My School (1)
As you become older you realize that there are several essential things and places you always long to come back to. They are your birthplace, your home and the school you went to.
My school was a three-storeyed building situated in one of the residential districts of our city (town, settlement). All the children from the neighbourhood went there because it was a walking distance from their homes. There was a sports ground behind the school-building and a green lawn with flower-beds in front of it.
The school was built a few years ago. That's why its classrooms were light and spacious. There were three large windows in each classroom with flower pots on the windowsills. It was pupils' (especially girls') responsibility to water the flowers. And they did it with utmost care. There were maps and portraits, tables and charts on the walls of the classrooms.
Our classroom was on the second floor. Its windows faced the school-yard. Our form was the only one at school who had a form-master, but not a form-mistress. He appeared to be a very kind and knowledgeable teacher who spared no time to take us to different places of interest and exhibitions. He taught us Russian and Russian literature.
We respected him very much. Our lessons began at eight o'clock in the morning and lasted till one thirty in the afternoon. We had six lessons a day. Every pupil had a day-book where the teachers wrote down the mark each pupil had earned for his answers. The teacher also wrote down the mark in the class register. When the teacher asked a question, the pupils who could answer it raised their hands, and the teacher called out one of them to answer the question.
The pupils were often called to the blackboard to do some exercises or to write some sentences. When they made mistakes, other pupils .were called out to correct those mistakes or the teacher corrected them herself. After every lesson the teachers gave us some home assignments both written and oral. At the next lesson the teachers checked them up.
The teachers often took our exercise-books home to check them up. If there were any mistakes they corrected them and gave us marks. At the end of each quarter we got our report cards which our parents signed. At the end of the study year we were promoted, to the next form.
Вопрос
Victory Day (May 9) is one of Russia’s most cherished national holidays, and it is always celebrated widely. Many events are held to commemorate the victory in the Great Patriotic War, which cost the USSR at least 27 million lives.
While 75 years separate us from May 1945, the victory is still very important for the national identity, which can be seen in many events dedicated to May 9. The most significant project in recent years has a goal to keep alive the memory of the war generation's great deeds. Every year on May 9 thousands of people in cities throughout Russia walk down central streets with portraits of relatives who fought in the war and who are no longer alive. The event is known as "The Immortal Regiment" (Bessmertniy Polk). It is also marked across the globe and last year it took place in 40 countries.
The Immortal Regiment was originally a grass-roots initiative launched in the Siberian city of Tomsk in 2012, when people marched along the central streets of the town holding posters with photographs of their relatives who fought in the Great Patriotic War. The Tomsk event quickly became famous, and the following year the Immortal Regiment paraded along the streets of more than 100 Russian cities. By 2014, it marched through 500 cities. Two years ago the event became even bigger. Almost 500,000 participated in the event in the Russian capital.The Immortal Regiment is now a national movement, and it has the moypolk.ru website onto which people can upload stories of relatives who fought in the war. Currently, it has hundreds of thousands of stories that comprise the “People’s Chronicle of the War.”
The Immortal Regiment was initiated by the government.
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