A piece of the blog in VK
воскресенье, 2 апреля 2017 г.
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понедельник, 20 марта 2017 г.
воскресенье, 19 марта 2017 г.
Queen Victoria was queen of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 1832 to 1901 - the second longest reign of any other British monarch in history.
среда, 15 марта 2017 г.
Why did tea become so popular there?
Listen to the episode and fill in the gaps in the sentences below.
- What could be more ___ , more unremarkable, more British, than a nice cup of tea?
- In eighteen hundreds Britain was becoming an ___ nation.
- ___ was used to help change the workers.
- Of course, these days coffee is an ___ to tea.
- The workers were required to be as ___ as possible.
- Tea became Britain's favourite national drink in the ___ period.
- Wow, that's a ___ number!
пятница, 10 марта 2017 г.
четверг, 9 марта 2017 г.
четверг, 2 марта 2017 г.
Something about accents
English in Scotland
The type of English spoken in Scotland is more difficult to define than elsewhere in the UK. From the time of the Union of Parliaments in 1707, the official written language of Scotland became aligned with that of England. As such, Standard English has been used as the language of religion, education and government and so it became the socially prestigious form adopted by the aspiring middle classes. Unlike in England, however, Standard English continued to be spoken with a variety of local accents.
RP — the regionally non-specific accent of the upper middle classes in England — has a negligible presence in Scotland (unlike Wales, for example, where it retains a certain degree of prestige in some areas). This means that even the most socially prestigious forms of English spoken in Scotland contain elements that are characteristically Scottish. The variety of speech we might recognise as educated Scottish English contains the occasional word — outwith for ‘outside’ — or grammatical structure — I’ve not heard for ‘I haven’t heard’ — that is distinctively Scottish.
Above all, though, Scottish English is recognisable by its pronunciation: speakers do not make the same distinctions in vowel length made by speakers with other English accents and the vast majority of speakers in Scotland are rhotic — that is, they pronounce the <r> sound after a vowel in words like farm, first and better.
суббота, 25 февраля 2017 г.
пятница, 24 февраля 2017 г.
The Tower of Babel
Tower of Babel children's version.
Today's story is about pride. Here you'll see how God handles pride and how badly he wants to stop it from happening. It all started with a King named Nimrod.
Everything was going great. Everyone in the whole world spoke the same language. Some of the people ended up living in a place called Babylonia.
Then King Nimrod decided he wanted to be famous. He wanted everyone to know him and how great he was. He convinced the people that lived in Babylonia that, they too could be great if they built a tower that went all the way to heaven.
So the people went to work making bricks for the Tower of Babel. It was hard work but the people wanted everyone to know that they made the tower that reached heaven, so they just worked that much harder.
The people also convinced themselves that by building the tower that would stay united. Since they already spoke the same language, now they would be building the tower together. Their pride had taken over and all they were thinking about was that they'd be known in all the world for building the biggest and best tower ever.
God could see what was happening all along, but decided to come down to earth and see the tower the people were building. God could tell the people's hearts were more focused on themselves and the tower than on him. He was very disappointed and angry with them.
God said, "I see that the people think they can do anything because they all speak the same language. They have already begun to turn away from me and soon there won't be anything good left, all they'll do is sin. I will mix up their language so they won't understand each other, this way they won't be able to work together to sin against me."
After God said this the people could no longer understand each other. It seemed like they were babbling and making funny noises. All the people suddenly spoke different languages, some spoke French, some Spanish, others Chinese, plus many other languages. They were very confused.
This was the beginning of the languages. Imagine what would've happened if the people didn't try to build the tower in the first place and they focused on God instead. Maybe we would all speak the same language today.
From there the Lord scattered the people all over the whole earth.
It's interesting because when the people starting building the tower of Babel, Babel meant "gateway to God" but after God mixed up their language it meant "confusion". Even the word babble that we use today is said to come from that day when everyone was babbling with confusion.
So you can see how much God hates pride. The people could've done amazing things for God when they all spoke the same language, and they could've been unified that way. Instead they decided to do something silly and build a big tower just so other people would notice them and call them great.
The opposite of pride is humility, or to be humble. The way you can be humble is by realizing that EVERYONE (poor people, people with disabilities, people of different races, etc.) is special. Each of us might be good at some things, but you can be sure that each person is special at something that you're not.
If you want to be humble remember to listen to your parents and those in authority, be kind to others instead of putting them down, and read your Bible and pray. By doing these things you're not just focusing on yourself.
After all pride just causes a lot of trouble!
четверг, 23 февраля 2017 г.
Would you learn one more language?
https://www.adme.ru/svoboda-puteshestviya/10-yazykov-kotorye-legko-vyuchit-esli-vy-znaete-anglijskij-1435865/
суббота, 18 февраля 2017 г.
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