четверг, 29 октября 2009
00:30

ужос что или о лучшем друге

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
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МЁРТВЫЙ ГОРОД. РОЖДЕСТВО
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Не пройти мне ответом
Там где пулей вопрос,
Где каждый взгляд - миллиметром,
Время - пять папирос.
Мертвый город хоронит
Свои голоса.
Потерялись и бродят
Между стен небеса.

Рождество наступило,
В подвале темно.
Сколько душ погубило
Напротив окно?
Я забыл, что в природе
Еще что-то есть.
Шестого приняли роды
Без шести минут шесть.

А наутро выпал снег
После долгого огня.
Этот снег убил меня,
Погасил короткий век.
Я набрал его в ладонь,
Сплюнул в белый грязь и пыль.
То ли небыль, то ли быль,
То ли вечность, то ли вонь...

Этот город разбился,
Но не стал крестом.
Павший город напился
Жизни перед постом.
Здесь контуженны звезды
Новый жгут Вифлием,
На пеленки березы,
Руки, ноги не всем.

С рождеством вас, железо,
Повязка венцом.
Медсестра Мать Тереза
С симпатичным лицом.
Прошлой ночью, как шорох,
Вспоминались дни
Как вы задернули шторы,
Как вы были одни.

А наутро выпал снег
После долгого огня.
Этот снег убил меня,
Погасил двадцатый век.
Я набрал его в ладонь,
Сплюнул в белый грязь и пыль.
То ли небыль, то ли быль,
То ли вечность, то ли вонь...

Не пройти мне ответом
Там где пулей вопрос,
Где каждый взгляд - милиметром,
Время- пять папирос.
Мертвый город с пустыми
Глазами со мной.
Я стрелял холостыми,
Я вчера был живой...

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среда, 28 октября 2009
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воскресенье, 25 октября 2009
23:17

Useful links for communication part 2

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
New sites I am exploring now and, speaking fairly, I like them more and more:

Sites to make friends:

www.interpals.net/

www.mixpod.com/

www.facebook.com/

@музыка: Azzurro

@настроение: emotionally exhausted and highly hopeful

@темы: English, creative writing, links, I, communication

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суббота, 24 октября 2009
02:02

Atonement

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
At last, I managed to brace myself for watching the film. I did it. I watched it.
Next, I should bring myself to thinking about it. I can't yet.
 

@музыка: almost silence

@настроение: still, not moving

@темы: atonement

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четверг, 22 октября 2009
01:32

LOL - Do you know Chinese English?

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Somewhere in Asia

Room Service (RS): "Morny. Ruin sorbees"
Guest (G): "Sorry, I thought I dialed room-service"
RS: "Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen??"
G: "Uh..yes..I"d like some bacon and eggs"
RS: "Ow July den?"
G: "What??"
RS: "Ow July den?...pry, boy, pooch?"
G : "Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please."
RS: "Ow July dee bayhcem...crease?"
G: "Crisp will be fine."
RS: "Hokay. An San tos?"
G: "What?"
RS: "San tos. July San tos?"
G: "I don"t think so"
RS: "No? Judo one toes??"
G: "I feel really bad about this, but I don"t know what "judo one toes "means."
RS: "Toes! toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow singlish mopping we bother?"
G: "English muffin!! I"ve got it! You were saying "Toast." Fine.Yes, an English muffin will be fine."
RS: "We bother?"
G: "No...just put the bother on the side."
RS: "Wad?"
G: "I mean butter...just put it on the side."
RS: "Copy?"
G: "Sorry?"
RS: "Copy...tea...mill?"
G: "Yes. Coffee please, and that"s all."
RS: "One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy....rye??"
G: "Whatever you say"
RS: "Tendjewberrymud"
G : "You"re welcome"

@темы: English, pronunciation, just for fun

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среда, 21 октября 2009
19:42

Empire or Empirical - any difference?

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.


empirical - adj.

1. 1. Relying on or derived from observation or experiment: empirical results that supported the hypothesis.
2. Verifiable or provable by means of observation or experiment: empirical laws.
2. Guided by practical experience and not theory, especially in medicine.

origin:1569, from L. empiricus, from Gk. empeirikos "experienced," from empeiria "experience," from empeiros "skilled," from en- "in" + peira "trial, experiment."

empirically em·pir'i·cal·ly adv.

empire - n.
1.
a. A political unit having an extensive territory or comprising a number of territories or nations and ruled by a single supreme authority.
b. The territory included in such a unit.
2. An extensive enterprise under a unified authority: a publishing empire.
3. Imperial or imperialistic sovereignty, domination, or control: "There is a growing sense that the course of empire is shifting toward the . . . Asians" (James Traub).
[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin imperium, from imperre, to command; see emperor.]

Related words
adjective imperial
Quotations
"All empire is no more than power in trust" [John Dryden Absalom and Achitophel]

@настроение: curious

@темы: English, vocabulary, dictionary

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19:14 

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воскресенье, 18 октября 2009
23:01

Поздравляем с успешным окончанием тестирования!

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Время тестирования: 25 м. 04 с.

Ваш уровень знаний грамматики английского языка соответствует ADVANCED (У вас отличные знания грамматики.).

Вы хорошо знаете следующие грамматические темы:

* Count and non-count nouns
* Complex sentences
* The Present Perfect
* Modals: Other ways of referring to the past
* Modal verbs: can (be able to), have to и must
* Unreal Conditionals: Present
* Articles (with geographical names)
* Adjective Clauses
* Phrasal verbs
* Comparatives, Superlatives of Adverbs and Adjectives
* Use to and to be used to + verb+ing
* Types of questions
* The Articles: Definite, Indefinite and No Article
* The Present Progressive
* The Passive
* Mixed Conditionals
* Possessive case: possessive nouns and pronouns
* Participle clauses
* Factual Conditionals: Present (type I)
* Indefinite pronouns: some, any, somebody, anybody, anyone etc.
* Gerund and Participle constructions
* The Gerund
* The Simple Past: Regular and Irregular Verbs
* There is/ There are in the Present and Past
* The Articles: A/An and The
* The verb Be: Present Simple
* Prepositions of Time and Place
* Plural nouns
* The Simple Present
* The Imperatives
* Emphatic words and expressions
* Inversion
* Indirect Speech: Tense Changes
* The Past Progressive
* The Future Progressive
* Negative pronouns: no, none, neither, nobody,nothing etc.
* The Simple Future
* Future Perfect
* Indirect Questions
* Advisability and Obligation in the Past (should have done)
* Interrogative pronouns: who, whose, what, which
* The Present Perfect Progressive
* Tag questions
* Adjective word order
* The Passive Causative
* Punctuation
* Modal verbs may and might to express possibility


У вас есть пробелы в знаниях следующих тем (советуем вам «освежить» ваши знания):

* Obligation, Conclusions, Advisability in the use of modals may, must, can, etc.
* Unreal Conditionals: Past
* The Infinitive
* Past Perfect and Past Perfect Progressive
* Idioms and Problem words
* American and British English: slang, well-known phrases
* The Present and the Past Participle
* Phrasal verbs: The different types

english.in.ua/common.php?lng=ru&sid=af0d7628266...

Тест, правду говоря, кривоват))) хоть сайт и "Член Украинской ассоциации качества". LOL LOL LOL

для потерявшего веру в себя новичка вполне сгодится )

:cow:

@темы: English, my grammar test, I

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14:59

Vocabulary Games and Lesson Plans

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
www.vocabulary.com/

highly useful

@темы: English, synonyms, activities, links, vocabulary, dictionary

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14:46

Starting a TKT Portfolio

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
I have been a teacher of the English language for ... years at a private Moscow secondary school and I have always wondered how learning works. In order to be able to help my pupils be more successful I have explored different fields of scientific knowledge, such as psychology and neurolinguistics, as well as various teaching techniques. To obtain a better command of the subject I even tried to learn a new foreign language on my own. Finally, willing to get all my knowledge classified and systematised, I made a decision to undertake a TKT course.

@темы: English, TKT, I, Portfolio

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02:56

"Learning Grammar Doesn't Help Me to Speak With English-Speaking People."

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
Due to the growing cultural exchange and international communication during the last century, learning foreign languages has become one of the most essential demands of our society, and can be compared with overall computer study.
Being so widely spread throughout the world, language learning reveals lots of problems as people with different cultural background and unequal personal abilities expose themselves to foreign languages, bearing in mind various purposes and reasons: from elementary speaking skills for travelling abroad to academic writing, business language and learning just for fun included.
Such diverse aims of language study required a great deal of assorted teaching techniques which were actually tried on during 1950s-80s.
At that time grammar seemed to be the only obstacle in teaching speaking. Indeed, after having spent boring labourious years on grammar drills most of the students failed to produce even a comparatively short fluent utterance. It became evident that drilling separate grammar issues did not contribute much to intonation, rhythm and pronunciation which may alter the connotation of the word or phrase. Learning grammar rules somehow prevented from using “functional language” which should be practised in guided speaking activities and ‘real-life’ situations.
So, grammar was vigorously rejected; first – by native language teachers, then – from foreign language classes as well.
New communicative approach, offering grammar skills through reading/speaking activities, proved its attraction to students as they got highly motivated and started speaking as if by magic. Proclaiming grammar a useful tool, the teachers applied numerous activities to link phrasal verbs, prepositions, idioms and collocations with images, emotions or situations in minds of their students. Acquiring fluent speaking in target language became the feature of this method.
Later with much discontent researchers noted a correlation between the decline in teaching traditional grammar and a decline in test scores and poor writing skills, as naturally it is easier to speak language then to write. Favouring creative skills rather than productive led to inaccuracy in speech, both spoken and written.
Another complication in language teaching is caused by simplifying tendency via the Internet. Offering billions of free language learning resources, the Internet lacks in focusing on proper language – since people manage to understand each other they pay no attention to grammar accuracy or enriching vocabulary.
In many ways, the debate pros and cons traditional teaching approach has created a negative view of grammar.
That is a pity. The best reasons for teaching grammar are positive.
It seems logical that grammar should be taught together with speaking/listening. At lower stages learning grammar creates a sense of successful studying, which is very important for further motivation. Investigating grammar rules, describing forms and functions introduce students into communicative speaking from the very beginning, when they are not trained enough to discuss other topics.
It is well known that traditional grammar teaching creates better and more accurate writers, whereas writing is considered to be one of main steps in mastering speaking.
So, one may say, that now we are facing a ‘back to basics’ alarm.
The truth is in the middle, as usual.

@темы: speaking, English, creative writing, TKT, I, grammar

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суббота, 17 октября 2009
17:43

Multiple Intelligences Test - based on Howard Gardner's M1 Model

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

@темы: emotions, teaching, learning styles, learning, links, I

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среда, 14 октября 2009
22:07

Grammar Tests on-line

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

@темы: English, activities, test, links, grammar

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21:02

Collins Corpus

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

@темы: English, links, vocabulary, dictionary

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вторник, 13 октября 2009
00:30

Shadowishy or Gloomy Doom

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
* * * * *



«'All my deeds and past days were dark and full of evil. But a new day is come. Here I will stay at peace, and renounce name and kin; and so I will put my shadow behind me, or at the least not lay it upon those that I love.'

Therefore he took a new name ... which ... signified Master of Doom.

Yet with the change of a name he could not change wholly his temper...»



Someone somewhere didn't do what he had promised to do. Whom will he blame? You have three guesses.


(in desperate crying)

@настроение: in the dark

@темы: emotions, English, Narn I Chin Hurin, I, J.R.R.Tolkien

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среда, 07 октября 2009
23:26

Subtle Mistakes

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.
LOL


«The modern Danish language is the closest sounding language to the English used 2000 years ago, when the people from what is now the north of the Neverland travelled to what is now the United Kingdom and pushed the cows to the western side of the island.»

he-he, I pity cows most of all.

@музыка: Azzurro

@настроение: laughing out loud

@темы: English, just for fun, writing

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понедельник, 05 октября 2009
00:17

Learning English and other languages

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

@музыка: The World Has Changes - I feel It in the Water

@темы: English, activities, learning, links

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00:01

Fairy Tales

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

@музыка: The World Has Changes - I feel It in the Water

@темы: English, reading, links

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воскресенье, 04 октября 2009
23:46

Lyrics

Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity killed the cat, I say only the cat died nobly.

@темы: English, pronunciation, songs, links, listening

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