Besides, there is a small sofa near the wall opposite the bookcase. This room was my father's study, but as I g
rew older, it has become my room. And in my opinion it is the best room in our flat. My friends used to come to my place to have a chat or to play chess in the evening, and they consider my room to be very comfortable.
I share their opinion.


My Friends

I think that friendship is one of the most precious things in our life. Friends help us to enjoy our life and to overcome hardships. I donТ
t have lots of friends, but my friends are people whom do I trust and whom I really love. My best friend is my class
mate Nikita. He is fourteen. He is a tall boy with an oval face and green eyes. His hair is short and dark brown. Nikita lives not far from my house. We usually go to school, play computer games and go for a walk together. I like spending my time with Nik
ita because we understand each other very well. We have lots of similar interests.
Nikita is fond of sports like me. His favourite winter sport is skiing. At weekends we go to a nearby park and ski together. In summer we cycle and play football in the yard.

We both like the same music and that really unites us. We discuss our favourite music bands and their works every day on the way home.
I have other friends, too. Dima is not my classmate, he is older. He studies in the 10-th form. He plays the
guitar very well and writes songs himself. He also has a huge collection of CD-s. I and Nikita like to visit him and to listen to his songs. Moreover sometimes he helps us with our homework.
I think that my friends are very cool and I am happy to have them.

My School (1)

I want to tell you about my school. ItТ s a school №
146 in Saint-Petersburg. My school is big: it has four floors. On the ground floor there is a gym, a canteen, a medical room, a school museum and a library. We usually have lunch in the canteen.
Our gym is very up-to-date. ItТ s huge and bright. School sports classes and competitions take place there.
The school library is rather big. It has a lot of modern books. Pupils get textbooks for free in the library.
The first floor
is for primary school pupils. There are several big classrooms and one with games and toys. After school pupils can stay at school, play games and do their homework there until their parents come to take them home.

On the second floor of my school you can find the classrooms of Russian, Literature, Art, English and French. There are three classrooms of English. They are decorated with pictures and maps.

On the third floor there are the classrooms of Chemistry, Biology, Maths and others. We have a big
computer lab there, too. There are a lot of modern computers in the lab. Pupils can make reports and prepare their homework there. The Internet access is also available for all pupils for free. Our chemistry lab is very big. During Chemistry lessons we m
ake experiments with teacher's help. I am quite good at Chemistry and I like working in our lab a lot.
Some of our classrooms have tape-recorders, TV-sets, video- and DVD-players, so teachers show us educational films and documentaries. All classrooms ar
e very cozy. There are a lot of flowers and posters on the walls.
There are also a lot of interesting clubs at school. I like the erudite club. We learn lots of interesting things there and develop our thinking skills. We often have competitions with ot
her schools. We also have a handicraft club, a dancing studio and an art studio. Any pupil can be a member of this or that club. They are all free of charge.
There is a large and beautiful assembly hall on the third floor. School meetings and concerts
take place there. There is a large stage and modern equipment necessary for school plays and concerts.
I really like my school and I am happy to study in it.

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My School (2)

At the age of 6 or 7 ail boys an
d girls go to school. I am a schoolboy as well. My school number is 121. Our school is large, airy and light. It is neither old nor new. There is a large schoolyard and a stadium. We sometimes have physical train¬
ing lessons here. There are 3 floors in the
school. There is a workshop on the ground floor. It is big and there are all kinds of iron-processing tools and machines here. There is also a woodwork room where we learn to make different things of wood. Another room is for girls to learn housekeeping
a
nd craft-work. It is also on the ground floor. There is a dining room you can enter from the foyer. It is next to the woodwork room. Here pupils and teachers have their breakfast and dinner. The dining room is very clean and has beautifully designed inter
i
or. There are many nice pictures on the walls and some of them are drawn by the most gifted schoolchildren. There is also a gymnasium near the dining room and the woodwork room. All pupils like to attend it because at our physical training lessons we usua
l
ly play exciting sport games and have a lot of fun. There is a library on the first floor of the school building. There are a lot of old and new books there. But unfortunately there is no reading room there. The library regulations are quite strict and on
e
cannot take more than two books at a time and keep them for more than two weeks period. There are many classrooms in the school. The English classrooms are supplied with an audio systems controlled from the teacher's desk and there are headphones provide
d
connecting the cassette decks with the pupils' desks. There is a lot of research laboratory equipment both in the Physics and Chemistry classrooms. The Geography and History classrooms have a lot of maps and books. Every classroom has a flower-stand or s
o
me pots with beautiful home plants or flowers. The teacher's desk is usually between the pupils' ones and the blackboard. There are around twenty desks in each classroom. Some classrooms have TV sets that are used sometimes at the lessons. There is a scho
o
l conference hall on the third floor where meetings, conferences and school dancing parties take place. There are also holidays celebrated and concerts and competitions of various kinds are held except the sports events, which take place in gymnasium or i
n the open. School theatre once in two or three months performs its plays here. The most remarkable event of the school life Ч
the Last Bell is also celebrated here. The pupils of the first and eleventh forms prepare themselves for this day with great enthu
siasm. The teacher's room is on the second floor. There are tables and armchairs for teachers to take a short rest or to do some preparations. There is a TV set with video player here and there are two computers connected with the director's and head teac
her's ones. There Is also a telephone and a fax machine. The teachers' room is quite comfortable and cozy and some teachers like to spend their time there. I like my school and sometimes I think that I would like to be a teacher.

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My School (3)



I've just left school and I would like to tell you a few words about it. My school is not very big. It is quite a modern three-storeyed building. More than four nundred pupils study there. It is a specialised school fa
mous for its high-quality education and strict discipline.
When the pupils come to school they leave their coats in the cloakroom on the ground floor. The gym, the canteen, the library and workshops are also on the ground floor. We have two workshops: o
ne for girls, where they learn to cook, to sew and to knit, and another for boys. Our gym is large and well equipped. On the first floor there is a large assembly hall. We have our meetings there, and on some holidays parties are held there. The principal
's office, the computer class and the lan¬guage laboratory are also on the first floor. Physics, chemistry and biology laboratories are on the second floor.
The classrooms for junior pupils are on the first floor, and for the seniors, on the second floo
r. In every classroom there are two or three rows of desks with the teacher's table in front. There is a blackboard and a bookcase. There are some pictures and maps on the walls. The language laboratory is equipped with tape-recorders for listening to Eng
lish texts on tapes, a TV set and a video-player to watch teaching programmes.
I went to school six days a week. Classes began at half past eight in the morning, but I usually came to school ten minutes earlier. Each lesson lasted forty minutes. After th
ree or four lessons we had a thirty-minute break. During this break we went to the canteen to have lunch. Every day we had six lessons, and they were over at three o'clock in the afternoon. We usually had a lot of homework and it took me several hours to
do it. Sometimes I had to stay up to write a compo¬sition, to prepare a report, to translate a newspaper article from English to Russian or to learn a poem by heart.
After classes I usually didn't go home right away. We had some out-of-class activities.
Our social and cultural life was well organised. For example, we had an orchestra, a choir, an arts club and an International Friendship Club. I was a member of the drama club.
At school we had classes in Russian, literature, mathematics, biology, geogr
aphy, physics, chemistry, English, history, computer programming. We also had music, physical education, arts and crafts.
My favourite subject was English. I liked to learn new words, to dramatise texts and dialogues.
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