Typical Students

Who are they and how they look? In the streets, in parks, cafes, on discos, everywhere you can see young people standing together and talking about something with great interest. What are they talking about? They talk about studying, music, clothes and about money, which will finish soon. But in spite of the problem they are never sad. At the same time students walk around the town, go to cafes, discos and concerts.

Students become friends very fast and forever. Perhaps later when they meet they'll talk about how they are glad to see each other how they were missing, and call each other friends, though they were studying in different groups and saw each other only during exams. But this will be in future.

And now there are some different types of students. One part does nothing but study. Others have time for studying and for things they love to do. Someone likes going in for sport, some are fond of playing computer games, others like singing or dancing and so on. And there are some students who want to graduate the university with good and excellent marks.

Students wear everything that is comfortable to them. They listen to different types of music. Pop, rock, rap these are only few types they listen to. And all students like sleeping. So they are very different.

WRITING TASK

Write what type of students you are? What are you talking about when you are together with your friends?

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English Houses

The climate of a country is one of the factors that influence the style of its architecture. It can be best illustrated by British residential buildings. The weather in England is often cloudy and there are few sunny days in the winter season, therefore, as a rule, the windows in an English house are of a large size to catch as much light and sunshine as possible. In the houses built in the past century the windows, besides being large, opened upwards, this is very convenient on windy days.

Since there is much rain in England, typical British houses have high, steep roofs where rain water and melting snow can easily flow down.

Most of the houses have a fireplace, which forms the most characteristic feature of an English home.

The plan of an English house differs from that of the houses where we live.

Each house generally has just a ground floor and a first floor and is surrounded by a small garden. Looking after the garden is one of the main British pastimes. English architects plan some apartments vertically instead of planning them horizontally, so that an English family having a separate apartment lives on two floors with rooms connected with a narrow staircase. They find it the most convenient style of apartment. There are usually three rooms in each house besides a kitchen and a bathroom: a living room, a bedroom and a dining room.

In suburbs there are not many blocks of flats. Everything looks neat and tidy.

WRITING TASK

Write about your flat or your room. Where would you like to live?

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