Vocabulary Sci-Fi

English has been one of the most popular languages for many years. Today it is the most widely spoken language in the world. Knowledge of English can bring you enormous benefits as you can stay into contact with foreigners, for instance chatting with your pen friends whose mother tongue is English, talk business with your partners or just have small talks with someone in a friendly way. It is also a well-known fact that knowledge of foreign languages can give you an opportunity to have a well-paid job being interpreter or translator. That’s why a great amount of people try not to be out of touch with current trend in learning English. It is very easy to tell the difference between educational process today and 20 years ago. If I had an opportunity to write a letter to my peers from the past and tell briefly about modern technologies it would be like this:
Hello pals,
I’m a teenager from your future. I live in 2014 where nobody has considerable difficulties with studying English because we have a lot of different ways to improve our knowledge and develop skills.

To start with, we have an opportunity to communicate with native speakers not only visiting different countries where English is official language but also to get hold of pan-friends all over the world throughout the Internet. It is a World Wide Web which helps us not to lose touch with each other. Using a programme “Skype” we can talk to foreigners non-stop as well as see them and smile at them and not afraid to be suddenly cut off or run out of money because it’s absolutely freely.Furthermore, there are plenty of different online dictionaries which can help us to learn new words, expressions, phrasal verbs and their definitions. A perfect example is English thesaurus which provides users with complete information on the meaning of a given word. Speaking my mind, it is one of the most interesting ways of learning new words. 

You can see it in the picture.

There are some other websites you can bump into searching in the Internet. ‘’Just the word’ is one of them. This visual dictionary can help you memorize new collocation faster as you can see them typed in different colours. It is also possible to create word clouds.

The next way of enhancing your level of English is using such site as “fraze. it”. You can just type a word or a phrase, for example “official language” and see the list of sentences where it is used. It is also possible to find out an appropriate article choosing different topics. Moreover, you can also learn some other useful collocations and words. Just look at this picture! 

“Quizlet” is my favourite website. There you can create your own flashcard sets or use already made ones. Memorize the new vocabulary making different tests is funnier and more interesting. I am pasting the link of this site to my letter in order to you can give it a try: http://quizlet.com/49786481/theatre-for-the-deaf-flash-cards/
I hope it was very interesting and educational for you to get to know about the studying process in 2014. Actually, all these opportunities simplify studying a lot. Thanks to the new technologies it is now possible to learn English perfectly and be able to speak as a native speaker.  Just do it!

Best wishes,Your friend from the future.

                          New life is about to happen

It was an uneventful day, to be honest like many others ones in his worthless life.  His face was devoid of any smile or humour. As usual he heard a lot of indescribable sounds and interesting conversations, but everything was inexplicable for him as he had been lying on the top shelf in a dark bookcase for many years and couldn’t observe the life of the people as earlier.

His name was English dictionary. It is said that things with such names are very important in the world and have a large following but his life seemed to be completely pointless. So, under the circumstances he kept himself occupied with different thoughts all the time but couldn’t find out any explanation. Dictionary always has a wonderful relationship with his owner. He was excelled in his job and he was quietly confident about it. He was a reputable book. But what was the origin of their divorce? Maybe it was his too old red cover or torn pages were very noticeable. He didn’t know but he still reflected on that problem all the time.

Dictionary and his owner had had a lot of extremely interesting and eventful trips to many wonderful countries, not counting that in some of them they were more than one times. His owner had an inquiring mind and always asked the dictionary a favour and the latter always tried to simplify the languages of foreigners.

One day when his owner left to New Zealand he had forgotten his small pocket dictionary at home. The owner had been so confused and defenceless during that trip that behavior of the small dictionary seemed to be unforgivable. How he could stay at home? The whole incident reflected badly on everyone involved.

It also was another funny story when his owner mistook English dictionary to his friend-novel “Three comrades”. That strange situation needed careful handling.

The red dictionary remembered a lot of other interesting stories and could talk about their earlier fascinating life non-stop but his thoughts were suddenly interrupted. A little girl had brought comparable Book to English dictionary. Her green cover was so pretty and pages so white that red-covered Book was miserable in comparison. Both of them had been trying to make a conversation and soon were succeed in it. German dictionary was quite interesting book and had told a lot of unforgettable stories about his life. He hadn’t visited many incredible countries, hadn’t seen many strange foreigners, hadn’t had the only owner but without it his life was quite amazing. German dictionary had been living in the bookshop and anticipating some changes all the time. He had seen hundreds of new faces and heard thousands of different stories from many customers but it wasn’t considerable difficulty for him to absorb all the information as he always was curious about the world outside. Early in the morning a young pretty woman bought him and brought to this bookcase. 

Green-covered book didn’t know what would happen to them but assured English dictionary that their life fraught with difficulties soon change. Today on the way home he heard that the daughter of the pretty woman eight-year-old girl is going to study foreign languages. English dictionary counted himself lucky. He knew that adventures life was about to happen. 

                          My first class of English Vocabulary     

Hello to everybody!

My name is Ruslana Pasichnyk. To be honest with you, I’m a bit green in writing different articles and this is my first experience of blogging at Blogger. It is considerably difficult for me cause I have to use as many different new words and collocations, which we learn during our classes of English as I can. So, don’t be very strict)

To begin with, everyone of us has own motto which expresses our aims or beliefs. It’s really important in order to be a personality. A lot of philosophers said that education is the most powerful weapon which we can use to change the world. I agree entirely with this statement as these words have a particular meaning for me. Frankly speaking, education is my passport to the future, because tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today. So it was a great honour to enter the Ostroh Academy two years ago, where I try to make a real effort to develop my knowledge, improve some skills and become a successful and educated person.

All our classes are very creative and full of different interesting activities. English Vocabulary is a classic example. Our teacher Inna Viacheslavivna does her best to encourage us in learning her subject. Now I want to give a brief summary of my first class of English Vocabulary.

It was some days ago. Having entered the classroom, we saw a familiar face of our teacher. At the very beginning of the class she asked to introduce ourselves in order to get to know us. Firstly, I hadn’t any ideas how to do it, but in a few seconds, Inna Viacheslavivna made it clear that we had to write as many adjectives which characterize us as our names have letters. It was a perfect example of her creativity. Everyone of us was a little bit confused but the noise soon died down and despite the fact that in our heads was utter chaos and it was difficult to come up with own thoughts we managed to do it.

Then we began to discuss our plans for this course. We faced the prospect of blogging at Blogger and it was something unusual and new for us but we wouldn’t do no such thing because it’s a nice opportunity to improve our writing skills. However, my main concern is how I am going to remember a huge amount of words and expressions. Then our teacher told us how to organize our vocabulary correctly and of course gave us our first homework.

Doing a lot of interesting activities we didn’t notice that our class had ended.

We reached agreement to learn all the new collocations and make a concerted effort to study well.