Link
Task 1. Read the article by following the link and try to answer the questions below.
1) What problems with health can people being in constant loneliness have?
2) How does the time shift underground and how does it affect the bilogical mode of people being underground?
3) What kind of hallucinations has group of volunteers experienced in the dark?
4) How did that group of volunteers feel after the experiment they took part in?
5) Why does a brain create hallucinations when people are stayng in isolated rooms?
Task 2. Match the difinitions with the words from the text.
1) __________ - v. to help someone to get out of a place
2) __________ - adj. spoken well and without difficulty
3) __________ - n. a way of thinking about things
4) __________ - v. to experience difficulties and be likely to fail
5) __________ - adj. not real but intended to look or seem real
Link to the dictionary
среда, 28 января 2015 г.
вторник, 20 января 2015 г.
Work with press
Read the text and fill the gaps. There are two sentences you do not have to use.
Friends want life advice? Tell them to travel more
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain
Related article: Surreal towns, shaped by nature
Mark Twain is just one of history’s many writers and thinkers who list travel as an essential piece of life’s ultimate journey. But what makes seeing the world so important?
1.....In response to the question “Why do people advise ‘travelling’ so much when I ask them about life advice?”, community members shared how their own travel experiences shaped their lives and perspectives, and why they would recommend it to others. 2.....
You’ll better understand yourself
Travel sometimes forces people into unusual or stressful situations. Doria Arlin Ortega Michel, originally from Mexico, experienced this first-hand on her first night in Denmark, on a completely different continent in a country where she didn’t speak the native language. The airlines lost her luggage, her hotel reservations went missing and she had to navigate a new university campus to find her classes. 3.....
“I had been confronted to do things that I could never do or never had the necessity to do at home,” Ortega Michel explained. “I have learned from great people about different styles of living, about different cultures, about kindness, about wisdom, courage, respect… things I would have never have learned if I did not go out of my comfort zone and decide to travel alone.”
Fellow student Fernando Ortega put his travelling experience in similar terms. “You learn what you are made of,” he said. “How long you can walk without rest, how little you can spend… and you also get to discover what kind of things truly interest you.”
One of Ortega’s favourite places is the city of Venice, despite others telling him the city “smells bad because of the water”, had “too many tourists”, or was “too expensive”. 4.....
Quora user Andrew Anya echoed the sentiment, saying travel “is the best chance you have to see an unfiltered, unbiased view of the world”. But he also made it clear that travel isn’t an end in itself. 5.....
You’ll gain a broader perspective
As Twain’s quote emphasises, travel can open people’s minds and allow them to see things from a new perspective.
“When you travel, you are faced with alternative cultures that have a different way of doing, thinking and believing,” said Simon Huggins. 6..... When you get home, you come back to your own culture with different eyes and a more questioning mind.”
7..... From the juxtaposition of slums against the city, the madness of the traffic and the incredible humidity, the sensory inundation was enough to stay with him forever. Years later, they are the details he most vividly recalls – far more than his visit to the Taj Mahal, which he described as “just another building” in the face of his other eye-opening cultural experiences.
A. Instead of believing what they said, he went, and fell in love with the history of a place where “so many things happened”.
B. We conducted a survey among people to find the best answer to this.
C. “It challenges your assumptions and makes you shift your way of looking at things.
D. Here are a few of the themes that came up again and again.
E. “If the experience doesn't change you, you've wasted it… so travel with a purpose, not just for the sake of it.”
F. But the experience made her grow as a person, meet new people and realise that “the world is not as scary as some say.”
G. For Huggins, a trip to Mumbai opened his eyes to how different life could be to his hometown of Banbury, England.
H. We went looking for reasons on question-and-answer community Quora.com.
i. “It gives your lots of unforgettable sensations that stay with you for a lifetime.”
Link
Friends want life advice? Tell them to travel more
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain
Related article: Surreal towns, shaped by nature
Mark Twain is just one of history’s many writers and thinkers who list travel as an essential piece of life’s ultimate journey. But what makes seeing the world so important?
1.....In response to the question “Why do people advise ‘travelling’ so much when I ask them about life advice?”, community members shared how their own travel experiences shaped their lives and perspectives, and why they would recommend it to others. 2.....
You’ll better understand yourself
Travel sometimes forces people into unusual or stressful situations. Doria Arlin Ortega Michel, originally from Mexico, experienced this first-hand on her first night in Denmark, on a completely different continent in a country where she didn’t speak the native language. The airlines lost her luggage, her hotel reservations went missing and she had to navigate a new university campus to find her classes. 3.....
“I had been confronted to do things that I could never do or never had the necessity to do at home,” Ortega Michel explained. “I have learned from great people about different styles of living, about different cultures, about kindness, about wisdom, courage, respect… things I would have never have learned if I did not go out of my comfort zone and decide to travel alone.”
Fellow student Fernando Ortega put his travelling experience in similar terms. “You learn what you are made of,” he said. “How long you can walk without rest, how little you can spend… and you also get to discover what kind of things truly interest you.”
One of Ortega’s favourite places is the city of Venice, despite others telling him the city “smells bad because of the water”, had “too many tourists”, or was “too expensive”. 4.....
Quora user Andrew Anya echoed the sentiment, saying travel “is the best chance you have to see an unfiltered, unbiased view of the world”. But he also made it clear that travel isn’t an end in itself. 5.....
You’ll gain a broader perspective
As Twain’s quote emphasises, travel can open people’s minds and allow them to see things from a new perspective.
“When you travel, you are faced with alternative cultures that have a different way of doing, thinking and believing,” said Simon Huggins. 6..... When you get home, you come back to your own culture with different eyes and a more questioning mind.”
7..... From the juxtaposition of slums against the city, the madness of the traffic and the incredible humidity, the sensory inundation was enough to stay with him forever. Years later, they are the details he most vividly recalls – far more than his visit to the Taj Mahal, which he described as “just another building” in the face of his other eye-opening cultural experiences.
A. Instead of believing what they said, he went, and fell in love with the history of a place where “so many things happened”.
B. We conducted a survey among people to find the best answer to this.
C. “It challenges your assumptions and makes you shift your way of looking at things.
D. Here are a few of the themes that came up again and again.
E. “If the experience doesn't change you, you've wasted it… so travel with a purpose, not just for the sake of it.”
F. But the experience made her grow as a person, meet new people and realise that “the world is not as scary as some say.”
G. For Huggins, a trip to Mumbai opened his eyes to how different life could be to his hometown of Banbury, England.
H. We went looking for reasons on question-and-answer community Quora.com.
i. “It gives your lots of unforgettable sensations that stay with you for a lifetime.”
Link
пятница, 23 мая 2014 г.
Reading the press
link
1. Why are African American students and parents unhappy at Watts middle school?
2. Why was a sixth-grade girl sent home from Markham Middle School?
3. How did Markham's administrators react on the prosecution due to the incident?
4. What did Ingrid Villeda say about the situation?
5. How do you think, why this tension against Latin and African American appeared again?
6. Will be there a time in the future when all people can live in peace without any mutual aggressions?
1. Why are African American students and parents unhappy at Watts middle school?
2. Why was a sixth-grade girl sent home from Markham Middle School?
3. How did Markham's administrators react on the prosecution due to the incident?
4. What did Ingrid Villeda say about the situation?
5. How do you think, why this tension against Latin and African American appeared again?
6. Will be there a time in the future when all people can live in peace without any mutual aggressions?
среда, 21 мая 2014 г.
English-speaking Countries
link
The headline of the article I have recently read is "New Year's Eve celebrations around Australia". It was published on Janury 1 in 2013 in Sydney Morning Herald.
The article is devoted to celebration of New Year's Eve in Australia. According to the author it was really spectaculor event on that day or better say at night.
In 2013 this event brought together into Sydney about 1.5 million people and what is more interesting the reason these people gathered there was to watch the $6.6 million fireworks display light up the sky. I am quite impressed by the sum of money allocated for the fireworks as it is too big. But according to the article New Year is the essential holiday in Australia.
After watching video and pictures from this event I must confess that the view is really beautiful. Also the author presented a small review of people's impressions form what they had seen. People said it was amaizing and magnificent.
The author concludes that it was the largest celebration of New Year's Eve they ever had in Australia, where furthermore lots of people poured in.
The headline of the article I have recently read is "New Year's Eve celebrations around Australia". It was published on Janury 1 in 2013 in Sydney Morning Herald.
The article is devoted to celebration of New Year's Eve in Australia. According to the author it was really spectaculor event on that day or better say at night.
In 2013 this event brought together into Sydney about 1.5 million people and what is more interesting the reason these people gathered there was to watch the $6.6 million fireworks display light up the sky. I am quite impressed by the sum of money allocated for the fireworks as it is too big. But according to the article New Year is the essential holiday in Australia.
After watching video and pictures from this event I must confess that the view is really beautiful. Also the author presented a small review of people's impressions form what they had seen. People said it was amaizing and magnificent.
The author concludes that it was the largest celebration of New Year's Eve they ever had in Australia, where furthermore lots of people poured in.
четверг, 28 ноября 2013 г.
Are traditions important?
Different traditions unites people from one country. For example, if there is Mother's Day in estonia, everyone gives flowers or sweets to his or her mother. If there is St. Valentine's Day, all friends and lovers gives small presents to each other and everybody on that day feel himself a little happier.
Thanks to different traditions in family its members can spend more time together improving relations and strenghtening the bond between each other.
Traditions are important because they influence the evolution of our life and make it more interesting and amazing.
link
среда, 13 ноября 2013 г.
Biotechnologies
Depression 'makes us biologically older
By Michelle Roberts Health editor
Depression can make us physically older by speeding up the ageing process in our cells, according to a study.
Lab tests showed cells looked biologically older in people who were severely depressed or who had been in the past.
These visible differences in a measure of cell ageing called telomere length couldn't be explained by other factors, such as whether a person smoked.
The findings, in more than 2,000 people, appear in Molecular Psychiatry.
Experts already know that people with major depression are at increased risk of age-related diseases such as cancer, diabetes, obesity and heart disease.
This might be partly down to unhealthy lifestyle behaviours such as alcohol use and physical inactivity.
But scientists suspect depression takes its own toll on our cells.
Telomere shortening
To investigate, Josine Verhoeven from the VU University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, along with colleagues from the US, recruited 2,407 people to take part in the study.
More than one third of the volunteers were currently depressed, a third had experienced major depression in the past and the rest had never been depressed.
The volunteers were asked to give a blood sample for the researchers to analyse in the lab for signs of cellular ageing.
The researchers were looking for changes in structures deep inside cells called telomeres.
Telomeres cap the end of our chromosomes which house our DNA. Their job is to stop any unwanted loss of this vital genetic code. As cells divide, the telomeres get shorter and shorter. Measuring their length is a way of assessing cellular ageing.
People who were or had been depressed had much shorter telomeres than those who had never experienced depression. This difference was apparent even after lifestyle differences, such as heavy drinking and smoking, were taken into account.
Furthermore, the most severely and chronically depressed patients had the shortest telomeres.
Dr Verhoeven and colleagues speculate that shortened telomeres are a consequence of the body's reaction to the distress depression causes.
"This large-scale study provides convincing evidence that depression is associated with several years of biological ageing, especially among those with the most severe and chronic symptoms," they say.
But it is unclear whether this ageing process is harmful and if it can be reversed.
UK expert Dr Anna Phillips, of the University of Birmingham, has researched the effects of stress on telomere length.
She says telomere length does not consistently predict other key outcomes such as death risk.
Further, it is likely that only a major depressive disorder, not experience of or even a lifetime of mild-to-moderate depressive symptoms, relates to telomere length, she said.
link
Task 1
Read the article and choose the correct option.
1) Cells of what kind of people lab tests showed they looked biologically older?
a) people who were often drank
b) people who were severely depressed or who had been in the past
c) people who were depressed only one time
2) What diseases are people with major depression exposed to?
a) cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease
b) allergic diathesis , diabetes, tonsillitis
с) obesity, pneumonia, faint
3) What part of the volunteers were currently depressed?
a) only one third
b) over one third
c) under one third
4) What did researchers need to identify the presence of signs of cellular ageing?
a) a urine sample from each volunteer
b) a saliva sample from each volunteer
c) a blood sample from each volunteer
5) What is the main job of telomeres?
a) they cap the end of the chromosomes
b) to help the cells divide faster
c) to halt any unwanted loss of vital genetic code
6) Because of what changes in our cells' structures we get physically older, according to the study?
a) telomere lengthening
b) telomere division
c) telomere shortening
7) Did people's lifestyle affect the telomeres' difference of people who were or had been depressed and who weren't or hadn't been depressed?
a) yes
b) no
c) NI (no information)
8) Who has investigated how stress affects the telomere lenght?
a) Josine Verhoeven
b) Dr Anna Phillips
c) researchers from the US
9) Where are Josine Verhoeven's colleagues in study come from?
a) the Netherlands
b) the US
c) the UK
By Michelle Roberts Health editor
Depression can make us physically older by speeding up the ageing process in our cells, according to a study.
Lab tests showed cells looked biologically older in people who were severely depressed or who had been in the past.
These visible differences in a measure of cell ageing called telomere length couldn't be explained by other factors, such as whether a person smoked.
The findings, in more than 2,000 people, appear in Molecular Psychiatry.
Experts already know that people with major depression are at increased risk of age-related diseases such as cancer, diabetes, obesity and heart disease.
This might be partly down to unhealthy lifestyle behaviours such as alcohol use and physical inactivity.
But scientists suspect depression takes its own toll on our cells.
Telomere shortening
To investigate, Josine Verhoeven from the VU University Medical Centre in the Netherlands, along with colleagues from the US, recruited 2,407 people to take part in the study.
More than one third of the volunteers were currently depressed, a third had experienced major depression in the past and the rest had never been depressed.
The volunteers were asked to give a blood sample for the researchers to analyse in the lab for signs of cellular ageing.
The researchers were looking for changes in structures deep inside cells called telomeres.
Telomeres cap the end of our chromosomes which house our DNA. Their job is to stop any unwanted loss of this vital genetic code. As cells divide, the telomeres get shorter and shorter. Measuring their length is a way of assessing cellular ageing.
People who were or had been depressed had much shorter telomeres than those who had never experienced depression. This difference was apparent even after lifestyle differences, such as heavy drinking and smoking, were taken into account.
Furthermore, the most severely and chronically depressed patients had the shortest telomeres.
Dr Verhoeven and colleagues speculate that shortened telomeres are a consequence of the body's reaction to the distress depression causes.
"This large-scale study provides convincing evidence that depression is associated with several years of biological ageing, especially among those with the most severe and chronic symptoms," they say.
But it is unclear whether this ageing process is harmful and if it can be reversed.
UK expert Dr Anna Phillips, of the University of Birmingham, has researched the effects of stress on telomere length.
She says telomere length does not consistently predict other key outcomes such as death risk.
Further, it is likely that only a major depressive disorder, not experience of or even a lifetime of mild-to-moderate depressive symptoms, relates to telomere length, she said.
link
Task 1
Read the article and choose the correct option.
1) Cells of what kind of people lab tests showed they looked biologically older?
a) people who were often drank
b) people who were severely depressed or who had been in the past
c) people who were depressed only one time
2) What diseases are people with major depression exposed to?
a) cancer, diabetes, obesity, heart disease
b) allergic diathesis , diabetes, tonsillitis
с) obesity, pneumonia, faint
3) What part of the volunteers were currently depressed?
a) only one third
b) over one third
c) under one third
4) What did researchers need to identify the presence of signs of cellular ageing?
a) a urine sample from each volunteer
b) a saliva sample from each volunteer
c) a blood sample from each volunteer
5) What is the main job of telomeres?
a) they cap the end of the chromosomes
b) to help the cells divide faster
c) to halt any unwanted loss of vital genetic code
6) Because of what changes in our cells' structures we get physically older, according to the study?
a) telomere lengthening
b) telomere division
c) telomere shortening
7) Did people's lifestyle affect the telomeres' difference of people who were or had been depressed and who weren't or hadn't been depressed?
a) yes
b) no
c) NI (no information)
8) Who has investigated how stress affects the telomere lenght?
a) Josine Verhoeven
b) Dr Anna Phillips
c) researchers from the US
9) Where are Josine Verhoeven's colleagues in study come from?
a) the Netherlands
b) the US
c) the UK
вторник, 12 ноября 2013 г.
среда, 30 октября 2013 г.
Writing a Summary
The headline of the article I have read is 'Are Mobile Phones Taking Over Our Lives?'. This article is written by Bethan Morgan and published in 'British Council' on the 14th of June in 2013.
The article deals with people's addiction of using their smartphones everywhere and every day. According to the author of this article people spend too much time on their smartphones, that don't even see what is going on around them.
The author starts by telling about that people use smartphones frequently. Instead of talking to each other 'in real life', people prefer to do it by their phones. People use it everywhere even if there isn't any connection to the Internet, they just use smartphones for reading articles, listening to music. I think that purpose of this
article is to persuade people that using smartphones is a waste of time.
The author concludes that is better to not have smartphones, but we are already dependent on using them.
I think that if we stop to use smartphones in our life, we will see more interesting things around us.
The article deals with people's addiction of using their smartphones everywhere and every day. According to the author of this article people spend too much time on their smartphones, that don't even see what is going on around them.
The author starts by telling about that people use smartphones frequently. Instead of talking to each other 'in real life', people prefer to do it by their phones. People use it everywhere even if there isn't any connection to the Internet, they just use smartphones for reading articles, listening to music. I think that purpose of this
article is to persuade people that using smartphones is a waste of time.
The author concludes that is better to not have smartphones, but we are already dependent on using them.
I think that if we stop to use smartphones in our life, we will see more interesting things around us.
четверг, 23 мая 2013 г.
вторник, 23 апреля 2013 г.
Multiple Choice Questions
Choose one or more correct answers.
1) Where were the Celts from?
A. from Central Asia
B. from Central Europe
C. from North Europe
2) Which river did the Roman army cross in 54 BCE?
A. The Humber
B. The Severn
C. The Thames
3) Which of those names is the ancient name of London?
A. Londenium
B. Londinium
C. Londiniam
D. Londunium
4) When did the Romans leave Britain?
A. CE 340
B. CE 520
C. CE 410
D. CE 360
5) Where was another collection of Anglo-Saxon objects found in July 2009?
A. Staffordshire
B. Glascow
C. Sheffild
D. London
6) Which of those words come from the Anglo-Saxon in the English language?
A. flower, cat, tree
B. day, bed, father
C. table, fish, moon
D. mother, house, go
7) Whose wives were beheaded during the Tudor period?
A. Henry VIII
B. Edward III
C. Henry III
D. Edward II
E. Henry VII
8) Who wanted to govern without Parliament?
A. James II
B. Charles I
C. George III
D. Henry IV
9) Whose face was on the first postage stamps in the world?
A. Queen Victoria
B. Charles Dickens
C. Queen Elizabeth
D. Charles Darwin
10) Which contries in the British Empire became independent after the second world war?
A. India, Pakistan, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria
B. Australia, New Zealand, Canada
C. Iran, Egypt, Greece
Keys: 1)B; 2)C; 3)B; 4)C; 5)A; 6)B, D; 7)A; 8)B; 9)A; 10)A
1) Where were the Celts from?
A. from Central Asia
B. from Central Europe
C. from North Europe
2) Which river did the Roman army cross in 54 BCE?
A. The Humber
B. The Severn
C. The Thames
3) Which of those names is the ancient name of London?
A. Londenium
B. Londinium
C. Londiniam
D. Londunium
4) When did the Romans leave Britain?
A. CE 340
B. CE 520
C. CE 410
D. CE 360
5) Where was another collection of Anglo-Saxon objects found in July 2009?
A. Staffordshire
B. Glascow
C. Sheffild
D. London
6) Which of those words come from the Anglo-Saxon in the English language?
A. flower, cat, tree
B. day, bed, father
C. table, fish, moon
D. mother, house, go
7) Whose wives were beheaded during the Tudor period?
A. Henry VIII
B. Edward III
C. Henry III
D. Edward II
E. Henry VII
8) Who wanted to govern without Parliament?
A. James II
B. Charles I
C. George III
D. Henry IV
9) Whose face was on the first postage stamps in the world?
A. Queen Victoria
B. Charles Dickens
C. Queen Elizabeth
D. Charles Darwin
10) Which contries in the British Empire became independent after the second world war?
A. India, Pakistan, Kenya, Ghana, Nigeria
B. Australia, New Zealand, Canada
C. Iran, Egypt, Greece
Keys: 1)B; 2)C; 3)B; 4)C; 5)A; 6)B, D; 7)A; 8)B; 9)A; 10)A
понедельник, 1 апреля 2013 г.
Write a letter to the ten-year-old child you had been
Dear little Reelika,
There is not much I can really say to because you will find it all out for yourself very soon. Still there is nothing you can change in your life but I can give your some advices.
Life usually gives us many good and bad presents but anyway we have to accept them all. I don’t want to shock you telling you something specific. But I want to warn you that in the future you will understand what it means to lose an important person forever, so I therefore call on you to cherish your loved ones. In the future you are going to get hurt in different ways but the experience you are going to get will help you to become independent and self-confident. Don’t suffer too much. Remember that all our trials make us stronger.
I know you are in 4th form now and you are having all new teachers. But after some years you will have to leave your friends, change your school and familiar surroundings. Don’t worry because all will be okay. And don’t waste time on little things but be happy.
Of course, sometimes you can feel yourself lonely or be full of desire to run away from your problems. In this case sit and quietly think over your actions and decisions. In fact, in the future, you will have to make many important decisions but not all will be right.
At last, I want to say that whatever you do or whatever happens, don’t waste your time in vain, because then you won’t be able to change anything.
With love,
Reelika
There is not much I can really say to because you will find it all out for yourself very soon. Still there is nothing you can change in your life but I can give your some advices.
Life usually gives us many good and bad presents but anyway we have to accept them all. I don’t want to shock you telling you something specific. But I want to warn you that in the future you will understand what it means to lose an important person forever, so I therefore call on you to cherish your loved ones. In the future you are going to get hurt in different ways but the experience you are going to get will help you to become independent and self-confident. Don’t suffer too much. Remember that all our trials make us stronger.
I know you are in 4th form now and you are having all new teachers. But after some years you will have to leave your friends, change your school and familiar surroundings. Don’t worry because all will be okay. And don’t waste time on little things but be happy.
Of course, sometimes you can feel yourself lonely or be full of desire to run away from your problems. In this case sit and quietly think over your actions and decisions. In fact, in the future, you will have to make many important decisions but not all will be right.
At last, I want to say that whatever you do or whatever happens, don’t waste your time in vain, because then you won’t be able to change anything.
With love,
Reelika
вторник, 19 февраля 2013 г.
Email letter
Dear teacher
I would like to thank you for your help with registration on the worldeducationgames.com. The registration was quick and easy, and I successfully signed up, but I didn't understand the importance of writting the parent's phone number. Later, when the competition will start, I'm going to take part in math and literacy, and maybe in science. I think it will be interesting.
Best wishes,
Reelika
I would like to thank you for your help with registration on the worldeducationgames.com. The registration was quick and easy, and I successfully signed up, but I didn't understand the importance of writting the parent's phone number. Later, when the competition will start, I'm going to take part in math and literacy, and maybe in science. I think it will be interesting.
Best wishes,
Reelika
среда, 9 января 2013 г.
вторник, 22 мая 2012 г.
A Picture Description
In the picture we can see two girls. They are standing in the midddle of the field and somebody is taking photo of them. I think that it can be their friend. I think the girls are 15-17 years old. One girl who is on the left has long wavy fair hair. She is wearing a beautiful lilac dress and a violet cardigan. She is smiling and I think she is happy. I think that the girl who is on the right is happy, too although I don't see her face. This girl has long wavy brown hair. She is wearing a light blue shirt and dark trousers.
In the background I can see many trees and some houses, so I think that there is a small village. In the sky I can see a flock of birds. The weather is good. It is sunny and warm but a little bit windy.
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пятница, 18 мая 2012 г.
A Picture Description
In the picture we can see two children and a woman. They are in the room and I think they are in the kindergarten because the kids in the picture are 4-5 years old and they are having a lesson. And in my opinion the woman is their teacher. All they are wearing casual and comfortable clothes.
On the walls and the windows we can see different colourful glued pictures.I think that children and the woman are having a music lesson because the children in the pictue are playing the tambourines and their teacher is claping them.
I think that they are happy because they are smiling and having fun together.
source
понедельник, 26 марта 2012 г.
The Narcissus Myth
Narcissus, the son of the river god Cephissus and the nymph Leiriope, was an extremely good-looking Greek youth. His beauty ultimately led to his death. A prophet named Tiresias told Leiriope that her son would enjoy a long life as long as he never knew himself or saw his reflection. Although Leiriope did not understand the prophecy at the time, its meaning eventually became clear.
Narcissus was so handsome that many women and men fell in love with him. He rejected all of them.
One day when Narcissus was out hunting, Echo follows the handsome youth through the woods, longing to address him but unable to speak first. When Narcissus finally heard her footsteps he shouted "Who goes there?" Echo answered "...goes there? ...goes there?" And so it went, until finally Echo showed herself and rushed to embrace Narcissus. He pulled away and vainly told her to leave him alone. Narcissus left Echo heartbroken and she spent the rest of her life lonely and pining away for the love she never knew. Only her voice remained.
Eventually Narcissus became thirsty and went to drink from a stream. As he saw his reflection, he fell in love with it, not knowing that it was him. As he bent down to kiss it, it seemed to "run away" and he was heartbroken. He grew thirstier but he wouldn't touch the water for fear of damaging his reflection, so he eventually died of thirst and staring at his own reflection. The narcissus flower is closely identified with the boy and was said to spring from the ground around the pool where Narcissus died. In the roman version it is suggested that Narcissus is transformed into the flower.
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четверг, 10 ноября 2011 г.
Physical Activity Can Boost Kids’ Brains
1.)What can also help you learn more easily?
2.)What scientists are saying about psyhical exercise?
3.)How much time do kids need to exercise a day to do better in math, reading and spelling?
4.)What does help a brain work better?
5.)What kind of food is called "brain foods"?
6.)What kind of food is also very good for the brain?
7.)Why is a good night's sleep also important?
8.)What have studies shown about children's not getting enough sleep?
2.)What scientists are saying about psyhical exercise?
3.)How much time do kids need to exercise a day to do better in math, reading and spelling?
4.)What does help a brain work better?
5.)What kind of food is called "brain foods"?
6.)What kind of food is also very good for the brain?
7.)Why is a good night's sleep also important?
8.)What have studies shown about children's not getting enough sleep?
четверг, 15 сентября 2011 г.
Proverbs And Sayings About Work
Work is the greatest thing in the world, so we should always save some for tomorrow.
(Труд - это величайшее благо, которое есть в этом мире, и поэтому мы всегда должны оставлять какую-то часть нашей работы на завтра.)
Hard work means prosperity; only a fool idles away his time.
(Тяжелая работа означает достаток; только дурак ленится.)
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
(Умей дело делать - умей и позабавиться. Мешай дело с бездельем, проживешь век с весельем.)
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. (Fernando Flores)
(Хорошая работа сделана теми людьми, которые не боятся быть отличными.)
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. (Elbert Hubbard)
(Получайте удовольствие от вашей работы или вы никогда не поймёте, что такое счастье.)
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. (Theodore Roosevelt)
(Несомненно, лучшая награда, которую предлагает жизнь - это возможность усердно работать на стоящей работе.)
(Труд - это величайшее благо, которое есть в этом мире, и поэтому мы всегда должны оставлять какую-то часть нашей работы на завтра.)
Hard work means prosperity; only a fool idles away his time.
(Тяжелая работа означает достаток; только дурак ленится.)
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy.
(Умей дело делать - умей и позабавиться. Мешай дело с бездельем, проживешь век с весельем.)
Great work is done by people who are not afraid to be great. (Fernando Flores)
(Хорошая работа сделана теми людьми, которые не боятся быть отличными.)
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is. (Elbert Hubbard)
(Получайте удовольствие от вашей работы или вы никогда не поймёте, что такое счастье.)
Far and away the best prize that life offers is the chance to work hard at work worth doing. (Theodore Roosevelt)
(Несомненно, лучшая награда, которую предлагает жизнь - это возможность усердно работать на стоящей работе.)
среда, 14 сентября 2011 г.
Job Description
For this description I have chosen a lawyer and his job.
I think, that lawyer's work is hard, but in the same time very interesting and important. For this profession human has to be morally and mentally strong, tolerant and must have a tenacious memory to remember criminal code, laws and human rights. Certanly he sould be skilful and professional.
Lawyer's work is connected with people.His job is - defend people's innocent, positions and rights in differents situations.For example, when people don't konw laws and don't know what to do in situation connected with laws, they turn to lawyer for a help.Or if human need a protect or the help to prove his innocent he asks for help lawyer and the lawyer need to do for this differents investigations, find out facts and witnesses.
This profession is interesting for me because I want to help people, protecting their rights.So in the future I want to become the lawyer.
пятница, 29 апреля 2011 г.
Homework
1)I really hate doing the ironing and washing the floor. It is so boring.
2)I don't mind empty the rubbish, wash the dishes, do the vacuuming,go shopping and tide up my room.
3)Washing the floor really get on my nerves.
2)I don't mind empty the rubbish, wash the dishes, do the vacuuming,go shopping and tide up my room.
3)Washing the floor really get on my nerves.
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