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From 58 pounds to thriving
Деловой английский без отрыва от дел!Почему люди учат английский, но не умеют говорить? 
Многие из нас учат язык более 14 лет, начиная со школы. Мы понимаем речь, умеем читать и писать, но говорить из нас могут лишь немногие. Хотя некоторые свободно говорят после года обучения. Но КАК они учат английский? Как научиться говорить? Какая методика эффективнее? Приглашаем на бесплатный урок в Москве всех подписчиков, которые хотят научиться свободно говорить по-английски. ЧТО НОВОГО? /WHAT’S NEW?/From 58 pounds to thriving CNN March 25, 2013The first emotion I remember is rage. It was a violent, fire-in-your-veins, so angry-you-could-kill-someone kind of rage. I wanted out. I wanted the pain to be over. I wanted to die. I was mad at myself for not having the courage to just do it quickly, angry at the hospital staff for thwarting my masked attempt. I was convinced that I was "meant to" endure this, that my long, drawn-out starving to death would prove my willpower to God. In the days prior to my stroke, I'd had vivid hallucinations -- of Jesus on a wooden cross outside my bedroom window and a satanic figure sneaking up under my bedroom covers to suffocate me at night. I thought I was meant to be a martyr. I thought God wanted me to die. As the fury subsided, delirium set in. I became confused, defiant and completely irrational. I told the doctors that they couldn't possibly keep me overnight, because my family didn't have insurance or money to pay. When a cardiologist responded that she wasn't sure if I'd live another week, I told her she was full of s---. I hid the food they were trying to make me eat in my underwear, in flowerpots, even in my cheeks like a chipmunk -- certain no one would notice. I didn't want to get better. I was convinced nothing was wrong. I remember having nurses turn me over in the middle of the night to tend to the bed sores on my behind, places where the skin was so thin that my tailbone was starting to protrude through the flesh. I remember waking up to discover I'd wet the bed nearly every morning for the first three months I was hospitalized. I was ashamed, disgusted. I'd lost control of the muscles in my bladder; I was like an infant all over again. I remember shooting a nurse the bird when she told me I couldn't walk, only to crumble to the floor when I angrily pushed the wheelchair away to give it a try. Unbeknownst to me at the time, my arrival at the hospital had launched an investigation by Child Protective Services back at my home in Austin. The caseworkers deemed my mother an "unfit parent" and my sister and I were placed under custodianship of the state. My care was left to the doctors and nurses at Children's, while my sister was sent to live with our godparents. My mother, herself an alcoholic and anorexic, had literally drunk herself into oblivion (she was later diagnosed with Wernicke's Syndrome, a form of alcohol-induced dementia). I spent the next 16 months of my life in that hospital. I completed my junior and senior years of high school through a distance education program, talked my way through hundreds of hours of individual and group therapy and slowly, painfully worked to bring my body and mind back to life. Vocabularythrive / θraɪv / - преуспевать, процветать violent / 'vaɪəl(ə)nt / - неистовый, яростный thwart / θwɔːt / - препятствовать; преграждать, мешать endure / ɪn'djuə / - вынести, вытерпеть; выдержать stroke / strəuk / - паралич, удар; инсульт vivid / vɪvɪd / - живой, яркий; пылкий suffocate / sʌfəkeɪt /- душить, удушать martyr / mɑːtə / - мученик; мученица; страдалец; страдалица subside / səb'saɪd / - затихать, стихать, умолкать, утихать defiant / dɪ'faɪənt / - вызывающий; неповинующийся, дерзкий, непокорный chipmunk / ʧɪpmʌŋk / - бурундук protrude / prə'truːd / - высовываться, выдаваться Unbeknownst / ʌnbɪ'nəun(t)st / - неведомый, неизвестный deem / diːm / - полагать, считать custodianship / kʌs'təudɪən ʃɪp / - статус опекуна, опекунство ОБЩЕНИЕ /COMMUNICATION/How long does it take on foot Bill: Hello, Jake! I didn’t expect to see you here. Jake: Hello. I came to this city to visit my aunt. Bill: Your aunt lives here? You didn’t tell me earlier. Jake: She moved here last year. Bill: Are you going to see her? Jake: Yes, I am. Bill: Can I go with you? You will introduce me to your aunt. Jake: Of course, you can go with me. ВАРИАЦИИ НА ТЕМУ /MANY AND VARIOUS/getget rid of - to take action so that you no longer have something unpleasant that you do not want: ( совершать какие-то действия, чтобы у вас больше не было чего-то, что вы не хотите) get about to go or travel to different places: ( ходить или путешествовать по разным местам) ТАЙНЫЙ СМЫСЛ /OBSCURE MEANING/ RAF: the Royal Air Force QC: Queen's Counsel QA: quality assurance
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