Sasha’s desk was a battlefield of open tabs. One tab held the digital version of the English 10-11 Reader , and the other was a "GDZ" site, ready to provide a translated summary of a story by Somerset Maugham. For Sasha, English was just a series of puzzles to be bypassed.
He realized that using GDZ was like watching someone else exercise: you see the result, but you don't get any stronger. Sasha decided that from then on, he would rather stumble across the bridge himself than be carried across it in his sleep. Sasha’s desk was a battlefield of open tabs
The next day, his teacher, Mrs. Ivanova, did something different. She didn’t ask for a summary. She asked, "If you were the protagonist in this story, trapped in that rainy London flat, what is the one thing you would say to the person leaving you?" He realized that using GDZ was like watching
