The document announces an English meetup in Moscow on July 1st organized by Julia Gerstein, an English teacher and frontend developer. It provides her contact information and examples of conversational English phrases and tasks for partners to practice speaking. Examples include introducing yourself, talking about hobbies like video games, and discussing plans and obstacles for moving to Silicon Valley to work in tech.

1. MOSCOW IT-ENGLISH
MEETUP 1 июля
Telegram @silienglish

2. Julia Gerstein
Professional English teacher,
Junior Frontend-Developer,
Upwork Enthusiast
Facebook Julia Gerstein
julssuhomli@gmail.com
+7 977 659-27-45

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4. How are you
doing today?
GREAT!

5. How d’ye do?
I’VE BEEN
BETTER!

6. How goes it?
I AM HANGING IN
THERE!

7. Hello! What’s
up?
NOTHING MUCH!

8. How are you
getting on?
OH GOSH! I AM
PRETTY GOOD!

9. How is yourself?
What cheer?
How are things?
How is tricks?

10. TASK #1
«I am glad
you’re here»

12. TALK TO YOUR
PARTNER!
Meet a new friend!

13. Steve: Hi! How d’ye do?
Bill: Just great! And you?
Steve: Perfect! What is your name
Bill: My name is Bill. And yours?
Steve: I am Steve! I am glad you’re
here, Bill!
Bill: I am glad you’re here, too!

14. TASK #2
«This is Irina! She is
a web-developer!»

16. TALK TO YOUR
PARTNER!

17. -Hey, Irina! What do you do for a living?
-Um… I am a web-developer. I code e-commerce sites.
-Do you code in JS or PHP?
-I can do both!..
-Wow! Which projects are you currently working on?
-I am developing a platform for physicians! And you?

18. BE PREPARED TO SHORTLY INTRODUCE
YOUR PARTNER TO THE AUDIENCE
Let me introduce you to Irina! She is a wonder woman!
Irina creates web-sites in two programming languages,
PHP and JS and raises her little son all alone.
Irina has got a very interesting idea for a startup - an
app for young moms.
And she is really willing to win over Silicon Valley!

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43. TASK #3
«A game to play»

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TEAM WINDOWS

46. HIDEO KOJIMA

48. TWO ZOMBIES,
JESUS,
VIRUS,
A SYMBOL,
DOSTOEVSKY LIBRARY,
The Art of Programming by D. Knut,
a key,
COCA-COLA

49. TASK #4
«Do you like
videogames?»

50. TALK TO YOUR PARTNER!

51. Steve: What do you think of video games? Do you like
playing them?
Bill: I love them! My favourite one is DOTA 2. It helps me
wind down after work. Do you like playing?
Steve: Yeah! And I code my own game on weekends! It is
about zombies!
Bill: Sounds great! What does your girlfriend think about
it?
Steve: Oh! She says, the zombie is not far to seek! :(

52. TASK #5
«Gamificate yourself»

53. What is gamification?

54. Do you use game principles in non-game
context?
You use gamification!

55. Which services use
gamification?

56. How is the gamification element
implemented in Stack Overflow?

58. Who designed the Stack
Overflow gamification?
Both Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood together.
"Some of our notable influences included:
• Reddit and Digg voting
• Xbox 360 achievements
• Wikipedia editing
• eBay karma
• Blogs and blog comments
• Classic web bulletin boards..."

59. How does the ranking
system help us
solve our code issues?

60. Take a look at the question!

61. The right question magnifies the real issue/problem and
therefore scores points.
Is the question hard to read? No, it’s simple.

62. 1. Take time to
understand the question
2. Analise it’s ranking

63. At this point a very
good English is not
needed!

64. If the ranking is good and the
question is simple,
keep reading,
because probably there’s an answer
down below

65. The answer is short
and clear, because the
question was right!

66. Look for the right
simple question!

67. TASK #6
«When are you going to
move to the Silicon Valley?»

68. TALK TO YOUR PARTNER!
Your main obstacle

69. Steve: What is the main obstacle on your way to the Valley?
Bill: Well, I don’t know Steve. Maybe English. I don’t speak
English very well!
Steve: Yeah! Me too! But for me it is also lack of courage. As soon
as I am brave enough, I’ll take my wife and kids and we’ll do it.
Bill: You sound like a crazy person. Why don’t you try to start your
app right here?
Steve: I have already done that. But what about you? Do you not
want to go there?
Bill: I do. But I don’t have money.

70. Present your
partner’s position

71. Hey guys! This is Bill. He wants to
go to the Valley, but doesn’t have
money and he has not come up
with his business plan yet.

72. TALK TO YOUR PARTNER!
Let’s discuss strategy

73. Steve: Do you have friends in the Valley?
Bill: One friend of mine left there for a year.
Steve: Cool! How so?
Bill: He joined the Startup-Next accelerator program. It is good for
starters.
Bill: Accelerators… urrr… Is this the only way to win funding?
Steve: I guess so, but I am not sure. You can always start as an
independent businessman!
Bill: Yeah, but California is very expansive for a Russian coder with
no huge amount of money!

74. Share your strategy
with the audience!

75. TALK TO YOUR PARTNER!
Building future

76. Steve: What kind of an app would you develop in the Valley?
Bill: I think, I wouldn’t develop apps or something. I’d try to build an AI that
can teach you English!
Steve: Oh no! Sounds really intriguing! Tell me about it!
Bill: It would create a meetup on meetup.com, invite the guests up to the
library and then my AI would try to socialise with real people pretending to
be a teacher.
Bill: Wow! Monetization of your AI would be a problem.
Steve: I guess so, but I like talking to her.
Bill: Wait! Have you already?..
Steve: Aha…

77. Забавные уроки
английского для
IT-специалистов
с Юлией Герштейн!

78. Julia Gerstein
Facebook
Julia Gerstein
@silienglish
julssuhomli@gmail.com
+7 977 659-27-45