His story, her story

   War is always a vast loss of civilians and innocent people that don’t  have beneficial effect on the events.  During the war, many people suffer from the dire consequences,  and improper handling of weapons can create a bad impression.

   September 1, 1939 the Poland was attacked by Germany. Needless to say, military and civilian people were mobilized and enlisted, some of them were in reserve.

   September 27, 1940 was negotiated a peace agreement between Germany, Italy and Japan was signed the Tripartite Pact. Covenant predicted that the next 10 years the participating countries will offer each other support and make a breakthrough in achieving geopolitical goals, chief among which were identified restore a new world order, keeping peace and make progress in science.

   Furthermore, December 18, 1940 was another cunning Hitler plan of "Barbarossa", it was the code name of the Third Reich war plan against the USSR. Plan "Barbarossa" anticipated fleeting military campaign of complete defeat of the Red Army and admiration of European part of the USSR on the line Volga - Arkhangelsk, which caused on uproar and it caused a sensation in humans, but underlying cause has not been identified.

Every war has dire consequences, but always after black stripe white comes.

The letter for future second – year student

I would like to share with you my feedbacks about the course of vocabulary classes. You will put yourselves in my shoes soon. I would like to make this blog useful for you. I hope it will help you to understand what this course is like.

First of all your friendship with you group mates will grow. You will chat each other up so it will help you to learn how to use all this new collocations. You should take your ideas up in order to present it in a proper way. Try not to lose your temper if you can’t do something from the first time.  You also should have a strong sense of responsibility and keep your words to enjoy fruits of your work.  Also you should have such aspects of your personality as good sense of humor and razor – sharp mind.

Make sure that you understand the importance of this subject because without it your language would be as poor as it was before it. So if I were you I would pay more attention to it. If you do this it will produce good results, great progress and great success and you will see remarkable achievement. If you think that this subject bring you negative effects be sure that it will produce the opposite ones and you will have brilliant success if you work hard.

I wish you good luck. Thank you for reading it, I hope it will somehow help you. 

"Students' Lifestyle Guide"

Nowadays there are many problems with health among teenagers. Especially among that ones who are students. They left home and entered the university where they are alone without parents who are carrying about them. This situation may cause some health problems.

I am a student too. Therefore, I can compare my daily routine in the university to that one which was at home. Most students have a bad habit they are not cure their diseases in a proper way. If they catch a cold or have an attack of hay fever, they just cure it not fully. It is very harmful and can cause serious consequences. They rarely ask the doctor to prescribe some tablets to relieve the pain when they have serious illnesses.

A lot of health problems are because sedentary lifestyle and unhealthy nutrition. We eat mostly boiled or fried food, junk food or even fast food, ready meals or have quick snacks. It sometimes causes food poisoning, eating disorder and spoils appetite. So we should cut down the use of this kind of food and make sure if it is not GM foods.

Not only overeating can cause obesity but also the lack of physical activity, it also can cause the danger of heart attacks.  We should take regular vigorous exercises or follow fitness program.

I hope that students including me will pay more attention to their health in future.   

The proposal

One sunny day Margaret was walking down the street. She was thinking about her life. She was only 22 but she had achieved many goals by that time. She was a fashion model. Margaret’s face was on the cover of a lot of magazines. It was not only because her appearance (oval face, upturned nose, slim figure, slender waist, lovely complexion, beautiful sleek, shoulder – length hair), but because her attitude to life. Margaret had a huge charisma.

What is more, she wasn’t spontaneous and happy – go- lucky, vice versa she was down – to –earth. She always was a good company because of her good sense of humor. At work, Margaret gave the impression of being supremely confident with a strong sense of responsibility and brutally honest.

Some days ago, her dream had come true. Mark, the man she was mad about made her a proposal.

-          Margaret, - he said, - you know I think a world of you and always wanted you to be mine for good. Will you marry me?

-         Oh my God…yes…of course yes…- she answered with a tears on her face.

That day all her thoughts was only about marriage that would come soon.

“Green Ukraine 2030”

There are many problems facing the world nowadays. A lot of which connected with environment. They are urgent and we should find a solution how to prevent it.  Some of them seems to be not as scaring as they should be. The most dangerous problem is a global warming. Also there problems that are not directly connected with a climate change. Such as deforestation, desertification, air pollution. Some are the result of climate change or happen without any clear reason. Such as drought, earthquake, flood, tsunami, typhoon, volcanic eruption.

Ukraine is also faced a lot of environmental problems. Unfortunately, a big amount of endangered species is under a threat. These animals are on the verge of extinction. Our government should solve this problem by creating more nature reserves. What is more, in our country should be more protected animals.

We have also energy waste, so we should conserve energy at home by switching to energy – saving eco light bulbs, using tumble dryer, rechargeable batteries and solar chargers.

It is only a drop in the ocean, there are much more problems that our government and especially citizens must solve. Of course, first of all, green taxes must be introduced.

Daunting tasks on a regular basis must be done to prevent problems facing not only Ukraine but a whole world. “Green Ukraine 2030” will be our first step to this aim.

                                       On the move 

Hi, Victoria. I hope you remember me. My name is Valentina Gallo. You helped me and my family to get accustomed  to living in new country some years ago. You were the only one person, who impulses me to get the hang of living in America. You've helped me to overcome the cultural shock and you've amused me when I felt nostalgia for my native country, for Italy.

I want to share my impressions with you. It was  my first week in New York, so I tried To get acclimatized to the atmosphere of the USA. I had known that New York is vibrant city and cobbled streets made it more fascinating. I got a new passport so I dealt with passport issues. They were checking if it is valid or not forged. Now everything is OK)I have a lot of friends because in NY there are a big Italian ethnic group and I integrated in it. I was afraid to feel a discrimination here but, fortunately, my fears did not come true and  also I wasn’t deported. When I have free time I go for a wander, do sightseeing, laze around and get away from it all to get around discovering new stunning and flourishing places. So as you see I like my new home.

Looking forward to receiving your answer,
Valentina Gallo

                                News travels fast

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                             How to improve education system

Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. This is the words of very clever politician Nelson Mandela. I honestly think that education is very important. It’s common knowledge that without education it’s very hard to exist nowadays so we should bear it in mind.  We saw two videos in which Ken Robinson and Sugara Mitra speak about education system. They said that now a lot of us faced an obvious problems with getting an education. Why is that? The answer is easy because our education system is wrong. It hasn’t changed for a long time. Of course, some changes took place and they caused marked improvement. But it is not enough. I take the view that the rough idea is that we should grasped the importance of working in small groups.

 The advantages are obvious. Nobody will play truant, because the teachers will see everybody. The students can show initiative and pass material that they learnt by heart and because of that get marks more often.

It is now a widespread belief between students that we shouldn’t do courses from additional lessons that are not connected with our future profession. Opinions are divided but most think that students should attend only the core subjects because the rest not important lessons need a lot of our attention in order to pass final tests or exams.

Some people who do the lectures say that attendance is by wish but the truth is that we must attend all the lectures in order to complete a course with flying colors.

I think everybody has solely one big dream or even several of them. I have dreamt about creating my own translation corporation. I don’t know how it would be called, but I think the name would be interesting but it would take a lot of time to imagine it.

The translations would work with the fiction books not the instructions, because it is too boring. The job would be suitable for that people who are initiative, like working in groups and know what team spirit is. Also for those who used to be accountable to anyone but themselves. Both ways of work have its own pros and cons. For example, if you want to work alone you might be encounter quiet periods, a degree of isolation. Work in group has a common goal and is good for morale, but if somebody doesn’t fit in, it can be disruptive and can undermine the work of the team.

The company would provide performance-related bonus scheme, maternity and paternity leave, comprehensive healthcare provision, company pension scheme, benefits package, allowance, 30 days’ holiday entitlement and subsidized canteen.

I think it would be an average corporation that would be specialized in translation. Staff would translate not bestsellers but some unknown books that are rather interesting.

                                   Vocabulary Classes

The trimester is ending. Looking back it is noticeable that there were some really useful subjects. One of them was The Vocabulary of Modern English.

I want to tell you my brief summary of the subject. It brought me enormous benefits. To be honest, I make a real effort to absorb all this new words and I am glad that there weren’t really great difficulties. Main concern was to make our English better using a lot of different collocations. Sometimes there was an utter chaos in my head because I didn’t know how to use some words but our teacher made it clear for us.

By the way, there also were smiling familiar faces of my group mates that really helped me to overcome all this considerable difficulties. The lessons were interesting. There were interaction and collaboration that make us feel team spirit better. We did a lot of creative tasks as writing our goals, making dialogs, singing songs and so on. So it was eventful. It is true, that I will miss this subject.

In conclusion I want to admit that now I’m sure”Practice makes perfect”. In future I will also do my bests to achieve my aims.

The happiest moments in my life

One of the happiest event of my life are meeting with my best friends. They all are essential part of my life, I always think with sadness, and horribleness about how my life would be like without my friends. I am sure that I would be bored without them. Because we always do some crazy things, have fun, cheer up each other, spent every free minutes together.

 Moreover, we have a tradition to have a camping at least ones at month. I am really over the moon of felling the connection with nature, felling the sun’s rays on my face and of course of being with my friends. At such moments, I fell calm and ecstatic.

What is more, I live in very beautiful place Kremenets. I grew up spending time in wild nature and walking in the forest. I always feel my heart pounding because of these magnificent vie. I am not such person who lose my temper and who always bottle my emotions at my friends.  So that I really feel strong connection with nature, when I feel that I am close to tears and feel depression I go to the forest for a walk alone. It always help me to reduce stress, to make all clear for me.

In the end I would like to say that, it is very important to have people who take interest in your problems, who are close to you. Personally I am really happy and pleased to have such friends. I heard one very good proverb “blood is thicker than water”. I can tell with sureness that my friends are my family and my heart tell me that we always will be together.

                                “MECHANICAL ORANGE”

On the 3th of October to Ostoh arrived one of my favorite group “MECHANICAL ORANGE”. I was totally overjoyed of it. My group mates and I were the participants of concert and we were over the moon of this fact. We all were impressed of their new songs that shows how patriotically they are. You know that in our uneasy time for Ukraine it is very important to show our team spirit and support. The participants of group are bikers so they also sang songs about their style of life, about their friends who were bikers and died. In generally about freedom, friends and love.  

Besides, the best of that evening was not only “MECHANICAL ORANGE”, but also the time that I spent it with my group mates. One of them was Sasha Barabash. As you know, at all universities students began to pass their exams and they all became stressed. Of course, I am not exception. I can give you some piece of advice how to reduce stress. Just spend time with your friends. I am sure that just next day you would feel calm, pleased and would be delighted with your life. In my opinion, friends are the best way to achieve it. Therefore, when I feel tired and that I am close to tears I always try to come into contact with my friends.

So “MECHANICAL ORANGE” helped me to relax, spend time with friends,reduce the level of stress and simply enjoy good music.

Have you ever thought about your daily routine, about what people are like around us? Some of them are optimistic and always share positive. But also there are pessimistic people or even skeptics who are anti-fan of positive thinking. Some people are pseudo optimists but inside feel loneliness and depression. I think some time there is misunderstanding only because of our different type of thinking. The word is multi-cultural and every nation has some typical type of absorbing information.

Now it is autumn and a lot of people are in deep depression. It is familiar to you, isn’t it? You feel overtired and exhausted because of overwork, unhappy because your boy/ girlfriend or just friends became ex boy/ girlfriend or pseudo friends that don’t support you and are unreliable. Also you might be unmarried but want to create family at last.

There are a lot of reasons to be depressed. The main aim is to learn how to overcome it. Some treat themselves by taking some antibiotic but it is just waste of money and health. There is better way to overcharge and make our life happier by absorbing positive from everywhere and everything. What is more, happiness is around us we must just catch it. When you think optimistic you will be happier and you’ll share positive to everybody. Furthermore it is really important not to inflict bad mood to anybody.

Also remember: “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”.  Don’t sit on your sofa and cry how bad and cruel the world is. Just stand up and do your best to change your life. Turn around maybe you have everything necessary to be overjoyed.

Don’t be impatient because you need some time to achieve your goals. Also don’t do anything to impress anybody, just do it for yourself. Remember: “We as happy as we decided to be”.

In conclusion I want to add that it is just my view. You might be disagree but I hope that this recommendation somehow will help you.  

                     Body language

I’m sure that you have noticed that body language plays an important role in our lives. Sometimes we can recognize what people want to say by their tone or gestures. It helps us to display our feelings. As a matter of the fact pay attention that gestures are very useful and you should learn what every of it means. So let’s observe it.

So bear in mind, if somebody drums his/her fingers, licks his/her lips, scratches his/her head, it means that person is nervous. When person is worried, he/she usually bites his/her nails, strokes his/her chin. If somebody clenches his/her fists, pulls his/her hair, folds his/her arms, means the person is angry, irritated or even furious. When somebody raises his/her eyebrows, it means he/she is shocked. If person frowns or wrinkles his/her nose, it means he/she is disagree with you.

If someone has red face, it means that he/she is angry, embarrassed or ashamed. When person has sweaty palms, he/she is nervous, worried or even lies you. For example one of my group mates always frowns so we can make a generalization that he is very smart☻.

I hope that my recommendation will help you to recognize what your friend or even enemy think☺ Be attentive and remember “Actions speak louder than words”.

                        Vocabulary Ski – Fi

Dear Julia,

I decided to write you a letter in spite of the fact that you live in the past. How are you? Did something interesting happen?
 I would like to inform you that now I am your colleague. Like it was in the past English is widely spoken and it is mother tongue of a big amount of people but it is not spread only to native speakers whose first language is English. A lot of people from different countries speak English in order to communicate with people from other countries. It is an official language of many leading countries.

Learning English always brings enormous benefits. Now it helps me to become proficient speaker, chat with foreigners, have small talks, talk the business and perfectly speak my mind up. I am sure there won’t be another language nowhere near as popular as English.

So now you must take great proud in your work because everyone knows that you are really dedicated professional. I am sure that you will have considerable financial reward one day in the future and you will quickly adapt to live in this an ever-increasing pace. So your success is guaranteed.

Sincerely yours,

Valentyna

This site http://graphwords.com/ will help you to create word maps. Just look!

Also it would be useful http://www.just-the-word.com/

And this I have made with http://fraze.it/ (P.S. the fraze I used – “be nowhere near as popular ”)
What I like about Skype is that you can use it for chat, or audio, or video. It’s an extremely versatile tool and most people in the startup world use it as their primary instant messenger application. It’s nowhere near as popular as Windows Live Messenger with 303 million worldwide monthly users, or Yahoo with 79 million. But it’s in a solid fourth place with 18 million users per month, according to Comscore (just the IM feature).
  In addition you can even create your own set of flashcards and make an interesting game http://quizlet.com/53530418/theatre-for-the-deaf-flash-cards/

The fairytale about dictionaries

Once upon the time there were two friends Oxford and Longman. Their friendship was strong.  They were like brothers but one day they fell in love with the same girl Queen Lexicology. That day changed all. They were boasting who are cooler. Who has the biggest amount of words, who are more handsome and better-built.

One day Oxford said to Longman:

“Hey you, stop yelling and irritated me. She’s mine. I saw her first. I’m better than you. She is so defenseless and I would protect her. We will be the best couple ever. Just imagine how pretty would be our children. Yours would be nowhere near as smart as ours.”

Longman answered:

“Hah, are you kidding me? I know you during all your life. Both of us knows who are better. Of course me. LOL. I can’t imagine you together it will be ridiculous. She is so beautiful and you are just average man. She will be mine, understand?”

Oxford gave an assurance:

 “Never. You are mistaken. I’m sure she choose me.”

Longman emotionally said:

“Just ask her. You proposed it. We’ll see. ”

Than men went to the Queen to know her opinion. She ask them to do her a favor.

The Queen said:

“I will give you several tasks also riddle is included.”

 Then she gave them a description.

“You must find followers and then you will be devoid of two groups.”

Men nervously licked their lips. Then they found participants to each team. They was originated from different lands but they was reputable and could easily be recognized by anybody. So teams were chosen excellently they could immune to any difficulties.

Teams did all the tasks and Longman team won. When Oxford and Longman came to the Queen she started laughing:

“I’m Queen Lexicology and who are you? Nobody. I’ll be with anyone despite my King.”
They answered:

“But we thought you are single”

She made a confession:

“Hah, it’s lie. I adore watching how old friends are fighting because of me. Your task was pointless.”

So due to this circumstances friends apologized and made piece. This adventure was eventful and worthwhile. They understood that friendship are stronger than love. The remembered their mistake for a long time.

A-221 Valentyna Novakovska

Hello, my name is Valentyna. Now I am the second-year-student of Ostroh academy. It is a great honour to study here. I want to tell you about my first week in university after summer holidays.

Firstly, I was glad to see a lot of familiar faces. I couldn't imagine that I would miss my group mates so much, but I missed. Secondly, it was pleasure to see a great amount of new students. I am sure that they made a real effort to be here. Thirdly, I was really happy to have so many interesting new lessons. One of them was vocabulary of modern English. I liked this subject. We did a lot of creative work such as making poster and making goal list. Also we got a brief summary of subject with some classic examples and our teacher made it clear. I am sure it is very important to attend this lesson, because without it we will have considerable difficulties. All in all, I will take great effort to be successful in my qualification.