NEWS & EVENTS
BORIS JOHNSON IS AS “FIT AS A BUTCHER’S DOG”
Boris Johnson says he has never felt better. He says he is as “fit as a butcher’s dog” thanks to his workout regimen after he recovered from Covid-19. The PM, 56, jogs at 6.30 am […]
COVID-19
NEWS & EVENTS
TO COVID-TEST, OR NOT TO TEST, THAT IS THE QUESTION
Дональд Трамп провёл первый митинг предвыборной кампании после трехмесячного перерыва, вызванного пандемией коронавируса. Митинг прошёл в Талсе, штат Оклахома. На митинге Трамп сделал заявление, которое можно смело отнести в разряд побед над смертельным вирусом. Со […]
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
POLITICAL DUEL
Close everything? Open everything? Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right, here I am… POLITICAL DUEL VOCABULARY to the left of me– налево от меня / слева от меня to the […]
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
WIPE? NAPKIN? Or TISSUE?
“Quick! Does somebody have a Clorox wipe?” Судя по моему опыту, носители русского языка в основном владеют словом napkin и употребляют его для обозначения любых салфеток – как wipes, так и tissues. Запомним, что […]
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
THANK YOU, GUYS, FOR MAKING MY SELF-ISOLATION POSSIBLE
…I never considered how many people I depend on to isolate myself. Delivery guys, trash pickup, power plant workers, city engineers, cops and firefighters (& their support staff), telephone crews, TV station personnel, online tech […]
FUN
WEARING A MASK AT HOME?!
– You are wearing a face mask in our house? – It’s to keep me from stress eating. STRESS EATING – ЗАЕДАТЬ СТРЕСС to keep somebody from something –> from stress eating to keep […]
FUN
KANGAROO DEFIES LOCKDOWN RULES
A kangaroo is hopping through empty streets of an Australian town South Australia Police have captured the moment a kangaroo hopped through the heart of downtown Adelaide during coronavirus lockdown. Source Adelaide [‘æd(ə)leɪd]- Аделаида (город […]
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
PUTTING ON A FACE MASK MAY BE A CHALLENGE
This is an orang-utang. It lives at a zoo. It is a female. And she loves to try things on. In this video, she is trying on a face mask. She has seen people […]
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
CORONAVIRUS STATS MAY BE ALL WRONG
April 17, 2020 The Daily Mail newspaper says that old people are dying in old-people’s homes because they are not tested for coronavirus. The newspaper claims that there is a ‘hidden epidemic’ of coronavirus in […]
VOCABULARY BUILD UP
BEER: 50 Million Pints May be Dumped
April 4, 2020 Britain is in a nationwide lockdown. Non-essential businesses, like pubs, have already been closed for nearly a month. Great Britain has around 39,000 pubs. Each pub has around 15 barrels of […]