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№ 7 (March 2016) Handful of Snowdrops Spring comes to us. The snow begins melting; there are dark areas on the earth everywhere. The sun warms the earth and the first grass appears. So do the first flowers. If you go into the forest, you will find primroses. They are just near the ground. Different and unusual in shape, they create a green background for the blossoming white flowers of snowdrops. Flowers themselves are small, of simple form. When they are still coming out of the Walking in a spring forest, pay lilies of the valley, pleasing its earth, flower head bends down, it attention to the shape and bright beauty. looks like a bell. Truly speaking, a color of this plant. It smells a little If you pick the snowdrops up, you flower blooms and looks like a bit sharply, but there is a feeling should remember that there may of freshness in it. Breeze in and not grow the flowers on that the mood becomes good – it place for a long time or even smells like a spring spirit! never. Snowdrop is listed in the No wonder snowdrops are called Red Book. It needs to be harbingers of spring. Spring protected. Do not pick the mood, the bright warm sun, snowdrops up. We can admire spring breeze – it all blends in this them in the forest much longer. little flower. large white star; only some kinds After snowdrops appear other Written by of snowdrops differ by petals, primroses - coltsfoot, lungwort, Kolmogorova Alyona which have a rounded shape. Journalism Department Science week is an annual affair lots of students make reports · The rise of English in our Gymnasium. Every year and represent them in front of Journalism and the first large audience. The variety of press magnates topics is impressive: physics, · David Ogilvy and its PR geography, literature, chemistry, theory English. This year our newspaper · Comparison of English s t u f f r e p r e s e n t s s e c t i o n and Russian newspaper concentrated on English and headlines. Journalism. Among the main We’ll wait for you in April at our topics you can discuss: section! Don’t mss it! Hall of Aim Language Сamps in Different Countries of the World Any way, we all like to travel, that is why you can easily go there camps. You can study Thai or new places, traditions, food so for 1-2 months.The most known English and enjoy the wonderful exciting! cities in are Warsaw and views in the free time. The spirit of the future trip in the Kraków. As for me Kraków is more English speaking country- well, airport is unforgettable, I can't mysterious and exciting than let's speak about the USA, the country of ambitions and possibilities. The culture of the USA surrounds us anywhere we go to the cinema, cafes, shops etc. There is great number of different states and they all are absolutely different, every state has its own spirit, culture and locals. The cities of beaches and relax like Los Angeles, Miami. The cities of the hard studies and works Chicago, Boston, New York. The city of the Cowboys like Huston. As for English practice, express how I like hot chocolate Warsaw, you'll have a lot of places it’s better to go to the small town in the airport. to see and visit, it has an where do Americans live, The pupils of our school know enormous history. You are able to because all big cities are full of English on different levels, but study at special language school different nations, races and the point is that we all know it. So or at the university, as for me cultures and you will probably what should we do when we studying in the university is find the person to speak Russian want to practice English and to travel? I would recommend you to go to the language school or camp. There is a great variety of language schools in different parts of the world. We can divide all the countries in this way: 1) Asian 2) English-speaking 3) European First of all you should decide what language you wanna study, may be you want to practice English or German or you want to learn some new languages like French, better, because you may visit not with. It’s better to practice Spanish or Chinese? That is a only the lessons of English or English in the towns of "one floor bewildering question! You should Polish language, you may visit the America". That is real America, also think out about the culture lessons of history, math, finances and you will come with the and the traditions of the country and etc. luggage of new words and you are going to visit. experiences. Asian country. Let's discuss one European, one is the the paradise on I hope you liked my post, will be Asian and one English-speaking the earth, tropical fruits, warm glad to write again! language school. sea, friendly locals and lots of Europe-Poland different excursions. In Thailand By Shimanskaya Nastya Poland is such a budget country you can find language schools or № 7 2 Hall of Aim Feed your postbox Have you ever got a real letter or ? Did you smell the paper? Did you look forward to a postman? No? Then you don’t k n o w w h a t t h e w o r d “postcrossing” mean. Postcrossing is an online project that allows its members to send and receive from all over the world. The project's tag line is "send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person somewhere in the world!”. Its members, also known as postcrossers, send postcards to other members and receive postcards back from other random postcrossers. Where the postcards come from is always a surprise. concentration of Postcrossing has since grown even more By June 2015 Postcrossing had members reside (in order) in the rapidly. Postcrossing.com more than 554,570 members in , , , c e l e b r a t e d i t s f i v e - y e a r 213 different countries, who had , the , anniversary on July 14, 2010 with registered and exchanged over , Poland, , a photography contest for its 30 million postcards that have , and Brazil. m e m b e r s . S h o r t l y a f t e r The idea for the project was celebrating their fifth birthday, created by Paulo Magalhães, who Postcrossing.com reached started the site on July 14, 2005. 5,000,000 postcards received on The motivation was based on the August 24, 2010 At the moment, fact that he liked to receive mail, 1 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0 p o s t c a r d s a r e especially postcards. Over time registered in about 2 months. the project received attention Isn’t than interesting? So if you f r o m t h e m e d i a w h i c h like sending and getting letters – contributed to its growth and come out of the Internet and feed popularity. Postcrossing reached your postbox! t rave l e d ove r 1 5 1 b i l l i o n its first million exchanged k i l o m e t e r s . T h e h i g h e s t postcards on April 11, 2008 and Project Time This year is very productive for There you can find belongings of all ages have the possibility to English-speaking society of our a n d a r t i c l e s o f d i ffe re nt take a free course of English. The s c h o o l . A s y o u k n o w i n nationalities. Soon there will be a first group has already begun November National Culture possibility to take an excursion in studying. They meet every Centre was opened. This is a the museum. The moderators of Thursday at 6 pm. great project, the aim of which is the project are going to develop So many interesting things are to distribute the knowledge of and improve this idea. ahead! Hope we’ll please you different national cultures One more interesting project has with our new projects more and among people of our region. The just appeared in our gymnasium. more! museum representing objects of English for Adults is a unique national cultures is opened. initiative. The thing is that adults 3 № 7 Hall of Aim Our stuff Hall of Aim exists more than a year already. But you haven’t seen the stuff that writes the articles yet. Let’s get acquainted! Our main authors answered the question – What does English mean to you? Here are their answers and photos. Irina Rogacheva: English is a key that you can't loose. It helps to open doors, countries, cultures and... people. Sonya Sekisova: I love English. It is an important part of my life. Certainly people, who study

English, go abroad, get rich and English means much. Many maybe see famous actors. Also, people in our country are there are many programs in interested in English. When a English, but if you don't know person is working in the Internet, English, then it will be very it gets a lot of information in difficult to understand all of these programs. To my mind studying English is very interesting and funny. English means much for me Nastya Shimanskaya: English l a n g u a ge i s a f re e d o m o f communication in any country . The knowledge of English is a great chance to travel and explore the world. Using English we can do practically everything . English hope to become a bit Alyona Kolmogorova: In my life

English. When you want to install a program, you meet many settings in English. If you do not know English, then you can not u n d e rsta n d t h e m a t e r i a l . Just buying a TV and telephone, we can observe the instructions and the names are written in English. I think that English in our lives means so much.

Hall of Aim № 7 (March 2016) Editor-in Chief –Anastasia Ilyasova Typography –Ekaterina Akateva. Stuff – Irina Rogacheva, Sophia Sekisova, Tatyana Filatova, Windwail, Ivory, Yanny, Yana Smirnova, Alyona Kolmogorova . The paper is released once in 3 months.