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Cold or warm?

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Have you ever been to a foreign country? How did you feel? What differences did you notice? Give adjectives for the following nouns: propriety gentleness notoriety sobriety modesty ignorance Which are positive qualities, and which are negative aspects of personality? Listen to the program, and say what British people are like. Загрузка…

World full of people

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What is the most difficult problem to tackle in a city like London? crime traffic jams water pollution air pollution poverty trash/litter Meet the Londoners making our city a better place Look at the pictures and try to guess what projects these people set up. What problems did they try to solve, in your opinion?

Literature is great

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What makes a story interesting to you? Characters: well-developed characters with interesting personalities. Story structure: well-developed arc with an exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, character dilemma, and resolution Creativity : a story line that is not boring or cliche. Mystery: knowing the answers to everything is boring. A story that leaves questions throughout and the audience wondering is intriguing. Problem: a challenging problem that seems impossible and is getting in the way of something important to the main character. Ending: "give the audience an ending that is wanted but not expected. Literature quiz: An act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play is called audition dialogue soliloquy A division or contrast between two things that are opposed or entirely different is called dichotomy hyperbole cliche A phrase or opinion that is overused and betra

Poetry month

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Discussion. Why do people write poetry? What do they try to express with it? What stylistic devices are used? What types of poetry do you know? What's the difference between a haiku, a ballad and a sonnet? What is a limerick? Who is a bard? Do you have a favourite poem?

A Hurricane in Atlantic City

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Weather quiz - choose the right answer: 💨💨💨💨💨💨 1 A thermometer is a device used to measure what? speed of wind temperature pressure 2 What country experiences the most tornadoes? New Zealand India the USA 3 Breeze and gale are common terms used to describe the speed of what? wind volcano eruption ocean waves 4 Earth’s recent temperature rises which have been linked to human activity is known as global _______? heating cooling warming 5 Balls or irregular lumps of ice that fall from clouds (often during thunderstorms) are known as what? hail frost drizzle 6 An avalanche features the rapid descent of _______? snow ice soil 7 Trying to predict the weather is known as weather _______? fortune-telling guessing forecasting 8 True or false? You

Restorative Theology: The Avett Brothers' narrative doctrine of Love (an...

Restorative Theology: The Avett Brothers' narrative doctrine of Love (an... : While in sunny Florida this past spring, my friend and I - together with our wives and together without our children - crashed a small hotel...