ENGLISH  NON-STOP                              

1. Open your mind, fill your brain (quote of the week)

    Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute for experience.

                                                                       (Paolo Coelho) 

 2. How good are you at English? (Mini-test)

                      Grateful or thankful?    

1. We are _________ to you for your help.
2. He should be __________  to be alive.
3. Be ___________ for small mercies.
4. He was very _________ to his parents for giving him an opportunity to study.

5. Paul is very ___________ to you for your advice.

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      answers: 1. grateful    2. thankful     3.thankful      4. grqteful     5.grateful  

                         Grateful  and thankful are not synonyms 

                         We are grateful to another person who has helped us 

                         We are thankful, when we are glad that smth fortunate

                          has happened, especially when smth unfortunate might

                          have happened 

3. It makes you smile    (joke of the week)

             A Frenchman, a German and a Jew walk into a bar. 

Frenchman:     I’m tired and thirsty. I must have wine.

German:          I’m tired and thirsty. I must have beer.

Jew:                I’m tired and thirsty. I must have diabetes.