(1) JK Rowling, creator of the Harry Potter series, the most successful children’s book titles in literary history, has secretly married her fiancé Dr. Neil Murray. (2) The couple, who have been inseparable for the past year, was married on Boxing Day at Killiechassie House, Rowling remote Scottish home which she bought for &500,000 last month.

Replace the words in bold type inthe following sentences with a single word. (the first letter of the word is given).

Subjunctive I.

 

Meaning: it represents the action as problematic.

Form: it reminds us of the form of the infinitive without the particle “to”. This form is used for all the persons.

Ex. The Poles demamnded that Ivan Susanin show them the way to Moscow.

 

       Success attend you! – Пусть Вам сопутствует удача!

       Subjunctive I has no tenses.

 

Read the following text carefully and choose the answer which best fits each space. The first answer has been given as an example (0).

Supplementary reading. Read an article about new ideas about interpersonal rapport and do the tasks. Social awarenes or "intelligence" as the author puts it can help us to constanly trace our "messages" as we intuitively send "emotional" signal thus interracting non-verbally. Such awareness helps us to be better at establishing rapport with other people.

Sentences of two stories are mixed up. Sort out the stories and put sentences in their logical order:

Greetings! I’d like to share some materials I took with a group of Upper-Intermediate level students while working on the topic “Business. Money.” It also helped us to revise the topic of “Personality. Feelings and emotions” taken earlier during the year.
The article was chosen due to the unique style of its author. He managed to describe the customs of the Russian “bureaucratic bother” with a fiery mockery. The article is packed with rich synonymic row of adjectives showing a high grade of emotions, adjectives describing personality and character giving a challenge for the students. All the process of the “bureaucratic bother” is translated by the native speaker which also proved to be useful for the students. After the article I file some drills to work on the language of the article.

How to Request in Russian

17 April 2009By Michele A. Berdy
Прошу Вас: I request that you ...

All bureaucracies are miserable, but each is miserable in its own way.

Lately I've been spending a lot of time in line, trying to resolve a backlog of bureaucratic bother.