"100 places to visit before you die" on the map

Have you ever tried working with Google Maps? Let's create a map of the places mentioned in the text "100 Places to visit before you die". As you see, I have already marked one of the places, the Grand Canyon Skywalk. Your task is to mark the others. Actually, only 25 places are named in the text, so it makes 2-3 places for each of you. Leave a comment with the names of the destinations you have labeled.
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How to add a placemark to your map:
1. Click the link which you can see below the map.
2. Click "Edit" to enter editing mode.
3. Click the blue baloon-like placemark icon (at the top of the map).
4. Move the cursor to the appropriate location. If you want to dismiss this placemark, press the Escape key. 5. Click to place your placemark. It should bounce into place.
6. Add a title and description.
7. Click "OK" to save when you are finished.

You can also save an item from your search result to the map.
1. Click the link below the map.
2. Click "Edit" to enter editing mode.
3. Search for the destination that you want to add. The results appear in the Search Results bar on the left. Click on the listing or map marker you want to save.
4. Click "Save" in the info window. This copies the result to your map as a placemark.
5. Edit the title or description, if you want.
6. Click OK to save when you are finished.

Try saving photos and YouTube videos to the map as well to make it more visually attractive. If you do that, the picture or the video are displayed when the corresponding blue sign on the map is clicked.  Here is a "how-to": Add other content.

The Grand Canyon

Good day! According to the text in the textbook, the Grand Canyon (USA) is one of the places to visit before you die.

How about watching a video so that you could have a glimpse of its marvelous beauty?

Leave a comment with at least one adjective which best describes what you have seen. (Use your imagination and avoid such common adjectives as "beautiful" and "great", please.) 

What are we going to read?

Hello! My congratulations on the first day of the second term! Last term you enjoyed individual reading. This time, in addition to that, we will have home reading - the same book for all of you to read at home and discuss at class. Here is a word cloud of the titles of the short stories we are going to read. Can you decipher any of them? Remember that Wordle omits common words like articles and conjunctions from the clouds.

House and Home Vocabulary

Hello, everyone! I hope you have had terrific holidays and are ready to invest your time and energy into studying. There is a week left till the holidays end and, hopefully, you are looking forward to the beginning of the second term. I have asked you to learn the vocabulary related to housing, as you remember. To make the job easier, here is a list of vocabulary units to be learned.

Home Vocabulary by Maribella2012

How I really spend my time

Time - this is what we often lack. Not all people are able to plan out their time properly.
As for me, most of my time I devote to studying and homeworks. My day starts at 6 am. Classes start at 8, sometimes later and end at 1 or 2 p.m. After a hard day at the university I need a little rest. I like to lie down on the couch listening to music, watch some series or chatting to my parents or friends on the phone. After a rest, I start doing my homework. This usually takes until midnight.
At the weekend I want to spend more time with my family. The day always goes differently, and in the evenings we usually watch some family film. On occasion, my friend pays a visit to me, because on the weekdays neither she nor I have time to meet.
Sometimes I'm not happy with the way I allocate my time, but I try to fix it and become more organized.

How we spend our time

My task was to conduct a survey about peoples` usual activities and find out what amount of time it takes. Results are the following:

 Sleeping. This takes most of the time. On average working people wake up at 6 a.m. and go to bed at 11 p.m. Students wake up at the same time and fall asleep a little later, about 12 p.m. On weekends everybody sleeps till 10-11 a.m and stay up to 12 p.m.

Work and studies. Toiling masses commonly start their working day at 9 a.m., have their lunch from 1 to 2 p.m and finish at 6 p.m. Students have to be present at the institute at 8 a.m and till 2 p.m their time is dedicated to acquiring new knowledge. Afterwards they usually come home and spend few hours making home-tasks.

Housework. Work about the house never ends. It may take from 2 to 4 hours a day, depending on the size of your flat or house and quantity of people and animals living there. Women work about the house everyday, and men barely help them.

Hobbies. This is very essential part of life. This may be active one – like sports, and may be calm one – like arts, books etc. Majority of my relatives adore sports and dedicate about 4 hours a week to fitness room.

Meals.  At least 3 hours a day are dedicated to cooking and about 2 hours a day are busy with the process of eating 

Leisure. Great deal of people who surround me belong to students. They like to spend their time in the cinema – about once – twice a week. Adults prefer visiting theaters. Once –twice in a month. TV is also in favor. People spend the evening near TVset, watching shows and films – this takes about 2 hours a day.

Phone. Everybody in modern society has a mobile phone. Usually people spend about 1-2 hours talking phone.

Internet. This is like a drug for people from 10 to 30-40 years old. Majority of us spend 4-5 hours a day in the web.

What do we do with our time?

My survey revealed that in Ukraine today as well as in the UK, people spend a third of their day sleeping and eating. It may seem much but it is only 8 hours - the time which a person ought to spend just sleeping. Working or studying, sleeping and surfing the Internet take up much more than half of the day.
On average the Ukrainians spend about 17 hours per week watching TV. However they are using more and more Internet – approximately 20 hours. Not surprisingly, older people use the Internet and watch TV less than the youth do. For example, only one out of four people aged 60 and over says he can use a computer while all the examined teenagers say they use computer every day.
During the week, 72% of adults are up by 7 am. 68% of students stay at university or at school at least till 3 pm and then come back home, do their leisure time activities and their homework. Adults spend much more time working that the youth studying. Two thirds of the examined people come back home later than 6 pm.
People generally eat between 6.30 and 7 am, at 1 pm and between 6 and 9 pm. By midnight, 90% of adults are asleep, while a quarter of teenagers prefer surfing the Internet or hanging out with their friends at that time.
At the weekend people get up later (65% after 9 am) and go to bed later. Small difference was revealed between adults and children. Adults spend twice as much time alone as children do.