Assignment 2.24

1. Enter as a comment to this assignment the part of the dialog which we have conducted during our last lesson.
2. We will continue with the dialog in which you will be an applicant for a loan to start a cosmetic clinic and I will be a bank officer interviewing you.

Assignment #2.23

1. Enter as a comment to this assignment the remaining part of the dialog which we have corrected during our last lesson.
2. Because we shortened our last lesson to 30 minutes, we didn't have enough time to conduct the dialog described in the last assignment. We will do it now.

Assignment #2.22

1. Enter as a comment to this assignment the part of the dialog from the previous assignment which we have corrected during our last lesson.
2. We will finish analyzing the dialog from the last week.
3. Be prepared to participate in a dialog in which you will be an applicant for a loan to start a cosmetic clinic and I will be a bank officer interviewing you and making the final decision about whether to grant you the loan. This is not a written assignment. You should review the relevant vocabulary which you have already used while working on your last assignments and also learn a new one which would concern topics which you haven't covered so far but which might be useful during the interview.

Assignment #2.21

1. Compose a fictional dialog between a bank officer and you, the applicant of a bank loan for starting a cosmetic clinic in Częstochowa. Some of the topics you might include in the dialog are: the nature of the enterprise (its personnel, facilities, location, initial equipment), your credentials, the analysis of the local market (competition), the financial aspect (your own contribution, loan conditions), the profitability (how long would it take before the clinic would make money). You might cover other subjects in the dialog as well.
2. We will read about the Coronavirus from Wikipedia's Simplified English version.

Assignment #2.20

1. You have fulfilled the requirements of the last assignment only partially. You have described adequately how you would wish your family life to look like, but said very little about the professional aspect of your imagined future. You only stated that you would like to be independent as the head of your own company. During our last lesson we have covered this topic in some detail, delineating the steps you would have to take in order to create your own company. Consider this discussion as the starting material and present a more complete plan whose realization might make you your own boss. You could also ask aunt Ola for advise. Recently, she took over a veterinary clinic in which she had worked for several years. Hence, she certainly knows a lot about all kinds of obstacles one encounters on the road to one's own enterprise.
2. Recently there are many jokes about coronavirus pandemic in circulation. Here is one of them:

Assignment #2.19

1. Use your imagination and describe how would you like your life to be in 10 years from now. Whom would you like to be professionally? What kind of family would you have: single, married with children or without? What about living conditions: an apartment, or rather a house in suburbs? A city, a town, or a village? What kind of a social life would you prefer: concentrating more on the family or on friends? Try to be realistic in projecting the future by taking into consideration the limitations which your current situation sets.
2. We will read about the Coronavirus from Wikipedia's Simplified English version.

Assignment #2.18

1. For almost a month now the life for most people in Poland, but also in many other countries, has drastically changed. The authorities in these countries have been introducing increasingly strict measures in order to slow down the spread of the coronavirus. Some of them are restrictions, others take the form of recommendations. Describe several examples from each group.
2. We will read about the Coronavirus from Wikipedia's Simplified English version.

Emilka's WhatsApp post from April 4::

Hello, in the English lesson I wrote a picture describe. I'm sending this because teacher didn't correct my elaboration. If I had a mistake I would correct this.

Assignment #2.17

1. One of many measures undertaken to restrict the spread of the coronavirus was to close all schools. It has been for almost two weeks now that the education moved from school buildings to homes from which students work on their lessons via Internet connection. Describe this new experience. Do not restrict your report to the technical side of this procedure, i.e. how it works, but tell about your assessment of the new method as well. What works well and what doesn't? Justify your opinions with concrete arguments.
2. We will read about the Coronavirus from Wikipedia's Simplified English version.

Emilka' self-assignment

In the time from February 2 through March 23 there were no lessons, initially because of Emilka's sickness, then because of my one-month stay in Seattle. During my absence Emilka was supposed to continue working on improving her English skills and report the results here. She sent me via WhatsApp a picture of her choice for which she provided a description:

In the picture, I see a beautiful family. The man is probably a father. He has dark short hair. He is wearing a white t-shirt, white trousers, and white shoes with red ornaments. He keep two puppies, and he kisses a stomach his wife.
The woman is probably a Mam (*). She has long brown hair, dark eyes, and a beautiful smile. She is pregnant. The woman is wearing a white knitted dress. She keeps a small child on her left arm and ultrasound pictures in the right hand.
The child has big dark eyes and fair hair. Probably there is a girl. She has a small ponytail. There is so cute.
This family is very happy because the parents are love and there have a beautiful daughter. 

(*) Mom, Mum, Mam: Different words?

Assignment #2.15

1. Throughout your school education, in history classes, you must have learned about different periods of mankind's past such as Greek and Roman civilizations, middle ages, Renaissance, Enlightment, modern history, XX century and the like. Write which of them interests you most and, on the other hand, which one do you find boring. Justify your choices by giving several reasons for each of them.
2. We will resume our reading on the painting The Arnolfini Marriage.

Assignment #2.14

1. My intention for the last assignment was that you would describe in full detail the Christmas Eve supper customs that we were talking about during our lesson preceding the last one: sharing wafers, reading from the Bible, saying prayers and more. My directions in this respect were rather vague and you misunderstood them. Accordingly, you wrote about other customs only. So now, in the description as part of this assignment, cover the customs we discussed then. Before doing this read the assignment #2.13 again, so you could refresh your memory about the assumptions you should make while working on your composition.
2. If time allows, we will resume our reading on the painting The Arnolfini Marriage.

Assignment #2.13

1. Describe to a hypothetical friend living in UK the customs observed in your family during the Christmas Eve. Assume that your friend is an atheist, but is very interested in religious aspects of such customs. In your description you won't be able to rely on the kind of understanding we take for granted in Poland. You should therefore pay attention to details in a manner you did during our last lesson, when you were reporting on how you spent the Christmas Eve supper at aunt Teresa. Try to tell even more than what you did then, for example about carols and Santa Claus.
2. When I was at Julia's in Liverpool for Christmas, I visited an old cemetery nearby. Below is a photo of a gravestone with an interesting inscription. Translate it into Polish.

Assignment #2.12

1. Our next lesson will be on Monday, January 6, 2020.
2. A Christmas time is not only a time to enjoy good food and Santa Claus presents, but also a good opportunity to reflect on more important and serious things. It is also a good time for sweet recollections from the previous occasions like this. For you, Szymon, your dad and your grandfather it will be yet another Christmas without your mum, which is very sad. Surely, you will be thinking about her more than usual these days. If there would be a miracle and she would show up at the Christmas Eve supper and stay with you for just few hours, what would you be asking her? Write down as many questions as you wish. You will have plenty of time before the next lesson, so don't postpone working on this assignment to the last minute. It would require serious thinking.
3. If time allows, we will continue reading about the painting The Arnolfini Marriage.

Assignment #2.11

1. Re-write the 10 questions from the last lesson with the corrections we have discussed. Now, play the role of the interviewed ballet dancer and answer each question.
2. We will continue reading about the painting The Arnolfini Marriage.

Assignment #2.10

1. Imagine, you are a newspaper reporter who is interviewing a Polish ballet dancer who at the age of 20, after early successes in her native country, was invited by the famous Metropolitan Opera in New York City to dance there as a guest artist for one season. She was performing there so well, that shortly before her scheduled return to Poland, the Met signed a 5-year contract with her. At the time of the interview she is at the midpoint of the contract. Prepare 10 questions you will be asking the now world-famous dancer. Just questions, no answers. Make sure to use various tenses and voices in these questions. Also, try to apply as rich a vocabulary as you can.
2. We will continue reading about the painting The Arnolfini Marriage.

Assignment #2.9

1. Imagine, you are a police woman who is going to interrogate a man accused of burglarizing the apartment of Mrs Cook and threatening her with a gun during this operation. Formulate 10 questions you might be asking the man. Just questions, no answers. Make sure to use various tenses and voices in these questions. Also try to apply as rich a vocabulary as you can.
2. We will be reading about the painting The Arnolfini Marriage. There is no need to do anything in advance by you to prepare for this reading. This point is just a reminder and the place to include the link to the appropriate web page.

Assignment #2.8

1. Enter as a comment to this assignment the translations of the three questions we have discussed during our last lesson. Write down both the Polish and the English versions.
2. Write a short description of a book which you recently read, or a movie you watched. Express also your opinion about the subject: did you like it? Justify your judgement.

Assignment #2.7

1. Enter as a comment to this assignment the translations of the 6 questions we have discussed so far. As a reminder: these were the questions which I asked you to translate from Polish to English. Write down both the Polish and the English versions. This is now the fourth time you have been asked to do so. On all three previous occasions you misunderstood this instruction and did something else instead. So now, if you have any slightest doubt as to what you have to do, use our WhatsApp communication channel to clarify the issue.
2. Review the grammatical material we have learned last year and which was captured in form of diagrams on the page Pictures. Be prepared to answer questions related to: speech parts, tenses, pronouns, prepositions, and modal verbs.
3. Check whether you know all the words from the list 500 most frequently used English words. 

Assignment #2.6

1. Enter as a comment to this assignment the translations of the three questions we have discussed during our lesson 3 weeks ago. As a reminder: these were the questions which I asked you to translate from Polish to English. Write down both the Polish and the English versions.
2. We will work on directives 2 and 3 from the previous assignment, because last time we fully concentrated on your translation of the essay you were to submit for your English class. Below is the final version of the essay with your teacher's notes.

Assignment #2.5

1. Because of some misunderstanding on your part, you haven't executed the first directive from the previous assignment. Do it now.
2. Based on your written report about this year's Summer vacation, we will talk more about this subject.
3. You will be expected to know the words from the list published for the assignment #2.1 and be able to form sentences in which these words would be applied.