Comment on the video "How to manage stress reduction"
I've wanched the video and I liked it very much. Nowadays it is very useful to know how to survive in stress situation, and what to do to reduce the influence of stress situations on us. Actually she advised not to take all the problems too serious and too close to your heart. So if everything around you just got crazy, you should just close your eyes, to breathe out and think that all this happens with them, but not with you. You should stay calm, everything is not so permanent. Problems at work, angry boss, angry people around you, everything is not serious. Just let people do what they want and stay calm.
As for me I’m trying not to allow this stressful situation. I’m trying to surround myself with kind and beloved people, who’ll never, do harm to me, or at least they will always have a minute to listen to your problems, and know how to help you. In any way if it happen that I got in such stressful situation, I use a method against it. This method is very easy. So, you are in the stressful situation: everything goes round, people are like crazy, and your boss is angry with you and is abusing you. When one person abuse another he send his negative energy to him, and another person accepts it, and than feel bad. What should this person, I mean you, to do? You should to create a protection from this negative energy. Just imagine a waterfall between you and your offender. And that’s all. It’s very easy. This imaginary waterfall will turn this negative energy back to offender.
For me it is the best way to reduce the stressful situation, and I advice it to everybody who takes everything to close.

Comment on the article "Motivation for learning English"
I’ve read this article and left satisfied with it very much! And I have several points to say.
I really enjoyed the article because it is very useful for such beginners in teaching as I. And as I’m going to be a teacher it is extremely important for me HOW to teach.
This article tells not only HOW to teach somebody, but also how to improve your own knowledge. Because the real teacher is a teacher who doesn’t make mistakes.
I appreciated the meaning about motivation. In deed in nowadays motivation is the main thing in the teaching process. Because I think very little people can teach a pupil if he (she) doesn’t want. We can even judge by ourselves, if we don’t like the subject, it very hard to learn it. For example all my life I’ve been hating Maths! And everything is because of my teachers, who couldn’t make me interested in it, who didn’t appreciate me.
So I’m not only agree with many points of this article, but I’ll take into consideration some facts from it.

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HALLOWEEN

Ho-ho-ho-ho!!!

Soon is Halloween! Happy time for little  children who can gather a lot of sweets. Not so happy with a note of nostalgia for adults, who can’t dress different scary costumes already.  And happy at all for the majority of elderly people who has to spend their money on sweets for little prankishes!

It was not long ago, but I can’t say that it was recently. And was it in Czech, Prague. It was still the whole month till Halloween and children already worked with costumes.  Everybody wanted to be original. You could meet everything!  There were little devils and ghosts and black cats and even a hare without head (Frankly speaking this costume appeared as a result of old costume of New Year hare)! So everybody did their best. And only one boy  named Ladislav couldn’t invent his costume. He wanted something new and amazing and especially scary. Days and nights he was sitting and drawing patterns of हिस  costume, but everything was in vain. And here a good idea came into his mind! He asked himself: “Whom people afraid most of all?” He was thinking a lot but ten years old brains gave only two  answers: ghosts and spiders, whom personally he was afraid most of all. He decided that in this case he needs opinion of a wise man. So he went to his father, who was the wisest person in the house to his mind. As usual Ladislav found his father on his usual place on the sofa in front of TV with standard set of goods near him. There was apples, pears, grapes, some sweets and  cookies and of course sunflower seeds, which he ate till dawn.

-          Hi Dad! How do you think, whom people afraid most of all?

It seemed that the father didn’t hear him because he was still sitting, watching TV and chewing apple. But Ladislav new that if father does like this it means that he is thinking.

-          I don’t know. Maybe Death.

            Death!!! Ladislav was right, his father is the wisest person!!! Death, it is so simple. Everybody afraids of death.  Moreover the idea was great because he need not sew a costume. He had a perfect raincoat for this and a scythe he had in the shed. Ladislav was very pleased and was waiting for the holiday.

            Halloween. At last! Children decided to meet in the evening near the school. Exactly from there they decided to start their trip. Ladislav said nobody about his costume, he wanted to surprise everybody! And actually he did it! When he went out from his room in his costume, his mother screamed, and his grandmother ran away in the bathroom. Still thinking that this is the safest place. Even father froze, his apple stopped somewhere on a half way to the mouth. Ladislav was satisfied with such effect and ran in the street. On his way to school he marked that all people were trying to bypassed him and elderly people almost all were in faint. His classmates liked his costume and marked it as the most successful. Ladislav was more than happy, he was in the centre of attention. But his pleasure didn’t last long. Everybody who opened the door that night, saw his costume and immediately closed the door with scare on their faces. In better case children were in time to say traditional “Trick-or-Treat” but as a rule they didn’t have time to say even this. Time was going and their pockets were still empty. Children were in despair. They decided that Ladislav was guilty in their failures, so children decided to punish him. One of the children, Lukasz, decided that Ladislav had to go to the Old Ezekiel!

            In the end of the street near the old Jewish cemetery lived Old Ezekiel. This old woman was more than odd. Only that fact that she was living near the cemetery told that she was either crazy or very brave. But the most strange was her habit. She used to dress her old black raincoat with a hood, took a scythe, went in the yard and began to mow grass for her goats. And everything could be normal, but she did it only at night. Because of this people began to call her Death. It is interesting that not only children were afraid of her, but even adults were trying to bypass her house.

            There is a legend that Old Ezekiel is Death in deed, that’s why she has chosen such place where thousands of souls could serve her.  Everybody knows that long time ago Jews were forbidden to bury on official cemetery, so their bodies were buried in one place. This place had a rather tiny area. Then over the next five hundred years, the tombs were piled on each other, and now at such a tiny area, there are over 200 thousand graves, the oldest of which is 560 years old. And each night thousands of souls come out of their tombs to serve the Death.  And Halloween is a special day. In this day the Death sent her servants for new souls for her. And everybody whom these souls met on their way was caught and  brought to their mistress. And the Death transformed poor people in goats. Happily these souls couldn’t leave their tombs for a long distance, so people used to pass by this area in Halloween.

            But on the other hand everybody knew that it was just a legend. And  Old Ezekiel was an ordinary old woman, like all people she went to the shop and a postman visited her once a week. And everything seemed to be alright, but something scared.

In any way Ladislav did not have another choice. If he refused to go there, his classmates would decide that he is a coward and would laugh at him. So he and his friend went to her house. The road was lightened so it was not scary to go until they came to the house of the Old Ezekiel.

Everything was dark and gloomy. They entered the yard, as they didn’t find a dog, though they perfectly saw a cannel and even a bowl full of bones. Poor children couldn’t even imagine that these bones were a dog some day. Only near the door one of the children pushed Ladislav and said: “ The Death could be scared only by Death! Common!” And Ladislav pushed the bell-button.  Almost immediately they heard shuffle steps and the door opened. Old Ezekiel was dressed as usual in old raincoat with its hood on her head and with scythe in her hand. It looked terrible and amazing in the same time. With a shivering knees and trembling voice Ladislav said: “Old Ezekiel! Trick-or-Treat!”

“Old Ezekiel!? Hm, what people can only invent! Very funny.” – Thought the Death and invited children in the silent house.

 

Interview

1) Who are you?
I am Kate. I’m a student of the 6 course of foreign language philology. In particular I learn English and German, and Ukrainian of course. Russian is my native. But I also want to learn Spanish and Italian. My Institute is a Kerch branch of Tavrida National University which is situated in Simferopol. It is small but our students have more attention than in big university.

2) How did you learn English?
I have learn English since the 5th form until today and I think I’ll continue to do it all my live because language is an alive thing, it develops constantly. I studded in the usual school where class seldom was divided into 2 or 3 parts so there was a lot of noise during the lesson. But the worst thing, as to me, we have had a new English teacher every semester. They were always young and didn’t know our language level. So lessons were boring and understandable.
I can’t say they have special methodic. Classes included usually translation of home text and simple exercises. I hate this subject and couldn’t even think it will be my future profession.
In the 7th form I came to the tutor who explained me basis individually. I studded with specialized books. During the year I started to study independently.
I used that knowledge during the whole school because there was nothing new.
In the 11th form I visited preliminary courses in our institute and did additional tasks of my teacher at school.
Most off all I like to translate not standard texts and rummage in the dictionary. Especially for me, effective method of learning new words is in the text context where I can see words relations in sentences. And I take texts not from the program but what I like. Then I write down words on paper many times.
I prefer to write all necessary English constructions in notebook which I have always with me and add smth new and reread after.

3) What have English given to you?
First of all, I must admit that studding of this foreign language which is absolutely different from my native one, have developed my brain.
The second point, I become more broadminded. I can support a talk in different spheres as English is international language which serves for most of human activities.
During learning English I knew many interesting and useful information about countries and cultures which exist on my planet but I’ve never seen.
And the last, I’ve never noticed before, is a respect to myself as you can do what is impossible for others. I even can teach my elder brother this language.

“How to overcome the fear before starting to do something”

There is an opinion, that some people before starting to do something have a certain fear. And no matter what exactly they have to start. It may be everything, from starting to speak till starting new life. But in this case, in our essay we will speak about certain fear. Fear of students before starting to write something. It is a very big problem for them and for their teacher, in deed. Because a teacher gives some written work, something like to write an essay, and gets an empty sheet of paper from a rather clever and diligent student. Appears a question. Why? What made this student to behave in such way? As a result: the teacher is puzzled. On the other hand we have a diligent student who is puzzled not less than a teacher. As a result: this student gets his bad mark. What happen in deed? In deed this student is just belong to that group of people who afraid to start, to begin. 

         This fear has its specific nature. As a rule it is appears as a consequence of not knowing HOW to start. So this poor student gets his task and he wants to start, but he does not know how, from what. And in this moment all his thoughts became a mass like huge amount of cockroaches. And he is trying to catch at least one thought, but it runs away. As a result student becomes nervous, he does not know what to do in such difficult and new for him situation. And as a consequence he gets his bad mark for clear as a tear sheet of paper. Than appear complexes and fear that it will repeat with him again. Each teacher should understand emotions of a student at this moment and he have to help this student to overcome this fear.

         As for me, I do not understand this fear. I always now what I want to write and how to start. Maybe, sometimes my thoughts are rather chaotic, but I never become upset.  Of course I need some time to think how to start, and for several moments my thoughts are also like huge amount of cockroaches, but can cope with them and organize in definite idea. I do not know how I do it. I want say only one thing. I can not work without music. And again I do not know why, but I feel more comfortable if something is buzzing on the background of my thoughts.

         What can I advice? Do not be afraid. Live easier. Nobody will kill you for your empty paper. Communicate more with other people and ask them, weather they have the same problem or not. I am sure that there is a great amount of such people and many of them have already found the exit from this situation. Such people can advice how to behave in such situation, they will say how they overcame this trouble. Maybe solution is among other decisions and maybe it is in the head. In any way it is! Find something that helps to cope with these cockroaches. Something that calms, something individual. Try to concentrate on this very theme. Or do not concentrate at all, think about something pleasant. I do not know what to advice because I have no such problem, but if I had, I would try everything to overcome it. In this problem all means are good.