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⤵️ YOUR FINAL SCORE⤵️

5/5 - autumn vocabulary master🎞️
4/5 - almost there! 🎞️
3/5 - not bad, but time for a little review 🤍
0-2/5 - let’s revisit this week’s posts 🎞️

How many did you get? Share your score below! 🤎

ONE LAST CHALLENGE BEFORE WE FINISH OUR AUTUMN WEEK!🌟🌟🌟

Let’s see how well you remember this week’s vocabulary.

Ready for the final quiz❓❓❓

we’ll start at 11 am

New podcast coming up… 😄☕️

! meet us on September 28th at 12pm Moscow time ! 🦊🦊

🌟IF AUTUMN WERE A PERSON…

If autumn were a person, they would probably be the kind of person who never rushes.

They would wake up slowly, make a warm drink and spend a few minutes looking out of the window before starting the day. Their favourite weather? A little gloomy, with rain tapping against the glass.

They would always carry a book in their bag, know the best little cafés in town and have a playlist for every possible mood🧸

Their wardrobe would be full of oversized sweaters, scarves and warm colours. They wouldn’t mind getting caught in the rain - they would probably find it romantic🌟

Autumn would be a little nostalgic, a little mysterious and surprisingly comforting. They might cancel plans just to stay home, light a candle and watch an old movie.

And they would definitely say:

“You don’t always have to be productive. Sometimes you just need to slow down.” 🌟

🌟THE AUTUMN PERSONALITY

Favourite drink: something warm ☕
Favourite place: a quiet café 📚
Favourite weather: rainy & chilly 🌧️
Favourite activity: reading or watching movies 🌟
Favourite mood: peaceful & nostalgic 🎧
Favourite colour: every shade of brown, orange and gold 🌟

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🌟WHAT’S YOUR AUTUMN PERSONALITY?

Choose one answer from each question and remember your letters!

1. Your perfect autumn evening?
A) 🌟Reading a book
B) 🌟Watching a movie
C) 🌟Sitting in a cosy café
D) 🌙Going for a walk

2. Pick your autumn drink:
A) 🍵Tea
B) 🌟Coffee
C) 🍫Hot chocolate
D) 🍎Apple cider

3. Your ideal autumn weather:
A) 🌧️Rainy
B) ☀️Sunny & crisp
C) 🌫️Foggy
D) 🍃Windy

4. Choose your autumn colour:
A) 🤎Brown
B) 🧡Orange
C) 💛Golden yellow
D) ❤️Deep red

🌟YOUR RESULT

Mostly A - THE BOOKWORM 📚
Quiet, thoughtful and a little nostalgic. You love peaceful moments and getting lost in a good story.

Mostly B - THE MOVIE LOVER 🌟
Cosy evenings, good stories and comfort are your thing. Your perfect night probably involves a blanket and a film.

Mostly C - THE COZY SOUL 🌟
You know how to slow down and enjoy the little things. Warm drinks and peaceful places are your happy place.

Mostly D - THE EXPLORER 🌟
You’d rather put on a sweater and discover somewhere new. Autumn is your excuse for long walks and little adventures.

💬 Comment your letters below!
For example: A, C, B, A- and see what autumn personality you get!

🌟AUTUMN BAKING

There’s something about autumn that makes you want to stay home, put on your favourite playlist and bake something sweet. 🍂

Maybe it’s the chilly weather, the smell of cinnamon or simply the cosy feeling of being in the kitchen.

Today’s recipe is snickerdoodle cookies -soft, golden cookies with a sweet cinnamon topping. And while watching the recipe, you can pick up some useful cooking vocabulary in English.

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WORDS FROM THE RECIPE

🌟beat -взбивать

Beat the butter until smooth.

🌟pour -вливать, выливать

Pour the mixture into the bowl.

🌟add -добавлять

Add the flour and other dry ingredients.

🌟mix -смешивать

Mix everything together.

🌟combine -соединять, смешивать ингредиенты

Combine the ingredients until you get a dough.

🌟scoop -брать/выкладывать порцию ложкой

Scoop the dough onto a baking sheet.

🌟roll -скатывать, формировать шарик

Roll the dough into small balls.

🌟bake -выпекать

Bake the cookies until golden.

🌟spread -намазывать, распределять

Spread the cream on top of the cookies.

🌟A LITTLE AUTUMN CHALLENGE

While watching the recipe, try to spot these verbs in action:

beat ➡️pour ➡️add ➡️mix ➡️scoop ➡️roll ➡️bake ➡️spread

How many of them can you recognise without looking at the translations?

And the most important question:
Would you make these cookies on a cosy autumn evening? 🌟

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🎬AUTUMN MOVIE NIGHT

There’s a certain kind of movie that just feels better in autumn.

Maybe it’s the sound of rain in the background, warm colours, cosy cafés, old houses, falling leaves -or simply a story that makes you want to stay under a blanket for the whole evening. 🌟

Here are a few movies that bring different kinds of autumn atmosphere:

🌟Hocus Pocus (1993)
A magical Halloween classic with witches, friendship and plenty of autumn atmosphere. Perfect if you want something fun, light and a little spooky.

🌟Dead Poets Society (1989)
A thoughtful story about friendship, school, dreams and finding your own voice. The beautiful autumn setting adds to its emotional and nostalgic atmosphere.

🌟Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009)
A charming animated film full of autumn colours, clever humour and quirky characters. Its warm visual style makes it feel like watching a moving autumn illustration.

🌟When Harry Met Sally… (1989)
A classic story about friendship, love and relationships set in New York. Golden leaves, city walks and long conversations create a distinctly nostalgic autumn mood.

❗️All these movies you can watch in ENGLISH!! with Russian subtitles by links in the titles❗️

click on titles🤎

🎞️WORDS TO NOTICE🎞️

While watching an autumn movie, listen for words and phrases connected with:

📎atmosphere -the feeling or mood of a place
📎heartwarming -making you feel happy and emotionally touched
📎nostalgic -making you think about the past
📎comforting -making you feel calm and safe
📎bittersweet -both happy and sad at the same time
📎captivating -so interesting that it holds your attention

These words are especially useful when you want to talk about films, books, places or memories in English.

🍂A PERFECT AUTUMN DAY

There’s something special about autumn.

The mornings become crisp and chilly, the air feels refreshing, and everything seems a little slower. You wake up to a gloomy sky and the quiet sound of drizzle outside your window. Instead of rushing out, you make yourself a warm drink and enjoy a few peaceful minutes.

Later, you go for a walk. The streets are covered with golden leaves, the air smells like rain, and there’s a cosy feeling everywhere you look. Maybe you stop at a little café, order your favourite drink and sit by the window, watching people walk past.

In the afternoon, you come home, put on your favourite playlist and get comfortable. You read a book, watch a movie or simply do nothing for a while.

And in the evening? A warm blanket, a good film and the sound of rain outside.

Maybe that’s what makes autumn so beautiful — it gives us an excuse to slow down and enjoy the little things.

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USEFUL VOCABULARY

🪴embrace — принимать, наслаждаться чем-то

I’ve learned to embrace the slower pace of autumn.

🌜unwind — расслабляться после напряжённого дня

I like to unwind with a good book.

📖soothing — успокаивающий, умиротворяющий

The sound of rain is really soothing.

☕️atmosphere — атмосфера, настроение места

I love the peaceful atmosphere of autumn.

🦔slow-paced — размеренный, неторопливый

I enjoy a slow-paced weekend.

🌸indulge in — позволить себе насладиться чем-то

Autumn is the perfect time to indulge in cosy evenings.

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ONE LITTLE QUESTION

What makes autumn feel special to you?

A rainy evening? A favourite movie? Long walks? A cosy café? ☕️🌿

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🌟AUTUMN STARTER PACK🌟

September is here -time to switch into autumn mode! 🌟

Before we fully embrace cosy evenings, crisp walks and rainy-day comfort, let’s learn 6 useful words for that unmistakable autumn feeling in English.

🌟6 autumn words to know

1. crisp -прохладный и свежий

I love the crisp autumn air.

2. chilly -прохладный, зябкий

It’s a bit chilly today.

3. cosy -уютный

I just want to stay home and have a cosy evening.

4. gloomy -пасмурный, хмурый

The weather is gloomy today.

5. refreshing -освежающий

A walk in the cool air feels refreshing.

6. drizzle -мелкий дождь

It was drizzling all morning.

Which word matches your mood today? Tell us in the comments! ↕️



🎞️QUICK CHALLENGE

Fill in the blanks using the words above:

1. I love drinking hot chocolate on a __ evening.
2. It’s not raining heavily — it’s just __.
3. The morning air is cold, clean and __.
4. I don’t like PACK🌟
weather when there’s no sun.
5. It’s quite __ outside, so take a jacket.

Lock in your answers before checking! Write your score down — no peeking! 👀

✅ANSWER KEY

1. cosy
2. drizzling
3. crisp
4. gloomy
5. chilly

How many did you get right?

🎞️BONUS CHALLENGE

Choose 3 words from the list and describe your perfect autumn day in English.

Example:

My perfect autumn day is crisp, cosy and refreshing. 🍂

Now it’s your turn! Drop your sentence in the comments and let’s see your autumn vibes. Feel free to reply to someone else with a cosy autumn idea, too!

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SOCIAL MEDIA: GOOD OR BAD?🌟

There’s something strange about social media.

You can sit alone in your room and, at the same time, watch someone’s morning in New York, listen to a girl in Korea teach you English, laugh at a video from Brazil and text your best friend who lives five minutes away.

The whole world is suddenly in your hands.

Pretty amazing, right?

But here’s the weird part…

You can have hundreds of people to follow and still feel lonely🦘
You can watch thousands of videos and still feel bored.
You can spend two hours online and have absolutely no idea what you actually did.

And sometimes the most interesting thing on your screen is… someone else’s life.

🌟You see someone travelling = you think «I want to go there»

🌟Someone studying = you think «I should be more productive»

🌟Someone dancing = you think «I’m not good enough»

One little scroll can change your mood without you even noticing.

But social media can also do the complete opposite.

You can discover a song that becomes your favourite.
Find a person who inspires you.
Learn something in 30 seconds that you didn’t know yesterday.
Share your own ideas.
Find people who love the same things you do.

So maybe the problem isn’t social media itself.

Maybe it’s the fact that we rarely use it consciously.

We open an app because we’re bored.
We keep scrolling because we’ve already started.
We check notifications because we want to know if someone noticed us.

And suddenly, we’re not choosing what to watch anymore. The algorithm is.

That makes social media a pretty unusual invention: it can give you connection without closeness, information without knowledge, and entertainment without happiness.

But it can also give you inspiration, creativity, friendships and opportunities.

So here’s a little experiment:

Next time you open social media, ask yourself one question:

“Why am I here?”

To talk to someone?
To learn something?
To create?
To relax?

Or… did you just open it because your brain said, «I need something to look at»

Maybe the answer tells you more about your relationship with social media than your screen-time report ever could.

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SIGNIFICANT WORDS

•consciously — осознанно

•influence your mood — влиять на настроение

•get caught up in something — увлечься чем-то и потерять чувство времени

•seek attention — искать внимание

•the algorithm — алгоритм

•consume content — потреблять контент

•be exposed to something — сталкиваться с чем-либо / находиться под воздействием чего-либо

•a sense of connection — ощущение связи с другими

•mindlessly scroll — бездумно листать ленту

•a digital habit — цифровая привычка


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QUICK CHALLENGE: A OR B?

Choose the correct phrase:

1. I sometimes spend an hour ___ without even realizing it.
A) mindlessly scrolling
B) scrolling mindless

2. Social media can really ___ my mood.
A) influence
B) make influence

3. I don’t want to ___ other people’s lives all the time.
A) be exposed to
B) be exposed with

4. Some people post things because they ___ from others.
A) seek attention
B) search attention

5. I got ___ watching short videos and completely forgot about my homework.
A) caught up in it
B) caught in up it

ANSWERS:
1.A — mindlessly scrolling
2.A — influence
3.A — be exposed to
4.A — seek attention
5.A — caught up in it