Vocabulary:

Relatives - родичі

to support - підтримувати

salary – платня, зарплата

а housewife - домохохяйка

to look after - піклуватися

strict - строгий

to check - перевіряти

а play - п'єса

а vet - ветеринар

possibilities - можливості

to prefer - вважати за краще

а band – група

scientists - вчені

а historian - історик

а linguist - лінгвіст

to get on - ладнати

to look forward to – чекати з нетерпінням

to mean - означати

Topic 5. My friend.

I have a very good friend. His name is Ivan. Friends are very important in our life. I think one cannot live without friends. The most important thing for being good friends, to my mind, is to be ready to help one another in any situation, nevertheless how difficult it is, to support one another and to solve all the problems together. And never mind, that the friends may have different interests and hobbies, different likes and dislikes. They say that the friend in need is a friend indeed. I think it is really so. My friend and I always do our best to help one another. We discuss all our troubles and try to find the best decision in any situation. My friend is a very good, kind and clever boy. We often spend our free time together. It is not very easy now, because both of us are very busy — we are going to enter institutes and have a lot of work to do.

My friend is going to become a lawyer. Our future professions are different and the subjects we have to study are different too, but we like to work together and to help one another in our study.

When we have some free time, we go for walks, read and discuss books, watch films, go to discos or play computer games. Playing computer games is our hobby. Both of us are fond of sport. We go in for swimming and often go to the swimming pool together. We are football fans and we like to watch and discuss football matches on TV or to go to the stadium. I love my friend very much. I think he is a true friend. Our friendship is very dear to me and I try to do my best to be a good friend too.

Vocabulary:

nevertheless – проте

to support - підтримувати

to solve - вирішувати

the friend in need is а friend indeed – Друзі пізнаються в біді. (Друг в біді є справжній друг). Друг пізнається в нещасті .

troubles - неприємності, труднощі

the best decision - якнайкраще рішення

Topic 6. Hobby

Hobby is a favourite occupation of a person in his free time. I have many friends. They are very different and they have different kinds of hobbies. One of my girl­friends, for example, likes to knit very much. In the even­ing she sits on the sofa and knits a beautiful pullover or a sweater. She also knits for her little sister, her mother and her girlfriends.

Another girlfriend of mine spends all her time sewing things; skirts, blouses, dresses. She makes it nicely and she always looks good.

One of my friends likes to make everything with his own hands. He can repair an iron, a radio-set or a tape-recorder. I think it's a very good hobby.

Many children and grown-ups are very fond of collecting. Some collect old coins, others collect postcards. As for me, my hobby is collecting stamps. Now I have 5 albums full of stamps, it is more than one thousand of them. I like to sit at a table in the evening and ar­range new stamps in the albums, or write in the names other countries, or just look through the stamps.

Each stamp has a story to tell about distant countries and strange people. I see pictures of men and women, birds and animals which I have never seen. Kings and presidents pass before my eyes and I can follow the history of whole nations. My hobby is not only wonderful but very useful, too.