Midlife Fitness May Protect Against Later Depression

The fitter you are, the lower your risk of depression and death from heart disease. Physical fitness in middle age is tied to a lower risk of later-life depression and death from cardiovascular disease (сердечно-сосудистые заболевания), a new study reports.Both depression and cardiovascular disease are common in older people, and rates of depression are high…

Business Communication Skills Tip

Successfully Using English at Work. Tip #5: If Your Co-workers Didn’t Understand You at First, Try Saying It a Different Way You know the situation. You start explaining something to a co-worker or boss, and when you are finished, they shake their head and say “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand.”When that happens, don’t just repeat…

Grammar Tip

Future Perfect Continuous. Use #1 : Duration Before Something in the Future Future perfect continuous has two different forms: “will have been doing ” and “be going to have been doing.” Unlike simple future forms, future perfect continuous forms are usually interchangeable. We use the future perfect continuous to show that something will continue up…

Blizzard (n.)

Today’s Word of the Day is: “blizzard” (n.) Transcription: [blɪzəd] Translation: метель Meaning: a storm with strong winds and snow Example: The blizzard made travel an impossibility. – Из-за метели /из-за снежной бури/ путешествие стало невозможным. Synonyms: snowstorm, snow blast