You sit down in
class and realize you have paper but no pen. You ask the student next to you
for a pen.
Excuse
me, would you happen to have a pen I could borrow?
вторник, 28 июля 2015 г.
50 more of the most important English proverbs
continued from: http://ludmilakonyaeva.blogspot.ru/2012/08/the-50-most-important-english-proverbs.html Proverbs are wise sayings that
are remembered and repeated. The ones below are so popular that you will often
hear them in daily conversation. If you're trying to learn
English, it would be a great idea to memorize these proverbs. By memorizing them, you will not
only learn some common English sayings; you will also help your brain to become
better at forming good English sentences. So here are 50 more awesome
sayings that English speakers use:
1. "A
broken clock is right twice a day."
When an old clock stops
working, it shows one specific time but doesn't move. So once in the day and
once at night, the clock is pointing to the correct time. In the same way, even
a person who's not very smart can sometimes be correct by accident.
понедельник, 27 июля 2015 г.
пятница, 24 июля 2015 г.
Don't tell me...
You take your kids to the
amusement park for a day of fun. After an hour, your youngest says he wants to
go home.
Don't tell me
you're tired already!
I take full responsibility
You're the manager of a small team of programmers. The latest version of
your software had a bug which made it insecure. You had to tell the company's
CEO about the mistake. After describing the problem, you apologize and say this. I take full responsibility.
You're the manager of a small team of programmers. The latest version of your software had a bug which made it insecure. You had to tell the company's CEO about the mistake. After describing the problem, you apologize and say this. I take full responsibility.
четверг, 23 июля 2015 г.
среда, 22 июля 2015 г.
Last Name Origins
Today's episode explores last names, otherwise known as family names or surnames. We'll mix a little bit of history about the origin of names with some rules about capitalization and other issues.
It's hard to say when last names were first
used, but it's easy to group many last names into certain categories. For
example, we have last names based on location, based on occupation, and based
on the name of our father.
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