their operations.
My grandfather tells me a lot of true stories about doctors, their
profession, their aid for people.
I respect my grandfather. I like his profession and I have a dream to be a
doctor too.
SPORT AND A HEALTHY MODE OF LIFE
Sport is very important in our life. It is popular among young and old
people.
Many people do morning exercises, jog in the morning, train themselves in
clubs, in different sections and take part in sport competitions.
Other people like sports too, but they only watch sports games, listen to
sports news. They prefer reading interesting stories about sportsmen. But
they don't go in for sports.
Physical training is an important subject at school. Pupils have got
physical training lessons twice a week. Boys and girls play volley-ball and
basket-ball at the lessons. There is a sportsground near our school and
school-children go in foi sports in the open air.
A lot of different competitions are held at schools, a great number of
pupils take part in them. All participants try to get good results and
become winners. Sport helps people to keep in good health. If you go in for
sports, you have good health and don't catch cold.
Children and grown-ups must take care of their health and do morning
exercises regularly.
There are some popular kinds of sports in our country: football, volley-
ball, hockey, gymnastics, skiing, skating. Athletics is one of the most
popular kinds of sports. It includes such kinds of sports as running,
jumping and others. Everybody may choose the sport he (or she) is
interested in.
There are summer and winter sports.
My favourite sport is swimming. I go to the swimming-pool twice a week.
But I prefer to rest by the lake or the river and swim there.
My friend Kostya goes in for boxing. He is a good boxer and he is a brave
and courageous boy. His hobby helps him in his everyday life.
Sports in Great Britain
National sports in Great Britain... It is a very interesting question,
because many kinds of sport have taken the origin in England.
The Englishmen love sports, they are called sports-lovers in spite of the
fact that some of them neither play games nor even watch them. They only
like to speak about sports.
Some kinds of sport are professional in England.
Many traditional sporting contests take place in England, for example,
cricket. It is played from May till September. This game is associated with
England. There are many cricket clubs in this country. English people like
to play cricket. They think that summer without cricket isn't summer.
Cricket is the English national sport in summer. If you want to play
cricket you must wear white boots, a white shirt and white long trousers.
There are two teams. Each team has eleven players. Cricket is popular in
boys' schools. Girls play cricket too.
Football. It has got a long history. Football was played by the whole
village teams in the middle ages in England.
Now football is the most popular game in Britain. It is a team game.
There are some amateur teams but most of the teams are professional ones in
England. Professional football is a big business. Football is played at
schools too.
Rugby football. You can see a ball in this game, but it is not round. It
is oval. This is a team game. There are fifteen players in each team. It is
a popular game in England. There are many amateur rug-by football teams in
this country.
If we speak about football we can mention an American football too. It is
a game that is played between two teams of players using an oval ball that
can be handled or kicked. The captain of the team must be the oldest or
best player.
Table tennis or ping-pong. Englishmen heard about table tennis in 1880.
Then the International Table Tennis Association was formed and the
international rules were worked out.
Many people like to play table tennis. This game is played by men and
women.
There are some tennis clubs in England, but if you play there it is
necessary to pay money for it.
Englishmen like playing tennis but many of them prefer to watch this game.
Wimbledon. It is the centre of lawn tennis. Some years ago Wimbledon was a
village, now it is a part of London. The most important tennis competition
takes place there every summer.
Englishmen pay much attention to swimming, rowing and walking. Usually the
Oxford—Cambridge Boat Race takes place at the end of March or at the
beginning of April. It is an interesting contest between the universities
of Oxford and Cambridge. It is usually held on the Thames River. The first
such race was held in 1820. There were a lot of people watching this race.
There are some racing competitions in England. They are motor-car racing,
dog-racing, donkey-racing, boat-racing, horse-racing. All kinds of racings
are popular in England. It is interesting to see the egg-and-spoon race.
The runner, who takes part in this competition, must carry an egg in a
spoon. It is not allowed to drop the egg.
We must speak about the Highland Games in Scotland. All competitors wear
Highland dress. There are such competitions as putting the weight, tossing
the caber and others. The English are great lovers of sports.
LEARNING FOREIGN LANGUAGES
It is necessary to learn foreign languages. That's 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.
I learn English, because I understand that I can use it. For example, if I
go to England I'll be able to speak English there. If I go to the USA, I'll
speak English too. English is used not only in England, but also in other
parts of the world.
I learn English because I want to read foreign literature in the original.
I know and like such English and American writers as Charles Dickens, Mark
Twain, Lewis Carroll and others. I understand that I must learn English. If
I know English well, I'll be able to go to the library and take books by
English and American writers in the original.
I like to travel. But it is difficult to visit countries, when you don't
know the language of these countries. If I know the language of the
country, where I am going to, it will be easy to travel there. If I want to
ask something, I can do it in English.
I like to read books. And I like to read newspapers, too. If I know, for
example, English I'll be able to read English newspapers and magazines.
Knowledge of foreign languages helps young people of different countries to
understand each other, to develop friendship among them. For example, we
have a foreign exhibition in Moscow. If I know a foreign language, it is
easy for me to visit this exhibition.
You can see a lot of advertisements, signboards, names in the streets.
They are in foreign languages. Very often they are in English. If you know
English, you can read and understand them.
Now we buy many clothes from other countries If you know English well, you
can read something about the size of this or that thing. It is clear for
you what it is made of.
There are a lot of films in foreign languages. If you know foreign
languages, you can understand films without any help.
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 the boys, girls, men even they don't know Russian.
In short, I understand that I have to learn English in a proper way and I
try to do it.
I LIKE TO TRAVEL
I like to travel. First of all, the members of our family usually have
long walks in the country. Such walks are called hikes. If we want to see
the countryside, we have to spend a part of our summer holidays on hikes.
It is useful for all members of our family. We take our rucksacks, we don't
think about tickets, we don't hurry up and we walk a lot. During such hikes
we see a lot of interesting places, sometimes we meet. interesting people.
I like to travel by car. It is interesting too, because you can see many
things in a short time. When we go by car, we don't take tickets too, we
put all things we need in a car. We don't carry them.
THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT
Our country. Our environment. There are many big and small rivers, green
forests, high mountains, lakes and seas in Russia.
Our Earth is our home. I think people must take care of our Motherland.
There are some laws and decisions on this important subject. We have state
organizations which pay attention to this problem.
The international conventions pay much attention to the control of
pollution too.
There are a lot of industrial enterprises in our country, that's why we
can't ignore the problem of the protection of our environment. Our main aim
is the protection. Our environment must be clean. What V must we do for it?
We have to control atmospheric and water pollution, to study the man's
influence on the climate. The pollution of the environment influences the
life of animals, plants and our human life. If we don't use chemicals in a
proper way we'll pollute our environment.
Our plants and factories put their waste materials into water and
atmosphere and pollute the environment.
There are many kinds of transport in our big cities, that's why we must
pay attention to the protection of our nature and the health of the people.
Radiation. Now it has become one of the main problems. It is not good for
J health of people. Many people died from radiation some years ago in
