You don’t really think about your home until you have to move somewhere else, or at least I never thought about my home in England until then. But everything changed when Dad came home from work a couple of months ago to tell us more about his new job. ‘So what?’ I thought to myself. And then he said: ‘The new job is in Berlin – in Germany’. And now, two months later, here we are, living in an apartment close to Berlin city centre. I’m going to an international school because I don’t speak German and this is an important year for me because I have to pass some big exams at the end. Our lessons are all in English but because Dad’s here for the next five years, I must learn German!
Like the language, everything around me is still very new. But I like being in the city because it’s more interesting than being in a small place. It’s easy to get around because the public transport is brilliant and it’s cheaper than back home. There are so many amazing things to see and do. Life is exciting, but I miss my friends back home. We skype and email and I keep in touch with everyone on Facebook but it’s not like being together. I hope that I can go back home in the holidays and maybe some of my friends can come and visit too.
What else do I miss? Well, I miss my old room and I know Mum misses the garden because she liked to grow lots of vegetables but I don’t think Dad misses anything and my sister is never in so I don’t know what she misses!
Are the sentences True (T) or False (F)? If there isn’t enough information in the text, write Doesn’t Say (DS).
1. Jack knew before his dad told him that his new job meant moving to another country. F
2. Jack’s apartment in Berlin is bigger than his family flat in England.
3. Jack needs to study very hard while he’s in Berlin.
4. It’s easier to travel in Berlin than in Jack’s hometown.
5. Jack’s relationships with friends in England are the same as before he left.
Let me introduce myself, my name is Olga Petrova. I was born in the 19 th of February, 1994 in Kursk, which is the town of Russia. I am sixteen. I am a pupil. I study in the 11 th form. Our family is big. There are four of us: mother, father, little brother and me.
My brother`s name is Anton. He is 11. Anton is nice and funny.
My parents are young. My mom is a good-looking woman. She is 39. She has two high educations. She works as economist. My mother likes reading books and magazines and she knows a lot of interesting things. She always helps me with my problems.
My father is 41. He is a journalist. He likes his work very much. My father cooks well too. He always makes new dishes and they are very tasty.
In the evening all members of our family like to watch TV. Sometimes we go to the theater or concert. We are a friendly family. We are deeply attached to each other, and we get on very well.
I study well. My favorite school subjects are English, Russian, Literature and others. I want to learn Spanish and French too.
It is important to have friends. My friends name is Oksana. She lives not far from me. It’s not easy to meet a true and faithful friend. I am happy that I have got Oksana. I trust her and I’m sure that I can rely on her in any situation. She is the single person who can ask for help and advice in unhappy moments of my life and whom I can tell all my problems. She never lets people down. I miss Oksana when we don’t see each other for a long time. I think our friendship makes me feel confident; share to over feelings and opinions. Personally, I think that friendship is a great force.
There are many interesting and exciting things to do when you are spending your free time. Each person has his interests and hobbies such as reading books, watching TV, going in for sports. As for me, I have many hobbies: they are – cooking, dancing, singing, and English language. I also fond of reading books. My favorite books are adventures and horror, love stories. When I am reading book I live the character`s life, suffer, and enjoy with them. My favorite hobby is studying English. I think it is necessary to have a hobby. Your free time is not wasted.
Everybody likes music – some people enjoy classical music, others are fond of popular music. Open-minded, I like all kinds of music. I am a meloman. Some music is happy, and some is sad. Some is serious, and some can make people laugh.
My family likes holidays a lot. We usually celebrate each of them with a lot of food and presents and big groups of relatives and friends.
I like New Year very much. My mother and I usually decorate a New Year tree with colorful glass balls and toys. I also cook New Year supper, especially salads. At night we have a real feast.
My other favorite celebration is my birthday which is in February. This day I am in the centre of attention. My parents and friends give me presents, and I usually have birthday party. I invite my friends and we have fun together. I really enjoy holidays and celebrations.
In early childhood it does not take children much time to answer the question «what do you want to be when you grow up?». They mentioned many interesting and exciting professions, the most popular ones are a pilot, a cosmonaut, a businessman. As the years pass, they change their minds.
I know there are many interesting and useful professions but most of all I like the profession of an interpreter. Why? Because I like English language. It is necessary to learn foreign languages. That is why pupils have got such subject as a foreign language at school. Everybody knows his own language but it is useful to know foreign languages too. I want to read in original literature.
I like to travel, but it is difficult to visit countries, when you do not know the language spoken there. If I know the language of the country which I am going to visit it will be easy to travel there. If I want to ask something, I can do it in English. There are international friendship camps in the world. If you can speak foreign languages, it will be easy for you to visit such camps and speak with people there. I think that English will be my future career because I am good at this language.
At a meeting of the Spanish king Philippe V in Madrid in 1701 of 500 court ladies were decorated in his honor with huge points tortoise frames though they had no complaints to sight. In the Moscow Russia data on points arise for the first time in the first third 17 века.только at the end of the 18th century there were points in modern option which kept on ears. Handles of points by means of hinges fastened to a frame. In the beginning they weren't bent at all for ears. Handles could fasten for a wig, or for them bound a lace. With publishing emergence points quickly won popularity among the population. Points for reading were invented in Italy in the XIII century. the founder of the first points is considered to Salvino D'Armat. Improvement of technology brought in the 18th eyelid to emergence of manufactory production of points. Quality of glasses and the frames made in such a way was low. Points became under the motto "it is more cheaper". These "industrial" points generally through vagrant dealers were on sale. The Nuremberg points with a frame from a wire were typical points of that time. The first lenses on points were round. By the end of the 18th eyelid appeared also oval, occasionally met also rectangular линзы.днако, at first people accepted the new invention watchfully. Some called points "the damned tool of a devil". And not at once in society it was unambiguous glasses wearing is apprehended. There were times when in Europe points called "the vampires exhausting eyes", and witches and devils quite often were drawn wearing spectacles. Up to the 19th century disputes on, whether are necessary points in general, didn't stop. In 17 eyelid there were first sunglasses. Usual points coated or is delicious. Tried for protection against sunshine even to grind glasses from jewels or to use pounded jewels. But such points cost much, but also at their use it was possible to receive ожег an eye. At the northern people of Nenets, Eskimos points from a snow blindness - analog solar were long since widespread. They were produced from a tree or bones of animals, had narrow cuts for eyes and were used for hunting in ices. Chinese the first made smoky points of smoky quartz. Such glasses were worn by judges to hide the relation to a sentence during its announcement at court. And at the beginning of the 20th century there were modern dark glasses when the glass which isn't passing ultra-violet radiation for the first time was used. It is interesting that used green glasses earlier, but it appeared that they, passing the brightest beams of a range, least succeed, began to use gray and blue glasses. Gray smoky glasses absorb all color beams almost equally; blue glasses most detain all yellow and orange beams. today every second inhabitant of our planet has points.