Anastasia

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MY FAMILY I’d like to tell you about my family. My family is rather large. I have a father, a mother, a grandfather and a grandmother. The members of my family get on well with each other; the children respect their elders.

My father is a furniture maker. I think he works hard at the factory. At home he helps my mother who is very busy woman. She is a teacher and works at a school. My father and mother really love each other. If sometimes they have an argument, it takes them a short time to make it up. I like it that my parents share daily routines and help each other to create a comfortable and cosy home to live in.

I think they are a good example of a strong happy marriage.

My grandmather and grandfather have retired and live with us. To my mind my grandmother works hard. She keeps house for us. We all try to help her as she has a lot of work to do about the house. We usually share the family chores. My chore is to do the washing upon Sundays.

I am a school girl. I study in form 7B. I am fond of music. I am good at Biology and English. I want to become an artist. Not long ago I joined the School Art Club. It’s great to draw animals and nature. I like to look at them and get acquainted with the new people.

ENGLISH IN MY LIFE I’m sure a well educated person should speak English because it is the language of communication, business, science and cultare. As for me English is now the most important in modern life. It is the state language in five countries: Great Britain, Canada, the USA, Astralia and Zealand. Knowledge of English is very useful for working abroad.

I study at A.Sheptytskyi Stryi Gymnasia. I have English four times a week. Our lessons are very interesting. At these lessons I do exercises on the wikispaces, learn grammar rules, write dictations, improve listening comprehension and reading comprehension skills. I improve my listening comprehension skills by going to the cinema and watching films in English. Reading books, newspapers and magazines in English helps me to know the language better. I make up dialogues, translate and retell texts, ask and answer questions. I think English is worth studing. There is proverb. “A new language – a new world”

**//My Birthday party //**

My brother and I spent the previous day decorating our living room with balloons,streamers and coloured lights.  It was a wonderful day. As I was very excited I woke up at six o’clock and dressed up. I opened big parcels nicely wrapped up:“With love from Mummy and Dad”. It was very nice of them to give me a nice tablet and a dress. Itwas fantastic! Just what I wanted. All my friends sent me birthday cards too.  At three o’clock all my friends came to my place. They wished me “Many Happy Returns of the Day and presented me with a bucket of my favourite flowers, a bottle of perfumes, boxes of chocolates. I thanked them all.  My brother put on some disco music so that everyone could dance. We also played exciting games, and then sat down to pizza and orange juice. My mother brought in the enormous birthday cake she had made. My father lit 12 candles, one candle for each year. I blew out all the candles with one breath and made a secret wish. My friends sang me the birthday song “Happy Birthday to you, dear Nastia. We also had pizza, ice-cream, fruits, fizzy drinks and a lot of other tasty things.  We sang merry songs, danced a lot and we all had the time of our lives!  The entire evening was a huge success and everyone agreed that there was a lot of fun.

**//My Hobby //**

 Everybody has a hobby or a personal interest. A hobby is “something that you do in your free time”. People’s hobbies can be divided into:things that people collect, things that people make, things people play, outdoor activities, creative hobbies.  It refers to creative hobbies group.  Other creative hobbies are writing poems, taking photos, making one’s own clothes.  And I enjoy drawing greatly. I started to draw one year ago, when my mum took me to art school. I have gone crazy about drawing since then. I can’t but say a few words about my drawing group. We learn to draw still life, scenery and graphis picture. I attend drawing school three times a week and I enjoy my time there greatly. We take part in all the art extibition in our town.  I must say my hobby is not only passive and active, it is also creative and excitivg. It helps me to relax after my studies. It takes me away from everyday routines. Drawing entertains and gives me pleasure.


 * // Discussing Books //**

Books on fiction are very popular with children. Children are crazy about tragedies, fairy tales, fiction. “Pollyanna” by Eleonor Porter is one of the best novels, I have ever read. This novel was written in the USA in 1913. The events take place in Vermont. It tells us about a girl Pollyanna Whittier, her untPolliHavington, her father John Whittier and Nensi, a servant. The plot of this novel is very interesting. The main character of the novel is well drawn. There are some time to life episodes in the book. I could not help crying when I read how Pollyanna was knocked down by a car. I think this novel is exciting, funny, true to life. In a word the book is useful, moving, entertaining. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 16pt;"> I highly recommend this book to those who like funny stories.

**//<span style="color: #c00000; font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 18pt;">A Visit to the Country //**

<span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 16pt;">I think the countryside is the best place to spend the summer holidays. My parents also like to spend their holidays in a village because they enjoy nature. That’s why when school was over, my family went to the village of Zaplatin. My grandmother Anastasia and her husband live there. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 16pt;"> We went to the village by car. It took us 1 hour to get there. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 16pt;"> The village is not big but very beautiful. It is located near the forest. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 16pt;"> The houses in the village are rather small, but they look lovely surrounded by fruittrees and bushes and you can see lots of flowers in front of each of them. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 16pt;"> My grandmother’s family live in a nice three-room house. Behind the house there is a large vegetable garden where they grow potatoes, tomatoes,cucumbers, carrots,garlics onions, cabbages, beets and other vegetables. My father and I liked to work in the vegetablegarden: we watered the vegetables and weeded them. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 16pt;"> They have a greenhouse and a small garden too. In the greenhouse they grjw red and green peppers, dill, radishes and parsley. You can see a lot of apples, pears, plums,peaches,cherries in thegarden’s fruittrees. They are not ripe yet but I hope inautums there will be a good harvest of fruit in the garden. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 16pt;"> I have quite forgotten to mention my grandmother’s domestic <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 16pt;"> animals. She has a cow and a calf, that live in the barn, two pigs and many hens,ducks and geese. And of couse, she’s got a goat with a kind. <span style="font-family: 'Bookman Old Style',serif; font-size: 16pt;"> They say, the goat’s milk is very useful for children to drink. My mother and I liked to help grandmother about the house and with the animals. We fed the hens, ducks and geese and sometimes took the cow to the meadow. Happy Birthday!

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//<span style="color: #1f3864; font-family: Constantia,serif; font-size: 26pt;">My Profile // <span style="color: #7b7b7b; font-family: Constantia,serif; font-size: 24pt;">Hi.My name is Anastasia .I am 12.I am from Ukraine. I study at Gymnasia. I go to school every day. I learn many subjects at school: Maths, Ukrainian, Music and Singing, English, German, PT lesson, History, Computing, Local Studies, Manual Work, Religious Studies, Ukrainian Literature, World Literature, Drawing and Design. My favourite lesson is English. I don’t like Local Studies. I love to go to school very much.