10 RUSSIAN WORDS IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

This month’s blog post, further on the borrowings 

-words that coming from other languages have shaped the English Language-, focuses on some Russian words   which the English Language has assimilated.

It is a fact that the English language has gone outside its own linguistic resources and has borrowed words from  other languages, which have all shaped the English Language

The English Language vocabulary includes borrowings from many other languages, such as the *Spanish Language, the **Northern European Languages, and even the language of some geographically distant countries, such as ***Iran.

Russian, the language of the Tsars’ Empire, the former Soviet Union, and present day Russia, is one of them.

 Russian, the largest native language in Europe is also the second most widespread language on the Internet, after English.

This presentation includes vocabulary exercises suitable for A1&A2 learners of English (slides 1 & 2), and exercises for B1/B2 students (slides 3 & 4); that is to say, for beginners, post-beginners, and intermediate students of English.

Thank you so much for your feedback. It is always appreciated.

I do hope you find this presentation useful. 

Maribel Miró

May 22nd, 2019

*https://maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com/search/label/10%20SPANISH%20WORDS%20IN%20THE%20ENGLISH%20LANGUAGE.

**https://maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com/search/label/10%20WORDS%20FROM%20NORTHERN%20EUROPEAN%20LANGUAGES%20IN%20THE%20ENGLISH%20LANGUAGE

***https://maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com/2018/08/10-words-from-farsi-in-english-language.html

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NOWRUZ

#Iran #nowruz #peacefulculture #hospitality #

As Iran is getting ready to celebrate her main festivity, I would like to present this post on Nowruz, the celebration of a Peaceful Culture: the Culture of Hospitality.

A year ago we had the privilege of being invited by our Iranian friends to celebrate Nowruz with them, and it wouldn't be fair just to keep it to myself. 

Therefore, in this presentation I have tried to provide you with some images and some hints about Iran's most important celebration: Nowruz, which means and, in fact it is, their New Year. 

Our Iranian friends opened a  door for us, a new one, and all of a sudden we discovered the beauty of this country and the wonderful people that live in it. 

With heartfelt thanks to all our Iranian friends. 

Maribel Miró Pérez

March 12th, 2019

IWD 2019. WOMEN & MATHS. KEY

This the  KEY to the presentation, uploaded a few days ago:
  #INTERNATIONAL #WOMEN'S #DAY 2019: WOMEN & MATHS @

https://maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com/2019/02/international-womes-day-2019.html
https://maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com/2019/02/international-womes-day-2019.html

Here you will find the missing prepositions and the right verbal tenses.

I hope it can help all learners and teachers of English  interested in  it.


Maribel Miró

February 25th,
2019

ENGLISH in maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com.es, by Maria Isabel Miró Pérez, is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

If you wish to make comments about this site, please email me at maribelmiroperez@gmail.com

Please, remember that

All materials on maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com.es are the property of Maria Isabel Miró Pérez- the copyright holder- and are protected by international copyright laws. You may print free materials provided on maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com.es for your own personal, non-commercial use in the classroom or at home, provided that you retain all copyright information or other required logos and/or headings on the materials. You may not reprint, distribute, electronically save, modify, transmit, present before an audience, post to a website, forum, blog etc. any materials from this blog without prior express written permission from Maria Isabel Miró Pérez.

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY 2019

#INTERNATIONAL #WOMEN'S #DAY 2019

  
One of the fields of  research not recognized by the Nobel Prize is that of Mathematics.
However, throughout history a few women devoted their careers and most of their life time to the study of mathematics, thus reaching their goals.

 Even if the  under-representation of women in that world is well documented, quite 
 a few faced the many difficulties around them and managed  to obtain a well deserved      success.

 International Women's Day is approaching and I would like to upload this          presentation of a brief, but hopefully insightful, short story  of the most significant    women whose study  shed a light on the field of Mathematical Sciences.

I have excluded from this blogpost Maryam Mirzakhani, the great Iranian  mathematician, not because of her lesser importance, but because she was a unique girl as a student, a brilliant teenager in secondary and upper school and an excellent professor at Harvard University: probably the greatest  mathematician of the las two centuries.

The activities in this presentation are suitable for B1, B2 and C1 students (CEFR), or intermediate, upper-intermediate and advanced learners of English.

Find the KEY to this presentation @

 https://www.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=4394959816824799645#editor/target=post;postID=1044644755561188459;onPublishedMenu=allposts;onClosedMenu=allposts;postNum=0;src=postname
 
I hope you find it useful

Maribel Miró

February 23rd, 2019

ENGLISH in maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com.es, by Maria Isabel Miró Pérez, is licenced under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

If you wish to make comments about this site, please email me at maribelmiroperez@gmail.com

Please, remember that

All materials on maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com.es are the property of Maria Isabel Miró Pérez -the copyright holder- and are protected by international copyright laws. You may print free materials provided on maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com.es for your own personal, non-commercial use in the classroom or at home, provided that you retain all copyright information or other required logos and/or headings on the materials. You may not reprint, distribute, electronically save, modify, transmit, present before an audience, post to a website, forum, blog etc. any materials from this blog without prior express written permission from Maria Isabel Miró Pérez.

For further information click 

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ST VALENTINE. 2019

Today's blogpost cannot be but related to  St Valentine. 
So, I have chosen a couple of love songs, already uploaded in the blog. 
In the first one, John Legend's All of Me, learners of most levels of English will be able to take a listening exercise focused on the lyrics of this love song, and also to read about St Valentine's origins and traditions all around the world.
https://maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com/search?q=ALL+OF+ME



The second one is Ed Sheeran's Perfect, presented as a listening activity, intended for a wide range of learners of English, too.

https://maribelmiroenglish.blogspot.com/search?q=perfect


I hope you find them useful.

Maribel Miró

February 14th, 2019