Nowadays, people pays attention to many different things when they see you first time. It is called 'first impression'. One of this things are our clothes. I would like to think more about dress code. Is it really so relevant? On one hand, our clothes are our card. Very often clothes show personalities. For example, we can recognise to which subculture (...)

Dear John, I’ve got so much to tell you! First of all, I’d like to thank you for the holiday photos you sent me last time. I just love them, especially these taken at rollercoaster in the lunapark. I’m in the USA right now and I’m working as a volunteer with kids on the sports camp. You should try it. It’s a great opportunity to travel around the wor(...)

“Roadside Picnic” is a short science fiction novel written by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky in 1972. The film “Stalker” is loosely based on the novel, with a screenplay written by the authors of the book. The movie was released 7 years later after the book. The book and the film is about an area guarded by soldiers known as the Zone where some time ago t(...)

This well written textbook by Virginia Evans and Jenny Dooley called “Upstream” is a great book for intermediate a learners of the English language. It comes with an additional CD with audio records of selected exercises. The book is divided into 10 chapters which are always separated to 6 different sections like vocabulary, reading, grammar, listening(...)

“Requiem for a Dream” is a drama film directed by Darren Aronofsky and starring Ellen Burstyn, Jared Leto, Marlon Wayans and Jennifer Connelly. The film is based on the novel of the same name by Hubert Selby. The story concerns four people trapped by their addictions. It depicts various forms of addiction like drugs, medicines and television. The movie(...)

“The Intouchables”, a film directed by Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano, is a touching story about a rich disabled person (Philippe) and a stranger from the street (Driss) who becomes his closest friend. After Philippe becomes a quadriplegic from a paragliding accident he hires a young man to be his caretaker and so the whole story begins. The plot ev(...)

“Hunter” is a Polish heavy metal band founded in Szczytno in 1985, sometimes it is also classified as “soul metal” by the musicians themselves. Their music has evolved from their early Metallica-influenced thrash style, which actually earned them the nickname of Polish Metallica locally, to a heavier and more powerful sound on albums “Medeis” and “T.E.L(...)

A letter of application Piccoloministraße 32 51067 Köln 23rd January 2011 57 Hendon Road Liverpool 7634 NL 924 The United Kingdom BBC Radio Dear Sir / Madam , I am writing to apply for the job you advertised in today’s newspaper ‘Work with us!’ . My name is XX YY. I am 25 years old and I come from ZZZ near Warsaw , Poland . I am a graduate of (...)

Today people want to know more and more. We want to see everything and >visit every place on the earth. But it is insufficient. People >organize lots of space expeditions. Every year big money is spent on >conquest of the space. Lots of people think, that this way of >development is very good. But I think, that we have more important >exp(...)

Vampires have been know for centuries in different cultures as a blood-sucking creatures; souls of dead persons superstitiously believed to come from the grave and wander about by night sucking the blood of persons asleep, causing their death. This superstition was very strong in parts of Eastern Europe, especially in current Hungary and Romania. The t(...)