Text 2

Exercise 1. Look through the text and do the task given below it.

I live in Moscow, in Lenin Street, house number 6 flat 12.

My family is not very large. We are 5 in the family: my father, my mother, my sister, my grandmother and me.

We all live together in a new flat in one of the industrial districts of Moscow. We occupy four rooms in the flat on the first floor.

My father Ivan Ivanovich is 43 years old. He works at an automobile plant as an engineer. He is a very busy man.

He likes his work and spends most of his time here. When he is at home he is always ready to help his wife about the house. His hobby is collecting stamps.

My mother Olga Viktorovna is a pleasant-looking woman. She is a teacher of music and plays the piano well. She is forty. My mother always has a lot of work to do about the house and at school. She is a busy woman and we all help her. By character my father is a calm man, while my mother is energetic and talkative.

My sister's name is Alla. Like her mother Alla has blue eyes and fair hair. She is a very good-looking girl. Alla is three years younger than me. She is a pupil of the 9th form. She does well at school and gets only good and excellent marks. Literature is her favorite subject and she wants to become a teacher, the same as me.

My name is Alexander. This year I have left school and become an applicant for entry to Moscow State University, Philological Department. If I fail my exams I'll be very upset, but next year I'll try to enter the University again.

My grandmother does not work, she is 68. She is retired.

Our family is very united. We like spending time together. In the evening we like watching TV, reading books and newspapers, listening to music or just talking about the events of the day.

I also have many other relatives: uncles, aunts, cousins.

Exercise 2. Choose the words which will help you to describe man’s appearance, character, occupation.

Engineer, busy, collecting, calm, pleasant-looking, energetic, reading, talkative, dancing, going in for sport, blue, favorite, occupation, fair, teacher, dark, young, tall, watching TV.

Exercise 3. Give the situations in which these words are used (see the text).

Text 3

My biography

Exercise 1. Read the text pay attention to the facts of Sasha’s biography.

My name is Alexander, Sasha for short. My middle name is Ivanovich.

My surname is Petrov. I am 16 (years old). I live in Moscow.

I was born on the 20th of November 1978 in Moscow. My father is a doctor, he works at a hospital. My mother is a scientific secretary of Nature Conservation society. She has much work to do about the house too. We are five in the family. I have a younger sister and brother. They are both pupils. Alla is in the fifth form and Boris is a pupil of the ninth form. Our family is very united.

In June I left school №888 in Moscow. I always did well at school and learned with great interest. I also took an active part in social life, attended sport clubs and subject circles.

My favorite subject at school was Literature. My teacher of Literature was a well-educated man with broad

outlook and deep knowledge of the subject. He taught us to understand Russian classics, the language and style. He acquainted us with modern authors, helped to understand modern history and life better. He also encouraged me in my desire to become a teacher of Literature.

Exercise 2. Render the text in turn (a sentence for each student ).