Vocabulary Sci-Fi

Dear Tom! 
     I haven't heard any news from you for a long time. So I decided to write a short letter to you and I would like to explain which opportunities we have today to learn English.
    One wise man said: “Language is the key to the heart of people”and I totally agree with it. We should be proficient speakers of our native language, but also we should know a language of worldwide communication. English is an excellent second language to learn, whether it's for conducting business, travelling or personal reasons. Moreover, a few years ago it was too hard to come into contact with foreigners, but as now XXI century - century of modern technologies, it is easier to do it. I' m going to tell you the difference between studying nowadays and 20 years ago.           Firstly, you can develop your knowledge from English by communicating and chatting with native speakers. Also, it would be useful to have a small talk with them every day. By talking non-stop with foreigners you can face with a problem of regional accents, so it would be better to use dictionaries during your studing. It's easy to find different types of dictionaries, as now everyone have access the Internet. Here is an example how one online dictionary works.

     You have an opportunity to create a word cloud and it will recognize a lot of different collocations with the word you are interested in. 

     Furthermore, people who aren’t out of touch with the Internet can find an example sentence used with an ineresting word. Besides, it is easy to bump into an article, where is that sentence. An example you can see here.

"English learners can range from kindergarten students who can't speak English to a sixth-grader who can speak the language but has trouble writing an essay or passing a standardized test. They usually take additional English classes and receive specialized instruction in other courses. Educators had credited the decline in the number of students designated as English learners in previous years to a stronger focus on the group to learn their new language more quickly because of tougher state and federal testing standards that require students from every demographic group to improve yearly on standardized tests."

     Finally, don't forget to expand your vocabulary and use idiomatic phrases, watch films and programmes with English subtitles, attend an English class or discussion group, read books in English.

I hope we don't lose touch with each other and you'll try some new methods of studying English.

Yours,

Ira

    

Fairytale

   Once upon a time two different dictionaries lived in a big Kingdom. What's more, a reputable queen Lexicology ruled here. Once she decided to choose the most intelligent and the most accurate man. Royal servants announced throughout the kingdom, that man will be the one who proves that he will be an excellent king and will do everything for the kingdom without any favour. 

     At the following day came all the dictionaries to the yard. The first was proposed a word to Longman, he went out and began to explain his point of view: "Oh beautiful princess, I admire your beauty and intelligence. My name is Longman. Everyone called me so that I give the name to the whole animate and inanimate, I count and reflect all meanings of the words without any mistakes". Princess nodded approvingly. Futhermore, this handsome dictionary attracted her attention very much, but she asked others to say the word (she wanted to compare all dictionaries). The second dictionary began to speak, his colourful clothes was sparkling. He said, "You're the fairest and unsurpassed princess." Then he bowed and stepped back into position.
       Finally, the queen thanked for all candidates and explained: "I apologise to everybody, but without strugging shoulders I choose Longman, he would be a king".
      All loved the Queen and reflect the emotions of joy and pleasure. Moreover, her words was a law for them. And at the end of the day words and dictionaries celebrated a wedding. So this event became the highlight of the year.

First lesson

     Hello! My name is Ira. And I can say with a great honour, that I'm a student of Ostrog academy. And it's my first attempts to write some feelings and thinks here.
     A few days ago I had my first lesson in Vocabulary of Modern. I want to make a brief summary of the lesson. Without a strong criticism I can say, Vocabulary of Modern was a classic example how to teach students in an unusual way. The first exercise was to draw a poster "I love Ukraine"(you can see the picture under this post). As for me it was so interesting start of the lesson. And all familiar faces were writing some wishes about the future of Ukraine. What is more, it was great to read similar thinks, a lot of them were connected with the war in Ukraine. Moreover, everyone agreed that the fire which broke out should go out. Doing this activity, at the classroom was an utter chaos, but it was great. Then we played the game, rules was to say your favourite word in English. It was easy and didn't take any considerable difficulties. Next, we wrote our aims which we want to reach after studying this course, it took some real effort.
    To sum up, this lesson brought me a lot of great feelings and I was happy to get knowing such a good teacher as our. Furthermore, the main concern for me is to reach success in studying this course.
P.S: Thank you for your reading =)