Nowadays, we face the difficulties and make the decisions every day. Challenges surround us, and it’s is hardly even able to live the life without challenging yourself. Moreover, we can   dare ourselves to do something we haven’t ever done before or something that we cannot assure ourselves is important.

 To start with, some of us prefer challenging ourselves through sport competitions such as treks, mountain-tracking, cycling, swimming or climbing the mountain! If you are interested in that, Elbrus mountain is definitely you top! Elbrus is the highest mountain in Europe and not everybody can boast that he has reached it! Some people prefer watching sport movies such as “Iron Willy”, that explains the tough life of a man. 

Secondly, some people challenge theirselves through participating in some quizzes, such as  American Olympics, an American tv show, which presents the smartest people of America. 

However, some people are challenged by the fate, but not themselves. For instance, citizens of the village next to the volcano Vesuvius were super challenged by the molten lava, sliding down the mountain! That’s not a funny “challenge”, that is a serious life-challenging task, that not everyone is able to go through. 

Furthermore, there is a story about a man, who used to live in a fertile place, one day noticed that the soil started to become more and more dry every day. The days and months passed and the fertile place turned into a real desert, and can you imagine how much this man had challenged himself to handle it?

All in all, some of us challenge theirselves to become better, stronger, wiser and some people are forced to cope with the difficulties in their life by the case of the fate. In fact, we all need to raise ourselves on our own!

Chelyabinsk, Russia

12 April 2017

                  Dear Nadya,

      Thank you for your letter, it was an unexpected surprise for me! I am so glad you're doing well! Keep on! 

       Hope your library is rich, because I want to introduce you a book I've started reading recently. By the way, the author is really well-known all over the world, his speciality are horrors and creepy novels. Didn't get yet? Stephen King is one of my favorite authors! Moreover, his books are full of human fear and you can literally hear creepy sounds! The book is "The body, it is a narrative about and old town, where the murder has been committed. Indeed, the detective begins with the groop of young boys, who had found a corpse and started the investigation. Oh, I don't want to tell you a whole story, just read it on your own and feel the same I felt while reading it!

      Sorry, I promised my mum to help her with washing up. 

      Write back soon!

      Love,

      Annie

      

       Новая методика работы с материалом "перевернутый класс" открывает бесконечные возможности всего простора интернета, подручных средств, словарей и, конечно, человеческого мозга. В данной системе учитель выступает не в роли "проповедника", которого слушает и безоговорочно внимает каждый ученик, а в роли куратора, ведущего определенный курс. К примеру, если в самых обыкновенных школах учителя могут быть строгими, грубыми или, наоборот, слишком добрыми и щедрыми, то в случае "перевернутого класса" проблем с отношениями возникнуть не может. Перевернутый класс имеет свойство самостоятельной работы: ученик сам выбирает, что и как ему искать, открывает новые возможности и ресурсы, список которых в данном случае не ограничен. Этот вид работы очень продуктивен и, я бы сказала, даже более продуктивен, чем обыкновенные уроки в школах. Перевернутый класс - самостоятельный выбор учащегося. Это позволяет ученику не только обучаться самостоятельно, но и приобретать навыки собственного выбора, самостоятельности и ответственности за свои знания.

      Nowadays, technologies are being more and more developed every single day. In addition, technologies improve and become so simple, that near everyone can use it. There are several spheres, where improved technologies are already introduced: design, society, science, conviniences, even nature!

     First of all, It’s quite interesting to consider that not only technologies improve today. More and more new tendencies and trends are found in fashion nowadays. Moreover, I’d rather describe fashion like something educational and unique, but at the same time taught and time-consuming. Tanya thought back to when she had first picked up a needle and thread. Her grandmother, had made most of her own clothes and when Tanya was very small she had loved to watch her cutting the cloth and stitching it together with meticulous skill. Bit by bit, under her grandmother's careful instruction, she had learned the craft herself. She had started with simple outfits for her dolls and had progressed to the point where even her grandmother said she was much better than her at making clothes.

Have you ever use airplane as a vehicle? If so, you've faced at least once the long time of waiting your flight. Capsule hotels are very popular in Japan. It's the accommodation of choice for Japanese businessmen who have missed the last flight back to the suburbs, or for travellers on a tight budget. They consist of tiny sleeping compartments about 2 metres long, 1 metre high and 1 metre wide. Conviniences - improved!

Besides, supermarket isn`t just simple store, as we think. There are a lot of trategies to lure you into purchasing items you had no inention of buying, including smell of freshly baked bread, which make you feel hungry.

        Looking forwad, imagine 2118 year, when  people are complitely crazy about getting benefits and thinking about waste and profit in everything. For imstance, businessmen do not see beauty in rain anymore, they are just obsessed with wasting water while raining. Is it a pity? It is!

        All in all, new methods, strategies and tactics are being applied and introduces in the modern time. Should we follow the changes, or just live on our own?

         

      

Environment

      In the modern time, people are getting more and more concerned about the environment issue. "Green Fonds", altruists and people, who care about nature and the fauna against the businessmen, poachers and people, who are convinced that every environmental problem is not influenced by us and is not connected with the humanity. 

     To begin with, one of the most "hot" topics, which people are concerned with, is the Global Warming. Moreover, this environmental issue causes many disappointing questions, which often don't have appropriate answers, because sometimes nature disasters and environmental problems are not influenced by us. By the way, temperarure increases for approximately one degree, spring occurs nine-ten days earlier, the sea ice melts and breaks. Who do suffer from all this disaster? Animals! However, all we can do - safe them!
       " Save The Whales" is a protest against the whale killers. Moreovere, tens of thousands whales are being killed all over he world by nations. That has caused a big protest, which was influenced Payne- the most popular discoverer, who decided to save the population of big blue animals and to release a recording of long and haunting humpback whale songs, the main thing is - it really works! Furthemore, the population of whales wasn't decrease for last several years! Everyone finds his own way to save the world!
      Someone wants to destroy natural disasters and prevent it, but someone actually protests against the government, who wants to clean the place, where one of nature disasters occured. Behind, The Valley of Geysers is a popular unique place where five world-famous hot spring are located. Sadly, this natural miracle was obliterated by the landslide in 2007. Citizens of Kamchatka protested against the government decision to get rid of all dirt what appeared there. By the way, people there thought it was a gret example of embracing nature and people.
       To conclusion, everyone values and cares about the nature in his own way.  For instance, american stormchaser makes his life by capturing Tornadoes in photographs or record them on video.
       All in all, take care aafer nature, appreciate what nature gives us and not destroy, but respect all natural benefits!

       Nowadays, there are people and people, families and families and it's hardly even able to find several people with the same tastes and styles of writing. Frankly speaking, writing essays is the most efficient way to maintain imagination, find own style of writing and learn new ways of sharing the information. In the modern time, the main part of students have to write essays as a hometask at school. Literature is not the only subject, which requires satisfactory quality of knowlege and good way of sharing it. Moreover, English as an extra learning language at school, requires the same characteristics as literature for students. However, some students prefer writing essays in Russian to writing in English, and some students find writing essays in English easier, than in their native language.
      On the one hand, writing in native language is easier for people, who don't learn an extra language and for journalists, who write articles and novels. To be honest, writing in native language allows to express more emotions, give more arguments and make more constructive and bright words, because we usually use these words to communicate in our lives, it is just habitually for us. Moreover, every of us faces the problem of translating words from English to Russian, because sometimes there is no right translation for a special word. That's why rarely some translated sentences don't make sence.
     On the other hand, writing essays in English is one of the most important ways of improving language skills. Instead of writing a special essay in Russian, write it in English and then translate it to Russian. From time to time, it is easier to write something in English because writing essasys in English usually doesn't require deep arguments as, for instance, Russian Literature as a subject requires. Anyway, writing not in native language is always an experience of improving skills and making lexicon richer, and maybe, its more efficient for students.
     All in all, every side of opinion is the right side. We are diffrent, and every of us has own taste and style of writing. But the easiest way of writing essays is to write it in both languages! Care about your future career - write correct and diversely.

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