воскресенье, 23 декабря 2018 г.

Keeping animals in zoos.
The world is divided in two camps, those who think that animals have to live in the wild, and those who claim that animals feel comfortable being under human’s care. But are there more advantages than disadvantages of keeping animals in zoos?
Firstly, animals in zoos get a professional medical care, which is unavailable in nature. Also, they had food and water and everything they need for living. Secondly, zoos save endangered species by bringing them into a safe environment, where they are protected from poachers, habitat loss, starvation, and predators. Moreover, many zoos have breeding programs for endangered species. In the wild nature, these individuals might have problems with finding mates and breeding.
However, from animals point of view we do not have rights to breed, capture and confine other animals, even if they are endangered. I have already said that animals in zoos have everything, except one thing- freedom. Animals in captivity suffer from stress, boredom, and confinement. Intergenerational bonds are broken when individuals get sold or traded to other zoos, and no pen or even drive-through safari can compare to the freedom of the wild. In addition, I want to say that the vast majority of captive breeding programs do not release animals back into the wild.
All in all, the fact that alive creatures are living in captivity make me sad and sometimes angry. I can’t understand why do we keep them in zoos? If people want to see wild animals in real life, they can observe wildlife in the wild or visit a sanctuary. A true sanctuary does not buy, sell, or breed animals, but takes in unwanted exotic pets, surplus animals from zoos or injured wildlife that can no longer survive in the wild. If zoos are teaching children anything, it's that imprisoning animals for our own entertainment is acceptable. So, in the near future people will ban zoos and animals will live in freedom.

четверг, 20 декабря 2018 г.

Hello everyone! 
      In the  Guardian I came across an interesting  article which raised a very important  topic. The article 'You can taste it in the air' written by several authors. Actually, the article is consisted of people's stories of life in polluted cities. They shared their experience of living in the big cities with bad air condition. 
       The authors draw our attention to the air pollution problem. These stories are from all over the world, and we can see that this problem is everywhere. People even don't want to go out of their houses."Often, I don’t take my baby outside as I am so concerned about the effect on him. I wear a mask on the days it is above an orange rating."-that's what was said by woman from Hong Kong.
        This article is made to draw attention of public and especially of government to solve this problem. Because the air pollution leads to the other anomalies. So, we must decide what we will do with it!
Here's the link

среда, 19 декабря 2018 г.

Plagiarism Checkers

 Hello everyone! Nowadays plagiarism is a wide-spread problem. So, today I'd like to tell you about plagiarism checker which name is (unexpectedly) Plagiarism Ckecker. Besides usual options of plagiarism checkers, this one allows you to click on the “For authors” option to check whether they have plagiarized your content and posted it on the Internet. Moreover, it is entirely online and free. Which is really great! Also, I found it easy to use, so, I highly recommend it to you.

пятница, 14 декабря 2018 г.

MY FAVOURITE DICTIONARIES

Today I'd like to tell you about my most favourite dictionaries.
        The third place goes to "Cambridge Dictionary". I like it's defenitions and  that it has two variants of transcription. 
         And the second dictionary, which I like the most is "Macmillan Dictionary". It is a really great dictionary! Firslty, it has 'collocation boxes' giving list of high-frequency collocates. Secondly, I love it's 'metaphor boxes', showing how the vocabulary used for expressing common concepts tends to reflect a common metaphorical framework. 
          On the first place I have "Urban Dictionary". It always has its finger on the pulse of of-the-moment expressions and can be humorous and thought-provoking.
           Hello everyone! Today I want to share with you some apps which can help you to learn new words or phrases. I have choosen two apps they are Busuu and Memrise.
           Busuu is a such app which I found useful and simple to use.By the way, it's free. So, you just log in, and then decide where in the course you'd like to start — Beginner, Elementary, Intermediate, Upper Intermediate, or Travel. The app teaches you new words and phrases, both isolated and in sentences, and then quizzes you as you move forward through the levels to test your knowledge. 
           Memrise is another free language learning app. It has offline courses, and lets you learn a massive number of languages.Something unique about Memrise is how it teaches you new words and phrases. Words are put into sentences with similar sounding words from your native language to help build the connection for remembering them.

четверг, 13 декабря 2018 г.

Animal should be treated as a human.

The animals take a significant part of our lives. Since the beginning of life on the Earth a human and an animal had been together. However, there has always been peoples' influence on animals' lives-many alive creatures have died of human' hands. Nowadays,it's a widely spread problem. A lot of people fight for animal rights and here's a controversial question whether we should treat animals as people.

Some people are for treating animals as a human. Because animals are such creatures who live under nature's rules. They will never attack you .Ecxept those cases when you disturb them or do something that hurts them. For example, each year one or two men dies because of a shark. But human kills hundred millions sharks each year. And I am always wondering why people call it
monster because the monster is a human.

However,some people are against of it. They claim that animals can harm people and illustrative examples of this point are animals' hunger and diseases carried by beasts. More people suffer from rabies after being bitten by an animal and about four hundred and seventy-five people per year killed by animals.

All in all, people have different thoughts on this issue. People remain people, animals remain animals. However, we believe that animals are God creatures too and we should value them, care after them and treat them as best as we can.

A reflective note

Hello everyone!      Today I'd like to comment on some activities that we did this year. The thing I liked the most is writing a guide...