Monday, December 31, 2018

Vocabulary Task

Good morning, my dear English learners! Happy holidays and hope you have some time for English!!!)))
  • locket
  • fibber
  • gonad
  • serene
  • audocity
  • exquisite
  • indulge
  • mullet
  • fecund
  • spur
  • susceptible
  • induce
  • pat
  • retina
  • substantial
  • siphon
  1. I want to talk to you about the ______.
  2. Let this true story serve as a warning to all inclined to tell tall tales: nobody believes a _____.
  3. The affected _____ cells will continue to produce sex cells with those mutations for the rest of the life of the organism.
  4. She looked at him for a moment in silence, but the expression on her face was still ______.
  5. she was a strange combination of ______ and innocence.
  6. He looked at her ______ prettiness and then said very gently: "I think you should get into the carriage."
  7. It was a grey, rainy day and, after doing her homeowrk, Dorina decided to ______ in reading the new book she had been given as a present: "The Enchanted Sea of Capri."
  8. The latter on her turn, because of her immense goodness, acknowledged the _____ the merit for her beautiful emerald-green colour tail.
  9. While not as short-lived or as _____ as fruit flies mice can nevertheless produce enough young arena reasonable period of time to yield statistically useful results.
  10. They cut taxes to _____ the economy during their administrations.
  11. Almost at once, when the studies began again, it turned out that mice were more ______ to genetic damage than fruit flies were.
  12. The ______ mutation rate per gene seems to be about fifteen - times that found in Drosophilla for comparable Xray doses.
  13. in the male, cells in the _______are constantly diving to produce sex cells.
  14. There's been an old man rat in the diary, and he's stolen a _____ of butter and the rolling pin!
  15. Living tissue, however, is largely unaffected - the _______ of the eye being one obvious exception.
  16. The man suggests that she uses the credit card because she won't have to pay it off until the end of the month but the problem is the interest rate would be ______.
  17. Basically canals connect a water supply like a river or reservoir to the fields where ditches are constructed with the valves that allow farmers to ______ water from the canal, sending it down through the ditches.

Saturday, December 29, 2018

Vocabulary Task

Good evening,my dear English learners!
Let's check your vocab knowledge!!!))))
  • steer
  • locket
  • krill
  • entail
  • deleterious
  1. He was called Bucephalus, which in Greek means _____-head.
  2. Then Anna sees the silver _____ around Julie's neck.
  3. More than one million tons of _____ is eaten by both animals ans humans every year.
  4. While worrisome, the decline of traditional print media need not  _____ the end of investigative journalism.
  5. The size of a genetic load depends on two factors: the rate at which a _____ gene is produced through mutation, and the rate at which it is removed by not ural selection.

Friday, December 28, 2018

Vocabulary task

Good afternoon, my dear English learners! Let's check your vocabulary knowledge!)))
  • locket
  • cumulative
  • kipper
  • daddy long-legs
  • earwig
  • slug
  • pastimes
  • wallow
  • sniffle
  • suave
  1. Paul takes the _____ and throws it into the water.
  2. His wife, Marie Curie, and their daughter, Irene Joliot- Curie, who spent their lives working with radioactive materials, both died of leukemia, very possibly as the result of _____ exposure to radiation.
  3. You may be familiar with the idea that words such as science, transport ans solution are derived from Latin, but did you know that street and  _____ come from Latin words which entered ordinary speech during the period from the first to the early fifth centuries AD, when Celtic Britain was part of the Roman empire?
  4. A new research has determined that warm summers are dramatically reducing populations of _____, which in turn is having a severe impact on the bird populations which rely on them for food.
  5.  The humble _____ could help school pupils learn important lessons about mating and nurturing, a leading biologist has claimed.
  6. The sea _____, Elysia chlorotica, looks like a leaf.
  7. What are the various ______ of people in your country?
  8. It is natural to bemoan the end of relationship and to _____ in self -  pitying thoughts such as the conviction that this means  I'll always be alone, but it's sure to thicken the sense of despair.
  9. It looks like Rustam has the ______ now.
  10. Jonathan, as _____ as ever, swept into her flat, which was exquisitely decored.
  11. Elvira _____ at her hypocracy.
  12. Jonathan put a finger to his lips, _____ her into the living room and pointed to an armchair.

Thursday, December 27, 2018

Vocabulary task

Good evening,my dear English learners!
Here are the new words for you. Match them with the sentences:
  • locket
  • ceilis
  • courtesy
  • martyr
  • stuntman
  • brassiere
  • sales ledger clerk
  • molest
  • hamper
  • pout
  • lurk
  • pesky
  • betel
  • indulge
  • lesion    
  1. Take the _____off!
  2. These _____ fragments are distributed widely in the atmosphere.
  3. They want people to sing and laugh in their pubs, dance at their _____, and most important of all to talk.
  4. He gracefully moved over with _____ for Grey Donkey, Pig and clover.
  5. They _____, and cuddled, and nestled again.
  6. He thought he was a _____.
  7. He can fly an aeroplane and he wants to become a _____.
  8. I suggest  that you wear your _____ when you go to London not every day.
  9. When we consider the accounts team within a company, we generally think clerks, both _____, and purchase ledger clerks recording the financial information from all transactions.
  10. Don't feed or _____!
  11. I throw my clothes on the floor instead of putting them in the ______.
  12. Do you _____ or throw temper tantrums when you don't get your way?
  13. What monkey thief was ______ and some naughtiness was being planned.
  14. That ______ monkey was looking on.
  15. Meanwhile the men reached out for the ______ leaves and sweets, and shook their heads in wonder at such excellent behaviour.
  16. It was a grey, rainy day and after doing her homework, Dorina decided to ______ in reading the new book she had been given as a present.
  17. By far the major part of this additional dosage is the result of the use of Xrays in searching for decayed teeth, broken bones, lung ______, swallowed objects, and so on.

Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Free Academic book to read

Good evening,my dear English learners!
I have just finished reading this book:
http://www.tarjomano.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/Is-that-a-Fish-in-your-Ear.pdf
Really interesting!!!

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

Monday, December 24, 2018

1000 basic English words

Good afternoon,my dear English learners! I found a link with basic 1000 words in English with Russian translation:
http://poligloty.blogspot.com/2013/08/1000-english-words.html

Vocabulary task

Good evening,my dear English learners?
Let's check your vocabulary today! Can you match the words with the sentences?
locket
inconsolable
sniffle
probation
shuffle
scythe
fission
adjunct
onerous
gourd
nudge
liability
  1. I found the _____ near the shore.
  2. The death of a beloved wife is the most _____ of evils.
  3. Divya has the _____.
  4. The day I got off _____, I started drinking.
  5. A child may possess some characteristics not present in either parent through the mere _____ of chromosomes and not through mutation.
  6. There was         my sister's son, Tom who cut his arm with a _____ -  he fell on it out in the fields. 
  7. In addition, a variety of radio isotopes are left behind in the form of the residue of the _____ atoms.
  8. These _____ of modern science and medicine are more common and widespread in technologically  advanced countries than elsewhere, and muclear bombs have most often been exploded in just those latitudes where the advanced  countries are to be found.
  9. That all this might not be too _____ on the purses of his rustic patrons, who are apt to consider the costs of schooling a grievous burden, and schoolmasters as mere drones, he had various ways of rendering himself both useful and agreeable.
  10. We cut plates and spoons from the _____  and put them in the sun.
  11. Here's a great example of a very simple _____ that really change people's behaviour.
  12. In Britain and the US partnerships do not have limited ______ for debts, so the partners are fully liable for any debts.