ProstoEnglish | Валентина Пучкова

😊 I love using tongue twisters to switch my brain into English when needed. My favourite is “If two witches would watch two watches, which witch would watch which watch?” #tongue_twister Here are some more W tongue twisters: ✨Wetter weather never weathered wetter weather better...

My first working day in 2026 was on Tuesday, 13th January. I must admit that probably the first time in my life I can say that two weeks weren’t enough. I usually get a bit bored after 10 days of doing nothing, but not this year. I wish I could rest one more week 😅 How do you feel about getting back...

500! I got a 2000-pieces one! So far, I've spent about 4 hours and I think it'll take several months to complete it 😂 Do you like jigsaw puzzles? What's the biggest you've ever done? #present

! Find as many words as you can using the letters from the word RESOLUTION. For example, we can make the word sole (the bottom part of a shoe that touches the ground). How many words can you make? #game

? Apart from WhatsApp not working (I even had to use email the other day to contact one of my students!), I had a problem with my phone. Last week, I dyed my hair, and after that my phone didn't recognise me for half the day 😂 Apparently, face ID parameters now include the colour of your hair! 🙈 ...

This May, I started using Duolingo to refresh some Hebrew. A month before that, I’d bought a self-study book which I found useless as it was 99% in Russian. How can you learn to read in a foreign language by looking at Russian letters? As a teacher, I don’t get this approach. The idea of learning Hebrew again has been in my head for years...

Алиса – она Приложение – оно It’s all clear in Russian as nouns in Russian have gender. But in English they don’t. All those words are "it". Every time I speak English and say something like “GigaChat is a useful thing. He can help you…”,...

We all understand what show means, don’t we? ❄️ Snow (uncountable) – small soft white pieces of ice that fall from the sky and cover the ground. Snow (countable, often plural) – the snow that falls over a period of time. It refers to the season or period when snow occurs: The first snows of winter are here...

At the end of the year, some people say they are snowed under. In order to meet deadlines, they rest less and work harder. As a result, they are super tired on the very last days of December and are often not willing to participate in a New Year feast...

Who loves boxes more than cats do? 😹

Why I don’t like Ozon Marketplaces have become so popular that there is a delivery point in nearly every block of flats. When you ask someone which marketplace they prefer, they usually give you one name but hardly anyone can clearly explain why. I mainly use YandexMarket, but I sometimes use Ozon. I’ve tried Wildberries but didn’t like it. Last month, I made some purchases through Ozon, and that was the time when I realised why I didn’t like the app. It was complicated even to find my order details...

December’s here and a lot of people are diving into NewYear/Christmas rush. Shops are packed with New Year decorations, marketplaces are offering millions of goods to be bought as gifts for our loved ones. At schools...