Cambridge

Cambridge, US is a unique community with a strong mix of cultural and social diversity and technological innovation. Its “Squares” are rich in various international restaurants and cafes as well as unique shopping, theatres, museums, and historic sites.
Located between the academic centers of Harvard and MIT, Central Square is the seat of City government and is home to a rich variety of music clubs, book shops, restaurants and clothing stores. It’s about a 12 minute walk from Kendall Square, which is the home to MIT and the heart of Massachusetts’ high tech and biotechnology industries.
The main site of the MIT is located along the left bank of the Charles River. This provides a wonderful view of the Boston area. Parking in Cambridge can be expensive and hard to find so use public transportation to get to the MIT campus.
The Tech shuttle and Safe Ride shuttle provide free transportation around the MIT. But the latter runs only on weekdays.
(Adapted from http://www.cambridge-usa.org/)

 Take notes under the headings below.

• Location 
• Transport

English mania

Follow the link and see a Ted-Ed lesson : English mania

Comment what is the main goal you may achieve while learning English

My biography

Write down a short CV using words and wordcombinations:

My name is

to be born in a small town (big city, a village)

my parents

to be a judge (a doctor, a teacher, an economist …)

at the age of

to attend school

to receive marks

my favourite subjects

to finish school

to enter an institute

to be a first (second …) year student

to pass the entrance exams

to be interested in

to take an active part in

to deal with the problems

to work at

to make a report at

to be a member of

the student’s Scientific society

the conference devoted to

to graduate from.

Useful phrases with a verb 'to make'

If we want to say that someone or something causes us to be in a particular state or to change to another state we use verb to make:

This film always makes me cry.




The smell of fish makes me feel ill.



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The weather is gloomy today . It is raining and this makes me sleepy.
Are you sleepy cause of rain today? Does the weather influence you and make you sad?

What is it to be a student

 College is just the beginning of a lifelong learning journey. With the rapid advancement of technology, changes in economy and society, you must adapt a learning mindset if you want to succeed. The key to lifelong earning is lifelong learning.

 As you embark on this path, strive always to be a student. Be open to new ideas and information, and be able to adapt. These are essential skills for the new world of work. Some benefits of becoming a lifelong learner are:

• increased self-confidence when approaching new tasks or ideas; 
• better decision-making and problem-solving skills;
• the ability to adapt and change with the times; 
• greater personal satisfaction;
• higher pay and more employment opportunities

Comment on the saying “Keep learning, keep earning!”. Does it always hold true? 

Idiom : to burn the candle at both ends

There is an easy idiom about working hard. Try to remember it.

Are there any idioms in your language with the same meaning?

Do you know any idioms with word 'свеча' in Russian?

Word building

We use suffixes -or/-er/-ist/-ician to form new words with meaning of a person who does something:

originate (v) давать начало - originator (n) автор, инициатор: Who is the originator of his plan?

create (v)  творить, создавать  - creator (n) творец, создатель (one who create): Einstein was the creator  of the theory of relativity.

biology(n) биология - biologist (n) биолог: The first biologist who saw a live cell with a microscope was Antony van Leeuwenhoek, in 1674.

reality (n) действительность– realist (n) реалист: I'm a realist – I knew there was no way I could win.

mathematics (n) математика – mathematician(n) математик: He worked as mathematician at this University.

1. Translate, paying attention to the suffixes:

lawyer, adviser, dreamer, thinker, teacher, doctor, investigator.

2. Give Russian equivalents to the following words:
criminologist, scientist, militarist, artist, biologist, idealist, theorist, terrorist.

3. Translate the following Russian words into English:

пианист, филолог, финалист, психолог.

Much and many

This video is for the first-year students.
We have started learning a new Unit, so we have to know some grammar material. 

This video is about differences between using of the words "much" and "many".The words to understand the video properly: countable - исчисляемое, uncountable - неисчисляемое.

111 mistakes in English spelling

Известно, что английское правописание отличается особой сложностью. Написание многих слов нужно просто запомнить наизусть.

Стелла Коттрел приводит следующие английские слова, с правописании которых англичане чаще всего допускают ошибки. Думаю, что этот список можно использовать для самопроверки.

Приведенные английские слова мы используем достаточно часто в самых разных областях жизни.

A - accessible, accessory, accommodation, across, acquaintance, acquiesce, acquire, address, aggressive, all right, amateur, analogy, analyse (Can you analyse this data?), analysis (Make an analysis of the facts), appendices, appropriate, argument.
B - belief (my belief), believe (I believe), beneficial, benefited, business.
C - catalogue, category, changeable, commitment, committed, committee, conscientious, conscious, criticism.
D - deferred, definite, definitely, discriminatory.
E - equipped, embarrass, exaggerate, excellent, existence.
F - February, focused, focusing, foreign, forty, fourten, fulfil, fulfilled.
G - gauge, government, grateful, guarantee.
H - height, honorary, humorous.
I - immediately, immovable, inconsistent, independent, irresponsible.
L - laboratory, liaise, lose (I don’t want to lose my bag), loose (The knot is too loose).
M - maintenance, manageable, manoeuvre, miscellaneous.
N - naive, necessary, negligible, noticeable.
O - occasionally, occur, occurred, omission, omitted.
P - parallel, privileged, probably, procedure, professional, psychological.
R - receipt, receive, recommend, referred, relevant, repetition, reputation, resistant.
S - scene, secretary, separate, similar, skilful, skilfully, social, successfully, syllabus, synthesis (It was a good synthesis), synthesise (He synthesised the main point).
T - technicality, temporary, theoretical, through.
U - unnecessary, until, usually.
V - veterinary.

Comment the words you often misspell.

Useful phrase : to make a decision

What is the difference between make decision and take decision?

This is simply regional variation, with no difference in meaning.

• The phrase "making a decision" is the more common phrase. It can refer to the actual moment where a course of action is chosen (and just that moment), but also sometimes to the whole process leading up to it (where one might undertake research, have discussions, think and so on, in order to prepare oneself for the decision itself): "The committee took several months to make a decision."
• The phrase "taking a decision", by contrast, only refers to the decisive moment itself, and not to the process leading up to it. It has more formal connotation, and an implication that the decision will have serious consequences, and that the person deciding will be responsible for them; it has a sense of finality about it.

Some examples may help clarify:

• I haven't made a decision about where to go on holiday. (Informal, consequences not serious, nobody's going to hold me to account.)
• The president took the decision to invade Elbonia.
• Bob was fired because he took the decision to outsource the call centre to Mars.
• The decision-making process took a number of weeks: the engineers did the research and made recommendations, but it was the manager who took the final decision.

We make decisions every single day. As we explore in this video, you'll see that some decisions are simple, others are more complex.

What are your typs for making decisions? Please, comment below...