The next creepy installment of this fantastic Roald Dahl story. Enjoy!

Stories to Stimulate!

The landlady part 3

Dear Russian language students and teachers!

Here is another 1-minute audio for your better understanding of a common situation as doing grocery shopping in a supermarket. It comes in handy when you are in a Russian supermarket where staff usually don't speak English or any other foreign language.

Good luck!

Elena.

1-minute Survival Russian for Travelling (A1-A2)

Как покупать продукты в супермаркете_How to do a grocery shopping in a supermarket

Послухай. Напиши у теблюцю розклад на тиждень та нідшли мені у особисті повідомлення.
Listen. Write a schedule for the week on a spreadsheet and send it to me in a private message.

Тексти на різні теми

Розклад на тиждень

Have you ever  felt like your essay  is missing something? 
You just finished and polished it  but when you read it, you feel like it sounds ok but   sth is missing?! 

Yes, That's the structure  you ought to follow which you didn't in  your essay. 

Listen to this episode and  understand the 4 key points. 

James Unlocks IELTS

Your Task 2 Essay is missing something!?

Can you work out how to say 'My treat' in Chinese by listening to the movie clips of this episode? 

******************Script for your second time listening*********************

片段一Clip one
A：我们~去唱卡拉OK吧。我请客
B:  就这么定了！换衣服，收拾东西。 
A：wǒ men ~qù chàng kǎ lā OK ba 。wǒ qǐng kè 
B:  jiù zhè me dìng le ！huàn yī fú ，shōu shi dōng xi 。  
出自From《致我们终将逝去的青春》
片段二
A：所以我说，你付了那么昂贵的旅馆费，那我就付餐费。
B：我有钱，我请客。
A：suǒ yǐ wǒ shuō ，nǐ fù le nà me áng guì de lǚ guǎn fèi ，nà wǒ jiù fù cān fèi 。
B：wǒ yǒu qián ，wǒ qǐng kè 。
出自《七月与安生》
片段三
A：老易你怎么来了？
B：我在隔壁请客。
A：lǎo yì nǐ zěn me lái le ？
B：wǒ zài gé bì qǐng kè 。
出自《色戒》
片段四
A: 王总！
B: 老严，你说你请客你还迟到！
A:  wáng zǒng ！
B：lǎo yán ，nǐ shuō nǐ qǐng kè nǐ hái chí dào ！
出自《戒烟不戒酒》


Iris' screening room

How to say "My treat" in Chinese?——Improve Chinese with movie clips

Dos Donts Pros.. 4 minutes of a deep dive into fasting biology 

Baffling Lingo

Time Restricted Feeding AKA  'Fasting' 

What do you think is the most expensive place in the world to live? New York? London? Maybe Tokyo?

While Japan has long had a reputation as an expensive place to live, its cities have been getting cheaper in recent years — with some big changes coming just in the last 12 months.

American consulting company Mercer recently released its 2024 Cost of Living City Ranking, which compares the costs of over 200 items in 226 cities around the world. The results are based on a March 2024 survey, and include things like housing and transportation, as well as food, clothing and entertainment.

All five of the world's most expensive cities are unchanged from last year, with Hong Kong and Singapore again in first and second place. These two Asian cities are followed by three Swiss cities: Zurich, Geneva and Basel.

Bern, another Swiss city, has risen from seventh to sixth place, while New York City has fallen one place to seventh.

However, Tokyo has dropped 30 places to 49th — putting it right after San Juan in Puerto Rico. And Osaka has dropped 53 places to 146th — just ahead of Wuhan in China.

However, the biggest drop since last year was for Lagos in Nigeria, which fell 178 places to 225th. And the least expensive city is now Abuja, Nigeria's capital, at 226th.

Mercer wrote that many big drops were caused by changes in exchange rates. Japan's yen dropped to a 34-year low against the US dollar in March — and hit a 38-year low in early July.

The ranking was also affected by inflation — especially in housing prices — as well as increasing political uncertainty around the world.

Mercer says it's important for companies to look at its cost of living ranking when thinking about sending staff to live abroad.




Practice Listening, Reading & Comprehension

Japan Tumbles on Expensive Cities Ranking

Happy New Year (With Transcript)

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nSmipEfi-UqgsZhpmB0a7951eCwTqhWQ/view?usp=drivesdk