VOCABULARY BUILD UP
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Месяц: Июнь 2020
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
EVENTS & HAPPENINGS
HAS THE HAND OF A VANDALIZED MONUMENT APPEARED TO STRIKE BACK?
Regrettably, today monuments are being defaced and pulled down one after another in many parts of the world. In Great Britain and the USA, this epidemic of vandalism seems to have infected more people than […]
LITERATURE
REREADING THE DECAMERON
The Decameron [dɪˈkæmərən] is a collection of short stories by a XIV century author Giovanni Boccaccio (1313–1375). The book tells us about a group of young men and women who take refuge in a secluded villa outside Florence to […]
FUN
ENJOY WATCHING A BLACK BEAR ENJOYING A BATH
Stop what you’re doing and watch this bear take a bathStaff at the Oregon Zoo released the video we all needed – a black bear having the best time taking a bath. https://fontyler.livejournal.com/video/album/1549/?mode=view&id=65398 […]
GRAMMAR STORIES
THE RICH, THE POOR & SOME GRAMMAR
Source The rich and the poor Обратите внимание на употребление определённого артикля the перед словами rich и poor. В данном случае это не имена прилагательные, а имена существительные, вернее, это имена прилагательные, превратившиеся в имена […]
EVENTS & HAPPENINGS
CARTOONS – June 6, 2020
Самое время убраться подальше. (РАСИЗМ, ПАНДЕМИЯ, ИЗМЕНЕНИЕ КЛИМАТА) Применение газов против своего народа. (СЛЕЗОТОЧИВЫЙ ГАЗ; ГАЗОВАЯ ЗАЖИГАЛКА) Прошу прощения, но у нас нет средств на маски для вас. (РАБОТНИКИ СИСТЕМЫ […]
POP
WHO THREW THE WHISKEY IN THE WELL?
First, let us listen to the beginning of the song and read the lyrics. lyrics [‘lɪrɪks] слова песни It was an early Sunday mornin’And the church was crowded fullOld Elder Brown was ravin’He […]
HISTORY MYSTERIES
IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER (1993)
It is Saturday evening in England. Young people get together and go to a pub. A short time later, five of them die, and 65 get injured. It happened on October 5th, 1974, when the […]
EFFECTIVE LISTENING
SHOULD ‘OFTEN’ BE PRONOUNCED WITH OR WITHOUT [t]? LISTEN TO PRINCESS ELIZABETH
The word often has more than two types of pronunciation:often [‘ɔf(ə)n] / [‘ɔft(ə)n]часто, много раз Let us see how Princess Elizabeth says it. We have two sentences with this word: Our father and mother have […]