|some magazine or a book, or listening to some quiet| | |
|music. | | |
|After that I’m ready for the most important part of| | |
|my day, my work actually. | | |
|I study, I dig up information, I solve tasks, find | | |
|answers to question - do my homework. | | |
|By 8 p. m. I feel tired. | | |
|Fortunately, by that time folks have arrived, & we | | |
|eat. | | |
|That is the only proper meal of the day for me, & | | |
|the only time to talk with my parents. | | |
|Then an hour or more of study, some TV, & by 12 p. | | |
|m. I’m in bed. | | |
|Sometimes I have to stay up late, if I have some | | |
|difficult task to solve. | | |
|So this is it, in a nutshell. | | |
|Not very eventful, but it’s a working day, isn’t | | |
|it? | | |
| | | |
|Russia. | | |
|We are living in a rapidly changing, multinational | | |
|& multicultural world. | | |
|Barriers keep falling, people & cultures mix, but | | |
|one thing remains basic & dear to my heart - my | | |
|homeland, Russia. | | |
|No one can deny that it is a great country in all | | |
|senses of the world, with its area of 17,1 million | | |
|square kilometres, & the population of 150 million | | |
|people. | | |
|It spans two parts of the world, Europe & Asia, | | |
|serving as a bridge between them. | | |
|It is washed by the seas of the Arctic & Pacific | | |
|Oceans. | | |
|The variety of climatic zones it the north down to | | |
|the subtropics in the south. | | |
|It has immense natural resources, such as coal, oil| | |
|& gas, all kinds of mineral deposits, great forests| | |
|& rivers, it has everything. | | |
|There are many branches of industry in Russia - | | |
|machine-building, steel production, chemical & | | |
|electronic industries, & numerous others. | | |
|Unfortunately, agriculture is in a rather poor | | |
|state, & we have to import foodstuffs, & even | | |
|wheat. | | |
|The potential of Russia & its people is great, & | | |
|with reasonable economic mechanisms & laws the | | |
|country will overcome the present difficulties, & | | |
|will occupy the place it deserves in the world | | |
|community. | | |
|The cultural heritage of Russia is rich & varied/ | | |
|The names of Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Tchaikovsky are | | |
|known all over the world/ | | |
|Russia’s history, like that of any other great | | |
|country, is full of glory & blood. | | |
|Russia twice saved Europe from the Dark Age - | | |
|stopping the Tartars, & crushing the German | | |
|fascists. | | |
|I’m proud of my country, I love Russia, my | | |
|motherland, & will do the best I can to improve its| | |
|economic & political situation. | | |
|An Outstanding Person of Russia. | | |
|Russia gave birth to many wonderful people, who | | |
|made great contributions to all fields of human | | |
|activity, such as science, art, various | | |
|discoveries, & so on. | | |
|The world knows our composers, ballet dancers, | | |
|writers. | | |
|As for me, I think one of the greatest men, who | | |
|influenced Russian & world culture, was Alexander | | |
|Pushkin. | | |
|I believe that in his prose & poetry he actually | | |
|created the modern Russian language, the language | | |
|we use today. | | |
|He was born a nobelman & lived a life of a | | |
|nobelman. | | |
|He studied at an exclusive school, lycee. | | |
|He visited all those balls, & parties, & receptions| | |
|at court. | | |
|But he managed to feel & know the souls of ordinary| | |
|Russian people of all walks of life. | | |
|His power of observation was so great, that in his | | |
|works he drew a comprehensive picture of life in | | |
|Russia at that time. | | |
|It’s a strange phenomenon that poets do not live | | |
|long. | | |
|I think that is because the candle burns so | | |
|brightly & so fast. | | |
|Pushkin was killed at the age of 37 at a duel that | | |
|was a result of intrigue & scandal connected with | | |
|the name of his wife. | | |
|But poets do not die. | | |
|If you asked Russian people who their favourite | | |
|poets is, most would answer «Pushkin». | | |
|Small kids learn to read using his fairy tales, & | | |
|this admiration of his poetry just stays on. | | |
|His works are read & enjoyed by all those who love | | |
|the Russian language & Russia. | | |
|Sport. | | |
|Sport is, or rather should be, an important part of| | |
|everyone’s life. | | |
|Here we should distinguish between big-time sport &| | |
|just keeping fit. | | |
|We can’t all be professional athletes, but we | | |
|should pay attention to out bodies. | | |
|Our body needs exercise just as it needs food. | | |
|Everyone chooses physical according to one’s | | |
|tastes. | | |
|Some people just jog. | | |
|Others prefer more active kind of exercise, such as| | |
|football, basketball, volleyball, martial arts. | | |
|Tennis has become very popular, & it really is a | | |
|good workout for all groups of muscles. | | |
|Fitness centres, body building & shaping gyms are | | |
|full of pumping iron. | | |
|There are some specific British & American sports | | |
|that are rather interesting - golf, cricket, | | |
|baseball, American football. | | |
|Tastes differ, but one thing is for sure - if you | | |
|want to be healthy & fit, you can’t do without | | |
|sport. | | |
|I start every day with a half hour of exercise - | | |
|push ups, sit ups, chin ups, warming up all my | | |
|muscles. | | |
|Then a quick shower, & I feel as fit as a fiddle. | | |
|Twice a week I have a two-hour workout in a gum on | | |
|various training devices & just lifting weights. | | |
|Once a week I visit a swimming pool . | | |
|It’s enough for me to feel fit. | | |
|Of course I would like to take up Alpine skiing or | | |
|para-gliding, but I have neither time nor equipment| | |
|for that. | | |
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