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HAPPY VICTORY DAY 🌹🌹🌹

📚💥ONLY UP BOOK CLUB Session 5 ✨🎩🌂
OSCAR WILDE is our next author to explore.
Not only did he write 14 outstanding novels ,but also a number of essays,fairy tales, short stories ,poetry ,plays and articles.
🎩A novelist, playwright, and poet of the last period of the Victorian epoch Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde spent his childhood in the capital of Ireland, in the town of Dublin. He was born on the 16th of October of 1854. His parents were known in the high society. His father William Wilde was engaged in medicine, he was working within the scope of ophthalmology.
🎩The novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" has already been brought to screen more than 25 times.
🎩" Positive people irritate us, bad — influence our imagination", wrote Oscar Wilde ,the wittiest of all ,whose masterpieces are timeless!

See you soon ❤️( 19.05 at 12.00 )

✍✨LANGUAGE TREASURE BOX ✍✨

What is " DODGY" ???
📌questionable
📌suspicious
📌unreliable
📌risky
📌untrustworthy

" I wouldn't trust this dodgy- looking website "
" He has a reputation for being a dodgy character. "
" The salesman's dodgy tactics made me question the quality of the product "

🤓Embrace new modern vocab as it makes English LIVE and UP-TO-DATE ☺️

💃🤔 'SUPREMATIC DRESS’( супрематическое платье) was created in 1923 by Kazimir Malevich in Suprematism style.

Yesterday I eagerly went to the lecture called " МОДА И РУССКИЙ АВАНГАРД" 🔥🔥🔥

2 hours flew like 5 minutes and I finally had learned what AVANT-GARD is !!

The word captivated me and here is where it came from :

📌avant-garde (n.)
also avant garde, avantgarde; French, literally "advance guard" (see avant + guard (n.)). Used in English 15c.-18c. in a literal, military sense; borrowed again 1910 as an artistic term for "pioneers or innovators of a particular period." Also used around the same time in a political sense in communist and anarchist publications. As an adjective, by 1925.

It is not as though I had never heard the word before and had been living in oblivion 😂but it shines new colors to me now and NO I'm definitely NOT going to wear " супрематическое платье" in the foreseeable future 😂🙈

🔥✨🔥BOOK CLUB SESSION 5 is coming on Sunday (19.05) and I'm vigorously preparing for our meeting with a genius of Oscar Wilde !

The more I read about him,the more I'm mesmerized ❤️

Some other quotes from OSCAR WILDE for you,guys :

😃"Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future."
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"An optimist will tell you the glass is half-full; the pessimist, half-empty; and the engineer will tell you the glass is twice the size it needs to be"
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"With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone."
Oscar Wilde

See you soon ❤️

✨✨✨ONLY UP BOOK CLUB 📖 SESSION 5 is done ✔️ ✨✨✨

Thank you , my Dream Team, for a cosy catch-up on OSCAR WILDE ❤️

As we can't...really can't choose our next writer for Session 6, I'm throwing a poll 😁 4 distinguished authors but 1 choice !

📖Spring reading season slowly but surely is coming to an end. Session 6 is scheduled on June, 2 ☀️

💡📌Let's vote UNTIL 23.05. so as I could start preparing and crafting my booklet and video links for you

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✨✨✨LANGUAGE TREASURE BOX ✨✨✨

✍WISHY WASHY ✍

I spotted the word yesterday while listening ,either it was Luke’s podcast or my favorite psychological videos I can't remember but it was a new word for me .
Little did I know about the character MRS WISHY WASHY 😂 from children's books either 😁

💡✍Mrs. Wishy-Washy is a popular children's book character created by New Zealand author Joy Cowley, and illustrated by Elizabeth Ann Fuller. Since its debut in 1980, the series has sold more than 40 million copies worldwide.
The Mrs. Wishy-Washy character has been featured in 20 short stories for early readers over the past 30 years.

This is the story about WISHY WASHY 😁 It ignited my curiosity and now we know this ))

🔥✨🔥📖ONLY UP BOOK CLUB SESSION 6 📖🔥

JACK LONDON and his short stories are impatiently waiting for us , guys ! 🔥

The upcoming Session 6 will be the ultimate in our Spring Reading Season 📚 Hope to see all my participants in full strength 💪 ☀️

✍JACK LONDON published more than 50 books, not including his articles, magazine entries, plays, poetry, and short stories.
✍His books were so favorite that they were translated into dozens of languages and sold all over the world. He is still a favorite author today.

😍My favorite novel ever is MARTIN EDEN and I clearly remember that the recommendation came from my brother Victor who had read it and was left in awe and contemplations...

📖June,2 d at 12.00📖 ( Skype )

Off I go to pick and choose the story or 2 stories for us ❤️

See you! 📖

🎉🎉🎉А вот и он приехал !!
Social Emotional Learning for teachers 🎉 Радуюсь и горжусь тем,что смогла в течении нескольких месяцев участвовать в 2х часовых сессиях с потрясающим специалистом Дженнифер!
Команда из учителей со всех уголков России под её чутким руководством получили знания в области, которая ПОЧТИ НИКАК НЕ ОСВЕЩАЕТСЯ В ПЕДАГОГИЧЕСКИХ УЧЕБНЫХ ЗАВЕДЕНИЯХ!
🎉Следующий курс прохожу в июне и смогу поделиться знаниями о копинговых стратегиях в обучении иностранному языку☺️✍

📕📗📒ONLY UP BOOK CLUB Session 6 and JACK LONDON’S short story " A piece of steak " for our discussion..

📌Interesting facts:

Jack London’s 1909 “A Piece of Steak” is a naturalist short story first published in The Saturday Evening Post.
It took him between two and four weeks to write, and he was paid a very handsome (for the era) $500 for it. While London is best known for his novels about the Alaskan wilderness, including The Call of the Wild and White Fang, he was also interested in workers’ rights and advocated for socialism and unions.
“A Piece of Steak” is one of his best-known short stories and, like many London stories of the era, explores social Darwinist themes.

📖The link to the story and the documentary about Jack London is already in our Skype Group 🔍

See you on June,2d at 12.00 ❤️

📽🎞 Anthony Hopkins and the poignant drama (2023) made me ignite my passion to watch and rewatch the films with the actor ,who ,in fact, has always been the one and my favorite actor so far.

📽Known for his exceptional acting prowess, Anthony Hopkins has also shared a wealth of insightful quotes that reflect his unique perspective on life, philosophy, and the human condition.
From his views on self-acceptance to his thoughts on the world we live in, his words inspire, provoke thought, and offer a deeper understanding of our existence

💡A friend of mine dropped the recommendation for the film... Long time had passed since I saw such an impeccable and elegant acting like Anthony's ...Time and age takes its toll with many actors but not with Anthony Hopkins.

JUST WATCH .. ....no more words.. .

🥳☕️📚 ONLY UP BOOK CLUB Seesion 6 is done ✔️

Look at us ,smiling and happy !!! 🔥🔥🔥 This is why it is worth doing for me !

Spring Reading Season has just finished ✅️

💡On behalf of all of us, our book club recommends :

1. ALLAN SILLITOE and his " Uncle Ernest" , " Mr Raynor the school teacher"
2.Alice Munro " Voices"
3.Lorry Moore " What is seized"
4. Oscar Wilde " The devoted friend " and " A model millionaire "
5. Stephen King " Strawberry spring"
6. Jack London and his " A piece of steak"

I've got a couple of NEW IDEAS 🔥 soooo

❤️SEE YOU IN AUTUMN SEASON in September!!! 🍂 ❤️

Thank you ,guys , for making our literary mosaic ,our journey happen! 💋

https://youtu.be/pAOFySKqxCw?si=nHOBndI4VfCKUpWo

✨✨✨VOCABULARY TREASURE BOX and just watch this video if you're interested 🔥

✍WALK ON EGG SHELLS ✍

To act with great care and consideration so as not to upset someone.
E.g. The littlest thing tends to anger my mother, so I feel like I have to walk on eggshells whenever I'm at her house.

📌 The expression itself reminds me about a PEOPLE PLEASER .
I bumped into " wall on egg shells" ( быть деликатным, подобрать слова,чтобы не дай Бог не обидеть!) in the video ,which is a very insightful one for anyone who is in friendships.

It resonates with my personal life experience. I had 3 so called " best of the best friends" and our friendships were 10- 12 years old so far, but it is only now when I realized my being illusioned and naive, close to " stupid" ))
I accepted this reality. It was hard,painful,it hurt. WALKING ON EGG SHELLS was always a part of those friendships from my end,not from theirs .

🧚‍♀Now I feel FREE ,more mature,more in sync with myself than ever before🧚‍♀

🌾POETRY🌿

🍀JEFF FOSTER ☘

You do not heal 'from' trauma.
You simply come to know yourself
as Life Itself.
And you turn towards the wounded place.
And you flush it with attention,
which is love.
And maybe the wound will always be with you.
Maybe you will always walk with the hurt.
But now, you hold it. It doesn't hold you.
You are the container, not the contained.
It doesn't control you any longer, the wound.
Because it is drenched in awareness now.
Drenched in You.
Loved by You.
Even celebrated by You.
You do not heal 'from' trauma.
You find healing 'in' the trauma.
You find yourself at trauma's sacred core.
The One who is always present.
The One who can bear
even the most intense feeling states.
And survive.
The Indestructible One.
The Infinite One.
The Powerful One.
You.
The trauma itself becomes a portal to You.
To the Safety of Yourself.
And you will cry out in joy,
and you will cry out in sadness,
and you will cry out in relief,
and you will cry out in revelation,
"'Yes I am broken,
but I am whole.'"