9. Learn languages.

In the school and now in the Institute I learn English. E. is a world language. Learning foreign languages is very important now. If you know E. you can talk with people others nationalitys. E. is language of business, cultural and science. Many scientific books write in E. a lot of songs in E. negotiations are under way in E. Learn languages is very important for people in world today That is why I would like learn a foreign languages in future

10. Television.

Tvset is a great convenience. You can see interesting programes and hear the best music sitting at home. You see the news and you know whats going on the world. You needn;t go to the cinema every week – you can see most of the films on television. Those who like sports can also see very interesting matches. But some people see tv set constanly. They see all programmes. It’s no good. Nevertheless television is a great thing.

11. English meals.

The first meal of the day is breakfast. For breakfast E. people also have toast, butter, and marmalade and tea or coffee, wich they drink hot, usually with sugar and with some milk. At dinner Englishmen usually eat meat and vegetables or fish and potatoes. Before it there may be some soup. After it comes a sweet pudding. At lunch, dinner and supper they drink plenty of water. Most people in england like tea. They often drink it in the middle of the morning, at home or at work. This may be a cup of tea and a cake or it may be a light meal of bread butter and jam, cakes and tea or it may be a heavier meal of those things with a dish of meat or eggs they call in high tea.

14. My home.

My family and I live in a three-room apartment in a block of flats of 9 floors. Our flat is on the second floor. There is a

bedroom, a living-room, a kitchen, a haii a bathroom in it. There is a balcony too. My room is not large. There is a bed, a writing-table and a chair, a wardrobe, a tvset and computer. My room faces the North. It is very light. Living room is large. there is a sofa, a 2 chair , a book shelfs a TVset with DVDplayer. In the living room is mane flowers. Our flat is very cosy and comfortable. I love my flat.

8. Weather and climate.

The wether in Russia it’s very changeble. It’s rains a lot and coldly in autumn. Cold and a lot of snow in winter. But people like winter, they skiing, skating and play snowballs. The weather is change in spring. Begin a warm, thaw a snow, open a leaf on trees. In summer the weather is fine. But sometimes the days may be are very hot or cold, may be are raining or droughty. People like summer, because it season holidays and vacation.

Мой друг

I’m not a very sociable person. To my mind, it’s not obliged for people to have a lot of friends in order to be happy. It’s enough, as I think, to have one or two friends who are able to understand you and to support you in hard situations. So, there are few people whom I can call friends. We have much in common and we enjoy communicating with each other. One of my friends is Natalie. She is eighteen. I can say that she is beautiful and smart girl. She left school 2 years ago and now she is a second year student of the University. Natalie wants to be a journalist. She studies well because she is greatly interested in her future profession. Natalie is a hardworking girl too. I admire this feature of her character because I don’t have it.

Natalie does not have much free time but if she has, she likes to spend it in a good company, consisting of her school friends. When we gather together we like to listen to music, both classical and modern one, to watch new films and discuss them. I enjoy talking to her a lot because she knows many interesting facts about famous people, history. Her favorite subject at school were history and literature. She is fond of reading. Books have become part and parcel of her life.

We have been being friends for a long time. We trust each other so much that we have some personal secrets which are not revealed to the others. I can tell her about my troubles and I am sure that Natalie would help me and give me a piece of good advice.

Natalie is an intelligent person. She has a deep and genuine interest in people, open-mindedness and inquiring mind. It is necessary for her as a journalist.

I’m happy to have such a good friend as Natalie.

The Weather and Climate Fluctuations

'Funny weather we are having' is a statment of the obvious we have used for generations as a greeting. When the deep cold lasts long and heavy snow and blizzards give us the shivers we replace "funny" with something stronger, such as "terrible", "ghastly". At times like these people ask what is happening to the weather. So we go to the experts, who tells us, in language appropriate to the subject, what happened yesterday, what is happening today, and what might happen in the next few years. Weather and climate specialists all over the world have ammassed a vast quanity of information. They can describe what is happening around us. With satellites they can forecast more accurately what might happen in the immediate future. Their research has produced evidence of why past climatic changes took place.

There have been many climate fluctuations ovver th 10,000 years since Britain was last covered with an ice sheet. Advances and retreats of ice in the northern hemisphere during the past 500,000 years can be accounted for by changes in the warmth from the Sun.

This was caused by alterations in the Earth's orbit at periods of 96,000, 40,000 and 20,000 years.

Although that theory is widley accepted as a possible explanations for ice ages, it has not been proved. More than 50 theories have been put forward, but only a few have not been completely dismissed.

Not long ago a new theory was published in the science journal "Nature". According to Dr. Garry Hunt, of University College, intense radiations from the nuclear explosion of a nearby supernova - a star - could cause the destruction of part or all of the ozone layer and in this way trigger an ice age.

As for me, i like Autumn best of all. The days become shorter and the nights longer. It isn't so hot in the day-time. The trees are covered with yellow and red leaves. At the end of summer apples, pears, plums and other fruit become ripe. In the South there are many oranges, peaches and tangerines. Autumn is plesant when it does not rain. General Autumn is a rainy season of the year. When it rains the weather is nasty. The sky is covered with heavy clouds. It drizzles. It is muddy and wet.

Еда

meals play an important role in human life. Because it contained indispensable ingredients for life activity of our organism. Such as dioxides, fats, minerals and vitamins. They are contained in fish, vegetables, fruits, meat and other food stuffs . To be healthy man should eat 3 times a day. For lunch people usually eat buiscuits, toasts, sandwiches, cheese and drink coffee or tea with cream and sugar accordingly to your taste . For dinner we eat some soup, salad and fowl, fish or meat with garnish. Many people have to eat out of home in restaurants or in cafes . In such places you can order French fries, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, crisps, pizza and many others, but these meals are very harmful for our health. There are people who like salty and spicy or sweet food. Also we all like roasted and grilled food , but such it is also very harmful . Nowadays a lot of people believe that only healthy food must be eaten. They don't eat spaghetti, chops, sausages, grilled meat fish, fowl. They prefer to eat boiled and stewed vegetables such as cabbage, cauliflower, egg-plants, carrots. They certainly eat meat and fish but only boiled. Also there are people who don't eat meat or fowl at all . They are vegetarians. But it isn't good, because in fish and in meat there are some ingredients without which our health won't be strong. In all big cities you can find Indian, Chinese Japanese and other oriental restaurants . Nowadays you can order you favourite meals by telephone, but despite it a lot of people like to cook themselves .Before cooking something you must buy some food stuffs. In big cities there are supermarkets and department stores where you can buy everything you need in daily life: from a tooth brush up to cars and furniture. Certainly you can buy there any you food stuffs. like Also there are food shops and markets. In markets it is better to buy greens, vegetables and fruits. Meat, fowl and fish it is safer to bay in shops because they must be kept refrigerator. As for me I like salty and spicy food . For example I'll never refuse to eat grilled meat or stuffed egg-plants. I like caviar, shrimps, pate, bacon, cold pork.