Sport Family Travelling Detective and Romantic Stories Reviews and More

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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

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

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

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.

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.

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. I never fans, who have allowed me to be the best angled myself in a specific way, I just wanted version of myself. I love you guys very much. to be able to make music in the hopes that I have one thing that I really want to say. For people would be able to relate to it and realise anyone that hasn't realized how special they that we all go through the same things. It took are to have a different story, a different me quite a while to be able to take my own background, a name that honours their roots thoughts and put them to paper because of my because they just want to be normal, whatever own fears of having people hear those songs the hell that means, just know that no matter and have people know that it’s about them or where you're from or your background or whatever it may be. It was about learning to what you believe in, never let that get in the overstep that boundary or push through that way of you and your dreams! Because you fear. When I started, having fans come up to deserve it, and I'm proof that you can do me and be like ‘oh this song made me feel whatever you put your mind to, and however really empowered’, made me start slowly hard you work, I really believe in it and letting go of the fear of somebody else I believe in you! hearing it and thinking ‘oh she wrote the song about me’. And I became more into being able to empower. And by writing the songs that were really therapeutic for me I was also able to get over certain situations and breakups. I was writing songs with a false sense of confidence to begin with, because not necessarily did I always feel that way when I was writing the songs. But I wanted to feel that way and so that is what I channelled. on how important are videos to the whole package of a song´s release … Videos have never really been my strong suit, I’ve always found it to be quite tough to begin with, to really convey another side of the story to the song, and to make something that 8 does it justice. I feel like New Rules was idea of what I wanted it to be so I think, really the one where I felt really sure of what sometimes with videos do kind of come I wanted it to look like. It’s essentially quite together in a way where you are able to tell a sad song about someone not being able to another story to the song. But I think it’s get over their ex who is quote toxic to them, really important to also just let the song speak but in the video, I saw what I would be like for itself so I don’t necessarily think song and with my friends when going through a real video need to go hand in hand. But I now break up and they would be the ones telling really love the aspect of creating another side me the rules. I’m so good at giving other to the story. people advice but terrible at taking it myself! on how she is really close to her family … That was really the idea behind it - I saw this Well, my family have always been really picture of an ‘80s Versace campaign with supportive of me doing music and have Naomi Campbell on the back of another always trusted me. We’ve kind of being model and the colours were amazing and the growing together and having them as support clothes were beautiful and the aesthetic was has meant so much to me. If I ever need really great but what I loved was the message anything or if I need support they’re always behind it which was girls looking out for each there. I think with my little brother and sister, other and supporting each other. It was also I want them to be able to see that they can do the weird inspiration behind the flamingo whatever they put their minds to and I just because I saw that picture and was like want to be a good role model to them to ‘I need to have flamingos in the video!’ So it a certain extent. I’m not perfect, but I try! was all quite random but I had such a clear

Mgr. Richard Fech

The Importance of sport in my life

Some people say that sport is just It makes us hold and gives the feeling of a game and it isn’t important in your life. happiness by reducing occurrence of anxiety Somebody loves sport and so do I. We can say and angry. I think the best feeling in sport is that sport helps everyone to improve and when you won a game. This makes you maintain physical ability and skills. Being happier, more confident and you will have the involved in sports benefits people in many desire to do it more and more, to be better and ways. better. In my mind I always have one There are different types of sports, so objective – to win the game. It’s more we can choose if we amazing when you score want to play outside or a goal or give an assist, inside and if we want to especially when it’s play individually or as a winning goal or assist. a team. When you want After the match you can to be successful and do be proud and satisfied. sport professionally Victories make me many, many years, you motivated to play more. must work hard and you Losses show me a way have to put as much how I can improve effort into it as you can. something and be better. It doesn’t matter what Once my coach kind of sport you do, said: you need to be patient ̋ everything what you and dedicated. I have sacrifice for sport will been playing football for eight years, so come back to you. ̋ This quote means a lot to I know that sometimes sport is cruel. When me and I follow it during my whole life. you train every day and it is not like you I would like to thank God that I can do what want, you must be endured and persistent. I enjoy. I can’t imagine my life without sport, Precisely this period of time teaches us to go because it is a part of my life. ahead in life by removing all the weaknesses. Oliver Nehila, I. CB

Living in the city vs. living in the countryside

Living in the city or countryside? talking so no silence. City is mainly for A Great question. I would like to begin by businessmen, students and for people who saying that everyone is a different type of like busy life. person. Both city and countryside have Secondly, countryside is in many advantages and disadvantages which can help things different than city. There’s one shop, us with deciding where to move. church, pub and only one bus stop. There can be no school either. But on the other hand, the countryside has a beautiful nature and silence. Villagers are one big family and there is friendly atmosphere. Children usually have their grandparents so countryside is a good idea for elderly people who are retired.

Firstly, a city has more opportunities than a village. Everything you need is near cafeterias, shops, shopping centres, restaurants or hospitals. For young people there are clubs, cinemas or concerts. But for these things people usually decide for living in the city. Then there are traffic jams, streets are crowded because of cars and everyone is To sum up, I personally prefer city. I have friends there. I don’t have to travel long time when I need to go to the city centre. I like this type of life. But when I go to countryside I always enjoy nature, silence and no signal areas.

Sandra Semanická, I.BB

What does family mean to me?

Family, a word that can mean nothing I think the main reason of problems and to someone, but nowadays, family in most arguments is that we care for each other so cases means everything. But is it really like much. It is amazing how completely different that with everyone? Not every person has that people make a specific company together. happiness for unproblematic life when your People are often very sure when it comes to family is by your side, especially these days. family and sometimes they realize how easy it In my opinion everybody should at least try to is to lose family in most cases it is too late to build a safe family. think about what bad things we have done.

Firstly, the best thing in life is when Finally, when somebody asks: ʺWhat you can rely on someone and that is the main does family mean to you? ʺ I always say function when you live in a loving family. ʺeverythingʺ. We are happy people, but The feeling that you are not alone and there is sometimes we do not even realize it. The most always someone you can tell everything, is important thing in life is to have someone, the best feeling a person can have and and everybody deserves caring family, but deserves. We all have insecurities and hard people really have to try. It does not come times so we need someone by our side. from anything; it does not fall from heaven. We need to care and love no matter what is Personally for me, my family, they are going on. Safe family is everything that my true best friends in every way and every makes a person feel confident and full. time I need them. My mum, dad, siblings I love them the way every human should be loved. Every time I go home I realize how happy I am, but on the other hand, not everyone can say the same.

However, there are problems in every Andrea Očkovičová, I.BB single family, but we have to keep going.

Travelling broadens your mind

Travelling is one of the most exciting One of the reasons why you should activities in the world. Here is why. Other travel and explore the world is a difference cultures are truly interesting and each of them between countries and people that live there. shows different people, places and tells It is really important to realize that another story. You can draw from it and somewhere there is a human that has never become more intelligent and you will seen a forest before. Some other person, that understand a lot of things that you haven’t still believes, that Earth is flat or slavery is done before. a matter of course. It is truly enriching to be aware of certain things and thoughts of the others. It can bring your own thinking to a new level.

Another reason to travel, that I am going to mention, is food. Eating new meals from different cuisines and countries can lead to real pleasure. It can easily become your new hobby and expand your horizon in ways, that you have never even imagined.

The other reason to travel is nature, lots of beautiful places and monuments, that can be explored. Our world is really gorgeous and there are many places like Niagara Falls, Grand Canyon and many beautiful islands. There is so much to be seen. So many cities, country sides, historical buildings, mountains, seas and caves. Many of magnificent places have even not been discovered.

One main problem with travelling is that it costs quite a lot. Money can be a big Naturally, the world is not just pretty problem, because not everybody can afford as one could imagine. It brings many expensive luxurious accommodation. difficulties and troubles. People are struggling Fortunately, nowadays there are lots of with hunger, wars, diseases or insufficient cheaper alternatives that can give you the living conditions. As someone once said: exact feeling even if you are not rich.

I honestly cannot think of any reason why we should not travel. Travelling really broadens your mind in many ways. Not just those, that I have already mentioned. It teaches you to respect people, because you will meet many and will learn that everybody has a right to have their own opinion, faith and culture. It will teach you not to judge people by their colour of skin or religion that ̋ Better to see something once than to hear they believe in. It will broaden your mind, about it thousand times ̋. If you decide to soul and your heart will become more opened. travel to one or more countries, it can In my opinion it is worth travelling. Don’t definitely change your view on the world as you think so? a whole.

Nina Bašistová, I. AB

The Thief

I have heard this story from my fell down from his hands and he fell asleep. cousin. He lives in the town where it But that was what shouldn’t have happened. happened. It happened to his dad. His name is His passenger, the middle-aged man, stood up Mark. right when he was completely sure that Mark was in a deep sleep. He opened the door and One day he was standing left, taking Mark’s hat and at the platform and was waiting coat with him. for his train to arrive. It was quite cold so he buried his Hours later, when hands deep inside the pockets Mark woke up he didn’t of his coat. A few minutes later think that something had the train came to the station. He happened. That was until he quickly got on to find a free looked around himself. His seat. And luckily, he found one. passenger was gone and so He took his coat and hat and was his coat and hat. took a seat. Then he started to Suddenly, he realized that read the newspaper he had man was a thief. He bought on his way to the was so sad and angry at the station. man and himself as well. How could Mark let that happen? Suddenly the door opened and revealed a middle-aged man. He was wearing His first thought, however, was to go an old torn coat and a hat. He sat directly to the police. It wasn’t like he was robbed of opposite my cousin ̍s dad. When the engine something very precious. It was just a coat started, the passenger took out a cigarette and a hat. It was just a piece of clothing. And, from his pocket and started smoking. obviously, the man needed it more as Mark remembered how the man was dressed. He Mark yawned from time to time, survived that day without his jacket and because he was sleepy since he had had to bought a new one the next day. However, it wake up early to catch the train. He didn’t was followed by a flu and horrible cold. even realize how or when, but his newspaper Ema Hakošová, I.A 15

Romantic Story Part 3 3.2.2019 11:34

OMG!!!! I finally found you. I couldn’t have found you for 11 months, 1 week, 4 days, 10 hours and 19 minutes. Friendship between me and Sam has changed a lot. Do you remember that day when Sam wrote me that he was thinking about me? The following week, me and my family had to leave Miami and move to Minnesota, because my father got a new job there. The month after was the worst month in my life. I had to go to new school with new schoolmates, friends and teachers. It was a big change for me. Now, I am packing my stuff back to Miami. I am so excited to see my friends but sad too, because I must leave my new friends, but I promise that next holiday I will come back to visit them. Maybe, you ask me what happened between me and Sam? We have been dating since October,25. I can’t wait to see him. . Now, I am going to tell you something about Minnesota, I am not going to talk about the city, but about my friends and schoolmates of course. First, when I came to the classroom, I felt that they are looking at me as if I was somebody from rich Miami. Then, I met Mia, she is my best friend from Minnesota. She took me to her crew, where I met Salma, Angelina, Jennifer, Brad, Tom, David and so on. We had a good time and I am so grateful for them. . Now, it’s time to go back to Miami. Tomorrow, we are flying at 8:38pm. Next time, I will write you from Miami. What will happen in Miami??? You will see in next edition.

Laura Miškufová I.BB

Film that changed my mind

Watching a film is the first thing that that, movie shows world as it actually is. comes to my mind when I have nothing to do. There are poor and rich people. The poor have It’s a form of relax for me, but I like when only about a day. The rich own thousands of I can learn something from it. That’s why years. Towns are divided into zones to I like films based on true events. And even if separate poor and rich people. Some of them the film that I’m going to talk about is are trying to fight for justice, but not all of classified as science fiction movie, it has a lot them are successful. to deal with our real life. When you watch this film, you will In Time movie realise a lot. It perfectly shows highlights the true cost of our what’s really important in our time. It represents the story of lives. It shows how wrong the world where people don’t people’s priorities can be. You use money. They don’t know will realise that a lot of things what money is. But what’s that are worth our money are worse – they pay with their not worth our time. Think time. How would you react if about how many things you you got 24 hours a day as your would find out unnecessary payment at work? Or if a bus when you imagine that you ticket cost you 3 minutes of should give up on some of your life time? People are safe your time. I personally think until they turn 25. This is the day when their that we would reassess the value of a lot of time starts running and digital clock on their things that seem important to us. But it isn’t skin starts to count down 365 days. They stop quantity of our time that matters. It’s about getting old. Since that day, they will look the how we spend it, isn’t it? same for the rest of their life. But apart from Lenka Kožárová, I.BB

Favourite winter sports

What do you do during these days? Majority of you would answer that they are doing some winter sports. Nowadays it is very popular because more and more people are doing sports. The most popular winter sports are snowboarding, skiing and ice skating.

one man ran over her. So I think we all should watch and pay attention to everyone. To be honest I have never snowboarded. Maybe it is because I do not believe myself. Also technique is quite hard and completely different. But I think when you learn it is easy My favourite is skiing. I have been for you. But I would like to know how to do skiing since I was three years old. Learning it. how to ski is not very difficult, but it takes I have been ice skating since nine years to figure out your style. Another thing years. Firstly, I skated on rollerblades. So that people are afraid of is falling. I know then it was easy for me to learn to ice skate. a lot of people that fell on skis and they can’t So that are all sports that I like to do or I just ski now because of their knee problems or would like to do. something like that. For example, my sister once fell and broke her thumb. It was because

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The Sun and Her flowers by Rupi Kaur

The Sun and Her Flowers is written and illustrated by Rupi Kaur, who immigrated to Canada as a child. So she did not know anybody there except for her family. Her only refugee became books. Through them she learnt a local language. Then she started to write poems. Her first publication was book called Milk and Honey. The continuation of this book is the book - The Sun and Her Flowers.

The book is divided into five chapters. The first chapter is called Wilting. The second is Falling. The third chapter is about Rooting, the fourth is called Rising and the last is about Blooming. As Rupi said in The Sun and Her Flowers she continues her exploration of themes including love, loss, trauma, healing and feminity.

So I personally think that this collection of poems is something like necessity to read for each teenage girl to become more positive person, start to believe in herself and especially stay authentic even if it is not always easy.

Sofia Mária Kaščáková, I.BB

What does Friendship mean to you?

When the word friendship says, know themselves, diversity of opinions, and everyone will introduce something else. varied moments. Friendships do not depend Friendship is the most beautiful and rarest of on age, occupation, or education. It's about relationship in the world. It gives us many making people understand each other. What beautiful and amazing moments. It's free but should a friend be? I do not know, but I know nevertheless, not everyone can afford it. You that he should "stay true to yourself". But cannot buy, just deserve it. It is a relationship friendship has two sides: false and true. Fake based on trust, love and understanding. friendships can be easily recognized. They are Everyone should have their guardian angel to characterized by deceit, duplicity, slander, and protect him. other evil attributes. The right side is A friend is a person close to our heart beautiful. and soul. He knows how to help us and cheer A real friendship will find us alone us up. Many cannot imagine having fun when the right moment comes. Friendship without friends. We laugh with them, cry, we fills our lives. We choose our friends share success or disappointment. And that's sensitively and thoroughly, but especially beautiful, what makes people friends. It's with our hearts. We live only once, life is a nice feeling when we know that there is short and we have to enjoy it, especially with someone willing to help us. Friendship the best, invaluable and most needed -with originates gradually. It helps people to get to friends. Melánia Tkáčová, I.BB

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