неділю, 21 вересня 2014 р.

Vocabulary Sci-Fi

Hello, guys! I am Hanna, I live in the twenty-first century, in 2014. I guess all you want to hear from me what is going on nowadays. Though there are a lot of interesting things (politics, books. films), I mainly want to tell the difference between studying.
Firstly, it is easy to connect with your professor without using a phone, ink, papers etc. If your electicity isn't cut off, you can connect with everyone at home. Even if you yawn and are not well-dressed, you still have an ability to have a small talk with people. So now we usually search information using internet and our mother tongue. Maybe you're a little out of touch with internet, but I'll show you.
For example, we're able to write a letter, watch anything on the screen and send to other people as well as create a wordmap with your fingers. If you want to learn more about some word and to look through relations according to their specificities, you can type any word and look at the pictures. It looks like this:
See, this is very easy! Hope you're not shouting at me right there, because you're shocked of such interesting thing. Well. maybe not. I didn't mean to offend you - it was just a figure of speech.
Anyway, there's another one thing, which is useful for a native speaker as well as for a foreigner. Using of another site gives a cool ability to communicate with your friends or to know a lot about different expressions. You're able to make a nice word cloud, which will make you lose contact with the whole world. Here it is:
And there is also a wonderful fraze.it! Make a note about this tool, because it helps to catch up with many collocations, know their source and even translate it to your first language! Of course, it won't sound according to avery regional accent, but will allow you to read all the sources, where this collocation was used. For example, I've written "good luck", limited my search to the topic "Education" in order not to shout at my computer if there are too many words. Then, I've chosen one paragraph and decided to highlight the best collocations and to use them when I'll come into contact with other people. Here is the paragraph:
California's boosters are too smug about the state's long-term prospects.
We sometimes sound like jilted lovers: You'll come crawling back eventually! You'll see!
Sure, they say you can buy three times the house in Dallas or Houston for one-third of what you'll pay in the Bay Area or Orange County. But the weather is terrible, yahoos run the schools and good luck trying to find decent sushi or dim sum.
As Jerry Brown put it recently, "Who would want to spend summers there in 110-degree heat inside some kind of fossil fuel air conditioner? Not a smart way to go."
Texas in August isn't so different from Fresno, Riverside, and – ahem – Sacramento.
Except our taxes and utility bills are higher.
Finally, if you are shy to spaek your mind and say that there may be some words you don't understand, you can use another tool. You are able to write every collocation, from "Wink at sb" to "shake hands with sb" and to explain it. If there's no such a word in the dictionary, there's no need to shout at your computer: you can insert your own definition. Here is a link of how does it look like: http://quizlet.com/49911747/the-theatre-for-the-deaf-flash-cards/alphabetical
It is really nice, isn't it?
Well, in order not to be a chatterbox I'll finish. Hope you'll grow up (or born at least), read this, find me and whisper to me: "Hey, it's me. Thanks for a favour". Now it is time to finish. Bye! 

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