Passive Voice - Exercise

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1uTVASVXBdap6NZLPcEQxOfmmF2nk5sDN5BU9oGj6bG8/edit?usp=sharing

Graduation messages

GRADUATION MESSAGES:

Hip, Hip, Hooray! You did it!  Congratulations!  This calls for a celebration, so let's celebrate!    Happy graduation!   Cap and gown. Books are done.  Look out world. Here you come!   Con-GRAD-ulations!  To a real class act-  you made the grade! Congratulations!   Congratulations, Graduate! The sky is the limit!   With knowledge in your hands,  and an open heart,  you'll have nothing but success.  Congratulations!   Whatever your dreams might be, may each become a reality! Happy Graduation! Wishing you the special happiness of seeing your dreams come true. Congratulations on your graduation! Caps off to the graduate! Congratulations! Upon your graduation, hold your memories in one hand,  but leave the other open... for your life is just beginning,  and the world that awaits you is endless.   The future is a rainbow of beautiful tomorrows, when you hold a dream in your heart! Congratulations on your graduation! Now that you have been educated, sophisticated, matriculated, articulated, and graduated... Consider yourself congratulated!!   Reach for the stars and always keep dreaming.   Go confidently in the direction of your dreams.   Congrats!  Hats off to you!   The world is waiting for you. Go for it!    Congratulations!  You did it!!!   Every yesterday is a memory of dreams. Every tomorrow is a vision of hopes.      Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss you'll be among the stars.

Group 2 Task

Dress the part for a once-in-a-lifetime event that's rich in style and traditions.

Ceremony Basics

There's no greater recognition of a graduate's achievements than a high school graduation ceremony, or commencement. Diplomas are "conferred" or handed out to graduating seniors and the speakers selected for this event often include community dignitaries, alumni and students. The valedictorian, the highest-ranking academic student in the graduation class, usually speaks.

Many schools have to restrict attendance for space reasons. Make sure to check with your school to see if there will be limitations on the number of people you can invite to the ceremony. If your school has space restrictions and you're facing a dilemma about who to include, try these tips:

• Talk to your friends and family members and explain that while you want them at graduation, each graduate is allowed only a limited number of guests. Most people will understand and even possibly volunteer to give up their ticket so that someone else may attend.
• Consider inviting only one grandparent or aunt or uncle from each wing of your family.
• Come up with a creative solution that will feel fair to everyone, such as drawing names.
• Let everyone who is not able to attend know they will be invited to the graduation party. Make sure to share your photos and videos to make them feel included.

Ceremony Etiquette

Some schools embrace lively and free-spirited graduation ceremonies. But before you break out the beach balls and noisemakers, consider these factors:

• What are the traditions of your particular school? If graduation is a more formal and somber right of passage, it's probably better to replace whooping and hollering with applause.
• In most schools, the handing out of diplomas is a quick and orderly process. Make sure that when you show pride in your graduate, you aren't drowning out the recognition of another.
• Life's milestones deserve everyone's full attention. Turn off your cell phones and resist the urge to text until the entire ceremony is over. Remain in your seat until the last students receive their diplomas so that they feel properly acknowledged.

The Cap and Gown

Preparing to march to "Pomp and Circumstance" requires wearing the traditional graduation cap and gown, a tradition that dates back centuries to the early universities in Europe.

Here's how to wear your cap and gown:

• The graduation cap is worn flat on the head, parallel to the floor. The front point of the cap should be centered on the forehead.
• The graduation gown should fall midway between the knee and ankle.
• Men should remove their graduation caps during the school song and the National Anthem.
• Tassels are usually worn on the right side and shifted to the left when graduates receive their diplomas.
• Men generally wear dark trousers and dress shirts and ties under their graduation gowns.
• Women generally wear lightweight dresses or blouses and skirts that do not hang below their graduation gowns. They can also wear a detachable white collar that adds a more finished, decorative touch.
• Flowers and jewelry should not be worn on the academic gown.
• Caps and gowns can be accessorized with specific regalia like stoles and honor cords in keeping with the traditions of the school.

Group 1 Task

It's the end of an era! Graduation means that life as you know it is about to change.

We all try to make the transition as painless, fun, and important as possible by throwing parties, giving $25 checks in tacky cards, taking roughly 14 million pictures, and having very very formal ceremonies in weird flat hats. (When you throw your hat in the air, do be careful, eyes can get poked out when the hats come back down.) This is all good and exciting, but it can also be exhausting. There is a lot of protocol and rehearsal, and you have to have a small talk-y conversation about your future with everyone you've ever met because they're all at your house, eating crackers and cheese and looking at your baby photos. But who cares?! The money, presents, parties, and polyester gowns are all part of our tried and true traditions.

But not everyone does it like America. Some countries do some pretty weird stuff to commemorate graduation:

Argentina: If you are a senior in Argentina, your worst nightmare is the second you're done with your last exam. Imagine you're taking the very last test of your high school career. It's a doozy, and you're all, "Let's DO this, let's get this over with," because then you can relax and celebrate, right? Ummm sort of. Outside the classroom, your friends are waiting to basically assault you with every sticky disgusting, throwable, stinky food they could find. Ketchup, syrup, pepper, bad yogurt! Plus scissors to cut up your clothes! It is like a full-on, super fun, crazy person attack, but everyone is having a great time, because, fun!*

*insane.

Russia: Here, graduation is called The Last Bell. As in "This is the last school bell you will ever have to listen to!  Go! Be free and responsible!" The girls all wear black dresses with white aprons in an homage to their Tsarist-era school uniforms, which seems weird, but then you see that they're just mad cute, and it's fun to wear a costume and not a sweaty weird cloak. Then all the graduating students line up in front of the whole school, to sort of be like, "we're out of here friends, have fun" and then leave and party. Ms. Universe type sashes are also worn.

Italy: We found that for a lot of countries, graduation is an exercise in public humiliation, and Italy is no different. There are so many kinds of high schools with different concentrations that the ceremony varies for everyone, but it is often some form of dressing in an embarrassing costume, being covered in food by passers by, or hopping around with your shoe laces tied together. Your mother is also probably there, holding a laurel wreath and beaming with pride. God.

Sweden: This is it. This is where the party is at. You may be surprised, but Swedes know how to let loose. Here's the itinerary:
-Meet at the park for a breakfast champagne toast. Legal.
-Put on white sea captain hats and sashes. (These hats will be covered with notes and well wishes by the end of the day.)
-Meet again at the school. Start chanting and singing as you exit that place for the last time ever.
-As a group, sing your way out to the street where there's a mob of families holding signs with giant embarrassing pictures of everyone's childhood faces.

-Climb into your respective make-shift truck bed/parade float and ride around town all day drinking champagne, singing, yelling, and stopping to take the occasional swim in the public fountains. Tradition! It almost makes high school worth it.

Does your school have any weird graduation traditions?

Belarusian Wedding

I What is wedding? :) Please, first of all read this text:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Ua-KD37p75i72PogYJZnXjB5_6nu7FDg8XvZiKpBwgs/edit?usp=sharing

IIGuys, please, open the following link and read the text. Fill in the missing words.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rVRtvdvM5JblkJ3v5ZA2VP6zMPTKQN4MwNIhBFbypUk/edit?usp=sharing

Festivals!

1) Please, complete the folllowing exercise

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1pBZcXWEyq2BKTLGw4Y5sl_dYJvPb2z8nHkPWIlJw2UI/edit?usp=sharing

2) Blog task:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tn15QOWwdRDCXKxYRnWqgdXbYSvyAa5S8ZQC72tvTIo/edit?usp=sharing

Project

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WXKd_Cd4peKxsTus3mDO0fOESgZ3HCPRIhKNC-5yI6E/edit

Conditionals. Part II

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1C6g0jUQJVOfnwJApzYia3u6kAA0N06pFTdw1LZn8scY/edit

Conditionals

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UhevNeVZzhL68Al8SnYmwDC6QqYdGQS2t7OFZMEJIaw/edit?usp=sharing

Task three

Guys, take a look at these pictures below:

1) Team one

2) Team two

3) Team three

Do the task that you can find under this link:

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jsCrnwWSZI7je-d8aSp3lTRuQ3io34nwppSO7N1kwRY/edit?usp=sharing

Task 2

Guys, here you have a picture with a) reasons of a bad eyesight b) results of a bad sight and c) how to improve your eysight. Each group consists of 5 words or exrpessions

Part One
Team A: your task is to find all of the reasons of bad eyesight
Team B: you have to find all of the result of having a bad eyesight
Team C: you need to figure out all of the ways how we can improve our eyesight.

Part Two:
All three teams need to come up to this link:
http://www.wordle.net/create
And create their own graphics using the words you have found. Plus you are to add 5 more words or expressions related to your part of the task.
After finishing your task, upload your images here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1BpGNDpGXvS1r9YvQQwjcwD8fMwaU2GsYvYl8eqvYBq8/edit?usp=sharing

Good luck!

HOW MUCH SCREEN TIME IS TOO MUCH FOR CHILDREN?

Guys, here is the first task for you:
1) First, do the test and check out the result.
http://www.gotoquiz.com/do_you_spend_too_much_time_on_the_computer

2) Then, share your results in this table:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Odz1MAVJmGzpMh4tiS1Xxzl7PhTNQivYLlH_nd-QMkA/edit?usp=sharing

All in all, you have five minutes to finish it.

Success attend you!

The humour of writers

There was once a young man who, in his youth, professed his desire to become a great writer.

When asked to define "Great" he said, "I want to write stuff that the whole world will read, stuff that people will react to on a truly emotional level, stuff that will make them scream, cry, howl in pain and anger!"

He now works for Microsoft, writing error messages.

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A visitor to a certain college paused to admire the new Hemingway Hall that had been built on campus.

"It's a pleasure to see a building named for Ernest Hemingway," he said.

"Actually," said his guide, "it's named for Joshua Hemingway. No relation."

The visitor was astonished. "Was Joshua Hemingway a writer, also?"

"Yes, indeed," said his guide. "He wrote a check."

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A writer died and was given the option of going to heaven or hell.

She decided to check out each place first. As the writer descended into the fiery pits, she saw row upon row of writers chained to their desks in a steaming sweatshop. As they worked, they were repeatedly whipped with thorny lashes.

“Oh my,” said the writer. “Let me see heaven now.”

A few moments later, as she ascended into heaven, she saw rows of writers, chained to their desks in a steaming sweatshop. As they worked, they, too, were whipped with thorny lashes.

“Wait a minute,” said the writer. “This is just as bad as hell!”

“Oh no, it’s not,” replied an unseen voice. “Here, your work gets published.”

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A screenwriter comes home to a burned down house. His sobbing and slightly-singed wife is standing outside. “What happened, honey?” the man asks.

“Oh, John, it was terrible,” she weeps. “I was cooking, the phone rang. It was your agent. Because I was on the phone, I didn’t notice the stove was on fire. It went up in second. Everything is gone. I nearly didn’t make it out of the house. Poor Fluffy is—”

“Wait, wait. Back up a minute,” The man says. “My agent called?”

Conditionals

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1bVaakZ9Y9l0HPITuUZidEkzQyDtBgBGh3IGE2g0u83I/edit?usp=sharing

Happy Fouls Day, Guys!

Part One
What is April Fools Day and what are its origins? It is commonly believed that in medieval France, New Year was celebrated on 1 April. Then in 1562, Pope Gregory introduced a new calendar for the Christian world, changing New Year to 1 January. With no modern communications, news travelled slowly and new ideas were often questioned. Many people did not hear of the change, others chose to ignore it, while some merely forgot. These people were called fools. Invitations to non-existent ‘New Year’ parties were sent and other practical jokes were played. This jesting evolved over time into a tradition of playing pranks on 1 April. The custom eventually spread to England and Scotland, and it was later transported across the Atlantic to the American colonies of the English and the French. April Fools Day has now developed into an international festival of fun, with different nationalities celebrating the day in special ways.
If the story with a calendar hadn't happened the celebration of the April Fools Day wouldn't have been maintained.
Part Two
If you lived in these countries you would be a victim of various tricks...In France and Italy, if someone plays a trick on you, you are the ‘fish of April’. By the month of April fish have only just hatched and are therefore easy to catch. Children stick paper fish to their friends’ backs and chocolate fish are found in the shops.
In Scotland, April Fools Day lasts for two days! The second day is called ‘Taily Day’ and tricks on this day involve the bottom (or the ‘tail’ in informal speech). Often a sign saying ‘kick me’ is stuck onto someone’s back without them knowing.
In Spain and Mexico, similar celebrations take place on 28 December. The day is the Feast of the Holy Innocents. Originally, the day was a sad remembrance of the slaughter of the innocent children by Herod in his search for the baby Jesus. It eventually changed to a lighter commemoration of innocence involving pranks and trickery.
Part Three
Today, Americans and the British play small tricks on friends and strangers alike on 1 April. A common trick is to point to a friend's shoe and say ‘Your shoelace is untied.’ When they look down, they are laughed at. Schoolchildren might tell a friend that school has been cancelled. A bag of flour might be balanced on the top of a door so that when the ‘victim’ opens the door, the flour empties over their head. Sometimes the media get involved. Once, a British short film was shown on April Fools Day about spaghetti farmers and how they harvest their crop from spaghetti trees! If you have some time, please, google it and watch it.
Part Four
Most April Fool jokes are in good fun and not meant to harm anyone. The best trick is the one where everyone laughs, especially the person upon whom the joke has been played.
April Fool’s Day, 1989
UFO Lands Near London
Two British policemen were sent to investigate a glowing flying saucer on 31 March, the day before April Fool’s Day. When the policemen arrived at a field in Surrey, they saw a small figure wearing a silver space suit walking out of a spacecraft. Immediately the police ran off in the opposite direction. Reports revealed that the alien was in fact a midget, and the flying saucer was a hot air balloon that had been specially built to look like a UFO by Richard Branson, the 36-year-old chairman of Virgin Records.
Branson had planned to land the balloon in London’s Hyde Park on 1 April. However, a wind change had brought him down in a Surrey field. The police were bombarded with phone calls from terrified motorists as the balloon drifted over the motorway. One lady was so shocked by the incident that she didn’t realise that she was standing naked in front of her window as she was describing the UFO to a radio station


UPD
For conducting my scheme
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jox3Iuo28S1Pt8_YidRRgaa_RDET8LQKdNCVlC-b7Gc/edit?usp=sharing