China

My friend was in China. It was a trip sponsored by the company where he works. I envied him this trip. It is very interesting to get to know the culture so different from ours. Beijing, the Chinese Wall, the Forbidden City are places worth visiting. A few days ago I got a message from my friend:

„This is my dinner.”  

Our Group

We started to study English 8 months ago. The beginnings were very difficult. There was a time when I seriously thinking about resignation. Today I am happy that I survived. I know that before me there is a lot of work. I am very happy that I meet such a wonderful group of people. In my group, people are very helpful, frendly, loyal. Thank you for being.

Life...

I am a happy person. When I was younger I was unhappy, because I could not find my way in life. Now I feel that I’m on the right way and I appreciate every moment in my life. Of course, I have smaller or bigger problems like everyone, but every day I am happy with my family, my friends, and that I can study English :) The most important in life to find oneself. I was thinking about it, when I was coming back to home today.

An Evening Dress

My sister will be married in June so I’m looking for a special dress for her weeding. This is a difficult task, because I hate shopping. Shopping makes me very tired and angry. I hate trying on, standing in queues, etc. Today I was in the shopping center and of course found nothing, so I started to view my wardrobe. I also have to buy a dress for my daughter, but it will be enjoyable for me.

New Neighbors

 I have new neighbors. They built a new house in a few days. It is beautiful, small, wooden house. They come from Silesia and decided to move in a more charming place. We have a view of the forest and plenty of space, but recently more and more houses have been built around my house. I do not if it is a good or bad news for me. There are some pluses and minuses in every situation. 

Mother's Day

On May 26 we celebrate Mother’s Day, but for me it is a quadruple celebration. I give my mother the best wishes every year. My sister has a name-day on this day. On 26th of May, 2006 I met up with my husband and we have this date engraved on wedding rings. For over the year I am a mom so it is also my celebration.

A Trip to the Zoo

I, my husband and daughter were at the zoo on Sunday. The weather was beautiful so trip was very successful. When my daughter saw a monkey, she could not believe eyes. She is 15 months and was not aware that such creatures are in the world. Several times we approached the flamingos and my daughter always said „baba baba”. We do not know what my mother has to with these birds.

I'm a Braggard!

I bought a new car last week. The car looks like new, it is four years and has 34 thousand kilometers of riding. I was looking for about 2 months my dream car and it was not an easy task. Today I bought a new hubcaps for my car. I like looking at my new, beautiful car.

My Plan

I’m going to make a hot tea. My daughter is sleeping, so I can learn. I throw away my bad thoughts out of my head and I take to work.

Bath With Daddy.

My husband bathed our daughter today. When he brought her to the bedroom, I noticed that she has strange hair. I touched and felt that her hair was very greasy. My husband explained that he was looking for a shampoo for our daughter, but he did not find, so he washed her hair in olive, but he do not known that it was olive. Tomorrow I must put on a hat on her head.

What Will Be With Me?

I’m worried about the fact that so many colleagues have given up our school. I’m. thinking about, what will become of me and my thoughts are not good. All year I learned to current tests. When I think that fall off after the first year I fall into depression. My level of English at the start was not good, maybe I should not start this school. On the other hand, I see that my English has improved.

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I am sad. My daughter is ill from a long time and I can not help her. I’ve been in a few doctors who can not make a diagnosis. She vomits every day. I do not know what I should do.

9th précis

Title: Early detection is key to premature birth numbers rise

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-13155286


Vocabulary:

vigilant – (adj.) careful and looking out for danger;
She is a very vigilant person, she never goes alone in the mountains.
A dog is a vigilant animal.

occur – (v) to happen, especially unexpectedly;
The police said that the accident occurred at about 4.30 pm.
Complications occurred in only 5% of patients.

flag – (v) to become tired or less strong or active;
She was doing shoping all day, so she flag.
My flowers flagged in a vase.

accurate – (adj.) correct or true in every detail;
We need to get an accurate estimate of what the new building will cost.
Would it be more accurate to say that the plan failed?

brand – (n) particular type of something
He has his own special brand of humour.
Prescott’s down-to-earth brand of socialism

crucial  - (adj.) very important;
Early diagnosis of the illness is crucial for successful treatment.
Anderson played a crucial role in the team’s 3–2 victory on Saturday.

lenght -  (n) how long sth is;
It took an hour to walk the lenght of Oxford Street.
The tiny insect is only one milimetre in length.


Precis:

A half of hundred babies are probably influenced by modern civilization in such great degree that they are born prematurely. From the one side this civilization is highly advanced in the health sciences. But on the second side these well-developed branches of our civilization are unable, as a whole to stop the wrong borning of children. The number of the prematurely born children and the risk rapidly increased with epidemy of twins triplets. The reason of the prematury boring is not known. Probably there is a positive correlation of the prematurely boring and working of women in modern institutious. Testing of pregnant risk is not fruitful, so the results are inconclusive and thre is impossible to estimate the risk of boring before its natural term.  

Phonetics

I’m learning the phonetics all time. It’s very hard work for me. Fortunately, weather is bad and this helps me learn. But I think that, my test result will be negative. For me it is too much material to learn.  Before Easter, I did list of words and it took me 2 whole days.

The Long Break

I don’t like the long break in school. I’m much better organized when we have classes every week.

8th précis

Title: Born in a death camp: A miracle baby and her mother

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-13069586

Vocabulary:

endure – (v) to suffer sth paintful or uncomfortable;
She endured ten years of loneliness.
My parents can’t endure pop music.

flee – (v) to run  away or escape from sth
Earthquake victims have been forced to flee their homes.
Police caught up with one of the gang, but the other three fled.

chimney – (n) the part of a chimney, often made of bricks, that you can see on a roof;
Our neighbors have a nice chimney on the roof of the house.
The chimney is sooty and needs sweeping.

starve – (v) to suffer or to die because there is not enough food;
There are people out there who are starving because of your actions.
You must eat more – you’re starving yourself.

catch up -  (v) to do something that should have been done before;
I’ll have to go into the office at the weekend to catch up on my work.
The deadline’s tomorrow. How are we ever going to catch up in time?

labour – (v) to work hard;
She laboured on her book for two years.
I labours every day, when I have started study English.

dismantle – to take sth to pieces;
The photographer dismantle his equipment.
All the furniture is easy to dismantle and transport.

Precis:

            Anka Bergman and her family have been captured by German’s policy as Czech’s citizien and sent into a lagier near Theresienstadt. She wasn’t a member of any group of opposition movement. On the contrary, she (firstly) wanted meeting with men, watched films and generally all aspects of light live. Secondly, in 1939, Germany invaded Prague and the woman’s whole life has changed. Anka had borned a daughter – Eva. In 1942, her daughter had been killed by Germans in their death camp. In the camp Germans introduced separation of men and women, but Anka became pregnant. She had borned a boy, but in the case of children boring Germans robbed the children and sent to German families or state’s children homes. A borned boy died due to infection of lung. Anka became pregnant again. The father of Eva was shot at the next German camp, at Auschwitz, on some months before escaping German forces from Auschwitz. Anka was evacuated to next German camp, namely in Mauthausen. Before ending the Second World War, Germans closed killing people with using of gas. Anka and her dughter have survived. Now they live together in Cambridge and tell their life story.