For several weeks I was short of time to write on my blog. I summarise everything in one post now.
It is Reading I start with.
I quit reading The Forsyte Saga on the page 250. Despite the fact that the book isn’t boring, I got fed up with it. Not only one cause is to mention. I find almost everyday the new stuff to read: merely up-to-date information or which I consider essential for my mental development. This book isn't modern, so there was only one reason to read left. I started to read it, because I wanted to undertand another nation. I have some vision of it now. Eagerness for something more modern has come.
The famous Saga exhausts with its formal old-fashioned language. Try to perceive useful vocabulary from dozens of unknown words isn’t a good perspective to a person who wants to learn fast.
I had come across a film on television, which had been based on this book, recently. I have been aware of plot since that, so reading became not as adventurous as it had been before.
I don’t regret reading this book, nevertheless.
Fellini – never expect him to be loud and clear.
Make a difference! – was my motto. I watched Fellini’s “8 ½” in Italian for not to spoil the right atmosphere, submitting the film with English subtitles. The Italians are used to speaking fast, and I didn’t manage to read and understand everything. The text was metaphorical too. While it has been a memorable experience, I will watch in English in future.
W-A-R-H-O-L
Andy’s book “Philosophy of Andy Warhol” has different chapters named Work, Time, Love, Fame, Atmosphere, Success and etc. These are the extracts from Beauty.
When you’re interested in somebody, and you think they might be interested in you, you should point out all your beauty problems and defects right away, rather than take a chance they won’t notice them. Maybe, say, you have a permanent beauty problem you can’t change, such as short legs. Just say it. “My legs, as you have probably noticed, are much too short in proportion to the rest of my body.” Why give the other person the satisfaction of discovering it for themselves? Once it’s out in the open, at least you know it will never become an issue later on in the relationship, and if it does, you can always say, “Well I told you that in the beginning.”
On the other hand, say you have a purely temporary beauty problem. < …> If you don’t point out these things they might think that your temporary beauty problem is a permanent beauty problem. Why should they think otherwise if you’ve just met them? <…> So it’s up to you to set them straight and get them to use their imagination about what your hair must look like when it’s shiny, and what your body must look like when it’s not overweight, and your dress would look like without the grease spot on it. Even explain that you have much better clothes hanging in your closet than the ones you’re wearing. If they really do like you for yourself, they’ll be willing to use their imagination to think of what you must look like without your temporary beauty problem.
If you’re naturally pale, you should put on a lot of blush to compensate. But if you’ve got a big nose, just play it up, and if you have a pimple, put on the pimple cream in a way that will make it really stand out- “There! I use pimple cream!” There’s a difference.
I am on the page 189 now. A great book! Perfect for reading in a lounge. Emotional and represents Andy from the several sights.
Listening
It happened that I watched the HARD TALK on the BBC with a lawyer, Michael Mansfield.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/hardtalk/8280547.stm
It isn’t bad to watch with a dictionary in hands.
• Legislation
• Oblige
• Oppose
• And my favourite one: “I talk facts, you talk emotions.” – Stephen Sackur.
The Antichrist
I had gone to the cinema due to the director and had found the film very original…until the moment when a wife attempted to kill his husband.
You still can watch till that moment and thank yourself for not being a fool and staying at home.
Grammar
I completed 2 tasks on re-writing a formal text into an informal one, did the tasks on reading with filling the gaps with the missing pieces.
I learnt the Quoting rules.
In addition to this, I went into vocabulary of rise and fall, go up and drop and reduction, decline, lows and highs, pie charts, bar charts, flowcharts and segments, etc. to prepare for IELTS. Also I went thought the IELTS task “Business and Industry” filling in the gaps with a suitable words – antonyms. I’ve got 11 out of 19 correct.
Vocabulary I got out of it:
• Revenue - money that a business or organization receives over a period of time, especially from selling goods or services.
• Shortage - situation in which there is not enough of something that people need. (A shortage of skilled labour. Water/food/housing shortage. Acute/chronic/severe shortage.)
• White- and blue-collar jobs. 1.) In banks, offices…2.) Factories, building sites…
• Lay off – stop employing people, because there is no work to do.
On the other hand, the passage, called “Visit London's Science Museum” from IELTS was completed perfectly.
A bit more vocabulary:
• Newspapers are frequently accused of invasion of privacy by celebrities and other media stars.
• The government was trying to suppress freedom of speech.
• Upbeat – (adj.) making you feel that good things will happen. Opposed to - downbeat.
• Media/property/business/newspaper tycoon.
I am sure, I have forgot something, which I don't remember now. Let it be.
