Final impressions

Three months passed like a flash and I can’t believe it. All tasks are done and almost all marks are displayed. It was a hard trimester. A lot of people who saw me in the process of studying said me: “Oh, we are stunned; you’ve never paid so much attention to your studying at the first course.

I thought the second year would be easier, but then I understood I just jumped to conclusion.

The Vocabulary of Modern English is special subject. I always felt uneasy about it, because of a lot of tasks, a lot of new words, some creative tasks connected with blogposts and so on. The Vocabulary is only one subject that made me close to tears or even made to be in tears. You will ask why? Because of inability to do the blogposts properly and from the first time. You will ask me again, why there is inability? Because of persistent problems with Internet connection from which I always lose my temper. Yeah it sounds like I just say it because I don’t want to complete assignments, because it’s classic example of excuse. But even so, my excuse was true. In any case, now I’m sure that after that, no one online tools won’t make me scary. So I’m thankful for this experience, even when I’ve been accomplishing the task not had being entirely happy.

Also, now I’ve started notice that I make a progress and gradually achieve my common goals. When I’m reading some article or book or when I’m watching the film in English I understand that I know much more words that I knew before. That’s cool I think.

Besides, I recognize the thing that I could do even more than now. The more the merrier! Even if there are considerably difficulties I won’t back down. Because we must take an interest in improving our skills. It’s our future profession and we have to tackle all problems in our hectic way just to be good and initiative specialist.

By and large I would like to say that our course of Vocabulary doesn’t need any improvements as we are fortunate to have an incredibly creative teacher :) Maybe just a little bit oral presentation instead of blogposts J

To summarize I just want to wish for all of you all the best and even if you in a deadlock and think that you can’t resolve your problems with studying English, just bear in mind – practice makes perfect!

Letter to my dear alien friends!

     Dear friends,

    I found out that I’m located on the Earth. Can you imagine this? Formerly, I thought that on the Earth are only some ruins, remains, and nothing beautiful! But I need to confess there is really amazing landscape! I’m stunned because I didn’t expect this!    In the video you can see where I am. I’m near some nice cottage which is situated in the country I guess. There is so wonderful view! The house is surrounded by autumn forest. I’m sure you‘ve never seen such a beautiful place on our planet Weirdlandia. Near the cottage you can see nice shed, where people probably keep some working stuff.    The house looks like new and ultra-modern. It is colored in the same color as our skin. It’s cool, isn’t it? The entrance in house is in a little porch. Then you can see the tiled roof and the chimney on it. It means the house is warm and cosy. Also, at the left side you can see small staircase, which is leading to second entrance I guess. Thereby, there formed an outside landing.    If the cottage in such mint condition outside – I’m sure insight it is also up to date. Just imagine, antique comfortable furniture, fully-equipped kitchen, spacious attic, and a huge cellar, where could be situated a lot of fun stuff, or even a game room.    Do you understand my implications? All of you should come here, and we will capture this house! We could renovate it a little just to make it more similar to our alien style.    Hurry up! Meanwhile I will keep track of the house! We mustn’t deliver it. I’m looking forward to you my dear friends! 

                                                Yours, Deedy

Comments :)

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Toy company

If you are creative and enterprise person, if you want to bring happiness to others - welcome to "Kinder Boom!"Our company creates the most beautiful and extraordinarytoys for kids more than 10 years. Our main aim is to see the smiles on the children's faces. In "Kinder Boom!" you can feel genuine team spirit as all of our employees pool their ideas to common goal - to produce the bits of happiness. Our motto is "Give love to children and we in out turn will take care about everyting else."

Now, the company is looking for responsible  and ingenious employees, namely we need two creative designers and two advertising manager. In return to your dedication we will give you the benefits package:

- giving the perks and bonuses per month;

- providing all employees with subsidized canteen;

- guaranteeing a 30 days' holiday, as we every person is entitled to have a rest;

- nobody from head office will not stifle your creativity. We promise promptlyaccomplish your ideas if they are unusual of course;

- we promise to sort your working problems and conflicts out;

We are waiting for you if you really want to be get involved in creating bright and ecstaticlife for children! 

Body language

Ten mistakes that happen in using gestures

Non-verbal communication or body language is an important part of presentation skills and how you gesture is an essential component of that body language. Your gesture should match your words and not distract the audience. And with a little practice, they can help you in being confident and avoid the misinterpreting of your messages.

Here are ten mistakes to avoid when using gestures:

1. Not using gestures at all. If you keep your hands locked at your sides, you will look nervous and your presentation will lack visual element to accompany your words. You should display to the audience what you are saying, in addition to hearing it.

2. Keeping your hands in your pockets. From the side it looks pretty weird. Bear in mind, this position is a manifestation of disrespect.

3. Fidgeting with you hands. Be aware of what your hands are doing, such as "washing each other, grasping each other tightly, fiddling with you hair, watch, jewelry, etc. You can't combine these gestures with speaking to the audience.

4. Playing with "stuff". If you must hold something, such as notes or computer mouse, be conscious of how you are holding it. Too often the item becomes something for you to play with unconsciously, or in the cause of notes,a crutch that prevents you from looking at the audience. 

5. Holding you hands behind your back. When not gesturing, your hands should be in the "neutral position", hanging loosely at your sides and ready to come up to gesture.

6. Pointing at the audience. It's not polite to point. Replace it with another gesture, for example, try an open-handed gesture instead.

7. Folding your arms across your chest and stroking your face. Even if you are only doing this because you feel cold, this gesture will most likely be interpreted as your closing yourself off from the audience. Instead, keep your gesture open to the audience.

8. Gripping the podium. This gesture is usually accompanied by the "deer in the headlights" look. If you are using the podium, place your hands lightly on the top of it or in a relaxed hold on the edges.

9. Using stilted gestures. Your gestures should be natural and flow smoothly rather than looking forced or robotic.

10. Using overly rehearsed gestures. The audience shouldn't be too observant to notice that you don't know what to do with your hands. 

Just try to use your gestures in an appropriate way :)

Newspaper of Ostrog Academy

I would like to show you what I created. I hope you will enjoy it! ^_^

http://bit.ly/1xwVAj4

Striking trip with horrifying pizza

He had always dreamed to visit Thailand. And finally his dream came true. Newly arrived Andrew went to see the coast of Indian ocean. He was absolutely ecstatic because of such an amazing landscape around. He was stunned and over the moon at the same time. He has never seen even the sea, and there is the ocean. He couldn't control his feelings and impressions at all, so he decided to go to view his renting house to distract and calm down this euphoria.

Andrew knew that in Thailand are extremely popular different spicy dishes, various processed insects which he has never tried. But he really wanted to do this. So Andrew decided to go to some restaurant to try something delicious and extraordinary. When he had opened a menu, his attention focused on "Thai spicy pizza with roasted insects". It did wonder for his mood, whereas Andrew was genuine connoisseur of pizza. So he ordered it and some exotic cocktail undoubtedly. While he had been waited for an order he wasreflecting on nearest future plans, and how he would spend his time in Thailand.

So when the waiter took the pizza he felt uneasy about eating it, because it looked like not really delicious. But then  he had winded down a little bit and started to cut his pizza on the smaller pieces. Next what happened after Andrew put a slice of pizza on his plate - completely stunned and appalled him. He felt that something disgusting was moving along his arm. And OMG! It was a quite huge insect! It made him close to tears, as long as Andrew was absolutely afraid of alive insects. But he tried to bottle his emotions. He had called the waiter and started to clarify the situation. The waiter said that it is normal in this restaurant and in Thailand by and large. He said that it is usual to every local resident to see alive insect in their soup, or pizza or to see it moving on their tables. He explained that in this country insects are like a pets, as there a lot of them everywhere and people just is used to live with this. It seemed strange for Andrew but he didn't lose his temper. The waiter said that Andrew had seemed devastated and gutted so he proposed to took some soothing Thai tea without any insects in cup just to reduce his stress. 

After such a tense dinner he was coming to his lodging. Along the way he met the owner of house. He pour his feelings out to him because he had wanted to sound off about all his failed experience of trying unusual cuisine. They were talking during the entire time until they went home. The owner was non-European, and Andrew willingly talked with someone of another race and another worldview. And by the way, the owner promised to cook something outlandish and tasty for Andrew. So they had came to house in a good mood and spent their evening at home disclosing something to each other and enjoying tasteful dishes. Everything was settled and the trip promised to be even more breathtaking. 

My favourite English quote

It always seems impossible until it's done...

     How often do we doubt whether we should do some important action for us? I think it happens quite often. Especially when it comes to something personal and special. Even strong and courageous people can disbelieve for themselves. And it's normal in my opinion. Because it is inherent to human nature to have some doubts and uncertainty, some fears and anything else that can interfere to you towards some your dreams or desires. 

     Sometimes we say: "Oh, it's really hard to implement, it will take a lot of time and realefforts." But what do you expect?There is no such thing as a free lunch. To get something - you have to do something. Even if it seems unattainable.

     Of course lots of things also depends on person and his or her character. If a person is very proud or too shy it will be hard to achieve something easily. Let's give a simpleexample of two enamored. One of them is  proud and another one is shy. The first says: " I won't call him or write, I'm too proud to do it first." And another says: I don't want to bother her, it will be awkward. And maybe from such a little acts will depend their future. I always say myself:" Do this. Even if you are afraid. Nobody won't kill you for this. It's just your life, your destiny, and you are the superintendent of this. So never be afraid of something, and never be indifferent and irresponsible at things that you would like to achieve. Because it always seems impossible until it's done, and one way to solve this problem it's to attempt!

“Vocabulary Sci-Fi”

Letter to my peers from the past :)

   Hello, my dear friends from the past!

      I'm really happy to have an opportunity to come into contact with you. We've been being out of touch with each other for a long time, but now it's a great event that I can hold of you.

      Take this opportunity I'd like to talk business with you. I've chosen a very intersting topic for us. The main occupation in my life now, it's learning a foreign language, namely English. I want to tell you the differencebetween opportunities that we have now to lear English, and that we had many years ago. Of course there are a lot of changes. And all the changes are really colossal. 
First of all, the English language became an official language in many countries. That's why every person who wants to develop and explore the world, should learn English in my mind. And it's more than enough possibilities to do this. If you have a desire and the Internet, you can deal with this easily. Why the Internet? Because there is everything you need: different dictionaries and vocabularies with divers functions, a lot of web-sites where you can train yourself all the time, etc. 
       For instance, you find some interesting word in English and you want to memorise all the synonyms of this word. Or you want to see the words that are similar in the meaning. In this case you can use a good site graphwords.com . There you can create your own maps with words. Here you can see my example with word "clap":

          One more cool possibility is to create a word cloude. You chose some word that you want and then in this cloud you can see all of the collocations with your chosen word. Look at my word cloud here (I've chosen word "contact"):

         If you aren't sure in which context is using some word or phrase you can check it on fraze.it . There is an example how to use the method to dispel your doubts about using some collocation in context.

"...A student response team reviews the cases of students who may need help. Reynaga-Abiko said the team takes referrals from everyone.Aside from the university-wide services, the Counseling and Psychological Services Center offers more resources for students. Reynaga-Abiko said a student is able to make an appointment at any time. In a crisis situation, the studentcan be seen right away..."

        Another great possibility that we have via the Internet it is to communicate with somebody who is good in English, for example it could be the native speakers. It is the irreplaceable experience, isn't it? If you want to chat with people whose mother tongue is English or write a letter to them - you are welcome, the Internet will help you.
        I hope this information was interesting for you. And I'd like to ask you a favour. Please, write me a respond about opportunities in learning English in your time. I think it's interesting to compare. And at last, please don't lose the contact with me.

Love, Nadia                           

"My impressions of the first class"

Hey, guys! :) I'd like to share with you my impressions from the first vocabulary lesson :)
So, when I had come to classroom I noticed a new person among familiar faces. And Oh my God! It was a boy! Finally we had the boy in our subgroup because as you know the main concern in our department it is insufficient number of boys.  
From vocabulary lesson I've expected only nice impressions, because I've knew that this subject is really important and helpful for me. But at the same time I've understood a considerable difficulty with studying it. I know myself, that's why I know that I should make a real effort to learn all of the words, expressions, collocations etc. and to use them correctly in my speech. 
When the lesson had begun and we started talking in English I realized that over the summer I've forgotten how it is to communicate in English. In my head was an utter chaos. It seemed as  all the words were mixed and forgotten. But I knew that I should hold responsible for it only myself. During the summer everything was in my hands and I could  pay more attention to English, but I do no such things probably because of my sloth. And I faced the prospect of seeming stupid in front of my group-mates. But it wasn't  good time to panic. We should have told a brief summary about our goals and dreams for the future. I did it somehow and I wasn't entirely satisfied with this, so I set a goal of more practice in speech.
During the lesson I realized that I like this subject. And also I know that it is a great honor to have such a good teacher like Inna Vyacheslavivna.
In addition, I hope that this year will be great for all of us. Only this and nothing else. The main thing is never back down  and walk confidently to your goals! Then everything will be perfect! Good luck for everyone! :)