Education is an important part of everyone’s life. Some people believe that getting higher education is crucial while others believe that one can easily do without it. In my opinion, university education gives you a wider range of opportunities in your future life. It is common knowledge that students at universities do not study only professional subjects but also a variety of other basic ones which are compulsory for all kinds of specialists. Thus higher education broadens your outlook and…

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My favourite sport is cycling. I have a good mountain bike and ride it mostly in summer and sometimes in spring and autumn. I like cycling because it gives me freedom. I like to explore new places. I ride across the fields and in the forest. Cycling develops allmy muscles and lungs. I ride my bike nearly every day on holidays when the weather is fine. I hope to ride longer distances this year. I advise everyone to buy a…

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Sport is an important part of our life. Most people go in for sports to keep fit and to be more athletic and energetic. Sport helps us lose weight and look better. Some people do sports because it is in fashion and their friends are keen on it. Physical activity is an effective means to get rid of stres. When you are in a team,you can make friends for your whole life. I think it is interesting to take part…

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Dear Ann, my summer holidays were long and interesting. I spent them not only in the city, but also in the country. Besides, I went to St Petersburg and Moscow with my parents. I visited the Hermitage and the Kremlin. In summer I met my friends nearly every day and we did a lot of interesting things together. We played badminton, went swimming and played different games indoors and outdoors. I had time for my hobbies. I drew and painted,…

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School is a place where you spend a lot of time. So a perfect school must have definite qualities. I believe that school should be compulsory, but the school uniform is not necessary. There must not be more than two tests a day. I think that we have good teachers and i don’t want to have anyone else. I would add some subjects, such as astronomy and computer design. I would like to have a better equipped school with a…

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Dear Ann! How is it going? Thanks a lot for your e-mail. It was great to hear that you would come to us in August. I would be glad to see you again. You project ‘Music Stars’ sounds interesting and I would be happy to take part in it. Here are my answers to your questionnaire: I like Carla Martinez, because of her brilliant voice, I like the lyrics and videoclips of her songs, too. I have been her fan…

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Dear Santa!   I know that a lot of children from all over the world write you letters. But I can’t imagine how you cope with all this work. It really must be a challenge! I am writing to tell you how I’ve spent this year. It is not over yet, but it has been rich in events and new things. I have tried to behave like a model boy. I have been industrious and hardworking. I have met a…

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They say there are 7 billion people on the Earth. And we are all different: short or tall, fat or thin, white or coloured. No matter how we look we should take people as they are. Unfortunately, people are often treated by their appearance, according to some generally accepted standards. This fact in my opinion, makes people look the same and they often lose their individuality. If a woman has dark hair, why why should she dye it blonde? Why…

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Dear Ben, I’m really glad to get a letter from you. You know, that on January, 1st we are going to celebrate New Year. I would like to wish you joy, luck and happiness in the new year, though you don’t celebrate this holiday widely in the UK. And of course today, on the 25thy of December I wish you Mery Christmas! New Year is our family holiday. We gather at our place with all our relatives and friends. It…

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Dear Ben! Thanks for your e-mail, I got it yesterday evening and read it with with great interest. I’m sure to read the books you wrote me about. You know I’m keen on reading and I would like to tell you something about me in this regard. I always try to find time for reading. You know, I don’t like to read in public transport because I can’t concentrate properly. And reading requires concentration. My favourite genre is detective stories….

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There are a lot of ways to break the law. A theft is one of them. Stealing at school may really be a problem for both pupils and teachers. So the question of punishment arises. One of the possible ways-out here is permanent exclusion. Firstly it’s stupid to simply turna back on thieves at school. Today they steal a pen, tomorrow they will steal a mobile phone and in the end they will find themselves in prison. However, there may…

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My school day usually begins at 1:50 p.m. and I have 5 to 7 lessons a day. The most difficult day for me is Thursday, because I have 2 lessons of Russian, History and I have to do a lot of homework. My timetable includes different subjects: Maths, Russian, Literature, Biology, IT, Social Studies, PE, History, Geography, Technology, English, Music and Art. I like English and PE because of good teachers. We have lunch at the school canteen after the…

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Sunday is a day-off and I don’t have to hurry at breakfast. That’s why Mom cooks something tasty for example, a pizza or an omelette with bacon, and something sweet for dessert. Sunday dinner is a family meal. We can discuss everything we want, tell each other interesting news and spend timetogether. Sunday dinner consists of 3 courses. I like mushroom soup or chicken soup for the first course, fish and chips or meat dumplings for the second course and…

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It was the last week of December just before New Year. Mr Hobbs and his family were driving to their countryhouse to visit Granny. The day was snowy and snowflakes were falling and dancing in the air. It was getting dark and Mr Hobbs had to press on the brake when he saw a dark outline of a big truck. The truck was moving too slowly and Mr Hobbs decided to overtake it. Everyone in the car (Mr Hobb’s wife…

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‘Caliph Stork’ is a story about magic and human relations. The story started with a salesman who offered the Caliph some magic powder. The next day Caliph and his guard Vizier tried it and turned into storks, as the powder could transform people into any creatures. But the salesman was a man with evil intentions. He warned them that they shouldn’t laugh, otherwise they would forget the magic word that could turn them into humans again. At first they were…

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I haven’t decided yet what I want to be, because I’m too young. But it often seems to me that my ideal job is to be an architect.We can see a lot of different buildings in any city. And when I look at beautiful buildings, I dream of creating them myself. Architects have a good salary but they have to solve a lot of technical problems. I would like to have a separate office, where I could work. I understand…

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Dear Emily, I was very happy to get your letter on Monday. I looked at your summer photos, they are really great. In your letter you asked me a question about the way I learn English here in Russia. I have learnt English for 7 years. I don’t remember why I chose English. Probably it was chosen because it’s the most popular language in the world and in Russia in particular. I like English, it’s one of my favourite subjects…

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New Year is the most popular holiday in Russia. My family is not an exception. New Year is a family holiday. It gives us an opportunity to meet each other, to discuss the news and to share impressions and other things. As for me, I think that the best thing about New Year is present exchange. A present is not necessarily expensive, but it has an important meaning. I like to choose presents more than to get them. I always…

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I think it is a problem for any parents to make their child work hard at school; some pupils don’t want to study at all in primary school and vice versa. In my opinion, there isn’t any universal medium, but getting a child interested in his learning. It’s no use punishing him, praises can be effective only for some short time, promises of future rewards make your child idle anyway. Getting the pupil interested means to explain to him, that…

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The peculiarity of the book by Jerome is in its truthfulness. The author tells it to the reader in the preface to the first edition. The book itself has a special kind of composition: all chapters of it are practically separate stories, telling us about those events that have ever happened to the four main characters. They are George, Harris, the narrator himself and their dog Montmorency. But at the same time the book has main line, which unites all…

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Atticus Finch is one of the main characters of the book “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee. Atticus is a lawyer in the provincial town of Maycomb in Alabama. This time he takes up a complicated case of a Negro and stands up for his interests in court. Atticus himself is a white man, he is over 50 years old, he is a widower with two children, Jem and Jean Louise. Atticus is characterized both directly (‘he wasn’t a…

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Rudolph Steiner is the main character of the story “The Green Door” by O’Henry. Rudolph Steiner belongs to the middle class of American society of the beginning of the 20th century. He is a piano salesman, a commonplace citizen on the one hand, but on the other hand he is (as the author characterizes him) “a true adventurer; few were the evenings on which he didn’t go forth from his hall bedchamber in search of the unexpected”. No matter where…

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The story under discussion is called The Green Door. It is one of the works by OHenry, the famous American writer of the end of the 19th century. The problem it’s devoted to is, that very often real life interferes with our intentions, and here with the intentions of the main character Rudolph Steiner, who is an adventure-seeker. The composition of the story has a climatic structure. In the exposition the author tunes up the reader to make him perceive…

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I set out on a fine sunny day in early June. I rented(hired) a boat at Foadster and soon, as it seemed in the beginning, all the problems of mine were happily left behind. I should never have thought that taking a river trip could be such an undertaking.The distance I expected to cover was not at all long –about 70 miles or so. I didn’t want to be in a hurry: I had a splendid opportunity to enjoy the…

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The peculiarity of the book by Jerom is in its truthfulness. The author tells it to the reader in the preface to the first edition. The book itself has a special kind of composition: all chapters of it are practically separate stories, telling us about those events that have ever happened to the four main characters. They are George, Harris, the narrator himself and their dog Montmorency. But at the same time the book has main line, which unites all…

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The book I read is “Ten Little Niggers” by Agatha Christie. She is known all over the world as a real master of a detective story. Her whimsical plots attract many readers and make them come back to her works again and again. And the plot of the book in short. A group of people comes to Nigger Island, which is known as a propriety of some American millionaire. They all think that they were invited to the island by…

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The book by Oscar Wilde can be considered a separate philosophic system: it gives rise to a great number of speculations, and people’s opinion of the book itself is very contradictory: some agree with Wilde’s philosophy, and some condemn the book. And the main character of Dorian Grey makes this book as peculiar as it is.Through the whole course of the story our attitude towards Dorian varies greatly: first we feel sympathy for him, then we feel disgust because of…

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We live in the 21st century, the century of constant changes, the century of haste and speed. The German word «Zeitnot», or time trouble, can be used to describe every day of our present life.We live in the century of intellectual overwork, and all the processes on the whole are ten or even more times more intensive than those of the 19th century.That calm and in a way slow mode of life is irrevocably lost for us nowadays. The accelerating…

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