I began to study English in the fifth form and by now I have been learning this language for 7 years. I like English; I think any foreign language helps to understand your own language. The English language is one of the most important languages in the modern world; more than one billion people can speak or understand this language. This language is the official language in such countries as the United States of America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the South-African Republic, India and many African countries. English is one of the five official languages of the United Nations Organization. English is the language of the great English literature. It is the language of Shakespeare, Byron and Charles Dickens. From the early childhood we enjoy the books by English writers — who does not know Winnie-the Pooh, Sherlock Holmes or Robinson Crusoe!But the English language is also the language of science — most of scientific magazines in the world are published in English. It is impossible to be a good scientist without knowing this language. That is why I pay much attention to English and I hope that in the the future I shall know this language well.
Once upon a time in Antarctic lived a penguin called Martin. Martin always wanted to fly, but he was just a penguin, so life didn't bring him that ability. He was a very depressed bird, he had no friends, always was sad and quiet, tried not to contact with other birds. It was a long winter night, when Martin had a dream: he was in Africa, sitting on the head of giraffe, it seemed like he was flying above the endless steppe, completely happy. Martin suddenly woke up because of rough noise from outside. 'What's this?'- asked him to his neighbor. But he didn't heard the response because big arms in red gloves took them both and made them an injection of soporific. He didn't know what time had gone, but when he woke up he understood that he isn't in Antarctic and he isn't in Africa: he was somewhere in a cage and behind the cage there was a crowd of children. Suddenly Martin realized, that his dreams will never come true. He came to the edge of artificial icy slope and jumped down. It was his final jump. Goodbye, penguin-dreamer Martin.
