⚽️ Many around the world have been following the men's football World Cup, and the excitement has reached the fever pitch!

What’s a “fever pitch”? 💥 Learn this phrase with the 2-minute podcast: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p0dgbqmw

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Intrepid = fearless
🌪 The intrepid news reporter led a broadcast with the hurricane behind him.

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Hey! We hope you are safe now🙏
We prepared our biweekly digest to keep you in the loop.

💥 Check out ENGin’s last YouTube episode to learn about famous Ukrainians in the US: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYEo0yF3uB0

🙌 Stay tuned for new episodes with even more practical info!

📍Make an effort
Make an effort = attempt to do something
📚I really made an effort to pass my math exam. I’ve been studying for 5 hours last night.

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👂 Have about 7 minutes to practice your listening skills? Jo, the main podcast character, is sharing her unusual restaurant experience having to book a table a year before the actual date!

🧫 Check out “a special restaurant” episode from British Council here: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/general-english/audio-zone/a-special-restaurant

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🤯 Boil the ocean = taking up an ambitious project that’s very hard or impossible to complete
📝 We need to focus on writing a concise outline of our research paper first. Writing up the entire paper without a plan is like boiling the ocean.

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Happy New Year🎄
We wish you victory for Ukraine 🇺🇦

Today we offer you to read our biweekly digest.

🧐Are you an advanced English learner? If you’re looking for a challenge, there are a lot of page-turners that may enrich your vocabulary range. Check out some of our suggestions below:

🟣 The Last of Mohicans by James Cooper
James Fenimore Cooper's The Last of the Mohicans is a historical novel taking place in 1757 during the French and Indian War as France and Great Britain battle for control of the North American colonies.

🟣 Martin Eden by Jack London
Martin Eden is a novel about a young proletarian struggling to become a self-taught writer. It is a novel about the high price that the young hero, blinded by love and the temptation of money he never had, has to pay for his attempts to make a career and fulfill his ambitions.

🟣 The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People, a play of three acts by Oscar Wilde, is a satire of Victorian social hypocrisy. The witty play is considered Wilde’s greatest dramatic achievement.

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📍Whether you’re in high school, college, or job, there will always be an expectation that you have a plan to fall back on.

What if not having a plan can be as effective as having one? 🤔 An Indian actress Mithila Palkar shares her personal experience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmeGVhhbGrM

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👩‍🔬 Break fresh = do something that has never been done before

Quentin Tarantino’s films always break fresh: his unique storylines and explosive scenes appeal to the audience undoubtedly.

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🤔 In “Never Let Me Go”, human cloning is real. Friends Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth grow up together at a boarding school in the English countryside. They get to know the terrifying truth of their purpose when they leave the place. Jealousy, love and betrayal question their friendship. Check it out online for free!

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In this role, you will be responsible for creation, management, and distribution of digital content for the 1st Ukrainian newspaper on the West coast of the US “Hromada” across the main site and social media channels and preparing the newspaper for print.

Responsibilities
✅ Performing editorial and proof-reading (grammar and spellchecks) duties for contributors and freelancers
✅ Choosing materials for the “news” section
✅ Putting the newspaper content together in InDesign
✅ Translation of Ukrainian content into English
✅ Publishing the newspaper in a timely manner and preparing the newspaper for print

Skills
🔵Knowledge and writing and editing skills in Ukrainian
🔵 Knowledge and writing skills and editing skills in English (level B2+)
🔵 Working proficiency with Adobe tools: InDesign and Photoshop
🔵 Ability to work and turn around materials quickly

Time commitment: about 50-60 hours per month
Compensation: commensurate with experience

➡️To apply and ask questions, please email na@hromada.us

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📍3 useful collocations with bring

Bring life = put the energy back into something
🎊 As soon as she entered the room with the music speaker, she brought life to our party.

Bring change = refers to the fact that something will be different
👩‍⚖️ Every government candidate promises that they will bring change to people’s daily lives.

Bring together = connect people or things emotionally, intellectually, or physically
💭 After listening to each other’s arguments, we brought our sides together and found a compromise.

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🎧 Have about 7 minutes to practice your English listening?

Listen to Jo’s experience in an unusual restaurant that she had to book a year before the actual date!

Check out “a special restaurant” episode from British Council here: https://learnenglish.britishcouncil.org/general-english/audio-zone/a-special-restaurant

#podcast

😤 Haughty = arrogant, full of pride

After acting in that TV show, Max became haughty. He never really talks with anyone but his show-mates.

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Scrape the barrel = making the best out of the worst situations

🤔 I was thinking about what to write in my college essay for 3 days, and it’s only 5 sentences long. I’m really scraping the barrel.

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