Confusing Words Do-Make

Основные выражения с Do

·         do homework – делать домашнее задание

·         do lessons –  готовить уроки

·         do the dishes/ do the washing up – мыть посуду

·         do the shopping – делать ежедневные покупки

·         do the hoovering –  пылесосить

·         do the dusting –  вытирать пыль

·         do housework – выполнять работу по дому

·         do good – делать добро

·        do well – преуспевать

·        do badly – плохо вести дела

·        do one’s best – стараться изо всех сил, прилагать усилия

·        do one’s worst – не прилагать усилий

·         do harm –  причинять вред

·         do damage to –  причинять ущерб

·         do an exercise –  делать упражнение

·         do an experiment –  проводить эксперимент

·          do a favour – делать одолжение

·         do smb credit – делать честь кому-л, отдавать должное

·         do 50 mph – ехать со скоростью 50 миль в час

·         do business – вести бизнес

·         do your duty – выполнять свой долг

·         do a job/ do work –  выполнять работу

·         do justice –  воздавать должное, воздавать по заслугам, воздавать по справедливости

·         do research – проводить исследование

·         do your hair – приводить в порядок волосы

·         do one’s teeth –  чистить зубы

·         do the sights –  осматривать достопримечательности

·         do a deed – совершать поступок

·         do penance / time – покаяться / отбывать тюремное заключение

·         do right / wrong – делать правильно/неправильно

·         do enough – сделать достаточно

Общие правила использования глагола Do

Используйте «do», говоря о неясной или неопределенной деятельности. То есть, когда говорите в целом, используя частичку –thing, в таких словах, как something, anything, nothing и т.д.

Примеры:

Are you going to do anything about it?    Let’s do something this afternoon.  I didn’t do anything wrong!

Используйте do для деятельности. Это включает в себя любые хлопоты или ежедневные задачи.

Примеры:

Hurry up and do the dishes.  Did you do your chores?  I didn’t have time to do my homework.

Используйте do с различными названиями работ и мероприятий, которые заканчиваются на -ing’, таких как do some gardening, do some thinking, do some painting, и т.д. Это использование, как правило, имеет неформальный характер и часто может быть сформулировано в различной манере. Например, вместо «I did some studying this afternoon» можно сказать «I studied this afternoon».

Примеры:

I did some thinking about your problem.  He did some reading this morning.  She’s going to do some resting on vacation.

Устойчивые выражения с Make

·         make an offer – делать предложение

·         make an exception – сделать исключение

·         make a mistake – ошибаться

·         make peace / war – заключать мир / объявлять войну

·         make love – заниматься любовью

·         make money / a profit – зарабатывать деньги / получать прибыль

·         make a phone call – совершать звонок

·         make an effort / attempt – приложить усилия / сделать попытку

·         make (a) noise – создавать шум

·         make a suggestion – высказать предложение

·         make a decision – принять решение

·         make an excuse – извиниться

·         make progress – делать успехи

·         make arrangements – договариваться, принимать меры, организовывать

·         make an appointment – назначить встречу

·         make a choice – сделать выбор

·         make a complaint – выразить жалобу, претензию

·         make a contribution – внести вклад

·         make (no) difference – (не) иметь значения

·         make a demand – требовать

·         make a discovery – открыть, совершить открытие

·         make  a loss – нести убыток

·         make a plan – строить план

·         make a promise – обещать

·         make a reservation – забронировать

·         make certain of – удостовериться в

·         make sure – быть уверенным

·         make friends – подружиться

·         make a note (notes) – делать заметки, записывать

·         make comments – давать комментарии

·         make tea/coffee – готовить чай/кофе

·         make up your mind – принять решение

·         make a joke – подшучивать

·         make fun of – высмеивать

·         make a speech – произносить речь

·         make a mess/ make a fuss – суетиться

·         make a list – составлять список

·         make use of – использовать

·         make your bed – стелить постель

·         make a wish – загадать желание

·         make a guess - предположить

·         make (no) sense - (не) имеет смысл

·         make up for the time - компенсировать

·         make a fortune - сколотить состояние

·         make ends meet - сводить концы с концами

Общие правила употребления глагола Make

Как правило, этот английский глагол используется, когда речь идет о построении или создания чего-то. Результат этого действия можно увидеть, ощутить, попробовать.

Примеры:

I made a cup of tea for breakfast. He made his daughter a rocking horse. Did you make that wonderful bread?

Make также используется, когда речь идет о приготовлении еды.

make a meal (breakfast / lunch / dinner) – приготовить еду (завтрак / обед / ужин).

To check your knowledge do this test

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Online Video Conferencing

Online Video Conferencing is an important tool for today’s working professionals. It’s available online to meet the needs of any professional. It makes it possible to meet and share information easily around the world. And it requires special attention to pronunciation skills to guarantee that you will be understood and your online meetings will be the success you want them to be.

Listen: http://www.esl-lab.com/tips/webconferencing.htm

Read: http://www.forbes.com/sites/steveolenski/2015/12/11/leveraging-the-power-of-video-conferencing-in-marketing/#2f860d46455c

Review the information on some or all of these sites to see what video conferencing tool works for you:

Google Hangouts https://hangouts.google.com/

Skype for Business http://www.skype.com/en/business/collaborate/

Fuze: https://www.fuze.com/UCaaS-101#com-is-big

WebEx http://www.webex.com/

Go to Meeting http://www.gotomeeting.com/start-mm?internal=true&origref=https://www.google.com/

Meeting Burner https://www.meetingburner.com/

10th grade. Unit 7. Lesson 2. Land and People

Communicative Area: speaking about the prominent people of Belarus

Look at the list of names below. What do you think all these people have in common?

Kirk Douglas, Ralph Lauren, Yanka Kupala, Yakub Kolas, Vladimir Korotkevich, Isaac Asimov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Svetlana Alexievich, Olga Korbut, Yulia Raskina, Inna Zhukova, Max Mirnyi, Viktoria Azarenko, Yulia Nesterenko, Yanina Korolchik, Ellina Zvereva, Daria Domracheva, Anton Saroka, Alexander Medved, Boris Gelfand, Marc Chagall, Kazimir Malevich, Ossip Zadkine, Vladimir Vyshnevski, Michal Oginski, Vladimir Mulyavin, Ignat Domejko, Alexander Chizhevsky, Zhores Alferov, Haim Weizman, Shimon Peres, Petr Klimuk, Vladimir Kovalenok, Vasil Bykov, Boris Kit.

Listen to the on-line lecture about famous Belarusians and do the test on Edmodo.

https://new.edmodo.com/groups/creative-10th-grade-25946814?utm_source=classes_page

Write a short paragraph (10+ sentences) about a famous Belarusian to add to the lecture here in comments.

Happy St. Patrick’s Day

                                The pinching rule on Saint Patrick's Day

As the tradition goes, wearing green on Saint Patrick's Day is supposed to make you invisible to leprechauns. They will pinch you as soon as you come up on their radar if you don't wear green.

Exam topics: Outstanding people

Have you ever asked yourself a question what your life would be like today without the invention of the theory of relativity or without such a masterpiece as “Romeo and Juliet”? How would have the world history changed but for such influential figures as Winston Churchill, Martin Luther King, Mahatma Gandhi? It’s hard to say but one thing is clear – it wouldn’t be the same. These famous people contributed a lot to the development of the mankind and changed our perception of the world to a great extent.

In my opinion to be an outstanding person means to possess personality, not to be like anyone else and it is someone who is not trying to emphasize it. An outstanding person is the one who wants to do something good in his or her life and who helps other people and leaves some kind of trace in the life of others. America has always been achievement-oriented nation. Americans are very proud of their in «some way national hero» Bill Gates and they consider him an outstanding person. Why? Because he was able to create something from nothing. He is not like everyone else, he is one of a kind and that makes him an outstanding person. A young man who used to work in his garage became famous all over the world and when you exchange a word with him you’ll never get a message, that he is better than you are. A true example of devotion and determination on the way to success is Henry Ford, an American captain of industry and a business magnate, the founder of the Ford Motor Company. Not many people know that he failed several times and was broke before succeeding in his start-up business. He really had an idea of what persistence means! These are examples of becoming outstanding people, respectable and strong personalities.

Each country can boast its own outstanding personalities. Great Britain has given the world many talented scientists, politicians, sportsmen, writers and poets, painters and musicians. The names of Charles Darwin, Isaac Newton, Charles Dickens, John Lennon, Charlie Chaplin speak for themselves. The first British woman Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, a well-known Scottish writer of Sherlock Holmes stories Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of penicillin, who relieved more suffering than any other living man, a former star of the legendary Manchester United David Beckham also deserve mentioning. 

Our country has raised a lot of people who can be called outstanding and made a big contribution to the world’s heritage due to its gifted historic figures and our contemporaries.  Number one, for sure, is Francysk Skoryna, a Belarusian legend. He has been remembered and respected for his contribution to the education and the development of printing. Belarus is the motherland of such writers as Y. Kolas, Y. Kupala, A. Mitskevich, V. Bykov, K. Krapiva, I. Shamyakin, M. Tank, V. Korotkevich, M. Bagdanovich and many others who did a lot for our culture. Among the most prominent Belarusian Artists are Mark Shagall. Ossip Zadkin, Kazimir Malevich, M. Savitski. They were involved in renovation of Belarusian culture and they were not afraid to start everything from the beginning and to tell us about our roots, our identity. We can be justly proud of our sportsmen Maxim Mirny, Victoria Azarenka, Darya Domracheva, Alexei Grishin, Melitina Staniouta and many others.

The year of 2015 was marked by a significant event. The first writer from Belarus was awarded Nobel Prize in Literature. This was Svetlana Alexievich, a Belarusian investigative journalist and non-fiction prose writer. Her books have been translated into many languages. Her most distinguished  works are “War Does Not Have a Woman’s Face”, “Boys in Zinc”, “Chernobyl Prayer”.

We often wonder whether a genius is born or made. Judging by the numerous examples we can assume that naturally born talent is the key ingredient of success. But the way is very often thorny. So such qualities as hard work, determination, persistence and devotion are a must.

To learn more visit this site:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_from_Belarus

Let’s talk about outstanding people.

1. What famous people made our life different?

2. Do you think it is important to know the history of your country?

3. You have a chance to interview a celebrity. Whom will you choose and what questions will you ask?

4. My son wants to become a successful businessman in the future. What advice will you give him?

5. Some people say that great minds think alike. What do you think about it?

Write the answers to the questions in comments.

Exam Topics: Science and Technology

We live in the age of science and technology. Science has changed the lives of people to a great extent. It has made life easy, simple and fast. Science has offered many gifts to mankind. Fire was the first discovery and wheel was the first invention. Since that time we have travelled far. To my mind electricity is a gift of science without which the modern civilization cannot survive. If we stop using it, the whole world would come to a standstill. Science creates wonders almost every day. What once was a fantasy is now a reality thanks to the recent achievements of scientists. Science affects us all every day from the moment we wake up till late at night. Your smartphone, digital hand watch, weather report, smart TV, the antibiotics to treat the flu, the clean water and the light you turn off at the end of your day. All these have been made possible thanks to science.

Technological advances have influenced every sphere of our life. First of all, science has changed our daily routine, transforming our houses into smart homes. Nowadays almost every corner of our house is equipped with modern appliances. Motion sensors, automatic lights, climate control and all kitchen appliances make our life safer, easier and more convenient.

Science has greatly improved medical services. The microscope and the X-ray have become real blessings to mankind. The latest inventions help to diagnose patients with serious diseases and start treatment at early stages. Chemists have invented wonder drugs to cure previously fatal diseases and as a result save lives of thousands of people.

Cloning, space trips and robots are the miracles of the modern times. Though we don’t come across these technologies every day, they influence our life in some ways.

 Without doubt, science has an enormous impact on modern means of communication. In the past it took people weeks and even months to deliver a message from one person to another. Since the invention of mobile phones and the Internet quality of communication has improved greatly. Moreover, modern technology helps us find long-lost relatives and childhood friends. Social networks (Facebook, Twitter, VK) and messengers (Skype, Viber, What’s Up) help us keep in touch with friends and strengthen the ties regardless the distance.

Advanced technologies also enable us to get and share knowledge. Just press the button and the biggest encyclopedia in the world is at your disposal. Google updates us on the latest news, discoveries, inventions, festivals and art events.

But science and technology also have a negative side which affects human lives. Fast and effective technology turns us into coach potatoes, unable and unwilling to go out of house and look for real communication. What is more, computers have given rise to new addictions , for instance, gaming addiction. There is a wide range of intellectual games that develop soft skills, but unfortunately they are not as popular as games featuring shooting, killing and fighting. Sociologists claim that addiction to cruel computer games is responsible for increased crime and violence rates. Furthermore, doctors link several serious health problems such as obesity, heart disease, strokes and cancer with addiction to computer and TV watching.

Science and technology also do a lot of harm to the environment. If we look around, most places are crowded and polluted due to the development of factories, plants and power stations, which are all hazardous to our health.

Thus, as we can see in our daily life science has been great help and we have benefited from it a lot. Frankly speaking, now it has become almost impossible to live without using achievements of science and technology.

Let’s talk about science and modern technologies.

1. What is the role of science in our fast moving world?

2. Do all scientific discoveries have a positive effect on our lives?

3. What questions will you ask a famous scientist about his/her career?

4. Your friend is taking part in an experiment. He must live a month without a computer or a laptop. What advice will you give him? 

5. Can you predict what kind of technologies, gadgets, and devices we will use in the future? Tell us about them.

Write the answers to the questions in comments.

Castles in Belarus

You are going to take part in a competition  "Sight Hunters". You need to describe a castle in your country to get money for its renovation. Use the information in the fact files from the castle explorer website and write about one of the castles in comments