Meet Mody
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Hi everybody,
My name is Mody, I am 15 years old. I am from Saudi Arabia. I am
a student at the intermediate level. I like swimming, playing football and
reading.
I am so happy to join you in this class.This is my first chance
to contact native speakers. |
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I improve myself by studying English even in vacations. I am on
vacation now in Saudi Arabia and you say that we can communicate with each
other and this chance is not available in Saudi Arabia. That is because there
are no native speakers of English in Saudi Arabia. So I think this course will
benefit me with writing and speaking.
Have a good time.
Yours;
Mody
Dr. John
replied, 13 Jul 2002
Hi there, Mody,
Welcome to the class. You have a very nice web page. I am a 53 year old
native speaker of English living in Puerto Rico (a Spanish speaking island in
the Caribbean Sea). I have been teaching English at the University of Puerto
Rico's Aguadilla campus for the past 24 years. I have just finished my Doctoral
Degree (Ph.D.) in English. My hobbies are to read, write, play with my
grandchildren, and play with my computer. I hope to see you in the online class
sometimes.
John
Prof. John H. Steele, Ph.D.
Antonio replied, 14 Jul 2002
Hello!
Well, I am not a native English speaker, I am also an English student
from Mexico. I am 18 years old and soon I will go to university.
My hobbies are reading, listening to music and I love to classify the
books in my bookcase; I am even considering buying a Spanish version of DDC 21
(DDC stands for Dewey Decimal Classification, which is the system used to
classify books in most libraries around the world).
I can't usually attend Sunday online lessons due to the difference of
time zone, but I try to keep in contact with other webheads either by e-mail or
by MSN Messenger (in case you want to add me to your MSN Messenger list, my
nickname is Z_B and my address is antonio_m_g@yahoo.com)
Well, that's all for now. I hope to hear more from you.
Bye!
R. Antonio Muñoz G.
México, DF
Michael replied to Antonio, 14 Jul 2002
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Wow Antonio. You must have a lot of books! I recently bought a big
bookcase so I could take all my books out of boxes and I remember wishing I had
a copy of the Dewey system so I could work out how to display my books! And I
guess I do have a lot of books - mostly from the days when I was a university
student.
It was great seeing all those books again on display in a proper
bookcase. It made us all want to pick up a book and read one! I can't remember
if we can send attachments to the list (I don't think we can) so I'll just send
a photo of my new bookcase to Antonio. (Very exciting photo!)
- Michael C. |
Antonio replied to Michael, 14 Jul 2002
Thanks Michael for the picture!
You've got a really impressing bookcase; mine has not as many books but
I love to take them out of the shelves, read them, and try to classify them
following Dewey summaries I got from the internet. I guess it would be better
to have more detailed listings but I'm still saving to buy the DDC 21 Spanish
version.
Well, for now that's all.
Antonio.
This got Antonio talking about his favorite
books, 14 Jul 2002
Hi everybody! Michael: Well, compared to your bookcase, mine is not as
big and I don't have as many books as you do.
Next to the study room there's a large bookcase with reference books (a
children's encyclopedia in English, and another encyclopedia in Spanish), and
books from primary and secondary school that once were mine but now are more
useful to my younger brothers. In the study room there's a bookcase which has a
total of 93 books (these are the books I'm classifying), mainly social science,
language and literature books. I'll try to take a picture of it and upload it
to my website for everybody to see.
Speaking about books, and looking at the bookcase standing right next
to me, my favourite ones are The crooked timber of humanity, by Isaiah
Berlin, De los clásicos políticos, by Enrique
Suárez I., On Liberty, by John Stuart Mill, and above all, The
Code Book, by Simon Singh, a Cambridge PhD in Physics who talks about
the evolution of Cryptograhpy.
Other books I've read and loved are Angela's Ashes, by Frank
McCourt, and A Celtic Legend, by Juliene Osborne (the original title in
English is I am of Irelaunde: A novel of Patrick and Osian.
What is your favourite genre and which books have you liked the
most?
Well, for now this is all, have a great time =)
Bye.
Antonio
Dafne replied
to Michael, 14 Jul 2002
Hi Michael,Antonio and All,
I guess atachments are not allowed, but you can post the picture to the
photos section. I would love to see your bookcase. I also have tons of books
which I classify by content, but I have never been able to use the Dewey
system, I prefer to trust my visual memory.
bfn,
Dafne
Vance had something to say about Michael's
attachment, 15 Jul 2002
Regarding Michael's photo of his bookshelf, attachments are disallowed
so we don't give anyone problems by accident. But you can go to the webheads
YahooGroups website here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/efiwebheads
In the left hand column, click on Files or Photos and upload your
pictures there.
If you don't have clickable links in the left hand column, write the
list for further instructions.
Let us know when it's there and I'll put it on our web pages and let
the group see.
Vance
Mody wrote back, 15 Jul 2002
Hi Antonio how are you? Thank you for welcoming me. It is very kind of
you. It is my pleasure to know about you and I am very happy to be your friend.
You told me your hobbies so I would like to know more about you.
So you said that you like reading. What kind of books do you like to
read?
And you said you like to listen to music. What kind of music do you like
to listen to?
I like to read science books. And I like to listen to Yanni. Do you know
him?
Thank you very much again for welcoming me.
PS. Antonio, I do not have yahoo messenger. Would you mind giving me
your hotmail email so that I add you at the MSN messenger?
Hi Prof. John how are you? It is my pleasure to know about you. And it
is my honor to talk to you Prof. Thank you for welcoming me.
You said your hobbies. So I would like to know more about you.
So you said that you like reading What kind of books do you like to
read?
And you said you like to play with your computer. What kind of games do
you like to play? As for me, I like to play FIFA 99.
And you said you like writing. What kind of writing do you mean? In
other words, do you write poems or do you write to journals and university?
Thank you very much again for welcoming me.
Yours:
Mody
Antonio replied, 15 Jul 2002
Hi! Well, here are some answers to your questions:
Books I like to read: I like essays, two of my favourite books are
On liberty, by John Stuart Mill, and The crooked timber of
humanity, by Isaiah Berlin. I also like historical novels (I am from
Irelaunde: The legend of Patrick and Osian, by Juliene Osborne, and
Noticias del Imperio - News from the empire -, by Fernando del Paso).
Music I like to listen to: I'm pretty eclectic, I guess I don't like
heavy music, and pop in Spanish is not really good, besides that, I like all
kinds of music. Of course I know Yanni, I've heard him and I like the way he
plays the piano.
I do not have Yahoo! Messenger either, but you can add me to your
Hotmail MSN Messenger by using my Yahoo! address. I've already added you to my
list.
Bye for now.
Antonio
Susanne wrote, 15 July 2002
Welcome to Mody, our latest Webhead (and maybe also the yongest so
far?)
We are happy that you wish to join our friendly and fun little Webheads
community of people from all over the world - although we may be very different
as individuals, I think we do share a common interest to explore how the
internet can help us become better at communicating for a global understanding!
I'm studying education theory with a special interest in using internet
in education, so that is a main reason for me to practise my English, as most
material and activity on the net would happen to be in English. As a
grandmother of three, I was born 52 years ago and still live in Denmark, north
of Germany, south of Norway, east of England and West of Sweden. Our language,
called Danish, is spoken by about five million people only. We are exposed to a
lot of English spoken, mostly North American culture, especially on tv, music
and movies. As a natural follow, most of us speak at least a little English, if
not we would live a very isolated life. Children in Denmark start to learn
English at age eleven in grade five, but some experiments show that it might be
a good idea to begin already from the beginning of school age to play with a
second language. How is your own school system dealing with foreign language?
May I ask, where did you find your way to the Webheads? We have a lot
of documentation about our activities stored on the internet, I'm just curious
to know about how you discovered our community!
Yours, Susanne
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