Forbidden Fruit | Describing pictures in English | New Forward | Eng + Rus Subs

It is common knowledge – and many of you will subscribe to this, from your own experience – that routine must-does are bound to be the best way to discourage any desire to learning anything new. If you want to provoke a strong repulsion to music or fine art, carry out an experiment by reincarnating a dead, unfulfilled dream of yours on your own kid. If you want to loathe classical literature, start with a pathoanatomical analysis of the writer’s biography, then do the same to their characters, and at the same time force yourself to get bogged down in a dictionary, stumbling on every unfamiliar word. Getting ready for the state exam in English, where you are to describe and compare photos, learn how to do it in such a way so that your content would be of no interest to anyone – and your works would become waste paper to collect dust in the attic of your memory...