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Nationalities
should alsways be written with a capital or uppercase letter at the beginning .A/the should be used more to introduce new ideas, talk about old ideas and talk about specific things.
For example: There is a mountain that looks like a table in Cape Town. The mountain is called Table Mountain.
We use a in the first sentence to introduce new information. We use the in the second sentence to talk about the same information (old information).
Really VS Very
Both can be used as adverbs to describe adjectives.
For example: very good or really good.
BUT
We only use really to describe verbs
For example: really like. Really work.
Infinitives and Gerunds
When you have a verb followed by another verb you usually write the second verb in the infinitive form: to come or gerund form: coming.
Example: I want to come. I like to go. I need to eat.
A teacher from Barnaul was fired because of the photo in the swimsuit
A Russian teacher was fired after posts and photos on her Facebook. Tatiana Kuvshinnikova, a thirty-eight-year old teacher and member of the Altai Federation of winter swimming " Polar Bears» had published photos in her swimsuit with the medal and after that was criticized by her colleagues and the director of her school. The director of the school declared that Tatiana is a bad example for children and she was afraid that teenagers would fall in love with this teacher. As soon as the news was published on the internet people were upset by the stupid action of the school administration. People said "There is nothing indecent about these photos! On the contrary - she promotes a healthy lifestyle!" Currently the teacher doesn't want come back to the school.Hello Ekaterina,
Nice short article, nice to see that some administrations are stupid the world over!
Please take care with articles, I know they can be a problem for Russian speakers. There were also a few other corrections to make it more natural
Best wishes
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