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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://www.englishforums.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Articles by Teachers about ESL/EFL</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/ArticlesTeachersAboutEfl/Forum8.htm</link><description>Resource of articles submitted by our teachers.</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>XMOD (Build: 3607.32596)</generator><item><title>Re: "A question of sex" - Medical English</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuestionMedicalEnglish/cj/post.htm#113855</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:45:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:113855</guid><dc:creator>blueclown</dc:creator><slash:comments>0</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuestionMedicalEnglish/cj/post.htm#113855</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments8-113855.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>my grandpa was the person who could foretell how many children and their sex when their father was born, just based on the time he was born , exactly i told him to teach me but he refused and said that I was too young  And now , he has died, what a pity</description></item><item><title>Re: "A question of sex" - Medical English</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuestionMedicalEnglish/cj/post.htm#1433</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:45:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:1433</guid><dc:creator>maj</dc:creator><slash:comments>1</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuestionMedicalEnglish/cj/post.htm#1433</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments8-1433.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>I loved this article. Easy to read and funny.</description></item><item><title>Re: "A question of sex" - Medical English</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuestionMedicalEnglish/cj/post.htm#1430</link><pubDate>Sun, 22 Mar 2009 17:45:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:1430</guid><dc:creator>Jacko</dc:creator><slash:comments>2</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuestionMedicalEnglish/cj/post.htm#1430</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments8-1430.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>I was just wondering, is there any truth to this? As far as I'm concern, the gender of a baby relies on the male sperm.  Here's how it is:  XY -&gt; Produces Male XX -&gt; Produces Female  Sperm in the male either carries X or Y, but in the female it is always X. If Y fertilizes X, then it is male. On the other hand, if X fertilizes X, then we have a female.</description></item><item><title>"A question of sex" - Medical English</title><link>http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuestionMedicalEnglish/cj/post.htm</link><pubDate>Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:45:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">946f00bb-57d3-4b7b-a9a2-059b5341af52:43</guid><dc:creator>hitchhiker</dc:creator><slash:comments>3</slash:comments><comments>http://www.englishforums.com/English/QuestionMedicalEnglish/cj/post.htm</comments><wfw:commentRss>http://www.englishforums.com/English/comments8-43.xml</wfw:commentRss><description>In the past few years, I've seen a number of patients wanting to know how they can choose the sex of their baby.  Reports from different experts around the world have aroused hopes and expectations -- and many parents-to-be have come into the surgery convinced that they'll be able to have a boy or a girl with hardly any chance of an error.  The truth is, of course, it isn't possible to provide a 100 per cent sure way of ensuring that a couple get the baby they want. .  But there are lots of people who claim to know of methods which improve the odds a little from the normal 50 per cent chance.  Hazel Phillips, for example, worked out a formula that. she claimed has a success rate of over 80 per cent. She described her method in a...</description></item></channel></rss>