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A Reflection Note I would like to share with you some of my impressions related to the activities that we did during this semester.  First, I liked working in a blog format. At first, it was a bit exciting for me, but with each written work, it became more and more interesting. I liked to analyze articles from the newspaper, write about this post, which contains my thoughts on this, and then read the articles of my classmates. As for the next semester, I would like to study how to formalize official letters, reviews, job applications, perhaps essays using various quotations and expressions. As for the topics to be studied, I would like to propose to consider such topics as international relations, cultural comparisons and the like. I believe that for us, as students interested in foreign languages, it is important to understand different cultures. I hope the next semester will be as interesting and cognitive as this one. I wish everyone a Happy New Year an...

Have Outer Beauty Is More Important In Contemporary Society Nowadays the problem of beauty sacrifice is actually among people, especially youth. The main reason for this is a crucial shift in people’s mind towards the exaggerated importance of the appearance. Many people think that in the contemporary world, almost no one is interested in inner beauty as the outer but others do not agree. Let us speculate about it. For the great majority of people, appearance does not play a great role in their lives. They think intellect is much more important because it provides a person with some inner beauty and it can let him be more attractive for others. For instance, a person who can support any topic during the conversation will always be a priority, unlike a person who looks well but cannot add anything from himself. It means that when people communicate with each other, they do it with the help of their knowledge, their thoughts, that is internal development, but not beautiful hair...

Are rich people happy? The more rapidly the world develops, the more important the money becomes. Nowadays, people often wonder what role money plays and whether they can make them happy. Appropriately, the question is whether rich people are happy? On the one hand, rich people are definitely happy. After all, what is happiness in the material sense? This is the satisfaction of our needs. Every wish fulfilled brings a person happiness. Rich people can afford everything they want. The most important aspect is not even material things, but traveling. During travels, you experience true happiness that is difficult to convey. Of course, in this sense, the rich are definitely happy. Moreover, money gives power. I do not mean violent power or gross power over people, but simply a sense of confidence. It is not a secret to anyone that a confident person feels much more optimistic, happier and more adapted in society. Because of  such “state” in society,  m...

Advantages and Disadvantages of Technologies    Nowadays, the modern technologies are an important and essential part of everyone's life. There is no person who can imagine his life without computers, laptops, smartphones. The majority of  people believe that technologies have more advantages than disadvantages. Although some people say that they have a bad effect on people. That's why I decided to discuss this topic.    First of all,   thanks to technologies, people can communicate with people who are far away from them, see relatives, and keep in touch with friends. Moreover, they can make new acquaintances, talk with people from all over the world, make new friends, and even meet love. Now there is no need to buy expensive tickets to see the  family, people can just call each other, write SMS, or communicate through Skype. In addition, students do not need to bring their work to the teacher; they can contact the teacher via the Inter...

Are Exercises Useful for Our Body?  Everyone agrees that doing exercises is a good thing to human's body. It helps people's metabolism working better, therefore people can live a much longer life than people could in a period when exercises weren't so popular and so available to everybody. Nowadays every other person has gym membership and goes to a fitness center couple times a week. It's so widely spread now that no one even stops to think whether it's such a good thing to do for everyone or it can hurt someone. Even scientists are not really sure what exactly exercises do to people's body. So, the problem is whether exercises are good for the human's health or they are not the thing that every person should do.  The positive aspect is always the best thing to start with. What are the positive sights of doing sport? There are plenty of them. People can find friends or just become more active in their social life. It's a serious benefit of doi...

A Reflexive Note To start with, I would like to say that the idea of writing in our own blogs, despite its singularity, turned out to be very interesting. I really like this new and unusual way of sharing our essays where not only a teacher can read and analyze it but also our groupmates. Moreover, I like the idea of making comments and discussing there some interesting topics or arguable questions. Next, speaking about the themes which were offered to write about, I think they are interesting enough. I like that we were free from such boring topics as “Computers and Our Life”, “Friendship”, “Education” and so on. Instead of it we were reading and summarizing The Guardian , were writing about “The Right to Die”, “Anxiety and Depression”, “Ways of Improving Vocabulary” etc., which I found quite up-to-date. What was not so much useful, as for me, is some exercises from the textbook, sometimes they were too easy to waste our time on them. Nevertheless, it is the way the lessons...

Advantages and Disadvantages of Adherence to Vegetarianism    Nowadays, vegetarianism is very popular all over the world.   There are a lot of     people who refused to eat meat. Some persons do it out of pity for animals. Some people do it in order to keep fit and think it is very useful. But others can’t agree with this opinion. They keep saying that it is very dangerous for health. That's why I decided to discuss this controversial topic.    First of all, meat is a very important and useful component for human health. It contains a lot of vitamins and substances which there are not in plant products. A lack of it in the body can seriously harm health. For example, doctor Yiming Wang writes in his article (Wang, Y. (2016, January 25).Vegetarianism – Benefits and Harms to Health. doi:https://qsota.com/vegetarianism/ ) that animal proteins have great advantages over vegetable proteins, including soy protein. Meanwhile, proteins are the b...

Modern Art is Similar to Vulgar or to a Deep Meaning? Once upon a time, while discussing the modern art, my teacher had told me that any fool can make the same works as modern artists do. Indeed, we often have to listen that the works of 21 st century are vulgar and even raunch. Thus, the question that I have chosen to speculate about is: are the masterpieces of contemporary artists really such as described above or they hide a very deep meaning that could be interesting to think about? Let us see all the pros and cons. To start with, there is the opinion that there are a lot of modern works that are made ‘easily, without much effort’; therefore, they cannot be called the works of Art. For example, the installation by Glenn Ligon which is called “Negro Sunshine”, is made of cambered shining wire, hanging on a white wall – nothing special. Moreover, such people claim that the most of modern works are unaesthetic, especially in comparison with the masterpieces of 19 th cent...

Money Can Buy Happiness Have you ever thought about the role of money in achieving happiness and whether you can just buy it? All of us have long been accustomed to the saying "money is not happiness", but often we do not think, is it really so or not. Studies show that money plays an important role in making a person feel happy. And happiness can be simply bought  in some extent. First of all, money allows you to have what you want. Money is a tool with which we can afford quality food, medical care, as well as training in gyms and fitness clubs. All these things help us to maintain our physical health. With the help of money we can develop intellectually, buying the necessary books and getting education in the best universities. We can travel, visit any place on the planet, be inspired and develop as we wish. Constant self-improvement and good physical health bring happiness to a person. Secondly, money increases confidence. Money helps to get emotions that le...

The semester's just come to its end, and it's the best time to express my opinion about this course. First of all, I'd like to say that the course was something rather new for me as I'd never published anything to blog before. Initially, I was even slightly confused because of such a way of sharing my works, but then it became just a part of my weekly routine. Now I can say that I'm accustomed to this platform for sharing all the works I write.  As for the things I found useful, there are some of them. For example, all the things connected with the work in Blogger. As I said, I'm not a blogger at all, so all that things like how to contract link or how to create your own blog were a discover for me. Also, I find the information about the ways of summarizing articles and writing for-and-against essays. Last but no least, the links that I was given are really useful. I mean the links to plagiarism checkers and some dictionaries. However, I really expected to di...

A Reflection Note This semester is coming to an end and I would like to share some of my impressions related to the activities we did during this time. First, it is worth noting that the work in this blog seemed strange to me initially but then I found it very convenient and interesting. You always have the opportunity to hand over your works even if you could not visit a lesson, you can see works of your classmates and compare them with yours. It is very interesting to read different points of view on the same topic. Moreover, I want to mention The Guardian , which I did not know earlier. Constant updates and interesting articles on any topic still make me read it periodically. Next semester I would like to learn more about the rules of writing all sorts of official letters, applications and resumes. I believe that this is really the thing that will be useful in the future. As for the topics for discussion, I would be interested to talk about cultures, customs and ...

                                                                                                      Should Countries Encourage Tourism?        Travel has always been attractive to people of any age. This is the best way not only to distract from their problems but also to learn new things and be inspired. However, not all countries develop a tourist business area.        One of the main arguments for developing tourism is that it encourages governments to improve local facilities. This means that the country will be more well-groomed, clean and prosperous. In countries where the tourism business is developed, always hold various events, congresses, and so on. This will delight not only...

                                            My Achievements in Writing during the Semester      Written language has always been considered more complicated than oral, and for me, it was also difficult. However, there is a rule that works for everyone - if you develop your skills, you will achieve what you want. This is exactly what I can say about my writing skills.     Thanks to this course, I could feel like a real blogger and learned how to express my opinion in writing. The most useful thing we did was sorting articles from the Guardian and writing our own posts on them. As for me, it was very interesting and exciting, since we could write about what we like exactly. Moreover, it helped to develop our living language and pick up new words. Nevertheless, I didn’t find it very exciting when we were working in classes with textbook articles. I ca...

A Reflective Note       So, our semester is coming to the end and I would like to say a few words about this semester.        It was amusing enough because of the format. We have never written blogs before and I didn’t even know about the existence of this site. Moreover, the Guardian magazine deserves my special attention. I did not know that any aspects of European life could be found there.       But sometimes I didn'y understand some things. For example, is ir obligatory to choose one article from a magazine and write an essay or a sumury. I believe that this discipline should be done from the heart, since it is impossible to write a good essay when you are forced (especially when it is done at night).       What topics can be useful for us? Well, maybe "correct sleep patterns",  "how to relieve stress", or "how to stay always positive". Or just something from psychology...

A Reflective Note Today I would like to share with you my impressions  about the activities we have been offered this semester. I think it was very useful. I learned a lot of new information, for example, how to write blog posts, how to avoid plagiarism. I improved my writing skills. I expanded my vocabulary by using special apps and reading articles from "The Guardian". It was really interesting to read articles from "The Guardian" because I learned a lot of amazing stories, events, facts, and informative news. It is a really great source of information. This course introduced me to the useful site https://sentence.yourdictionary.com. It helps me understand the meanings of words, their collocations.  Also, I enjoyed  teamwork in the classroom.  I can't say that something in our activity was useless. Our exercises and tasks were important and helpful. But  in the next semester I would like to have more discussions  and talks in the classroom. It would be...

During this semester, I learned a lot of new THINGS. As I know, the best way to learn a language is to use it. So ,for me, writing blog posts was really useful because it helped me to understand English language much more better. I really enjoyed reading the news from “Guardian”. I learned not only new words, but also I learned interesting facts , incredible stories and events. Also, I liked the way we worked. For me, it was unusual to write essays or articles in blog, but I got used to it very soon, and now I understand that it’s much more easier, than write tasks by hand. It’s hard to me to say what in this semester was useless. I think all tasks that we did were useful and ,moreover, really interesting. But there are few things that I would like to do the next semester. For example, I would like to use language not only in writing, but also in speech. I think in this semester we had not enough discussions .And it would be better if we discussed each other’s work in class to under...

Graffiti in modern life : a real art  or   manifestation of vandalism  ?                 Modern art has a lot of different forms. One of the them is called graffiti. Graffiti is often regarded as a new form of art, worthy to become a part of the culture of the 20th-21st centuries, however, it is also regarded as a vandalism. So let’s consider the arguments for and against of graffiti .     On the one hand , the graffiti ,if it is drawn by talented artists correctly, has an aesthetic function. Some graffiti improve the urban space . For example ,in most of countries graffiti is a way to bright up gray, nondescript buildings. Usually such buildings become popular very soon ,they are like a city sight. Moreover , bright paintings have a great influence on human emotions. Sometimes one look at the picture is enough to change the mood of a person for the better. Isn’t it great? But that's not all .Some graffiti ar...

Dear All, to complete this semester you need to be ready with the following tasks: 1.  A summary   of an article with an explanation of why you have chosen it and a set of 3 questions to go with it: a) What would you like to learn from it? b) What information from it you knew? c) What information is /was not clear Please ,  choose an article that discusses some urgent/vital/very important/urgent/up-to-date issue Word limit:  300 words 2.  A for-and-against essay : 400 -450 words Choose different topics for tasks 1 & 2 3.   A reflective note  a bout the activities you have been offered this semester - a comment about the activities you did this semester which should include the following details: a) smth that you found useful b) smth that was not that useful c) smth that you would like to do the next semester d) suggest a couple of topics for discussion Word limit:   220-250 words Don't forget to u...

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I'd like to share a summary template with you which will help you to structure your summaries better. The main point about using this template is to help you with structuring your summaries better. The article “___________” written by ___________ is devoted to the discussion of the problem of ___________. First, the author draws our/the readers'  attention to ___________. Then s/he analyzes the ___________. S/he gives an example of ___________. S/he also    emphasizes that ___________. The author suggests that ___________ and pays attention to ___________. Then s/he he argues that ___________. In addition, ___________. Finally, ___________/The author concludes that ___________/ In the end it is stated ___________. The difference b/w a summary of a story and its retelling: A summary presents the main ideas of an article or some other text for your readers to gain idea about the main points  inconsistent: lacking logical, https://www.merriam-webst...

What are the advantages and disadvantages of our ever-increasing use of computer technology? Nowadays, it is obvious to everyone that we live in the digital era. The world is experienced (WF: why passive?))  the major phenomena (WNum)  of rapid technical  (WW: comp "technological) advances. A lot of new cutting-edge devices are transforming our daily lives and our businesses.  Today, each of us can hardly imagine his or her life without a smartphone, a navigation system and the Internet. C an we say with confidence that all these appliances bring us only benefits?  Or there are some pitfalls in this issue ? Only thirty years ago, in order to study this or that issue it was necessary to go to the library, look for materials, read a lot of books and make extracts. It took a very long time. Now any dictionary, any book or library is literally in your hand. You can go to the subway, sit with friends in a restaurant or on a bench in the park and you will al...

One language spoken would lead to better international relations. Lingua franca is defined as ' any of various languages used as common or commercial tongues among peoples of diverse speech' in Meriam-Webster dictionary. Nowadays English is the lingua franca for all the people around the world. However, English isn't inly one language spoken worldwide. The question of becoming a language the unique language spoken worldwide is arguable as there are many advantages and disadvantages.  On the one hand, if people spoke one language equally well, there wouldn't be any problem because of misunderstanding while translating. Moreover, it can change the global policy of many countries.  On the other hand, language brings many specific details to culture. For example, idioms and proverbs. So, people would lose their cultural identity if they spoke only one language.  All in all, this question is arguable, and I think that it isn't necessary to worry about it righ...

One language spoken worldwide would lead to better international relations       I often hear the phrase "Well, why can not  (sp) there be a single language in which people would freely communicate?" People oftten  wonder why there are so many languages in the world. And the only question is: can one international language lead to better relitionships (sp) between countries ?(ThSt-t: a question?)        Well (style) , on the one hand, one international language has a lot of advantages. People would be more united, there would be a common culture and traditions. The economy would develop more successfully, because often it is the language barrier that prevents entrepreneurs from developing their business abroad. I am sure that there would be less (Gr) international conflicts and division (Gr) territories. Moreover, nowadays English is considered as international, (Fragment,) But, unfortunately, not all recog...

What are the advantages and disadvantages of our ever-increasing use of computer technology?          It's no secret that 21st century is a computer age .Nowda ys ,we can't imagine our life without any technologies (especially without computers ). With the advert of the computer ,human life has become much easier, and ,as a resul t, we use a computer every year more . However, some people are concerned about our ever-increasing use of computers :are there  advantages or disadvantages ?         On the one hand,ever-increasing use of computers has a lot of advantages. For example,computers have greatly simplified the learning process. And it's hard to argue with it. Earlier,if you wanted to find any piece of information you had to search it in books for hours,but now this process has been simplified to a few keystrokes. Nowdays, almost everything can be done with a computer:payment of taxes, ticket reservation ,communication at the dis...

The advantages and disadvantages of our ever-increasing use of computer technology     Technology today adds much advancement to our everyday lives. We drive fast cars, talk on the phone, organizing meetings, and catching up with old friends, even setting an alarm clock.  In everyday life, computer technology (> the plural form is better) is used in education, industry, medical procedures, medical research, banking and business etc. Obviously, t he technology we use today has made us as a human race really reliant on how it makes our lives easier. Unfortunately, through much advancement in the tech nology  (art) and how it makes our lives easier, it also makes them more difficult.     Throughout industries, computerised robots are used to assemble and test products instead of using manual labour . These robots are used to assemble products ten times faster than manual labour . Unfortunately, the biggest disadvanrage  (sp) about...

The word “plagiarism” create really bad associations. Thus, not to be involved in problems connected with this scarifying term, let us consider about  (PREP) it. First, as Natalia Yuryevna has already mentioned, plagiarism means "claiming the others' ideas and ways of expressing them as your own". However, what is interesting is that you can be caught in plagiarism even if you do not suppose > suspect   that  cheating. You may think that the information you have found in (prep) > on the Internet and added in your essay is really short but very useful and cannot be replaced by any other sentence, while the teacher does not think so. Nevertheless, during the lesson we have discussed possible variants (WW) > ways to prevent our essays from containing plagiarism, and the best way is to use websites which are to help us with this. I have chosen https://copyleaks.com/?utm_campaign=elearningindustry.com&utm_source=%2Ftop-10-free-plagiarism-detect...

Should Celebrities Be Allowed to Keep Their Lives Private? Recently I have read an article written by a Justin Bieber’s fan (,) where she was complaining about him and his rude reaction on  (prep) her friendly request to snap a selfie. This story made me think about celebrities and their rights. Are they allowed to keep their private lives without the invention of fans and media? Or their choice of profession implies a permanent attention? Let us weigh all the pros and cons and decide whether they are to have their private lives(,) or they must just deal with the “occupational hazard”. On the first hand (WExp) , speaking about the profession chosen by celebrities, we cannot deny the fact that being a “star” means being popular and under discussion. This is a huge business which makes a great deal of money.  Further development necessary  Then, being followed by the media is the best way for PR . For instance, Olga Buzova has become popular only with the h...

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Should celebrities be allowed to keep their private lives private, without the invesion of the media? This question sounds quite arguable, isn't it? Let us write our pros and cons here. + every person has the right to private life, it does not depends on their position in the (ART)  society + there are a lot of examples when  invesion (Sp) of unknown people lead (WF)  to splitting up - if you have chosen such art   profession, you should realise the negatine (Sp)  consequences - it is a good way to PR: What is? Not clear

Any techniques to start your essay? 1. Use a quotation: can use this for both intros and conclusions but there should be smth special about it (try to choose something memorable) There are special dictionaries of quotations you can use: here is one I like:  https://www.brainyquote.com/topics/dictionary Do you remember some techniques to finish your essay in a more memorable way? 1. Use a quotation 2. Ask a question 3. Statistics 4. Memorable story: very short (3 lines at best) 5. Focus on the relevance in the present day context 6. Add as we go These can be used for both introductions and conclusions https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bYq_ySg7zc8Y9hjq6KK0EgubgkguktyJ/view?ts=5c089f68 Add: difference b/w "a theme" and "a topic" 3. Now let's dicuss the topics from Ex 3 in SW to decide what type of essay each one of them requires you to write: a) F&A b) Solution to Problems (Ss'); Textbook: F&A c) 

Hi, everyone! What is plagiarism?  I haven't thought about it much before. However it is really important issue. Students face this problem very often, particularly when writing an essay. There are a lot of information on the Internet. So it's really easy just to copy it and then paste this text into your works. Though, this is not the way to do it. It's necessary to paraphrase and write your own words. Fortunately, nowadays there are many resources to check for plagiarism. I've chosen Viper (https://www.scanmyessay.com/?utm_campaign=elearningindustry.com&utm_source=%2Ftop-10-free-plagiarism-detection-tools-for-teachers&utm_medium=link) First I noticed the interface. It's really nice and user-friendly. To use this resource, you must register. This is not very convenient, but you can log in using Google account. It helps to save your time. It's 100% free and all features are available. It checks, scans and compares documents. It's ideal for stu...

     Nice to meet you again!      Today I have an extremely important topic. Yeah, this is about plagiarism.      Why important? Because we are all students and are constantly confronted with the search for information. Now there is really a lot of information on the Internet and of course we take it from there (most of it) but the main aim is to revise the information and tell it in your own words. So, for these perposes there are a large number of free sources where you can check the text for plagiarism.      One of them "Plagiarisma'' (you can link)  http://plagiarisma.ru/ So, I fond the apps quite convenient and useful. It is quite simple in use and design. I copied a piece of text from the Internet and pasted for verification. It showed 100% uniqueness. How? Maybe I did something wrong, but this text is completely copied and it can't be 100% of uniqueness!      So, I do ...

Hello everyone! Welcome to my blog! Today I would like to talk about plagiarism and how to avoid it. Plagiarism ,as you know,is called copying other people's thoughts without reference to its author.According to some studies,with the emergence of broad access to the Internet,people began to copy other people's works more often, presenting them as their own,as it is much easier and faster than writing the work yourself. However ,it is often said about plagiarism that it is theft of other people's thoughts.And it is right. Just imagine,you write a work ,you spent a lot of time and effort,and someone just copied your thoughts.Hurt, isn't it? That's why nowdays there is a struggle with plagiarism. But manual checking is too slow and boring .So there are several apps which help detect plagiarism. For example,app called "Dupli Checker". This app not only easy to use,but it is absolutely free and available online.  If you need to check your text write the i...

   Hello everyone!     Today I want to tell you about one useful site   Quetext https://www.quetext.com/utm_campaign=elearningindustry.com&utm_source=%2Ftop-10-free-plagiarism-detection-tools-for-teachers&utm_medium=link   which can help you avoid plagiarism. Plagiarism is a really unpleasant topic. Many students copy information from different sites and do not even think that they make a big mistake. Thus, they violate the rights of others.This site is a great source that help them get rid of such problems.    This site is very convenient and easy to use. There is a special window where you can write the text you want to check. It can quickly determine whether it is plagiarism or not. In addition, it is free and does not require registration. There is no limit to use. Also it has a pretty design. I advise you to use it. I hope my article was be useful for you. Share with me your thoughts.  Thank you for ...