all work & no fun.
13. We have a rock band, & often organise dancing parties with flashing lights & everything.
14. We have different contests, including the one between teams of witty persons.
15. Some of the jokes are quite funny.
16. There is an amateur drama company, & they often stage short sketches by humorist writers.
17. So, our school life is rather eventful & active, leaving no time for bedroom.
18. I like my school & I ‘m going to miss my classmates, the easygoing atmosphere, & all the fun we have.
My Working Day.
1. A person’s schedule depends on his or her type of activity, & is organised accordingly.
2. It is rather flexible, & can be change any time, if necessary.
3. I will try to give you a snapshot of a typical day in my life as a school student.
4. The shrill ringing of an alarm-clock wakes me up at half past six.
5. I do not jump out of bed, but daydream for about 5 minutes more.
6. Then I do jump out, & keep jumping, pushing up, sitting up, & generally warming up for about 20 minutes.
7. Then a quick shower, & a very light breakfast - I just can’t make myself eat much in the morning.
8. So, it’s a soft-boiled egg, a toast, & a cup of tea or coffee.
9. Then off to school.
10. It’s the usual routine of classes & breaks, a longer break at 11 a. m. for lunch, & school is over at 1 or 2 p. m., depending on the number of classes.
11. Sometimes I stay at school till 3 p. m. for some optional class or something extra-curriculum.
12. Then I’m home, & it’s dinner, if I may call it so.
13. My folks are both at work, so left to my own devices I have what I manage to find in the fridge.
14. Then I fool around for an hour or so browsing in some magazine or a book, or listening to some quiet music.
15. After that I’m ready for the most important part of my day, my work actually.
16. I study, I dig up information, I solve tasks, find answers to question - do my homework.
17. By 8 p. m. I feel tired.
18. Fortunately, by that time folks have arrived, & we eat.
19. That is the only proper meal of the day for me, & the only time to talk with my parents.
20. Then an hour or more of study, some TV, & by 12 p. m. I’m in bed.
21. Sometimes I have to stay up late, if I have some difficult task to solve.
22. So this is it, in a nutshell.
23. Not very eventful, but it’s a working day, isn’t it?
Russia.
1. We are living in a rapidly changing, multinational & multicultural world.
2. Barriers keep falling, people & cultures mix, but one thing remains basic & dear to my heart - my homeland, Russia.
3. No one can deny that it is a great country in all senses of the world, with its area of 17,1 million square kilometres, & the population of 150 million people.
4. It spans two parts of the world, Europe & Asia, serving as a bridge between them.
5. It is washed by the seas of the Arctic & Pacific Oceans.
6. The variety of climatic zones it the north down to the subtropics in the south.
7. It has immense natural resources, such as coal, oil & gas, all kinds of mineral deposits, great forests & rivers, it has everything.
8. There are many branches of industry in Russia - machine-building, steel production, chemical & electronic industries, & numerous others.
9. Unfortunately, agriculture is in a rather poor state, & we have to import foodstuffs, & even wheat.
10. The potential of Russia & its people is great, & with reasonable economic mechanisms & laws the country will overcome the present difficulties, & will occupy the place it deserves in the world community.
11. The cultural heritage of Russia is rich & varied/
12. The names of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky are known all over the world/
13. Russia’s history, like that of any other great country, is full of glory & blood.
14. Russia twice saved Europe from the Dark Age - stopping the Tartars, & crushing the German fascists.
15. I’m proud of my country, I love Russia, my motherland, & will do the best I can to improve its economic & political situation.
An Outstanding Person of Russia.
1. Russia gave birth to many wonderful people, who made great contributions to all fields of human activity, such as science, art, various discoveries, & so on.
2. The world knows our composers, ballet dancers, writers.
3. As for me, I think one of the greatest men, who influenced Russian & world culture, was Alexander Pushkin.
4. I believe that in his prose & poetry he actually created the modern Russian language, the language we use today.
5. He was born a nobelman & lived a life of a nobelman.
6. He studied at an exclusive school, lycee.
7. He visited all those balls, & parties, & receptions at court.
8. But he managed to feel & know the souls of ordinary Russian people of all walks of life.
9. His power of observation was so great, that in his works he drew a comprehensive picture of life in Russia at that time.
10. It’s a strange phenomenon that poets do not live long.
11. I think that is because the candle burns so brightly & so fast.
12. Pushkin was killed at the age of 37 at a duel that was a result of intrigue & scandal connected with the name of his wife.
13. But poets do not die.
14. If you asked Russian people who their favourite poets is, most would answer «Pushkin».
15. Small kids learn to read using his fairy tales, & this admiration of his poetry just stays on.
16. His works are read & enjoyed by all those who love the Russian language & Russia.
Sport.
1. Sport is, or rather should be, an important part of everyone’s life.
2. Here we should distinguish between big-time sport & just keeping fit.
3. We can’t all be professional athletes, but we should pay attention to out bodies.
4. Our body needs exercise just as it needs food.
5. Everyone chooses physical according to one’s tastes.
6. Some people just jog.
7. Others prefer more active kind of exercise, such as football, basketball, volleyball, martial arts.
8. Tennis has become very popular, & it really is a good workout for all groups of muscles.
9. Fitness centres, body building & shaping gyms are full of pumping iron.
10. There are some specific British & American sports that are rather interesting - golf, cricket, baseball, American football.
11. Tastes differ, but one thing is for sure - if you want to be healthy & fit, you can’t do without sport.
12. I start every day with a half hour of exercise - push ups, sit ups, chin ups, warming up all my muscles.
13. Then a quick shower, & I feel as fit as a fiddle.
14. Twice a week I have a two-hour workout in a gum on various training devices & just lifting weights.
15. Once a week I visit a swimming pool .
16. It’s enough for me to feel fit.
17. Of course I would like to take up Alpine skiing or para-gliding, but I have neither time nor equipment for that.
Holidays.
1. Every family has its own holidays, connected with some great events in its history.
2. For ordinary people holidays are mostly the chance to relax & have a good time.
3. There are some almost universal holidays, such as Christmas & New Year.
4. We’ve got 2 favourite holidays New Year & Easter.
5. The New Year is noisy & festive.
6. Christmas trees are decorated with tinsel, toys, & strings of colored light bulbs.
7. Children put stockings under the trees for Santa Claus to fill them up with gifts.
8. It’s a family occasion - the whole family usually gathers, gifts are exchanged.
9. There are parties, dancing, champagne drinking, fireworks & firecrackers.
10. At midnight everyone at a party stops whatever they are doing to greet the New Year.
11. It’s the most colorful & merry of all holidays.
12. I can’t help mentioning Easter, which is connected with the idea of spring & revival of nature.
13. We exchange painted eggs, special cakes, & generally make merry.
14. There are also our birthdays parties- we celebrate him or her with birthday, singing Happy birthday to you, present our gifts & have our family dinner.
15. All holidays are nice, because people forget their worries for a while, & enjoy themselves.
London.
1. I haven’t been to London yet, & I’d like to visit