English Conversation Course

VICTORIA’S SECRET VS is an American company that produces and sells women's underwear, clothing and cosmetics. One of the most popular exclusive lingerie companies in the world. HISTORY Victoria’s Secret was set up in San Francisco in 1977 by a graduate of Stanford business school - Roy Raymond.  He hit on the idea of establishing lingerie business when he was looking for lingerie for his wife.  FASHION SHOWS The company gained real fame in the mid-90s, when the models began to take part in the Victoria’s Secret fashion show. This fashion show is really amazing. It connects music, fashion, wonderful scenography and and course beautiful models. Every year there are invited model called Victoria’s Secret Angels. Being one of VS angels is a very prestigious award in the fashion world. We could admire Polish models like Anja Rubik, Magdalena Frąckowiak or Monika Jagaciak. We should be proud of them. There are 47 models and ...

CROSSFIT Have you ever heard about crossfit? I think that this is a very popular and extreme kind of training these days so you can stumble across it. HISTORY CrossFit is a specific company that was founded by Greg Glassman and Lauren Jenai in 2000. This training connects elements from high-intensity interval training, Olympic weightlifting, plyometrics, powerlifting, gymnastics, girevoysport, calisthenics, strongman and other sports. The historical gym is located in Santa Cruz, California. Greg Glassman used CrossFit to train policemen. Then it was also implemented to train marines, fire-fighters and American soldiers. OVERVIEW Doing CrossFit exercises is very intense. People work out without time for a break. During this type of training, we practice at the same time weight lifting, agility athletics. It incredibly raises our aerobic capacity and anaerobic capacity. A daily workout can take from 5 to 30 minutes. It is based on a ...

When we take into account how old the Universe is we have lived on   earth for an nusually short period of time. Some of us will experience retirement and some of us will not, dying sooner because of a deadly disease or just due to being in the wrong place at a wrong time. One thing is clear. Regardless of who we are, our journey is going to end. Here are the main theistic models what is next: Reincarnation is widely spread in e.g. Hinduism, Buddhism and Sikhism. According to this belief,   after death our soul/consciousness populates another body. Events in our next life depend on good and bad deeds in a current life. Reincarnation cycle ends when a soul achieves its excellence. After that there is no need to be born again and our soul is ready to merge with the creator again. Depending on different sects, there are additional conditions concerning the migration of souls e.g. humans reincarnate only to humans with the same sex only. According to a survey conduc...

Death is inevitable and we will be buried one way or another. We are familiar with a ceremony when a body is put into a coffin or ashes placed in an urn are buried under a gravestone. Have you ever thought how burial ceremonies look like in other cultures and places? Here are 3, in my opinion, the most extraordinary ways to do so: Sky Burial: It’s a ritual practiced in e.g. Tibet, Mongolia, Bhutan or Nepal.   When a person dies his or her body is dismembered by a monk or rogyapas (“body-breaker”) . In some cases vultures are given the body parts and after consumption, remaining bones are broken up, ground with tsampa(flour, tea and butter) and given to crows and hawks. In other cases body is disassembled into small parts by rogyapas and changed into a pulp by using rocks. Next it is mixed with tsampa and given to vultures. Skull Burial: On the island of Kiribati the deceased are laid out in their house for 3 to 12 days depending on their status in communi...