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Going to the cinema. A cinema is a place where films are shown. In a big city there are many cinemas, in a small one sometimes there are none. It is hard to find a person who does not like going to the cinema. Everyone loves it, even from time to time. The cinema is a great entertainment. There are people who like it very much, they go there whenever

A visit to the zoo. The Zoo in our city is very big, nice and well-kept. It opens at 9.a.m. and closes at 6.p.m. There are about seven thousand animals in the Zoo. Near the main entrance there is a ticket office. If you want to learn the prices of the tickets before your visit or need some other information about the animals you can call a special zooline. When

How to learn. Often we do not use all the facilities of our brain in the process of learning. In fact we use only a small amount of the brain’s capacity and possibilities. To memorize effectively we should control our intellectual processes. We should select what is worth remembering and what is not worth it. Such a selection is very important. Then, the chance of preserving data in our memory

How to be healthy and fit. Everybody wants to be in good shape. As many people are busy, they do not have much time to think of their own body. They think if they feel good, they do not have to do anything for their health. Yet if they take care of themselves now, it will benefit them in the future and help them to retain their fitness. Doing sport

Protecting wild animals. Most Wild Animals live in Africa and America. In Africa there are elephants, and lions but elephants may soon become extinct because people kill them for their tusks which are very expensive. It is the same with rhinoceros – its horn is valuable, too. In Africa there were also many species of colourful parrots. Now there are fewer and fewer of them. The wildlife in the area

Going to the theatre. People consider the theatre exclusive entertainment. Maybe it is because the tickets are expensive, maybe because going to the theatre requires a kind of special preparation, as we dress in a more elegant way. We do not go to the theatre as often as we go to the cinema, because plays run for longer periods. We must plan the evening we want to spend in the

Halloween. Few holidays tell us as much of the past as Halloween. Its origins date back thousands of years to the Druid festival of Samhain, Lord of the Dead and Prince of Darkness, who, according to celtic belief, gathered up the souls of all those who had died during the year to present them to Druid Heaven on October 31. The Druid  New Year began on November 1, marking the

My favourite magazine. I am interested in biology and animals and one of my favourite magazines is „Zwierzaki”. I like reading this magazine because there are very good articles about all kinds of animals and the photographs are really exciting. Each issue is constructed according to the same pattern. There are several big articles about various species of mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians or even insects. The articles are quite long

My favourite festival. We have quite a lot of festivals here in Poland but the most popular one is Christmas and it is my favourite festival, too. Christmas is on 25 December and it is the time when the Christians celebrate the birth of Jesus Crist. My family starts preparing for Christmas in the middle of December. We send Christmas cards to our family and friends. We also look for

My plans for the weekend. I have made some interesting plans for the coming weekend and I hope that I will be able to realize them. First of all I am going to get up very early on Saturday morning and I am going to buy fresh bread and rolls for my parents. I want to do this because I want them to be in a good mood when I

The recipe for my favourite dish. I like cooking very much although everybody says this is a bit unusual because I am a boy. Cooking has been my hobby since I was old enough to accompany my mother in the kitchen.  I loved sitting in there and observing all the mysterious things she was doing. I prepared my first dish when I was five. It was a very simple cake

My family. There are five people In my family. My mother, my father, my grandma, my sister and I. We all live together in one house. My mum is rather short and skinny. She looks like a young girl. She has got short black hair and green eyes. My father says she is very pretty and that is why fell in love with her immediately. My mum is always in

My school. I go to an old and very big school. There are many schools like mine in every big city. The school is grey and rather dirty because many children write something on its walls. It has got two doors: a big front door and a smaller back door near the cloak room. There are three floors in the school. On the ground floor there are eight classrooms, a

Country life. Living In the country is certainly much different from living In the city. Some people cannot even imagine living without their own garden and everyday contact with nature. They think that living in the country is ecological and healthy. There are people who used to live in the city but they moved to the country because they could not stand city life any more. For those people living