"Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things."

Flora Lewis

Thursday, 05 December 2013 10:47

A.I. (Artificial Intelligence)

 

 Before watching

1. Have people any right to create AI?
2. Can an Android designed to look like a human being behave in the way people do? Is the absence of soul really matters?
3. Would the creation of AI change the behaviour of humanity for the better of for the worse?
4. Which of the following characters is considered to be the main hero of the film?
5. What is the gist of the film story? Read the fist lines of its description and say your predictions.

Global warming has led to melting polar ice caps, flooded coastlines and a drastic reduction of the human population. There is a new class of robots called mechas, advanced humanoids capable of emulating thoughts and emotions. David (Haley Joel Osment), a prototype model created by Cybertronics, is designed to resemble a human child and to display love for its human owners…

Tuesday, 03 December 2013 18:16

Natural World

   

prepared by 2nd year students LE-22

Monday, 02 December 2013 21:47

Questions for discussion - A Man&His Character

    

Sunday, 01 December 2013 08:57

Colour Symbolism

prepared by 1st year students, group LE-34: Tanya Avramova, Olya Galagan, Tanya Stel'makh, Kostya Zolochkov

Sunday, 01 December 2013 08:46

Handwriting

prepared by 1st year students, group LE-34: Nansy Goncharenko, Viktoria Gulaeva, Anastasia Konstantinova, Anastasia Osipenko, Vlada Zadnepryanaya

We often judge people by their handwriting. It's been reported that many teachers systematically give better marks to students whose handwriting is neat and legible. When our friends write to us we judge their handwriting in the same way as we judge the way they dress. But should we be doing so?

Sunday, 01 December 2013 08:03

Physiognomy

Prepared by 1st year students, group LE-34: Polina Dudar, Dasha Gulenko, Julia Lynnyk, Myroslava Matsiychuk, Katya Novik

Below is an excerpt from “The Physiognomist's Own Book”: an introduction to physiognomy drawn from the writings of Lavater, 1841. 

Monday, 25 November 2013 20:39

Big Miracle

The film is based on the 1989 book Freeing the Whales by Tom Rose, which covers Operation Breakthrough, the 1988 international effort to rescue gray whales trapped in ice near Point Barrow, Alaska. Drawn into the collaborative rescue work are several normally hostile factions: Inupiatwhale hunters, a Greenpeace environmental activist, an oil executive, ambitious news reporters, the National Guard, the America president and politicians on the state, national and international levels…

topic: Nature&Environment
2012 family drama
runtime: 107 min.
language: English
director: Ken Kwapis
Based on: Freeing the Whales by Tom Rose
Starring: Drew Barrymore, John Krasinski

Monday, 25 November 2013 20:12

Pearl Harbour

  Pearl Harbor is a dramatic reimagining of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor and the subsequent Doolittle Raid.

  • Director: Michael Bay
  • Writer: Randall Wallace
  • Running time: 183 minutes
  • Cast: Ben Affleck, Josh Hartnett, Kate Beckinsale, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Tom Sizemore, Jon Voight, Colm Feore, Alec Baldwin

* Pearl Harbor is a lagoon harbor on the island of Oahu, Hawaii, west of Honolulu. Much of the harbor and surrounding lands is a United States Navy deep-water naval base. It is also the headquarters of the United States Pacific Fleet. The attack on Pearl Harbor by the Empire of Japan on Sunday, December 7, 1941 brought the United States into World War II.

Thursday, 31 October 2013 16:04

Vocabulary lists - Module 4 (units 7-8) - B2+

 

 

Sunday, 27 October 2013 20:37

Topics for Oral (B2+)

  • famous people
  • war&peace
  • control&power
  • news&mysteries of history
  • protest
  • educational system
  • places at school/university
  • types of school
  • exam&qualifications
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