Прошу вас принять участие в опросе для повышения качества занятий по английскому языку в следующем учебном году!

Please, share your ideas about the things to do next class:

What to do on Tuesday 11 June 2013

1st year, Bachelor of Economics

Dear Students!

Thank you very much for your work yesterday and for your support! I really appreciate it! And of course there will be no new tasks on our wiki.

But, please, finish up the twenty tasks that are already here. And do your best, don't forget about the prizes.

I'll post the information about your homework on the page Homework and Discussion.

I wish all of you who are travelling to Prague good luck! I hope your trip will be useful and you'll have fun!

And I'll miss you!

Nastya, Denis, Zarina and Julia have made presentations on prezi.com:

Nastya

Denis

Zarina

Julia

HAVE YOU SEEN NASTYA'S PRESENTATIONS IN TASKS 12 AND 15? THEY ARE GORGEOUS! DON'T MISS THEM!

Try the new instrument to make your pages beautiful:

http://prezi.com/

On this web-site you can create nice interactive presentations with pictures, audio and video and then embed them on your page. Nastya was the first one to do it.

It's easy and free to add photos, videos and audio to your presentation. See the following instruction if you want to know how to do it:

How to make a presentation

You can download books to read in English on the following web-sites (the first link is for unabridged books with every word translated and the second link is for graded or leveled readers):
http://www.flibusta.net/a/32291

http://englishtips.org/index.php?do=search

Start voting for the pages. Have you seen that we have a new voter not from your group? You can vote anonymously just tick the necessary box. Nobody will see who you voted for!

I've created a new page Homework and Discussion to exchange information about your homework and to discuss some questions or problems you might have.

Don't forget to revise the new words from time to time: Quizlet

Tanya has created a page describing how to insert pictures in HTML How to insert pictures in HTML . Well-done, Tanya!

Please help me with the commentary and write which comments I have to delete (copy the date and time of commentary).

Please use the SideBar on the right to go to your page.

Don't forget that I promised prizes to the three most active participants of the wiki. You can vote for the pages you liked (now you don't need to log in with your Facebook account):

Now you don't have to leave this site to record your voice. Do it here:

There is a new location for materials published by International Relations, 4th year:

International Relations, 4th year

If you want to get the mail about English (short text, vocabulary, dialogues), you can take out a subscription for it. You should write in search "Деловой английский без отрыва от дел!"

http://subscribe.ru/search/

To work more effectively I suggest our assessing your language level and setting goals for the future (especially for those of you who are having the last term of English) using Common European Framework. You can download the documents below:

nef_int_cef_language_portfolio.pdf

Templates.pdf

globalscale.doc

globalscale_russian.pdf

assessment_grid_english.doc

assessment_grid_russian.pdf

appendix2.pdf

You can download the ePortfolio (that is a computer programme instead of just papers) from the following web-site (feel free to consult me in case of any difficulties):

http://www.eelp.org/eportfolio/index.html

View different links to learn English:

http://www.speedtile.net/bcreboot

If you need more practice with listening go to the following web-site:

http://www.elllo.org/

If you are interested in psychology and if you want to know what influences our personality more our genes or education watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzS_k2_fdpk&feature=related

To practise Verbs followed by ‘ing’ or by ‘to + infinitive’ see:

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-exercises/verbs-followed-%E2%80%98ing%E2%80%99-or-%E2%80%98-infinitive%E2%80%99-1

http://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/en/grammar-exercises/verbs-followed-%E2%80%98ing%E2%80%99-or-%E2%80%98-infinitive%E2%80%99-2

For students to edit:

International Relations, 3d year