6 Use Past Simple or Past Continuous. 1. I (ring). 2. When the phone bag and 3. He ankle. (walk) out of the door when the phone. (put) down my (ring), I (answer) it. (run) very fast when he (hurt) his (run) fast, - (fall) down and. 4. He (hurt) his ankle. 5. They a strange noise. 6. They downstairs. 7. It (hear) (work) in my office when they (go) (hear) a strange noise and (arrive). (rain) very hard when we
Modern teenagers are greatly different from the previous generations. They are more independent, have another interests and more spacious mind, but they are far more lazy.
Most of these distinctions are caused by fast technical progress. Quite every teenager has a computer, a mobile phone and the internet access. On the one hand it is good, because they can find any information, it can be useful or not; any book or film can be found very easy and fast too. Moreover, the internet helps in studying and people from different countries or cities can communicate despite the distention between them. One the other hand, teenagers become more and more lazy, because they would better stay at home in front of computer than go somewhere. Also the big amount of information they have every day makes them indifferent to amazing things. The teenagers are not fascinated with the beauty of nature or art so much, because they have already seen it. The internet can show everythig from Van Gogh paintings to the polar light, so young people don’t need to travel or visit museums to see something unusual. As a result it is very difficult to surprise teenager, because the computer screen has already show and explain everything.
The internet is also affects the teenagers relationshios. Those young people who are shy or are afraid to introduce new people choose to make friend in the internet. There are a lot of social networks which have thousands of users, who spend hours chatting there. Sometimes instead of living the exciting and colorful life teenagers surf the net, communicate with unreal friends. Also a lot of young people play online games, which take a lot of time, they start to live in virtual world and forget about everything.
Despite the fact the young people are not very impressionable, they has some passions. The most popular and loved is music. Nowadays there is a wide variety of bands and kinds of music from reggae and pop music to techno and doom metal, so every teenager can find something he or she likes. A lot of teenagers prefer to communicate with those who have similar tastes in music, so the fist question when he or she meets unfamiliar person may be ‘What kind of music do you like?’. The music affects even the way the teenagers dress, as sometimes they try to copy the image of their favorite singers or musicians. Moreover, music gives young people the dream of being a rock star, so a lot of them learn to play musical instruments, especially guitars and sing. That’s why nowadays there are hundreds of garage bands, some of those will become successful one day.
Although the technic is very developed, there are a lot of teenagers who are intrested in handmade things and art. Nowadays it is very popular to create jewelleries, dolls, or clothes by yourself, also there are many tallented young people who take great pictures or draw painting using paints or special computer programmes. They upload their works to the internet, create their own web sites and sometimes become
My family is large. There are 6 of us: father, mother, my sister, two brothers and me. My family is friendly and loving.
My father’s name is …. He is clever and kind. He is a doctor by profession.
My mother’s name is …. She is busy and loving. She doesn’t work. She is a housewife.
My elder sister’s name is … She is a very beautiful girl. Her hobby is singing.
My younger brother’s name is … He is very active. He likes sport.
My hobby is drawing. I like to draw in my free time. Also I like reading books. My favourite writer is …
At the weekends all the members of our family spend time together. We go for a walk, visit museums, go to the cinema or to the theatre.
I love my family very much.