воскресенье, 18 марта 2012 г.

Topic "Moscow" by Dan Klochkov, 7A

Moscow is the capital of Russia, its economic, political and cultural center. Its population is about fourteen million people.

Moscow stands on the Moskva River in the centre of the vast plain of European Russia. The city was founded by Yuri Dolgoruky. In the 16th century, under Ivan the Terrible, Moscow became the capital of the state of Moskowy.

At present Moscow is the seat of the Russian government. The president of the Russian Federation lives and works here. The official residence of the President is the Kremlin.

Moscow is an industrial center. Moscow's plants and factories produce food, furniture, clothes, footwear, machine tools, automobiles and trucks etc.

The most important element in Moscow's city transport is the metro subway. The system was begun in 1935 and is still developing. It is one of the most efficient transport systems in the world. Some of the stations, especially the older ones, are highly decorated with marble, statues and mosaics that makes it a tourist attraction.

There are a lot of sights in Moscow: historical buildings, museums, theatres, art galleries and so on. I've already mentioned the Kremlin, which is a historic fortified complex at the heart of Moscow, overlooking the Moskva River, Saint Basil's Cathedral and Red Square and the Alexander Garden. It includes four palaces, four cathedrals and the enclosing Kremlin Wall with Kremlin towers.

Moscow has numerous theatres, headed by the State Academic Bolshoi Theatre, the Moscow Art theatre, the State Central Puppet Theatre, the Moscow State Circus. The city has some museums and art galleries of international rank. Among them are the State Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts, the State Tretyakov Gallery with an excellent collection of Russian paintings.

Moscow is also the city of science and learning. There are about 400 higher educational institutions in the city. I believe I will be studying in one of them.

Dan Klochkov, 7A

Topic "My Friend's Working Day" by Vlad Pervakov, 3B

I have got a friend. His name is Alex. Let me tell you about his working day.

He gets up at 7 o'clock, washes his face, cleans his teeth, combs his hair. Alex doesn't always do his morning exercises. Then he has breakfast. For breakfast he usually has sandwitches, eggs, or porridge and tea with some jam.

At ten to eight Alex leaves for school. He goes to school six days a week. At school he has four or five lessons a day. At eleven o'clock my friend and his classmates have lunch at school. For lunch they usually have hot dogs, pizza, hamburgers, apples and tea or juice.

The lessons are over at one o'clock. Alex comes home at two o'clock. He has dinner and takes a short rest. Sometimes he goes for a walk with me. We like to go to a sports ground near our house. In winter he sledges or plays showballs, in spring we play different games.

When he comes back home, he begins to do his homework. In the evening Alex plays on the computer, reads books, watches TV.

At eight o'clock his family and Alex have supper.

Then my friend takes a shower and he goes to bed at nine o'clock.

Alex is my real friend. We like to play together, we play interesting games, we have the same interests. When I am in need, he always helps me.

Vlad Pervakov, 3B

четверг, 15 марта 2012 г.

понедельник, 12 марта 2012 г.

"Music" by D.Klochkov, V.Reznikova

There are different kinds of arts: literature, dancing, painting and drawing, sculpture, architecture, theatre and cinema, music. We can hear music everywhere: in the streets and at home, on the radio and on TV, in shops and parks. People all over the world are fond of music. They listen to music, dance to music, and learn to play musical instruments.


There are many legends which say about the origin of music. Primitive people made music that had some religious meaning. When it was performed, the spectators usually danced, drummed or clapped hands and sang to the music. The first instruments were of the drum type. Later man invented wind instruments made from the horns of animals and then stringed – the simple lyre and harp, from which he developed the instruments played with a bow.


At different times people preferred different kinds of music. Speaking about the 20th century, there existed classical music, pop and jazz, rock-n-roll and blues, rock, disco and so on. “Pop” is popular music. It was born in the USA in the 50’s. Pop is the music for the young. Pop songs tell us about love and our feelings, having a good time and growing up, dating and dancing. The music makes us happy or sad, it sounds strange or amusing. The real breakthrough in pop music has been the emergence of “disco” in the 1970s, such groups as ABBA, Boney M, Dschingis Khan, Bee Gees. The most popular pop stars of the 80’s were, of course, Michael Jackson and Madonna.


Rock, the music of the 60s, had a lot of prominent musicians and singers in America, but it was English groups that changed pop music: the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. When pop music started to get boring, new sounds as heavy metal or hard rock appeared. In the USA a different kind of music was developing – punk. The music was loud and unmusical, angry and ugly, and pessimistic. Another type of the music of the city streets – rap – reflected dark feelings and problems of the streets and a new danger – AIDS.


Nowadays the sound is changing greatly. Computers are very important. Samplers can take any sound and make it into part of a new sound. CDs are more important than records. The only thing that hasn’t changed is the electric guitar – the main musical instrument of pop.