5. My future plans.

6. My future profession.

There are a lot of interesting and useful professions. I am going to become a teacher. I suppose my future profession to be one of the most important nowadays.

My future speciality is English (Literature, Russian, History, Geography). I love children very much and to become a teacher has been my dream since my early childhood.

To teach and to bring up children is the most important and noble thing, to my mind. I am eager to get the proper education to be able to do my best to teach my future pupils my favourite subject. I'll try not only to help them to master it. I'll try to help them to become good and clever people, to be honest, kind and noble.

Children are our future and I want them to be really good and educated people. Of course, the profession of a teacher is not an easy one. It demands a lot of knowledge, a lot of tenderness of feeling and sometimes a lot of patience. But I hope, that I'll be a good teacher and that my pupils will like me and my subject.

7. Educational system of Ukraine.

Children in Ukraine start gaining their education at the age of three when they attend kindergarten. The real school starts for them when they reach the age of six or seven. At the age of ten they become pupils of junior classes. It is not necessary to attend school after finishing junior classes, but the full secondary school programme includes senior classes (age 15-17). These two years of study are obligatory for gaining higher education.

So pupils finish school at the age of 15 or 17. Those who do not wish to continue studying may enter vocational schools, different kinds of technical schools, or just find their jobs and start working.

Having graduated from school at the age of 17 you may become a student at the establishments of high education: a university, a college, an institute. And after that you may become a postgraduate student (in case one wants to work at his or her scientific reseach and receive the scientific degree of Master or Doctor of Science).

But this stage in the life of Ukrainian people may not be the final in learning. Because the well-known English proverb says “As you live so you learn”.

8. Educational system of Great Britain.

9. My favourite subject.

English is very important as it has become the most used language in politics, science, trade and cultural relations in the world. It is also the language of great literature. Such writers as William Shakespeare, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens and Bernard Shaw wrote in English. It gives me great pleasure to read their books in the original.

I learn English at the collage. I also read English books, magazines and newspapers. I watch video films and listen to songs in English.

I have a Walkman, so I often listen to songs or teaching cassettes when walking or in the underground. I write new words on little cards and look them through every evening before going to sleep.

I hope that in the future I’ll speak English fluently!