Have a Magic Weekend!

Dear friends!

I wish you a magic weekend!

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Video :we're going to be friends lyrics - Jack Johnson - Lyrics

This lovely song is for you, my dear friends!

If Friendship were a cake, which ingredients would it have?

The Cake Of Friendship

 Michelle Flores

Preheat the oven of love

With plenty of secrets and hugs

Mix in giggles and laughs

That make your sides split in half

Bake with the love and care

And all the things you both should share

Decorate with the frosting of trust

This is really a must

Enjoy the cake do not eat it fast

Just like your new friendship make it last.

 What ingridients would you add , friends? 

Note

a must - something that you definitely need in a particular situation

Good binoculars are a must for any serious birdwatcher.

My letter to you!

My dear friends!
 

Learning languages is an interesting but hard work,isn't it?  I hope, the publications in my blog were of some help to you. I did my best to post different materials for developing students' skills and creat a well-wishing, friendly community.
It's my pleasure to meet new readers on the blog's pages! And now I want to ask you to leave your comments here: if you like the posts, what is useful for you, what would you like to find here.

Good luck,
Irina

Reading ? For what?

 

Reading the world in 196 books

 Writer Ann Morgan set herself a challenge – to read a book from every country in the world in one year. She describes the experience and what she learned. 

 I used to think of myself as a fairly cosmopolitan sort of person, but my bookshelves told a different story. Apart from a few Indian novels and the odd Australian and South African book, my literature collection consisted of British and American titles. Worse still, I hardly ever tackled anything in translation. My reading was confined to stories by English-speaking authors.

Read more here:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20130715-reading-the-world-in-365-days

Ways of expressing future actions : Will - be going to – Present Continuous

The rules of behaviour for ladies and gentlemen

Dear Friends!

Today I'd like you to read the extract from Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers (Chapter Five The Dancing Cow)
It's one of my favourite books which is full of wise thoughts and curious situation. And this one - when you have to choose between the comfort of your well-settled life and exciting but unsure future - is  typical nowadays, isn't it?

What would you prefer: to continue living the respectable but boring life or start something new? Please, leave your comments here!

The Red Cow — that’s the name she went by. And very important and prosperous she was, too (so my Mother said). She lived in the best field in the whole district — a large one full of buttercups the size of saucers and dandelions standing up in it like soldiers. Every time she ate the head off one soldier, another grew up in its place, with a green military coat and a yellow busby.

She had lived there always — she often told my Mother that she couldn’t remember the time when she hadn’t lived in that field. Her world was bounded by green hedges and the sky and she knew nothing of what lay beyond these.

The Red Cow was very respectable, she always behaved like a perfect lady and she knew What was What. To her a thing was either black or white—there was nothing in between. Dandelions were either sweet or sour—there were never any moderately nice ones.

She led a very busy life. Her mornings were taken up in giving lessons to the Red Calf, her daughter, and in the afternoon she taught the little one deportment and mooing and all the things a really well brought up calf should know. Then they had their supper, and the Red Cow showed the Red Calf how to select a good blade of grass from a bad one; and when her child had gone to sleep at night she would go into a corner of the field and chew the cud and think her own quiet thoughts.

All her days were exactly the same. One Red Calf grew up and went away and another came in its place. And it was natural that the Red Cow should imagine that her life would always be the same as it had always been—indeed, she felt that she could ask for nothing better than for all her days to be alike till she came to the end of them.

But at the very moment she was thinking these thoughts, adventure, as she afterwards told my Mother, was stalking her. It came upon her one night when the stars themselves looked like dandelions in the sky and the moon a great daisy among the stars.

On this night, long after the Red Calf was asleep, the Red Cow stood up suddenly and began to dance.

 She danced wildly and beautifully and in perfect time, though she had no music to go by. Sometimes it was a polka, sometimes a Highland Fling and sometimes a special dance that she made up out of her own head. And in between these dances she would curtsey and make sweeping bows and knock her head against the dandelions.

“Dear me!” said the Red Cow to herself, as she began on a Sailor’s Hornpipe. “What an extraordinary thing! I always thought dancing improper, but it can’t be since I myself am dancing. For I am a model cow.”

Happy back to school!

Dear friends!

Wishing you Good Luck on your new school year!

May it be everything you hope for and More!

Don't forget  these  words : "The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet" (Aristotle)

Happy back to school,

Irina

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