Dear Friends,

It's November 17, 2013, and it's your holiday...

HAPPY STUDENT'S DAY!

May all your dreams come true!

God bless...

Dear Students!
I made a small amendment regarding the task for our Tuesday class.
For your wordlists, please add UKRAINIAN TRANSLATIONS, not just lists of words.
Also, would like to remind you that on Tuesday class you will have unprepared speaking in dialogues.
Preparation for this class also includes units 37, 27, 43 for the topic 'Armed Forces' and units 34, 42, 53 for the topic 'Politics & Institutions'. The textbook: Oxford Word Skills Advanced.
Good luck!

Dear Friends!

The blog assignment for the topic "Organized Crime" is to write responses to the following questions:

(1) Why should we stop capital punishment? What are good alternatives? (200 words)

(2) Why do criminals commit another offence after being punished? Many offenders commit more crimes after serving the first punishment. Why is this happening, and what measures can be taken to tackle this problem? (200 words).

The essays should use the vocabulary from Units 35 and 36 (Oxford Word Skills Advanced), Unit 55 (English Vocabulary in Use Upper Int.), and  Units 40 and 47 (English Vocabulry in Use Advanced).You will need to consult outside sources for this task. I would suggest looking for articles in online newspapers or magazines. The use of outside source should be mentioned in the text: e.g. John Hopkins, the author of "Name of the Article", believes that capital punishment is ineffective because ....

Please, note that the deadline for this blog assignment is Thursday, November 14, 2013. 

Dear Friends,

Please, accept my apologies for inability to conduct our Tuesday class due to health issues. I know you were waiting for it and came prepared, as always. I'm also confident that you will be able to start working on  new topics "Appearance" and "Sounds" on your own. Please, find your home assignment below. 

To prepare for the next week's class, you are supposed to master the vocabulary from Units 7 and 10 in Oxford Word Skills and Unit 33 "Describing People: Appearance" from English Vocabulary in Use Upper Intermediate and Advanced.

In your blogs, publish two posts using the vocabulary from the topics "Appearance" and "Sounds":

1) Compare your appearance to those of the members' of your family (your mother's, father's, etc). Who do you think you take after? (150-170 words)

2) Imagine you are spending a night in a summer forest. What sounds do you hear in the evening, during the night, at dawn? (150-170 words). Write a detailed description.

Should you come up with any questions regarding the home task, please contact me via e-mail or through Comments.

Thank you for understanding.

Kind regards,

Tetiana Kushchyk

Dear Students!

This is just a reminder that for the next vocabulary class we will work on vocabulary describing people, so you will to learn vocabulary from Units 14, 62, and 78 from Oxford Word Skills, and Units 34 (Describing People) and 78 (Idioms Describing People) from English Vocabulary in Use Upper Intermediate.

In your blogs, please post two writing responses. First, you should imagine you are a hiring manager at a reputable firm. You had to find two appropriate candidates for a job out of six. Using the vocabulary from the Units listed above write an e-mail to the company’s director describing the dismissed 4 candidates and those 2 who you decided to hire. Explain your choice. Second, advertise the person you typically sit next to at your English Vocabulary classes, using relevant vocabulary from the topics character and description. Overall, your 2 posts should contain around 50 new words.

Good luck!

    

Dear Students!

I apologize for the delay in posting the blog assignments for our next class. You are required to provide short essays (around 150 words each) that will provide answers to the questions about relationships. Use external sources (Internet articles) to find some interesting information and the "Relationships" vocabulary from Oxford Word Skills Units 16, 17, and 18 to make your answers interesting and full of new words. 

Question 1: "What are secrets to a successful romantic relationship?" 

Question 2: "What are secrets to a successful relationship between parents and children?"

Question 3: "What are secrets to a successful relationships in college?" (NB: Here you should consider relationships with your groupmates and teachers)"

Dear Students A-211, A-212, and A-222,

For this week’s blog assignment, please write two blog posts based on the topic Travelling & Holidays.

First, you will write a description of a spectacular view incorporating around 25-30 vocabulary items from Oxford Advanced Skills Units 11 & 21 and English in Use Upper-Intermediate and Advanced Units 49-50. A manager of a traveling company has asked you to write a 250-word article advertising some unspoilt and far-flung place on the planet. Your article will be published on the company’s website and will serve to attract website visitors to exploring the location. To complete this task, please go to the National Geographic website (http://www.nationalgeographic.com), select a picture or a series of pictures of your choice and write an excellent description of the place to go. You should not forget to provide the name of the place you are writing about, where it is located, and how to get there. You may also want to include feedbacks of people who visited the place before. Write extensively about what you feel and see. Use the Present Continuous Tense for description of the place and Present Simple for general information Please, feel free to add any imaginary details to your description or your identity as an author. Add a picture or pictures that you chose to write about and place a link to the picture under it (for example, http://images.nationalgeographic.com/wpf/media-live/photos/000/722/custom/04-04-4-g-servalina-lb-panthera-small-_72275_610x343.jpg).

Second, your task is to review the suite of one of the U.S. suite hotels you stayed in while on holiday. Name the hotel and its location (City, State), say for how long you stayed there, and the kind of the room you stayed in (the hotel may be imaginary or real). Provide a 100-150 word review of the room based on the description of its interior. You may also wish to include information about the level of customer service. Your review should include lots of American English words (English in Use Upper-Intermediate and Advanced Unit 93 and any other U.S. English words you may want to include). Please, make your review of the suite either favourable or unfavourable. Attach a picture if possible.

Please, do not forget the for the next week’s class, you are required to learn the vocabulary and do the exercises from the following units:

• Oxford Word Skills (Units 11, 21, 32)
• English Vocabulary in Use Upper-Intermediate and Advanced (Units 49 “Travel”, 50 “Holidays”, and 93 “U.S. English”).

 Thank you and good luck!

Dear Students!

It would be great if you could bring the copies from these books to our Thursday class. As we are going to focus on word formation (Topic1) and proverbs (Topic 2) this time, the following Units will need to be printed out/photocopied:

• Oxford English Word Skills: Unit 66 'I can use sayings and proverbs'
• English Vocabulary in Use Upper Intermediate and Advanced: Units 8-9 ('Suffixes', 'Prefixes'), and Unit 84 ('Proverbs').

Thank you!

Dear friends!

Do you remember our class debate about success? Here is what Jenny Garrison (Kay Panabaker) says about success in the 2009 movie Fame. Does it make sense to you personally? Please, post your comments.

Dear Friends!

Below are the guidelines for writing this week's blog posts for the students from the subgroups A-211, A-212, and A-222.

All students are required to write three blog posts and publish them before the start of the class on Thursday, September 26, 2013. In a creative form, answer the questions, using the vocabulary from the specified units.

(1) Are you  a person who bottles up emotions? Or do you wear your heart in your sleeve? (Based on the vocabulary from Unit 15 in Oxford Word Skills and Unit 79 in English Vocabulary in Use Upper Intermediate and Advanced).

(2) Write a story with Cause and Effect (Based on vocabulary from Unit 52 in Oxford Word Skills).

(3)  Rewrite questions from Exercise 5 Unit 69 in English Vocabulary in Use Upper Intermediate and Advanced and give answers to them using the vocabulary from Unit 69.

Students must use the topic vocabulary and highlight it in the texts. Students are required to watch grammar, spelling, and punctuation.

Thank you and good luck!  

  

Dear friends!

Thank you for joining this blog so promptly. Now, students from A-211 & A-212, could you kindly email your blogs' web addresses to antidote1983@gmail.com? Once you have done this, I will be able to view your blogs and read your homework. This urgent request is only for the students of the subgroups mentioned above (if you haven't already done this, of course). Thank you!

Regards,

Tetiana Olexandrivna

Hello friends! 

It feels as if we're inviting you to a new house, because we're starting a totally new thing in our life - blogging at Blogger. For those of you who have never blogged in their life, we're happy to say we either! Let's do this together - as our first successful joint work on English Vocabulary! Let's have fun learning words and completing lots of exciting projects as a small and friendly team! Yay!

Hope you will be having a great time here!!!