What is animal mimicry?
the close external resemblance of an animal or plant (or part of one) to another animal, plant, or inanimate object
Video: 11 examples
Wednesday, September 13, 2023
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Present Simple or Present Continuous
1) What _______ (we / have) for dinner tonight?
2) We _____(stay) in Spain for two weeks this summer. We have already booked the tickets.
3) Their class _______ (begin) at nine every day.
4) How often _______(you / go) to restaurants?
5) Take your umbrella. It ______ (rain).
6) You ______ (not like) chocolate.
7) My flatmate _______ (leave / always) his dirty dishes in the sink for me to wash up. I'm so fed up with him!
8) Usually we _______ (study) Spanish, but this week our teacher _____ (teach) us some Portuguese. These languages have quite many similar words.
9) You ______ (not need) to start cooking before we _____ (be) back.
10) What time _____ (the train / leave)?
______
Now check your answers
1) are we having
2) are staying
3) begins
4) do you go
5) is raining / 's raining
6) do not like / don't like
7) is always leaving
8) study , is teaching
9) do not need / don't need, are
10) does the train leave
Sunday, September 10, 2023
Global Issues
1) climate change (e.g the rise of sea level or temperature)
2) deforestation
3) diseases
4) drought
5) earthquakes
6) famine
7) malnutrition
8) floods
9) pollution
10) poverty
11) unemployment
12) urbanization
13) volcanic eruptions
14) biodiversity loss
15) overpopulation
16) water scarcity
17) energy shortages / crises
18) inequality (economic / gender etc.)
19) economic recession
20) globalization
21) terrorism
22) freedom of speech
23) human migration
24) pandemic
25) refugee crises
26) human rights violations
27) insufficient healthcare access
28) control of media / censorship
29) pollution (water / air etc.)
30) racial discrimination
31) child labor
32) mass surveillance
33) armed conflicts
34) political instability
35) high rate of illiteracy
36) homelessness
37) human trafficking
What were people protesting agains in 2024? Find out
One of the latest protests: Papua New Guinea
Task 2: Check your spelling
1) deforestation
2) drought
3) famine
4) unemployment
5) urbanization
6) biodiversity loss
7) inequality
8) high rate of illiteracy
9) human trafficking
10) surveillance
Thursday, September 7, 2023
Unit 1A: Ideal Beauty
Task 1: Find the phrases in English from the text
1) kaalus juurde võtma
2) sümboliseerib meestes jõukust
3) ülekuhjatud (millegagi)
4) erinevaid arvamusi/vaateid paljastama
5) varaseim taasesitus / kujutamine
6) kahvatu / heleda nahaga
7) jõukuse tundemärk / tõestus jõukusest
8) lai varieerumine (lai valikute hulk)
9) keha muutmine
10) näitama inimese kohta ühiskonnas
11) elegantne
12) laialdaselt levinud olema (kusagil)
13) väga erinevatel põhjustel
Tasks 2: check your answers
1) put on weight
2) symbolizes prosperity in men
3) be bombarded with sth
4) reveal different views of
5) the earliest representation
6) pale-skinned
7) a sign of wealth
8) a huge variation
9) body modification
10) reflect the person's position in society
11) elegant
12) be commonplace in
13) for a wide variety of reasons
Tuesday, September 5, 2023
Friday, September 1, 2023
Museums
Choose from here:
The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia;
The Louvre, Paris, France;
The Science Museum, London, the UK
1) ___________ was a medieval fortress and the palace of the kings of France before becoming a museum two centuries ago. Main attractions: “Venus de Milo,” “Winged Victory of Samothrace,” and Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.”
2) ________ occupies six buildings along the Neva River, the leading structure being the confection-like Winter Palace. This gloriously baroque structure was finished in 1764 and over the next several centuries was the main residence of the czars. Catherine the Great founded the museum that same year when she purchased 255 paintings from Berlin.
3) _______ is the largest museum in the Western Hemisphere. Main attractions: “Adam and Eve,” the well-known engraving by Albrecht Dürer.
4) Here, in __________ 70 million or so specimens, lies the evidence of what man has learned of all facets of creation over the last 250 years. So important is this collection, that parts of it have been presented over the centuries as evidence used to debate and argue the age of the planet and the evolution of life.
5) ________ is a wax museum in London with smaller museums in a number of other major cities. The museum was named after the wax sculptor who founded it.
6) _______ is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist. During World War II, she hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the 17th-century canal house, known as the Secret Annex. The museum opened on 3 May 1960 and preserves the hiding place, has a permanent exhibition and has an exhibition space about all forms of persecution and discrimination.
7) _______ is a major museum in London. It was founded in 1857 and today is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 3.3 million visitors annually. Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, _______ does not charge visitors for admission.
The Natural History Museum (London);
The Maritime Museum of San Diego, the USA;
Madame Tussauds;
Anne Frank House;
Automobile Museum, Mulhouse, France;
The Tank Museum
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, New York; The State Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia;
The Louvre, Paris, France;
The Science Museum, London, the UK
1) ___________ was a medieval fortress and the palace of the kings of France before becoming a museum two centuries ago. Main attractions: “Venus de Milo,” “Winged Victory of Samothrace,” and Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa.”
2) ________ occupies six buildings along the Neva River, the leading structure being the confection-like Winter Palace. This gloriously baroque structure was finished in 1764 and over the next several centuries was the main residence of the czars. Catherine the Great founded the museum that same year when she purchased 255 paintings from Berlin. 
3) _______ is the largest museum in the Western Hemisphere. Main attractions: “Adam and Eve,” the well-known engraving by Albrecht Dürer. 
4) Here, in __________ 70 million or so specimens, lies the evidence of what man has learned of all facets of creation over the last 250 years. So important is this collection, that parts of it have been presented over the centuries as evidence used to debate and argue the age of the planet and the evolution of life.
5) ________ is a wax museum in London with smaller museums in a number of other major cities. The museum was named after the wax sculptor who founded it. 
6) _______ is a writer's house and biographical museum dedicated to Jewish wartime diarist. During World War II, she hid from Nazi persecution with her family and four other people in hidden rooms at the rear of the 17th-century canal house, known as the Secret Annex. The museum opened on 3 May 1960 and preserves the hiding place, has a permanent exhibition and has an exhibition space about all forms of persecution and discrimination.
7) _______ is a major museum in London. It was founded in 1857 and today is one of the city's major tourist attractions, attracting 3.3 million visitors annually. Like other publicly funded national museums in the United Kingdom, _______ does not charge visitors for admission.
8) ______ is built around the Schlumpf Collection of classic automobiles. It has the largest displayed collection of cars and contains the largest and most comprehensive collection of Bugatti motor vehicles in the world.
9) _______ was established in 1948, preserves one of the largest collections of historic sea vessels in the United States.
10) ______ is a collection of armoured fighting vehicles in South West England. With almost 300 vehicles on exhibition from 26 countries it is the largest collection of fighting vehicles and the third largest collection of armoured vehicles in the world.
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