понедельник, 3 августа 2015 г.

Kemerovo city



Prepositions Practice

It’s time for some prepositions practice! How well do you know your English prepositions? Take this quiz to find out. Choose the best preposition to complete each sentence, then click the blue “Get results” button to see the correct answers as well as explanations for why each preposition is used.

суббота, 1 августа 2015 г.

What Does “Sophomore” Mean?

Of the four tiers of high school, sophomore is the year that stands out as strange. Freshman, junior, and senior are relatively clear monikers for their associated levels, and it’s funny that in school, the place where you are most expected to know the how and why of everything, second-year students are called by a term whose roots are abstruse.

пятница, 31 июля 2015 г.

вторник, 28 июля 2015 г.

Excuse me, would you happen to have...

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?

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.

Metaphors


Metaphor is a figure of speech in which a word or phrase is applied to an object or action to which it is not literally applicable. Metaphors are usually used as a way to