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Sona English Coach
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Apr 17, 2024
Great, very well done, Good job on your pronunciation.
David
English
May 8, 2023
Great to see you, well done on today's learning. See notes/powerpoint for next time. David
Teacher Seren
English
Jun 25, 2021
It was such a pleasure to meet you Kirill! It was great hearing about your life in London. Your English is very advanced, your vocabulary is very broad and you have nothing to by shy about. Keep practicing to boost your confidence!
Zoi
English
Jun 5, 2019
An interesting and thought provoking lesson with Kirill. His spoken English is progressing very well and his vocabulary is definitely widening! Well done Kirill!
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  • Corrected

    There are no tourists in my city. At least I usually don't see crowds of people on our streets. Rarely a few buses come at the biggest park and people just walk around. They don't throng like a herd. They are quiet and mostly senior.

    People don't join a crowd themselves. Usually guides collect many people and lead them through a city. Larger the crowd means larger the profit. It's just a bussiness. Although they could tour through a city by different way. They could split sightseers into small groups and send them to diverse places. But there are disadvantages in case of small towns which have only one point of interest. And it would bring more problems for travel agencies because they would need to hire more guides and solve more logistic troubles.

    What if a town's administration forbade travel agency from bringing more than 7 people at once? Probably, visiting that town would become more expensive for tourists or they would need to wait until other groups go away. In any case such a town would fall from favour with visitors and lose money.

    We all know that tourists waste a lot of money: they buy souvenirs, food, tickets for transport and for some entertainments or shows (for examples, for bull's fights). They use public lavatories, buy umbrellas or sunglasses. Many people think they have to buy some clothes and then drag them back home. It doesn't matter that these clothes were made in China. Finally, they all need to live somewhere and they rent rooms in hotels. So, tourists are very powerfull source of profit for every town's economy and any administration should involve people in its town as much as possible.

    Why do people behave like that? Why do they bring problems for locals and for other visitors? Several problems can be solved simply. For example, excursionists should use radio-guides instead of loudspeakers. But what about rudeness and arrogant manners? I think the reasons are an impunity and a herd instinct. Everybody's sure that he or she is situated for a short time in a town and nobody will follow and point the finger at him or her. This feeling is supported by other member's behaviour.

    Tourist's breeding is a very complicated issue and I have no answer how to make it more agreeable.

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    October 23, 2014
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    I have the Internet connection from one of russian leader cellular providers - Mobile Tele Systems (MTS). It's ADLS connection and I borrow an ADLS Wi-Fi router for free from my provider.
    A link speed is about 15Mb/sec. My notebook, iPad and a telephone are connecting to the Internet via Wi-Fi.
    I use the Internet mainly for studing English at current time. I use many online dictionaries, watch videos and talk to my teachers via Skype. Furthermore, I like to read something interesting.
    My wife searches an information about a development of children.
    Our son likes to watch cartoons and to talk to grandparents via Skype.

    There is one interesting observations: when I'm far from the Internet, I often have many ideas to search and to read on the net. But when I reach my computer I usually remember nothing of all those ideas.

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    October 19, 2014
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    Advantages of Self-Driving Cars. Today people waste several hours every day while driving to work and then back home. Especially in big cities. And you can't use this time efficiently - you're only watching at a road and spinning a steering wheel. The only thing you can do is listening to the radio. Now imagine that in a few years you will earn heaps of money and eventually will buy a car from Google. You'll get into your car, type a destination address on your iPhone, press "Let's go" button and ... just relax. The car will do everything else instead of you. At first you'll be able to look around. Cities change quickly but you don't notice that because you're gazing on a road while you drive yourself. You observe only new potholes on roads. When you're satisfied with the city's sight you'll be able to attend to something useful. You'll have possibility to read, to speak by phone, to work remotely or to talk to fellow traveler if you're not alone. Or you'll be able to waste your time by playing on your iPhone. But there is a point at issue: in case of a car accident who will be responsible for that? You or a manufacturer of a self-driving car?
    October 15, 2014
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    he’ll - he will
    that’s - that is or that has
    he’d - he would or he had
    where’d - where had or where would
    couldn’t - could not
    I’m - I am
    they’ve - they have
    you’re - you are

     

    I haven't done my current project for several days.
    If I'd less emergency tasks then I'd finish it in time.
    It's not easy to switch between many affairs all the day.
    You're jaded after such a day.

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    October 10, 2014
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    There is a Russian movie called "Gentlemen of Fortune". It's a very kind and fun film.
    And there is an episode: the breakfast-time in the kindergarten. Children are eating unwillingly and a nanny doesn't known what to do. A kindergarten teacher comes and says: "The breakfast is denied today. We are going to fly on Mars by a space rocket. So take your space-spoons and eat thoroughly because our rocket won't return on Earth until the lunch-time." And then all children start to raven enthusiastically.
    When my son doesn't want to eat I sometimes use this approach. I take his spoon and wander it in front of him. I say something like this: "This is a spacecraft and it's looking for a base for landing..." My son usually laughs and opens his mouth. I doubt that he comprehends the meaning but it works.

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    October 7, 2014
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    calm sea, placid sea, quiet sea
    pleasure yacht
    racing yacht
    yahth, vessel, craft
    hull, body
    cabin, compartment, quarters, superstructure
    porthole, cabin window
    life ring, life buoy, flotation device
    deck,platform
    railing, banister, handrail
    fenders, cushion, buffer
    standing rigging, stay, support (i.e. shrouds, braces)
    running rigging, ropes (i.e. halyards, sheets)
    mast, pole
    boom

    A vessel on the foreground of the picture is a pleasure yacht.
    The hull is broad and roundish. It has a very large superstructure with huge cabin windows.
    A life ring is attached to a reiling on the bow.
    The destination of this yacht is to pleasure people and to have fun from sailing.

    The fourth craft on the background is a racing yacht.
    It has narrow and straight body. The cabin is low and has small portholes.
    There is nothing superfluous on the deck. A life bouy is usually fixed on the stern.
    The racing yacht is intended for taking part in competition. The main goal is being faster.

    When I look at this picture I feel nostalgia. I used to go sailing when I was at school.
    I still remember the jingle of rigging when the weather is windy and yachts are rocking.
    But on the picture the weather is placid. There is no wind and waves. It should be very silently.
    And tedious because you can't sail, you are becalmed.

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    October 6, 2014
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    Recalling Phrases from a Dialog about an Astronomy This summer I borrowed a telescope from my colleague and took it out of a city. I pointed the telescope at Saturn and watched it's rings. The image was trembling. But it was very impressive to see Saturn by myself. I'm going to visit an observatory of one of universities and watch at the sky through a bigger telescope. A weightlessness is a state when no force influence on you exept the gravity. It's like an endless falling. By studying soil of comets scientists can understand how water arrived on Earth. And maybe how the life has been born. Without the Moon the life on Earth wouldn't arise.
    October 3, 2014
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    Describing a photo A crowd of sightseers are walking on the alley. Many of them are carrying opened umbrellas. Some of them are carrying knapsacks. It is spring. The weather is wet and foggy. Most of trees have young leaves and some are still naked. The pavement is covered by light tiles. It is very neatly, there is no leaf litter on the walkway. There are charming elderly lamp poles along the path.
    September 29, 2014
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