I've written quite a bit on this blog about the benefits of moving slowly for improving coordination. One of my favorite movement practices, the Feldenkrais Method, relies to a great extent on slow mindful movement as a primary means to develop coordination. Many people will look at very slow and gentle movements and think - how can these possibly do anything? Isn't harder and faster better than slower and softer? This post is an answer to that question.
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<span>Christmas is the (1) _____ occasion _____in modern Britain on
which a lot of traditions (2) ____ are preserved ______ by most ordinary
people. (3) is celebrated
Today it (4) ____ is connected _______with “making money by shops” that is now
the part of traditions: most people (5) _____ follow ______the tradition of
buying gifts for their family members.
People also buy a Christmas tree. This tradition came from Germany.
It (6) ____ was introduced _______in the nineteenth century. Every Christmas, London gets a gift from people of Norway – a
Christmas tree that is 23
metres high.
It stands in the center of London,
in Trafalgar Square
and it is decorated with 500 white lights.
Christmas is a time that (7) ___ unites ______families.
At night people get together to (8) ___ mark _______Christmas. Celebrating
Christmas (9) ___ includes _____ a
Christmas dinner and listening to the Queen’s Christmas (10) ___ speech _______
when the Queen speaks directly to “her” people on TV and n the radio.
……There are many royal traditions in Britain. The Queen’s telegram is not
a very old custom but it is for very old people. Every British person gets a
telegram from the Queen on their one-hundredth (11) __ anniversary ________.
…The Changing of the (12) ______ guard ______ is a very beautiful tradition.
Every morning tourists go to watch the ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
At 11.30 the guard that stands in front of the palace change.</span>
Biologist Alexander Fleming was in such a hurry to rest that he left a bunch of dirty Petri dishes piled in the sink in his laboratory. When he returned from vacation on September 3, 1928, he noticed a Cup with a culture of Staphylococcus – it turned out that it was all covered with colonies of bacteria, except for one place where there was a piece of mold. So quite by chance he learned that penicillin can kill bacteria. Thanks to sloppiness, people got one of the most widely used antibiotics.
перевод:
Биолог Александр Флеминг так спешил на отдых, что оставил кучу грязных чашек петри, сваленных в раковине в своей лаборатории. Когда он вернулся из отпуска 3 сентября 1928 года, то обратил внимание на чашку с культурой стафилококка – оказалось, что она вся была покрыта колониями бактерий, за исключением одного места, где был кусочек плесени. Так совершенно случайно он узнал, что пенициллин может убивать бактерии. Благодаря разгильдяйству, люди получили один из самых широко используемых антибиотиков.