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Word of the day. 14-12-2013

Word of the Day

glutton
Definition:	(noun) A person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously.
Synonyms:	gourmand, gorger, gannet, gobbler, pig
Usage:	He is a real glutton when it comes to junk food,  but somehow he stays skinny as a toothpick. Quote of the Day To produce a mighty book, you must choose a mighty theme. No great and enduring volume  can ever be written on the flea, though many  there be who have tried it. Herma Today's Birthday George VI, King of Great Britain and Ireland (1895) The subject of the Academy Award-winning 2010 film  The King's Speech, George VI became king of the  United Kingdom following the abdication of his brother,  Edward VIII. George was an important symbolic  leader of the British people during World War II,  supporting the wartime leadership of Winston  Churchill and visiting his armies on the  battlefield. He earned the respect of his people by scrupulously  observing the responsibilities of a constitutional monarch and  by overcoming  handicap. George VI (Albert Frederick Arthur George; 14 December 1895 – 6 February 1952) was King of the United Kingdom  and the Dominions of the British Commonwealth from  11 December 1936 until his death. He was the last Emperor of India, and the first Head of the Commonwealth. As the second son of King George V, he was not expected  to inherit the throne and spent his early life in the shadow  of his elder brother, Edward. He served in theRoyal Navy and Royal Air Force during World War I, and after the war  took on the usual round of public engagements. He married  Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon in 1923 and they had two daughters,  Elizabeth and Margaret. George's elder brother ascended the throne as Edward VIII on the death of their father in 1936. However, later that year  Edward revealed his desire to marry the divorced American  socialite Wallis Simpson. British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin advised Edward that for political and religious reasons he could  not marry Simpson and remain king. Edward abdicated in order  to marry, and George ascended the throne as the third monarch  of the House of Windsor. During George's reign the break-up of the British Empire and  its transition into theCommonwealth of Nations accelerated. The parliament of the Irish Free Stateremoved direct mention of the monarch from the country's constitution on the day of his accession. Within three years, the Empire and Commonwealth,  except the Irish Free State, was at war with Nazi Germany. In the next two years, war with Italy and Japan followed. Though Britain and its allies were ultimately victorious, the United States and the Soviet Union rose as pre-eminent  world powers and the British Empire declined. After the  independence of India and Pakistan in 1947, George remained  as king of both countries, but the title Emperor of India was  abandoned in June 1948. Ireland formally declared a republic,  leaving the Commonwealth, in 1949 and India became a republic within the Commonwealth the following year. George adopted the new title of Head of the Commonwealth.  He was beset by health problems in the later years of his reign. His eldest daughter, Elizabeth, succeeded him.

Word of the day - 10-12-2013

Word of the Day

enrapture
Definition:	(verb) To fill with delight.
Synonyms:	enchant, enthrall, ravish, transport
Usage:	The Harry Potter books have enraptured millions of young readers.

Quote of the Day Terrible emotions always do sound foolish when we put them into our inadequate words. They are not meant to be spoken—only felt and endured. Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942) This Day in History Imperial Japanese Navy Sinks Two British Warships (1941) Japanese aggression in late 1941 prompted Britain to send two of their largest warships—HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse—to the Pacific as a deterrent. However, war in the Pacific escalated with the bombing of Pearl Harbor on December 7. Three days later, Japanese forces destroyed the Prince of Walesand Repulse near Singapore. The warships were the first sunk by aircraft while at sea. Today's Birthday Thomas Hopkins Gallaudet (1787) A promising student with varied interests, Gallaudet earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Yale, after which he attended seminary and became a preacher. However, upon meeting 9-year-old Alice Cogswell, the deaf daughter of a neighbor, his interests turned to education of the deaf. He traveled to Europe to study the latest methods, including sign language, and returned to found the first American free school for the deaf.

Phrasal verbs. Level-advanced.

See some of phrasal verbs that are included in the programm that my advanced students learn (this kind of materials are used for blanded course too):
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1C99aH__OtLq2ObzxsAuo5Q82liH3W37DzzlzpjKa8x4/present#slide=id.p

Essential words and synonyms for IELTS, TOEFL and CAE

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https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1L6hDzBAa4QmE4rG_4nTrcFCrby9mCMgdjxJ3HE3gRdQ/present#slide=id.gddbf307c_00

Articles A(an) and The

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IDIOMS - Feelings

Feelings

Feeling unhappy
* get up on the wrong side of (the) bed - to start the day feeling unhappy or uncomfortable
* down in the dumps - feeling unhappy

Feeling happy or good
* over the moon or walking on air - to be very happy
* a sight for sore eyes - something that you are happy to see
* whatever floats your boat - to do whatever makes you happy
* pick you up - to make you feel happier
* be swept away or carried away (by something) - to feel very enthusiastic or emotional

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Grammar lesson - either/nether

Grammar lessons

03-12-2013

How to use either and neither correctly and beware those double negatives

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Word of the Day - 2 december 2013

Word of the Day

lather
Definition:	(noun) Agitation resulting from active worry.
Synonyms:	fret, stew, swither, sweat
Usage:	"I'm not going to get into a lather over this defeat," said the manager. Quote of the Day Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a  love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who  condescends to be so treated. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) This Day in History Barney Clark Receives World's First Permanent Artificial Heart (1982) In the late 1940s, doctors at the Yale School of Medicine used parts from an  Erector Set to build  the first artificial heart pump. The device bypassed the heart of a dog for more than an hour.  However, an artificial heart would not be implanted in a human until decades later.  Barney Clark, a Seattle dentist with congestive heart failure, was the first recipient. Though the surgery was successful, Clark never recovered enough to leave the hospital and died of complications after how long?.... Artificial heart An artificial heart is a device that replaces the heart. Artificial hearts are typically used to  bridge the time to heart transplantation, or to permanently replace the heart in case  heart transplantation is impossible. Although other similar inventions preceded it going  back to the late 1940s, the first artificial heart to be successfully implanted in a human  was the Jarvik-7, designed by Robert Jarvik and implemented in 1982. The first two  patients to receive these hearts, Barney Clark and William Schroeder, survived 112  and 620 days beyond their surgeries, respectively.[1] An artificial heart is distinct from a ventricular assist device designed to support  a failing heart. It is also distinct from a cardiopulmonary bypass machine, which is  an external device used to provide the functions of both the heart and lungs and  are only used for a few hours at a time, most commonly during cardiac surgery. Origins A synthetic replacement for the heart remains one of the long-sought holy grails of modern medicine.  The obvious benefit of a functional artificial heart would be to lower the need for heart transplants,because the demand for organs always greatly exceeds supply. Although the heart is conceptually a pump, it embodies subtleties that defy straightforward  emulation with synthetic materials and power supplies. Consequences of these issues  include severe foreign-body rejection and external batteries that limit patient mobility.  These complications limited the lifespan of early human recipients to hours or days.

Word of the Day - 1 december 2013

Word of the Day

downcast
Definition:	(adjective) Filled with melancholy and despondency.
Synonyms:	low-spirited, gloomy, dispirited, blue, depressed, grim
Usage:	He walked through the door with a glum, downcast expression, and I knew without  asking that the interview had not gone well. Quote of the Day Throughout life, our worst weaknesses and meannesses are  usually committed for the sake of the people whom we most despise. Charles Dickens (1812-1870) Article of the Day The Spanish Civil War From 1936 to 1939, the Spanish Civil War raged as General Francisco Franco's Nationalists overthrew the republican government. Franco's forces were aided by Germany and Italy, who used Spain as a test site  for blitzkrieg warfare on the eve of World War II. Fierce and bloody skirmishes characterized the war of attrition, which claimed 500,000 lives. The war's end brought a period of dictatorship that lasted until the  mid-1970s. Deemed the first "media war," it was covered by which famous authors? Spanish Civil War The Spanish Civil War[nb 2] was fought from 17 July 1936 to 1 April 1939 between  the Republicans, who were loyal to the establishedSpanish Republic, and the  Nationalists, a rebel group led by GeneralFrancisco Franco. The Nationalists prevailed,  and Franco ruled Spain for the next 36 years, from 1939 until his death in 1975. The war began after a pronunciamiento (declaration of opposition) by a group of generals  of the Spanish Republican Armed Forces under the leadership of José Sanjurjo against the elected government of theSecond Spanish Republic, at the time under the leadership  of PresidentManuel Azaña. The rebel coup was supported by a number of conservative  groups, including the Spanish Confederation of the Autonomous Right,[nb 3] monarchists  such as the religious conservative Carlists, and the Fascist Falange.[nb 4][5] The coup was supported by military units in Morocco, Pamplona,Burgos, Valladolid, Cádiz, Cordova, and Seville. However, rebelling units in important cities such as Madrid, Barcelona, Valencia, Bilbao, andMálaga were unable to capture their objectives,  and those cities remained in control of the government. Spain was thus left militarily  and politically divided. The Nationalists, now led by General Francisco Franco, and the Republican government fought it out for the control of the country. The Nationalist  forces received munitions and soldiers from Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy, while  the Soviet Union and Mexico intervened in support of the "Loyalist", or "Republican", side. Other countries, such as Britain and France, operated an official policy of  non-intervention, although France did send in some munitions. The Nationalists advanced from their strongholds in the south and west, capturing most of Spain's northern coastline in 1937. They also besieged Madrid and the area  to its south and west for much of the war. Capturing large parts of Catalonia in 1938  and 1939, the war ended with the victory of the Nationalists and the exile of thousands  of left-leaning Spaniards, many of whom fled to refugee camps in southern France. Those associated with the losing Republicans were persecuted by the victorious Nationalists. With the establishment of a fascist dictatorship led by General  Francisco Franco in the aftermath of the war, all right-wing parties were fused into  the structure of the Franco regime.[5] The war became notable for the passion and political division it inspired and atrocities  were committed by both sides in the war. Organized purges occurred in territory  captured by Franco's forces to consolidate the future regime.[6] A smaller but significant number of killings took place in areas controlled by the Republicans,  normally associated with a breakdown in law and order.[7] The extent to which  Republican authorities connived in Republican territory killings varied. This Day in History The Taman Shud Case: Mystery Man Found Dead on Somerton Beach (1948) On the night of November 30, 1948, passersby on Australia's  Somerton Beach saw a man they believed to be drunk or sleeping. The next day, the mystery man was determined to be dead, which  opened the still unsolved Taman Shud Case. The dead man has  never been identified. Though investigators promptly searched  the body and found normal things like chewing gum in the mystery man's pocket, something strange was later found, taking the case in a new— but equally elusive—direction. Today's Birthday Alexandra of Denmark (1844) Though she was of royal blood, Princess Alexandra had a relatively normal upbringing. It was not until after she wed Prince Albert Edward  of Wales in 1863 that her father, Christian IX, was crowned king of  Denmark, and she did not ascend to the station of queen consort until many years after that. As queen, she devoted herself to  charitable works and was beloved by the British public.

Word of the Day -30november2013

Word of the Day

indiscretion
Definition:	(noun) A petty misdeed.
Synonyms:	peccadillo
Usage:	He had awakened with a terrible headache and a sense of some hideous indiscretion.

Quote of the Day

The Past is the region of sobs, the Future is the realm of song. In the one crouches Memory, clad in sackcloth and ashes, mumbling penitential prayer; in the sunshine of the other Hope flies with a free wing, beckoning to temples of success and bowers of ease. Ambro

Article of the Day

The James Ossuary Dating to the 1st century CE, the James Ossuary is a limestone box containing human bones. There is little doubt the ossuary is authentic, but there has been great controversy over its Aramaic inscription: "James, son of Joseph, brother of Jesus." Its owner, Israeli antiquities dealer Oded Golan, was prosecuted by Israeli authorities who charge that the inscription, or at least the last part of it, is a forgery—a stance also held by many, but not all, scholars. Where was the ossuary discovered?

The November Uprising (1830–31), Polish–Russian War 1830–31^[3] also known as the Cadet Revolution, was an armed rebellion in the heartland of partitioned Poland against the Russian Empire. The uprising began on 29 November 1830 in Warsaw when the young Polish officers from the local Army of the Congress Poland's military academy revolted, led by lieutenant Piotr Wysocki. They were soon joined by large segments of Polish society, and the insurrection spread to the territories of Lithuania, Western Belarus, and the right-bank of Ukraine. Despite some local successes, the uprising was eventually crushed by a numerically superior Imperial Russian Army under Ivan Paskevich.^[4][5][6]

Poland before the uprising

After the Partitions of Poland, Poland ceased to exist as an independent political entity at the end of 1795. However, theNapoleonic Wars and Polish participation in the wars against Russiaand Austria resulted in the creation of a rump Duchy of Warsaw in 1807. The Congress of Vienna brought the existence of that state to an end in 1815, and essentially solidified the long-term division of Poland among Russia, Prussia and the Habsburg Empire. The Austrian Empire annexed some of its territories in the South, Prussia took control over the semi-autonomous Grand Duchy of Poznań in the West, and Russia assumed hegemony over the semi-autonomous so-called Congress Kingdom.

Initially, the Russian-formed Congress Kingdom enjoyed a relatively large amount of internal autonomy and was only indirectly subject to imperial control, having its own constitution of the Kingdom of Poland. United with Russia through a personal union with the Tsar as King of Poland, the province could elect its own parliament (the Sejm) and government. The kingdom had its own courts, army and treasury. Over time, however, the freedoms granted to the Kingdom were gradually taken back and the constitution was progressively ignored by the Russian authorities. Alexander I of Russia never formally crowned himself as King of Poland. Instead, in 1815, he appointed Grand Duke Constantine Pavlovich as de facto viceroy, disregarding the constitution.

Kingdom of Poland (November Uprising) Królestwo Polskie (Powstanie listopadowe)

1830–1831  →

Coat of arms

Motto Polish: Za wolność naszą i waszą (For our freedom and yours)

This Day in History

Meteorite Strikes Ann Elizabeth Hodges (1954)

Thousands of people are struck by lightning every year, but in 1954, Ann Hodges of Sylacauga,  Alabama, became the first person in modern history to be hit by a meteorite. Hodges was  napping on her couch when she was rudely awakened by a grapefruit-sized meteorite  crashing through her roof, bouncing off her radio, and striking her on the hip. The incident  left her badly bruised. Who prevailed in the dispute between Hodges and her landlord over  ownership of the meteorite? The Sylacauga meteorite fell on November 30, 1954 at 14:46 local time (18:46 UT)[1] in Oak Grove, Alabama, near Sylacauga. It is commonly called theHodges meteorite because a fragment of it struck Ann Elizabeth  Hodges (1923–1972).[2] Importance The Sylacauga meteorite is the first documented extraterrestrial object to have injured a human being in the USA. The grapefruit-sized fragment crashed through the roof of a frame house, bounced off a large wooden  console radio, and hit Hodges while she napped on a couch. The 31-year-old woman was badly bruised on one side of her body but able to walk. The event received worldwide publicity. The Sylacauga meteorite is not the only extraterrestrial object to have struck a human. A manuscript  published at Tortona, Italy, in 1677 tells of a Milanese friar who was killed by a meteorite.[3] In 1992 a very small fragment (3 g) of Mbale meteorite hit a young Ugandan boy,[4] but it had been slowed down by a tree  and did not cause any injury. In 2009 Gerrit Blank, a 14-year-old boy in Essen, Germany, claimed to have  been hit by a meteorite, but it is unclear whether that was an actual meteorite strike. Fireball The meteor made a fireball visible from three states as it streaked through theatmosphere, even though it  fell early in the afternoon.[5] There were also indications of an air blast, as witnesses described hearing  "explosions or loud booms".[6] Following events The United States Air Force sent a helicopter to take the meteorite. Eugene Hodges, the husband of the  woman who was struck, hired a lawyer to get it back. The Hodges' landlord, Bertie Guy, also claimed it,  wanting to sell it to cover the damage to the house. There were offers of up to $5,000 for the meteorite.  By the time it was returned to the Hodgeses, over a year later, public attention had diminished and they  were unable to find a buyer willing to pay.[citation needed] Ann Hodges was uncomfortable with the public attention and the stress of the dispute over ownership of  the meteorite. Against her husband's wishes, she donated it to the Alabama Museum of Natural History.

Word of the day

Word of the Day

blowhard 

Definition:	(noun) A very boastful and talkative person.
Synonyms:	braggart, line-shooter, vaunter
Usage:	If I have to listen to that blowhard brag about his latest project for one more minute, I am going to lose my mind! Quote of the Day It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) Article of the Day Thousand-yard stare The phrase was popularized after Life magazine published the painting Marines Call It That 2,000 Yard Stare by World War II artist and correspondent Tom Lea,[2]although the painting was not referred to with that title in the 1945 magazine article. The painting, a 1944 portrait of a Marine at the Battle of Peleliu, is now held byUnited States Army Center of Military History, Fort Lesley J. McNair, Washington, D.C.[3] About the real-life Marine who was his subject, Lea said: He left the States 31 months ago. He was wounded in his first campaign. He has had tropical diseases. He half-sleeps at night and gouges Japs out of holes all day. Two-thirds of his company has been killed or wounded. He will return to attack this morning. How much can a human being endure?[4] When recounting his arrival in Vietnam in 1965, then-Corporal Joe Houle said he saw no emotion in the eyes of his new squad: "The look in their eyes was like the life was sucked out of them." Later learning that the term for their condition was the 1,000-yard stare, Houle said, "After I lost my first friend, I felt it was best to be detached."[5]