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MY WINTER HOLIDAYS

Winter holidays begin at the end ofDecember and last about two weeks.During winter holidays we celebrateNew Year and Christmas. We have New Year’s Day on the 1-st of January. Our family and I prepare for it. Usually we buy a New Year tree and presents for each other. I like todecorate our New Year tree with toys. There are New Year parties for children at schools and theatres.Cinemas show children cartoons.

During my winter holidays I like to skate and ski, if the weather is good. There is askating-rink not far from my house. I like to play with my friends hockey on the ice. Many children go to the skating-rinks to skate. Small children usually playsnowballs or make snowmen. On Sundays all the members of our family — my mother, my father, my sister and I, go to the park to ski. I am fond of skiing.

During my holidays I spend a lot of time with my friends in the fresh air. We like to ride on the sledges.

When the weather is bad I stay at home and watch TV. Sometimes my friends come to see me and we play different games or listen to the music.

English and American pupils have their winter holidays from the 25-th of December, when it is Christmas Day in Great Britain and USA.

I like my winter holidays, but soon it’s time to go to school.

MY SUMMER HOLIDAYS

Summer holidays are the longest of all the other holidays. I like summer holidays because I have a lot of free time. Usually I spend June in thecountry where my grandparents live. I help them to work in the kitchen-garden. There are many apple-trees and cherry-trees in our garden. When it is summer we often have a lot of apples and cherries. There is a river not far from our house. Every day I swim, lie in the sun and play with my friendson the bank of the river. Sometimes we go fishing.

In July I go to the camp. There is a big swimming-pool in the camp. We have happy time at the camp. Every day we play different games, swim in the swimming-pool and listen to the music. There is a forest not far from our camp and we often go there to pick up berries, such as raspberries, strawberries, red bilberries. In the afternoon we watch TV, read books and magazines. In the evening we dance and go for a walk.

I spend August with my parents at the sea-side. We usually go to Sochi. There are many sights in that town. I like to swim in the Black Sea and spend a lot of time on the beach.

Usually I return to Moscow at the middle of August. I meet my friends, and prepare for a new school year.

I like summer and my summer holidays very much.

SPORTS IN OUR LIFE

Sport is an important part of our life. It is popular all over the world. Sportmakes people healthy and keeps them fit. Some people go in for sportsprofessionally and some for their health. There are many stadia, swimming-pools and sport clubs in each town. Many people do their morning exercises, train themselves in sport clubs and stadia. There are many kinds of sport which are popular all over the world, such as football, volleyball, basketball, skiing, figure-skating and others. Some people train themselves in swimming-pools or skating-rinks professionally.

At school pupils have their physical training lessons. Every school has its sports ground, and schoolchildren go in for sports in the open air. They play football and volleyball there, and when it is winter they ski on their sports ground. A lot of sportcompetitions are held at schools. All participants try to achieve good results.

Every year there are a lot of sport events and Olympiads. Once in four years the Olympic Games take place in different countries. The first Olympic Games were held in the town of Olympia, Greece, more than 2,700 years ago.

Many people like sport too, but they only watch sports on TV or listen to sports news. They like to read articles about sportsmen and watch their records.

There are summer and winter sports. My favourite kind of sport is football. I go to the stadium twice a week and play football with my friends. I like this kind of sport very much.

PLANTS AND TREE

The surface of the earth is the ground. A tree stands above the ground, but its roots are under the ground. The roots get food for the tree out of the earth; they also hold the tree to the ground when the wind blows.

When a tree is young, it is very small; but it grows year after year. It gets taller and taller, its trunk gets bigger and bigger; its branches get longer and longer, and there are more and more green leaves on its branches.

The leaves of trees are green in summer. They get brown or red in autumn, and then they fall to the ground when the wind blows. But in spring, new green leaves come out again on the branches, and also pink or white blossoms which will give fruit later, in summer or in autumn.

A fruit tree gives us fruit to eat. Fruit is good to eat when it is ripe; then it is sweet.

People have gardens and kitchen gardens. In the gardens people grow : apple trees, pear trees, plum trees, cherry trees. In the kitchen gardens people grow vegetables, which are very good to eat, too: carrots, tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, potatoes.

Which part of a plant do we eat? We eat the roots of carrots, the leaves of cabbages, the red fruit of tomatoes. We also eat a lot of potatoes.

THE WEATHER IN ENGLAND

Great Britain has a mild climate, that is, cooler in summer and warmer in winter than in other countries of Northern Europe. This is due to the winds blow from the south-west, from the ocean and the Gulf Stream, which warms the seas around the British Coast. Winter is mild, the temperature seldom falls below zero and the grass remains green all the year round.

Spring is a nice season. The weather is warm, the sun is shining brightly.

In summer temperature seldom exceeds +25. The weather is very changeable even during a day. Rains and fogs are very often. Englishmen can’t do without umbrella. Cool winds often blow from the sea. There are many sunny days in summer.

The wettest months are from October to January, but Britain has rain all the year round. Sometimes the fog is so thick that it causes much problems to drivers and walkers. The sky is grey in autumn, leaves on the trees change their colour from green to yellow.

THE SEASONS IN RUSSIA

There are four seasons in the year: winter, spring, summer and autumn. December, January and February are winter months. Winter in Russia is usually cold. It often snows. Days are short and nights are long.

March, April and May are spring months. The sun shines more brightly than in winter months. Days become longer and nights shorter. The weather is warm. Trees and flowers come out. Birds return from the South and make their nests.

June, July and August are summer months. It is still warmer and sometimes it’s very hot. You can see green trees and beautiful flowers everywhere. Pupils have a lot of free time, because they have their summer holidays. The longest day and the shortest night is on the 21st - 22nd of June. In summer people spend much time in the open air: they go to the forest, swim in the river, and play different games on the glade. You can see many berries in the forest, such as raspberries, strawberries and red bilberries. July is the hottest month of summer. August is cooler than July, but there are many mushrooms in the forest in August.

September, October and November are autumn months. It is also a very beautiful time of the year, when leaves change their colour from green to yellow. Days are shorter and nights longer. The weather is cool and rainy.

OUR HEALTH

When you are not well, you often have a high temperature. Your mother makes you stay in bed. She calls in the doctor. The doctor examines you; when he knows what is wrong with you, he writes out a prescription.

Some medicines are not nice to take, but you have to take them, because they will do you good.

After a few days, you will get better, you will leave your bed, and you won’t have to take any more medicine.

In a short time you will be in good health again, and you will go back to school.

In the cold season, many people catch colds. A bad cold with a high temperature is called flu. When you have flu, you give it to other people around you, because it is very catching. So, when you have flu, you must stay at home.

When you have a bad tooth, you go to the dentist’s: he pulls out the bad tooth.

Children who are in good health are rarely absent from school. Others, whose health is poor, are often absent. When they come back, they have a lot of work to do to catch up with the others.

Children and grown-ups must take good care of their health. If you want to be healthy, you must do morning exercises regulary, go in for sports, eat a lot of fruit and vegetables and other health food.

A WOMAN'S WORK IS NEVER DONE

The mother of a family has a lot of work to do in the house. All day long she is busy, doing one thing or another.

When Father goes to work, Mother goes to work, too. Thats why we try to help Mother.

There is some dust on the floor every day. So we sweep the floor with a broom orclean it with a vacuum-cleaner. There is some dust on the furniture, too, on the tables, armchairs and chairs. We dust the furniture with a duster. We make our beds ourselves, too, and try to keep our rooms clean and tidy.

Mother dosn’t like when things are lying all over the place. She often says, “The right thing – in the right place.” And we try to keep our things in the right places.

Doing the rooms, cooking meals and washing up takes a lot of time.

We want Mother to rest. But she remembers: yesterday Tom fell down and made a hole in the trousers! So Mother takes some wool and a long needle and mendsthe trousers. Then she sees that a button from my coat is gone. She takes somethread and sews on a new button.

Will Mother have a rest now? She looks at the clock: 7. Father will be home in a minute; she must get supper ready.

There is always something to do, a woman’s work is never done.

Let’s try to help our mothers!