Never Ending English Lessons

The Most Useful Phrasal Verbs: Pass out Faint, lose consciousness. E.g. He got so drunk that he passed out.

Go for ZNO 2019: usage problems:  Amount, number ·          Amount is used with quantities that cannot be counted.   Use number when items can be counted. ·          A small amount of lotion, a large amount of profit. ·          A number of books, a number of delegates

Did you know that…? There are more life forms living on your skin than there are people on the planet.

Idiom of the Day: It’s raining cats and dogs   = raining very heavily

Creative Writing: “Cheating is powerfully instructive and personally harmful. Cheating to get out of doing school work or to get ahead teaches you to treat yourself like a sneak, a liar, and a thief”. How do you understand this quote? Do you agree? Maybe disagree? Have you ever cheated at school? Is cheating OK? Why do pupils cheat? What should we do about it?  These are the questions you have to answer today 😊 I. Cannot. Wait.

Quote of the Day: “I never teach my pupils. I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”  Albert Einstein ( was a German-born theoretical physicist  who developed the  theory of relativity , one of the two pillars of modern physics (alongside  quantum mechanics ).  His work is also known for its influence on the philosophy of science. He is best known to the general public for his  mass–energy equivalence  formula  E  =  mc 2 , which has been dubbed "the world's most famous equation".  He received the 1921  Nobel Prize in Physics  "for his services to theoretical physics, and especially for his discovery of the law of the  photoelectric effect ",  a pivotal step in the development of  quantum theory . )

Go for ZNO 2019: usage problems:  Among, between: Among  and  between  are prepositions.  Among  is used with three or more items.  Between  is generally used with only two items. E.g John was certainly among the most talented students in his class. John always comes between Frank and myself.

Did you know that…? A flock of crows is known as a murder.

The Most Useful Phrasal Verbs: Look Down On When you  look down on  people, you consider them to be less intelligent, less educated, or from a lower level of society than you. E.g. Some people  look down on  Hank because his father was in prison.

Idiom of the Day At the drop of a hat =   without any hesitation; instantly.

Creative Me “Cheating is powerfully instructive and personally harmful. Cheating to get out of doing school work or to get ahead teaches you to treat yourself like a sneak, a liar, and a thief”. How do you understand this quote? Do you agree? Maybe disagree? Have you ever cheated at school? Is cheating OK? Why do pupils cheat? What should we do about it?  These are the questions you have to answer today 😊 I. Cannot. Wait.

Did you know that…? McDonalds calls frequent buyers of their food “heavy users.”

Go for ZNO 2019: Improving Your Listening Skills Try some or all of these tips, and practice a little bit every day as far in advance as you can! ·         Watch DVDs of English movies and television shows (this will help with following conversations) ·        Watch DVDs of English documentaries (this will help with following  lectures) ·        Listen to DVDs on a wide variety of topics and subjects, to get used to hearing different vocabulary and speaking styles ·         … and there is more to come J

Orthodox New Year The  Old New Year  or the  Orthodox New Year  is an informal traditional holiday, celebrated as the start of the  New Year  by the  Julian calendar . In the 20th and 21st centuries, the Old New Year falls on January 14 in the  Gregorian calendar . The same day is celebrated in India as the sun ends its southward journey and starts moving northward

  Idiom of the Day A penny for your thoughts = A way of asking what someone is thinking

Creative Me We've watched two movies so far  "Stardust"  and  "The Day after Tomorrow":  Which film did you like? How did the film make you feel? Why did you like it? What aspects worked well, and which didn’t (think about script, direction, acting and soundtracks)? To what extent did it fit with your expectations? Who is you favourite character and why? And, please, remember - I want YOUR thoughts, not anybody else's!

English Olympiad 2018-2019 /  Stage II / Solomyanskyi  / Results / Grades 8 -11                                                                                                                         OUR CONGRATULATIONS!!!  № Name Grade Score Prize 1. Artem Grechka 8 A 90 II 2. Gregory Ponomarenko 9 V 78 III 3. Oleksandr Kutsevych 10 B 123 II 4. Viktoriya Bondarenko 11A 128 II 5 . Anastasia Shvets 1 1 A 1 18 III

Hey Guys, Good to have you all back at school! Laugh a little louder, smile a little bigger, love a little deeper and walk through life a little slower. O.P.