Russia may completely ban the use of plastic bags by 2025. Beaches that look like landfill (свалка мусора) sites. Fish stuck in a net of debris (мусор). Birds feeding polystyrene (пенопласт) to their young. This is the bleak (жестокий, мрачный) reality of where our plastics end up. While plastic bags are public enemy number one…
Today’s Word of the Day is: “leftovers” (n.) Transcription: [ˈleftˌoʊ·vərz] Russian Translation: остатки еды Definition: food that remains after a meal Example: We’ve been eating up the leftovers from the party all week.
Past Continuous Tense. Use #1: An Interrupted Action in the Past We use the past continuous when we describe an action in the past which overlaps another action or time. The action in the past continuous starts before and often continues the other shorter action or time. Example: While we were walking in the park,…
Language of Meetings. Tip #1: Beginning a Meeting To start the meeting, the meeting leader may use one of these phrases: Hello, everyone. Thank you for coming today. Since everyone is here, let’s get started. First, I’d like to welcome you all. If there are new people in the meeting, or people from different departments…