tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36672340421579740572024-02-21T03:33:58.053+03:00My Job ELTThis blog is for my collegues and maybe for my students. I'll try to explore the opportunities of blogging and make the best of it:)Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.comBlogger58125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-8102156921630757182012-05-31T00:05:00.001+04:002012-05-31T00:05:07.498+04:00Inspiring China - It's an amazing world - ISSUE #6 NEW! - Articles - HighLight<a href="http://lightschool.ucoz.com/publ/issue_6_new/it_39_s_an_amazing_world/inspiring_china/51-1-0-135#.T8Z9ZvLI48U.blogger">Inspiring China - It's an amazing world - ISSUE #6 NEW! - Articles - HighLight</a>Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-45567987038109736512011-12-13T13:14:00.000+04:002011-12-13T13:14:38.044+04:00Ecological issue of Highlight<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://lightschool.ucoz.com/highlight.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://lightschool.ucoz.com/highlight.jpg" width="224" /></a></div><br />
Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.<br />
Edmund Burke 1729 - 1797<br />
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Dear friends!<br />
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EVERY DAY the world is losing an estimated 137 species.<br />
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2000 trees a minute are cut down in the Amazon alone. That is 7 football fields A MINUTE!<br />
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200,000 people A DAY are moving to cities from environments that no longer support them....<br />
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No one on Earth feels safe and secure.... but our future is in our hands, isn't it?<br />
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This issue is all about ecological matters: global or local;about the things people do to save endangered animals, to protect forests and to stop any kind of pollution, etc.<br />
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Our aim is to attract your attention to the world around you and raise the awareness that you are a unique and irreplaceable part of it. And you can make a difference!<br />
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It's high time to go green.<br />
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Best regards,<br />
Marina Shvets.<br />
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I made my first steps in this direction when I was preparing some students for IELTS. I gave up using the text book in 3 weeks as I realised it was "eating up" our prescious time. I started modelling every class according to my students' weak points in a certain skill. Let me boast a bit - My students' IELTS results are 6.5-7.5))) <br />
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It goes without saying, it's a risk. But Russians say "Those who don't risk, don't drink shampagne!" What's more I lke all sorts of experiments) This year I launch a course that is't based on a single textbook,actually, it's a number of books focused on particular skills. Hope I'll manage to do my best. Keep my fingers crossed. <br />
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This idea I 've stolen from Scott Thornbury and going to use it in practice asap!<br />
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"<b>Paper conversation"</b> - students in pairs have a conversation but written, passing paper back and forth (like on-line chat). Monitor and extract interesting errors. Change partners and do this spoken. Introduce "back channel" devices - e.g. showing interest - and they change partners a third time, trying to incorporate these. Students report to class on partner's day.<br />
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The 1st one that I found was <a href="http://vocaroo.com/">vocaroo.com.</a> I kept using it for 3 months but finally quit because there was some bug, sometomes it close while I was recording:(<br />
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The second resource was <a href="http://www.chirbit.com/">chirbit.com</a> but again I ended up looking for something else due to the fact that on this platform it's possible to record only 5-minute tracks, which is absolulely inconvenient.<br />
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Voila! God answered my prayers - I came across <a href="http://www.voisse.com/">voisse.com</a> on the net! It's brilliant, very easy to use, you can record your voice as long as you like and to top it all, you can use poctures with your adio:)<br />
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Try it and you'll like it!Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-88107909698713154352011-05-17T00:03:00.001+04:002011-05-17T00:13:47.601+04:00My article about Cuba - in our school ezine HighLight<a href="http://lightschool.ucoz.com/publ/cuba/cuba/22-1-0-67?sms_ss=blogger&at_xt=4dd18300f3082a82%2C0">Cuba - Cuba - Articles - HighLight</a><br />
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Our aim is to help them:) If our students can learn and use common phrasal verbs, their vocabulary will enlarge, their listening and reading skills will improve, and they end up speaking more fluently, like natives.<br />
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I think that the easiest way is to use spidegrams and images (even draw them). It impossible to remember more than 10 verbs at once. It's better to learn phrasals based on one verb ( ex. go- go out- go on - go off - go up - go down - etc) and brush them doing at least couple excercises)<br />
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To begin with, I made a set with TURN on quizlet.com. Feedback from students is positive:)<br />
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And follow-up activities<br />
Excercise <a href="http://www.advanced-english-grammar.com/phrasal-verb...">http://www.advanced-english-grammar.com/phrasal-verb...</a><br />
Quiz <a href="http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/... ">http://www.usingenglish.com/reference/phrasal-verbs/... </a><br />
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It's obvious that the best way is to learn phrasal verbs in context, through reading and listening, the fact that you’re interested in the context will make it much easier to remember the phrasal verb later.<br />
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Some more useful links<br />
8 podcast episodes <a href="http://radiolingua.com/category/shows/writebacksoon/">"Write me back soon" on Radio Lingva</a> <br />
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<a href="http://english.mymcomm.net/gmz/snakes_and_ladders/phr_vbs_1/game.htm">Prasal Verb games</a><br />
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<a href="http://www.teflgames.com/match2pv.html">Matching Cards 2 - Phrasal Verbs<br />
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With Where Good Ideas Come From, Steven Johnson pairs the insight of his bestselling Everything Bad Is Good for You and the dazzling erudition of The Ghost Map and The Invention of Air to address an urgent and universal question: What sparks the flash of brilliance? How does groundbreaking innovation happen? Answering in his infectious, culturally omnivorous style, using his fluency in fields from neurobiology to popular culture, Johnson provides the complete, exciting, and encouraging story of how we generate the ideas that push our careers, our lives, our society, and our culture forward.<br />
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Beginning with Charles Darwin's first encounter with the teeming ecosystem of the coral reef and drawing connections to the intellectual hyperproductivity of modern megacities and to the instant success of YouTube, Johnson shows us that the question we need to ask is, What kind of environment fosters the development of good ideas? His answers are never less than revelatory, convincing, and inspiring as Johnson identifies the seven key principles to the genesis of such ideas, and traces them across time and disciplines.<br />
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Most exhilarating is Johnson's conclusion that with today's tools and environment, radical innovation is extraordinarily accessible to those who know how to cultivate it. Where Good Ideas Come From is essential reading for anyone who wants to know how to come up with tomorrow's great ideas.<br />
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I think <a href="http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/steven_johnson_where_good_ideas_come_from.html">this video from TED </a>also might be interesting:)Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-26022971497062669772011-03-19T00:00:00.000+03:002011-03-19T00:00:26.447+03:00Just liked this quotation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRklOp0mVFZXGG1iUwDQrc0yWcLD2IuXF5fQFdkgTzX0HjFDRca" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRklOp0mVFZXGG1iUwDQrc0yWcLD2IuXF5fQFdkgTzX0HjFDRca" /></a></div>“<em>If you are interested, you will do what is convenient. If you are committed, you will do whatever it takes</em>.”Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-43994101430821768782011-03-13T21:35:00.002+03:002011-03-13T21:37:34.153+03:00ChallengeToday on EFL Classroom 2.0 site I came across the topic concerned teaching poetry , how it might be challenging at times, in fact it is really difficult - tomorrow I give a class for Upper-Intermediate teens and it will be all about poetry (metaphor and simile)! I'm a bit nervous today - the thing is I need to get tuned somehow...<br />
Otherwise how will I be able to get my students interested in the lesson material? <br />
So I spent plenty of time just reading and listening to random poems on the net, started making a glogster poster and finally I found this poem. Honestly, it's not Shakespeare but it touched some cords in me , 'cos it expresses my personal and teaching philosophy. <br />
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<tr><td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy-_S6vDKEyDxdQyAlh5MaSfCxT5C5kGpUX6Mhdx0HjXN2Mt_w8i9qFrFp8-lJtfvd0myHIu2rhiPWN0r5jJp4peVnDTH0Fc2w0eGIxJSFM-orHAsggIVPrdz5DzjodikEvrnUUg9JY_g/s1600/challenge.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhy-_S6vDKEyDxdQyAlh5MaSfCxT5C5kGpUX6Mhdx0HjXN2Mt_w8i9qFrFp8-lJtfvd0myHIu2rhiPWN0r5jJp4peVnDTH0Fc2w0eGIxJSFM-orHAsggIVPrdz5DzjodikEvrnUUg9JY_g/s1600/challenge.jpg" /></a></div><h1></h1><h1>The Challenge </h1></td></tr>
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<tr><td>Blessed is the man, indeed,<br />
Who in this life can find;<br />
A purpose that can fill his days,<br />
And goals to fill his mind!<br />
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The world is filled with little men<br />
Content with where they are;<br />
Not knowing joys success can bring,<br />
No will to go that far!<br />
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Yet, in this world there is a need,<br />
For men to lead the rest<br />
To rise above the "average" life,<br />
By giving of their best!<br />
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Would you be one, who dares to try,<br />
When challenged by the task;<br />
To rise to heights you've never seen,<br />
Or is that too much to ask?<br />
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This is your day--a world to win<br />
Great purpose to achieve;<br />
Accept the challenge of your goals<br />
And in yourself, believe! <br />
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You will be proud of what you've done,<br />
When at the close of day;<br />
You look back on your battles won,<br />
Content, you came this way! </td></tr>
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<div align="justify"><div align="justify"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 19px; text-align: left;"><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333300; font-family: Verdana;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Have you ever been caught by a feeling "Oh! That very thing happened to me in the past!"? This phenomenon is called "deja vu" which in French means "I saw it". Do you think it's nothing but a coincidence?</span> </span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="color: #333300; font-family: Verdana;"><br />
</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Coincidences fascinate us but only few admit that they believe in that. Men tend to say that being superstitious is just a waste of their precious time. However, deep inside we have an uncanny feeling that something supernatural exists, we just don't allow ourselves to think about it, we say "Things happen" or<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i>"c'est la Vie</i>". Right?</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Is it just a coincidence that a certain number can refer to certain events or certain people? I got struck by that question a while ago - the main numbers for my family: my husband, my daughter and me are<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b>four</b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>and<b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>two</b>.</span></div><div align="justify" style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">For instance, our Birthday months are in 2 months each - August, November, January.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div><div align="justify" style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">As for Birthday dates- (13/17/21) there's 4-day difference. My husband is 4 years older than me. We got married in 1996 and our daughter was born in 1998 -2 years later when I was 24. Our surname has 4 letters. In fact, there are more examples but they are either too private or too trivial.<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Personally I find 9/11 ( terrorist attack to New York in 2001) a very impressive example. Did you know that.....</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div id="dok4" style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="209" src="https://docs.google.com/File?id=dgkqr48n_553c37jzm5m_b" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0pt; float: right; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="162" /> </span></div><ul style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> New York City has 11 letters and it's the 11th state</span></li>
<li style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Afghanistan has 11 letters. </span></li>
<li style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Ramsin Yuseb, the terrorist who intended to raze the Twin</span><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>Towers to the ground in 1993, and George W Bush have 11 letters in their names.</span></li>
</ul><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
<span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">This might be a sheer coincidence, but this gets more interesting:</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><ul style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li align="justify" style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The first plane that crashed into Twin Towers was flight #11</span></li>
<li style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Flight 11 was carrying 92 passengers. 9 + 2 = 11</span></li>
<li style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The second plane which also hit Twin Towers, was carrying 65 passengers. 6+5=11</span></li>
<li style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The tragedy was on September 11, or 9/11 as it is now known. 9 +1</span><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>+ 1 = 11</span></li>
<li style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">The date is equal to the US emergency services telephone number</span><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 911. 9 + 1 + 1 = 11.</span></li>
</ul><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
<span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> And to stretch the odds even further,<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></div><ul style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px 0px 0px 3em; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The total number of victims inside all the hi-jacked planes was</span><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> 254. 2 + 5 + 4 = 11.</span></li>
<li style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> September 11 is a day number 254 of the calendar year. Again 2 + 5 + 4 = 11. </span></li>
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<span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> If you got intersted, you can learn more about</span><b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><a href="http://www.panamalaw.org/9-11_coincidences.html" id="defj" style="border-width: 0px; color: #5f2f07; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="that tradegy"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">that tradegy</span></a></b><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>coincidences here.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> Is it just a coincidence? In 2000 I started teaching Lesya Basyrova, a girl who was really bright and determined.( BTW now she's also a teacher of English) From the very beginning I had a feeling that we were on the same wavelength! 2 years had passed before I asked her who was her first English Teacher. You can imagine how I was amazed to hear that it was the same teacher as mine - Galina Ivanovna Sarayeva, now deceased. She taught both of us for 2 years (5th-6th grades)...</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"> The history has more remarkable examples, namely, life stories of Abraham Lincoln and John Kennedy (JFK). Have you heard that....</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="181" src="https://docs.google.com/File?id=dgkqr48n_555ffbmt2g3_b" style="border-style: none; border-width: 0pt; display: block; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px auto; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;" width="278" /></span></div><div align="justify" style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Abraham Lincoln was elected in 1860, JFK became the President in 1960. They were both killed on Friday in front of their wives. Both successors were called Johnson, Andrew Jonson was born in 1808 and Lyndon Johnson was born in 1908. Both assassinators,John Wilkes Booth and Lee Harvey Oswald, were killed before their trial. Lincoln's secretary, named Kennedy, cautioned him against going to the theatre and JFK's secretary whose name was Lincoln also asked him not to go to Dallas. As you know, Lincoln was shot in the theatre and Booth ran to a warehouse. JFK was supposedly shot from a warehouse and Oswald ran to a theatre. It's just a happenstance, isn't it?</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Coincidences are a highly exploited topic in<span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>the</span><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>media, for instance various Doppelgangers projects on TV</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img alt="" height="197" src="https://docs.google.com/File?id=dgkqr48n_556dhqfmscz_b" style="border-width: 0px; float: left; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="273" /><img alt="" height="194" src="https://docs.google.com/File?id=dgkqr48n_5577x89mqc4_b" style="border-width: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: 15px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" width="272" /></span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #00000a; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">or "</span><b><a href="http://samesies.tumblr.com/" id="me73" style="border-width: 0px; color: #5f2f07; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" title="Samesies"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Samesies</span></a></b><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">" - a project on the Internet started to highlight how different people from different places happen to take the same photos.</span></span></span></div><div align="justify" style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #00000a; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><img align="left" alt="" id="pbImage603493" src="http://rabotaswiki.pbworks.com/f/1296679823/2237660.jpg" style="border: 0px none currentcolor; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: 5px; margin-top: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;" /><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>This guy, Zurab Akhmedov, is from Russia. He lives in a small town Engels and works as a<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span></span></span><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">paediatrician</span><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #00000a; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">. Like Barack Abama, he has a wide smile, writes with his left hand and likes whisky. Sure <span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">they</span> are not twins:)</span></span></span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Yes, things happen. Unfortunately, you seldom know the reason. And anything, which is beyond your comprehension, seems to be menacing and daunting. You keep asking yourself "Why?"and get no answer just a crawling thought inside "Isn't it the hand of Fate?" or maybe it's a Matrix or a sort of "information field"? Anyway, it's not you who take decisions, everything had been predestined before you were born. That might be really demotivating at times.</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
</div><div align="justify" style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">When I decided to write about coincidences in life, I asked myself if this topic would be interesting for anyone.</span></div><div align="justify" style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: #333300; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Actually, I can only hope that my article finds its reader. Indeed, all people might be roughly divided into three camps- "Believers", "Non-believers"and "Don't- Cares". And what group do you belong to?</span></div><div style="border-width: 0px; color: #444444; font-family: inherit; font-size: 13px; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><br />
<span style="color: saddlebrown;"><span style="color: black;"><span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">PS. I guess you might like this-</span></span><br />
<span style="border-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="border-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><b>Linguistic coincidences:</b></span></span><br />
<span style="border-width: 0px; color: black; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; border-width: 0px; font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-style: inherit; font-weight: inherit; line-height: 1.2em; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Arabic<b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i>akh</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'brother' and Mongolian<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i><b>akh</b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i>'brother'<br />
Bikol<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><i>aki</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'child' and Korean<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><i>aki</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'child'<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
Arabic<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i><b>ana</b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i>'I' and Gondi<b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i>ana</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'I'<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
Arabic<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><i>anta</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'though' and Japanese<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i><b>anta</b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i>'though'<br />
Arabic<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><i>ard</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'earth' and Dutch<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><i>aard</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'earth'<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
Hebrew<b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i>ari</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'lion' and Tamil<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i><b>ari</b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i>'lion'<br />
Hebrew<b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i>awir</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'air' and Welsh<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><i>awyr</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'air'<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
Kyrgyz<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i>ayal</i><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'woman' and Parji<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i>ayal</i><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'woman' <span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
English<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><i>bad</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>and Persian<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i><b>bad</b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span></i>'bad'<br />
English<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><i>chop</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>and Uzbek<b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i>chop</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'chop'<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><br />
English<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><b><i>dog</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>and Mbabaram<b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i>dog</i></b><span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span>'dog'<br />
-<span class="Apple-converted-space" style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;"> </span><i>and hundreds of others.</i></span></span></span></span></div></span></span><span style="color: saddlebrown;"><br />
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</span></div>Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-45591900044136288192011-02-28T13:08:00.001+03:002011-02-28T19:33:54.860+03:00HighLight Issue#2<div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5v1eNX6iKwxrKzZl2_yYtVQ__BtNsojndRaeNSf4WGtrWoTLxxu-m_Ee1_x2e9nwmjeUlDNlIK4zYRSqmc3H1F2fyBAF0kfhci5sx18_CqJSY-Sz2Wu5stDgP-URkpSmpxb30A6mwQIY/s1600/career_center.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5v1eNX6iKwxrKzZl2_yYtVQ__BtNsojndRaeNSf4WGtrWoTLxxu-m_Ee1_x2e9nwmjeUlDNlIK4zYRSqmc3H1F2fyBAF0kfhci5sx18_CqJSY-Sz2Wu5stDgP-URkpSmpxb30A6mwQIY/s1600/career_center.jpg" /></a></div><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Dear readers! </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">I'm happy to announce that <a href="http://lightschool.ucoz.com/">the 2nd issue of our ezine HighLight</a> is ready for you to read. Many things happened throughout this 3-month break - New Year, Christmas and St.Valentine's Day. Have a look at our photo reports about some of these events:) I really hope that your can find something to your taste in our ezine and learn something new here.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">We would really appreciate if you left your comments after the articles you liked. Doing this, you will reward and inspire the authors for further writing! </span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12pt;"></span></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt;"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #5f497a; font-family: "Verdana","sans-serif"; font-size: 12pt;">Thank you!</span></i></div><div class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: 12pt;"><span style="color: darkslateblue;"><i><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Yours,</span></i></span></div><span style="color: navy;"><i><span style="color: darkslateblue;"><span style="font-family: Verdana; font-size: 12pt;">Marina Shvets</span></span></i></span>Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-49832983768382894932011-02-19T00:31:00.001+03:002011-02-19T00:38:00.763+03:00Incredible!!!WHO FIGURED THIS OUT?<br />
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1) Fold a NEW $20 bill in half...<br />
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<div class="tac"><img alt="Remarkable coincidenses" height="85" src="http://johns-jokes.com/afiles/images/mystery-005.jpg" width="320" /></div><br />
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2) Fold again, taking care to fold it exactly as below<br />
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<div class="tac"><img alt="Remarkable coincidenses" height="200" src="http://johns-jokes.com/afiles/images/mystery-006.jpg" width="320" /></div><br />
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3) Fold the other end, exactly as before<br />
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<div class="tac"><img alt="Remarkable coincidenses" height="152" src="http://johns-jokes.com/afiles/images/mystery-007.jpg" width="320" /></div><br />
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4) Now, simply turn it over...<br />
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<div class="tac"><img alt="Remarkable coincidenses" height="185" src="http://johns-jokes.com/afiles/images/mystery-008.jpg" width="320" /></div><br />
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What a coincidence! A simple geometric fold creates a catastrophic premonition printed on all $20 bills!!!<br />
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COINCIDENCE?<br />
YOU DECIDE<br />
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As if that wasn't enough...<br />
Here is what you've seen...<br />
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Firstly The Pentagon on fire...<br />
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<div class="tac"><img alt="Remarkable coincidenses" src="http://johns-jokes.com/afiles/images/mystery-009.jpg" /></div><br />
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Then The Twin Towers.<br />
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<div class="tac"><img alt="Remarkable coincidenses" src="http://johns-jokes.com/afiles/images/mystery-010.jpg" /></div><br />
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...And now .. look at this!<br />
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<div class="tac"><img alt="Remarkable coincidenses" height="268" src="http://johns-jokes.com/afiles/images/mystery-011.jpg" width="320" /></div><br />
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TRIPLE COINCIDENCE ON A SIMPLE $20 BILL<br />
Disaster (Pentagon)<br />
Disaster ( Twin Towers )<br />
Disaster (Osama)???<br />
It gets even better 9 + 11 = $20!<br />
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Creepy huh?<br />
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Contributor: Howard<br />
<a class="jj" href="http://johns-jokes.com/">source: http://Johns-Jokes.com</a><br />
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PodCards are for teachers and students of English as a second language. They provide valuable practice to improve learners' listening skills and give teachers additional cross-cultural classroom material. A worksheet is provided for each PodCard.<br />
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<b>High level</b> PodCards are read at a higher speed, contain more advanced structures and vocabulary and are for Intermediate students and above.<br />
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All in all, it seems to be quite an interesting resource to try with my students for extra listening practice.Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-1691335309632671852011-01-29T12:48:00.000+03:002011-01-29T12:59:23.762+03:00Focus on Pronunciation: Stress and Intonation<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTCbq6ccfYpTdmbG2hqzLY6PzVy03E7IEyMzc49SSSoNT4fIud5" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="165" width="305" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTCbq6ccfYpTdmbG2hqzLY6PzVy03E7IEyMzc49SSSoNT4fIud5" /></a></div><br />
A while ago my students asked me to give them a class on Pronunciation. To be honest, they don't have any problems with pronouncing English sounds but still don't feel that confident about their accent. So I decided to start with stressed words in the sentence and intonation. <br />
The lesson was successful, so I decided to share the lesson plan:) Hope you find it handy.<br />
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<a href="https://docs.google.com/document/pub?id=1ZgIg0hdDmDGhDtFbFaHmfLS1ssXtTcog02v_F1uKkno">Original doc is here.</a>Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-64652207903641098972011-01-25T12:15:00.000+03:002011-01-25T12:21:42.169+03:00Warm-up Idea Word Cloud<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRvkk8ad4wcKTURk0zHL2KIKBREr-AMY8ZYzZDaeogT3CAUNv8iyg"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 225px; height: 225px;" src="http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRvkk8ad4wcKTURk0zHL2KIKBREr-AMY8ZYzZDaeogT3CAUNv8iyg" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />The game is called Word Cloud. Student A needs to say a word in English related to a particular topic, e.g Health or Shopping, and the following one has to say another word beggining with the ending letter. This is a nice way of practicing your pronunciation and at the same time revising the vocabulary of the unit.The whole game takes no longer than 5 min.Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-20133544544813391602011-01-14T00:31:00.000+03:002011-01-26T01:24:04.500+03:00Heidi, Cross-eyed Opossum<a name='more'></a>Actually opossums have nothing to do with ELT, but at the moment I saw that heart-stirring creature, I decided to talk about it with my students next class. I guess it will be a good warm-up activity.<br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTyK7aNfyOl7GbFMQNHe1m_czetmEA556xj9s2-30IGV1GjWx2Ecw" imageanchor="1" style="clear:left; float:left;margin-right:1em; margin-bottom:1em"><img border="0" height="183" width="275" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTyK7aNfyOl7GbFMQNHe1m_czetmEA556xj9s2-30IGV1GjWx2Ecw" /></a></div>Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-42238933573605771082011-01-12T23:07:00.000+03:002011-01-14T00:45:11.567+03:00Innovations Pre-Intermediate Unit 6 Review<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/present/embed?id=dgkqr48n_535gnhkx4dr" width="410" frameborder="0" height="342"></iframe>Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-69456707618187640302010-11-23T03:06:00.000+03:002011-01-14T17:33:12.623+03:00HiLIGHT ezine<p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" class="style26"><span style="font-size:medium;"><img style="margin-left: 7px;" alt="" src="http://lightschool.ucoz.com/articles/career_center.jpg" align="right" /> I am happy to welcome you to the launch of our school <a href="http://lightschool.ucoz.com/">online ezine HighLight</a>. I wish to extend my gratitude to all teachers, students and friends who were so kind to submit their articles to this issue. We could not start this journal without the support of Nastya Shelyakina, Guzelia Ataulova and Sergey Papushin wishing to make this magazine a success.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;" class="style26"><span style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> I strongly believe that for a language school it is important to have a magazinе which gives free access to its contents and promotes communication in English . This is particularly significant for us whose first language is not English. That’s why we aim to invite native speakers to write for our ezine. Frankly, the goal of this project is to involve in writing as many people as possible and go international! The only criteria are willingness to master English and have something to say to the world:) <u><br /></u></span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> So if you get inspired and feel like writing something, join us!</span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" class="style26"><span style="font-size:medium;"> HighLight is a peer-reviewed ezine which publishes 3 issues a year – in November, February and April.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;" class="style26"><span style="font-size:medium;"><br /></span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;" class="style26"><span style="font-size:medium;"> I look forward to a successful first year as Editor-in-Chief and welcome any comments or suggestions you may have that would improve the Ezine.</span></p> <p style="margin: 0px;" class="style26"><span style="font-size:medium;"></span><br /></p><span style="font-size:medium;"></span> <p style="margin: 0px;"><span style="font-size:medium;"> </span></p> <p style="text-align: justify; margin: 0px;"><span style="color: rgb(0, 0, 10);"><span style="font-size:medium;"> P.S. Our ezine is not a commercial project, and it's on a free website. That's why there're commercial pop-ups on every page. Please, just switch them off and enjoy reading.</span></span></p>Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-79575303002841110622010-11-13T02:09:00.000+03:002011-01-29T13:06:14.826+03:00Using a projector in the classroom<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTEeon77eErZRJ_zqzGHRW267Z84qPBiYgs2VAcKZQCu3S9Ou_Wig"><img style="float: left; margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; cursor: pointer; width: 259px; height: 194px;" src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcTEeon77eErZRJ_zqzGHRW267Z84qPBiYgs2VAcKZQCu3S9Ou_Wig" alt="" border="0" /></a><br />
Yesterday I got inspired by my colleague to make this google presentation for Pre -Intermediate Innovation course - Unit 3.<br />
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The thing is it's really important to use as many visuals as possible at any levels I guess. Moreover, showing a presentation doesn't take a lot of lesson time, just 5 -7 minutes. But it should be interactive, I mean students are supposed to be involved. That's why pictures in this presentation appear one by one to promote students' speaking.<br />
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Thig presentation is aimed at brushing major vocabulary items of the unit before the progress tests.<br />
<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/present/embed?id=dgkqr48n_435dgdqp7fb" frameborder="0" width="410" height="342"></iframe>Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-51296061923088581992010-11-12T00:40:00.000+03:002011-01-29T13:11:09.611+03:00Welcome to our project site!<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicVJHAfpFhHHAFENkuPI8FeUYRflXuUS1ZbEBoOK0Z1jm4rfFsduupclE6k_U_Wt6w-r56VRIAwxsWhdJ0g1xUStShxw6yoF-UTTJ_jdu5G3T3dX1bfB7px33NfZPYHtPosn4ZB0wVASA/s1600/%25D0%25B3%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B2%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B0%25D1%258F+%25D0%25BF%25D0%25BE%25D1%2581%25D0%25BB1.jpg"><img style="display: block; margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 127px;" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEicVJHAfpFhHHAFENkuPI8FeUYRflXuUS1ZbEBoOK0Z1jm4rfFsduupclE6k_U_Wt6w-r56VRIAwxsWhdJ0g1xUStShxw6yoF-UTTJ_jdu5G3T3dX1bfB7px33NfZPYHtPosn4ZB0wVASA/s320/%25D0%25B3%25D0%25BB%25D0%25B0%25D0%25B2%25D0%25BD%25D0%25B0%25D1%258F+%25D0%25BF%25D0%25BE%25D1%2581%25D0%25BB1.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5538411562572194738" border="0" /></a><br />
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<a href="https://sites.google.com/site/ulyanovskregion/">https://sites.google.com/site/ulyanovskregion/</a><br />
<p>We created this site in the format of the social educational project "Teacher. Web 2.0. Step forward" and dedicated it to Ulyanovsk Region which lies in the South-Eastern part of the Russian Federation and occupies both banks of the Volga river. </p><p>The Region is mostly known and famous as Lenin's birthplace.</p><p><br />
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<span style="font-family: georgia;">I found it on </span><a style="font-family: georgia;" href="http://www.english-to-go.com/english/tools_h.cfm?CFID=2001654&CFTOKEN=54022172">English-to-go.com</a><span style="font-family: georgia;">.</span><br />
</span><p style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><b>SHOES</b></span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;"><img src="http://www.english-to-go.com/images/pix/jandal.jpg" align="left" height="117" width="175" />Where were your shoes made?<br />
How did you get them?<br />
What colour/size/shape are they ?<br />
Was there a special reason for getting them?<br />
Where have you been in those shoes?<br />
Ask your students to look at their shoes and think about their history for a minute in silence, then ask them to take a pen and paper and find a partner.</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;">In pairs the students take it in turns to find out as much as possible about the other person's shoes (you may like to have a time limit of 3 minutes each).</span></p><p style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size:130%;">While they listen to each other's answers they can take notes.</span></p><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> At the end of the activity each student takes turns to tell the class one interesting thing they found out about their partner's shoes. It really works!</span></span>Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-44952034123309808122010-10-11T01:33:00.000+04:002010-10-11T01:34:04.799+04:00Experiments with Glogster<iframe src= "http://edu.glogster.com/glog.php?glog_id=10931807&scale=100" width="960" height="1300" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" style="overflow: hidden;"></iframe>Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-69289633199462920082010-07-28T23:18:00.001+04:002011-01-29T13:13:20.263+03:00Wordle<p class="drop">Wordle is a toy for generating “word clouds” from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create with Wordle are yours to use however you like. You can print them out, or save them to the Wordle gallery to share with your friends. </p><p id="create"><a href="http://www.wordle.net/create">Create</a> your own.<br />
</p><pre id="embed"><a href="http://www.wordle.net/show/wrdl/2258235/wordle" title="Wordle: wordle"><img src="http://www.wordle.net/thumb/wrdl/2258235/wordle" alt="Wordle: wordle" style="padding: 4px; border: 1px solid rgb(221, 221, 221);" /></a></pre>Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3667234042157974057.post-2729367597064298752010-07-21T00:19:00.000+04:002010-07-21T00:46:55.076+04:00ESL video quiz on "Sleepless in Seattle" Part 1<span style="font-family: georgia;font-size:100%;" >It's my favourite movie, you know.<br />I tried to make a quiz on the first ten minutes of it. And if it gets some positive feedback, I'm planning to continue:) I think this tool should be used somehow in teaching, 'cos it's free but still you can monitor the process. As soon as you finish the quiz, you can send the results to your teacher. You just need to know his/her ID. Mine is MS1711. Look forward to your feedback!</span><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span><br /><iframe src="http://www.eslvideo.com/view_quiz_inframe.php?id=5621" width="450" frameborder="0" height="900" scrolling="auto"> Sleepless in Seatle Part 1 </iframe>Marina Shvetshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00181578043273392423noreply@blogger.com0