Dear friends,

The Holiday Season is coming! So I wish you lots of love, joy and happiness! May you have the best holidays this year and all your dreams come true!

A very Merry Christmas to you and a Happy New Year! :)

Dear students, don't miss on an opportunity to...

WIN A COURSE!

Enter the English UK East Competition and you could win a free two-week English language course complete with accommodation at one of the region's top English language centres.

How to Enter:

• Read the nine questions at http://www.englishukeast.com/competition?platform=hootsuite
• All answers can be found on each of the centre's websites shown on the page; 
• Email your nine answers clearly to ben@blsenglish.co.uk 
• Competition ends at midnight on 31st December 2016; 
• A winner will be announced no later than 14th January 2017; 
• The winner will be able to choose which participating centre they wish to study at; 
• A tie break question may be necessary but you will be contacted individually with this; 
• Read the Terms and Conditions at the bottom of the page. 

That's a nice reading practice and a chance to win!

So take chances! And good luck! :)

Upper-Intermediate

Home assignment 7/12/2016

Present Perfect vs. Present Perfect Continuous: what's the difference?

1) Speak Out SB p. 131 ex. 2.1 a, b.

2) Speak Out WB p. 9 ex. 1, 2.

Upper-Intermediate

Home assignment 30/11/2016

Speak Out SB p. 17, ex. 6.

Write a summary of your story: what happened, your first impressions and how you felt.

Dear friends,

Here is the part of a BBC comedy series Off the Hook we have watched recently on one of our lessons:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8gmki-a9bWScnNpUDlQejNxXzg

Feel free to watch and rewatch it on your own. The accompanying tasks you can find in Speak Out SB on p. 16.

You can also find a listening script for the video following the link:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B8gmki-a9bWSWk82b1g1VkxqSGM

So develop your listening and have fun!

Best wishes,
your English teacher

Dear friends,

As we are a little bit stuck on learning how to sound polite in English :), take your time to write questions to the world-famous stars in the commments below:

1) Brad Pitt

2) Angelina Jolie

3) Johnny Depp

4) Prince William and Duchess Kate

5) Adele

6) Beyonce

What questions would be more appropriate (better) to ask? Direct or indirect?

Upper-Intermediate

Home assignment 26/10/2016

The home assignment remained the same :)

+ Work out the conversation in Speak Out SB p. 15, ex. 5.

Happy Halloween!

Upper-Intermediate

Home assignment 24/10/2016

1) Speak Out SB p. 14 ex. 3.

2) Speak Out SB p. 129 ex. 1.1 (b).

3) Write five indirect (polite) questions you would ask your groupmates :)

Upper-Intermediate

Home assignment 19/10/2016

Please, work with indirect (polite) questions and enquiries:

1) Speak Out SB p. 129 ex. 1.3.

2) Speak Out WB p. 5 ex. 3, p. 8 ex. 1, 2.

Upper-Intermediate

Home assignment 17/10/2016

1) Still... :) Be ready to characterize people you know well using personality adjectives from p. 148 and justify your choice.

2) Using advertisements examples and vocabulary from Speak Out SB p. 14 ex. 1 create your own short but meaningful advert for the Flustex company you work for :-)

Wishing you all the possible inspiration and creativity!

Your English teacher

Dear friends,

On Monday 10/10/16 we wrote a test on all the topics that we've covered so far.

If you missed it, you can download the test here, do it on your own and then check it against the key.

Don't forget that your task for the next class is to prepare 3 descriptions of people you know well using vocabulary from Speak Out SB p. 148, give examples of the behaviour that makes you think these people have personality traits you write about :)

Good luck!
Your English teacher

Dear friends,

On Monday 10/10/16 we're going to have a test on all the material that we've learned throughout these months.

Here is the list of grammar and vocabulary topics that we've covered:

Grammar

Questions
Present Simple / Present Continuous
Present Perfect / Past Simple

Vocabulary

Personal information
Food
First-time experience / Feelings / Adjectives<-->Nouns

To help you prepare for the test I've designed some online activities and I really hope they will be useful for you! :)

So follow the link below to sign up and join Flustex English class on Quizlet, an online learning tool, and when you have a minute or so use it to revise vocabulary for an upcoming test:

https://quizlet.com/join/kbGq9f8AT

For grammar revision please check out again Units 3, 4, 13, 14 and 49 of English Grammar in Use by R. Murphy.

Good luck!

Best,
O.K.

Upper-Intermediate

Home assignment 03/10/2016

1) Speak Out SB p. 148, Personality adjectives.

2) Be ready to characterize people you know well using personality adjectives from p. 148 and justify your choice.

Dear friends,

As you were busy with your projects, our home assignment remains the same :)

Feel free to share your answers to the previous post throughout this week. And make sure that you Learn English as we're going to have a test in two weeks))

See you on Monday!

Best wishes,
O.K.

Upper-Intermediate

Home assignment 19/09/2016

1) Mandatory :) Speak Out WB p. 7 ex. 5. Choose 3 quotes you like or agree with. What are they about? How do you understand the message? What would be your literary translation of the quotes?

2) Speak Out SB p. 13 ex. 11. Choose 3 statements. Write in the comments to this post if these statements are true for you and why. Read other's comments. Is there anything similar?)

Upper-Intermediate

Home assignment 14/09/2016

1) Still...:) Speak Out SB p. 13 ex. 10, 11.

• Please check nouns in ex. 10 with the help of a dictionary (see "Корисні посилання / Useful links" section);
• Think if you agree with the statements in ex. 11. Why or why not?)

2)* Speak Out WB p. 7 ex. 5. Choose 3 quotes you like or agree with. What are they about? How do you understand the message? What would be your literary translation of the quotes?

Upper-Intermediate

Home assignment 12/09/2016

1) Still...:) Mini-stories about your life experience when you felt:

• embarrassed
• exhausted
• satisfied
• thrilled
• awkward
• relieved
• anxious
• fascinated
• frustrated or
• impressed.

2) Speak Out SB p. 13 ex. 10, 11. Think if you agree with the statements in ex. 11. Why or why not?)

Hello!

And welcome to Flustex English blog! :)

This is a place to connect and share English-related resources.

If you are new to English classess at Flustex, please download a placement test, do it on your own, check against the key and send your test score to oxanakoshova@gmail.com.

If you already visit English classess, 1) download educational materials for Elementary or Upper-Intermediate students 2) learn about TED talks and how listening and reading about brand-new ideas in these talks can help you improve your English.

If you sometimes miss English classess)), find out the home assignment and do it for the next class.

Enjoy and succeed!..

And, of course, feel free to contact me any time! :)

Best wishes,
your English teacher
Oksana Koshova