“Why Relationships Are So Hard”

Relationship - взаимоотношения
Regarding - относительно
Impermanent - временный
To cherish - ценить

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На этот учебный год осталось всего 2 места 🤩

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Reading 📖

Today we’ll read a short story. I would be glad if you share your thoughts about it with me 😁

The Shoebox

A man and woman had been married for more than 60 years. They had shared everything. They had talked about everything. They had kept no secrets from each other except that the little old woman had a shoebox in the top of her closet that she had cautioned her husband never to open or ask her about.

For all of these years, he had never thought about the box, but one day the little old woman got very sick and the doctor said she would not recover.
In trying to sort out their affairs, the little old man took down the shoebox and took it to his wife’s bedside. She agreed that it was time that he should know what was in the box. When he opened it, he found two knitted dolls and a stack of money totaling $95,000.
He asked her about the contents.
‘When we were to be married,’ she said, ‘ my grandmother told me the secret of a happy marriage was to never argue. She told me that if I ever got angry with you, I should just keep quiet and knit a doll.’
The little old man was so moved; he had to fight back tears. Only two precious dolls were in the box. She had only been angry with him two times in all those years of living and loving. He almost burst with happiness.
‘Honey,’ he said, ‘that explains the dolls, but what about all of this money?
Where did it come from?’
‘Oh,’ she said, ‘that’s the money I made from selling the dolls.’

New words:

Shoebox - коробка от обуви
Except - кроме
Closet - шкаф
To caution - предостеречь
Sick - больной
Affair - дело
To knit - вязать
Content - содержимое
To argue - ссориться
To explain - объяснять
To sell - продавать

“Become Who People Are Jealous Of”

Tailored - сделанный на заказ
Wardrobe - гардероб
Envious - завистливый

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А как бы вы отреагировали?🤔

Стараюсь создавать на занятиях дружескую атмосферу, но, видимо, детки иногда теряют границу «преподаватель/друг»

“8 Simple Habits That Save Me 20+ Hours a Week”

Habit - привычка
Event - событие
To go on - происходить
Intentional - намеренный, умышленный

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“The Life-Changing Advice I Wish I Knew in My 20-s”

To develop - развивать
Ability - способность
In order to - для того, чтобы
To tolerate - терпеть
Feedback - образная связь

“A present from the son”

Long ago there lived an old woman in England. She had a son who was a sailor. He went to different countries and always brought presents for his old mother.Once he went to China and brought some tea from that country.
At that time tea was very expensive and only rich people could buy and drink it. So the old woman was very happy to have such a nice present. But she didn’t know what to do with it as she had never bought tea before. She thought it was a vegetable. She told her friends about her son’s present and invited them to taste it with her. At last the day of the tea-party came. The woman called her guests to the dining-room and put a big dish of tea leaves on the table. The guests began to eat the leaves with salt just as they ate vegetables. Nobody liked it but didn’t tell the woman about it and continued to eat the leaves.Some time later the sailor came into the room. When he saw that all the guests were eating leaves, he smiled.“What are you doing? Why are you eating these leaves? Where is the tea?”
“Here it is, my son,” the old woman said.
“And where is the water in which you have boiled the leaves?” asked the man laughing.
“I threw it away, of course,” answered the woman.

“17 Laws Of The Top 1%”

Decision - решение
To consume - потреблять

Вот такое доброе утро 🥰

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“How “wrong friendship” can ruin your life”

Environment - окружение
Have to - должен
Influence - влияние
To align - равняться
Decision - решение

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