English

a.

1. Look down on — think they are better than sb/sth
2. Breaks my heart — makes me very upset
3. Keep up with — move or make progress at the same rates as sb/sth
4. Does my head in — makes me annoyed
5. Gets wearing — becomes exhausting
6. Life or death — vitally important
7. Build up — get bigger
8. Go blank — can’t think what to do or say

b.

1. Sometimes what I do is painful, and I’m not a sadist (dentist)
2. I don’t expect to chat, but sometimes my cab becomes a mobile confessional. (taxi driver)
3. Men are risk-takers. They go too fast and don’t like being told what to do. (driving instructor)
4. I’d like some respect — people who answer the door while they’re on the phone really bug me, as do the ones who take ages to find the money. (pizza delivery man)
5. It’s a cliche, but ‘Have you turned it on and off again?” is the first thing that comes to my mind every single time someone calls. (IT support worker)
6. I work in an industry that convinces people to part with their cash in pursuit of a perfection that does not exist. I am betraying my sisterhood. (beauty counter manager)

c.

1. My job as a divorce lawyer is very challenging. (C)
2. I’m a checkout assistant in a supermarket. I really enjoy my job, but it can be a bit monotonous and repetitive. (A)
3. I’m a primary school teacher. I find working with young children very rewarding. (B)
4. I work in a small graphic design company and my job’s really motivating. (F)
5. Being a surgeon is very demanding. (D)
6. I work at an accounting firm. My job is incredibly tedious. (E)

d. Complete the text with the words in the list.

I’ve just started my third internship. At the end of it, I will have been working unpaid for a year. It feels as though I’m not in control of my own life, that I’m helpless. Academic qualifications and work experience are almost irrelevant when you’re competing against people who have years of experience, many of are taking a step down the career ladder. I’m not choosy — I’ve spent time in a children’s charity, events management, a press office — but they haven’t got me a permanent contract. It’s demoralizing. And exhausting — job-hunting is a full-time occupation. After clocking off, most people can be free for the night. For the intern, it’s time to go home and look for work. I have no idea ho many positions I’ve applied for since graduating, but it’s more than 100.

e.

1. Colleagues — co-workers (S)
2. Quit — resign (S)
3. Staff — workforce (D)
4. Be laid off — be made redundant (D)
5. Be out of work — be off work (S)
6. Be sacked — be fired (S)
7. Get promoted — get a rise (S)
8. Skills — qualifications (D)
9. Hire sb — employ sb (S)
10. Perks — benefits (S)

How to influence and persuade people…

There are people who say “I don’t care what they think, I don’t care if they judge me”

But these people are either lazy or scared to get interacted with the society and change its opinion on matters that shouldn’t be judged. Yes, you shouldn’t let others to cloud your opinion and love to anything, however you must posses qualities which would help you get along with the society. Some don’t get satisfied with only getting along and sharing. Some want to influence their way and be good at persuading. And there are many ways to do so. There are so many psychologists and philosophers who wrote hundreds of essays, so many politicians and businessmen who spoke on this matter and so many bloggers who made hundreds of YouTube videos with simple steps on “How to persuade people” 

Here are couple of steps you should take if you want to be influential and persuasive:

1. Listen actively: Listen attentively to people’s opinions and concerns. It will help you understand their thought process and make them feel valued.

2. Be genuine: Honesty and sincerity are valued virtues. Be genuine in your intentions and communicate well.

3. Build rapport: Try to find common ground or interests to develop friendly relations with people. It creates a positive environment for persuasion.

4. Show empathy: Put yourself in their shoes by trying to understand their situation or struggles. It shows that you are aware and care about their issues.

5. Use logic and facts: Provide logical reasoning backed by facts to support your argument. It helps in convincing people and correcting misinformation.

6. Appeal to emotions: Connect with people on a human level by using stories that create emotional responses. It helps to strengthen their emotional attachment to the desired outcome.

7. Provide a solution: Offer solutions to their problems or concerns. It helps in gaining their trust and confidence in your abilities.

The art of persuasion isn’t hard to learn, however you must be good enough to posses that art. 

Regrets that I have had…

Having regrets isn’t something to be proud of. But of course, everything has its pros and cons. One regret that I have is trusting the wrong people. Interaction with them influenced on my education and lifestyle negatively. Because of this I lost months, if not years, of productive development during my teen years. This affected not just my lifestyle, but also my mental health. I became more susupicios of everyone and afraid of new interactions. I’m hopeful and sure that this influence will vanish over time, however not the memories. I believe that everyone has such regrets. Due to the desire of adventure and new big friend groups, we often get interacted with people that aren’t right for us. However, because of the steriotypes of the society, we continue to interact with them, so we won’t get bullied or judged for being friendless. Yes, this is a regret, but was it all a waste? I think it was a great lesson for me. This experience helped me to easily determine whether someone is trustworthy or not. It made me more careful in interactions with new people and more self-absorbed. I am now also able to protect my friends from such situations. From a different pointview, this isn’t even a regret, because in my opinion, every single thing that happens is meant to happen and teach us new lessons in life.

Things that annoy me…

Everyone has a pet peeve. For some, its loud breathing, for others, its specific noises. My pet peeve is when someone around me chews gum with open mouth. It is distracting when I am concetrated on a task and unpolite for others around us. Gum chewing with open mouth shows the indivitual’s lack of maners. However this is a small thing that annoys me. Its only a pet peeve. A huge thing that annoys me in this life is a dissrespectful person. Being capable of respecting others around yourself, whether you like it or not, is a huge sign of intellect. Those who respect, receive that respect back. As we all might know, boomerang is a weapon that is associated with life. Human interaction is also a part of life, so you must treat the person infront of you the way you would want to be treated. When someone around me lacks respect towards me or another person in the ccompany, I become dissapointed in them and loose interest immediately. Yes, these type of people annoy me very much and I hope many learn that the ability of respect is a neccessary thing to posesss.

Princess Diana Speech: Women and Mental Health

At the first glance it mey seem that this is an ordinery feminist speech, and thsat it just supports womens rights movment. However it is that streightforward. This is princess Diana’s speech which had a dramatical impact on women’s rights. Let’s take into consideration that this speech hepled a lot of women to improve their life since 1993: In this speech princess Diana wasn’t saying that women have to have the same rights that men have and that we are all equal, instead she was talking about women’s mental health’s issues. In the speech Diana presents all the things that women go through in their life. And those issues in womens life weren’t just some difficulties, it is a gigantic burden over women and there is no way to get rid of it. Accordin to society in those years women had to do a lot of work and cerry all the burden with them. And they did it without even hesitating. As a result women live with a depression till the end of their lives because noone helps them. And I agree, noone cares about them, and all of the hard work they did to maintain a good family was considered normal for a woman. Diana wanted her speech to change the life of women with a lot of burden over them, tried to make a difference in women’s life. She wanted to give women the oppertunity to study and self-improve

“Where do we begin?
From those I have spoken to through my work with Turning Point, the beginning seems to be that women in our society are seen as the carers – the ones who can cope. Whatever life throws at them – they will always cope.

On call twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, whether their children are sick, their husbands are out of work or their parents are old and frail and need attending – they will cope. They will cook and clean, go out to work, attend to the needs of those around them – and they will cope.

They may be suffering themselves, from post-natal depression, violence in the home or struggling in a daze of exhaustion and stress to make ends meet – but they will cope.

Strangely, it is women themselves as well as men who believe this to be true. So deep seated is this belief that it can take enormous courage for women to admit they cannot cope, that they may need help. Either from family and friends or the support systems put in place by you the professionals.

Frequently they will attempt to survive it alone, falling help-lessly into a deeper and darker depression as they feel more and more trapped by the life they are leading. As their world closes in on them their self-esteem evaporates into a haze of loneliness and desperation as they retreat further and further from those who could help them.

Many women and men turn to alcohol to numb the pain of their despair. But because it is seen in women as less acceptable to admit to a dependence on alcohol, it often goes unnoticed. They are merely perceived as having a ‘rather nervous disposition’. The suffering behind their anxious eyes so often goes unseen.

Sadly, for others the strain becomes too much and their decision to take their own life seems to them the only way of ending their pain. Perhaps they didn’t believe they deserved the same support they had given to others?

For those who find the courage tentatively to ask for help the pill for every ill is most often administered. For decades tranquilizers, sleeping pills and anti-depressants have been given to generations of women – three times as many as to men!

These pills, these mother’s little helpers have left a legacy of millions of women locked into a terrible torment, doomed to a life of dependence from which there is still very little help to escape. More often than not they retreat into their own private hell behind closed doors. Terrified to go out of their homes into what to them has become a frightening world. Dealing with these pills has now become a greater problem than the ‘condition’ that caused them to be taken in the first place!

Princess Diana

Assignments for 02.12.22

Writing choose one topic and write about it

Аre you light sleeper or do you sleep like a log?

I love sleeping a lot. Usually I sleep like a log, however sometimes I sleep lighter. It depends on the invironment around me and other circumstances. For example in I am very tired, because of busy and hard day I well sleep like a log no matter where I am. Nobody can wake me up after a hard day even if an explosion will happen next to me I will be still sleeping. However as I have already mentioned it also depends on the enviroment. For example if I am in a new place such as hotel I have to adapt to that inviroment for a proper sleep. Also when my day was really easy and passive I wouldn’t be able to sleep properly. My sleep also depends on my thoughts before sleep. For example if I am not worred about anythig and my thoughts are posetive I sleep really nice, however if I am worred about something wouldn’t be able to sleep properly. In short it depends on the environmet, circumstances and my feeling.

Assignments for 14.11.2022

Please write your viewpoints on the topic Between men and women, there is no friendship possible. There is passion, enmity, worship, and love but no friendship.

I think that there can be no friendship between men and women, however there could be some incidents which are pretty rare and there is 72 genders now and we have to consider that also. Here is why. Usually girls don’t know about the men’s feeling in their friendship because girls don’t really know men’s psicology. I think that men don’t want to spend their time on women if thay don’t have any feelings or any benefit from each other, for example when boys ask about the homework. Guys talk, become close, with the girls that are at least appealing to them. What regards to girls, in a friendship with a guy we can clearly see that during a time girl is starting to have feeling and there are a lot of examples that clearify that. Sometimes both men and women don’t realise that are starting to have feelings towards the other gender. As a result during friendship they start to underestand that they are starting to love this or that aspect in their friend until they realise that they have feelings for each other. We can say that even if boy and a girls start to talk with each other for no reason and become close after some time one of them is going to have feeling towards the other.

Interview…

Assignments for 06.10.2022

Watch the video Denzel Washington Motivational Speech  and write your viewpoints, pick up some good ideas and comment on them
“Falling forward” in life enables you to dream big and make mistakes, but learn from those mistakes and definitely avoid falling back. Nothing in life is worthwhile unless you take risks.

I liked this motivational speech. While whatching I underestood that I know all of this however at the same time I wasn’t thinking deeply. I think the reason is that I have heard ,ost of this statements and it felt like an ordinary words. However during Denzel’s speech I understood the value of this words. I love taking risks and I take that a lot and I succed most of the time. And I adree with Denzel, when he said that risk isn;t just to get a jog it is also about knowing your strengths and weeknesses so it is not just going for it, you have to think and underestend if it is a viable option to take that risk.

Weather forecast of Yerevan in this 2 weeks.

In the first three days there is going to be thunder, however the day after it will be sunny and temperture will reach 30 celsius and this will least until Saturday. Be ready for some changes because from to Sunday to Wednesday it will be very chilly and there is around 60 percent chance of drizzling showers and the tempreture will drop under 13 celsius so think about wearing an aditional jaket. On Thursday weather will be worse because it will be a hailstorm. On Friday and Saturday weather is going to be breeze however no rain is expected. This was all thank you for attention.