones who give me everything I need ,such as money , clothes ,food , and safety .I love my family ,because they love me for who I am , they understand my feelings and they have been always for me. In addition , they are the only people who will be by my side no matter what happens. My family are the reason of my smile and the first reason of my happiness . Whenever I have a problems they support me and help me to find the solutions. I can't imagine my life without my family ,because no one ever can replace them . I'm sure that every one may give up on me beyond my family. Finally ,I'm so thankful for having my family in my life.

Aljaleela ( best vocation )

In the past, my first traveled was to the Lebanon with all of my family. When we  arrived I was impressed because they have beautiful natural. The weather was the best in that time. Then we went to the hotel to eat dinner and sleep. In the morning, we went to the beach and rode the ship. I like it so much because we really had fun. After that in the afternoon, we went to the park and played many games. For example, my sister and I have been going to play the "horror house" and we were terrified. That time a saw some games that weren't in the UAE, but now we have many beautiful games. Then in the second day, some of the Lebanon families invited us to eat lunch with them. I went with my mother and some of my sisters. The foods were really delicious I liked them. Then after maybe 2 months we back to the UAE.

Life - reem sultan

Everybody has a story that changed his life, everybody has been through bad time. But that time pass. Friends fight, family goes in troubles. But everything can be fixed, surly not in the way it was before. People forget people because they want those people in their life. As an example, if a girl did something shame, her parents will panished her for a while but then, normally they will talk to her the way they used to because no matter what their daughter do, they want her to be a big part of their life. When friends fight, you lose a lot of friends, but at the end you find those few ones who's gonna stay with you. Keep those close to you, cause those people are your second family. Keep a good imprint about yourself with everyone, make people remmeber you in a good way. 

Good conversation topics - ( Maha ) 💚

It's difficult to choose a good conversation topics with hosts. Especially, if you foreign and you don't know the hosts culture. There is some good conversation topics for the UAE culture. For example, shopping is a good conversation topic. You maybe ask the hosts about the favorite shops and the famous shops in the country. Sport is another good example to discuss with the hosts. You can talk about the kinds of sport and which team you courage. Moreover, food topic is good to talk with them. You can ask them about the traditional food like what is the food contain. In additional, travel is fine to talk with the hosts. You can tell them about your trips where you travel. Also, you can ask them about were they travel and which country they most liked. In conclusion, you should read about the country you will visit especially the good conversation topics.

The internet ( rawda Ibrahim)

In the early 1980s through the late 1990s the " digital moment" was just started and the world showed the rise of networks. As a students using the internet ,i found that the internet is heavily involved in developing different aspects such as education, communicating with people and business ...etc.         personally i use the internet most of my time. It is a mean of educating and spending my free time in downloading movies and songs, chatting with friends and reading on line books. 

The are many advantages of the internet. People can learn through the internet. They can do academic research and it is easier for people to find relevant books and read books they wouldn't find any other way such as those that are out of print. Yet, the internet is one of the good ways to make friends all over the world. I my self have a friends from different countries and i interact with them through my face book account. On the other hand the internet can be a double-edged sword. Downloading movies and songs illegally from the internet is one of the disadvantages. Moreover, some informations in the internet are based on lies and they are against the academic research. Some kids and teenagers use the internet to play video games but some of those games teach them violence. 

The internet can be useful and harmful according to the users and how they use it. 

Eida Ali (trip)

All family in the holiday prepare for a great trip, especially if the weather is cloudy and cold. However, they have many places to visit it for example: garden, mountain, desert and beach. I prefer the beach because I like the sea, boat and sunset on the beach but before we go should to prepare the equipment for a trip such as, carpet, chairs, umbrellas, food, drink and extra clothes. While we going to the beach, my father like to invite his friend family and he accept the invite, when we arrive the beach we organize our staff including barbecue tools, my father friend bring the ski dive to play with waves with his kids and his wife: they were a beautiful family and we have a lot of fun with them.

Finally, after we finished the barbecue with grill chicken we drink coca then we got back to car turned to the home with a lot of fun and we hope come back again.

wife:    wife,

Got     go 

Should     we should 

The true friends (Sara)

 

I think having a friend in our life is something of great importance. We have to take time looking for the right person, and although it might be hard, it is something that we have to do. All of us need that one person who hold our hands in the hard times, a friend who help us holding our heads up, and more importantly, a friend who we can call a sister or a brother form another mother. A true friend cheers you up whenever you feel depressed, and leads you to the right path. A true friend manages to make you laugh without a reason, and stays with you in your difficult times without a reasons, who you can trust and fear no worries with, and who stays with you forever. Finally, a true friend is the one who tells you that everything is going to be alright.

Venice ( the city of water ) - Ayesha Ahmed

                                                      The city of water

           There are many attractive cities in the world. Venice is one of these cities, which locates in Italy. Most people visit it for entertaining and relaxing. Venice has a lot of buildings which (buildings, which) are surrounded by water from each side. These buildings are connected between each other by bridges, so people can move easily. Furthermore, there are no streets or cars in this city, people depend on boats only to transport from one place to other. Indeed, Some ( some ) artists visit Venice to draw the beautiful landscapes in the city. Also, photographers like to take pictures for the way of how people live there. In addition, some tourists like to hang out in Venice to enjoy its pure weather and its restaurants. Breathing a pure air helps people to feel fresh and more comfortable. So, if you want to visit a calm and wonderful place, Venice will be the best choice.

Alain 💜

Alain is the second largest city in the Emirate of AbuDhabi. Last winter I went with my family to visit Alain Zoo. The weather was really nice and could. We saw some animals such as, the funny monkeys which were fighting together like children. Then we want to see the king of the jungle which is the lion. After that we feed the giraffes some green plants. At dinner time we bought grills food from Lebanese restaurant and rise from Saudi restaurant to eat in Green Mubazarrah. When we arrived their it is start raining and the weather became colder. My father decided to sit under a tree to have lunch. After we finished the delicious meal together we went to the top of Jebel Hafeet, which is the highest mountain in Alain. The weather was foggy and I was freezing. I took some pictures and I post them in Instagram. 

Elevator (Fatima)

Elevator is a great invention. First, I will talk about elevator's history. Elish Otis invented the elevator in 1857, but the idea of the elevator came from the Ancient Egyptions. It was very simple, and it was working by the humen power. After that, Elish Otis tried many times to make a safe elevator. Finally, he achieved his dream, and he showed his elevator to the public in NewYork. People liked his elevator, and they built the first building with Elish's elevator was the Haughwout building. On the other hand, elevator helps us in variety ways nowadays. In fact, as you see, there are many elevators in our buildings such as hospitals, hotels and towers. Have you seen any building without elevator nowadays? Of course not. It's very useful for us in transfer patients, furniture and dairly to the high floors. So, elevator is Indispensable(indispensable), and they are trying to make it better and better.

The money

The money is one of the most important things in our life because it's give us better life. We can't imagine our life without it. Nowadays,we need money for the whole life like,clothes,food and health care.People need money to get a good education and a good health care because,if I have a good education and health care,I can get more money. The money gives us a luxury life.We can travel and reduce stress from our work.However,we can buy everything we want to have more luxury life such as,buy a big house,drive expensive car and wear brands. The money gives us more confidence and comfortable to solve our problem easily.There are many things related to money but that doesn't mean the money is important thing in whole life.There are things more essential than money namely,family,friends and health.Finally,money is useful thing but doesn't always give us the happiness.

Week 2 Blog Post

Please write 150 words on a topic of your choice. The grammar assessed this time is punctuation - full stops, commas, apostrophes, run ons etc. You have till Sunday 2pm to post your words.
Good luck. 

The jungle

If we took a walk in the jungle we can see many amazing things all over the place. We can see many types of birds such as the mockingbird which is a bird that is famous of mocking or imitating the sounds that it listen to, the parrots that is a very beautiful birds which have many colors except one type that have only one color that is gray. Another thing that we can see in the jungle is the amazing animals such as the elephants, the tigers, the giraffes and the hippopotamus. The jangle is also famous with the different type of trees there such as the, banana trees, the Oak trees and the branchy and leafy trees that gives the jungle a lot of shade during the hot wither and it will protect all animals and birds from the hot sun. I love the jungle a lot.

The jungle

The mockingbird

Old Memories -wejdan Alameri .

           

                      Nothing in this world stay the same,everything may change even people but memories don't .Every one of us have a day,moment, event or person to remember .However ,those memories maybe happened for along of time but it's still in our minds and it's became a part of us.

Not every thing happened to us we'll still remember it, we'll just remember the influential things ,that effected on our feeling or things make a change in our life.

Must of people love thinking of old memories before sleeping .Sometimes certain songs ,photos ,places or perfumes can bring up our old memories.

We truly love Those beautiful memories that make us smiling whenever we thinking about it . In addition we wish if we have a time machine to travel us back to the past and relive those  moments.However , Memories can be our worst enemy it kills and hurts us from inside because we wish things could still be the same as when as we had those great memories , also we keep trying to forget it , but it's seem impossible to erase those memories. 

Time passes and some memories fade, but there are memories live inside us and no amount of time can ever erase it.

In the end ,We must learn how to live each day like its our last so that can help us to create a great memories to remember.

   

Shopping addiction ( rowda Ibrahim )

Shopping addiction is one of the serious problems that affect our society. It happens when people buy excessively, and it has finincial and emotional effects. So what is shopping addiction? What are the problems and how can we overcome this issue? 

Shopaholism always starts with pleasurable experience but it turns into uncontrollable behavior. 

Many people around the world are addict to that, and the number of compulsive shoppers is growing. The following situation from current studies and life experience will indicate some problems of shopaholism and how to over come this issue. 

Shopping addiction causes several problems for the families and friends of compulsive shopper, spenders don't realize that they do something wrong. For example they always feel satisfied when they go to shop , they buy stuff they don't actually need, so they keep spending and spending without realizing how much that can affect their finincial life. The results are they drown in debts and if they don't payoff their debts they will be sent to prison. Also compulsive shoppers may lose their jobs and get broke from squandering money. 

A second effect of shopping addiction is the emotional effect. Compulsive shoppers always have a desire to shop, which keeps them emotions high. Research has shown that many compulsive shoppers and spenders suffer from mood disorders and substance abuse . So they keep spending more money without feeling guilty in the beginning . This situation may cause interpersonal , occupational , family and marital problems in one's life, for example issue between hasbend and wife. This soon distroys the relationship or leads to divorce. 

Although shopaholism is very serious , doctors and psychologists are developing new methods , and beginning to treat people who suffer from compulsive shopping. The first solution is medical treatment . The first step to break down this habit is to visit a doctor and get help from him or her.  The doctor for sure will support a compulsive shopper to focuse on the reasons why they spend over money uncontrollably. 

Another solution for this issue is taking a drug.the drug will affect a person's body for only a short period, so that is going to cause the problem again after the effect of the drug is done. 

In conclusion , the following examples of shopaholism have indicated the problems and how to over come them. People can quit shopping addiction and have normal life like other people. The best way to achieve this is to visit the doctor ( 3 times a week) and get an appointment when they feel anxious about shopping.also drugs might help, but they are not affective as much as doctors believe. 

As a student I found that shopping addiction can be a double - edged sword. Squandering and spending money could be useful for the country's economy, but actually it has a harmful side for humans.  

Global village (Maha) ❤️

Global village is essentially place for tourists in Dubai. Many tourists come from their countries to see the global village. Global village has huge area that is allowed the people feel more comfortable and easy to move. Also, global village has enormous area for parking which means you can take a parking easy without waste time. The price of the ticket was ten dirhams but it is now fifteen dirhams to avoid the crowds. In addition global village has many villages which represent the countries of the world such as, UAE , Lebanon  , Pakistan , China and other countries. Moreover, each village shows her customs and traditions for the tourists through shows, dances and exhibitions. For example, Egypt village has an exhibition which shows you the life in the past through a paints , mummies, models and old things. Also, there is a part of the global village for games to everyone to get fun especially kids and there is a part for restaurants.

Eid al-Adha (Khalood Yousaf)

Last year in Eid al-Adha's vacation my father decided to go to Gantoot beach with my uncles. Before we left the house every one was preparing for the trip such as, my mother and I were slicer into small pieces for the BBQ. Moreover my uncle's waif was making tea and coffee also my cousins were baking cake with different flavors like, vanilla and chocolate. After we finished what we will need we want to the beach. At 4:45 pm we reached there the wether was cold. While the children playing my uncles were cheating together and having coffee and tea. In addition to my  cousins and I were walking and collecting the shells .The sunset it was amazing view so I brought my camera to take some photos. After that my uncles start playing handball. Not only but also two of my brothers were preparing for BBQ and the girls were helping them. After we had a delicious  dinner we want to home.  

Environment's pollution - Ayesha Ahmed

                                                         Environment's pollution 

              

               Polluting the environment is a bad habit that is caused by humans. There are many reasons of pollution for example, waste, factories and transportations. Unfortunately, some people throw their waste randomly and ignore country's rules. Also, some factories burn too much materials without thinking about the damage that they caused. However, to solve this problem people should recycle more and do not throw away the products that they can use again. Also, they can transport from place to other by using public transportations ( transportation ) instead of using their own cars. In addition, people shouldn't ignore the government's rules and throw their waste in garbage-bins only. Pollution will not damage the environment only, it will affect on people's heath also and it will spread diseases between them. So, people should do their best to protect their countries from pollution and keep the environment clean and pure. For more information, Masdar city in Abu Dhabi is a clean city, which depends on clean energy. They use this energy to protect the city from pollution.  

Family and friends. (Reem S.)

We all born alone, we never chose our family. even though we don't chose them, but we love them, deeply. Without knowing the reason why. Maybe because they know the real you and they still love you. Or maybe because they love you for who you are. But the most important thing that they never stop loving you no matter what. They're the people you trust the most. You feel free while talking to them because you know you won't be judged. The second family, as known as, friends. Here it's your time to chose them, you may fail sometimes but at the end you find few friends who will stick around when everybody else leave. Who will make you smile when tears come accross your face. We all got that one or two friends who everybody knows about. Who your family really trust. Those people who will stick with you forever. 

Aljaleela “Best weekend”.

Last week, one of my best friend visited me in my house. She came with two of her sisters. I didn't see her in the past couple of years. She brought sweets and pastries with her. It was really delicious we loved it so much. Moreover, we remembered all the things that we did when we were in the school, such us pranks we did on each other. One of our funny memories is when she and I were in grade 7. One day, we had a math exam and she was sitting behind me. She told me to not write my name in the paper and I did what she asked me to do without knowing the reason. After that, she suddenly tipped me and asked me if I finished the exam. After she knew I finished the exam, she stole my paper and put her paper in my table. I was really shocked because she didn't answer any of the questions. Then I answered all of the questions again. However, we enjoyed spending time together. Finally before she went to her home, she told me that I have to visit her next time and I will. 

Eida Ali Week One ( Dubai Mall )

Dubai Mall is very big mall in Dubai. The location of the mall next to burj Khalifa it is strategic location for tourist. The area of Dubai Mall is 12 million square feet, it is huge area which is equivalent to an area of 50 foot ball fields. Also, the Mall contain 600 shops most of them new stores of global brands exist for the first time in the Middle East. Moreover, I like to visit Dubai Mall with my family to shopping and have dinner. There are some caffe shops, restaurants and shops for clothes I like it in Dubai Mall but the relaxing place in the mall I think is Aquarium and under water zoo it have a lot of kind of fish and sharks they got it from ocean. Finally, the Dubai Mall become a famous tourist place in the world, at every weekend millions of people visit it.

Development Library

Library is the most important place. It is useful for students, teachers and other workers who work in the companies or schools. All libraries should be develop, and should have sophisticated machines. Moreover, they should sell all kind of books such as, education books, lifestyle books, and novels. Also, they could give for their customers services that help customers to find what they need. If the library give a wonderful services, customers will come to this library because they use sophisticated machines. For example, they could buy t-shirts and mugs printers that make them pretty, also give customers to chose the design that they want to print it on the t-shirt or mug. Furthermore, libraries could give customers opportunity to use new machines that help them to buy machines from markets that sell sophisticated machines. Finally, all libraries should have technical means to earn more customers.  

Fatima Ahmed Nasser week 1(library)

              Zayed University's library

Yesterday, I visited Zayed University's library. I took a tour in the library. It has a very huge shelfs, and each shelf has a variety books on it. On each has different subject such as history, psychology, religious books and English books. Moreover, there were many comfortable chairs and every group of chairs have a table. It has also a huge number of study rooms, I really like that. They provide a quiet place for students who want to study. The staff are respectful, kind and helpful. Also, the lights are relaxing for your eyes. However, if you want to print something, you will find a lot of computers, so you can print whatever you want in easily way. In addition, the library has a scan machine, it will be beneficial for you in emergency cases. The library has two floors, and there were many guidelines that will help you. Finally, it has a luxurious antiques to make a nice design for the library.

Vitamin C

                                                                                              There are several vitamins are essential for our health and body. We can find vitamins in fruits and vegetables also we can find vitamins in sea food like shrimp and scallop. The most important vitamin for body is vitamin C . We can find vitamin C in different sources for example in fruits like orange,strawberry and kiwi. In vegetables we find the vitamin C in cabbage, green and red pepper and lettuce. There are many benefits of vitamin C. First benefit is have a good skin and hair. Second, help the body from getting infection and you able to have healthy teeth. Moreover,there are negative symptoms of less vitamin C in body. First symptom is dry hair and skin. Second,loose teeth,hair and anemia. Having a cup of the orange juice each day or vegetable soup it's will be enough actually to continue your day away from the doctor.

Week 1

Please write 150 words on a topic of your choice. Be careful to use singular and plural nouns and pronouns correctly. Good luck!

Here's a link to help you understand what singular/plural problems can mean.

Welcome

Hi all,
This blog is about improving your writing accuracy. Each week you will need to post 150 words on a topic that interests you.

Each week you will get a grade based on the number of errors you make in one grammar area.

If you make 0 mistakes, you will get 100%. If you make 1 mistake, you will get 90%. If you make 2 mistakes, you will get 80%. If you make 3 mistakes, you will get 70%. If you make 4 mistakes, you get 60% and if you make 5 or more mistakes, you will get 50%. I will grade on Sunday 2-4pm, so your writing must be in by then.

Copied work, or work that I think isn't your own will get 0% (please don't get your sister to help!). Work under 150 words will lose 20%.

After I have graded the work, you have 1 day, till Monday 4pm, to find the mistakes. Each mistake you find and correct, will gain you 3%.

For example, if you wrote 150 words on a topic and I found 3 errors, you would get 70%. If by Monday 4pm, you found and fixed 2 of the errors, you'd get an extra 6%. This would make your score 76%.

You will do 5 of these pieces of writing and I will average the 4 best scores you get.

Please feel free to write about anything, add photos and video- just be careful to write correctly.