суббота, 12 ноября 2011 г.

Just Facts

Aegilops, eight letters long, is the longest word whose letters are arranged in alphabetical order. Seven letter words with this property include beefily and billowy. Six letter words include abhors, accent, access, almost, biopsy, bijoux, billow, chintz, effort, and ghosty.



Dermatoglyphics, misconjugatedly, and uncopyrightable, each fifteen letters long, are the longest English words in which no letter appears more than once. Fourteen letter words with this property are ambidextrously, benzhydroxamic, hydromagnetics, hydropneumatic, pseudomythical, schizotrypanum, sulphogermanic, troublemakings, undiscoverably, and vesiculography.


Ultrarevolutionaries is a word in which each of the five main vowels occurs twice.



Hydroxyzine is the only word in the English language that contains "xyz."


Aftercataracts and tesseradecades, each fourteen letters long, are the longest words that can be typed using only those letters normally typed with the left hand. Twelve letter words with this property include aftereffects, desegregated, desegregates, reasseverate, reverberated, reverberates, and stewardesses.



Facetiously, eleven letters long, is the shortest word in the English language that contains all six vowels in alphabetical order. A twelve letter word with this property is abstemiously. The fourteen letter words adventitiously and sacrilegiously have this property but also have repeated vowels.

пятница, 11 ноября 2011 г.

Task 1

Hello, friends!
Glad to see U here!
We are at the very beginning of our amazing journey!
Let's start!)


Today at school we talked a lot about cinemas and theaters in Great Britain. Let's broaden this theme!

Your Tasks:
1) Make a small report about cinema/ theatre/ play/ film/ famous actor or actress.
2) Post to it some pictures, photos or videos.
3) Be ready for sharing this information with your classmates.
4) Tell us in a few words about your last visit of the cinema/ theatre
5) Then U may watch these interesting videos for your amusement:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdyRW5igzuc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PE86h0aY8_w&feature=related
http://www.videojug.com/film/london-shakespeares-globe.


P.S: While preparing your projects U may use the following information:

*  London Theatres:
- Aldwych Theatre
- Apollo Theatre
- Apollo Victoria
- Arts Theatre
- Cambridge Theatre
- Charing Cross Theatre
- Criterion Theatre
- Dominion Theatre
- Duchess Theatre
- Duke of York's
- Earls Court One
- Fortune Theatre
- Garrick Theatre
- Gielgud Theatre
- Harold Pinter Theatre
- Haymarket Theatre Royal
- Her Majesty's Theatre
- London Palladium
- Lyceum Theatre
- Lyric Theatre
- Lyttelton
- Menier Chocolate Factory
- New London Theatre
- Noel Coward Theatre
- Novello Theatre
- Old Vic Theatre
- Olivier Theatre
- Palace Theatre
- Peacock Theatre
- Phoenix Theatre
- Piccadilly Theatre
- Playhouse Theatre
- Pleasance Theatre
- Prince Edward Theatre
- Prince of Wales Theatre
- Queen's Theatre
- Roundhouse
- Royal Festival Hall
- Royal Opera House
- Sadlers Wells
- Savoy Theatre
- Shaftesbury Theatre
- St Martin-in-the-Fields
- St Martins Theatre
- The Ambassadors Theatre
- The London Coliseum
- The O2 Arena
- Theatre Royal Drury Lane
- Trafalgar Studios
- Vaudeville Theatre
- Victoria Palace
- Waterloo Station Theatre
- Wembley Arena
- Wyndham's Theatre



What we don't know about English

We live in the 21th century - the time of High-techs and it's very important for us to keep a hand on the pulse of life. That was the main purpose of creating this blog. 

Lessons at school are very important without any doubts. But here U will have additional opportunities to communicate in English, to improve your skills and just to have a fun! 


What we don't know about English? A lot! Let's change it!
Great amount of interesting things is waiting for U!