English Conversation Course

The video blog author KaptainKristian has published a seven-minute video, in which he analyzed how the film "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" by Robert Zemeckis was shot and what difficulties had to be encountered by its creators in order to incorporate animated characters into the film. As the author of the video notes, one of the main difficulties of such films is putting the animated characters in the frame in such a way as to achieve the correct correlation of the position of their eyes with the views of the actors. Most often, the creators of such films could not do it - so the final shots did not look too realistic: talking to cartoon characters, the actors looked past them. "Who framed Roger Rabbit," says KaptainKristian, is one of the best examples of how this problem was resolved. In the video, he compares how those or other scenes looked on the set and in the final version of the film. Please, watch the video below and tell me your opinion about this ol...

 Procrastination. Everyone knows what does it mean - it is a horrible habit which disturbs us when we are trying to be productive. We have a whole week to comment on presentations of our friends for the English course? That’s great! Let’s do this! but not now… I think that Sunday at 10 p.m. will be a much better time to do it. I will be well rested and after the whole week of studying and working I will be older (and, therefore, wiser). I believe that spending the whole evening on Wikipedia reading random pages is the best activity I can do right now - it’s both fun and intellectually stimulating.                And then comes the moment when you finally go to bed and feel this shame that you wasted another day doing nothing, but reading a lot of information about nothing and which you are going to forget tomorrow. But, hey, Zen Buddhists are studying nothingness all the time! Maybe I am a reincarnation of...

Most people look at ants as annoying animals which disturb their Sunday picnic. Ants are insects and majority of people hate all insects in general (except ladybugs: ladybugs are sweet. Oh, and bees too - because of honey). However, ants are in fact very interesting creatures and I will try to tell you why you should look at them in more respectful way.                 Ants are known for something which in scientific language is called “swarm intelligence”:. every ant knows what it should do in this very moment (and in every moment of its life). These creatures create great societies with a strong hierarchy. This is well known fact, but there are others, in my opinion much more intriguing. For example a species called Monomorium santschii - is characterised by surprising type of parasitism. What is more it has no worker caste. A M. santschii Queen releases pheromones that attract ants of another species - Monom...

Music has been a part of our lives throughout centuries. It has evolved from just clapping hands and beating stones in a particular rhythm through performing sounds using different kinds of instruments in company of human voice to modern, electronic music created by computers. Every civilization with a culture has had its own concept of it and produced various kinds of instruments. But no matter how it has been created, the reason why it has existed are the feelings it gives us. source: http://s3.thingpic.com/images/kx/iUugMwE8t5iWKNrtueSnLfLY.jpeg I think that all of you have a favorite type of music that you enjoy most, that makes you feel good or that you identify yourself with. But have you ever wondered how it can affect your mind and body? Music actually is very beneficial for your psychological and physical health. It helps you reduce stress, increase concentration, make you feel less fatigue or even make you smarter. It is scientifically proven that listening to ...

Growing a beard is very popular recently, you can see a lot of people following the trend and growing their facial hair, even those famous ones like football players or TV presenters. Currently we have November, which for many men is associated with actions like “no-shave November” or “Movember” that are supposed to raise awareness of men’s health issues. But for some people growing a beard is something more than that. Here is a video of MJ Johnson -  a man who turned his beard into his way of living. Questions: What do you think about beards? Do you think that people look good with them or rather like they would be neglected? Do you think that beards should be accepted in workplaces or they are inappropriate? Did you like the MJ Johnson’s beard? 😊 Do you find these unusual types of beards interesting or rather funny?