Англоязычный блог с множеством идей по организации сезонных праздников. Тема последних постов – Хэллоуин!

http://onecharmingparty.com/

Репортажи о Хэллоуине на канале Хистори

http://www.history.com/topics/halloween

Американские фольклорные ужастики

http://www.americanfolklore.net/halloween.html

• Watch the film.
• Answer the questions below.

Questions.

1. Why is Halloween popular among both kids and adults?
2. What country is thought to be Halloween’s motherland?
3. Why was the night of  October 31 so important for the celts?
4. What is the origin of the tradition of «trick or treat»?
5. Are there any pagans novadays?
6. What did the Roman culture add to Halloween traditions?
7. Was it easy for the Christianity to make pagans give up their beliefs?
8. What countries celebrate their equivalents of Halloween?
9. Did the protestants who came to America like Halloween?
10. In what country Halloween first became a holiday for children?
11. What events made American people think about safety on Halloween?

Questions to think and share.

Do you celebrate Halloween? Why?

How do you usually do it?

Is it a ritual or just a party for you?

What costume are you going to wear this year?

Ресурс, на котором можно почитать серьезные и забавные, большие и маленькие мечты разных людей – и поучаствовать, написав, о чем вы мечтаете.

http://www.wishblog.net/

Tests on Conditionals

http://www.english-test.net/esl/learn/english/grammar/ei011/esl-test.php

http://www.englishpage.com/conditional/conditional12.htm

6 видеоуроков о Conditionals на английском

http://www.youtube.com/jenniferesl#p/c/EEA0D5FA42DB4C58/1/ow8FIHbwekU

If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:
if I look
at the crystal moon, at the red branch
of the slow autumn at my window,
if I touch
near the fire
the impalpable ash
or the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
aromas, light, metals,
were little boats
that sail
toward those isles of yours that wait for me.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

If you think it long and mad,
the wind of banners
that passes through my life,
and you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set off
to seek another land.

But
if each day,
each hour,
you feel that you are destined for me
with implacable sweetness,
if each day a flower
climbs up to your lips to seek me,
ah my love, ah my own,
in me all that fire is repeated,
in me nothing is extinguished or forgotten,
my love feeds on your love, beloved,
and as long as you live it will be in your arms
without leaving mine.

Pablo Neruda

Future Real Conditional  используется для обозначения реальных ситуаций в  будущем. Однако, вот вам философский вопрос – насколько человек может быть уверен в том, что произойдет в будущем? Мы можем догадываться, предполагать, предвидеть с некоторым процентом вероятности. И все же реальность условных предложений в будущем размыта.

В главном предложении глагол стоит в простом будущем времени, в придаточном – в простом настоящем.

If you stop loving me, I shall stop loving you.

Если ты разлюбишь меня, я разлюблю тебя.

С грамматической точки зрения, мы можем заменить if на when, но смысл изменится.

If показывает, что мы не уверены, произойдет то, о чем мы говорим, на самом деле – или нет.

When обозначает, что в некий момент что-то непременно произойдет, а мы просто ждем этого момента.

When you stop loving me, I shall stop loving you.

Когда ты разлюбишь меня, я разлюблю тебя.

Think what you’d done if you were a boy or a girl

If I Were A Boy

Beyounce
If I were a boy
even just for a day
I’d roll out of bed in the morning
and throw on what I wanted and go

Drink beer with the guys
and chase after girls
I’d kick it with who I wanted
and I’d never get confronted for it
cause they stick up for me

If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause he’s taking you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

If I were a boy
I would turn off my phone
Tell everyone it’s broken
so they’d think that I was sleeping alone

I’d put myself first
and make the rules as I go
Cause I know that she’ll be faithful,
waiting for me to come home, to come home.

If I were a boy
I think I could understand
How it feels to love a girl
I swear I’d be a better man
I’d listen to her
Cause I know how it hurts
When you lose the one you wanted
Cause he’s taking you for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

It’s a little too late for you to come back
Say it’s just a mistake,
think i’d forgive you like that
If you thought I would wait for you
you thought wrong

But you’re just a boy
You don’t understand
and you don’t understand, ohhhh
How it feels to love a girl
Someday you wish you were a better man
You don’t listen to her
You don’t care how it hurts
Until you lose the one you wanted
Cause you’re taking her for granted
And everything you had got destroyed

But you’re just a boy

Тест на знание неправильных глаголов

http://www.irregularverbs.ru/test/

Душевные стихи о путешествиях

http://theotherpages.org/poems/SubjIdx/travel.html

Блоги о путешествиях

http://www.alexasigno.co.uk/ – британский блог с огромным количеством интересных статей о странах и городах по всему миру

http://everything-everywhere.com/ – журнал путешественника вокруг света и блоггера содержит не только статьи и фотографии, но и аудиоподкасты на английском.

Ресурсы, на которых можно не только почитать, послушать и посмотреть рассказы о путешествиях, но и создать свой собственный туристический блог

http://www.travelpod.com/

http://www.travelblog.org/

Remember what Bilbo used to say: It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to.
J.R.R.Tolkien

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.
G.K.Chesterton

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
Samuel Johnson

A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
John Steinbeck

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
Mark Twain

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
Mark Twain

Not all those who wander are lost.
J. R. R. Tolkien

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe…
Anatole France

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.
Rudyard Kipling

And a famous poem by Robert Frost -watch a handsome actor reading it in excellent English.

Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
TWO roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took the other, as just as fair,
And having perhaps the better claim,
Because it was grassy and wanted wear;
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same,

And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black.
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way,
I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Рассказывая о своих путешествиях, чаще всего мы применяем времена Past Simple и Past Perfect.

Основной трудностью, с которой зачастую бывает нелегко справиться, в формах прошедшего времени являются неправильные глаголы.

Все неправильные глаголы можно разделить на 9 основных групп, которые облегчают запоминание.

Кроме того, внутри групп многие формы рифмуются. Для запоминания можно попробовать придумать небольшие стихотворения для каждой группы или подгруппы. Придумайте их сами, и неправильные глаголы запомнятся быстрее – и навсегда

Группы неправильных глаголов.doc

Ссылки для скачивания книг на английском языке.
http://letitbit.net/download/8f2604743948/Harry-Potter-engl.rar.html
http://turbobit.net/hbwtvj9eah70.html

Интервью Стивена Фрая с Дж.К.Ролинг.
http://www.accio-quote.org/articles/2005/1205-bbc-fry.html

Разнообразная информация о реалиях мира, придуманного Д. Роулинг.
К примеру, описание и история замка Хогвартс.
http://www.hp-lexicon.org/hogwarts/hogwarts.html

Волшебный тест Where You Belong?
http://nimbo.net/quiz/houses.html

be sorted @ nimbo.net

P.S. Друзья, прошу вас обратить внимание на то, что с 10.10.10 (ну не оставлять же без внимания волшебную дату! ) на сайте меняются правила. Новые правила уже сейчас можно найти все там же, на странице «Правила». Надеюсь, все меняется к лучшему.