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|Country that I want to visit. | | |
|I haven’t been to Great Britain yet, & I’d like to | | |
|visit this country very much, because I like the | | |
|English language, & I’ m curious to learn about | | |
|everyday life of the people who speak this | | |
|beautiful language, & just see the sights. | | |
|Here’s what I know about this country so far. | | |
|The full official name of the country is the United| | |
|Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland. | | |
|It is a constitutional monarchy - the nominal head | | |
|of state is Queen Elizabeth the Second, but the | | |
|real law-making body is the Parliament, consisting | | |
|of two Chambers, the House of Commons & the House | | |
|of Lords. | | |
|The royal family is preserved as a kind of a | | |
|tourist attraction. | | |
|The country is situated on the British Isles, which| | |
|lie off the north-west of Europe. | | |
|They are separated from the continent by the | | |
|English Channel, better known by its French name - | | |
|La Manche. | | |
|Now, there is a tunnel under the Channel, | | |
|efficiently binding Great Britain & the continent. | | |
|The climate is rather mild, influenced by the Gulf | | |
|Stream, & famous English lawns & gardens are of | | |
|some special shade of green. | | |
|The UK is a very highly developed industrial | | |
|country, with such branches of industry as | | |
|ship-building, manufacturing of textiles, | | |
|machinery, electrical & electronic equipment, & | | |
|many others. | | |
|The population of the UK is about 55 million | | |
|people . | | |
|There are two major political parties in the UK, | | |
|Labour & Conservative. | | |
|The Conservative are in office now. | | |
|I know a lot more about the UK, but this | | |
|information has been taken from books & mass media.| | |
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|I’d like to visit the country & see everything for | | |
|myself. | | |
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|My hobby | | |
|People get a kick out of doing most extraordinary | | |
|things. | | |
|The most widespread hobby is collecting. | | |
|I can’t say that I’m really mad about this or that | | |
|kind of leisure activity. | | |
|I tried collecting stamps, they are so nice & | | |
|informative. | | |
|But gradually my interest just faded away, & I gave| | |
|my collection to my friend for his birthday. | | |
|Then I moved on to collecting recordings of the pop| | |
|groups I liked, but after a while it seemed | | |
|pointless because music radio stations play old & | | |
|new hits all the time. | | |
|I go on doing it, but I wouldn’t call it a hobby. | | |
|I like dancing at some club or disco, but it’s just| | |
|a way of spending time, not a hobby really. | | |
|Best of all I like reading. | | |
|It’s a very quiet occupation, & it does not require| | |
|any particular skill or ability. | | |
|But that’s what gives me the greatest pleasure. | | |
|I enjoy reading all kinds of books - historical | | |
|novels, travelogues, biographies, novels, science | | |
|fiction, detective stories, poetry, etc. | | |
|Someone said that reading to the mind is what | | |
|exercise is to the body. | | |
|Books can’t be replaced by all the mass media in | | |
|the world. | | |
|Reading is a perfect combination of business & | | |
|pleasure, of intellectual work & entertainment. | | |
|So, frankly speaking reading is my hobby. | | |
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