7. My Future Profession

1) Choosing the kind of career is one of the most important decisions in our life.

2) Work is an opportunity to plan and order our life

3) I originally became interested in the sphere of communications in my early teens. Telecommunications have brought us new lifestyle.

4) Satellite television, electronic mail, fax, Internet, cellular telephones provide us new unique opportunities in getting and exchanging information.

5) Work, social life, politics, education - telecommunications are coming everywhere.

6) I’m sure qualified specialists in the sphere of communications will be in great demand in new Millennium.

8. Our college

1)I am a student of the Higher State College of Communication. It is in Minsk, in P. Brovka Street.

2)The full term of study in our college is seven years.

3)We study many different subjects in the college. Some of them are very difficult, but so very interest­ing.

4)We must be good at mathematics, physics, English. We have lectures and practical classes every day.

5)There are many labs in our college with TV sets, video, com­puters.

6)Proper knowledge and skills give the graduates of our college an opportunity to find their place in society, to get high wages.

9. Meals

1) To live we should eat. We eat various food-stuffs: meat, fish, poultry, vegetables, fruit, eggs, bread.

2) We have 3 meals a day: breakfast, dinner and supper.

3) The English breakfast is a bigger meal than ours. It consists of porridge with milk or cream, bacon and eggs, marmalade or jam with toast, tea or coffee

4) Lunch in England starts with soup or fruit juice. Then follows some meat with potatoes, carrots and beans. . Last of all comes coffee.

5) Dinner, the last meal of the day, consists of soup, fish or meat with vegetables, sweet pudding, fruit salad, ice cream and coffee.

6) If a person has a good (bad) appetite they say ^«He is a good (poor) eater».

10. Shopping

1) When we want to buy something we go to the shop. There are many types of shops , in every town or city most of them have a food supermarket, a department store, men and women’s clothing stores, and a grocery a bakery and

a butchery.

2) A lot of stores called department stores sell various items of consumer goods under one roof.

3) We usually do shopping every day and we go to the local shops for every day

things like bread and milk.

4) The market is large is with over a hundred different stalls.

5) A wide range of clothes, house hold goods, fruits and vegetables is on sale.

6) The goods are tidily arrange on trays and long shelves on which the various prices are clearly marked .

11. Seasons.

1) The four seasons of the year are: winter, spring, summer and autumn.

2) Winter is the coldest season of the year. The sun rises late and sets early. Its rays are pale. The air is frosty, it often snows.

3) Spring is the revival of Nature. April showers bring May flowers. Everything looks fresh and joyous.

4) By and by the sunrays become hotter, the days become longer and the nights – shorter and warmer. Summer has come.

5) The sky is cloudless but sometimes the thunder crashes and drops of rain fall on the dusty grass.

6) Summer is followed by autumn. It’s a rainy season and the weather is mostly dull. We can’t influence the weather but we are always anxious to know what it is going to be like.