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Listening practice 🎧🎧🎧⠀⚠️ preservatives = консерванты⚠️⠀Yesterday evening I had a very interesting conversation with ⠀If...
30/09/2020

Listening practice 🎧🎧🎧
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⚠️ preservatives = консерванты⚠️
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Yesterday evening I had a very interesting conversation with
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If you've got an hour⏳, listen to the whole conversation!
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You can find it in my IGTV.
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Go to my profile, and then click the TV button. It's above ⤴️ the gallery but below⤵️ highlights (актуальные).
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If you don't have a whole hour, here are my favourite parts of our conversation. Mark is a very good storyteller!🔥🔥🔥
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🥇41:40-46:50: Why Mark couldn't understand Anna Karenina
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🥈28:40-33:55: Talking to Dedushka about preservatives.
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🥉33:55-39:50: 'Симпатичные мужики'
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And here are the other things we talked about.
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1:00 - 5:30: Mark's Russian language for Russian citizenship exam
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5:30 - 21:21: How Mark ended up in Novosibirsk, and what happened on his first day there.
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21:21 - 28:40: How we met our wives
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46:51 - 49:40: Reading books in the original
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Don't forget to heck out - there is lots of really interesting content about Advanced English 💪💪💪
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In comments👇
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Shall we do it again?
What would you like us to talk about?
What questions have you got for us?

04/06/2020

My first Russian teacher was Galina. She was really tough and she did not let us get away with a lack of effort! I had never had a teacher like her.

Как я прыгнул в последний вагонЧасть 2️⃣The Aeroflot plane that brought me to Russia was less than 30% full, so I had th...
23/05/2020

Как я прыгнул в последний вагон
Часть 2️⃣
The Aeroflot plane that brought me to Russia was less than 30% full, so I had three seats to myself and I got a couple of hours of much-needed sleep.
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I was still half-asleep when we landed and I slowly got my things together and made my way to passport control. This was the moment I was most worried about.
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Finally, my turn came. I showed my documents to the border guard. He looked at them carefully and then seemed to hand them back to me. In fact, his supervisor was behind me and the documents were for him. He asked me why I had travelled to Russia. I explained that my family were here. He took my passport and residency permit away to his office and I had to wait a little longer. When he came back, they let me through. What a relief!
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Then I had my temperature checked and I signed a form saying that I would spend 14 days in self-isolation. I was worried that they wouldn’t let me travel on to Karelia, but I was told that I could get there however I liked.
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So I went to a ticket office and bought myself a flight to St Petersburg. It was a sunny, early spring morning, and for the first time in a few days, I was able to relax a bit. The worst was behind me.
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I spent most of the day in Pulkovo airport reading and trying to avoid other people. I bought some pancakes from Teremok and ate them in the car park, and then took a taxi to the station. The driver had a nasty cough. I kept my mask on!
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There is a daily Lastochka train from St Petersburg to Petrozavodsk, and I had no problems getting a ticket. By 11pm I was in Petrozavodsk, and I walked about 1.5km to the building that would be my home for the next 2 weeks. I could have taken a taxi, but it was my last chance to be outside!
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When I arrived, my wife Tania was waiting for me in her mask. We had agreed to do self-isolation properly so we couldn’t be within 2 metres of each other, let alone embrace, so that was very strange.
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The main emotion I felt was relief. The previous week had been so stressful, but finally I could relax. I was in the same place as my family and I knew that everything was going to be alright.

MY ‘LAST CHANCE SALOON’ JOURNEY TO RUSSIA⠀Как я прыгнул в последний вагон⠀When coronavirus arrived in Europe, I was in E...
22/05/2020

MY ‘LAST CHANCE SALOON’ JOURNEY TO RUSSIA
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Как я прыгнул в последний вагон
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When coronavirus arrived in Europe, I was in England but my family were in Russia. I was working at a school and my wife was applying for her UK residency visa.
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When the ‘lockdown’ (режим изоляция) started in England my school was closed. It was time for me to act, but I was like ‘a rabbit in the headlights’ - the car was coming towards me and I froze.
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Now I know that I should have boarded the next flight to Moscow, but I couldn’t think straight and I stayed in England for another week. To be honest, I was scared.
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I thought I might have the virus - my parents both had it, as did some friends. Although I knew that people with permanent residency were still allowed to enter Russia, I was worried that I had been in England for too long. I thought they might not let me board the plane, or I might be deported, or I might be taken to a scary Russian hospital! And what if I couldn’t find a face mask? There were none in the shops.
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Anyway, we had a group of Mexican students at school who were leaving on Friday afternoon. On Wednesday, I found out that they needed somebody to accompany them to the airport. I realised that I could go with them and then catch a flight to Moscow. So I booked my flight the same afternoon that Putin announced a halt (прекращение) - to all international flights. It was horribly expensive (£580), but it was worth it (стоило того).
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So on Friday morning I packed my suitcase, tidied up the house and put the car in the garage, wondering when I would return. I was ‘a bag of nerves’ (весь на нервах) on the way to the airport - I still thought that my flight could be cancelled.
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Officially, Thursday was the last day for international flights, and this was Friday. However, when we got to the airport my flight was on the departures board. The morning flight to Moscow was there too - along with the word ‘cancelled’. I felt very lucky.
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I said goodbye to the Mexican students, checked in and a couple of hours later, I boarded what turned out to be one of the last Aeroflot flights out of London.
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I was on my way to Russia. But would they let me in? @ Petrozavodsk

21/05/2020

Про разницу между go, come и get. И некоторые очень полезные фразовые глаголы и выражение с get.

18/05/2020

Начинаем неделю глагола Get!
Я написал этот ‘рассказ’ для моих учеников, чтобы показать все разнообразие употребления слова ‘get’.
Здесь я зачитываю этот рассказ в медленном темпе.

10/05/2020

If you want good English pronunciation, you need to use short and long sounds correctly! Here are the five videos I posted last week. Enjoy!

#носительязыка #АнглийскийЯзык #учительанглийскогоонлайн #произношение #английскоепроизношение

30/04/2020

Недавно я постарался изобразить различные акценты на английском языке - региональные британские и иностранные.
Решил соединить мои попытки в это видео, вдруг вам будет интересно!

A little less than 10 years ago, in May 2010, I visited Russia for the first time. This is a photo of me on that trip to...
27/04/2020

A little less than 10 years ago, in May 2010, I visited Russia for the first time. This is a photo of me on that trip to Kazan, with a group from my university. I had a lot more hair and a lot less life experience back then.
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At that time, I never imagined that one day I would become a Russian citizen. However, today I went to the migration office in Petrozavodsk and I pledged this oath (присяга).
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Я, Хопкинс Бенджамин Питер, добровольно и осознанно принимая гражданство РФ, клянусь соблюдать Конституцию и законодательство РФ, права и свободы граждан, исполнять обязанности гражданина РФ на благо государства и общества, защищать свободу и независимость РФ, быть верным России, уважать ее культуру, историю и традиции.
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It's the end of a very long journey. I've been to that migration office at least 30 times for my work visa, my temporary residency permit (рвп), my permanent residency permit (внж) and now, finally, my citizenship (гражданство).
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So now, although I haven't got the passport yet, I'm officially a Russian citizen.
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On the one hand, it's just a document that will make my life much easier. On the other hand, it's much more than that. While I was already very strongly connected to Russia - with a Russian wife, Russian sons and a Russian mother-in-law, I'm now legally tied to Russia. That's a little bit scary. Russia's government isn't the friendliest...
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But it's more exciting than scary. Russia has great potential and life, in cities at least, is getting better. There are new houses, new shopping malls, new roads, new parks, new trains. Russia has its own internet companies, its own manufacturing, its own agriculture and they are all improving. Obviously, the overall level is still lower than in Western countries but the direction is up and that creates great energy in society.
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I don't know how much time I will spend in Russia in the future. Maybe we will live here. Maybe we won't. But I am glad that, whatever happens, my life will continue to be closely tied to this fascinating, frustrating, inspiring, complicated land.

Ещё больше практики!⠀Я подготовил для вас квиз, который вы можете пройти по ссылке в шапке профиля на платформе Quizlet....
25/04/2020

Ещё больше практики!
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Я подготовил для вас квиз, который вы можете пройти по ссылке в шапке профиля на платформе Quizlet.
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Всю неделю вы практиковали слова в сториз, теперь вы можете увидеть видео IGTV и сделать практику!
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Вперёд!
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Как думаете, сможете выполнять одно такое задание каждые выходные? Напишите мне 👇🏻

11/04/2020

10 of the . How many do you know?

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