Yana Oshchepkova

'Teenage girl kills herself 'after Instagram poll' in Malaysia'. Social networks, such as Instagram harm our mental health and can lead to such consequences as: lack of sleep, low self-esteem and even suicide. A Malaysian 16 year-old  girl committed a suicide after a poll on her Instagram in which she asked, if she should die or not. The majority of votes was affirmative, so that is why she killed herself. What should people do in such situations to avoid suicide? First of all, that situation clearly shows us that we shouldn’t listen to opinion of different people on social networks, especially if we don’t know them very well. Do things according to your own opinion! People who said ‘yes’ to her question definitely didn’t take it seriously and didn’t do anything to talk her out of suicide. Secondly, instead of showing your problems on social networks, these people ought to talk to their parents or close people about their mental problems and emotional state. Such...

Today I would like to share with you my personal opinion about this academic subject. Most of all I liked that we had an opportunity to work in small groups of 2-3 people to discuss some interesting themes or situations. I find it helpful because a good teamwork helps us understand other people better, listen to their opinion and share your own point of view. In   addition, such teamwork develops our communicative skills. What is more, I like that we use such website as ‘ Blogger.com ’ because here we can not only post our own essays, but also see other works of students in my group and even estimate their essays by writing comments. However, one thing wasn’t very useful for me during this semester . For example, to write a movie review in the third person, explaining who we are. Why can't we just write a simple review and share our opinion on them?  Next semester I would like to spend more time by watching different cognitive videos, connected to the educati...

Yesterday I watched an exciting movie which is called ‘Escape Room’. It’s a psychological horror mystery film, as it is full frightening action moments which keeps you in suspense during the whole film. I think that ‘Columbia Pictures’ did a great job because this film is worth seeing. The plot is about 6 strangers: an excellent student Zoey, a stock boy Ben, a day trader Jason, a war veteran Amanda, a tracker Mike, and an escape room enthusiast Danny. Once all of them got small black boxes with an invitation to a quest. They all agreed to come because a winner will receive one million dollars! All they had to do was just to find an escape from every room, in which they were closed. Unfortunately, it wasn’t as simple as it seemed.  The film stars are: Taylor Russell as Zoey Davis, Logan Miller as Ben Miller, Deborah Ann Woll as Amanda Harper, Tyler Labine as Mike Nolan, Jay Ellis as Jason Walker, Nik Dodani as Danny Khan and others. From my point of view, all actresses...

Today I watched an interesting session which is called: ‘Job applications in 2030: Do students have right skills?’ https://www.teachingenglish.org.uk/article/job-applic.. By the way, speakers of this session are: Tim Goodier and Mike Mayor. I consider this session enthralling because the speakers were speaking not only about necessary skills for employability at the present time, but also about some skills that employers will be looking for in future, for example, in 2020 or 2030. The most necessary of them are: judgment and decision making, fluency of ideas, active learning, learning strategies and originality. Tim Goodier and Mike Mayor told the audience that they did not have enough time to consider everything in details which is so disappointing. I wish I had an opportunity to be at that conference and maybe even ask  the experts  some questions about their research. In addition, I found this content very informative and interesting because there is a lot of useful info...

Nowadays there are a lot of well -educated people who work in their speciality. However, there are many uneducated people who didn’t get their education in the fullness of time. What can they do: stay uneducated or start learning something new for them? Here are some advantages and disadvantages of late education.      First of all, late education has a lot of pros. The first one is that it is never late to start learning something. As the statistics on the Internet shows that the level of literacy of American people is 99%. (1) It means that residents of the USA prefer to pay for their knowledge/ education no matter in what age in order to increase their future salary. Secondly, people who didn’t know the basic information or even essential skills, for example, reading or writing, can finally get knowledge and be smarter.If they start learning, they will not have some misunderstandings with people or they will not have to jag how to write their first and last name ...

Today I would like to write a reflection note about things that I did this semester at your classes. The first useful thing is that I created my own account on Blogger.com and now I’m able not only to publish my comments or essays, but also see writings of my group mates and leave my comments under their posts. I find it very convenient to use this website because we receive our homework here and we can do our tasks not only during our class, but also at home.Another useful thing is “The Citation Machine”  and "Bitly.com"which help me to shorten my links and use them in my essays. I think that I will use “The Citation Machine” in future when I will write  my  essays on this website. However, the website called “The Blogger” has some disadvantages, like: long loading and problems with working. For example, there were some situations when I finally wrote my comment under your post and when I pressed a button “publish”, and then my comment was canceled and I had to writ...