From Intermediate to Advanced with Mykola Kisilnoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Fri, 30 Aug 2024 19:32:06 +0300Blogger http://www.blogger.com59125https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/en-usnoFrom Intermediate to Advanced with Mykola Kisilnoreply@blogger.comhttps://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/11/describing-habits.htmlgrammarhabitsnoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Sun, 25 Nov 2018 18:43:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-5297210052403469679 Here are some ways that we use to describe people's habits: We can use 'will' to describe present habits and behaviour whether it is good or bad. She'll tell you all about her life even if you're not interested. He will always wake up early. To express annoyance we tend to use the 'present continuous + always, keeps + ing' or 'will keep + ing' in the same way. My sister is always 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/11/some-common-errors.htmlerrorsnoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Fri, 23 Nov 2018 08:55:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-226416507902034011 double negatives It is not true, as some assert, that double negatives are always wrong, but the pattern in formal speech and writing is that two negatives equal a mild positive: “he is a not untalented guitarist” means he has some talent. In informal speech, however, double negatives are intended as negatives: “he ain’t got no talent” means he is a lousy musician. People are rarely confused 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/11/informal-contractions.htmlcontractionsgrammarinformalnoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Fri, 23 Nov 2018 08:38:00 +0200tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-8641417066028005810Informal contractions are shortened forms of words and phrases in English. They are used mostly in spoken English and some informal writing like texts, emails, and social media. Informal English contractions are similar to contractions. Contractions in English are words or phrases that are shortened by dropping one or more letters and replacing the letters with an apostrophe.0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/09/a-story-for-retelling.htmlretellingnoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Wed, 19 Sep 2018 17:05:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-4309569516552245359 (A story for retelling) I had a nightmare the other night. I dreamt I was bungee jumping, that's when you throw yourself off a bridge and your feet are attached to an elasticated rope that pulls you back again. I didn't do the jump properly, in fact, I did it extremely badly because I fell only a few metres and was dangling dangerously just below the bridge for ages.  Then I woke up 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/08/scientists-solve-mystery-of-stonehenge.htmlmysterysciencenoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Mon, 13 Aug 2018 10:11:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-3480497704847050669 Scientists say they have uncovered details about who built the 5,000-year-old prehistoric monument Stonehenge. The ancient stones in the southwest of England are famous all over the world. How Stonehenge was built has been a mystery for thousands of years. A new study shows that the architects and builders of Stonehenge could have come from Wales, which is more than 160 kilometres away. 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/08/scientists-discover-new-shape.htmlsciencenoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Fri, 3 Aug 2018 12:25:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-2919761885976602329 “Scientists just discovered a new shape” makes for a great headline— and a lot of questions. Chief among them: What the heck is a new shape? How can a shape be new? Surely all shapes exist, at least in theory, and we’re just coming along and describing them. And while we’re on that note, what even is a shape? The paper that sparked all these questions, published in Nature Communications 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/08/suns-sounds.htmlsciencenoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Thu, 2 Aug 2018 09:14:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-7487663361431992286 What does the Sun sound like? Perhaps you have never thought about what kinds of sounds the Sun makes, but scientists have found out. Researchers from the European Space Agency, NASA and the Solar and Heliospheric Agency studied 20 years of data to listen to the Sun. They say the Sun produces a low, deep "heartbeat" sound. The scientists used a solar observatory to measure vibrations from the 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/08/an-alcoholic-is-someone-who-has-become.htmlalcoholvocabularynoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Wed, 1 Aug 2018 16:39:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-5531716815516577781 An alcoholic is someone who has become dependent on alcohol. Though he may never be actually drunk, he becomes progressively poisoned by it, and is physically, mentally and sometimes morally affected. At first, he loses his appetite and feels sick, he grows irritable, disregards his responsibilities, and becomes unpunctual and untruthful. Gradually he loses his sense of adaptability to society0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/07/company-says-four-day-work-week-trial.htmllifeworknoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Mon, 23 Jul 2018 08:50:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-49541368640767107 A New Zealand company which trialled a four-day work week said the experiment was a success with staff registering a big bump in work-life balance while productivity remained stable. It is now looking at ways to make the experiment permanent. Perpetual Guardian started the eight-week trial in early March with all its 230 employees across 16 offices taking part. During the 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/07/cleft-sentences.htmlgrammarnoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:39:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-5337767453468062412 Cleft sentences are used to help us focus on a particular part of the sentence and to emphasise what we want to say by introducing it or building up to it with a kind of relative clause. Because there are two parts to the sentence it is called cleft (from the verb cleave) which means divided into two. Cleft sentences are particularly useful in writing where we cannot use intonation for 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/07/changing-dna-of-human-embryo-could-be.htmlcontroversiallifenoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Thu, 19 Jul 2018 08:53:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-6436600570607738520 ETHICALLY ACCEPTABLE. We may have just moved one step closer to designer babies. On Tuesday, the Nuffield Council on Bioethics (NCB), an independent U.K.- based organization that analyzes and reports on ethical issues in biology and medicine, released a report focused on the social and ethical issues surrounding human genome editing and reproduction. According to the report, editing human 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-little-man.htmljokevocabularynoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Tue, 17 Jul 2018 08:45:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-4806322676838786467 A large notice in a shop window in Lagos announced a big sale, with sweeping reductions, starting at 9 a.m. An enormous queue had started to form by 7.30am. Just before the shop was due to open, an inconspicuous little man walked to the head of the queue. Angry women elbowed and pushed him until he was right at the back of the line. Undaunted, the little man went to the head of the queue 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/07/holiday-vocabulary.htmlholidayvocabularynoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Tue, 3 Jul 2018 18:26:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-4993636796605194676 Amy: What kind of holiday do you like? Miguel: I try to avoid tourist traps … I like to get away from it all and prefer going somewhere off the beaten track … last year I had the holiday of a lifetime … a two-week wildlife safari in Kenya. Amy: What do you like to do when you’re on holiday? Anna: I enjoy visiting the local&0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/07/kindred-spirits.htmldescribing peoplenoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Tue, 3 Jul 2018 05:19:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-296673766484695843 How would you describe your best friend? Is she someone exactly the same as you, or is he totally opposite? Both kinds of friends are great to have in your life, but when it comes to kindred spirits, those who are like-minded are generally those who click. Finding an instant connection with someone is incredibly rare. And it almost always happens randomly. But once you find your kindred 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-celtic-zodiac-is-based-on-cycles-of.htmlhoroscopenoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Mon, 2 Jul 2018 20:38:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-7595845531898639557 The Celtic Zodiac is based on the cycles of the moon. The year is divided into 13 lunar months with a tree assigned to each month. The Druids believed that the time of our births is pivotal to the formation of our personality and behavior and the Celtic Zodiac was developed from their knowledge of earth cycles and their reverence for the sacred knowledge held by trees. They had a profound 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2018/07/climb-new-heights.htmlphrasenoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Mon, 2 Jul 2018 08:55:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-8371597881504233695 “Hey, everybody! I’m climbing new heights.” — Andy, speaking about a new accomplishment Meaning accomplish something new; do something or go somewhere amazing Use Andy is on a mountain, and he is literally climbing new heights. He will climb to the top of the mountain, and this will be an amazing new accomplishment for him. He is excited about this new adventure! You don’t need to climb a 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2017/09/some-thoughts-and-advice-for-our.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Tue, 5 Sep 2017 09:52:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-8312431808131509863 A group of Ivy League professors is encouraging incoming students to avoid blindly conforming to the dominant political narrative on campus.In an open letter published Tuesday, the scholars from Princeton, Harvard and Yale said their advice to new students can be summed up in three words: “Think for yourself.” (МИСЛІТЬ САМОСТІЙНО) “Thinking for yourself means questioning dominant ideas even 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2017/06/popular-idioms.htmlenglishidiomsnoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Thu, 15 Jun 2017 09:49:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-2273040229285454318 1. TO THINK OUTSIDE THE BOX It means to think imaginatively using new ideas instead of traditional or expected ideas. This idiom comes from the fact that a box, with its rigidity and squareness, symbolises constrained and unimaginative thinking. Example: These people at Apple are incredibly creative - they really know how to think out of the box. 2. OUT OF THE BLUE If something happens 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2017/05/moon-landing-hoax-or-fact.htmlastronautsMoonnoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Mon, 29 May 2017 09:57:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-5330877493338239287 Whenever man achieves the next unbelievable feat there are those who actively try to refute that it actually happened. These conspiracy theorists, however crazy, always look for some miniscule or otherwise ridiculous reasoning behind the outstanding achievement to validate their claim. When man, or more specifically the US, first stepped foot on the surface of the moon during the Apollo 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-way-you-hold-steering-wheel-of-your.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Fri, 5 May 2017 13:40:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-1249399441059202387 You wouldn’t even think that the way you hold the steering wheel can tell a lot about your personality! 1. The Minimalist You are trying to make your life as simple as possible. You do not surround yourself with unnecessary things and people, and you choose the most straightforward and sincere people for your friends. But the fact that you are minimalist does not mean you are boring: 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2017/04/museum-of-failure.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Thu, 20 Apr 2017 13:51:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-1591994752233208980 Samuel West announced in April that his Museum of Failure will open in Helsingborg, Sweden, in June, to commemorate innovation missteps that might serve as inspiration for future successes. Among the initial exhibits: coffee-infused Coca-Cola; the Bic "For Her" pen (because women's handwriting needs are surely unique); the Twitter Peek (a 2009 device that does nothing except send and receive0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2017/04/suit-vs-suite.htmlvocabularyword choicenoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Fri, 14 Apr 2017 08:52:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-4301390236682798576 Suit [suːtˌ sjuːt] means (1.) a set of clothing designed to be worn together because of the cut and similar material, usually a jacket and matching skirt or trousers for a woman, a jacket and trousers and sometimes a vest for men. A suit may also be an outfit used for a specific purpose (2.) a civil petition (lawsuit) (3.) the four sets of playing cards in a deck that correspond to 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2017/04/bring-take-and-fetch.htmlword choicenoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Fri, 14 Apr 2017 08:45:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-4034064441287450120 Bring Bring means moving something or someone. The movement is either from where the listener is to where the speaker is, or from the speaker to the listener. Bring is an irregular verb. Its past tense and -ed form are both brought. In both of the following examples, the speakers are seeing things from A’s viewpoint – things will move to the place where A is: 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2017/04/worlds-coolest-city.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:00:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-7311303988981866402 Recently, in Dubai (the largest city in the United Arab Emirates), Dubai Civil Defense started using water jetpacks that lift firefighters off the ground to hover in advantageous positions as they work the hoses. Also, using jet skis, rescuers can avoid traffic altogether by using the city's rivers to arrive at fires (and, if close enough to a waterway, can pump water without hydrants). Even 0https://english-foreign-language.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-callan-method-of-teaching-and.htmlCallan Methodenglishnoreply@blogger.com (Nickolas)Sun, 9 Apr 2017 15:19:00 +0300tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1142318182217167622.post-7026925395075931603 The Callan Method is a form of what is known as ‘direct method’ language teaching, which means that the lesson is taught only in English, and not in the student’s language. Direct methods have been used for over a hundred years to teach English, and the Callan Method developed from this tradition. There being much controversy on the method, I decided to search the internet for a kind of 0