5 Think about your ideal place to live. Is it a town or a village? Write six sentences with
There is ... / There are and the key phrases
in exercise 4. Use the phrases in the box and
your own ideas.
In my ideal place to live there are no factories.
a big shopping centre a skateboard park
schools factories old buildings
tall buildings a river a park
big forests hospitals​

Travelling is very popular nowadays. a lot of people travel to different countries if they have such opportunity. travelling allows you to get interesting experience, learn about people’s life in other countries and continents. i think it is very interesting to discover new things, new places and different ways of life. while on travel, you meet new people, try different meals; see world famous places with your own eyes. these are many ways of traveling — by train, by plain, by ship, on foot. if you want to visit a far country, you’ll definitely choose a flight. if your aim is to see many countries for a short time, you’ll choose travelling by bus or by car. if you want to be closer to nature, you may choose a trip on foot. lots of people nowadays live in big cities. so it’s natural that they want to have a holiday by the sea or in the mountains with nothing to do but relaxing. there is other sort of travellers. they want to visit as many countries as possible. so after exploring europe and north america they go to exotic countries. people who travel a lot, are very interesting, they always have a good story to tell. thanks to them you can learn many things which you didn’t know before. they motivate to see something new, to explore the world, which is so easy to do nowadays. any kind of travel helps you to understand many things that you would never see or learn at home. as english people say — a picture is worth a thousand words. and i totally agree

Какая свобода, какая чудесная удаль, какая меткость, точность во всем и какой необыкновенный народный солдатский язык - ни палочки, ни задоринки, ни единого фальшивого, готового, то есть -пошлого слова! " - так писал и.а.бунин о поэме александра твардовского "василий теркин". эта поэма, одна из вершин творчества твардовского, давно уже вошла в классический ряд . удивительно, что о самой жестокой войне можно было написать с такой силой. сам по себе весь рассказ вызывает незабываемые впечатления которые радуют меня при каждом чтении!