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| 2 | http://цпм.рф/проекты/фестиваль-языков-стран-европы-и-азии/ | 1 112 |
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| 4 | Всем привет!
Диагностическое тестирование по английскому языку уже завершено.
К сожалению, не все смогли его пройти из-за технических проблем.
Но не расстраивайтесь — двери команды открыты!
При наличии свободных мест мы рассмотрим заявки тех, кто покажет отличные результаты на школьном и муниципальном этапах.
Так что у вас есть шанс попасть в резерв или даже сборную.
И ещё одна новость: | 1 121 |
| 5 | Уважаемые подписчики и читатели нашего канала!
Спасибо за вашу обратную связь насчёт тестирования. Мы внимательно рассмотрим все ваши обращения, особенно связанные с техническими сбоями.
В настоящее время мы анализируем все данные и результаты для предприятия дальнейших мер.
Спасибо за понимание и поздравляем с прохождением тестирования! | 1 350 |
| 6 | ⚡⚡⚡Добрый день!
Хотите учиться на курсах ЦПМ по английскому языку? Тогда первый шаг — обязательное онлайн-тестирование. Его необходимо пройти всем без исключения, даже если вы уже учились у нас раньше.
Регистрация уже открыта, скорее переходите по ссылке, чтобы не пропустить свой шанс.
Успехов вам!
https://xn--l1afu.xn--p1ai/%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81%D1%8B/%d0%bd%d0%b0%d0%b1%d0%be%d1%80-%d0%bf%d0%be-%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b3%d0%bb%d0%b8%d0%b8%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bc%d1%83-2026/ | 1 431 |
| 7 |  It’s the final countdown❗️
#highlights | 1 885 |
| 8 |  WORD OF THE DAY: GERRYMANDERING
Gerrymandering is the manipulation of electoral district boundaries to give a party an advantage.
The term dates to 1812, when Massachusetts governor Elbridge Gerry approved a redistricting plan benefiting his party. One oddly shaped district resembled a salamander, inspiring “gerrymander” from Gerry + salamander 🦎
Two techniques are most commonly used:
1. Packing concentrates opposition voters in a few districts, reducing their influence elsewhere.
2. Cracking splits them across districts so they struggle to form a majority.
Gerrymandering is especially associated with the US, where districts are redrawn as populations change.
This can create a mismatch between votes and representation: a party may win around half the vote but secure more seats 🔎
Most argue that gerrymandering weakens competition by letting politicians manipulate the polls.
Two centuries later, the salamander is gone, but Gerry’s legacy remains alive 🔋
Tags: #countrystudies #useofenglish #history #wotd | 1 777 |
| 9 |  Video message | 2 358 |
| 10 |  It’s Worldwide Slinky Day! 🌈
Let’s delve into the history of the creation of the iconic spring toy 🧸
During World War II, an American naval mechanical engineer Richard James was working at a shipyard to develop special tension springs. These springs were meant to stabilize and protect sensitive instruments on military ships from rough seas and vibrations. One day, James accidentally knocked a prototype spring off a shelf. Instead of just falling, the spring «walked» gracefully from the shelf, onto a stack of books, down to a table, and finally onto the floor, where it neatly coiled itself back up. James realized that this unique kinetic motion would make a fascinating toy.
James spent two years experimenting with different wire gauges, steel types, and tension levels to get the movement exactly right. His final formula required 80 feet of high-carbon steel wire wound into 98 coils. The spring had zero tension, allowing it to travel continuously under its own momentum and gravity.
His wife, Betty James, found the name by searching the dictionary. She chose "Slinky" because it meant sleek, graceful, and sinuous. The couple took out a $500 loan to manufacture the first 400 units under their new company, James Industries. On November 27, 1945, they set up a ramp at the Gimbels department store in Philadelphia. All 400 Slinkys sold out in just 90 minutes! | 1 975 |
| 11 |  Video message | 1 809 |
| 12 |  Video message | 1 711 |
| 13 | Do you still have doubts about enrolling into our team? Let’s hear what our students (there are no "ex-students") have to say!
Our first guest is Aisha who was a loyal team member for two years❤️
#interviews | 1 673 |
| 14 | ⚡⚡⚡Добрый день!
Хотите учиться на курсах ЦПМ по английскому языку? Тогда первый шаг — обязательное онлайн-тестирование. Его необходимо пройти всем без исключения, даже если вы уже учились у нас раньше.
Регистрация уже открыта, скорее переходите по ссылке, чтобы не пропустить свой шанс.
Успехов вам!
https://xn--l1afu.xn--p1ai/%D0%BA%D1%83%D1%80%D1%81%D1%8B/%d0%bd%d0%b0%d0%b1%d0%be%d1%80-%d0%bf%d0%be-%d0%b0%d0%bd%d0%b3%d0%bb%d0%b8%d0%b8%d1%81%d0%ba%d0%be%d0%bc%d1%83-2026/ | 3 785 |
| 15 |  Did you develop hundreds of uses for the peanut? I don’t think so.
But George Washington Carver did! Along with revolutionizing Southern agriculture by promoting crop rotation, he discovered hundreds of uses for peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans. How cool is that?
With him as our starting point, I present a small list of some of the most prominent American inventors. Prepare to be amazed and slightly confused by the methods used to unearth great discoveries ⭐️
Samuel Morse (1791-1872): started his career as a portrait painter, but later in his life ended up contributing to the invention of a single-wire telegraph system. And yes, Morse code is named after him.
George Eastman (1854-1932): founded the Eastman Kodak Company, helping to bring the photographic use of roll film into the mainstream with the slogan: “You press the button, we do the rest.” You can thank him for making photography more accessible.
Ruth Wakefield (1903-1977): pioneered the first chocolate chip cookie recipe!
Bette Nesmith Graham (1924-1980): was working as a secretary when she mixed up the first batch of Liquid Paper in her own kitchen blender. It was originally called “Mistake Out" That ended up being a multimillion-dollar invention that you have probably used to cover up an extra letter in a misspelled word. No worries, we’ve all been there. | 1 916 |
| 16 | INT10 - RIGA METRO.mp3 | 1 458 |
| 17 | Did you know there’s a tunnel under Riga boulevard? 🇱🇻
No, we’re just kidding! Complete the Integrated task we’ve prepared for you and find out the truth about the subway in Latvian capital.
The audio recording awaits below 👇🏼 | 1 498 |
| 18 |  Video message | 2 518 |
| 19 |  +1Good day, chaps! Let's continue on a poetic note set by the previous post and talk about an important poem and song of Scottish origin - Auld Lang Syne
— ORIGINS:
"Auld Lang Syne" is a famous Scottish poem written by Robert Burns, although it would be misleading to describe "Auld Lang Syne" as entirely Burns's invention: he adapted material belonging to a much older Scottish folk tradition. Earlier versions of the song existed in print before Burns, including forms dating to the eighteenth century. Burns himself presented it as an old traditional song that he had heard from an elderly singer.
Burns's version was subsequently published in The Scots Musical Museum. The history of its melody, however, is somewhat different. The tune originally associated with Burns's words was not the melody most people sing today. In 1799, George Thomson published the words with a different traditional Scottish tune—the melody that eventually became standard. This tune is pentatonic, meaning that its basic musical scale uses five notes rather than the seven-note scale most familiar from Western classical music.
— TRANSLATION & MEANING:
Opening stanza reads:
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
And auld lang syne!
The title is written in Scots and in ordinary English the phrase is most naturally rendered as “for old times' sake”. The song's opening question—whether old acquaintances and friendships should be forgotten—immediately establishes its central theme. The answer is, of course, no. Later on the poem suggest taking (raising) "a cup of kindness" for old friends and Auld Lang Syne.
The main message of the song gives Auld Lang Syne an unusual emotional character. The combination of nostalgia and fellowship makes the song particularly appropriate for moments of transition.
— CULTURE & TRADITIONS:
In Scotland, Auld Lang Syne became closely associated with Hogmanay, the Scottish celebration of New Year's Eve. Traditionally, it is sung at midnight as the old year gives way to the new. The practice eventually spread beyond Scotland and became a New Year's tradition in Commonwealth nations and the USA.
The twentieth century transformed it from a Scottish custom into a global cultural ritual. In the United States, Auld Lang Syne plays at New Year's celebrations from 1929 onwards, helping establish its association with midnight on New Year's Eve in American popular culture. By 1929, a line from the song was even displayed on the electronic ticker during New Year's celebrations in New York's Times Square.
The song has also accompanied more solemn historical moments. During the celebrations of Victory in Europe Day in May 1945, communities across Britain sang it as the Second World War in Europe came to an end. At Aldershot (a town in Hampshire county, England), for example, thousands of British and Canadian troops and civilians gathered for celebrations and sang Auld Lang Syne, followed by the British and Canadian national anthems.
Another humorous example of Auld Lang Syne being performed is in the European Parliament at the very end of Brexit in 2020. I will leave a link to a video of this event (and some other circumstances prior to that event) at the end of the post.
Such examples demonstrate why the song has become a musical language for endings themselves: the end of a year, a gathering, a period of history.
— WHY AULD LANG SYNE MATTERS:
For the study of British cultural history, Auld Lang Syne is significant precisely because its journey crosses cultural boundaries. What began as an old Scottish folk tradition, was reshaped by Robert Burns, and was paired with its familiar pentatonic melody in 1799 has consequently become one of the world's most recognisable songs. To sing Auld Lang Syne is therefore to participate in a tradition of remembering the past while stepping together into the future.
— LINKS:
- Auld Lang Syne classic version here
- Humorous Auld Lang Syne sung during Brexit process here
#countrystudies | 1 745 |
| 20 |  One thing about me: I can't pass up a catchy slogan.
And neither could they. Today, let's look at some of the catchiest lines in American history.
"Give me liberty, or give me death!"
Patrick Henry, Second Virginia Convention, March 23, 1775. The voice of a discontented public on the brink of the War for Independence. Fun fact: no transcript of the speech survives. The version we all quote was reconstructed in 1817 by his biographer William Wirt, 42 years after the fact. So the most famous line in American oratory… may be partly ghostwritten.
"Taxation without representation is tyranny"
Attributed to James Otis, a rallying cry against the Stamp and Townshend Acts. Otis argued the principle in court back in 1761. What survived of that was the snappy one-liner, which is very much how slogans work.
"Manifest Destiny"
The 19th-century belief that American settlers were fated to expand westward across the continent. Coined by journalist John O'Sullivan in 1845 and rooted in American exceptionalism and romantic nationalism, it found its most enthusiastic executor in President James K. Polk.
"Remember the Maine, to hell with Spain!"
The USS Maine sank in Havana Harbor on February 15, 1898. American newspapers pinned it on Spain, and the country marched into the Spanish-American War on the strength of a really smooth rhyme. Later investigations point to an internal explosion, most likely a coal-bunker fire. But who needs fact-checking?
Four slogans, not one of them quite what it says on the tin: one reconstructed from memory, one condensed by history, one coined by a journalist, one just... wrong.
Catchy beats accurate every time! | 1 251 |
