Anya Yakushko

Learning English is a great pleasure for me. I’ve learned it since primary school and it’s never been easy for me. Anyway, I enjoy learning the language and I try to improve it every day. Now, as my level is good enough and I’m able to speak almost fluently, my main goal is to expand my vocabulary. I don’t like the idea of writing down some words and further memorization. There is an application that helps me achieve my goal. It is Quizlet.  https://quizlet.com I’ll tell you how it works. You can create your own sets of flashcards in there. Once you get the hang of it, it takes only five or ten minutes to upload even large sets of materials to Quizlet. Then you can look through your cards as many times as you need.  After that you can start drilling the words. There are different learning modes in Quizlet, such as LEARN, SPELL, WRITE and TEST.  Quizlet provides adaptive training that helps me focus on the  most difficult   items.   In ...

After a hot discussion in our group we decided that what gets us really angry is getting up early. There are two types of people: for some of them it is quite easy to get up early, such people can work hard since first minutes after waking up; others are totally opposite: they feel awful when they wake up at 6 o'clock and their working capacity is bad until afternoon. In fact, we four are not early-risers, we do hate all these alarm clocks, they are wailing monsters which torture all sleep-deprived students. That is why we agreed that we would put the first schedule class to the Room 101, where it will disappear forever. What's the point in attending these classes when you aren't able to percieve information, and your only desire is to go home and sleep a couple of hours more?  The world would be brighter without these horrible early wake-ups. We hope that our society is developing, and one day there would be an opportunity to study in the evening for people l...

This is my favourite video ever. It has incredibly beautiful landscapes of Alaska. Enjoy!