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|Holidays. | | |
|Every family has its own holidays, connected with | | |
|some great events in its history. | | |
|For ordinary people holidays are mostly the chance | | |
|to relax & have a good time. | | |
|There are some almost universal holidays, such as | | |
|Christmas & New Year. | | |
|We’ve got 2 favourite holidays New Year & Easter. | | |
|The New Year is noisy & festive. | | |
|Christmas trees are decorated with tinsel, toys, & | | |
|strings of colored light bulbs. | | |
|Children put stockings under the trees for Santa | | |
|Claus to fill them up with gifts. | | |
|It’s a family occasion - the whole family usually | | |
|gathers, gifts are exchanged. | | |
|There are parties, dancing, champagne drinking, | | |
|fireworks & firecrackers. | | |
|At midnight everyone at a party stops whatever they| | |
|are doing to greet the New Year. | | |
|It’s the most colorful & merry of all holidays. | | |
|I can’t help mentioning Easter, which is connected | | |
|with the idea of spring & revival of nature. | | |
|We exchange painted eggs, special cakes, & | | |
|generally make merry. | | |
|There are also our birthdays parties- we celebrate | | |
|him or her with birthday, singing Happy birthday to| | |
|you, present our gifts & have our family dinner. | | |
|All holidays are nice, because people forget their | | |
|worries for a while, & enjoy themselves. | | |
|London. | | |
|I haven’t been to London yet, & I’d like to visit | | |
|this city 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 sights. | | |
|Here’s what I know about this city so far. | | |
|L is one of the greatest, most colourful & | | |
|interesting cities of the world, & it tops the list| | |
|of the cities I’d like to visit. | | |
|I know a lot about it- I have studied its map, seen| | |
|a lot of postcard, talked to people who have been | | |
|there. | | |
|Sometimes I close my eyes & imagine I walk down | | |
|Piccadilly, Regent or Oxford street, cross the | | |
|Thames by London or Tower bridge, or knock on the | | |
|door of #10 Downing street, just to say «Hi» to the| | |
|Prime Minister. | | |
|The city is really large- more than 8 million | | |
|people live in the so- called Greater L- that is, L| | |
|& its suburbs. | | |
|The oldest pert of L is the City, the financial & | | |
|business centre of the country. | | |
|The finest part of L is the West End with long | | |
|streets of fine shops, theatres, picture galleries,| | |
|restaurants, beautiful parks. | | |
|St. James Park, Green Park, Kensington Gardens, & | | |
|Hyde Park with its Speaker’s Corner where you can | | |
|go up on a platform, & speak freely on the topic | | |
|that you find vital. | | |
|The East End is something quite different. | | |
|It is the industrial part of L, there are factories| | |
|& docks there, & blocks of flats where working | | |
|people live. | | |
|Naturally, L is a cultural, scientific, & | | |
|industrial centre of the country, & it means that a| | |
|lot of interesting things are taking place there | | |
|all the time. | | |
|It is rather pointless trying to describe all the | | |
|beauties & sights of L. | | |
|As they say, it’s better to see something once than| | |
|to hear about it a thousand times. | | |
|TV. | | |
|Watching TV is certainly the most popular adult | | |
|leisure activity everywhere | | |
|83% of our citizens asked in the survey say they | | |
|watch TV at least once a month. | | |
|Most people regard TV as a form of recreation, they| | |
|just want to relax & get some thrills. | | |
|And the best thing for this is home. | | |
|TV offers a very diverse stream of information & | | |
|entertainment- news, documentaries, cartoons, | | |
|movies, sports, games. | | |
|Some people spend hours watching everything that is| | |
|shown. | | |
|I am not a TV addict, I prefer radio, because you | | |
|can do something & listen to it at the same time. | | |
|Mostly it’s music, which helps up to keep a good | | |
|spirits, the latest news & some useful information.| | |
|But what I like best is a good intelligent book. | | |
|Someone said that reading to the mind is what | | |
|exercise is to the body. | | |
|Books cannot be replaced by all the mass media in | | |
|the world. | | |
|Reading is a perfect combination of business & | | |
|pleasure, of intellectual work & entertainment. | | |
|So, I switch off TV & open a book. | | |
|Cinema. | | |
|Cinema is the favourite & most widespread form of | | |
|entertainment both for children & adults. | | |
|Everyone finds smth that satisfies one’s tastes. | | |
|The viewers are transported to the screen, & take | | |
|part in the action, performing the most | | |
|extraordinary deeds that they would never do in | | |
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