Going to the cinema.

It goes without saying that watching films is one of the most popular kind of entertainment. We can watch films at home or go to the cinema. Many different films are released every year. They differ in artistic value as well as in genre. There are films based on novels with historical events. Some people enjoy musicals. Musicals are films with songs and dances. Thrillers are films describing some dramatic events usually connected with crime. Horror films are films with mysterious events, ghosts and monsters. Science fiction films offer viewers flying saucers, space battles and planet explosions. Some people prefer comedies. Many films nowadays raise urgent problems facing contemporary society (современное общество), ecology, ethnic problems, politics and moral, increasing crime rates. Films help us to study these problems, to see our drawbacks (недостатки) and understand our life better.

As for me, I like going to the cinema very much. I go there with my friends practically every week and watch films of different genres. The best film I have recently seen was the new 3-D version of «Titanic». I watched it together with my friends and I can say that it impressed us greatly. This film is about real historical events during the voyage from England to America on board the “Titanic” in 1912. It was released in 2001 in America. Last year it was released again new format. This film is not only about historical events. It is also about love of young people. They met on board the ship and fell in love with each other. The end of the film is not happy as it is usual for American films. The main character dies. This scene impressed the spectators greatly. The film is about true feelings, about honesty and devotion, about betrayal and villainy. The new version of the film is very realistic. I can offer my friends to watch it.

Learning languages.

The most popular language in the world is English. More than 750 million people in the world speak English. Nowadays it is a world language. It is spoken as the mother-tongue in Great Britain, the United States of America, Canada and New Zealand and a lot of people speak English in China, Japan, India, Africa and other countries.

It is the language of computers, science, business and politics. It is the language of the sport and beauty worlds, the official language of the Olympics and the Miss Universe competition.

English is studied as a foreign language in many schools all over the world. We can’t imagine an educated person who doesn’t speak a foreign language. Some people learn languages for their work, others for travelling abroad and for some people studying a language is simply a hobby.

Knowing language opens doors to visiting different countries and helps to communicate, to understand and to be understood by the people. Furthermore, it develops our mind.

I like studying English. I work a lot with the computer and especially on the Internet and everything is in English. I also would like to read books of great writers in English and to watch TV programs in English. I like travelling and I’d like to talk to people from different countries and understand their culture and traditions. Speaking English I can travel everywhere.

At school we have English lessons four times a week. I like these lessons because they are very interesting, informative and educational. We learn grammar, listen to the CDs, retell, role-play dialogues, practice our pronunciation and write compositions.

I also learn German with private teacher at home. It is very interesting to know more than one foreign language and to compare them. When I travelled to Germany during my autumn holidays I spoke German there.