俄罗斯请客吃饭的习俗 大家好！我准备了一个作文，但是觉得有什么错误。很领你的帮助！谢谢 -------- 了解到中国的社会习俗，尤其请客吃饭的习俗，我一定很奇怪。中国人多么客气啊！我就这样体会俄罗斯的习俗跟中国的并不一样。俄罗斯的文化，习俗有自己的特点。当然当前许多传统的习俗改变了，但是它们仍然影响俄罗斯人的日常生活习俗。 传统上，主人和客人约一个时间，然后主人准备很丰盛充分的饭菜。请客的时候，主人拿着面包和盐表达热情。过年来由于受国外的影响，俄罗斯人已经没有类似的传统。 当前的情况太轻松了。第一个特点是，俄罗斯人请客是为了聊聊天，对客人表达尊重，不只是为了吃饭。即使客人不要吃了，主人不会劝让。然而俄罗斯奶奶往往主为客人动添饭夹菜，勉强别人吃多喝多。俄罗斯奶奶的形象让人开玩笑，然而其实每个家庭有类似的奶奶。 第二个是，客人不但坐在最好的地方，甚至睡在最好的地方，因为这样主人表示尊重。对于客人，来点儿什么吃的是必须的。客人不但拿着水果，点心，甚至拿着蛋糕，为的是表示心意，礼貌。 尽管俄罗斯请客吃饭的习俗显得简单和轻松，我相信这些习俗不起很大的作用。与其说有丰盛的饭菜，比如对客人有礼貌的态度，表时热情的好客。

练习口语 Language exchange Russian - Chinese (Mandarin) 大家好！我找一个从中国来的女朋友。我可以给你帮助说俄罗斯话，你也帮助我说中文。我要用Whats App 或者 Viber有时候给你打电话。我的口语不太流利，所以我非常要说得多！我希望我们可以互相帮助！

A week without smartphone This is my home task essay. The task is simple as that: write an article about your experience of giving up a tech device for a week. I'll be extremely grateful if someone revise it and provide me with some feedback! I do believe that smartphones have become a genuine breakthrough because these devices make it possible to obtain information "on the go". I cannot imagine my life without using my smartphone as I have all my groupmates', friends' contacts in it and I can reach to them any minute. Moreover, I have my current readings downloaded on the smartphone. Whenever I'm on my way to the university or stuck in the traffic jam, I always read some pages. To be completely honest with you, I do procrastinate a lot using my phone: scrolling Instagram feed, absorbing useless motivational articles and blogposts became my daily routine. What if someone offered me to give up using a smartphone for a week? I would refuse, but let's imagine. At first, I would feel frustrated because the first thing I do in the morning is checking my phone in case of any updates. I would have to stick to another habit in the morning. For instance, I could've started taking a cold shower to wake up or read several pages of the book or revise home task. Then, as my typical day goes on, I usually walk to the university with my headphones on listening to music or podcasts. How can I replace this activity? Probably, there's nothing left except just listening to nature itself: birds singing, passers-by talking to each other, street noises. Afterwards, when I come back home, I give myself some time to recharge before doing sophisticated work, such as translations, memorizing Chinese characters or reading on my coursework. This recharge usually implies that I watch TV series or read a Facebook feed, checking with my friends' updates. Instead of doing this, I'd most likely end up talking to a couple of friends in person or reading a book in my dormitory room. All in all, I don't think I could give up technology and my smartphone in particular even for a day, let alone the whole week. It would be torture in action. Technology helps me to relieve from all the tensions in my life and somehow distracts me from problems. Not surprisingly, I'm attached to my phone, but I'm completely aware of the problem and try to minimize the usage.

It is just as important to educate the heart as the mind Hi, folks! I wish I could elaborate more on the topic outlined in the title. But when I was writing it, I just wanted to practice my English writing. Hope to receive any remarks and thoughts regarding the topic. And I would be more than pleased to know what you think my level of English is. -------------------- We all got used to memorizing sophisticated equations, algorithms and poems at our schools. But when it comes to human interaction, we sometimes forget about ethics and morality. Eventually, starting from the very young age, we all face discrimination and intolerance. How can a child cope with that? Peer pressure, bullying have unfortunately became an essential part of every school life. Schools, most of them, are the institutes where a child engage with a big group of peers for the first time. And for some of them, this experience turns out as a challenging one. If I were, by any chance, in charge of education in my country, the first thing I would have done is to proliferate the idea of educating the mind. In the modern busy world, we usually neglect our mental health, concentrating more on our physical conditions. We forget that learning how to treat people as important as learning how to read, calculate. If parents paid more attention to developing acceptance, tolerance, compassion in kids' hearts, the results would have been truly astonishing. Can you imagine people who do not cross each others' boundaries, respect opponent's opinion and do not overreact over trifles? The golden rule of morality sounds very easy to follow, but we barely stick to this rule when it comes to daily life. Arguments easily flire up at the streets, on the line, in public places. To address the problem, we should nurture our kids as compassionate, empathetic and responsible for their actions humans. Firstly, parents should act as role models to their kids - this approach is the most efficient one, as an upbringing shapes most of the kid's character and views on life. Secondly, educators should show them another side of the coin - examples (particularly in history) when great minds used their knowledge to establish racist-based society, driven by intolerance, violence and coercion. No matter how old you are, you can always step on the path of mercy, kindness and compassion. Just let them into your life and be amazed by outcomes.

Essay (2) 1. One of the most recent difficult decisions made by the Russian government was to adopt the Runet law, which is defined as a process of Russian isolating from the Internet. On 16th of April, the lower house of the State Duma adopted on third and final reading a draft of the law, and then it was approved by Federation Council and signed by The President. Many citizens and organizations have expressed concerns about this absurd law. For example, Roscomsvoboda, public organization, headed by Artyom Kozlyuk, who has a strong opinion about it. He predicts that with the adoption of the law Internet costs will increase, but the connection will become slower. I completely disagree with the President and Duma’s decision. First, the maintaining of the Runet approximately costs 30 billion rubles. Therefore, if the Internet cost raises, many people, I too, will try to find illegal ways to use the Internet. I don’t think that it is what the Government would want, because their aim was to make the Internet safe and free from cyber threats. Second, this case is likely to be linked with the Chinese Great Firewall, but I don’t think in Russian reality this case would work. Our country is declared democratic which means that all citizen can express and share their ideas (which are not considered as extreme, of course). To conclude, the assertion about ‘external threats’ (threatening the safety of Runet), which is pointed out by deputies, stands on shaky ground. It is a very disputable problem which must be solved in cooperation with citizens.

Essay When I entered university this autumn, my expectations of quality in education were high. Back then, I thought that professors would deliver their lectures with passion and enthusiasm and the curriculum would include both compulsory and elective subjects. However, all my dreams were shattered. Professors didn’t even bother how they delivered significant information and curriculum didn’t involve elective subjects. On this purpose, I wanted to blame somebody – government, The Ministry of Education, Administration of my university. But I was the one to blame, I didn’t make an effort to change something. Therefore, since then, I try to draw my attention to this problem and learn more about education in other countries. Personally, I don’t want to put up with the mediocre quality of education. I know that it is easier said than done, but I am eager to streamline my activities towards this dedicated job as an educator. Other problem, beyond my dissatisfaction, is that one day I will be a mother of children who live in the country and don’t get a proper and superior education. Don’t you think that better education is the more independent and strong nation becomes? I want people in my country to be strong and well educated, so I set myself up for dedicating my life to showing people that education can be fun and productive. Now, I feel that I am able to accomplish the aim I have set myself.