Miss Lingva March 2015 by Яна Бурмистрова

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Beauty Products Mrs. Globe advises, how shape up after holidays

He loves jelly Charlie Armstrong

«Receive what you want to give them»

FROM THE EDITOR Hello everyone “Miss Lingva” as a kind of scientific reporting on language and linguistics, increasing students’ motivation for learning foreign languages and my first international project experience. Well, what is a linguistic magazine? It is a magazine with articles on linguistics- and language-based theory, news, application, findings, and field reports. It is committed to diversity in its scope of reporting, covering both the scientific and applied sides of linguistics, while maintaining a neutral stance towards debates occurring within the field. I love learning languages and try to use all the facilities for this. Once I saw an online linguistic magazine on the internet. It was Babel. Babel is written and compiled by world-class linguists. . And I liked the idea to create me own magazine. And I decided to bring this project to my classmates and foreign students. Of course, the publication of a school magazine is a very difficult task. And here is what I and my team did. Special Thanks to my colleagues! You are the best!

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Editor-in-chief MARIYA POLYAKOVA Editor DARIA POLUKHANOVA Creative Director YANA BURMISTROVA Producer ELENA BURMISTROVA Designer LEONID NIKULIN Reporters OLGA CHERNOKLINOVA SERGEY LISITSIN LINA FEDORENKO ANASTASIA PODZAREY

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NEWS AND EDITORIAL The World of your opportunities

OPINION AND COMMENT 4

FEATURES Competition «Me and my Mom»

Thank you, mummy!

Poema para mi querida madre

Show the world how proud you are being a woman A young designer MaLy

The foreign language universities Rainbow Loom TOP 5 Beauty Products for Spring 2015

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SCHOOL MATTERS Modern Tricks Meet Tradition. He loves jelly

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GOOD WORKS The Children of this Land

brief survey A brief survey of the book “Brida”

Mrs. Globe advises, how shape up after holidays

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NEWS AND EDITORIAL

The World of your opportunities

The festival «the World of your opportunities» is a new format for children and teen activities. The idea of the project is to create a bright, fun and inspiring environment for the implementation and development of personality of children and adolescents. This project helps the child to not to feel lonely. We, Polukhanova Daria and Suinova Snezhana, visited four children’s charity festival «the World of your opportunities», in Moscow on 21 February, 2015. He was completely dedicated to children. They can play, practice yoga, draw, make soaps of a variety of forms, to mold test different shapes to make handwritten engravings, to weave wonderful bracelets and even test your fingerprints! The children talked, among themselves, and with adults. Were dancing to the music of singers with a great voices: Eteri Beriashvili, Nelly Mesropyan, Alexander 4

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Belov, Julia Samoylova, Nitai, Natasha Kors, Vladislav Vigilucci, Julia Holod, Anton Zatsepin and others... The festival was founded on the holiday of Maslenitsa. The children had fun by leading, playing games, dancing and eating delicious pancakes and donuts. By looking at them, we can say that this festival had brought them a lot of joy, care and love. The children had met and talked with other guys. This day, they’ll will remember for sure! As we can see, we can safely say that this festival brings so much good, as this festival really helps kids. It is nice to know that there are people who care about such issues. Thanks to the organizers of the festival. The children were really happy and grateful to the event that is dedicated to them.

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FEATURES

ÂŤME and my MomÂť

A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon us; when adversity takes the place of prosperity; when friends desert us; when trouble thickens around us, still will she cling to us, and endeavor by her kind precepts and counsels to dissipate the clouds of darkness, and cause peace to return to our hearts.

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Washington Irving

2 Mother is the most important person in everybody’s life. A good mother is compassionate and full of understanding. She listens to her children and sets an example for them. A good mother is also someone to look up to. A mother is also a friend. She listens to problems her children have at school as well as those problems from other friends and the peer pressure her children have to deal with.

3 Meet the winners of our competition «Mе and my Mom» All photos were very nice and touching. Thank you very much for your happy moments of life! Be happy and don’t forget to smile!

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FEATURES

Thank you, mummy!

by Karina Petuntc only love, tenderness, heartwarming photographs. It is also a special kind of responsibility. Ideally, mother is the person with whom the child is most comfortable and quiet. With her, he can be relaxed, be yourself. Because he feels her protection. If a child is to be fed with this security, then it is easier to build a relationship with the world. Is it not precious? Mother’s love is a selfless service. Many people say mother’s love is the most spiritually in this world. Because mother can’t deny her child and love him anyway. Even criminals have a mother, and many of them continue to love even stumbled child. Mother doesn’t cease to love, even when child already has his own family, even when he forgets about mom, living their lives. He will remain as a child in his mother’s heart forever. The mother gives the child as much as he can never return to her. She gives it all without having to wait to get back. Mother gives her children very much – her blood, her image, her love, her values, an example of life, attitudes to themselves and others. Mother deserves our respect and love. But for what? We conducted a small survey where the children and teenagers responded to this question. Here are their answers: • «Thank you mom for that when I was little you bought me that I really wanted, because of this, I get everything I want now» • «Thanks mom for being a child I had the most beautiful costumes for matinees at school» 8

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Mummy… how many meanings of this word are there?! It is support and assistance in life, gentle kiss, soft hands, kind eyes and inimitable smile. It is an unique smile, because no one can smile as my darling mother! Mom always wishes me all the best, gives me hope and never leaves me along. But what should I give her in return? I am often capricious, argue, disagreeable. Why do not I and other children appreciate our mother’s care? It’s bad on our part and we have to change. At first we need to understand who is mother. Mother is not only a woman who gave birth to you. But it is the person who educates you, gives you her infinite love and does everything to make you happy. She did not sleep at night when you were sick . Every mother worried about her child no less than about herself. It is not easy to be a mom. Motherhood is not • «Thank you mom for trying to teach me , I became an excellent student in my school» • «Thank you mom for goodies and sweets that you pleased me» • «Thank you Mom for this world! Thank you Mom for taking care of me! Thank you Mom for Love! Thank you Mom for understanding and support! Thank you Mom for comfort in the house! Thank Mom for the education! Thank you Mom for my sisters and brothers! Thank you Mom for your contribution to my life!» As you can see, we can thank our mothers endlessly and there is always something to be thankful. Mom has done so much for us. That is why we should appreciate her. Even though what that mom each only one and no one can ever replace her. How we can thank my mother for all it? At first do not hurt your mom. Just be a little more attention, take care of her , let her feel that you truly love her. Meet mother after work, give a flower or just help with the bags from the store. Take a walk on the way home, wondering how her day was. Do surprises for no reason: bring a bouquet of wildflowers. Even a simple house cleaning will please her and release her evening or weekend. And do not be stingy once again say that you love her. There are three words, but they will not replace any one of your gift. You probably already know what and how to thank your mom now, don’t waste time!

Poema para mi querida madre La armonía de la vida se concentró en tu vientre, formando mi ser con tu inagotable amor de madre. Nací bajo el manto de la tierna protección de tus manos, ayudándome a levantarme de mis caídas con tus sonrisas. Me acunas con tu melodiosa voz secando con ellas mis lágrimas y cuando sonrío soy yo, quien seca tus lágrimas de amor. Para ti, siempre seré única, aquella que creció en tu interior, la criatura que alimentaste con tu sangre y tus sueños la hija por quien te sacrificaste vendiendo tus ilusiones a la vida, a cambio de mi felicidad. El tiempo sembró en tu cabello hermosas canas y las arrugas van marcando bellos senderos en tu divina cara. Madre, que Dios bendiga la inmortalidad de tu alma, porque yo tu mortal hija solo puedo amarte entregándote mi corazón forjado por tu sangre. ¡Gracias por darme la vida y hacer de mi un ser especial y digna de ser tu hija! ¡Te amo madre mía!

FEATURES

Show the world how proud you are being a woman

by Burmistrova Elena

A woman’s face with Nature’s own hand painted Hast thou, the master-mistress of my passion; A woman’s gentle heart, but not acquainted With shifting change, as is false women’s fashion; An eye more bright than theirs, less false in rolling, Gilding the object whereupon it gazeth; A man in hue, all hues in his controlling, Which steals men’s eyes and women’s souls amazeth. And for a woman wert thou first created, Till Nature, as she wrought thee, fell a-doting, And by addition me of thee defeated, By adding one thing to my purpose nothing. But since she pricked thee out for women’s pleasure, Mine be thy love and thy love’s use their treasure. William Shakespeare ( Sonnet 20) 10

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Ladies, let’s celebrate our day – it’s international Women’s Day! Show the world how proud you are being a woman. A famous British scientist Stephen Hawking once said that the greatest mystery of all time is not related to science at all, but are the WOMEN all along. Today, March 8, marked the celebration of Women’s Day all around the globe, giving us all an opportunity to recognize the most “mysterious” specie God has ever invented. International’s Women’s Day is the day to celebrate womanhood. On May 8, 1965 International Women’s Day was declared as a non working day in the USSR, by the decree of the USSR Presidium of the Supreme Soviet. 8 March is kind of a combination of St. Valentine’s and Mother’s Day. It is a wonderful day of womanhood, love, flowers and indulgence. Most Russians celebrate Women’s Day at home enjoying a big meal. Some people are going to visit their friends. Only 3% of the Russians are planning to go out to a restaurant. Russian women like to receive following gifts: chocolate, fragrances and cosmetics, souvenirs, jewelry and, of course, flowers! Tulips are symbols of spring. Along with mimosas and daffodils, tulips are the most popular flowers giv-

en on Women’s Day. Also the colour of flowers might be important. Some superstitious Russian women associate yellow flowers with unfaithfulness and a break-up. It is better choosing red or white flowers. The only exception to this rule is the yellow mimosa, one of the typical flowers given on the Women’s Day. Here’s a partial list of flowers’ meanings to help you get started. Follow them, dear men! Carnation- Fascination Chrysanthemum- Friendship, Daisy- Loyal love, Orchid- Love and beauty Lily- Purity and sweetness Red rose- Romantic love Pink rose- Secret love Yellow rose- Friendship White rose- Innocent love Rose, Yellow & Orange: Passionate thoughts Lilac, Mauve: “Do You Still Love Me” Honeysuckle – The Bond of Love Ambrosia: Your Love is reciprocated Camellia, red: You’re a flame in my heart Camellia, white: You’re adorable Forget-me-not: Faithful Love, Memories Hibiscus: Delicate Beauty Hyacinth, purple: I am sorry, Please forgive me, Sorrow Oleander: Beauty and Grace Periwinkle, White: Pleasures of Memory

Men have to cook on this day! Godspeed! Cheese Cookies (they are my favourite cookies) Ingredients : 1 cup white flour, 2 tsp baking powder, 1 tsp butter, ¼ tsp salt¸ ½ cup milk, little bit of grated cheese

Preparation Preheat the oven at 350 F for 10 minutes. Mix all the ingredients except cheese in a bowl and make a dough. Roll the dough into a thin layer and divide it into two parts. Sprinkle one half with grated cheese, lay the other half of the dough over the cheese, cut with a small cutter, and bake at 350 F for 20 minutes. 2015, March / missLINGVA

FEATURES

A young Designer provided her skirt to shoot in the magazine Miss Lingva Яркие юбки

MaLy is a brand of women’s clothing created by a young designer Mariya Lukina. The main focus of collections is bright skirts. Each girl who wears them can feel relaxed, feminine, elegant and cozy. The main principle of the designer is «A woman should be a bonne femme , and the clothes set a stress on this fact !» For her skirts Mariya chooses texture and bright fabrics, experimenting with long and strive to combine incongruous. For the first issue of the spring magazine Miss Lingva, MaLy provided a deep violet skirt Brida from the new collection Provocation spring / summer 2015. «I am very pleased that the model of the March issue appeared on the cover of this young but interesting and truly high-quality magazine in a skirt MaLy! It is the first time when my skirts are on the cover and it is an uncommon occurrence! I hope that our cooperation will continue and it will be certainly bright! You should live lovingly and bright! Do as you feel and wear something that makes us special!

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BRIEF SURVEY

A brief survey of the book “Brida” by Maria Lukina Life is a very fleeting thing. It seems like there are still a lot of years of self-knowledge, new discoveries and ways, look around and you will understand : find yourself then and there. Otherwise it will be too late.

During the last years I have read many books, but only his books I am ready to re-read. He helps us to open ourselves. He looks into the soul. He teaches to be a real. He is Paulo Coelho. He is a Brazilian lyricist and novelist. Paulo Coelho was born on 24 August in 1947. He is the recipient of numerous international awards, one of them is the Crystal Award by the World Economic Forum. “The Alchemist” is his most famous novel. It has been translated into 80 languages. In Russia Paulo Coelho became a well-known author after writing the novel “The Alchemist”. After that he published more than 10 books in Russia and became one of the most readable modern writers. The bright and bewitching novel “Brida” is considered to be one of the most popular «female novels» of the last decades. The Publisher group AST published the novel “Brida” in 2008. But for the first time novel Brida was published in 1990 in Brazil. This book is translated into 39 languages. It is a story of a beautiful young Irish girl and her quest. The main character is Brida. She finds a hermit mage who teaches her to overcome fear and how to dance to the hidden music of the world. They saw a thousand graces in her, but he has to let her make her own voyage of discovery. As Brida seeks her destiny, she tries to find a balance between her relationships and her desire to transform herself. «The soil needs to seed and the seed - the soil. One without the other can not exist. The same happens with people. Comprehension when men connected with the transformation of a woman, born great magical union. This union cold wisdom. have wisdom - it means to comprehend and transform» (c) Paulo Coelho «Brida»

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OPINION AND COMMENT

Mrs. Globe Maria Andreeva advises, how shape up after holidays

The first week after Christmas holidays is not easy for many people: they need to return to the tempo of modern living, and yet numerous feasts affected our appearance. What should we do, if during the holidays you gain in weight , and how can we shape up fast and without harm for our health ? Our colleague has already interviewed Maria Andreeva. She is title holder «Vice Mrs. Globe 2013». She went to this title through the thorns. Maria has three children. And after the birth of the youngest child weighed over 100 kilograms. Only right approach to the problem strength of mind helped her to lose 50 kilograms during the year. She knows very well how to get rid of New Year’s salad. Maria Andreeva: «Firstly I want to say, that to be on a diet is not correct. Your food is your way of life. A diet, that is suitable for everybody, does not exist, and everything must be chosen individually. In either case, sharp limitation of nutrition is a stress to the body.

Because of this your body operates in power saving mode and won’t return its fat stock. You won’t lose weight, and on the contrary, will begin to put on weight. After holidays the first case you need to study, what was your food, and what products were more in your body: containing of proteins, carbohydrates or fats. This can be done either with the help of professionals in a special device, or by examining your food diary. It’s very important to understand, how much polluted is your body, accordingly, to establish a program of cleansing and detox, starting cleansing of the body. But, in any case, do not start fasting sharply, and slowly get out of overeating, going to a lighter, quickly digested food the food, – if you were not enough her during the holidays. As a result, highquality work on yourself, you will lose unwanted kilograms, excess water. Puffiness will fall down. And your next task is to keep shape! 2015, March / missLINGVA

OPINION AND COMMENT

For those who are going to enter the foreign language universities

by Safyanova Julia Moscow Hi. My name is Julia Safyanova, I am 23. I am from Kremyonki although I do not live here anymore. I graduated from Kremyonki Secondary School #2 in 2008. As many of my schoolmates, I had a very vague idea about my future profession. Friends and relatives gave me different advice but I still did not know what to choose. Finally I decided that probably the best thing is to study languages because I always can get some additional education but in all spheres of activities the most appreciated specialists are the ones who know a language or two. So I entered Moscow Pedagogical State University, Faculty of Foreign Languages. For 5 years of my education I studied Practical and Theoretical Grammar and Phonetics, Lexicology, History of Language, German and many other things. In 2013 I graduated from the university with a red diploma and again with no definite plans for future. I looked through some Internet resources and came to conclusion that considering my education the possible jobs for me are personal assistant of some top manager, interpreter, teacher (what definitely does not suit me) or secretary in some international company. As 16

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you may see, all these options are only administrative and presuppose no career development. It became even more evident to me after I spent a year in a large construction company. There are engineers and managers who conclude contracts, design building and control the cash flows. And there are interpreters whose task is only to translate someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s letters, correct someoneâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s mistakes and translate during meetings. I realized very quickly that it is definitely not the ambition of my life. My ex-group mate who worked as a secretary in had the same feelings. It is one thing to learn English as a hobby. But if you are going to study it deeper in some university, think twice whether you really need it. Of course it is interesting to study typical speech patterns or peculiarities of consonants in Medieval English. But if you are not a scientist this information is mostly useless. All that I have described is only my experience. Yom may take this into consideration or may not. As for me now I am taking my second education in Economy and I hope you will make you right choice too. Good luck!

Rainbow Loom By Maria Zimatkina Hello everyone, it’s me again, Maria Zimatkina, and today I want to tell you about an American craft that is becoming very popular in many different countries. This product is called «Rainbow Loom». It is a new style of bracelets made out of small little rubber bands. I found out about this product when I was living in the US. Many kinds in my school were many wearing these really cool bracelets. I’ve got very interested with this kit and wanted to make bracelets like that too. So, I asked my mom if we could try this. She liked that idea and she said «yes». I was really excited!! When we came home, I immediately sat down and started searching tutorials for such bracelets on my favorite «YouTube». The first bracelet that I tried to make was one of the hardest styles and was called «The Starburst». I quickly realized that it was my first mistake...choosing to make one of the hardest bracelets, when I had no experience with the rainbow loom. I spent on it four long hours. Eventually, my mom helped me a bit, because we both got really confused. After all, we did make it! And I really liked it. «Rainbow Loom» is a plastic loom with three columns and in each column there are thirteen pegs. It is also comes with a plastic hook and 600 rubber bands. Additional bands may be purchased in craft stores in huge variety of shades and colors. Rainbow loom is not just for making bracelets, you can make charms, ankle bracelets, necklaces, and many more creations. To make a bracelet you need to put a specific pattern of bands on the loom and then secure the creation you need to hook the rubber bands in a specific order as well.

The creator of this kit is Ching Chong. He used to work in the company called Nissan where he was an engineer for crash-tests. He and his family lived in Michigan, USA. One night his daughters were making bracelets out of small rubber bands and Ching decided to join them. But it was really hard for him, because of his big fingers. After that he created a loom, along with a hook, to make it easier to make bracelets. He took a piece of wood, hammered in push pins and took a hook for removing plaque on teeth and with a few placements of bands he made a bracelet with a rhombus pattern. His daughters were amazed with this invention and they immediately wanted to start making these really cool bracelets, learn how to make them, and show all of their friends. Ching’s daughters offered him to try and sell his invention online. From that point on «Rainbow Loom» started to amaze people in the USA. Rainbow Loom is known in almost every school. Boys and girls ages from 8-15 are really interested in this product, even parents got hooked. Parents liked this because their kids finally got off the computers, TVs, games, and did something productive. Some people even use «Rainbow Loom» as a fundraisers. One little boy named Max was diagnosed with cancer, and he and his mom decided to use rainbow loom to raise funds for his treatment. They came on a popular American show with Jimmy Kimmel and on that show they asked if people could send in their Rainbow Loom creations. With the creations they would have someone make a suit and tie all out of «Rainbow Loom», then they would sell it on a website called EBay and the money would go to fight childhood cancer. Also, people come up with their own ideas to create different things from rainbow loom and they share them on YouTube. I enjoy watching tutorials because I get to see other designs that people create. I really love this crafty product. Here is a list of good rainbow loom channels on YouTube: TutorialsbyA , Feelinspiffy, Justinstoys , ElegantFashion360, MadeByMommy In the nearest future, I’m planning to make a YouTube channel myself and share with everybody my creations and my huge collection of these crafts that is still growing, and growing. 2015, March / missLINGVA

OPINION AND COMMENT

TOP 5 Beauty Products for Spring 2015

by Makeeva Alyona - beauty and food blogger, consultant in public relations Spring is a wonderful time – nature awakens and renews. I suppose, nature is wise, because it cleans up itself inside and outside before flowering. Pursuant to Ayurveda, an ancient science, spring is the best time to follow nature and clean our bodies. First of all, we ought to start with eutrophy, secondly, we should clean our face and body thoroughly, because our skin, being a protective mechanism, accumulates harmful and negative elements, preventing them from getting into organism.

FACE. Besides your usual care, such as cleaning, moisturizing, additional care, add serum or oil. Serum helps our skin not only to protect itself from various negative ecological factors (radicals, exhaust fume), it also helps us to extend care. My favorite serum is the hard serum bar . It is an extra natural product that deeply moistures face skin and renews it with ease. As it works

at night, oils that enter into the composition of serum, participate in regenerative processes deep into epidermis, helping to stay young and beautiful longer. Let’s see how it works. The main ingredient is murmur oil, which is extracted from murmur tree seeds (murmur trees grow in Brazil and the Amazon region). It is highly emollient and moisturizing, and is perfect for dry skin. Murmur butter is also protective and good for sensitive skin thanks to its film-forming value and high content of vitamins. Traditionally, this oil is used to soften and protect hair. The second important ingredient is calamine powder. Calamine is zinc oxide and is used in med-

ical ointments as a perfect antiseptic. It is a great solution to relieve redness, stinging and irritation of the skin. The third one is rose, a gentle and useful component. The main qualities are smoothing and conditioning. Rose is being used in cosmetic since the Roman times. The last ingredient is fresh Portobello mushrooms. I cannot, but agree that it sounds crazy. The mushrooms are full of vitamins B, C and D, rich in zinc and potassium. I like this product not only for its’ skin care effect, but also for its’ esthetic quality. It looks like an oil tablet and it melts under the warmth of your fingers. This is a real way to say “thank you” to your skin.

Have you ever been to Bali? It is a Paradise! The island is covered with a great number of tremendous flowers and trees, warm aromas and spices pervade the air, and people look so happy. It is not surprising that one of the best care oils is from Bali. It is called Paradise, hydrate by BY-cosmetics. This hydrate is absolutely natural and contains only organic ingredients. The basic oils of this beauty product are jojoba and apricot that are also known as the main beauty ingredi-

ents. Hydrate also contains rosehip, avocado, wheat, geranium and lemon oils, and vitamin E as well. It is a source of beautiful and radiant skin! When I first opened the bottle of «Paradise» I lost my head of the blended smell of rosewood, fresh lemon and rough geranium with drydown of magnolia and spices. This hydrate is extremely healthful: rosewood gives our skin freshness, softness and smoothness, avocado protects and moisturizes, rosemary has antiseptic action. As for

me, this is my favorite beauty product that I apply in the evening and that unites care and aromatherapy in one bottle.

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HAIR. Winter is an unfavorable season for our hair that becomes damaged and dry. Our duty is to protect and

restore it, bring it silky and shiny. My choice for hair care is BC Barbary Fig Oil by Schwarzkopf Professional. The BC Barbary Fig Oil is a light nutrition oil, extremely rich with in vitamin E and linoleic acid, thus making it an effective treatment for damaged hair. Barbary Fig seed oil protects against free radicals, stimulates new hair growth and provides intense hydration. Active

minerals, vitamin K and amino acids have a potent antioxidant action that is resulted in protection, smoothes, softness and flexibility of your hair. I also like a rich intense mask of the same BC Barbary Fig Oil series by Schwarzkopf Professional. It is very unusual, thick, as a peanut oil, with rich Barbary smell. The mask makes hair soft, strong, silky and protected, and it even restores hair ends, hence your hair becomes shiny and looks great. If your face and hair are good, it is time to take care of your body.

BODY. There are a lot of women look great, but not all of them pay atten-

and body, and will protect, moisturize and smooth your skin. My choice is

tion to their body skin. Our body skin is exposed to damage as well as face or even worse. It gets dry underneath clothes or after taking a bath/ shower, it lacks oxygen - all these factors influence our body skin and its health, and as a consequence out body skin loses moisture and grows old. That is why body protection is one of the most serious and important beauty rituals. There are hundreds of different body lotions, creams and oils and there is one universal piece of advice â&#x20AC;&#x201C; choose the solution that will meet the requirements of your own skin

Ictyane lait hydratant body lotion by Ducray. The lotion structure is light and gentle, that in its turn makes the lotion comfortable and easy to use. The lotion contains such ingredients as safflower seed oil and coconut oil, which are famous for fatty acids and vitamins. These components are also called oils for perfection, because their positive influence for skin is specified as softness, smoothness, skin nourishment, regeneration. I like the Ictyane lotion for the moisturizing action without feeling heaviness of my skin. It is worth mentioning

that the manufacturer Pierre Fabre is the only company that produces farm cosmetic and has a great experience in medical skin treatment. All of the companyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s products are dermatologically tested and could be applied to any skin type.

LIPS. The last, but not the least beauty product is a lip balm. Not every woman wants to spend much time to make up, but all of us want to be beautiful. Colour lip balm is a great idea for express make-up. I prefer Pout Polish by Sleek MAKE UP. It protects lips from getting dry and nega-

The lip balm ingredients include almond oil, shea butter, vitamin E, as well as SPF 15 factor. With the Pout Polish your lips will look so shiny and sexy, while a wide range of colours allow to change your image as often as you wish. Today is easy to be beautiful and to take care of yourself, so, please, choose correct products, and your skin will thank you with a healthy

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SCHOOL MATTERS

Modern Tricks Meet Tradition.

Ways of Learning Foreign Languages

Numerous methods of learning foreign languages are known to have appeared lately. Every new approach claims to possess unique tricks that will help one master a foreign language in a short time. However, how efficient are all these techniques in comparison to the traditional approach? How easily can one adopt them and adapt them to one’s own mindset? Are we too old dogs to learn new tricks? Sure enough, no new tricks will work unless they form an entity and are successfully combined. Although any approach to language learning can be useful, it should be noted that a certain method is apt for training a certain aspect of the language not the whole system. We will have a glimpse of the main teaching method also known as Communicative Language Teaching (CLT) popular with most Russian language schools and will 20

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try to analyze its advantages and disadvantages. Communicative method was first applied 50 years ago and immediately became one of the most popular ways of teaching a foreign language as the opposite to the traditional long-term educational process. The original purpose was to make students learn quicker through communication and learning some basic clichés and set expressions without going into detail of grammar structures. Today all major schools tend to apply communicative approach and try to exclude using the mother tongue while teaching. Nevertheless, have you ever stopped to consider what the true sense of this method is and whether this approach can be suitable for every learner? The general principle of CLT is learning through interaction, which means that about 80 per

cent of the lesson should be dedicated to speaking. Speech practice involves a wide range of various activities such as: - Role plays. Students find themselves in a wide range of imaginary situations where they have to play certain roles according to the topic, e.g. a shop assistant and a customer, a landlady and a tenant etc. Such type of activity works well when practicing spontaneous communication skills based on situations and problems that might take place in everyday life. - Pair-work. This activity is aimed at drilling set expressions, active vocabulary and grammar structures. Students discuss certain questions in pairs using new words and expressions constantly repeating the key elements of the given worksheet. - Group work. This type of speaking practice can also be really efficient as students are expected to acquire the ability of generating discussion and expressing their opinion on a number of subjects. - Grammar games. As far as communicative method is concerned, grammar should be learnt in context. Grammar presented in the form of games enables students to feel how the phrase with certain grammar is constructed and understand the situation and the context where it can be used. One of the key aspects of the communicative approach involves the principle of “emerging into the language environment”, as initially it was created for students who

don’t speak the same language and have a native speaker as their teacher. The learner is expected to pick up basic communication skills faster and start speaking without a language barrier after the first couple of lessons. Can we expect these principles to work in our native surroundings? The answer that can be given is rather vague, for there are several reasons why this approach might fail. 1) Beginner students may find it really challenging to adapt to the surroundings where speaking their mother tongue is banned. It also prevents them from grasping the true meaning of words and leads to misusing basic grammar rules. 2) If students and their teacher speak the same language the total ban of using mother tongue is impossible. 3) Communicative method involves about 80 per cent of oral practice including pair work. Therefore, if a group is too big, students may feel left out and out of control. It discourages many students from practicing, as the teacher cannot physically give his or her full attention to one pair. 4) Speaking of grammar practice, one can say that although presented in context, grammar rules are introduced in the form of cliché phrases. As a result, students have vague understanding of how to apply grammar structures on the spot.

However, one can’t possibly deny the positive influence of the method. 1) It enables one to start speaking at once. 2) It encourages a student to communicate with others without fear. 3) Such activities as pair-work, grammar games and group discussions can seriously develop one’s communicative skills. 4) Active vocabulary is introduced in the form of set expressions, which are easier to learn and use when compared to lists of separate words. Analyzing weak and strong points of CLT, it is easy to realize what categories of students are unlikely get positive result from such classes: 1) Beginner students in native surroundings; 2) Students who require an ultimate control and undivided attention on teacher’s side; 3) People who are shy and laconic by nature. CLT method is highly recommended to those who already

have basic knowledge of a foreign language and need to master and develop spontaneous communicative skills. Recognizing weak and strong points of CLT, the founders of STAR TALK Language School have come up with an idea to make it more approachable for different target groups of students. They decided to resort to the traditional (university) approach along with CLT and squeeze the strongest point out of the two methods creating a cocktail of modern tricks resting on a solid academic basis. In our next article we will go into detail and dwell on the state-of-art approach to language learning practiced at STAR TALK Language School. Moreover, we will talk about various modes of study (i.e. self-study, on-line, in-person etc.) and try to help you pick the right one for yourself. For now, stay tuned and good luck learning foreign languages! Yulia Shmigirilova, Leading Methodologist STAR TALK Language School www.start2talk.ru

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SCHOOL MATTERS

КОНСПЕКТ УРОКА АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА

05.12.2014 г.

”He loves jelly”

ОУ: МБОУ «Гимназия» Учитель: Пужайкина О.Н. Класс: 3 «В» Тема учебного занятия: «He loves jelly» Продолжительность учебного занятия: 45 минут. Цель: коммуникативно-речевое развитие учащихся путем введения и первичной отработки нового языкового материала по теме «He loves jelly» с использованием средств ИКТ; создание условий для самореализации учащихся при решении поставленных в ходе урока задач. Задачи: 1) Обучающая: - познакомить учащихся с новым лексическим материалом, первичное его закрепление; - формировать грамматические навыки употребления глагола like в Present Simple; - формировать умение рассказывать о еде и напитках, говорить, что им нравится и не нравится. 2) Развивающая: - формировать навыки монологической, диалогической речи;

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- совершенствовать навыки аудирования, говорения, чтения; - развивать умение воспринимать информацию с мультимедийных источников; - формировать интерес к предмету; - формировать мотивацию к дальнейшему изучению английского языка; - развивать память, внимание. 3) Воспитывающая: - прививать уважение к представителям других стран и культур; - воспитывать потребность пользоваться английским языком как средством общения; - формировать умения взаимодействовать в паре, группе, коллективе. Оборудование: презентация, компьютер, экран, мультимедиапроектор. Учебник: Н.И. Быкова, Д. Дули, М.Д. Поспелова, В. Эванс. Английский язык. 3 класс: учеб. для общеобразоват. организаций с прил. на электронном носителе / Просвещение, 2014. – 178 с. Активная лексика / лексические структуры: jelly, vegetables, water, lemonade, cheese, eggs, chicken, ice cream, chocolate, pizza, sandwiches, burgers, chips; What’s your favourite food? Pizza, yum! What about you? Ход урока I. Организационный момент. T.: Hello, boys and girls! P-s: Hello! T.: How are you? P-s: Fine! Thank you, and you? T.: I’m fine too, thank you! Take your seats, please! Let’s begin our English lesson. Tell me, please, who is on duty today? What date is it today? What month is it now? What day is it today? What season is it now? P-s: … T.: Thank you, children.

II. Постановка цели и задач урока T.: On the blackboard you can see a short poem. Let’s read it to learn what we are going to speak about today. Who wants to read the first line? P-s: I like apples, I like cheese, I like jelly, I don’t like peas. I like coffee, I like tea, I like you, and do you like me? T.: Давайте попробуем перевести некоторые фразы. What’s Russian for I like, I don’t like, apples, cheese, jelly, peas, coffee, tea? Can you guess what we are going to speak about? Как вы думаете, о чём сегодня пойдет речь? Any ideas? P-s: Food, likes and dislikes… T.: Right you are. We are going to speak about food, your likes and dislikes, and the topic of our lesson is “He loves jelly”. Сегодня мы с вами узнаем новые слова по теме «Еда» и вспомним те, которые мы уже знаем, научимся составлять диалоги по теме и отвечать на вопросы о ваших предпочтениях в еде. III. Фонетическая зарядка T.: And now, children, let’s play. Вы – мое эхо. You are my echo. Оно has got big ears. Эхо ловит каждый звук и повторяет его. Look at the blackboard and repeat after me. T.: Great! And now name four words with the sound [tʃ]. P-s: chicken, chocolate, chips, cheese T.: Good! Name three words with the sound [dʒ]. P-s: vegetables, jam, jelly T.: Ok! Name two words with the sound [eı]. P-s: lemonade, favourite T.: Right! And name one word with the sound [ts].

P-s: pizza T.: Brilliant! Thank you. IV. Введение и семантизация лексики T.: Children, look, what is it? P-s: … T.: Thanks a lot. And now we’ll play the “Magic bag” game. I have got a magic bag here with all the food you like. Please take one card and read what is written there. Now come to the blackboard and pin it up to the picture. P-s: … T.: Great. V. Речевая разминка T.: Children, do you like to speak English? If you like, answer Yes, I do. If you don’t, answer No, I don’t. P-s: Yes, I do. T.: Let’s do it. Tell me, please, do you like… chicken, chocolate, chips, sandwich, cheese, vegetables, jelly, egg, lemonade, pizza, water, burger, ice cream? P-s: … T.: I would like you to tell me about your likes and dislikes. Предложение, которое вы видите, нам в этом поможет. I like…but I don’t like… As for me, I like vegetables but I don’t like burgers. What about you? P-s: … VI. Практика аудирования. Песня T.: I see you like food! Then let’s sing a song about the food 2015, March / missLINGVA

SCHOOL MATTERS you like. First of all we’ll listen to it. Look at the blackboard, please. - Чтобы у вас хорошо получилось спеть эту песню, давайте поработаем вместе. Open your books. Page 42, exercise 1. Here is the song. Repeat after me. P-s: … T.: I suppose, you are ready to sing it. Let’s try. P-s: … T.: Thank you! Very good! VII. Развитие навыков диалогической речи T.: Now you will know what our friends like. Open your books page 42 exercise 2. Look at the picture. Who are they? P-s: This is Lulu and this is Maya. T.: Let’s read their dialogue. P-s: … T.: О чем идет речь? Will you translate it? P-s: … T.: And now it’s your turn to make up dialogues. Кто бы хотел попробовать свои силы? P-s: … T.: Very good! А теперь на основе разговора Майи и Лулу попробуйте составить диалог в парах. Please, act out the dialogue. P-s: … T.: Are you ready? Ребята, поаплодируйте себе те, кто справился с заданием, у кого диалог получился. А теперь те, у кого возникли трудности. Вы тоже молодцы! Well done! VIII. Физкультминутка. T.: Are you tired? It’s time to have a rest. P-s: … T.: Great! IX. Практика чтения. T.: Now let’s see what Сhuckles likes. Look at page 43 in your textbooks and find exercise 3. Where are the children? Где происходит действие? P-s: At school. T.: Right. Look at the screen and listen to the dialogue. P-s: T.: А сейчас давайте проверим, как вы поняли, о чем идет речь. What is Lulu’s favourite food? What is Maya’s favourite food? Lulu likes… Maya doesn’t like… What does Chuckles like? P-s:

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T.: Let’s listen to the dialogue for the second time. Сейчас мы послушаем диалог ещё раз, ваше задание внимательно следить по учебнику и повторять. P-s: … T.: Let’s role-play. P-s: … T.: Very good. X. Практика диалогической речи. T.: А сейчас, ребята, представим, что мы с вами оказались в школьной столовой. Давайте попробуем разыграть диалог. Вы можете воспользоваться фразами на экране. P-s: XI. Подведение итогов. Домашнее задание. T.: Итак, ребята, наш урок подходит к концу. Now it’s time to write down your home task. Давайте запишем домашнее задание. Уч. ex. 3, p. 43 (ч.) T.: You worked very well. You were great today! For the lesson….get “ a five”. Мы сегодня хорошо поработали. С какими новыми словами мы познакомились? Что показалось сложным? Какое задание понравилось больше всего? Пригодятся вам знания, полученные на уроке? T: Children, stand up, please. The lesson is over, you may go. Good bye.

В России и в Испании в 2015 году пройдут перекрестные годы языков.

Amistad España-Rusia В России и в Испании в 2015 году пройдут Rusia y España son dos naciones перекрестные годы языков. imprescindibles para poder entender la cultura, la historia y la identidad europea. Россия и Испания La historia del mundo договорили о проpodría concebirse ведении в 2015 году «sin la impronta y перекрестных годов las aportaciones de языков испанского nuestros dos grandes в России и русского pueblos. в Испании. Об этом сообщил Министр El programa del иностранных дел Año Dual también Российской Федераprevé actividades en ции Сергей Лавров. otros campos, como el económico y el В Министерстве empresarial. иностранных дел России 17 октября Rusos y españoles состоялось подпиson los grandes сание Совместного protagonistas de este заявления между Año Dual al que deseo de Россией и Испанией corazón, junto a mi buen о проведении Года amigo el presidente русского языка и Medvédev, los mejores литературы на русéxitos en aras del futuro ском языке в Исde creciente amistad, пании и Года исentendimiento y панского языка и colaboración entre Rusia литературы на испанском языке в России в y España» 2015-2016 годах, сообщили в пресс-службе Rusia y España tienen un pie en Europa МИД России. y el otro en el mundo y como jugadores globales presentan un enorme potencial de cooperación . 2015, March / missLINGVA

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«The Children

«Receive what you want to give them»

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of this Land»

«The Children of this Land» is a charity project founded by Charlie Armstrong. It is called so for the song, which he has composed for this project exactly. This song remains Mr Armstrong of his childhood. Charlie Armstrong realise his project in Egypt and Russia, because people there, as he said «receive what you want to give them». When he came to the shelter he gives the lessons in singing. Mostly because it is a good, enjoyable kind of learning. Firstly Charlie speaks a little Russian, then children and Mr Armstrong communicate in English. Sounds fantastic, isn’t it? Mr Armstrong is a truly philanthropist. He said «I was thinking about my time when I was a small guy». He didn’t have many presents, but he had fruits. The family had a problem with money. He invested a lot. And he is going to do this over and over again. Sometimes people help him. For example his friend, a chief, who baked expensive cakes and offered Charlie take them for kids for Christmas. And the most amazing thing that he don’t do this for mass media. «For me is a big satisfaction if I can see those children, when I give them presents they are smiling» – he says – «When uncle Charlie comes it’s easy as much as you want». That is the thing he wants to achieve, that nobody could dictate.

But he brings to the children not only the physical food, but also a food for their souls. «My charity thing is not for commercial. Really not. For me the best thing I can have is the smile that I can have from one of this kids». So there is no fund. Mr Armstrong do everything on his own. He really don’t need any journalist’s attention: «If I want to do something mass media I will do on the Red Square and start sinning ‘I feel good’. But for the rest what I do with the children personally is nobody’s business. I give them a piece of my heart, of my soul and that’s it». Mesmerising. Charlie Armstrong also had kind of a dream to open all English music school in Russia, where children can come in the summer holidays our weekends. Like a musical boarding school. There will be teachers, who taught children proper sinning, English. And, of course, children have to educate each other about the experience in this school and talking English. They will be stimulated. Mr Armstrong suppose, that after the first summer children might well be on the way of speaking English. After that they could return at weekends to continue with education. After the two of three seasons they could fluently speak English. That’s great, because if you know different languages, then you are open to the world. Obtaining an interview- Burmistrova Yana Writing and translation the article round the interview - by Chernoklinova Olga

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