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Ирина Матвиенко

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English non-stop!


ENGLISH  NON-STOP    

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

    I chose to be rich by making my wants few.

                                - Henry David Thoreau 

     

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

                 Confusing Words

                Choose the correct form for each sentence:

                1. You would rather/had better be on time, or they will leave without you.

                2. I have been sitting by myself/on my own.

                3. She lay/laid on the bed reading a book.

                4. The cost of life/living increased by 80% last year.

               5. Can you tell/say the difference between these two products?       

               Answers:

                1.       had better (had better expresses advisability and often implies warning of bad consequences, but would rather expresses preference:  I would rather go to a movie tonight than study grammar);

                2.      by myself (by myself means completely alone, but on my own also means without help: I can’t carry it on my own; it’s too heavy);  

               3.        lay (to lie [lay, lain] means to be in a flat position on a surface, but to lay [laid, laid] means to put down);

              4.       living (living [here] is a standard one reaches in food, drink, etc., but life is nearly always an active force that enables a plant, an  animal, a person, etc. to continue existing);  

              5.        tell (to tell [here] means to show or to recognize: tell the time, but to say means to pronounce sounds or words)  
 

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

Never Lie To Your Mother

John invited his mother over for dinner. During the meal, his mother couldn't help noticing how beautiful John's roommate was. She had long been suspicious of a relationship between John and his roommate and this only 
made her more curious. 
Over the course of the evening, while watching the two interact, she started to wonder if there was more between John and the roommate than met the eye. Reading his mom's thoughts, John volunteered, "I know what you must be 
thinking, but I assure you, Julie and I are just roommates." 
About a week later, Julie came to John and said, "Ever since your mother came to dinner, I've been unable to find the beautiful silver gravy ladle. You don't suppose she took it, do you?" 
John said, "Well, I doubt it, but I'll write her a letter just to be sure." 
So he sat down and wrote: 


"Dear Mother, 
I'm not saying you 'did' take a gravy ladle from my house, and I'm not saying you 'did not' take a gravy ladle. But the fact remains that one has been missing ever since you were here for dinner." 
 
Several days later, John received a letter from his mother which read: 
"Dear Son, 
I'm not saying that you 'do' sleep with Julie, and I'm not saying that you 'do not' sleep with Julie. But the fact remains that if she was sleeping in her own bed, she would have found the gravy ladle by now. 
Love, 
Mom 
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