What kind of learning activities do you performance? The way of learning English I've choosed for myself is to learn grammar and new vocabulary for my own and have sessions with teachers for practicing and getting some extra-explanation. I've decided to prepare for the lessons in the following directions: - Learning new grammar - Learning new vocabulary - Reading a topic and making comprehension excercises/or answering questions of a teacher - Reading a topic aloud and polishing of pronunciation - Learning pronunciation There are 7 learning activities which could be used in lessons via skype (written from a student's point of view). 1) Practicing (writing/speaking) of constructing of new sentences with new grammar and being checked by a 2) teacher; a teacher also gives some extra explanation and answers questions on difficult points 3) Writing an essay with new vocabulary (based on topic/situation/sphere of life) and being checked by a teacher 4) Practicing (writing/speaking) of constructing of new sentences with new vocabulary (based on topic/situation/sphere of life) and being checked by a teacher; a teacher also gives some extra information to extend student's vocabulary and answers questions on difficult points 5) Playing dialogues in roles with a teacher 6) Practicing of use of idioms/proverbs/phrasal verbs/fixed phrases, learning etymology if it's available (a teacher gives needed materials in advance, a student learns on his own, then a teacher checks, gives some extra explanation and answer questions on difficult points) 7) Practicing of making oral presentation

Learning activities

What kind of learning activities do you perfomance?

 

There are 11 learning activities which could be used in lessons via skype (written from a student's point of view).
1) Learning new grammar (a teacher gives needed materials in advance, a student learns on his own, then a teacher checks, gives some extra explanation and answer questions on difficult points)
2) Practicing (writing/speaking) of constructing of new sentences with new grammar and being checked by a teacher
3) Learning new vocabulary (a teacher gives needed materials in advance, a student learns on his own, then a teacher checks, gives some extra explanation and answer questions on difficult points)
4) Practicing (writing/speaking) of constructing of new sentences with new vocabulary (based on topic/situation/sphere of life) and being checked by a teacher
5) Reading a topic and making comprehension excercises/or answering questions of a teacher
6) Listening to a topic and making comprehension excercises or answering questions of a teacher
7) Playing dialogues in roles with a teacher
8) Writing an essay with new vocabulary (based on topic/situation/sphere of life) and being checked by a teacher
9) Reading a topic aloud and polishing of pronunciation
10) Practicing of making oral presentation
11) Learning etimology and practice of using idioms/proverbs (a teacher gives needed materials in advance, a student learns on his own, then a teacher checks, gives some extra explanation and answer questions on difficult points)

Why it’s important to read clients’ reviews in advance I’m not a frequent traveler. Nonetheless, I have got some experience of getting hotel services, and I would like to tell you about the worst hotel I could ever imagine. My girl-friend and I decided to spend some part of a vacation at the seaside. We have chosen a nice place to travel to. Our voice went to Marmaris for it’s nice beaches and seascapes. It’s a port-town and tourist resort, located on the south-west coast of Turkey. The rightness of this choice was and is being undoubtable, and that place is really nice regardless of the all problems we had. In fact, we didn’t make mistake with the place of destination, but it was a big fault to choose a 4-star hotel named as Idas. This is a link to it’s website: http://www.idashotel.com/ At their official website you can see nice pictures and sayings like «We are cleaning rooms daily and changing towels and bed linen twice a week. / Air Conditioning (Split) / Satellite TV / Internet Café / Minibar». Real services and facilities of the hotel differ from the declared as much as you can find out comparing me and a ballerina. The room offered to us was without any evidence of civilization, and this statement is not magnified. Only through giving a manager tips and my confident and strong voice, we were given a chance of choosing the appropriate accommodation. We looked through 4 rooms and in no one from them there were a functioning air-conditioner or a TV or a Minibar in the same time. As a result we decided to stay in a room with working air conditioner but a broken TV and without a refrigerator. The absence of a remote control for the air-conditioner hadn’t already a big surprise for us for that moment and we had just brought it from the previous viewed rooms. The most deplorable fact was not laundered bed linens and towels. It was curious for me, but the tips couldn’t help to get clean bedclothes too. All of them looked more or less utilized and unclean. My advice is «Don’t rely on «stars» of a hotel’s signboard. You will have a service what you pay for only because of taking into consideration feedbacks of previous guests».

Success in work The success in work is very important, especially for men. Of course, women also feel satisfied when everything good in the business, but there are different meaning for men and women. I think, that for women , a work, and the achieves in this field, in most cases has not a proir role as it seems to has for men.

worries about pronunciation: f&v sounds' case I've decided to improve my pronunciation with help of teachers from italki, my favorite source of finding teachers :) And this morning I had a class about f a v sounds in cases when they go together in one word, like in words five, favor, fervent, fever, flavor. And I should say, as always it was fantastic. Except learning of how to pronounce sounds correctly, on my opinion, it's important to don't forget about your manner or style, and, of course, the content of your speech. And I think that you shouldn't worry about mistakes of pronunciation in let's call it real speech because the only way of changing habits is to practice fervently when you practice, but when you start speaking in real life, just forgive yourself ahead for all future mistakes and for frivolity to pronounce without thinking much about correctness of pronunciation. When you feverishly fear the worst, the worst will obviously happen. This fact counts in favor of aforesaid stuff )

new year's resolutions Yes, it's a common theme in the beginning of every January. All of us tend to make new year's resolutions. Just because everybody wants to change his life, more or less. And maybe the ultimate new year's resolution should be to reach a harmony with your life and stop making new year's resolution at all, shouldn't it? But, in fact, every year everybody promise to himself stop or start doing something. And me is not an exception. I've fixed 4 goals for this year, not simple one. That's why if I bring into life only a half of these goals it won't be a failure. One of them is to improve my English to strongly-advanced level from intermediate which, I guess, is current level of my English. I appreciate your help and hope that your new year's resolution will be realized this year too.

How long do I learm English? Shame on me but I have been learning English too much time, for about 20 years counting from the school time. But of course I didn't learn English all that time and this is a problem, because if you don't read, speak, listening to the language every day - you can't reach the goal. It's like climbing a mountain - when you stop you fall down and need to start from the very beginning. I want to stop learning English and just speak it.