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This article is for everyone who is learning and teaching a foreign language, especially English.
Hope, it will be helpful to you! :)
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Гадаю, що люди, котрі будуть читати цю статтю в той чи інший спосіб цікавляться англійською мовою. Хочу вас запитати: Як ви поглиблюєте свої знання з англійської поза заняттями у Грін Форесті? Що ви робите для того, щоб розвивати свої навики?
Я розумію, як інколи складно мобілізувати себе та взятися за роботу. Для того, щоб оволодіти мовою, ви вивчаєте граматику, нові слова, читаєте, пишете, говорите та слухаєте.

Що це таке?

Вивчення будь якої іноземної мови складається в основному із розвитку чотирьох основних навиків: читання, письма, говоріння та слухання. Коли я була студентом, то завжди вважала слухання нудним, оскільки воно не захоплювало і не мотивувало.
На сьогоднішній день дуже популярним є вивчення англійської мови з допомогою інтернет-ресурсів. Подкастинг (podcasting) – яскравий приклад того, як можна весело, корисно та актуально розвивати навики слухання у студентів.

21 st-century lifestyles

1. bona fide /’bəʊnə ‘faɪdi/ real, true, and not intended to deceive anyone: Only bona fide members are allowed to use the club pool.
2. get away from it all to have a relaxing holiday: You need to get away from it all for a couple of weeks.
3. hold-up [countable]
1 a situation that stops something from happening or making progress
ￚsynonym delay // traffic hold-ups on the highway // Despite the odd hold-up, we finished on time.
2 informal an attempt to rob a place or person by threatening them with a weapon: a bank hold-up
4. mundane / mʌn’deɪn /
1 ordinary and not interesting or exciting: Initially, the work was pretty mundane.
2 literary concerned with ordinary daily life rather than religious matters // ￚsynonym worldly
5. obesity / əʊ’biːsiti $ oʊ- / [uncountable] when someone is very fat in a way that is unhealthy
6. sedentary /’sedenteri/
1 formal spending a lot of time sitting down, and not moving or exercising very much
sedentary life/job/lifestyle etc: health problems caused by our sedentary lifestyles
2 technical a sedentary group of people tend always to live in the same place: a sedentary people living north of the Danube
7. strain / streɪn /
1 ▶WORRY◀ [uncountable and countable]worry that is caused by having to deal with a problem or work too hard over a long period of time: Did you find the job a strain? strain for: The trial has been a terrible strain for both of us.
strain on: It's quite a strain on me when he's drinking heavily. // put/place a strain on somebody: The long working hours put a severe strain on employees. // under (a) strain: I know you've been under a lot of strain lately.
2 ▶DIFFICULTY◀ [uncountable and countable]a difficulty or problem that is caused when a person, relationship, organization, or system has too much to do or too many problems to deal with: strain on: The dry summer has further increased the strain on water resources.
8. wasteland /’weɪstlænd, -lənd / [uncountable and countable] 1 an unattractive area, often with old ruined buildings, factories etc on it // urban/industrial wasteland: the restoration of industrial wasteland
2 a place, situation, or time that has no excitement or interest: The 70s were a cultural wasteland.

Source: "Cutting Edge" (Advanced, Module 9)

Irregular verbs, part I

Hi! This is the first part of irregular verbs:

infinitive / past simple / past participle
1 be /bi: / was/were /wɒz/ /wɜ:/ been /bi:n/ бути
2 beat /bi:t / beat /bi:t / beaten /bi:tn / бити
3 become /bɪ’kʌm / became /–‘keɪm / become /bɪ’kʌm / ставати
4 begin /bɪ’gɪn / began /–‘gæn/ begun / -‘gʌn / починати
5 blow / bləʊ/ blew / blu: / blown / bləʊn/ дути

Daggers drawn

1. assassinate / ə’sæsineɪt /
[transitive] to murder an important person: a plot to assassinate the President
2. bliss / blɪs /
[uncountable] perfect happiness or enjoyment; domestic/wedded/marital bliss: I didn't have to get up till 11 - it was sheer bliss.

Irregular verbs part 2

Hi! The second part, here we go:

52 light / laɪt / lit /lɪt/ lit /lɪt/ світити
53 lose / lu:z/ lost / lɒst/ lost / lɒst/ втрачати
54 make /meɪk / made / meɪd / made / meɪd / робити
55 mean /mi:n / meant / ment / meant / ment / означати
56 meet / mi:t / met / met / met / met / зустрічати

Complex Object

I. verb (bare infinitive) / verb-ing
After verbs denoting sense perception:
to hear, to see, to watch, to feel, to observe, to notice
I haven’t heard anyone call me.
I saw Tom come/coming.

II. verb (bare infinitive)
to make, to let, to have
Light steps in the gavel made him turn his head.
I won’t have you speak like it, dear Tess!
Mr. Dalrymple had the servant to bring in the soap.

III. to + verb
I. After verbs denoting mental activity
to know, to think, to consider, to believe, to suppose,
to expect, to imagine, to find, to feel, to trust
I know you to be the most honest creature that ever lived.
Everybody expected her to marry Pete.

* After verbs of mental activity the Perfect Infinitive is used but seldom.
The doctor found his heart to have stopped two hours before.

II. After verbs of declaring:
to pronounce, to declare, to report
She declared him to be the most disobedient child in existence.

III. After verbs denoting wish and intention:
to want, to wish, to desire, to mean, to intend, to choose (‘to want’)
I want you to come and dine with me.

IV. After verbs and expressions denoting feeling and emotion:
to like, to dislike, to hate, cannot bear
I dislike you to talk like that.

V. After verbs and expressions denoting order and permission:
to order, to allow, to suffer, to have
Mr. Merdle ordered his carriage to be ready early in the morning.
Miss Jemima could not suffer Becky to leave the Academy without a present.