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Film genres. Part 2
👽Science fiction (Sci-fi movies): include aliens, time travel, extrasensory perception, cyborgs, futuristic robots, spacecrafts, interstellar space travel and other advanced technologies that are not present in reality.
Some best examples: Avatar, Star Wars, Alien, The Matrix, Jurassic Park
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Interesting Facts⬇️
Do you know the title of the film in Russian?
📽Do you like watchings films?
Which ones?
Film genres
💥Actions Adventure: high energy, big-budget physical stunts and chases, "good guys" battling "bad guys".
Best examples: Indiana Jones, Die Hard, Pirates of Caribbean.
😁💝Romantic Comedy: light-hearted plots set around romantic concepts, exaggerated situations, the language, actions, relationships and characters.
Best Examples: Pretty Woman, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Love Actually
⬇️To be continued
🍆Vegetables 🌶
(or what we eat as vegetables)
🍅tomato
🥑avocado
🍆eggplant / aubergine
🥒cucumber
🥕carrot
🌽corn /maize
🌶red hot chili pepper
🥔potato
🍠? if you recognize it, let me know😊
🥗vegetables salad
"After women, flowers are the most lovely thing God has given to the world".
Christian Dior
Flowers
🌷tulip
🌹rose
🌻sunflower
💐a bunch of flowers
More about 1 of September in Russia⬇️
https://russianreport.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/first-bell-day-of-knowledge-1-september-beginning-of-school-year/
🕌Kurban Bayram or The Feast of the Sacrifice is a religious holiday that is celebrated throughout Turkey and remembers the ram that Abraham sacrificed in place of his son Ismail (Isaac).
During the four-day festival, lambs are still traditionally slaughtered and the meat distributed to the poor and needy.
This is a major public holiday in Turkey, and many businesses and shops close during the festival
🐑ram: a male sheep
More questions and answers about the holiday ⬇️
https://www.theistanbulinsider.com/kurban-bayrami-or-the-feast-of-the-sacrifice-in-a-nutshell/
Some extraordinary pets ⬇️
https://www.cbsnews.com/pictures/unusual-pets-that-are-legal-to-own/
Do you have a pet?
What pet do you have?
🐶a dog
🐱a cat
🐭a mouse
🐹a hamster
🐰a rabbit
or probably
🐌a snail
🕷a tarantula
🐢a turtle
🐠a fish ?
✅ Best Apps for Learning English
#beginnerandabove
Voscreen
- Learn English by watching movies, music videos, documentaries and cartoons.
- Voscreen improves your English language ability through short video clips.
- Voscreen has a huge library of natural English video content so learning is always entertaining.
https://itunes.apple.com/tr/app/voscreen/id907906083?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.voscreen.voscreenapp&hl=en
/ˈeɪlɪən/
🇬🇧a hypothetical or fictional being from another world
🇷🇺пришелец, инопланетянин
🇹🇷 uzaylı
#myvocabulary
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⬆️Иногда фильмы не переводят дословно, иначе это будет звучать непривлекательно для аудитории. Поэтому название этого фильма "Крепкий орешек", вместо "Умереть в муках", что тоже не является дословным переводом, но звучит ближе к тексту.
/stʌnt/
🇬🇧an action displaying spectacular skill and daring
🇷🇺трюк
🇹🇷tehlikeli iş
#myvocabulary
Best resources for practicing English
Hello Talk: Learn by Chatting
The best way to learn a language is to actually speak it! HelloTalk connects you with native speakers to chat with for free.
But this isn’t your standard chat app. The interface is packed with innovative tools to make practicing a language fun and effortless.
You can chat with individual members, or join group chats for a collaborative learning experience.
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.hellotalk
https://itunes.apple.com/ru/app/hellotalk-language-exchange-learning-app/id557130558?l=en&mt=8
⬆️couch /kaʊtʃ/ noun
🇬🇧 a long upholstered piece of furniture for several people to sit on.
🇷🇺диван
🇹🇷koltuk, divan
🍏Fruits and berries 🍒
🍎apple
🍐pear
🍊orange
🍋lemon
🍌banana
🍉watermelon
🍇grapes
🍓strawberry
🍈melon
🍒cherry
🍑peach
🍍pineapple
🥝kiwi fruit
🌱 Plants 🌱
There are a lot of different plants on the earth
🌼flowers🌸
🌳trees🌲
🌾grains🌾
🍄mushrooms 🍄
🍍fruit 🍌
🌶vegetables 🍆
🍑berries🍒
🌰nuts🥜
🍁If you see a throng of children, all dressed up and everyone carrying flowers 💐, what could it be?
Well if it’s 1 сентября (1 September) or the day after when 1 сентября falls on a Sunday, then what you see is the Днём Знаний (Day of Knowledge) 📚 and the occasion of the первый звонок 🔔 (First Bell) the events marking the beginning of школа (School) each year!
Animals can be
🐅dangerous
🐼endangered, rare
🐕domestic
🐏farm
🐫desert
🦌wild
🐋marine
🦎land
🐿forest
🐁laboratory
You can
have an animal
breed an animal
hunt an animal
More collocations ⬇️
http://oxforddictionary.so8848.com/search1?word=animal
Famous animals
🐑Dolly, the sheep, is rightly referred to as the world’s most famous sheep. She was the first mammal to be born from the cloning of a ewe’s mammary glands, on 5th July, 1996.
🐕Laika was a stray mongrel who roamed the streets of Moscow with the destiny to be the first canine who went to space and orbited the earth. Born in 1954, Laika was chosen by Russian scientists to be aboard the Soviet spacecraft called Sputnik 2, in 1957.
🐎Historically Famous Animals
Chetak was the horse ridden by Mewar’s Rajput ruler, Maharana Pratap, during the Battle of Haldighati in 1576. Chetak, a Marwari horse, showed the valiance and loyalty that was characteristic to his breed, as he stuck by Rana Pratap till the very end.
🕊During the World War I, Cher Ami the homing pigeon served the US Army Signal Corps in France in 1918. She carried an important note, got injured but managed to save a lot of people.
More info and photos here ⬇️
#preintermediateandabove
http://www.wonderslist.com/top-10-historically-famous-animals/
✅ Best Apps for Learning English
#beginnerandabove
Memrise is a Language learning Platform with a website, iOS, Android and Windows Phone apps. Memrise specialises in combining memory techniques and entertaining content in order to make language learning recreational.
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/memrise-learn-languages/id635966718?mt=8
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.memrise.android.memrisecompanion&hl=en
#beginnerandabove
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