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Sport Family Travelling Detective and romantic stories Reviews and more ... 1 EDITORIAL Dear readers, Welcome to the publication of the third issue of our English school magazine GKII Press that has been published in online version for one year. I thank and express my gratitude to all members of the Editorial Board for contributing and publishing material of such consistent high quality. In this issue you will be provided with many interesting texts regarding music, opinion essays, travelling, romantic stories, detective stories and reviews. I hope that you find it interesting and useful reading. Mgr. Maroš Očkovič 2 EDITORIAL STAFF EDITOR IN CHIEF: Mgr. Maroš Očkovič DESIGNERS: Mgr. Maroš Očkovič PROOFREADERS Mgr. Pavlína Olejárová, Mgr. Maroš Očkovič PUBLISHERS: Mgr. Richard Fech Nina Bašistová, I.AB Ema Hakošová, I.A Sofia Kántorová, I.BB Sofia Mária Kaščáková, I.BB Lenka Kožárová, I.BB Klára Miškufová, I.BB Laura Miškufová, I.BB Andrea Očkovičová, I.BB Sandra Semanická, I.BB Oliver Nehila, I.CB Melánia Tkáčová, I.BB 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Dua Lipa 5 The Importance of sport in my life 10 Living in the city vs. living in the countryside 11 What does family mean to me? 12 Travelling broadens your mind 13 The Thief 15 Romantic Story (part 3) 16 Film that changed my mind 17 Favourite winter sports 18 The Sun and Flowers by Rupi Kaur 19 What does Friendship mean to you? 20 Comic Story 21 4 Dua Lipa Dua Lipa (born on 22 August 1995) is an Recording for the single "Electricity", English singer and songwriter. Her musical a collaboration with British-American duo career began at age 14, when she began Silk City. covering by other artists on YouTube. In Dua Lipa is presenting her opinions: 2015, she signed with Warner Music Group on what she would have been if not a singer and released her first single soon after. … Probably nothing. When I was figuring out what I wanted to do, I couldn’t go to university because I didn’t know what I wanted to study. I was like, I’m just gonna take a year out and try to do music, put some covers online, and meet people. I knew if I gave myself a plan B, or a study to go into at university, then I’d always have something to fall back on. I’d always be like, if this doesn’t work out, then I can always do that. I’d never Her self-titled studio album was released on get what I wanted. 2 June, 2017. The album spawned seven on other artists she admired growing up … singles, including two UK top-10 singles "Be I’ve always been obsessed with Nelly Furtado the One" and "IDGAF" and the UK number- and Pink and Destiny’s Child and Christina one single "New Rules", which also reached Aguilera. Honestly, when the song from number six in the United States. In February Moulin Rouge came out, with all of the pop 2018, Dua Lipa won two BritAwards for princesses slaying, that was such an iconic British Female Solo Artist and British moment! I was like, ‘They’re amazing!’ Breakthrough Act. Except when you’re in school and you don’t In April 2018, the single "One Kiss" by Dua really know what they’re singing about, and Lipa and Calvin Harris reached number one you’re singing it until someone corrects you on the UK Singles Chart. In February 2019, at and goes, ‘You shouldn’t be saying that!’ But the 61st Annual Grammy Awards, Dua Lipa yeah, that was like a proper iconic moment won Best New Artist and Best Dance for pop. 5 on how she would define herself spiritually … More often than not, I feel quite grounded. I’m very close to the people I work with, and they’re honest with me. But sometimes, life gets really confusing, especially when people you don’t know at all have such opinions on on what specifically makes her music “dark your personal life. I’m in a weird part of my pop” … career where it’s such a learning curve. It’s For my darker stuff it’s more about story a crazy transition, and it’s happening so fast. telling. I get a lot of my inspiration from sad I’m coming to grips with that. In personal things, those are the things that stick in my relationships, you’re already going through mind for the longest. So I think that’s what shit on your own; doing that in front of the makes it dark – all the sad stories that I have public makes it a lot harder. With work, to tell. because everything’s so crazy and busy, I feel on where a lot of confidence and attitude in like I should have a bit more time to rehearse, her music come from … but I also want to be able to do everything at I mean, I feel like the best example is Hotter once. I want to be able to seize the moment, Than Hell, the reason I wrote that song was but do it all really well. I feel conflicted. because I was going through a really bad on the music video for “Blow Your Mind” breakup and I was totally upset, but I didn’t (Mwah) … want to go into the studio and write a song The vision for the video was to have a girl that made me seem sad or vulnerable. gang, or just a gang, that everyone can be I wanted to be strong, and I wanted to be a part of. It was like, campaigning for empowered. With that song I had to niceness. I feel like I wanted to touch on so completely flip the story and pretend like many different things, quite serious topics I broke his heart, and not the other way happening in the world, but without making it around, and that helped me get over the too political or too serious. I wanted to do my situation. Now when I sing the song, it’s form of representation, and to have fun with something I can dance to and have a really it. Like, I took quotes from the Mean Girls fun time with. It’s completely different to movie and instead of saying, ‘You can’t sit what it initially was about, and I love that. with us’, I changed it to, ‘You can sit with us’. There were loads of different things in that video that were about girl power and gay pride and showing support for the LGBT+ 6 community, as well as just having fun on the a little bit and he messaged me in January day and doing whatever we wanted. 2018 when I was writing my album in Jamaica asking me if I wanted to work on something together. So we found a date and I went down to his home studio in LA and we just worked on One Kiss. It all just happened really organically and I’m really excited about it because it was something that I’ve never done before. When I do collaborations I want it to be something different, I want to be a sound that I’ve not done before so then I can bring my own touch to it. The way music is on her song “No Lie” with Sean Paul … changing, there’s all these unexpected sounds I got sent that song because it was written by and collaborations happening, so it feels cool my friends Emily and Andrew and I loved it. to be a part of something like that. I’m always really sceptical of doing features because I feel like I’ve tried so hard to get my own music out there first, and it’s scary to do a song that has no relevance to your life. I always like to make sure that it’s something that represents me or something that I would sing. But when I heard No Lie, I loved it, and I found it really fun, so I went straight into the studio and recorded it. It was really weird because I hadn’t met Sean but we were on this track together, so it was great to finally meet him. He’s really cool, but the whole time on winning her first Grammy Award in I was just thinking of the Baby Boy era and in February 2019 (Best New Artist and Best my head I was like, ‘God, eight-year-old me Dance Recording for the single would have been so chuffed!’ I was already "Electricity", a collaboration with British- really excited but eight-year-old me would American duo Silk City) … have probably screamed. Crazy, honestly. I keep trying to look after my on the song of summer 2018 “One Kiss” makeup but it's watering on the side. I'm so with Calvin Harris … emotional, and so excited, and so thankful. So me and Calvin have been friends for I really have no words to explain how I feel. 7 Where I want to begin is by saying how on how important is to her that her female honoured I am to be nominated alongside so anthems send the message she is putting many incredible female artists this year out to her fans … I guess this year we've really stepped up. I think with my songs I just want to be really I want to say a really big thank you to my honest about personal experiences.