Well, I  don’t know what I am, that’s why I have dedicated some time to finding an answer to what I am or rather to what  I eat or don’t eat. For me,one of the most tiring things about not eating what everybody around me  eats is having to hide the fact that  I just eat differently and having everybody around me worried about what they might offer me; so, when my friends and I go to a party or birthday or whatever occasion where food is involved I ask them not to attract attention to my eating habits. I can tell you it’s not fun struggling to make people understand that I won’t eat anything cooked with meat and what is worst, trying to explain that even though they remove the chicken or the meat I still won’t eat it.

The word “vegetarian” is a blanket term used to describe somebody who does not eat meat, poultry, fish or seafood. But then, within this term there exist different sub-groups.

VEGAN . This person doesn’t eat any animal products or by products and this includes cheese, milk… some of them don’t even wear leather or wool.

LACTO-VEGETARIAN : The same as vegans but they eat dairy products

OVO- VEGETARIAN : The same as vegans but they eat eggs

 OVOLACTO VEGETARIANS  are by far the largest group of vegetarians

SEMI-VEGETARIAN are not vegetarians strictly-speaking as they may eat fish but not meat or the other way round.

Silly things people say to vegetarians ….. when given the chance. I don’t any more.

So what do you eat? A lot of salad? 

An English teacher wrote these words on the whiteboard: “woman without her man is nothing”. The teacher then asked the students to punctuate the words correctly. The men wrote: “Woman, without her man, is nothing.”

The women wrote: “Woman! Without her, man is nothing.”

 Sorry! Couldn’t help it!!!

and yet another one! this time from the  mighty BBC. Again , I’ve chosen this one to help you practise pronunciation, reading and above all, listening. Hope you enjoy it!!

This is what I’m listening  to these days.

Adele is, according to the BBC’s Sound of 2008 list, the most promising new music talent in UK. Her debut album is called 19 telling us about her age and it topped the British charts this year. In a way she sounds very much like her classmates  Amy Winehouse and Kate Nash and she went to the same performing school in South London.

And now… fancy listening to her performing live ?

Or would you rather do a listening with this beautiful song ? Yes? Click here

If it ever entered your mind I was going to let you go on holidays without recommending some websites for you to keep on learning, then you don’t know me at all. That’s the first cool one I’ve bumped into,  some others will follow.

 The purpose of this site is to help adults improve basic skills like reading and spelling using real-life stories on topics of interest to adults.The stories are based on real life situations of interest to adults.

Pick a story to hear the story, click the “Listen” button below the story. When you are done reading the story, click the “Next” button to start doing some activities based on the story .

     Congratulations!!!!

Yes, I feel so very proud of you. You have done incredibly well in the exams . I know it was hard to face a three member board especially when, just trying to face me while doing an oral exam  was hard enough. Anyway , you’ll find your marks on Monday here www.eoilangreo.net  . Having congratulated you all , I have to admit that  one of my students has failed two skills and I want to encourage this person to sit the exam in September as the marks ,although not enough to pass , are high enough to make me think it’s fairly possible that she’ll pass if she tries just a little bit harder. So, cheer up , my dear student ! I know you can do it! 

Have a nice summer!!!