Mind flow: the English perspective

Have you ever experienced small talks with strangers? What about foreigners? What were those talks about? In this article I would like to tell you about the importance of small talks in second language practice. First things first, small talk is a casual conversation with a stranger or an unfamiliar person with the purpose of acquaintance or communication establishment. This way people can interact without any special reason or a specific level of relationship. Now think again… Have you ever had...

Nowadays, there is a range of global environmental problems which may extremely change our life in the near future. The past fifty years we have seen a rapid growth of different kinds of a man-made waste. There is an unsustainable amount of plastic, food, radiation and other types of litter that pollute the Earth. All this is a protracted implication of human irresponsibility for their own world. We ourselves have put the entire planet under a terribly dangerous threat. There is a settled myth that spoilt food can simply decompose and turn out as a fertilizer that is good for land...

Traditional teaching is now considered old-fashioned. There are several reasons for that. First of all, rote learning method is often used in traditional teaching. The problem is that such way of learning does not suggest any creativity and neither encourages critical thinking. This way, children do not develop their knowledge base as well as they cannot make informed decisions and have no idea how to use interpersonal skills. Today's parents argue about children dumbing down. Moreover, assessment system gaps let students use plagiarism and deny creating their own ideas...

All people somehow go through the bullying at some period of their life, without exceptions. Mostly it happens in childhood, when kids go to school and start socializing. For any child it’s hard to start communicating with other children because before parents were the only people they had communication with. So when you enter school, you have no idea how to behave in society. School is the place where come children from different families, they have different types of upbringing which makes it so easy to meet at least one aggressive and cruel child in one class...

There are many questions about Russian medicine and it is very common to hear from people about their unpleasant experience of treating illnesses in both public and private hospitals. The most frequent complaints about public hospitals include long queues for the GP, low-quality equipment and hospital staff’s poor treatment. As for private hospitals, people accuse them of misdiagnosing so that the patient goes to the hospital longer and pays extra money for nothing to be cured. But personally, I don’t expect health system to be perfect...

Since ancient times, women have been considered the weaker gender. Denial of rights and discrimination pursued women and that was normalized during time. That’s why nowadays many countries still put women into sexist stereotypes shifting all domestic issues on them. According to statistics, in Russia 74% of women are responsible for bringing up children. And this responsibility is apart from all the other domestic duties such as washing, ironing, cooking etc. Most of prestigious and status positions are occupied by men and many people truly believe this is the way it should be...