AIELTS

🧠 1. Читай на английском без телефона

Возьми статью, рассказ или главу книги на английском и поставь таймер на 15–20 минут.

Правила:

телефон убран;
не переключайся на другие приложения;
не проверяй каждое незнакомое слово;
старайся понять общий смысл;
если потерял концентрацию — просто верни внимание к тексту.

Через несколько дней увеличь до 25–30 минут.

🎧 2. Слушай английский активно

Не просто включай подкаст фоном.

Например, возьми 10–15-минутное видео или подкаст и попробуй следить за каждой мыслью говорящего.

📵 3. Убирай постоянные переключения

Одна из главных проблем концентрации — привычка постоянно переключаться:

Reading → Telegram → Instagram → Reading → уведомление → TikTok → Reading…

Из-за этого становится намного сложнее удерживать внимание на одном задании.

Попробуй во время подготовки делать одну задачу за раз.

Например:

25 минут — только IELTS Reading.

⏱️ 4. Используй постепенное увеличение времени

Не нужно сразу заставлять себя читать час.

Попробуй:

15 мин → 5 мин перерыв
↓
20 мин → 5 мин перерыв
↓
25 мин → 5 мин перерыв
↓
30 мин → 5 мин перерыв
↓
40–60 мин

Твоя цель — постепенно научить мозг выдерживать длительную концентрацию.

🔥 И самое главное

Не пытайся тренировать концентрацию только тогда, когда у тебя IELTS.

Концентрация — это навык, который можно тренировать каждый день.

20 минут чтения без телефона сегодня → 25 минут через несколько дней → 40 минут через несколько недель.

🎧📖 FOCUS IS EVERYTHING: как концентрация влияет на IELTS Listening & Reading

Иногда ты теряешь баллы просто потому, что на несколько секунд потерял фокус.

🎧 LISTENING

• Читайте вопросы заранее — используй время до начала записи, чтобы понять, что именно нужно услышать.
• Следи за ключевыми словами, но не жди их дословно — надо понимать о чем идет речь.
• Пропустил ответ? Move on.
• Будь готов к изменениям: говорящий может сначала назвать один вариант, а потом исправить себя.

📖 READING

• Не читай весь текст слишком медленно с первой строки.
• Сначала пойми структуру и основную идею каждого абзаца.
• Ищи в тексте keywords и их синонимы/перефразировки.
• Если вопрос занимает слишком много времени — пропусти и вернись позже.

IELTS проверяет не только твой английский, но и то, насколько хорошо ты умеешь управлять своим вниманием под давлением времени.

🎯 Иногда +1 балл начинается не с изучения ещё 100 новых слов, а с того, чтобы перестать терять баллы из-за невнимательности.

And here is our teen… all grown up😭🕷️❤️

📝 Articles Day 10

The Morning Light Habit Sleep Experts Swear By

You’ve probably heard that getting some morning light can help you feel more awake during the day and sleep better at night—from your doctor, your sleep app, and roughly 900 podcasts. But you might not realize just how much it matters. “Morning light is arguably more important than your coffee,” says Mariana Figueiro, director of the Light and Health Research Center at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. 
Morning light shifts the body clock earlier, which can make it easier to feel sleepy at night and alert when it’s time to wake up. In a study of more than 400,000 adults, people who spent more time in outdoor light during the day reported fewer insomnia symptoms, less tiredness, and an easier time getting up in the morning.

What you may not have heard is exactly how to get it: where to position yourself, how early in the morning to start basking, and how long to take in the rays. Without that knowledge, the advice to “get more morning light” is surprisingly hard to put into practice.
Here’s what researchers say about how to get the right dose of morning light. 

How morning light helps you wake up—and sleep at night
The amount of light reaching your eyes is measured in lux, and by that measure, most morning routines happen in near-darkness. A dimly lit bedroom might clock in at 30 to 40 lux. A brightly lit kitchen might reach 500. Step outside on an overcast morning, and you're standing in 5,000 to 10,000. "You're looking at orders of magnitude more light when you're outside," says Jamie Zeitzer, a circadian physiologist and professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at Stanford University.
Sitting directly beside a window and looking out might expose you to around 1,000 lux. That's a fraction of what's available outdoors, but, as Zeitzer puts it, "even by a window, it's much brighter than what you're going to get from most interior lighting sources."

Light can have an immediate effect, too. It’s “an alerting stimulus to the brain,” Figueiro says, which can help you feel more awake in the moment.
Its longer term effect comes down to a small structure in the brain called the suprachiasmatic nucleus, which serves as the body’s central circadian clock. When light reaches the retina, it sends a signal directly to that clock—and early in the morning, the signal helps nudge it forward. It needs that nudge: The average human clock runs about 24 hours and 11 minutes, which means it would naturally drift a little later each day without light and other signals keeping it synchronized with the outside world.
A well-synced clock does more than govern sleep. Its real job, Zeitzer says, "is allowing your body to anticipate things as opposed to responding to them"—preparing you to wake up, eat, exercise, and wind down instead of scrambling to adjust after the fact. Without that anticipation, your body still functions, of course; just a little less efficiently. "It's not like if you didn't have a clock, you drop dead," he says. "But it's all less well optimized."

From time.com

‼️ Небольшая идея, гайс 👀

Чтобы подтянуть IELTS, нам нужно больше практики в Speaking. Поэтому предлагаю проводить Speaking Clubs 3–4 раза в неделю.

Будем просто общаться на английском, обсуждать разные темы и практиковаться. Чем больше говорим, тем быстрее растёт уверенность и балл.

Как вам такая идея? Будете присоединяться? 🙌

The best summer..💔

Video from tiktok

IELTS READING TIME SPLIT 🎯

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Полезные слова и выражения для IELTS Writing Task 1 Line Graph. Я добавила настоящую форму (V1), прошедшую (V2) и перевод.

Рост

rise → rose — расти, повышаться
increase → increased — увеличиваться
grow → grew — расти
climb → climbed — подниматься
surge → surged — резко возрасти
soar → soared — стремительно взлететь
jump → jumped — резко увеличиться

Снижение

fall → fell — падать
drop → dropped — снижаться
decline → declined — снижаться
decrease → decreased — уменьшаться
plunge → plunged — резко упасть
plummet → plummeted — стремительно обвалиться
dip → dipped — немного снизиться
slip → slipped — слегка снизиться

Стабильность

remain stable → remained stable — оставаться стабильным
remain unchanged → remained unchanged — оставаться без изменений
stay constant → stayed constant — оставаться постоянным
level off → levelled off (BrE) / leveled off (AmE) — выровняться, перестать меняться
show little change → showed little change — почти не изменяться

Колебания

fluctuate → fluctuated — колебаться
vary → varied — варьироваться

Достижение точки

reach → reached — достигать
peak at → peaked at — достигать пика
hit a peak of → hit a peak of — достигать максимума
hit a low of → hit a low of — достигать минимума
bottom out at → bottomed out at — достичь самой низкой точки

Восстановление

recover → recovered — восстановиться
rebound → rebounded — восстановиться после падения
bounce back → bounced back — быстро восстановиться

Sorry but what’s that?😭🙏

📌 Я не выкладываю the whole article, потому что они слишком длинные для канала.

Поэтому, чтобы вам было удобно в конце поста я всегда оставлю сайт, куда вы можете заходить на тот же article и прочитать до конца!

💙

📝 Articles Day 9

6 Easy Ways to Move More While Working from Home

At most desk jobs, you’ll be sitting down for the majority of the day. But remote work creates a particularly sedentary environment. There’s no need to walk from your front door to the car or train station. There are no aisles of cubicles to maneuver on your bathroom break or colleagues to stand around with at the water cooler. “We're just sitting there in front of the screen by ourselves,” says Mary Jayne Rogers, an exercise physiologist based in Albuquerque, who’s on the certification advisory board of the American Council on Exercise. 

This immobility has real downsides. “Prolonged sitting can increase the risk of heart disease and high blood pressure, even if you're otherwise active,” says Amy Bantham, past president of the Physical Activity Alliance. It also makes our fascia—the connective tissue that supports every structure, from our muscles and bones to our nerves and organs—stiffen up, causing ripple effects throughout the body that can impact our heart, lungs, gut, and even our brain, she says. 

Create your own commute
During the time you’d otherwise spend commuting, Bantham suggests taking a walk. She runs her own consulting business from home and likes to go for a stroll and call a friend before work. Similarly, Lindsey Bomgren, a personal trainer based in Minneapolis, gets in her steps each morning while using her phone’s talk-to-text app to draft emails and write herself notes. “I can start my day out walking, wrapping my head around my to-do list,” she says. 

Then, at the end of the day, Bomgren makes a point to do active errands around the house before her kids get home. “I’ll run up and down the stairs three times just to get laundry in, clean up, set out stuff for dinner,” she says. This gets her moving and helps her transition from work mode to mom mode.

Have an exercise snack
Taking a five-minute walk every hour has been shown to help offset the harms of sitting. Bantham says any quick movement break is worthwhile. “If you have two minutes between meetings, use those two minutes because it all counts,” she says.  

That could look like a quick set of jump squats or crunches. It could mean running up and down the stairs as fast as you can. Or, for something even simpler, Rogers recommends standing up and sitting down 10 times. 

From time.com

📝Articles Day 8

Hobbies can improve your health – here are four tips for choosing one

In 2020, the year Amanda lost her mother, husband, job and pre-pandemic normalcy, she was diagnosed with major depressive disorder. “My life was just spiraling down and down and down,” she says.
To help with her symptoms, in addition to an antidepressant prescription, Amanda was given a “social prescription”: a referral to a non-medical, community-based activity, typically involving movement, nature, art or service. Amanda lives near Devon, England, and became curious about sea swimming after reading about its health benefits and watching other women do it at her local beach all year round. When she told this to her mental health nurse, she was prescribed a spot in Chill Therapy, an eight-week course that teaches swimming, floating and breathing techniques to build skill and confidence navigating the open water.

Six years later, Amanda turns to swimming in the sea whenever she feels stressed. “It invigorates me and makes me feel I can cope with anything,” she says. “I can’t do without it, to be honest.” She is now down to the lowest dose of her antidepressant, and has made a ton of friends along the way: “I feel refreshed in body and soul.”
Though research has long linked hobbies involving exercise, arts and nature to a wide range of health benefits, social prescribing now lets people like Amanda participate in them as part of their healthcare, typically covering barriers like cost and transportation. While the practice is more common in the UK, some insurers in the US are starting to participate in social prescribing.
But you don’t need a doctor’s note to get started. We asked experts in the social prescribing field for tips on picking a hobby that will actually improve your health.

Match your symptom to the science
When choosing a hobby, think about how you’re feeling now, and how you’d like to feel in the future.
For instance, if you’ve been feeling tired or down, like Amanda, science suggests you should move your body; for example, multiple studies show sea swimming can help reduce depression and depressive symptoms.
On a physiological level, this makes sense: aerobic exercise has been linked with gains in mood-boosting endorphins and serotonin. Additionally, time spent in nature is linked with lower levels of cortisol, a stress hormone.
Feeling distracted? Nature is also good at improving focus. According to the Attention Restoration Theory, nature is uniquely equipped to restore our depleted mental resources by providing “soft fascination”, a state of effortless focus that captures our attention without draining it. This could explain why nature has been shown to improve our executive functioning and concentration.

Creative activities can help with getting through sadness, isolation or pain. “Art is a human experience – it helps folks get out of their loneliness and into a flow state, which can rewire their brain from trauma,” says Holly Jacobson, CEO of Path With Art, a Seattle-based non-profit that offers free arts-based community programming. A new small study found that Path with Art participants experienced statistically significant gains in mental wellbeing and efficacy, and reductions in loneliness. Earlier small studies found that painting can reduce anxiety, and that art-making can reduce cortisol levels after 45 minutes.
Ask yourself what matters to you
Some people can’t see themselves knitting, while others might rule out sports because of injury. Research suggests we are more likely to follow through on an activity if we have intrinsic motivation – the internal drive to do something because we find it genuinely enjoyable or satisfying, rather than an external reward, like losing weight.

From theguardian.com

молодость простит вам смелость, решительность, риски и прыжки в неизвестность, веру в себя и свои мечты, кринж, и тягу к познанию
молодость не простит страх

📝Articles Day 7

Infantino under huge pressure after plan for World Cup sell-off sparks resignation and rebuke

The walls started closing in on Gianni Infantino after another dramatic day that saw one of his senior advisers resign and brought a scathing rebuke from Fifa’s own chief operating officer.
Infantino is under huge pressure after his plan to sell chunks of the World Cup to private investors met a tide of opposition from around the globe. European countries have already promised to boycott Fifa competitions if he does not shelve the scheme but Friday’s developments, which led to two key members of his inner circle distancing themselves from him, may prove equally damaging to any prospects of salvaging his presidency.

The resignation of Carlos Cordeiro, one of Infantino’s senior advisers since 2021, struck a fresh blow upon Infantino hours after Uefa’s 55 members had unanimously threatened a boycott. Cordeiro, a former US Soccer chief, said Infantino had proposed “a bad deal for Fifa’s member associations, a bad deal for football, and a bad deal for the long-term future of the game”. He questioned the lack of transparency in Fifa’s process and pointed out that the governing body is sitting on vast debt-free reserves that could be used to fund development.
“Why this deal?” he asked. “Why now? What oversight exists? Who benefits? Was there a competitive process? What governance will be in place? What will investors ultimately gain, and at what cost to football?”

“We all want to be proud to work for Fifa, and today, unfortunately, it seems that is no longer the case for many of us” - Kevin Lamour, Fifa chief operating officer
“What has been announced in recent days and what has been happening behind the scenes in recent months defies belief and imagination,” Lamour said. “To put it very clearly and directly: the project that has sparked so much controversy and debate is not a Fifa project. It is even less a project of Fifa’s administration. It is the project of one person.

“The Fifa vice-presidents, the members of the Fifa Council, the confederations, the federations, the players, the leagues, the clubs, and the fans were not the only ones who were ignored. Fifa’s own administration was also deceived.
“This lie by omission over many months and this unilateral exercise of power are not trivial. They are indicative of a lack of trust, a lack of transparency, a lack of discernment, a lack of good governance. And a serious lack of respect.”

From theguardian.com

Уже август 🥀

Будем учится еще усерднее 😋