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    Well, how are you friends? it's been a while since we met here.

    By the way, all you, or lets say most of us want to improve english, gain some vocabulary and most probably to become more self confident while talking to someone else in English.

    So, I had found an interesting website in internet recently. it is kind of virtual city where guys and teachers of english meet each other for discussions, lessons and just for fun. but I should mention here that it's not for free, but it is really workable.

    I recommend you to watch introductory video and I'd like to say that thing really helps to dismiss a fear of talking. so that's all I've got, see you around, enjoy! :D

    Link-
    http://www.languagelab.com/



     

    jeffli

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    Well, how are you friends? it's been a while since we met here.

    By the way, all you, or lets say most of us want to improve english, gain some vocabulary and most probably to become more self confident while talking to someone else in English.

    So, I had found an interesting website in internet recently. it is kind of virtual city where guys and teachers of english meet each other for discussions, lessons and just for fun. but I should mention here that it's not for free, but it is really workable.

    I recommend you to watch introductory video and I'd like to say that thing really helps to dismiss a fear of talking. so that's all I've got, see you around, enjoy! :D

    Link-
    http://www.languagelab.com/




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    jeffli

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    Bear Hibernation

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     On long, dark, cold winter days, you might feel like curling up to sleep for the next few months like a bear.
    But that's easier said than done. It won't be long before you get hungry, your heart gets tired, your
    muscles start to atrophy—and nature starts to call. If you were really a bear, however, none of these
    problems would affect you in the least.

     Most bears begin hibernation in early October and rouse themselves in April or May. They're usually not
    holed up for the entire time (it's probably more appropriate to think of hibernation as a series of
    very long naps), but the American Black Bear can go 100 days without waking up.

     Bears hibernate in order to evade the deprivations of winter. Traditional food sources dry up, and
    much-needed shelter can be hard to find. Before tucking in for their long winter's nap, bears gain up
    to 40 pounds of fat a week. Once comfortably ensconced in a cave or hollow tree, the big critter's heart
    rate drops from 55 beats per minute to roughly 10, and its body temperature drops 5 to 10 degrees.

     Relatively speaking, bears don't hibernate very deeply. They need to keep their body temperatures up
    in order to care for cubs, which are born during winter and suckled by a slumbering mother.
    Be warned -- if you disturb a hibernating bear, it will wake up.



    Vocabulary
    hibernation - the practice of certain animals of sleeping throughout the winter. ( ශිශිර නිද්‍රාව )
    hibernate - (of an animal or plant) spend the winter in a dormant state

    atrophy(noun and verb) - (of body tissue or an organ) waste away, especially as a result of the degeneration of cells, or become vestigial during evolution.
                                          ( v-පිරිහෙනවා ; ක්ෂීණ වෙනවා. n-පිරිහීම ; ක්ෂීණවීම )

    hole up - (of an animal) to hibernate, esp in a cave ; (informal)hide oneself or remain secluded

    deprivation - the condition of being deprived; privation ; act of depriving someone of food or money or rights: "deprivation of civil rights"

    tuck in - put or keep (something) in a specified place so as to be hidden, secure, comfortable, or tidy

    ensconce - establish, settle or conceal (someone) in a comfortable, safe place

    critter - (informal, chiefly a American dialect word) living creature; animal.

    suckle - feed (a baby or young animal) from the breast or teat

    slumber - sleep ; to be quiescent or dormant

    [ tuck someone in/up = make someone, especially a child, comfortable in bed by pulling the edges of the bedclothes firmly under the mattress or by covering bedclothes

       to tuck one’s shirt in(to) one’s trousers = කමිසය කලිසමට යටින් ඇතුල්කර නමාගන්නවා. : "tuck your shirt in." ]