Comment to Nadya Poriskay essey!

In general the essy is well written. As to compossition it has an itroduction,body and conclusion which is positive.It awakes a desire to read further.
Lexics is also not primitive. There is even a turm Routine Destruction Scheme is used (I don't know is it yours but is very good).
As to me the essay could have more points with explanations. But its your own viewpoint so you have a right to think and write in such way.
Some pieces of advice are really usefull. I even use them for me!

Smart boards! Viewpoint.

In fact smart boards excuse its name. Such board has many advantages. Its best sides and aims are to make learning easier and to involve all the pupils in the learning process. It is also simple to work with it with the help of touch recognition, penetrate and smart book software. So everyone can manage with it even an old lady. Software simple interface do not frighten people who is poor in computer work. This invention suits for very little children, pupils, students and adults with different background and on all stages of learning. So educational spheres of new technology are wide.

There no extra buttons to press you need only your finger to touch in order to open the document, a pen to write, a finger to navigate and a palm to wash. Markers finish really very quickly and often are lost somewhere, you do not waste an expensive time to look for it simply takes any other thing and continue your work.

You are always clean in the end of the lesson because of chalk absence.

Smart board is rather easy. Extraordinary made simple.

How to make your routine life interesting?

Life cannot be a holiday every day. It is a hard thing to live which worthily or happy is very hard. If you are bored, nobody is guilty in this, only you. Nobody will make your life interesting or bright. You must not rely upon somebody but do everything by your hands, do not wait but act and strive for the better. Interesting is what you like to eat, listen to or dress. So simply do it more often. This is the main secret. As people used to refuse themselves from what they really want because of various reasons their life receives so dark colures.

I consider that creative woks can amuse your weekdays. You can start to attend drawing classes or courses of sewing or embroider. Active can go on dancing like samba, salsa or belly dance. These exotic dances will make your figure more attractive. Scientists affirm that active affairs that demands fast movements can rise human mood and improve heart’s work.

As for me the best way to make your our routine life more interesting is a change of setting. Our surrounding, flat, food, people and streets which are the same from Monday till Sunday compel us to be gloomy, passive and languid. We are not robots to do the same actions every day of our life. So new places, meetings and even smells will give you new emotions, impressions and hopes. And maybe you will find out your hidden talents and change work you hate.

There are of course more points of interest as to me. For example, compose a list of businesses you must do every month like visiting cinema, opera, theatre performances, discos or art exhibitions. It can be also deeds you want to do but were afraid of like a jump with parachute.

Fight with your fears. Make experiments with everything you have never changed or for a long time as haircut, haircolour, style or furniture in your apartment. Constant changing and development are aims of life.

Try to surround yourself by positive, happy, smart and successful people.

Never complain. If you have time for this you will find time and opportunity to eat a candy. The main thing is your own wish.

Modern IT (Internet Technologies) in EFL teaching

In a Subject Sampler learners are presented with a smaller number (maybe half a dozen) of intriguing Web sites organized around a main topic. They are asked to visit the sites and respond to information found there. The selected sites can include photographs, art, music, text, and a variety of other types of information. What makes this a particularly effective way to engage students is that the teacher has chosen Web sites themselves that offer something interesting to do, read, or see about a given topic. Teachers can use a Subject Sampler when they want students to feel connected to the topic, to get emotionally involved in the topic, and to feel that the topic really matters. 

 

Subject Sampler-Essential Questions One of the challenges we face as classroom teachers is learning to use Essential Questions to guide our students' learning experiences. Creating Essential Questions that truly give a student the opportunity to engage in the learning process is a difficult endeavor.Your job is to sample and explore a minimum of five of the sites listed below. As you visit the sites, write down your thoughts on the questions asked below. You'll be expected to be your group's expert on Essential Questions and when you meet again with your group, your role will be to share with them what you've learned about writing Essential Questions.  Smart questions are essential technology for those who venture on to the Information Highway. Without strong questioning skills, you are just a passenger on someone else's tour bus. You may be on the highway, but someone else is doing the driving.Without strong questioning skills, you are unlikely to exercise profitable search strategies which allow you to cut past the Info-Glut Info-Garbage and Info-Glitz which all too often impede the search for Insight.Sometimes this New Information Landscape seems more like Eliot's Wasteland than a library, more like a yard sale than a gold mine.

The weaker the questioning and learning skills, the less value one is likely to discover or uncover.Schools without a strong commitment to student questioning and research are wasting their money if they install expensive networks linking classrooms to rich electronic information resources.As long as schools are primarily about teaching rather than learning, there is little need for expanded information capabilities. Considering the reality that schools and publishers have spent decades compressing and compacting human knowledge into efficient packages and delivery systems like textbooks and lectures, they may not be prepared for this New Information Landscape which calls for independent thinking, exploration, invention and intuitive navigation. There have always been plenty of questions in schools, but most of them have come from the teacher, often at the rate of one question every 2-3 seconds.

Definition A Subject Sampler presents a small number of sites organized around a specific topic that offer something interesting to do, read, or see. A subject Sampler helps students connect affectively to topic because they are asked to respond from a personal perspective. Right and wrong answers are not the focus, but rather students are invited to join the community of learners surrounding the topic. Subject Samplers communicate to students that their views are valued.

Curricular Goal Used to motivate students to explore a topic Helps students connect affectively to the subject Asks students to respond from their perspective Make comparisons to their personal experiences Give personal interpretation of data, artwork, etc. Invites students to join community of learners

Steps for Creating Write an introduction Create the activities Link to site List instructions for what to do at site Write a conclusion

Process description

1. Teacher create list of Internet sites for students.
2. Students are asked to respond to the Web-based activities from a personal perspective (their perspectives on topics, comparisons to experiences they have had, personal interpretations of artworks or data, etc.)

Required resources

Computer, Internet

Examples 

1)  China: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/China/sampler.html 

2)Exploring Past Leaders Subject Sampler: http://www.kn.pacbell.com/wired/ca_150/

 3)http://www.chccs.k12.nc.us/mdelem/webquests/smith/OBX%20Sampler.html

4)http://www.edclicks.com/

5)http://www.nisd.net/boone/Projects/Math/index.htm

Fashion: Is it good to be on the peak?

All people have germs of taste, but you should have your own style. Dressing beautifully is an art. Clothes which are selected correctly can open true essence of a person.

A lot of us consider that clothes on slim models which we can see on podiums of famous designers are fashion. Fashion is only your own style. People have different height, weight, shape of a body and frame. Fashion is not ideal clothes which fit everybody without exception. As to me fashionable is that thing which suits you, distinguishes in the crowd and emphasizes your individuality.

You are in fashion when people can recognize you in any place can not confuse with somebody else.

Sometimes a new thing fits on a model perfectly but on the other person ugly. You should know disadvantages of your figure and chose a definite style and image, which will show only your advantages.

Fashion is well forgotten old. Fashion is uniqueness.  Fashion is only your fantasy. When a person blindly follows to the fashion rules it is simply nonsense. You are a big coward if agree to put on everything you have seen on TV and pay any money for those who simply want insolently climb into your pocket and dress you like a cock. It’s awful when fans buy expensive clothes of their favorite stars and imitates them in everything. Have only on very expensive but fashionable thing and dress it everywhere is boring. 

I consider that fashion is not only clothes but also make up, perfumery, haberdashery, footwear and hairdo. Your attire depends on textile, cut and type of event you are going to. As to me a person is fashionable if his or her dress becomes fits, matches and suits him or her.

As to modern fashion I must say that we have no limitations in dressing today and too open clothes became a norm of modern fashion. A mystery must always be in you. Every human being should be individual and unique.

Now fashion is bazaar dresses from artificial textiles. People can not invent something new and make a revolution in fashion industry.



What Does Friendship mean in your life?

Friendship is one of the most important components in human life. But we cannot have a lot of friends. He or she is only one and became your native relative. It is one soul in two bodies. Friendship like a love is a hard job. You are very happy that you can say surely that you have a real friend.

I think that true, faithful and reliable friendship is not characteristic for modern society. Today you often can see people in companies try to make new acquaintance of famous stars, their children, politicians or rich businessmen. And then become proud of having a “friend” with useful connections. So if you are poor and unknown you are not interesting.

We can have, of course, many acquaintances, but real friend can be only one. This is a human being which is checked through time and examined in different situations. This is a person which is always with you in the worst moments of your life.

He or she will give you a wise piece of advice, defend your dignity and will be sincerely glad for your happiness without envy.

You will always listen to his or her wholesome critic, because he/she points out on your mistakes in order you can remedy them but not to humiliate.

Friend does not eradicate your disadvantages, learns to live with them and sees, respects and appreciates only your advantages.

I regard the following expression is the best formula of friendship: “Tea and friendship are always good when they are strong and not very sweet”.

What kind of music the strings of your heart?

Classical music is my favorite. And it’s all the same, if somebody thinks I’m old fashioned. I don’t share movements of modern electronic music as drum and base, techno, house etc (may be atmospheric little). It seems like a set of nosing and irritable sounds. Classical music, as to me, is a harmony of soul and a presence of taste, but not the stupid pulling of bodies on the disco.

Even the place and atmosphere where you can listen to the classical and electronic music are absolutely different. You will never hear classics in the dull smoky and nosing night clubs but only in philharmonic society   in the surrounding of well-dressed people.

The main purpose of classical music is to raise person’s mood or to calm if necessary. When I am tired or angry or have a headache I switch on computer masterpieces of Vivaldi (he is my favorite composer, especially his “Seasons”).  My favorite music instrument is a violin. As to me the work of the violinist is the hardest. But it is not the same when you listen to the records and to alive instruments. By the way there are not bad some modern treatments of famous composers of 18-19centuries.

A classic always wakes up in me very positive feelings such as admiration, excitement and elation. It sometimes even helps to find a decision.

I consider classical music has a deep meaning, expresses and hides various composer’s feelings. Her aim is to give pleasure. She is an expression of thought and feeling in an aesthetic form in particular in sound. Music is a part of living, which has the power to awoken in us sensations and emotions.

Music like a language is a living, moving and developing thing which can speak to us.

Love will find you everywhere!

It was the end of the winter. And it was snowing very calmly. Snowflakes like small clouds of different shape cover the frozen ground with a deep carpet. A pair of lanterns lighted here and there. It was so lonely and frosty.

Only one red hair young lady in a white fur coat was walking with her small puppy.

-         Why must you celebrate such holiday alone? It’s wrong! I know you for years and you always hide yourself in your apartment on any event. The world should know that so wonderful girl as you exists! – said an exciting voice.

-         Thanks, Marry. You are the best friend! – answer Candy.

-         Oh, no! Now I take all in my hands. My husband has nice and romantic friend. Today on the St. Valentine’s Day you both will meet at our place.

-         As to me, it’s a bad idea! I shall not come. Sorry! Real love will find me everywhere! – exclaimed Candy.

Worried voice of Marry continued to mutter something in the phone, but girl couldn’t hear her anymore because a puppy run quickly straight ahead and hided in the darkness. A girl run after him, slipped, seized a branch and fell in the pit. A huge snowcap covered her. A cell phone broke on the stone. Despair and fear filled Candy.

In that time on the opposite side of the street a young man was walking with his dog and was taking on the phone.

-         I know your wife perfectly. I don’t doubt that she has good female friends. But I’ll find my second half by myself. Give my regards and thanks to Mary but love will find you everywhere. Oh, my dog has found something. I’ll call you later! – declared a fellow.

A sheep-dog was barking desperately near a small black spot on the snow.

-         What have you found there? Are there anybody? – asked a worried man.

-         Yes, I’m here! Can you help me?! – sounded a girl’s trembling voice.

-         Of course, give me your hand! – replied a stranger.

-         Thanks, you are my saver! I have thought nobody will find me on such holiday today.

-         And what about you Valentine? – asked a handsome man.

-         I have no boyfriend. – confused Candy.

-         I’s awful to be alone for so beautiful girl!

-         Thanks for the compliment and rescue one more time.

-         Oh, if to be honest, it’s my dog has found you.

-         What about his name?

-         Love. Love will find you everywhere! – answered a chop.

Valentines of the mid-19th and early 20th centuries!

In the early beginning greeting cadrs were real Masterpieces!

Esther Howland Valentine, circa 1850: "Weddings now are all the go, Will you marry me or no"?

Handwritten poem, "To Susanna" dated Valentine's Day, 1850 (Cork, Ireland)



Comic Valentine, mid-19th century: "R stands for rod, which can give a smart crack, And ought to be used For a day on your back."



Valentine card, 1862: "My dearest Miss, I send thee a kiss" addressed to Miss Jenny Lane of Crostwight Hall, Smallburgh, Norfolk.



Whitney Valentine, 1887; Howland sold her New England Valentine Company to the George C. Whitney Company in 1881

Seascape Valentine, date unknown

Valentine postcard, circa 1900–1910

Valentine tradition!

We know a lot about Saint Valentine's Day and everyone of us wants to spend this time as best as possible and every girl desires to be the most beautiful in this day!

All couples in this day try to surprise his half. But what about other people who hate this holiday and sit at home in front of the window in teares.

We must think about them also. So I offer to organize special officies which will examine every flat in a house and if there is an along person (especially old women, because they wants a small happiness too) they present them something like sweet photoframes with their pictures in youth  or make a party “Along Hearts’’ where anyone will have a possibility to share his life with somebody. This event must be absolutly free and unexpected!

And one more thing is Saint Valentine's Day at school. Teacher must pay attemtion on these children who receive noting on this holiday but only disappointment. So he or she  should track in advance that pupil will make by hands for the everyone schoolmate a card. It will be better if they all will be  identical.