talking with God

 “We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls.”

"ََApartment" vocabulary

Last month, I decided to move out of my parents' place and start living on my own. I searched in the newspaper for apartment listings and found a place not too far from my work. The landlord showed me around the apartment, and because it suited my needs, I signed the rental agreement and paid a deposit, some of which I might get back when I move out. The apartment has two bedrooms, one bathroom, a living room, and kitchen. It also has a small utility room where I keep my washer and dryer. Right before I moved in, the landlord put in new carpet and had the walls painted, so it looks like a new place. The rent is $650 a month, not including utilities. I pay about $100 for gas, electricity, water, sewage, and Internet service. Unfortunately, the apartment complex doesn't allow pets, so my dog has to stay with my parents for now. I might get a roommate at some point to share expenses, but I haven't decided on that yet. The place looks a little empty because it isn't furnished, but for the time being, I only have the basics: a bed, a table, a small sofa in the living room, and a TV. It's not as liveable and cozy as my parents' place, but it will have to do for now

Airport vocabulary

The airport is your first stop before leaving on our dream vacation or trip. Generally speaking, you should arrive at the airport with plenty of time to spare. Don't arrive 10 minutes before your plane departs. You can park your car in long-term parking if you are planning to be away for a few days, or you can ask someone to drop you off in the loading zone right in front of the airport terminal. In some cases, you can check your bags there at curbside, or you might have to go to the check-in counter inside the airport. Many airports now allow you to check in at a computer kiosk, but you will still need to check your bags if you have any. Once you are checked in, you will have to pass through security where they will check your ID and your carry-on bags. You will also need to walk through a metal detector, which will check for illegal items. After you pass through security, you can walk to the gate where you can wait to board your flight. Just wait until they call your section to board. They usually seat first-class passengers and those who need assistance first. Enjoy your flight

stress

معمولاً تکیه هر کلمه روی ریشه کلمه است. غالباً در اسمها چون ریشه کلمه در بخش اول می باشد تکیه روی بخش اول است.

'doctor                 'paper

2. معمولاً در فعل ها چون ریشه کلمه در بخش دوم است تکیه روی بخش دوم است.

 be'gin                en'joy

3. اکثر پسوندها مانند (ful – ness- est- er- or- ing- en- ed- es) تکیه ندارند.

'watches – 'worked – 'broken – 'playing – 'actor – 'teacher – 'biggest – 'kindness – 'useful

 4. اکثر پیشوندها مانند (be – re – pre – mis – in – un – im) تکیه ندارند.

Im'possible – un'happy – in'fact – mis'take – re'port – pre'tend – be'fore

5. در کلماتی که با tele شروع می شوند تکیه روی tele می باشد.

'telephone                'television

6. در اسامی روزهای هفته، اسامی فصل ها تکیه روی بخش اول است.

 'Sunday                    'summer                       'holiday

7. سیلاب قبل از tion دارای تکیه است.

 'dictionary                  infor'mation                 conver'sation  

8. در کلماتی که به teen ختم می شوند تکیه روی teen می باشد.

 fif 'teen                       six'teen

9. در کلماتی که به nese ختم می شوند تکیه روی nese می باشد.

Chin'ese                     Japan'ese

10. در اعدادی که به ty ختم می شوند تکیه روی قسمت اول است.

 'forty                           'fifty

11. در اسمهای مربوط به روابط خویشاوندی تکیه روی بخش اول است.

 'mother                     'brother               'sister              'brother – in – law

12. در اسامی مرکب (noun + noun) تکیه روی بخش اول است.

 'classroom                'football

13. در ترکیب (noun + adjective ) استرس روی اسم قرار دارد .

green 'house              cheap 'skates

14. هرگاه بخشی از کلمه صدای اِ کوتاه /ə/ بدهد آن بخش از کلمه دارای تکیه نیست و تکیه روی بخش دیگر است.

a'gain                          a'bout

15. ضمائر، حروف تعریف، حروف اضافه و افعال Modal و کلمات مخفف دارای تکیه ضعیف هستند.

It's 'good

16. در ترکیباتی که با good شروع می شود مانند good bye  استرس روی کلمه بعدی است.

good 'bye                    good 'morning

17. در ضمایر انعکاسی استرس روی کلمه self قرار دارد.

my'self                              your'self

18. در دو بخشی های مختوم به ow استرس روی بخش اول قرار دارد.

'borrow                              'yellow

19. در بعضی از کلمات با تغییر استرس اسم به فعل تبدیل می شود.

'import(noun)                    im'port(verb)

'present(noun)                  pre'sent(verb)

کلمات تافل

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what's your idea about these words

A      affable    affinity    affliction    affluent    alacrity    alleviate    ambiguous    ambivalent    amiable    animosity    annex    apocryphal    apprehensive    aqueous    arduous    aroma    atone    attrition    avarice      bellicose    belligerent    beneficiary    brazen    brusque

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C      capricious    charisma    chastise    cognitive    coherent    complicity    comprehensive    concoct    condone    congenial    congenital    consensus    contiguous    convivial    cryptic    culpable    curtail

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D      dangle    dearth    deference    delineate    derogatory    diligent    disparage    docile    doleful    dormant    drought    dubious    dumbfound    duplicity

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E      eccentric    efface    egocentric    elucidate    eminent    enchant    endeavor    enigma    enthral    esoteric    exacerbate    extol    extraneous

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F      felicity    fidelity    flagrant    flimsy    frugal    futile

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G      gaudy    ghastly    gluttony    gratuitous    gregarious    grumble

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H      haughty    heterogeneous    homogeneous    hypocrisy

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I      imminent    impediment    indigenous    indulgent    ingenuous    inherent    insatiate    instigate    intrepid    irate J      jeopardy L      laconic    lament    latent    lithe    lurid    leash    loafer    lucrative    lustrous

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M      malign    meddle    mend    mendacious    minuscule    mirth    munificent

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N      nausea    neglect    nihilism    nocturnal    nominal    notorious    noxious    nuance

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O      oblique    obscure    officious    opaque parsimonious    pejorative    

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P       perch    pervade    petulant    philanthropy    philistine    pillage    plethora    ponderous    postulate    precipitous    precursor    presumptuous    prevail    prodigious    prodigy    proliferate    prolific    proprietary    provident    proximity    prudent Q      quashed    quenching

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R      rancor    reciprocal    reclusive    renaissance    replenish    reproach    reticent    reverberate    revere    rigor    rotundity    rudimentary

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S      salvage    scattered    scrupulous    sentient    serendipity    shatter    shunned    sketchy    sporadic    squander    stagnation    stifled    strive    subjugate    sublime    succumb    superfluous    surreptitious

T      taciturn    taciturn    tangible    tantalize    tenacious    tentative    torpid    treacherous    tremor    tyro U      uproar

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V      vanity    vehemence    venerate    verisimilitude    vestige    vigilance    vilify    vindicate    visionary    vitriolic    volatile    voluptuous

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W      wa       n                                                                 wile                                                 wrinkle       

ٍEnglish spelling rules

ENGLISH SPELLING RULES
Short and Long Vowels

1. To spell a short vowel sound, only one letter is needed:
 
                 at           red            it            hot           up

2. To spell a long sound you must add a second vowel. The second may be next to the first, in the VVC pattern (boat, maid, cue, etc.) or it may be separated from the first one by a consonant in the VCV pattern (made, ride, tide, etc.). If the second vowel is separated from the first by two spaces, it does not affect the first one. This is the VCCV pattern in which the first vowel remains short. Thus, doubling a consonant can be called "protecting" a short vowel because it prevents an incoming vowel from getting close enough to the first one to change its sound from short to long: 

          maid,  made,  but  madder;            dine,  diner,  but dinner.

Spelling the Sound /k/

This sound can be spelled in any one of four ways:

1. c     2. cc     3. k        4. ck

1. The single letter, c , is the most common spelling. It may be used anywhere in a word:

cat	corn	actor	victim	direct	mica
scat	bacon	public	cactus	inflict	pecan

2. Sometimes the letter c must be doubled to cc to protect the sound of a short vowel:

stucco	baccalaureate	hiccups
Mecca	tobacco	buccaneer
occupy	raccoon	succulent

3. The letter k is substituted for c if /k/ is followed by an e, i, or y.

kin	make	sketch	poker	kind	risky
skin	token	skill	keep	liking	flaky

(Boring examples? How about kyphosis, kylix, keratosis, and dyskinesia?)

4. Similarly, the spelling ck, is substituted for cc if the following letter is an e, i, or y:

lucky	picking	rocking	finicky
blackest	mackintosh	frolicked	ducking
Kentucky	picnicking	stocking	Quebecker

5. The letters, k and ck are more than substitutes for c and cc. They are used to spell /k/ at the end of a monosyllable. The digraph, ck, ALWAYS follows a short vowel:

sack

duck

lick

stick

wreck

clock

(Forget about yak. Your student will never need it.)

The letter, k, follows any other sound:

milk	soak	make	bark
tank	peek	bike	cork
tusk	hawk	duke	perk

The Sound, /j/
The sound, /j/ is spelled in three ways: j ge and dge.

1. The letter j is usually used if the sound if followed by an a, o, or u.

just	jam	jungle	injure	major	adjacent
jog	jar	Japan	jury	job	Benjamin
adjust	jacket	jolly	jaguar	jump	jalousie

2. Since the letter g has the soft sound of /j/ when it is followed by an e, i, or y, it is usually used in this situation:

gentle	ginger	aging	algebra
Egyptologist	gem	origin	gym

2. If /j/ follows a short vowel sound, it is usually spelled with dge. This is because the letter j, is never doubled in English.

badge	ridge	dodge	partridge	gadget
judge	edge	smudge	judgement	budget

The Sound, /ch/

The sound /ch/ has two spellings: tch after a short vowel, ch anywhere else:

witch	sketch	botch	satchel
catch	hatchet	kitchen	escutcheon

Exceptions:
Which, rich, much, such, touch, bachelor, attach, sandwich, and ostrich.

The Sound, /kw/
This sound is ALWAYS spelled with the letters, qu, never anything else.

Using -le

Words ending in -le, such as little, require care. If the vowel sound is short, there must be two consonants between the vowel and the -le. Otherwise, one consonant is enough.

li tt le	ha nd le	ti ck le	a mp le
bo tt le	pu zz le	cru mb le	a ng le

bugle

able

poodle

dawdle

needle

idle

people

Odds and Ends

1. The consonants, v, j, k, w, and x are never doubled.
2. No normal English words ends with the letter v. A final /v/ is always spelled with ve, no matter what the preceding vowel sound may be:

have	give	sleeve	cove
receive	love	connive	brave

Adding Endings

There are two kinds of suffixes, those that begin with a vowel and those that begin with a consonant. As usual, the spelling problems occur with the vowels:
 

Vowel Suffixes			Consonant Suffixes
- - - age	- - -ist		- - - ness	- - - cess
- - - ant	- - - ish		- - -less	- - -ment
- - -ance	- - -ing		- - -ly	- - -ty
- - - al	- - -ar		- - -ful	- - -ry
- - -ism	- - -o		- - -hood	- - -ward
- - -able	- - -on		- - -wise
- - -an	- - -ous
- - - a	- - -or
- - -es	- - -ual
- - -ed	- - -unt
- - -er	- - -um
- - -est	- - -us
- - -y	- - -ive

1. Words that end in the letter y must have the y changed to i before adding any suffix:

body - bodily	marry - marriage
many - manifold	family -  familiar
happy - happiness	puppy - puppies
beauty - beautiful	vary - various
company - companion	fury - furious
plenty - plentiful	merry - merriment

2. In words that end in a silent e you must drop it before you add a vowel suffix. The silent e is no longer needed to make the preceding vowel long as the incoming vowel will do the trick:

ride - riding	cure - curable	use - usual	age - aging
fame - famous	force - forcing	refuse -  refusal	slice - slicing
pure - purity	ice - icicle	nose - nosy	convince - convincing
globe - global	race - racist	pole - polar	offense - offensive

 3. Words that end in an accented short or modified vowel sound must have the final consonant doubled to protect that sound when you add a vowel suffix:

Quebec - Quebecker	remit - remittance	confer - conferring	refer - referred
upset - upsetting	shellac - shellacking	occur - occurred	concur- concurrent

Note that this doubling is not done if the accent is not on the last syllable. If the word ends in a schwa, there is no need to "protect" it.

open - opening	organ - organize
focus - focused	refer - referee

4. Normally you drop a silent e before adding a vowel suffix. However, if the word ends in -ce or -ge and the incoming vowel is an a, o, or u, you cannot cavalierly toss out that silent e. It is not useless: it is keeping its left-hand letter soft, and your a, o, or u will not do that. Thus:

manage - manageable	peace - peaceable
courage - courageous	revenge - vengeance
surge - surgeon	change - changeable
notice - noticeable	outrage - outrageous

Gorgeous George bludgeoned a pigeon noticeably! Tsk.

5. Adding consonant suffixes is easy. You just add them. (Of course you must change a final y to i before you add any suffix.)

peace - peaceful	harm - harmless	age - ageless
pity - pitiful	child - childhood	rifle - riflery

/sh/

When this sound occurs before a vowel suffix, it is spelled ti, si, or ci.

partial	cautious	patient	vacation
special	deficient	suspicion	suction
inertia	delicious	ratio	pension
musician	physician	optician	quotient
electrician	nutrition	statistician	expulsion

/ee/ before a vowel suffix

When /ee/ precedes a vowel suffix, it is usually spelled with the letter i:

Indian	obvious	medium
ingredient	zodiac	material

Spelling Determined by Word Meaning

1. Mist and missed sound alike, as do band and banned. To determine the spelling, remember that -ed is a past-tense tending.

a.                     The mist drifted into the harbor.

b.                     I nearly missed my bus.

c.                      The movie was banned in Boston.

d.                     The band played on.

2. The endings of dentist and finest sound alike. Deciding which one to use can be tricky. One rule helps but doesn't cover all cases:

a.                     --ist is a suffix meaning someone who does something:
   artist    -   machinist    -   druggist

b.                     --est is the ending used on superlative adjectives:
   finest    -   sweetest    -   longest

3. The sounds at the end of musician and condition sound alike. but....

a.                     cian always means a person, where...

b.                     tion or sion are never used for people.

4. How do you tell whether to use tion or sion?

a.                     If the root word ends in /t/, use -tion: complete, completion

b.                     If the root word ends in /s/ or /d/, use sion: extend, extension
suppress, suppression

c.                      If the sound of the last syllable is the "heavy" sound of /zhun/ rather than the light sound, /shun/, use s: confusion, vision, adhesion

Exception: The ending, --mit becomes -mission:

permit - permission	omit - omission
submit - submission	commit - commission

The Hiss

1. The letter s between vowels sounds like a z:

nose	result	noise
present	partisan	tease
preside	resound	reserve

2. The light "hissy" sound is spelled with either ss or ce. Predictably, ss, like any proper doubled consonant, follows accented short vowels. Soft c is used anywhere else. (A soft c is one that is followed by e, i, or y).

notice	reticent	massive	bicycle
recent	gossip	russet	rejoice
essence	vessel	discuss	pass

3. The plural ending is always spelled with a single letter s unless you can hear a new syllable on the plural word. In that case, use -es:

loss, losses	bank, banks	twitch, twitches	tree, trees
box, boxes	list, lists	judge, judges

No compendium of spelling rules would be complete with the most important rule of all:
WHEN IN DOUBT, ASK (or look it up)

But ask first - it's quicker.

your words

please write your words

New words	Connecting words	My words
vocabulary	book word write
live	home parents
city	town village
work	job
table	chair furniture
house	big garden
train	platform plane catch
cheap	expensive buy
food	breakfast dinner eat
drink	waiter milk wine

ََََAnimal Idioms

alley cat

- a stray cat                                                     گربه خیابانی

I began to feed the alley cat and now it comes to my house every day.

as awkward as a cow on roller skates

- very awkward                                        خیلی خجالتی

The little girl was as awkward as a cow on roller skates when she first began riding her bicycle.

as blind as a bat                                     نابینا

- blind

The man is as blind as a bat and cannot see more than a small distance ahead.

as busy as a beaver

- very busy                           گرفتار بودن _ پر مشغله

I have been as busy as a beaver all morning trying to finish my work.

as clean as a hound's tooth

- very clean                                        خیلی تمیز و پاکیزه بودن                                                                     

The classroom was as clean as a hound's tooth when the students finished cleaning it.

ریشه لغات

مثال	معنا	ریشه لغت
anthropoid	انسان	anthro
automation	خود	auto
bibliography	کتاب	bibl
chromosome	رنگ	chrome
chronicle	وقت، زمان	chron
cosmology	ترتیب، جهان	cosm
bicycle, cyclist	چرخ، دایره	cycle
edict, predict	گفتن	dic, dict
produce, conduct	هدایت کردن	duc, duct
factory, manufacture, affect, perfect	ساختن	fac, fact, fect
formation, formal	شکل	form
effort, fortify	قوی	fort
geology, geography	زمین	geo
telegram, graphic	نوشتن	gram, graph
heterodox	غیر، دیگری	hetero
homology, homonym	یکسان، همان	homo
theology, logical	مطالعه، کلام	log, logy
manual, manufacture	دست	man, manu
maternal, matrimony	مادر	mater, matri
mediator	وسط	medi
permit, missionary	فرستادن	mit, miss
multiply,	بسیار	multi
synonym, nomenclature, nominate	نام	nomen, nym
omniscience, omnipresent	همه	omni
pantheism	همه	pan
paternal, patriarchy	پدر	pater, patri
sympathy	احساس، درد	pathy
philosophy	عشق، دوست داشتن	phil
telephone, phonetic	صدا	phon
transport, export, import	حمل کردن	port
describe, description	نوشتن	scrib, script
sequence, consequently	دنبال کردن	sequ, secut
philosopher, sophistication	عقل، عاقل	soph
taxonomy, tactic, contact	ترتیب	tax, tact
telescope	دور	tele
temporary	وقت، زمان	tempor
attract, contract	کشیدن	tract
convene, invent	امدن، رفتن	vene, vent
convert, conversation	برگشتن، برگرداندن	vert, verse
vocabulary, vocation	صدازدن	voc,vok
involve, voluntarily	گرداندن	volve, volue

talking with God

...

I dreamed I was walking along the beach with God.

خیال میکردم که در کنار ساحل با خدا قدم می زنم

Across the sky flashed scenes from my life.

در میان آسمان تصویری از زندگیم جلوه گر شد

For each scene, I noticed two sets of footprints in the sand;

در هر قسمت دو جای پا بر روی شن ها دیدم

One belonging to me, and the other to God.

یکی متعلق به من و دیگری به خدا

When the last scene of my life flashed before me.

وقتی آخرین صحنه زندگیم نمایان شد

I looked back at the footprints in the sand.

بازگشتم و به جای پای روی شن ها نگریستم

I noticed that many times along the path of my life there was only one set of foot prints.

دیدم که چندین زمان در طول زندگانیم یک جای پا بیشتر نیست

I also noticed that it happened at very lowest and saddest times in my life.

همچنین دریافتم که این در سخت ترین و غمناک ترین لحظات زندگیم اتفاق افتاده است

This really bothered me so I questioned God about it.

این موضوع مرا براستی میرنجاند پس برای رفع ابهامم از خدا سوال کردم.

"God, you said that once I decided to follow you. You'd walk with me all the way."

خداوندا فرمودی که اگر به تو ایمان بیاورم، هیچ گاه مرا تنها نخواهی گذاشت

But I have noticed that during the most troublesome times in my life, there is only one set of footprint.

اما دیدم که در سخت ترین لحظات زندگیم فقط یک جای پا بیشتر نیست

I don't understand why when I needed you most you would leave me.

نمیدانم چرا در زمانی که بیشترین نیاز را به تو داشتم، تنهایم گذاشتی

God replied, "My precious, precious child"

خدا فرمود: فرزند عزیزم

I love you, and I would never leave you.

تو را دوست دارم و هرگز تنهایت نمی گذارم

During your times of trial and suffering, when you see only one set of footprints

اگر در مواقع سختی و رنج فقط یک جای پا می بینی

It was then that I carried you.

در آن لحظات تو را بدوش کشیدم

(vocabulary (friends

friend vocabulary: friend / pal / buddy keypal / penfriend /acquaintance/ roommate /classmate /colleague/ partner /date /boyfriend /co-worker/ associate /companion /get together with /go steady / go out with hang out with spend time with meet see someone (=date) Also,/ treat someone to dinner

gift

آنچه که هستی هدیه خداوند به توست و آنچه که می شوی هدیه تو به خداوند ، پس بی نظیر باش .

The person that you are, is gods gift to you, and the one you will be is your Gift to god, so be perfect and excellent.