Well, that’s what everybody does now.

I’m sure many of you probably had the experience of taking a selfie, which is a picture of yourself.

But how about taking a selfie with the deceased and maybe making money from that selfie?

That’s the new craze (you know)

The police in Russia are now investigating an online competition

“Selfie with the Deceased”

A group on VK, which is a Russian version of Facebook

started the competition and encouraged people to post their selfie with the dead people on the Internet

and offered cash prizes for the best shots

Organizers of the group said the selfie-taker should ‘smile’ in the photo

because the deceased have gone to a better place

Oh my goodness! I think that’s taking the selfie to a sick new level

Well, the group’s administrator Alfred Polyakov said

they are trying to change the popular attitudes toward death

and try to help the family to come to terms with their grief.

After you hear this news, would you be interested in joining the competition?

You might win $5000 rubles.

Well, I wouldn’t.

Let’s talk about some vocabulary from the news.

a picture of yourself, typically taken with a smartphone or a webcam

It is the Word of the Year 2013 from the Oxford Dictionary.

There are other cool terms such as wefie.

That’s a group picture. Kind of like a selfie but with two or more people.

Hairfie – that’s the picture of your hair.

that’s a verb - to find out the truth about something or how something happened

"investigation" is the noun form of "investigate"

you probably have heard of the term CSI.

That’s Crime Scene Investigation. It’s a very very popular English episode.

a collective noun which means the dead people

The word “encourage” has the prefix

“Encourage” means to give someone courage or hope.

There are other words with the same prefix [em-] or [en-]

the way you think/feel/behave

One of my favorite quotes is

That’s the phrase which means to learn to deal with something unpleasant

For example, people need to come to terms with the plane crash or the tragic events.

“Grief” means

Alright. Everybody. That’s it for today.

If you have any questions, feel free to leave a comment.

I hope you like my class! See you next time! Bye bye!