Russian ballet in London Russian ballet in London Principals of leading world theatres will take part in gala-concert "Icons of the Russian ballet". The evening will be confined to 200 years from the birthday of the founder of the Russian ballet school Marius Petipa that is celebrated 11th March. Yearly gala-concert will held on Sunday at the scene of the London theatre Coliseum. It will be devoted to inheritance of the Russian ballet school. Parts of classic ballets by choreography of Petipa like "Koppelia", "Jisel", "Swan's lake", "Don Kihot" and "Korsar" will mainly compose the program of the assembly concert. It will be also supplied by works of modern choreographers including Rolan Peti, Yuri Grigorovich, Nacho Duato and others. Additionally, at the scene of Coliseum it might be seen fragments from the recent conducted premier of the ballet of the Bolshoi theatre "Nureev" by choreography of Yuri Posohov.Ensemble Productions organizes this gala-concert at the 13 time.

How to find interest in life Hello, As far as I know there are a lot American literature concerning self-development, self-consciousness, changing own life. In Russian language literature we can find a lot of translation of such American literature and just few Russian analogue. But we also have a lot of materials in the Internet on such topics. I googled and took the first article for my today's English translation exercise. Advice 1. How to find an interest in life. If before you this question appeared, so you are expected to have a long work on yourself. In fact usually people already have a circle of their interests that have been forming over all their life. If it ceased to suit, so the time of big changes has come. How to find an interest in life Instruction 1. Listen to yourself. Limit habitual sources of information and choose at least one weekends when you will not use email and social networks, will not turn on TV and will not read customary magazines. Leave this time for conversation with yourself. 2. Start to keep a diary where you will write your thoughts and feelings for come back to them later, to reread them and rethink once more. It could be as a common paper diary as a blog in the Internet. Maybe in discussions with your subscribers you will find out the truth... 4. Try to attempt everything. Many dance schools and martial arts schools propose a free first lesson. Why not to use this opportunity? Even if you don't find in this occupation your mission, you will satisfy your curiosity and elevate your mind... 8. Never be afraid to tackle a new problem. If you are interested in learning music or painting but you never did it before, possess yourself and begin.

Advertising I randomly picked the theme "Advertising" for a today's exersice of my English. So I searched in the Internet for a propriete text for translation. I found it in the Russian version of the Wikipedia. My translation is below. Thank you in advance for your time! Advertising is a direction in marketing communications in which information is spreaded. The word "advertising" comes from latin verbs "reclama" (to shout) and "reclamare" (to answer, to request), that were suffered from considerable meaning changes during many centuries. Advertising is a non-personal translation of information, usually paid and having a character of convince about goods, services or ideas of famous adverisers by means of different vehicle. Main characteristics of advertising coming from its definition are: 1. Non-personal character (it is conducted only via intermediaries) 2. One-way directed process 3. Ambiguity (it is difficult to measure an effect from advertisement) 4. Social characher (it means that the good that is advertised is legal and generally accepted. It is prohibited to advertise, for example, drugs) 5. It always contains information about a client. It is known to whom advertising benefits) 6. Non-impartiality. Whole objectivity is impossible by definition Dear friend, Thank you very much for your time! This text was a bit difficult for me. But also translation was very helpful for me. I hope I will recieve a correction of this texts. That would be hundreds helpful. Thank you very much in advance!!!

An internal monologue An internal monologue I decided to conduct an internal monologue in my brain so I could observe my emotions and factors effected them. And of course, it would be really helpful in my way of constructing better me and would help me to overcome this small soul crisis I have know due to some reasons. Sometimes I will conduct such a monologue in English so it would be helpful for my future career as well and would give my another psycological succes for repairing my optimistic mood. Of course, it is sure that all we have such a monologue all the time we think, so it could be understood that we have it all the time except we sleep. So what's new in my decision if I as all people already do it every moment I am awake? The new is that I will analyze, evaluate it. I really need it, because uncontrolled thinking already caused these problems in my mood and motivation. So positive critisism for my thoughts is the best instrument I need now. In my opinion quality of life is a characteristic that is given only by our consciousness, it is not characterized by amount of our money or property, our education and a step we took in a social ladder are not matter. A level of quality of life is measured by our brain. If I consider myself and my life to be gorgeous, it is reality. Because there are no objective measures and measurable instruments to quality. It is only our understanding. I am really confused. I understand myself happy. And now I am on the way to feel it, to enjoy the beaty of the the world and life. Thank you very much for your time! Have a good day!

Notebooks Notebooks I adore notebooks. It is not matter what kind are they. I adore any of them. Especially I like to start it. It seems to me like a new beginning when I write at the first page for the first time. As a general I concentrate, my thoughts become pure and light and I am in waiting of good changes in my life. I envy writers. They can write texts other people enjoy. They have this easiness in their brain and their fingers to express pictures, images, mood, feelings on paper. It is so gorgeous! Whatever you may say paper is a miraculous invention of a mankind. It is so soft, so beutiful and pure. Sound disappers in eternity. But paper - not. I associate paper with pureness, with opportunities. It is my best adviser. When I don't know how should I behave or what option should I choose or more often when I am sad and depressed, I write a stream of my thoughts on paper. And finally I find easiness and peace of mind there. Paper is my good teacher in studying foreign languages. I write words, rules, examples on paper and so it is easier for me to learn it. It is a real pity I write less paper documents than people lived in previous centures. It is very interesting that in different societies people use different format of notebooks. Maybe it somehow characterizes the society itself? For example in Russia a typical notebook for university students is a checked copybook with a format 165x205 mm for 96 pages. Everytime I go abroad I bring notebooks from there. And then, when I use it in my studies, I feel myself a bit a foreign student writing on a typical for myself notebook. Such and interesting feeling! Thank you for you time reading my passage! Have a nice day! And I wish you to have nice experience with paper or anything else you like!

People is the most efficient cure in the world People is the most efficient cure in the world It is not the first time I recognized that people have some magic to resolve our mental traps and help us to escape from them for more joyful life and live being. Something is inside them that helps us. Or it is inside us that is activated every time we interact with others. With every such cases I wonder what it is, is it our human nature that need society for healthful psycological life, or is it a characteristic of people we communicate with that makes us feel better. Maybe they have positive attitute to life and their optimism helps us. Or maybe it is just low feelings like proud and sence of self-approval and everytime we hear about other people's problem we compare their situation with ours, feel proud of ourselves and cheer up. I am not sure, but honestly believe the latter suggestion is wrong. It is not our bad nature and soul, it is our brain that needs new thoughts, new point of views or at least new experience every day, if not every moment. In modern world circumstanes and we ourselves arrange more traps for our brain and our internal state by substitute natural communication by computer or isolating ourselves. I am afraid of the day when I recognize that I can't really feel, just can have emotions. I really hope that will never happen with me. The most efficient preventive remedy is people. Of course, there are others - books, self analysis, my own actions, internal good feelings. But all of them worth nothing without people around us. It is a bit flegmatic thoughts. And of course just my personal opinion. I don't blame anyone. And I don't know why it is happen today. Maybe some previous events in my life influence on my consideration this evening or it is something else that I can't know clearly realize. I hope everyone in the world would be in a good mood almost all the time. Be happy with our dear people! They are so beutiful and amazing!

An exercise "A meeting with the President" Since for the moment I am looking for a new job I am reading articles on effective manners to take a hiring interview and trying to prepare for my future interviews. During my researches on websites I found one interesting exercise to do before a meeting with a headhunter. And then I decided to translate it for pracitsing my English. Thank you very much for your time spended on me! Here it is. A meeting with the President For organizing yourself to an interview and overcoming possible fears, I suggest you to do the excersice "A meeting with the President". It is performed the day before an interview. Imagine that you are invited to the Cremlin (the White House in Russia) and now you are sitting at the meeting with the President of the country. Video cameras of leading TV channels are projected on you and a lot of journalists are recording everything you speak. Try to imagine yourself in this situation and to get into this role. Think about what will you question the President and what do you want to tell him. What questions will he ask you and how will you publicly answer them. For performing this excersice stay in private so that nobody will distract you and imagine such a meeting for 7-15 minutes in all details. Then go to your interview. After such a visualisation it would be surely easier to handle it. In fact you already passed through the most terrible interview in your life.

The preposition ON with verbs When the preposition ON is used? Do you have any general grammar rules for such phrases: to go abroad on trip to learn on courses ? Thank you in advance!

My opinion on situation with learning foreign languages My opinion on situation with learning foreign languages In Russia we start to study English at the first or the fifth year of studying. But except of graduates of gymnasium as a rule people after graduation have very low level of English language. Foreign language is an obligatory subject for two years almost in all University programmes, but also it is hardly helpful in our speaking abilities. Of course, I could not blame everyone, I just describe experience of mine and my groupmates. Reasons explaining this situations are broad. Some of them are objective like low level of books, class equipments (usually only a blackboard), inactivity of teachers and proposed tasks from them. But also there are subjective reasons like absence of motivation of students themselves, perhaps laziness, seeking for passing amusement, general low level of foreign language knowing in our society especially in towns that gives no motivation to learn something new. How can we change the situation and should we? Almost all my familiars don't need English language in their work. As for holidays, they spend their vacations in Russia or going abroad for such trips that do not require knowing English at a good level. Just few people need English language abilities in daily life for self-education, work or travelling. And such people already learn English at courses or by their own. So, I am not sure the general situation in teaching and learning language is going to change much in Russia. It is justly for general picture except Moscow, Saint Petersburg and some other big cities. And even people who knows English quite well. Usually this skill is not applicable to their work because of lack of international companies in minor regions and not developed leisure activities for foreigners. So people do not have motivation to continue their learning and practising. And it is really pity that at whole skills and intellectual abitilities of young generation are not relevant in modern circumstances. Thank you for your attention! Your help would be much appreciated!