Exercise: Write a short letter to a friend, telling him/her what the weather has been like recently.
64 Váci street,
Budapest,
Hungary,
1131
Sunday 26th October
Dear Nikolay,
I met Sara last week and she told you started your thesis. If I remember correctly your title is “Climate changes in the near past.” So I thought I write a letter of my country weather and I hope I will help you.
Recently the weather was warmer than other years and the autumn delayed. The Indian summer was very long and very hot. And the last week was very rainy and cloudy. I think It isn’t normal. Fortunately we love this weather because it’s like spring.
When the Hungarian weather prophets usually told something than the weather did a completely other thing. So we don’t know worth to watch weather forecast.
What do you think of the Hungarian autumn? Will it be normal ever or this will be normal? I hope this is a temporary time in my country.
And do you believe of weather prophets or already you don’t too? I can’t decide they are swindlers or just neither they know what do they do?
This is my next homework. I hop you will enjoy it.
Exercise: Vegetarians are healthier than meat eaters. Do you agree?
The life is a great mystery!
I don’t know really which is true, so I read on the internet in this theme. And I was surprised that everywhere they wrote “The vegetarians are less healthy than meat eaters.”. I am highlighting some example from these web pages. “1st” “2nd” “3rd“
The pages usually referred to medical researches. So I believe in them.
Vegetarians visit their doctors more often and are more prone to allergies.
I know causes of allergic because I have too. When I knew that I had allergic, I looked for why. So I found some potential and it was among these vegetarianism. It’s true that I never was vegetarian so I rejected this version. But now I know this cause.
They also have ‘a 50% increased risk of both heart attacks and cancer’.
This problem is surprising for me. Because I thought these are for there to we eat a lot of fast foods, fatty foods and little vitamin. And this turned out that who eat healthier foods they have more increased risk.
They are also more likely to develop depression and anxiety disorders.
It is clear for me. Because everybody know “Who eats a good that will be happy!”. So I think “The dog is buried here.”. OK! I know the problem is difficultly just I think it is an important viewpoint.
But vegetarians tend to be more active and less likely to drink and smoke.
It is the biggest truth leastwise I think. But it doesn’t help lot because the cancer attack everybody. You can be cancerous when you never smoke or you never eat chemical food. Because The air, water and plans are contaminated in the cities and unfortunately sometimes in country sides.
So I think does not matter that we are a vegetarian or a meat eater. Just It matter we enjoy the life and feel good.
I was assigned that I wrote of my favourite recipe. So this is my writhing:
The peasants’ food is the finest
My favourite food is French onion soup. I don’t know how to make this soup. Because I didn’t make this yet jut my mother made for me. But I try collect my memory pictures of when my mother made this and write a good recipe.
What do I know surely? I think I know ingredients. We need a lot of red onion, steal bread, cheese, cream and water. The spices are pepper, salt, bay leaf and a little garlic. I know this soup is made more version but I know a simple. So I don’t use wine, beef stock and others.
How I would make my onion soup If we take I saw my mother countless times when she made. I think first I cook all of onion in water whit spices and when onion become soft. I put in cream and I mix it. During this boil I prepare the others. I put one layer bread in a heat-resistant glass bowl. Onto this layer I rasp a thick cheese layer and I strew it whit pepper. When onion is ready I pour this soup to the glass bowl onto bread and cheese layers. After I put this in oven until the top isn’t flush.
When we serve this soup we pick from all layers. And if we love, we could strew whit cheese.
I love this version, because the onion is sweet and the pepper is racy. I know this Onion soup version is common and isn’t made the nowadays fashionable expensive ingredients. But I think in fact the onion soup is peasants’ food so I wouldn’t use genteel things.
I think this cuisine is hard, fatty, spicy, and little disgusting for a foreign person. Because usually Hungarian people say it. But I love our cuisine.
Traditional Hungarian dishes are primarily based on meats, seasonal vegetables, fruits, fresh bread, dairy products and etc.
We usually don’t have starter just sometimes. So we don’t have a lot of traditional starter recipe. For example I just know three: “Hortobágyi húsos palacsinta” (This is an salty pancakes within minced meat with stew gravy and sour cream.) “Goose liver” (We make this slow roasted in a clay bowl.) and “Duck pate” (This is an spicy food but very tasty.)
We have a lot of traditional soup variant. For example “Goulash” (This is an interesting food. Because It is made differently way in every landscape.), “Fish soup” (We have two main version of this food. Bajai and Szegedi. The main difference is pasta because pasta is in Bajai fish soup. Of course there are more differences.), “Meat soup” (This is a simple recipe whit a lot of vegetable and meat mainly chicken or veal.) and much more.
Our specialty are main courses. We have a lot of stew version. Meat stew vegetable stew. For example “Chicken paprikash”, “Veal stew”, “Nail stew” (This isn’t a horror film title. This is made from pig feet.), “Peas stew”, “Cauliflower stew”, “Potato paprikash”, “Lecsó” (This is a vegetable stew with sweet paprika, tomato, hot paprika, onion, and sometimes egg). These are made whit red paprika.
We love “Stuffed cabbage” and it has a several versions too. It is made whit sour or sweet cabbage, pork or veal and red paprika or tomato juice.
And we make “Stuffed paprika”. It is made whit sweet yellow paprika, pork or veal and tomato juice. This usually is sweet.
We make much pasta version. For example “Cabbage with pasta” (It is made sweet or salty version. In salty version we use pepper.), “Cottage cheese with pasta” (It is made sweet or salty version too. But in salty version we use roasted bacon).
And because we love our bellies. Of course We make sweets and cakes. For example “Dobos cake” (It is made sponge cake layered with chocolate paste and glazed with caramel and nuts.) and “Rigó Jancsi” (It is a Cube-shaped sponge cake with dark chocolate glaze).
And in the end you can see a few videos of a Japanese girl who tried a lot of Hungarian food:
We got a reading homework about a British movement which try invigorate the studying on the trains. The movement’s name is “Brain train”.
Exercise: Do you think the brain train would be practical or popular in your country?
The “Brain train” why is good or not good for us?
I think it isn’t good for my country in this form. But the idea will be very good whit a little amendment.
The first problem is the trains’ way isn’t so long. So the time on the train is short.
On my opinion the solution is the very short lectures about 5-10 minute.
The second problem is uninteresting Hungarian people. Because the average people from the country side is happy if everybody leave them alone.
My solution for this that we use the young town people and give them the opportunity.
So we try import this in the city. For example on the metros.
Because the short lectures was created by the TED. We can listen them everywhere and any language because some people translate them.
So just we should make them interested and we have to make a form that everybody can use it. For example a board in every metro carriage where everybody can see these. When they go to work or school.
Exercise: Public transport in Budapest: Are you satisfied?
I’m the satisfaction!
I seriously satisfied for my city’s public transport. When I was in one other city, I didn’t meet batter than this. For example some city don’t have night network, but it is very important for the city’s night life. Our public transport isn’t the best in the world because there are some batter. But I think It is in the competition of the best.
Why?
Because the network is very big, fast, detailed, transparent and easy. It isn’t a place in the city center where you can’t find one bus stop in five minute. And any metro lines you can go through the city in three-quarters of an hour. And if you would like to go out of the city, you could choose any railway station or any bus station where the metros stop.
The railway stations divide the country to three part. These are the west, the east and the south. The bust stations aren’t such organized, but there are everywhere in the city.
As I mentioned yet. My city has a good night public transport network. And why is it good? Because It has all night and go almost everywhere where the daytime network. So we needn’t have pay a taxi at night.
Our public transport has just one problem. The vehicles are very old so often they are brake down, mainly the trolleys. Fortunately nowadays this problem is resolved because we buy more and more new vehicles.
I think It will happen that it will be the best public transport all of the world.
Thank you that you read my work. Pleas If you saw anything fault in my essay, you would correct me in a comment.
I am writing HW again. But now I try something new.
I have a rabbit. Who name is Jango Fat. I think I will be a little creative and I am telling a story of her perspective. You can see her on the picture.
A horroristic hot day for a big-eared!
I’m a little rabbit and I would like to tell a story when I visited my owner relatives. It was a terrible travel but the outcome was wonderful.
It was a normal morning for me. I saw that something was wrong on my owners but I didn’t think It was my problem. But the end came to light that they planned something against me. They put me in a very little box. Where just I fitted in and a little hay. “I love the hay! It is delicious!” They packaged all of my things and always telling for me. I didn’t understand it, just I felt it was relaxing. When they finished the packing we started. Out on the road was very hot and the sun shone continuously. We sat in a big metal box which was yellow. I sat in front of the yellow box and the filing was horroristic because everything was moving all-round me. I always felt a big force which pushed me to the wall of my little box. And my torture didn’t finish here.
When we carried go out the big yellow box immediately we get on a big blue cuboid form box. Where the weather was perfect. But when I finally calmed down, everything changed. It became warmer and warmer and warmer. And It had torrid in few minutes. I was put in the soup by my owners. I didn’t see the expedient. Fortunately my owners saw my problem and they ran my help. They brought a hanky with cold water to my ears and they started fanning me. It helped me. It was life saving for me. The travel in the blue box was a little long but I didn’t bored.
When implemented we arrived the our destination. I amazed for the view. Where I was just seeing was meadow. It was my dream. And the coming days I always was running around out of the mead.
Certainly you remember that I read the Language Hacking Guide. This book gave some exercise for me. And I did these.
I am skipping the first because it isn’t written exercise. So I am starting the second.
The exercise exact text’s:
Define precisely (in at least 3 paragraphs, preferably more) what your targets in your language project are. (e.g. Watch a movie in two months: define how much you plan to understand of the movie. Converse with a native in 6 months: define exactly what you would like to be able to chat about. Read a book over the summer: Define how much time you would like to be spending per page and how little of the dictionary you would like to use) The more precise details and definitions, the better!
And my solution:
The second worksheet
What my plans in the future whit English?
Now I don’t know it exactly so I just try specify it.
The first I would like take an intermediate exam, because it’s need for my degree. But I don’t like finished here, because I know myself. And I wit that I will forget everything what I learned.
So I choose some target for me. That I won’t forget anything.
I try use it every day. And when I use it I try learn something new. Because it is still few for this worksheet I do their instructions. The firs it is that I don’t use “would like” only “want”
So I want read an English book with my phone dictionary even in this year. For example the Harry Potter and the philosopher’s stone. Because I started it.
And I want understand my favorite English season without Hungarian subtitle at the beginning of next year. For example the Sons of Anarchy. But it is a little difficult because they are using a lot of slang.
And last I want speak a native English speaker fluently for usually things when I pass the exam and for my profession at the middle of next year. Because when I’ll found a job I want use English there. And it’s true that I won’t use it fluently for my profession in first time, but I hope I’ll developed fast.
I started a studying program two weeks ago. This program formed as some people can get degree. Because in my country only can receive degree, who have a language exam. As I haven’t it, so I need a way to get it. And I selected this program. This program name in Hungarian is “DiplomaMentő” and in English is “DegreeSaver”.
The access in this program was difficult, because much people signed in and only half of these got into. When we tried get into we had to do an exam and this was hard. It was similar what I need language exam. Fortunately It managed for me.
So I am going an English language school in my weekdays and I am doing everything that I advancement everyday.
My next post will be written in “My future plans” or “I used studying technics” topics.
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