Hello dear friends!

As the end of the first semester at Uni is coming, I feel it necessary to take stock of my progress in Academic Writing English classes. First of all, I’d like to thank my Academic Writing English teacher for her will to make our lessons interesting, she perfectly met the challenge. I want to point out some topics that I found really beneficial. Firstly, I enjoyed the lesson when we were to read about a specific technique of word memorizing, because as a linguist I do learn lots of new words and such techniques are really helpful. Secondly, the discussion of different types of essay made me understand better the structure of each type. As for the things I didn’t like, well, the computer, I worked with during the class, was always having some bugs, and I made a great effort to do my assignment.

In the forthcoming year, I ‘d love to focus on writing formal letters such as application for a job, business correspondence. I also consider rules of punctuation, orthography to be worth discussing, because these are the rules that should be often brushed up. I hope we will have a special class of formal lexis, because, as far as I am concerned, formal style is different to informal one, and we are as linguists must be able to differentiate them.

All in all, I look forward to sharing my opinion on different topics, hope you will find my blog a somewhat wonderful.

  Hello folks!

Today I will tell you about the article 'Seven ways to keep exercising in the cold, dark winter months' written by Amy Sedghi is devoted to the discussion of doing sports in winter time

(https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2018/dec/03/seven-ways-to-keep-exercising-in-the-cold-dark-winter-months)they say that winter is an obstacle for doing regular exercises, because of low temperatures and the risk to getting ill. But is it really so?

    To persuade us, the author draws our attention to the tips that seem to work.   Firstly, she says about the importance of setting a goal, because the lack of motivation does not lead to any progress. Later on she refers to Dr Joe Costello to prove that doing sports together with your friends motivates you not to give up. She also emphasizes that  proper winter clothes are one of the most important aspects that require consideration. Further, the author suggests making your regular exercises various in order for you not to get bored with doing one and the same action. In addition, she highly recommends to keep track of your exercises, she writes it will help you visualize how much you have already done. She also makes the reader convinced that fitness at home is as good as training outside. The last aspect makes everybody  leave no excuses for missing the trainings because of bad weather. Finally ,in the article there was said that having a rest is essential for tissue repair. The author doesn't make a conclusion, because his only purpose was to provide the reader with some tips on the above-mentioned topic. Amy Sedghi leaves the reader alone to make his own conclusions and probably reconsider his point of view on doing sports in winter time.

Hello my dear friends!

Today I want to share my word-learning experience with you. At our Academic English class we underwent an experiment where every student had to choose an app that woud contribute to better word memorizing. I 've chose an app called Words 2  that is completely useless to my mind. It was so inconvenient to play with unknown people the game which is so strange... There was a kind of a crossword where two players had to fill the words. I 'm not a crossword passionate solver ,that is why the game seemed to be  boring. I've learnt five new words with the help of this game. I must admit that I've already found my own way for the best word-memorising. I make some flashcards ,and look the words up in the dictionaties that provide the contexts of their usage. No apps can substitute this method!