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1. Unusual Present Once upon a time in a small village there lived a young man. His name was Jack. He had a wife and old parents. The family was so poor that there were no nice things in their house. One day Jack went to town to look for a job. Some time passed and he came […]...
2. Adventure with a Bear It was a difficult journey. The whole ship was like a ship of glass; everything was covered with ice. Even when the sun was shining, the weather was very cold. There was ice on the coats of the sailors. The sailors were always on deck and were watching for the huge masses of ice. An […]...
3. My first journey For some people there is nothing so exciting as traveling, and I’m not an exception. And I’m happy that I have traveled a lot and I hope that my first journey wasn’t the last one. First I bought a ticket for plane. Many people think, that nothing can be compared with traveling by air, because […]...
4. Going to sea Dear Livesey, The ship is bought and ready for sea. You’ve never seen a better ship – a child can sail her. Her name is the Hispaniola. I got her through my old friend, Blandly, who worked hard to find her for me. In fact, so did everyone here in Bristol as soon as they […]...
5. Alaska summer cruises As the demand for multi-generational family travel continues to grow, Crystal Cruises invites children under 12 to cruise for free aboard seven Crystal Harmony 2005 Alaska cruises when sharing the same stateroom With two adults. Available during the peak family travel months of June, July and August, families and children of all ages will delight […]...
6. How did I spend last summer? I think summer is the best season for rest because it is warm, the nature is beautiful and we have great opportunities for rest. Summer is a time of holidays. We can go for a walk all day long, watch the clouds, swim, sit down by a river or a lake on fresh, green grass, […]...
7. Легко ли быть молодым? – Is it easy to be young? “To be or not to be? – That is the question!” – And is it easy to be young? Every person has his own answer to this question. Youth is a very wonderful, exciting and important period in the life of every person. You are full of hopes, dreams and plans for future. But our […]...
8. Cricket Cricket is a long game, requiring anything from three to five days for competition. Progress is often slow; and there is no certainty that a result will be achieved even when two teams play for the best part of a week. A healthy majority of Anglo-Saxons are fond of cricket, and the game is immensely […]...
9. Твір з англіської мови: My Parents. Мої батьки Мою маму звуть Олена Василівна. Їй 37 років. Мій батько на три роки старший, йому 40. Його звуть Сергій Миколайович. Вони обоє лікарі. Вони дуже люблять свою роботу і проводять багато часу в лікарні. Колеги і пацієнти поважають їх. Я пишаюся своїми батьками і люблю їх. Я хотіла б проводити з ними більше часу, але […]...
10. A Careless Tongue There was a young woman who liked to tell stories about her neighbours. Some stories were good, some stories were funny and then young woman told them to make people laugh. As always happens in such cases the other people, who heard the stories, told them to their friends trying to make the stories funnier […]...
11. Robert Burns (1759-1796) Robert Burns is the best known of all Scottish poets. He wrote about the feelings of ordinary poor people, love between man and woman, he glorified a healthy, joyous and clever Scotch peasant. The poor people loved him as the most gifted poet who expressed their thoughts and feelings in his poems and verses. Burns […]...
12. Nobody Had Believed It Was Possible In 1912, the Titanic hit the iceberg on its first trip across the Atlantic, and it sank four hours later. At that time, The Titanic was the largest ship that had ever travelled on the sea. It was carrying 2207 people, but it had taken on enough lifeboats for only 1178 people. When the passengers […]...
13. Вслед за викингами – On vikings’ trails The summer will be soon, it means that an enormous number of people will go on a holiday. And of course most of them will go to the South. But there are several places in the North which have a fine weather NORWAY Norway is the country of vikings. In Oslo you can see the […]...
14. Children in sport I Hello, and welcome to today’s ‘You &;; Yours’. On today’s program we look at children who are trying to be champions in the world of sport, and the pressures they can be under to win. Now I spoke to Allan Baker, the former British Athletics coach, and he had this to say. AB Well […]...
15. New Year party Children all over the world enjoy New Year. They know father frost will come and give them presents. They like to have a fir tree at home. It;s fun to decorate it with shiny toys and coloured lights. And it;s nice to find a surprise under it in the morning. Children like to go to […]...
16. Мотивация – Motivation You may not hear the term “motivation” every single day. But we connect with it for the whole life. For instance, when you were small, you wanted something and started crying, and after that your parents bought it for you. I think such as situation happens with all of us. And you may ask: “Where […]...
17. A Clean Kitchen Once a young man came to a small restaurant, in London. He sat down at a little table near the window and ordered dinner. The waiter put a plate, a knife and a fork on the table in front of the young man, and brought some bread and soup. The young man began to eat […]...
18. Центр моей жизни – The focus of my life Today the focus of my life is learning languages. Since early childhood when I didn’t understand many things, I was dreaming about learning at least five of them. I always named English, French, Italian, Spanish, German and sometimes even Japanese. Of course these words meant very little for me then. I just heard them very […]...
19. My Parents’Working Day. Робочий день моїх батьків Мої батьки – дуже зайняті люди. Мій батько – бізнесмен. Він керівник у великій фірмі. Щодня в нього дуже багато роботи, тому він встає дуже рано навіть у вихідні. Ранком у нього є час тільки для легкого сніданку і чашки гарячої кави. Тим часом він зазвичай переглядає газети і ділові журнали. Потім він іде працювати. […]...
20. Peter the Great Peter 1, or Peter the Great was one of the most outstanding rulers and reformers in Russian history. He was Tsar of Russia and became Emperor in 1721. First he ruled together with his brother, Ivan, and his sister, Sofya. In 1696 he became a sole ruler. He was a healthy, lively and clever child. […]...
21. До войны – Before the war They lived in a small village of the Soviet Union. Their house was not big, but very beautiful and cosy. There was a big garden around this house. They usually walked and worked there. When Misha was seven, he went to school. He was a clever boy and he did very well. Misha had got […]...
22. Mark Twain in France Mark Twain, a famous American writer, liked to travel very much. Once he was travelling in France. He was going by train to one little town. That day Mark Twain was very tired and wanted to sleep. He asked the conductor to wake him up when the train got to that town. He said, “I […]...
23. Stephen Spielberg He is the cinema’s great enchanter. His films have enthralled the young and the old across the globe. Yet many in Hollywood dislike this man. They say he is a child who never grew up. They fear his influence and despite his box-office successes, they made him sweat for 25 years before giving him an […]...
24. Early marriages The main problem of all early marriages is a financial one. Young couple is just depressed by their low income. Lack of proper education, inexperience &;#038; youth do not help the young to receive a large payment for the jobs they do. Some young people decide to get married even without any sources to existing. […]...
25. Jonathan Swift. (1667-1745) JS was the greatest of English satiriste. His better satire at the contempro-rary social order in jeneral and an the policy of English government towards in particular. That’s why the Irish people considered Swift the champion in the struggle for the wealthy and freedom of their country. JS was born in Dublin, but he came […]...
26. Стилистический анализ текста: Graham Greene “I Spy” The text under stylistic analysis “I Spy” is written by Graham Greene in the style of fiction. It deals with author;s feelings and emotions about relations at school, relations in the family. The main theme of the story is how main character of the story Charlie Stowe was able to steal some of his father;s […]...
27. A Laconic Answer There was a time when the people of Greece were not united but instead there were several states each of which had its own ruler. Some of the people in the southern part of the country were called Spartans and they were famous for their simple habits and their bravery. The name of their land […]...
28. Мои родители – My Parents Мою маму зовут Елена Васильевна. Ей 37 лет. Мой отец на три года старше, ему 40. Его зовут Сергей Николаевич. Они оба врачи. Они очень любят свою работу и проводят много времени в больнице. Коллеги и пациенты уважают их. Я горжусь своими родителями и люблю их. Я хотела бы проводить с ними больше времени, но […]...
29. Taras Shevchenko Taras Shevchenko, born 9 March 1814 in Moryntsi, Kyiv gubernia, died 10 March 1861 in St. Petersburg, Russia. Artist, poet, and national bard of Ukraine was born a serf. Shevchenko was orphaned in his early teens and grew up in poverty. At the age of 14 he was taken by his owner, Engelhardt, to serve […]...
30. If I had a chance to go to some English – speaking country I would like to go to Australia Australia seems to me and other people to be the upside-down world. The New Year is at midsummer, midwinter is in June. Hot winds blow from the north: cold winds blow from the south. The farther north you go, the hotter it gets. The trees look strange; it will seem odd to you that they […]...
31. TRAVELLING Modern life is impossible without travelling. To understand how true it is you’ve to go to a railway sta an airport where you can see hundreds of people hurrying to board a train or a plane. Those who wish to have at their disposal various means of transport. Some people prefer to travel by plane, […]...
32. Gulliver’s Travels (book review) In 1726 Swift’s masterpiece “Gulliver’s Travels” appeared. This work made a great sensation in Ireland as well as in England, it equally strirred the interests of those in politics as well as the readers of novels. In this work Swift intended to satirise the evils of the existing society in the form of fictions travels. […]...
33. A Pleasant Trip An Englishman who was in France on a short visiting wanted to go back to London. Unfortunately he had enough money only to pay for his ticket. As he knew that the trip was very short, he decided that he could stay without food for two days. So he bought a ticket and boarded the […]...
34. The Blind Man and the Great Artist Every day in one of the streets of Vienna you could see a blind man playing the violin. His dog sat near him with a cap in his mouth. People, who were passing them, dropped coins into the cap. One day, when the weather was very cold, the man was playing for a long time, […]...
35. The Dardenne Brothers Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne began making short video documentaries together in the 1970s, and then shot their first fiction film in 1987, Falsch (False), in which the ghosts of a Jewish family, reunited after World War II in a deserted airport, are forced to deal with their past. The work is atypical for the Dardenne […]...
36. Lewis Carroll (1832 -1898) Lewis Carroll was an English writer. His real name was Charles Dodgson. Charles Dodgson was the third child in the family. He had seven brothers and sisters. The children were brought up in the country among gardens, fields and woods. When Charles was twelve years old, he went to school. He was a good pupil. […]...
37. A Broken Vase The young man was going to marry a beautiful girl. One day the girl said to him that the next day she would celebrate her birthday and invited him to her birthday party. The young man was eager to make her a present, so he went to a gift shop. There he saw many beautiful […]...
38. Немного фантазии – A bit of fantasy I have a tortoise. His name is Pasha. Usual green tortoise with a coat of mail. But one day my mind about him has changed. Last year at the time of the cold winter I was sleeping in my bed. It was the midnight. I was sleeping when I heard somebody’s voice. “Asya, wake up…” […]...
39. Незабываемое путешествие – Unforgettable trip Almost everyone likes to travel. Some people like travelling by air. As for me, I’m afraid of this way of journey. But I want to try it in my future life. Some people like the sea. You can feel the deck of the boat under your feet, the cry of sea-gulls and of course to […]...
40. The Wanderer of the Winds and Waves The mystery of the “Marie Celeste” is a story of the old days of the sailing fleet. Every trip in those days was an adventure and tragedies were many. It happened in 1872. An American brig was crossing the Atlantic from New York to Portugal and was somewhere near the Azores when Captain Moorhouse saw […]...