Clothes - II

Sometimes when we want to describe a person we we also tell what he is dressed in. So we need to learn some new vocabulary.

Dress we wear can be modern, old-fashioned; it helps us to have our own style. We can look awful or funny or to have a tendy outfit. One needs a designer look, other wants a biker or a cowboy look.

Tastes differ of course!

Click the picture to learn new words about clothes.

Related phrases

Maria is wearing a red dress and a black suede jacket today.

Natasha is wearing a dark gray suit and a white blouse today.

Anna is wearing a black skirt, a light-blue blouse, and high-heeled black shoes. There is a colorful scarf around her neck.

Ella is wearing a skirt and a sweater. Tanya is dressed in a pant suit.

Tom is wearing a dark-gray business suit, a white shirt and a gray silk tie.

Here there is a test to check yourself.

A memory game: http://www.angles365.com

Extra. If you need to know parts of clothes look at the picture below:

Clothes

There is a word set about clothes : lingualeo.ru

Character

Let's talk about character!

Character

pleasant personality, good-tempered, good-natured, easy-going;

terrible character, bad-tempered, ill-natured;

friendly, sociable, outgoing, unfriendly, hostile, unsociable;

strong, tough, independent, mature, weak, immature;

dependable, reliable, trustworthy, honest, unreliable, dishonest;

reasonable, sensible, unreasonable, unpredictable, impulsive;

ambitious, hard-working, energetic, careless, lazy;

disciplined, organized, careful, accurate;

undisciplined, disorganized, careless;

attentive, alert, perceptive, observant, insightful, thoughtful, considerate;

aggressive, pushy, self-confident, shy, timid, modest, humble;

self-centered, selfish, egoistical;

haughty, stubborn, obstinate;

moody, melancholic, self-conscious, touchy, sensitive;

humorous, amusing, funny, interesting, dull, boring;

generous, unselfish, kind, kind-hearted;

economical, thrifty, stingy, miserly, greedy;

formal, official, informal, relaxed, casual;

strange, odd, weird, eccentric, crazy;

Mind

intelligent, broad-minded, sharp, keen, bright, quick, agile, wise, clever;

foolish, stupid, narrow-minded.

Related Phrases

What is he like?

He is friendly and dependable. He is interesting and amusing.

He is smart and honest. He is also pretty humorous. I like him.

She is careless and lazy. You can't depend on her.

She is serious, organized, hard-working, and tough.

He is old, sick, and lonely. She is a nice clever girl.

His character is terrible. He is hostile and bad-tempered. He doesn't have many friends.

She is knowledgeable and broad-minded, and she likes to help young people.

What does he like?

He likes ice cream and chocolate. She likes modern music.

Other related words

Note: Some of the words below are slang words. Use with caution.

Примечание: Некоторые слова ниже из сленга. Употребляйте осмотрительно.

a bookworm, a history buff, a sports fan, a music fan, a movie fan, a TV addict;

a computer whiz kid, a computer freak, a number-cruncher;

a fashion-monger, a fashion plate, a dandy;

a junk collector, a pack rat, a miser, a squanderer;

a homebody, a couch potato, lazybones, a workaholic, a Jack of all trades;

an adventurer, a thrill seeker, an oddball, a weirdo;

a prude, a hypocrite, a chronic liar, a gambler, a smooth operator, a city slicker, a simpleton;

a superachiever, an underachiever, a winner, a loser, a tough guy, a softy;

a woman-chaser, a womanizer, a lady's man / a ladies' man, a lady-killer;

a black sheep, a scapegoat, a scarecrow, a white crow, a night owl

Idiom. Tastes differ

Tastes differ.Prov. Different people like different things. 

Fred: Bill always goes out with such stupid girls. I can't understand why. 
Alan: Tastes differ.


You can watch a video with subtitles on http://soraman.livejournal.com/68349.html

Appearance

Appearance

attractive, good-looking, beautiful, handsome, pretty, cute, nice;

plain, plain-looking, unattractive, ugly;

well-dressed, casually dressed, poorly dressed;

neat, clean, untidy, dirty;

Height

tall, pretty tall, short, pretty short, medium height, average height, six feet tall;

1 inch (in.) = 2.54 centimeters (cm)

1 foot (ft.) = 12 in. = 30.48 cm = 0.3048 m

He is six feet tall. He is 183 centimeters tall.

Weight and Build

thin, quite thin, slim, slender, medium-build, overweight, fat, strong, muscular, athletic;

1 pound (lb.) = 0.4536 kilograms (kg)

He weighs 170 pounds. (one hundred and seventy pounds)

He weighs 77 kilograms. (seventy-seven kilograms)

Her weight is 132 pounds. (one hundred thirty-two pounds)

Her weight is 59.9 kilograms. (fifty-nine point nine kilograms) Her weight is about 60 kilograms.

She is five feet three inches tall. She is 160 centimeters tall.

Hair

dark, fair, black, red, brown, blond, chestnut brown, white, gray;

long, short, medium-length, shoulder-length, straight, curly, wavy, thick, thinning, bald;

shiny, smooth, neatly combed;

dull, tousled, disheveled;

Eyes

blue, green, gray, brown, light-blue, dark-gray, grayish-blue, dark;

big, bright, expressive, with long lashes;

Age

young, old, middle-aged, twenty years old, in her thirties, about forty.

Related Phrases

What does she look like?

She is young and good-looking, with dark eyes and long red hair.

He is tall and thin, with brown hair. He is twenty-five years old.

She is average height, dark-haired, quite thin, and wears glasses. She's about fifty.

He is old, short, medium-build, with gray hair and a beard.

She has dark eyes, wavy blond hair, and a nice figure. She looks great.

He is a handsome middle-aged man. She is a pretty young girl.

How do I look?

You look good. You look great. You look nice. You look terrible. You look awful.

Human body

Watch the video and train the word pronunciation.

- Environmental Studies (плейлист)

Facial features - II

There you can see a good word set about appearance: lingualeo.ru

Facial features

How to use daily news

Folow the link below:

Elephant saved from a brutal owner – level 1 :: News in Levels - easy English reading and listening

The original computer!

Hi! What do you think about this?

Elementary Podcasts

The good thing you can do to improve you English is to sighn in here: http://www.voscreen.com

Please comment this video. What do you think about this brave woman?

Modern Art of Dagestan. An exibition in Moscow

You can read about the exibition  here

My Dagestan

This video is made by Ahmad. There are some pronunciation mistake in it. Ahmad, i ask you to tape the text here for us to get clear understanding of it.

100 most common English words

Can you guess what the most common words in English are? the video below gives a list of them according to WiKipedia.

Let's learn verbs!

These videos can help us to learnnew words

Daily Routines for Magomed-Rasul

Vocabulary:

Examples of using of the words:

Tell about your day now! :)

* for more words wach this video: 

Learning Englishwith Mr.Duncan - Lesson One (Introduction)

Hi everybody this is Misterduncan in England.
How are you today?
Are you ok?...I hope so.
Are you happy?...I hope so.
Welcome to the very first episode
of my series of English teaching videos
Before I begin we will take alook at some
of the common questions that often arise
when talking about learning the English language.
and more importantly, learning it as a second language.
So, the first question must be...
"Why do we need to learn English?"

Of course one of the reasons
why we need to be able to speak English nowadays
is because the world is becoming smaller.
Thanks to the internet and our developing global economy,
more and more people are using English as a common way
to communicate with each other.
So now it has become unavoidable
that companies and large businesses will need to employ people.who can speak more than their own native language, that is where English comes in.
It is now officially considered as an international language.
Of course learning anything is difficult and English is no exception. However, there are ways to make the situation easier. I have come up with my own list of general rules
for learning English Do you want to hear them?
Do you want to know what they are?
Ok...let's go!
Learning English takes time and patience.
It cannot be rushed
Try to relax and take it easy
The most important thing you need at the beginning
is a good vocabulary
Without words, you have nothing to work with
You must start with a strong foundation or base.
and slowly build on it, day by day!
You must view English as a part of your body...
just as you would an arm or leg
It must become a part of your everyday life.
Daily practise is very important.
Do not worry about making mistakes...
in fact the more mistakes you make...
The more you will learn from them
just like learning to ride a bike
sometimes you fall off.
So what do you do?
You get back on and try again.
Do not look at English as just another subject

Your attitude to English and the way you view it
Will decide how well you progress.
just as we say in English
"No pain...no gain"
The two most important words to remember
when learning English are...
practise and confidence.
Practise English everyday and be confident.
You will find that the more you use English...
the better your English will become.
and the more confident you become...
then the more you will want to use it.
Make it a rule to tell yourself...
I can do it...I can do it...I can do it !
Please remember, my lessons are aimed at everyone
so hopefully you will find something useful in each one.
Maybe you will find some of the words I use very easy.
But you will also see some words that may be new to you.
Remember...my lessons are aimed at everyone.
Even teachers are very welcome to join in.
Learning English should be a fun experience
and I hope with the help of my videos lessons
you will discover just how much fun it can be.
I hope you've enjoyed my first lesson.
This is Misterduncan in England saying
Thanks for watching and bye-bye for now.

Extra English серия 1

Сериал Extra English - это возможность изучать английский у экрана компьютера с веселыми молодыми людьми, героями сериала для изучающих английский. Хорошее настроение и владение элементарными фразами разговорного английского вам обеспечено уже с просмотра первой серии.

British English vs American English

Some students ask questions about differences between between the British accent and North American accent. Watch a video and compare.

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Are you sure this water is pure?
The bar is quite far, we need a car.
The first year you learn a lot of words by heart.
There were four more birds this morning.
Last week I cut my ass on some glass in the bath, so I asked for plaster.
My new secretary is so stupid! She had to look up "inventory" in the dictionary!

Family

Follow the link and learn new words about family: lingualeo.ru

Family. Vocabulary

...
Vocabulary to the topic:

You  can also follow this link to learn the vocabulary: lingualeo.ru
How to tell about your family:

Classroom English

Video to ex.1.p.29. 

Some extra words:

And a picture just for fun:

How to introduce yourself

This video is for begginers. It will help you to start conversations. So watch!

National clothes

Do you like these dresses?

Pls, write your comment below

:)

From 9GAG

How to stop misspelling

Follow the link bellow to get visual explanation that hepls to stop misspelling of the words:
http://theoatmeal.com/comics/misspelling

The International Conference “Biodiversity of the Caucasus and the South of Russia”

On November the 5^th started the International Conference “Biodiversity of the Caucasus and the South of Russia”. It lasted for three days and was devoted to the 70-anniversary of Gaibek Abdurachmanov, the dean of the faculty of ecology and geography of DSU. He being an outstanding scientist and a political person did his best to attract officials’ attention to ecological state of this region. Large amount of reports with up-to-date data were made during this period. Did you take part at work of the Conference?

Halloween. Are you going to celebrate it?

Nowadays it is becoming very popular to celebrate holidays that are not traditional at our country. Lots of people do celebrate St.Valentine's Day, St.Patric's Day and Halloween. But what do we know about these holidays?

Halloween or Hallowe'en (a contraction of "All Hallows' Evening"), also known as All Hallows' Eve, is a yearly celebration observed in a number of countries on October 31, the eve of the Western Christian feast of All Hallows. According to many scholars, All Hallows' Eve was originally influenced by western European harvest festivals and festivals of the dead with possible pagan roots, particularly the Celtic Samhain.

Are you going to celebrate it tommorrow? If you are you may see an idea for Halloween make-up)

Months

Learn English months!

Numbers

This is a link for the Beginners. It can help you to practice English numbers from 0 to 20.

Phonetics in focus

Today let's practice short vowel!
http://youtu.be/eJ7dM_LU9t4

Felix Baumgartner landed safely from his jump from the Stratosphere

On 14th of Octorber Felix Baumgartner landed safely from his jump from the Stratosphere. "Today the Red Bull Stratos Mission took Felix Baumgartner to the edge of space and back, and the world tuned in to Red Bull’s YouTube Channel to see it all. At peak, you were watching more than 8 million concurrent livestreams of this mission, which intended to break 50-year old records of human limits and break new ground in medical and scientific research" was written on the Official You Tube blog.

Watch the video below. How do you think do we, people, have limits?









Please write your thougts, describe your emotions on the comments below

Boss's Day

Today is Boss’s Day, also known as National Boss Day or Bosses Day. It is annually observed in the United States and Canada on October 16, or the nearest working day, it is a time for many workers to appreciate their employers.

Boss's Day, a chance to tell the boss what your really think of him or her. What are you going to say to your boss? Are you happy having him or her? Do you have any ideas for celebrating it? 

Winnie-the-Pooh

Happy birthday dear Pooh Bear!

Today is a birthday of Winnie-the-Pooh, the most favourite fictional character of our childhood. I wonder if there is anyone in our country who cann't keep smiling watching animations about funny adventures of this anthropomorphic bear created by A. A. Milne. The first collection of stories about Winnie-the-Pooh was published on 13 October 1926.

What version of Winnie-the-Pooh do you prefer and why? Pls write a comment below.

Phonetics in focus

Today we are going to clear the diference in pronuncing the short vowel /æ/ and diphthong /ɛə/.

It is easy to do watching this video: http://www.bbc.co.uk

Сynicism

Cynicism

How do you think what cynicism is? Read an article "5 tips to defeat cynicism" by PAULO COELHO.

Do you agree with his statesments? Or what statements of his can you dispute about?

Please write a comment below

Ecological problems

For the 2nd year students

There is a unit for self studying for the 2nd year students. Please follow the link: http://romashka.edu.glogster.com/english-lesson-ecological-problems/

Try to prepare your own glog, chose any ecological problem of mankind u wish.
If you have problems or questions plese write below

to make

The weather is gloomy today . It is raining and this makes me sleepy.
I saw this photo of a baby orangutan (photo by Wiwik Astutik) and realized I am like it today.

Are you sleepy cause of rain today? Does the weather influence you and make you sad?

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If we want to say that someone or something causes us to be in a particular state or to change to another state we use verb to make:
This film always makes me cry.


The smell of fish makes me feel ill.



The noise in the school makes learning difficult.



She made it known that she was the mayor's wife.

To be stuck by

So can you guess the meaning of the phrase to be stuck by? Please tell us what thought are you stuck by right now? Write a comment below

Cold Turkey

Quite every person has bad habits. And stopping that bad habits is a very difficult process. Sometimes even  medical help is needed. Follow the link below to make clear the meaning of the English idiom "Cold Turkey":
http://blog.myhappyenglish.com

What bad habits do you suppose to be the most harmful for teenagers? Leave a comment below please

At the market place

                                          "Mr. Mzyri with Watermelon" by Vladimir Lyubarov 

Do you like this work? Food market looks great in atumn, doesn't it?

Do you have an idea about the country this scene takes place in. Can you name vegetables painted here? In what words can you describe this pciture?

Are you sure you know English equivalent for Russian "Брюхо сыто, да глаза голодны"? Follow the link: http://blog.myhappyenglish.com

Read the conversation:
-John, why don’t you finish eating that forth portion of ice-cream?

-I suppose my eyes were bigger than my stomach when I said I wanted more.

-You know the same thing happens to me. When I’m really hungry, I take more food than I can really eat.


Please describe situations your eyes are bigger then bigger than your stomach.