My comment on using grammatical games on the classes

Hello everyone! 

I want to say a couple of words about the games that we played on the latest double period. Firstly, we ought to write down as many gerunds as we remember, the second task was to thought up, which gerunds can form a rhyme, and the third task was to create a small poem using gerunds. I had a lot of fun doing that and it was like a brain storm. I consider such games to be the best way of understanding grammar and developing your skills in practical usage of it. If I were a teacher, I'd use such method in my teaching practice, both at school and in university, because it grows an interest in language, particularly in grammar. The method of playing grammar games is also up-to-date and interesting and encourages students to think creatively and imaginatively.

The examples of task 2 and 3:

Forming rhymes: 

walking-talking

thinking-blinking

blowing-knowing

Creating a poem:

When we went hiking,

It was convinient to biking.

But we went by feet

Felt exhausting, hard breathing indeed.

But we had a lot of fun

Exploring the beauty of nature around.

Hi, girls! Excuse me for my late message. And I am sorry for having chosen such uneasy topic for writing, but накипело.

                                 The Hottest Winter Ever

                                     (For sweet memory of the Heaven Hundred)

A new day comes after a night. Everything keeps moving in it’s circle. History and all the events, that are connected with it also have their own circle. Learning the history prevents us from repeating the mistakes of our ancestors and gives us the opportunity for achieving the goals they were not to achieve.
The winter is usually a cold season, but that winter was the hottest one they’ve ever seen and heard about. That winter has shown them that freedom is the way of life, that must be always struggled for. The power is given to some people for improving the life of the whole society, but not for satisfying their own ambitions. Rotten power and corruption are like a cancer, that settled deeply in the organism. And this cancer can’t be treated by only one course of chemotherapy.
That was a cold, snowy morning. And it was snowing so hard, as if nature was giving a sort of sign to the people. Two friends were sitting near the fire in the right side of the square. They were keeping silence and each was somewhere deep in his own thoughts. Then one of them started speaking: “So, Architect, what are you going to do after getting your Bachelor’s degree?” – “You know, Hunter, I haven’t decided yet. I was offered a scholarship at Vienna Technical University in Austria”. – “Oh, that’s a great, chance of getting experience from foreign colleagues. Besides you have an amazing opportunity for seeing such a beautiful country.” – said Hunter after a while. “Have you ever been there,” – asked Architect. – “No, but I have always been dreaming about visiting this country. And I’ve read a lot about it. So I advise you to except the offer anyway.” – “Well, I hope everything will settle down in our  country soon, so I won ‘t worry about it and my family. But… but my girlfriend, she will miss me. Well, I will think, I still have time.” Then they both went on keeping silence.
Suddenly they heard some loud short bursts it sounded like somebody was throwing petards one by one. In about five minutes a panic burst out at the square. Somebody was shouting: “The sky is falling.” The guys stood up and went, closer to the center. There they saw some people in plastic helmets carrying other people on the stretches. Architect asked them what was being happened. They were hurrying up to the medical center and one of them answered:” The sky is falling! There are quite a lot of injured people not far from here on the… Street. We must rescue them. Somebody is shooting them. They are using a real weapon”. Architect and Hunter changed the two people, who were carrying the stretches with the injured man and hurried up to the medical center.
When they entered the building of the medical center, they saw about five injured people lying on the stretches and medical staff, providing them with the first aid right in the corridor. The guys carried the stretches with the injured man closer to the operation room, but there a nurse stopped them and ordered to put the man on the flour. She explained that the operation room was busy with heavy injured people and doctors were operating them. Then she started providing the man with the first aid. Architect asked her if she needed their help. The nurse asked them to fetch some more roller-bandages, two packages of wadding and a wisp. Then she added:” Please, hurry up, guys, otherwise we have the risk of losing him”.
So the guys went to the storeroom, where all the medications, brought by the volunteers, were kept. They took all the necessary things and hurried up back to the nurse and the injured man. When they finally reached them, they saw the nurse checking the pulse of the man, who was lying on the stretches with his leg tied. The nurse took the medications and started bandaging his second wound. While she was doing it several new stretches were carried into the building.
Architect went outdoors. Hunter followed him.  They saw a lot of people standing near the entrance. Somebody from them was shouting: “ We need some more people to help us bring the injured from that street. Architect, Hunter and three other men agreed to go. Architect put on his bike helmet, as there was nothing else to protect his head, and took a long shield of metal. Hunter also put on a plastic helmet and took stretches with one of the three men. Everyone got equipped and they started moving.
They walked about ten minutes. Then they heard short acute shots. That meant that they have almost reached the hottest point. When they turned the corner of the Street, they saw the people lying from one side of the stone blocks. Some of them were injured and other, who were not wounded, were covering them with shields. Architect, Hunter and the three men ran up to them and tried to take the injured on the stretches. But suddenly one of those three men got a bullet in his leg. Architect dragged the man to himself and covered him with his shield.
Suddenly a new acute loud shot thundered – Architect fell on his back. The last thing he managed to do was to smile. His blue eyes were blindly looking into the grey snowy sky. Who knows, may be such Architects are of great necessity in Heaven?

 NEVER HURT ANYONE WHO IS WEAKER THAN YOU JUST CAUSE YOU CAN

It's a quite common story about courage and care.

She came into the room to ask if anyone wanted to eat. She is the mother of the family, and always ready to help, support and feed her beloved ones. Sam turned around saying that he wished to eat some unusual salad. What kind of salad, he didn't know, but at that time he wanted to be impressed. Mother felt sorry for having only pancakes, because it was early morning, and their breakfast was always pancakes with jam and juice or tea. Jimmy asked brother, what exactly must have been in the salad, but he didn't know.

Though it was early, mother was already tired, but she put on her shoes, took a basket and went out to the store in order to buy some interesting ingredients for a new dish. The road to the store was about 3 miles long. For someone it's not far, but for a 2-kids mother covering this distance was exhausting.

As she got to the store, she started picking exotic fruits, unusual vegetables, the most expensive meat, just to impress her fastidious son. 

Having everything bought, and leaving the store she saw a man sitting outside and talking to himself. Of course, she decided him to be crazy, and tried to go as far from him as it was possible. But just passing by she noticed he was holding something in the hands. There was a small kitten. The Mother realized that there was no harm in that man, she could not help but coming to him, and asking what had happened to this little one. Man told her a story about a cat, which brought 7 kittens one day, but the owner, it was a woman by the way, didn't need them, and she decided to get rid of them. When the man asked her for one kitten, she gave it to him with great pleasure, but it wasn't one, he had asked for, and as he told it her, she informed him that others were probably already dead. Then, she changed her mind, saying that she would try to get him the one he needed, though he had no idea how she could do this. He followed her to the background and became a witness of  a terrible picture: the woman took a  spade and started digging little, helpless and almost dead kittens out from the ground. To say that he was shocked is to say nothing. He pushed her down to the ground, grabbed babies and walked away from that horrible place. Unfortunately only 4 of them survived, he buried 3 dead little bodies on a pet’s cemetery, and at the moment of meeting with the mother, was holding the weakest one in his hands, other three were soundly sleeping under his coat.

The mother was  startled. She heard of such stories, but when you meet a person who just faced it, it becomes more horrifying as it could be. She took two kittens home: the weakest one and one with black paws. Her sons were unpredictably happy, Sam forgot about his unusual salad, and Jimmy rushed immediately to feed their new little friends. The mother told them the story, and at that moment there was the most important lesson they learned: never hurt anyone who is weaker than you, just because you can.

The Awareness of Life

Travelling abroad is so exciting for me. You can find out so many things about another cultures and people. Once I thought: "How about going to Peru?". So, I started packing my things. But firstly, of course, I bought a ticket for plane. Why Peru? So, it was a good motive for searching for something new and even mysterious for me. My acquaintance said that the Inkas' attempted at contacting with aliens and space, so it grew a huge interest in me. Well, after having the tickets bought I flew to this wonderful country and it took 8 hours. I put up in Lima, the capital, full of Spainish colonial buildings and narrow streets for a day and then decided to go to the Ands.
At seeing the bus which went there, I was shocked. It was overcrowded! I couldn't help hiding my astonishment, but I crowded into the bus. In spite that I was tired of travelling by it, finally I saw the great mountains and I was about losing the feeling of time and space.
It was a pleasure in watching at this beauty of nature. I didn't want to finish walking there and put up at the local little hotel at 2 nights. It was the most unusual experience in my life. Starry sky was almost immidiately changed by fog or heavy rain and that time I felt flying in the sky and absolutely united with nature. My amazement at feeling the locals' hospitability and kindness was also big. They live without using the blessings of civilization and thus, are in harmony with nature. So, isn't it a real civilization?
On my returning home I wanted to go back and realized that I got used to awaring my life and feeling the nature surrounding me.

My Fairy tale about unusual cows;) Hope you'll enjoy it:))

          Most people think that a farm is a place, where usual domestic animals live. But this story is about uncle George, who reared 5 unusual cows. Visiting his farm may become a real adventure and surprise for everyone.

          Uncle George lives in a village,where the fair "Our pride" is held every year. Everyone, who visits it, remembers Uncle George's participating there. He is considered to be a successful and a happy man. 

          But no one knows that before buying cows, he had nothing but the little shed and unoccupied field nearby. Since 10y.o . George had been saving coins in order to fly to another continent, where herds of fairy cows lived in mountains, far from civilization. Of course, it was a legend for villagers, they considered that George was creacking jokes. But to everyone's surpise, when George grew up and was almost 20 y.o., he saved enough to follow his dream.

          So, in a week he came back home with 5 cows. He felt himself nice living in his shed. He built the wooden house for his new friends. People couldn't believe their eyes. Every day in the morning George had been going to the pond with them. People enjoyed George's bathing and playing with cows in the water. The cows were telling George every day: "We all appreciate your taking care of us." 

          Rearing fairy cows is a difficult thing. When the youngest cow named Zoryana was only a child, she asked George: "What about sewing some dresses and buying accessories for me, to make me a pretty cow?" So Zoryana became the most beautiful and fashionable cow in the village. 

          Also George had a midget cow named Kinder. It is always convinient to go out with him, if you have something to do in the village. Kinder is very small, so George puts the cup in his bag and when it is hot enough and George feels like being thirsty, he takes the cup and Kinder gives him cold milk to drink. 

          Two more of his cows are couple: a bull named Ramanatan and his cow-girlfriend Abhilasha. They have their own religion - Hinduism. Since childhood they prefer listening to the east music. They always begin dancing, when they hear it. 

          And the last one, Eleonora. She has a skill in writing poems. Besides, she gives not only milk, but also yogurt and sour-cream. There is no point in buying such products in the market, as George has a cup of milk or yogurt for the breakfast every day.

          So, such a nice company participates in each fair. By the end of their perfomance George and Eleonora sing their song:

"We've come here to read rap for you

We see you're surprised, but there's nothing you can do

Her name's Eleonora, she eats bamboo,

My name is George, I like bamboo too!

Eleonora is so beautiful and meaty,

-Show them your necklace, it is so pretty!

-It is no use in telling you about my skill,

George is my boss, he deserves my milk!

But if sunbeams reach the sky, 

I can give yogurt, that's all right!

Our family is friendly and this rap was for you

Have a nice day and love what you do!"