verbo potere Could you check my sentences, please? Posso lavorare molto. Posso leggere in italiano. Non posso scrivere letteri. Puoi telefonare mi? Puoi parlare in francese. Puoi andare? Può giocare a calcio bene. Può andare con noi. Non può chiudere la porta. Possiamo andare in un ristorante insieme. Non possiamo sapere tutto. Potete finire di lavorare. Potete uscire domani? Loro non possono venire da noi. Possono vincere una partita. Grazie!

Presento indicativo Could you check some sentences for mistakes? Abito a Krasnoyarsk. Lavoro in l’ospedale. Mangio la frutta la mattina. Affitto un appartamento. Guardo la TV. Parlo inglese e tedesco. Cerco un lavoro. Aspetto mio amici per la cena. Di soltito gioco a calcio. Suono il pianoforte. Ascolto la musica classica. Studio italiano e francese. Arrivo a Mosca domani. Ballo un tango molto bene. Cucino il cibo francese male. Grazie!

Sentences in Italian Could you check my italian sentences, please? Hanno tre gatti e un cane. Mi chiamo Konstantin. Sei francese? - No. è di Egitto? Mangia i frutti Prendo un caffè Parla il spagnolo, il francese e il tedesco. è mio taccuino. Pizza è delicioza. Pedro è spagnolo, ma lavora in Francia. è ingegnere. Le verdure sono utili. Quale caffè vorrei? Bevo il tè la mattina. Non amo il pesce. Grazie)))

essay about digital age (part 2) I believe the only way to avoid the information catastrophe for humanity is to refuse using any gadgets at all. But is it real? I’m not sure. However we can use the facilities of the Information Age more sensibly. The first step is to see the real life with your own eyes but not the black mirror of the screen. Everyone can do it, I believe.

essay about digital age (part 1) I live in the future. Yes, exactly. Today is tomorrow. Tomorrow is three days after tomorrow. When I was a child I remember how my mum and I discussed how wonderful it would be if we had a possibility to call our relatives using video. When I read the first news about tablets, I thought it’s a fantastic gadget for an extremely high price. Some years ago when I used my button phone I was at the conference about high-tech devices for educational purposes. That time the host told that soon everybody will use touchscreen phones. And I didn’t believe. But it’s a reality now. I suppose most of people nowadays can afford using web-cameras, tablets and touchscreen phones. We are the generation of Digital Age. The technology develops faster from day to day. Holograms, teleportation or artificial intelligence will exist soon. All these inventions make our life easy and comfortable: online shopping, one click for searching the information, huge network clouds for information storage. We can find the job online, get the psychologist’s advice, chat to people who are thousands miles away. So on the one hand we enjoy Computer Age as it makes our everyday life more convenient. But on the other hand, the life, when a mobile phone continues the hand, when a computer screen reflects on our eyes, when the memory keeps only the way of using google, can’t have disadvantages. Healths problems like obesity and short-sightedness are evident. Though the humanity might be under the more serious threat. As for me the greatest problem is the loss of our personality. Of course, people show their private life in the socialnet themselves. But can we really hide it, can we protect it? Our personal data are kept on different servers, the cameras are watching our lives everywhere, the usage of mobile phones, credit cards, chips could show our location. Could we avoid this all? I don’t think so. The time requires us to have a mobile phone (by the way, do you know a person who can easily switch it off?), different types of cards and biometric documents. The situation when a person is always under control is described in some utopias and people there don’t have private life, they don’t know what freedom is. These days the humanity definitely goes to that “utopia” as we are happy to give our personal data online and show geolocation.

Plural Nouns in Russian It’s not easy to form plural of nouns. There is no 100% rule. First, we need to find the ending of the word. Common endings of nouns: Male: no ending (портфель, журнал, строитель) or –а, -я ending mostly for calling males as a biological gender (дядя, папа, дедушка, мужчина) Female: -а, -я ending (мама, книга, женщина, ваза) or no ending (лошадь, кровать, тетрадь) Neutral: -о,-е ending (лицо, поле, полотенце) 1. Usually we change А to Ы , Я to И, Ь to И, or just add Ы (портфель-портфели, журнал, журналы, строитель-строители, дядя-дяди, папа-папы, дедушка-дедушки, мужчины-мужчины, мама-мамы, книга-книги, женщина-женщины, ваза-вазы, лошадь-лошади, кровать-кровати, тетрадь-тетради) 2. Usually we change О to А, Е to Я (лицо-лица, поле-поля, полотенце-полотенца) 3. We should remember some words (друг-друзья, брат-братья, сын-сыновья, стул-стулья, адрес-адреса, дом-дома, город-города, глаз-глаза, остров-острова, поезд-поезда, паспорт-паспорта, ребенок-дети, человек-люди) 4. It’s better to check plural form in the dictionaries, for example here http://www.gramota.ru/slovari/dic/ How do we use pronouns and adjectives with plural nouns? We use МОИ, ТВОИ, КРАСИВЫЕ (мои глаза, твои стулья, красивые женщины). Let’s practice) Put these nouns to plural: комната, дверь, диван, картина, окно, ручка, карандаш, птица

Some words about learning English Hello) My name is Yuliya. I’m 27 and I’m trying to do my best to improve my English. Six weeks ago I joined a language challenge and since then there were hardly ever some days when I don’t learn English. I found out some things that I try to do every day or at least some times a week. The first is about expanding my vocabulary. I use the method of 4 repetitions of the words. I make cards with English words on the one side and Russian translation on the other side. I read the word in Russian, translate it into English and turn over the card if I translated correctly I put a card in one deck, if I didn’t do that, I put the card into another deck. I learn the words until all the cards are in the first deck. Then I revise these words in 20 minutes, then in a day, then in two weeks and at last in a month. But it seems to be difficult to me to learn words from different lists, minilexes and so on. I choose the words for learning from my textbook from the lessons I have already done. The other point of my learning is listening. I used to listen podcasts and now I prefer watching series with or even without subtitles. I also try to read every day in English although I still can’t finish reading the first book about Harry Potter but I usually read some articles or information about learning languages. And the last thing that I do every day is chatting on HelloTalk. It’s a wonderful application for language exchange. You choose a person who is learning your language and help him to do it whereas he or she helps you with English. However, it’s not a real-life conversation so you don’t choose a partner because of common interests. First few day you have a lot to speak about: jobs, hobbies, countries, literature. And after that as for me you have nothing to discuss. That is all for now) See you)

Sentences for practising unless 1. I won’t talk to you unless you tell the truth. 2. The plants won’t continue to grow unless it rains 3. I won’t go home unless I finish all the work 4. You can’t speak the language unless you start talking 5. You won’t lose weight unless you stop eating sweets 6. She won’t buy a car unless she gets driving license 7. I won’t watch the screen adaptation of “War and Peace” unless I read the book 8.He can’t visit his parents unless holidays start 9. People can’t drink alcohol unless they are over 18 10.I can’t fall asleep unless I take some relaxing pills 11. Some people can’t fly a plane unless they are drunk 12. Sportsmen can’t start the training unless they do the warm up 13. Women won’t go out unless the look perfect 14. The flood will get worse and worse unless it stops raining 15. I will go to the dates unless I find an ideal boyfriend

Sentences for practising the expression to be used to smth 1. She isn’t used to driving on the left side. 2. I am used to getting up late. 3. Russians are used to doing their business until deadline. 4. Single men aren’t used to cooking at home. 5. I’m not used to breaking the rules. 6. He isn’t used to going to the theatre as it seems to be boring for him. 7. Drivers are used to sitting a lot. 8. Children aren’t used to eating soup because they eat a lot of sweets. 9. Women are used to wearing high-heeled shoes. 10. Jon Snow is used to knowing nothing. 11. She is used to drinking a glass of wine during the lunch. 12. Teenagers are not used reading because of plenty of gadgets. 13. Are you used to getting to work by bike? 14. Is he used to drawing doodles in his exercise books? 15. Is he used to getting up early to work? Thank you in advance