Birthday is a very wonderful day. Everybody likes to celebrate it. It is a good opportunity to spend time with friends, parents, relatives.
I was born on the 10th of January. In the morning on my birthday my parents lay the presents near my bed. So the first thing I see when I open my eyes is my presents. My Mom and Daddy and my little brother come to my room to congratulate me and to sing "Happy Birthday".
Usually we hold my birthday party in the evening. Once we went to a cafe to celebrate my birthday, but usually we celebrate it at home. We clean the house the day before birthday. In the morning of birthday party day my father goes shopping and buys everything we need.
My mother bakes a cake or pie. By the evening food is cooked, the table is laid. We put on evening suits and dresses and wait for the guests. The flat looks nice and cosy. I am always very glad to meet my guests. I like to get flowers and presents. Mom gives me the telegram from my aunt.
We have an abundant dinner on this day. Mom brings in the birthday cake. I blow the candles out. We dance and sing songs, play games and laugh, joke, tell funny stories. I think that my birthday is one of the best days in a year.
12-a (to leave school - окончить школу)
13-c (foreign - иностранный)
14-a (to pay attention to smb/smth - уделять внимание кому-либо/обращать внимание на что-либо)
15-с (go)
Физкультура — мой любимый предмет . Это не значит, что я не люблю учиться — по математике, истории и другим предметам я успеваю неплохо. Но мне очень нравится двигаться: бегать, прыгать, лазать по канату и шведской стенке.
Физкультура — это физическая культура. Она направлена на укрепление здоровья человека, на развитие его физических способностей, что очень важно. Недостаток движения может плохо сказаться на здоровье школьников: у них портится осанка, ухудшается зрение, они становятся физически слабыми. На физкультуре же мы получаем возможность оздоровиться: мы бегаем, играем в мяч, прыгаем в длину. Если на улице тепло, уроки физкультуры проводятся во дворе, на свежем воздухе.
Дома я каждое утро делаю зарядку. Мой папа увлекается йогой, но говорит, что многие упражнения из тех, что он делает, мне нельзя выполнять из-за возраста. К тому же мой скелет еще не до конца сформировался. Но папа подбирает мне комплекс упражнений для развития гибкости и мышечной силы, которые я делаю каждый день.
Я хочу вырасти сильным, красивым и здоровым и знаю, что физкультура мне обязательно поможет в этом.
This bridge was built in 1894 and it is still in daily use even though the traffic in and out of the London wharves has increased to an extraordinary extent during the course of the 20th century.
Even today Tower Bridge regulates a large part of the impressive traffic of the Port of London. Due to a special mechanism, the main traffic-way consisting of two parts fixed to two hinges at the ends can be lifted up. In this way, the entrance and departure of extremely large vessels is possible, and it allows them to reach the Pool of London.
Nowadays the pedestrian path is closed. This footpath crossing which used to be allowed was by the upper bridge which connected the top of each tower, situated at a height of 142 feet above the waters of the famous Thames.
Tower Bridge commands wide and magnificent views of both the city and the river. After Tower Bridge, the wharves of London extend until Tilbury. The gigantic port of this city, which has one of the heaviest movements of ocean-going traffic in the entire world, occupies practically the whole bank of the Thames from Teddington. It is virtually impossible to get a complete idea of its colossal extention. In fact it is one wharf after another, apparently...