Wild animals live in the jungle. My favorit animal is elephant. It is very clever and careful. It have got fat body, big head. short tail and small eyes. The elephant to eats fruit and drinks water.
I have always wanted to spend more time in the countryside. My family and I live in the suburbs of a big city. My grandparents live in the village not far from us. We often visit them and in summertime I can stay there for a month or two. I enjoy being in the countryside more than in the city. My grandparents own a small country house at the edge of the forest. There is a spacious garden and a chicken coop behind the house. Life in the city is boring for me. It consists of school and several friends. Whereas in the country I can swim in the local lake, pick berries and mushrooms, help my grandparents with the garden, go for a walk in the woods, read a book under the shed, go camping with friends and do many other interesting activities. I think that life in the village is fantastic! I really enjoy spending my weekends and holidays there. If I grow up I’d like to have a house in the countryside instead of a city flat. I prefer old-fashioned, wooden houses with traditional Russian ornaments in it. I’d like to plant many fruit trees and colourful flowers around my house. If there is a river or a pond nearby, it would be perfect. I like swimming and sunbathing in summer. To make my life complete there, I need some pets. Most of all I like cats and dogs but I can also keep a dozen of chickens in the village. They will supply me with fresh eggs every day. The best thing about living in the countryside is the fresh air and relaxing atmosphere.
The first Viking to (1) c) settle in Iceland was a Norwegian (2) d) chieftain, Ingolfur Arnarson, in 874 AD. The Vikings soon found that living in Iceland was just as difficult as living in Scandinavia, because they had to search (3) b) hard to find strips of fertile land where crops could be grown and cattle grazed. (4) a) Despite these hardships and the cold, wet, windy climate, the Vikings settled down, set up farms, built huts and erected houses. About ten years later, though, Viking history began to repeat (5) d) itself. In Iceland, as in Scandinavia, good farming land became scarce, food became short and some of the Iceland Vikings began to look further west for new homes. They found them in Greenland, which (6) c) was explored in 982 AD by Erik the Red. Four years (7) b) later, Erik left Iceland for Greenland with twenty-five ships, full of settlers, but only fourteen ships reached Greenland (8) a) safely. Within (9) c) a few years, the Vikings had set up three hundred farms in Greenland, some with as many as twenty cows, (10) d) as well as goats and (11) a) sheep and Erik the Red had (12) b) forty cows on his large farm at Brattahlid. The Vikings made (13) b) plenty of butter and cheese to eat, and they found the hunting in Greenland was very good: there were caribou and bears and (14) a) plenty of whales, seals and (15) c) many fish in the sea.
Wild animals live in the jungle. My favorit animal is elephant. It is very clever and careful. It have got fat body, big head. short tail and small eyes. The elephant to eats fruit and drinks water.